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Starting Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
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danlo wrote:7 chapters into The Wise Man's Fear (first book on Kindle and I'm already an addict :P)...loved Name of the Wind, took a little while for the story to click back in, but the 2nd book is, now, moving faster and faster. 8) 8) 8)
I loved that series!!!!

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I finished Blackout, and am now getting into All Clear. I had no idea the London Blitz was such a cool world to read about.
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I just finished Bad Monkeys. Not sure about it. Think the voice was off.
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I'm starting Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill.
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Finished a couple of Robert Silverberg standalone sci-fi novels: The Longest Way Home and Dying Inside (reread). Both are good, he seems to use sci-fi as a vehicle for philosophic speculations which suits my taste.

I also did a reread of Tobias Hill's The Cryptographer. Futuristic rather than pure sci-fi. Stylish. It would probably qualify as 'literary fiction' as well. (Where's lucimay to spank me for my abuse of the word 'literary' :hide: )

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ussusimiel wrote:(Where's lucimay to spank me for my abuse of the word 'literary' :hide: )
You may have managed to slip under her radar... :shifty:
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Dust of Dreams by Mr Erikson well actually half way through
A lie well told and told often enough,I'm damned if the truth will ever catch up with it!
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I've finished a reread of Dream Finder by Roger Taylor. Taylor is a good fantasy writer, but I don't ever hear much about him. I thought his Hawklan series was very good. Anyone else read him?

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Finally finished Midnight Tides. Don't know why it took me so long, I actually really liked it in the end. Erikson's politics seemed more overt in this book, which I enjoyed. And I always appreciate his sense of humanity. (But I should probably take this to another sub-forum!)

Currently reading... The Bonehunters. Actually I'm not quite sure what I'm reading. I just varnished a table (stupidly, in the house) and I believe I may be high. Who are you people again? 8O
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Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box was very good. Not sure what I'm starting next. Maybe Charles Stross' Accelerando.
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Cambo wrote:We're the voices in your head, given digital form on a website that is an online extension of your subconscious :twisted:
That explanation improves my personality so I'm going to run with it. Thanks Cambo :D
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Shaun das Schaf wrote:
Cambo wrote:We're the voices in your head, given digital form on a website that is an online extension of your subconscious :twisted:
That explanation improves my personality so I'm going to run with it. Thanks Cambo :D
I foresee SdS finally having a signature. ;)
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And here I thought you all were the voices in my head. :D

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Menolly wrote:
Shaun das Schaf wrote:
Cambo wrote:We're the voices in your head, given digital form on a website that is an online extension of your subconscious :twisted:
That explanation improves my personality so I'm going to run with it. Thanks Cambo :D
I foresee SdS finally having a signature. ;)
I have one already Menolly. Can't you see it?
Crap, must have put it in the wrong dimension.
Here, have some varnish....

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Finished a reread of Katherine Kerr and Kate Daniel's Polar City Nightmare which is basically a well-written sci-fi detective thriller. I never been able to get into Kerr's Deverry Series though I think I've tried a couple of times.

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