Kevin's Watch

I'm sad right now because I just found out that my favorite bookstore is closing. Met a few of my favorite authors there, always got good recommendations, spent too much money - though not recently, so I'm probably part of the problem. It's a real shame that bookstores can't stay in business. Amazon will never be an adequate substitute for browsing in a real bookstore.

The Slog of Slog continues, into Bakker's The White-Luck Warrior...

Hiro wrote:

Brinn wrote:The Unholy Consult...for the second time.

No way! How did you get an ARC?

Plus, how is it?

I have a friend from TSA who bought it and then sold it to me after he read it. We did the same thing for "The Great Ordeal".

It's excellent. The last half of the book is non-stop action. There are still some questions left open and I needed to read it again to get some scenes clear in my head. Bakker's prose can be dense and lyrical and I find if I read too fast I miss details that I shouldn't be missing. There are revelations, there is horror, there is...an ending?

Brinn wrote:

Hiro wrote:

Brinn wrote:The Unholy Consult...for the second time.

No way! How did you get an ARC?

Plus, how is it?

I have a friend from TSA who bought it and then sold it to me after he read it. We did the same thing for "The Great Ordeal".

It's excellent. The last half of the book is non-stop action. There are still some questions left open and I needed to read it again to get some scenes clear in my head. Bakker's prose can be dense and lyrical and I find if I read too fast I miss details that I shouldn't be missing. There are revelations, there is horror, there is...an ending?

Regarding endings:
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Brinn wrote:

Hiro wrote:

Brinn wrote:The Unholy Consult...for the second time.

No way! How did you get an ARC?

Plus, how is it?

I have a friend from TSA who bought it and then sold it to me after he read it. We did the same thing for "The Great Ordeal".

It's excellent. The last half of the book is non-stop action. There are still some questions left open and I needed to read it again to get some scenes clear in my head. Bakker's prose can be dense and lyrical and I find if I read too fast I miss details that I shouldn't be missing. There are revelations, there is horror, there is...an ending?

Thanks Brinn, I'm slightly jealous. Just a few more weeks though.

The Hydrogen Sonata. The last ever Culture book. RIP Iain M Banks.

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Reading novellas for the Hugo Awards vote. Currently The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle.

Last reread before Bakker's TUC arrives: 'The Great Ordeal'. So far so on schedule.

Reading The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. Short story or novella about a dystopian future where the surface of the planet is uninhabitable and everyone lives underground in little rooms where all of their needs are taken care of by the Machine. The Machine is breaking down and no one knows how to fix it. It's mainly interesting because it describes a lot of technology that's common now, but was pure science fiction when the story was written. (1909!)

Sounds cool.

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Heavily influenced by H.G. Wells/Time Machine, but interesting in its own right.

Not entirely sure why I'm doing this to myself, but reading ASOIAF 1: A Game Of Thrones...

(Well, my bosses wife wants to borrow it, and I know it'll take her a year of more to read it, so I thought I better get book 1 in before I lent it to her...)

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The Unholy Consult - R. Scott Bakker

Lucky bugger.

I'm reading ASOIAF 2: A Clash Of Kings

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ASOIAF 3: A Storm Of Swords 1: Steel and Snow

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Avatar wrote:ASOIAF 3: A Storm Of Swords 1: Steel and Snow

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It's all fun and games until A Feast For Crows. Then your reading life becomes hell.

Haha, yeah, this is actually my 3rd go-round I think.

Just killing time while I wait for the new Bakker I ordered to arrive really. And the new "Folly" book as well. (And a Joe Abercrombie book.)

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I'm currently reading The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley.

A Feast For Crows: ASOIAF 4.

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I've started A Tyranny of Queens by Foz Meadows.