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Jedit posted:Other interesting stuff includes Stella Gemmell's sequel to The City, Mike Carey's new solo novel, the latest in the Rivers of London series, what I believe is the next Laundry novel, and the finale of the Long Earth series. Is her stuff any good? I think she did a great job finishing up Troy: Fall of Kings, but I never read The City.
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fritz posted:There's nothing showing up for it on Locus: I was kinda disappointed with Clariel. I hope this is better with it going back to Lirael and co.
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Apr 5, 2016 01:29
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holocaust bloopers posted:So anything good coming out in the next few months? Quite a bit, depending on your tolerance for series, of course. In addition to what's been mentioned, Recently out: Snakewood by Adrian Selby - debut fantasy, picking up a fair amount of buzz Those Below by Daniel Polansky - sequel to Those Above Coming Soon: Tyrant's Throne by Sebastien de Castell - third book in the Greatcoats series, which has been a ton of fun so far The Wheel of Osheim by Mark Lawrence - third book in the Red Queen' War series; generally a much lighter tone than his previous series, almost a fantasy-comedy Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley - sequel to The Rook, a huge favorite in the Dresden/Urban Fantasy thread The Perdition Score by Richard Kadrey, latest in the Sandman Slim series
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Whoa I take back what I said about Quantum Thief being a struggle. I just blasted through the second half in one go and it was fantastic. So much for sleep!
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Koesj posted:Whoa I take back what I said about Quantum Thief being a struggle. I just blasted through the second half in one go and it was fantastic. So much for sleep! Hell yeah, post in here your thoughts about books 2 and 3! 2 definitely changes its town a bit, but I still liked it a lot. TQT is one of the only trilogies I've read more than once. And it gets better with each read.
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Oh god I've got such a tremendous backlog to work through. I can't be the only one right?!
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I have four hundred books in my back log. I'm never going to get to backlog zero. there's just more poo poo gonna go into it.
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ulmont posted:Book three is out, and appears to pick up right where book two left off (there is some amount of time that has passed, but the characters are still in "sorcery school" etc.). I think I need to reread it to figure out what the hell Zora actually did, but it was a fun read.
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Apr 5, 2016 08:40
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Hell yeah, post in here your thoughts about books 2 and 3! Oh man good idea. Gotta reread them when I'm done with the takeshi kovacs series. On book#2 now and it's pretty ballin!
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flosofl posted:Is her stuff any good? I think she did a great job finishing up Troy: Fall of Kings, but I never read The City. It's not astounding genius, but you can see how much influence she had on her husband's work and he on hers.
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I'm going to be on a long haul flight tomorrow. Does anyone have good reads to recommend? I've read most of the stuff discussed over the past page.
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Apr 5, 2016 12:26
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Ornamented Death posted:Recently out: Pretty tepid reviews on both Amazon and Goodreads though.
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shrike82 posted:I'm going to be on a long haul flight tomorrow. HP Lovecraft should be right up your alley.
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Apr 5, 2016 12:52
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less laughter posted:Pretty tepid reviews on both Amazon and Goodreads though. That book seems absolutely not my kind of thing, but most of the Amazon reviews are "this book is too complicated" which is a pretty weak complaint.
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shrike82 posted:I'm going to be on a long haul flight tomorrow. Could you post something vaguer please? In the mean time try the thread title. xian posted:I have four hundred books in my back log. I'm never going to get to backlog zero. there's just more poo poo gonna go into it. Not even professional book reviewers ever reach the end of their backlogs. It's daft to stress about it. Same reason I don't like those "Number Nouns You Must Verb Before You Die" books. Life's not a checklist. (Ninja: I don't think you're being stupid about it. I think I'm agreeing with you.) I'm the Book Barn IK. Feel free to PM me or email bookbarnsecretsanta@gmail.com if I can help you with anything.
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Apr 5, 2016 14:36
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fritz posted:That book seems absolutely not my kind of thing, but most of the Amazon reviews are "this book is too complicated" which is a pretty weak complaint. It's interesting to note that most of the complaints I see (more so on the Goodreads page) apply equally to Gardens of the Moon. I won't comment further beyond that, as I haven't read Snakewood yet and was just passing on the title of a recent book that was receiving some buzz from people whose opinions I generally agree with.
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Apr 5, 2016 14:38
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Ornamented Death posted:It's interesting to note that most of the complaints I see (more so on the Goodreads page) apply equally to Gardens of the Moon. "Gardens of the Moon" was my favorite Malazan book, the only one to survive my latest purge, and I simply do not appreciate most of the complaints about it.
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Apr 5, 2016 15:01
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shrike82 posted:I'm going to be on a long haul flight tomorrow. I just picked up Cherryh's Faded Sun trilogy and am enjoying it so far (maybe 1/3 of the way into the first book?). 10 bucks on Amazon for the entire trilogy, so not a huge investment.
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Apr 5, 2016 15:20
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AEMINAL posted:Oh man good idea. Gotta reread them when I'm done with the takeshi kovacs series. For variety, I highly recommend the audio books narrated by Scott Brick if you haven't listened to them already. It's a shame that they had another narrator do book 3 though.
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Apr 5, 2016 17:16
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Despite having 397 books on my backlog, I can never decide what to read next.
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Apr 5, 2016 17:26
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xian posted:Despite having 397 books on my backlog, I can never decide what to read next. I suspect that's less "despite" and more "because". See: kids at Christmas who can't decide what present to open first.
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Apr 5, 2016 18:31
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It was the same when it was 25 books. I wonder what the threshold for a linear backlog is.
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Apr 5, 2016 18:34
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Anyone able to give opinions on The Fold by Peter Clines? Seems interesting but I'm hesitating on buying it. I would use the free sample option, but I can't figure out how to access it through the web app / phone app.
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Apr 5, 2016 18:43
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RoboCicero posted:Anyone able to give opinions on The Fold by Peter Clines? Seems interesting but I'm hesitating on buying it. I would use the free sample option, but I can't figure out how to access it through the web app / phone app. If you read 14 the The Fold takes place in the same universe. I liked it, it's hard to describe without ruining the reveal in it that happens, which basically changes the whole story from techno-sic-fi-thriller to ... other genre. I'm pretty sure goon opinions were mostly positive on it.
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House Louse posted:Could you post something vaguer please? In the mean time try the thread title. I wish I were a professional book reviewer
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Apr 5, 2016 19:06
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Re: back logs. Mine isn't getting any better because Downbelow Station gets delivered this week. I've never read Cherryh.
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Apr 5, 2016 19:48
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shrike82 posted:I'm going to be on a long haul flight tomorrow. Sean McMullen's Greatwinter trilogy. Starts with Souls in the Great Machine, followed by The Miocene Arrow and then Eyes of the Calculor. Two thousand years after a mysterious Call began periodically luring people to deaths at sea and all electrical machinery ceased working, the Highliber of Australica's Dragon Librarian service re-invents the computer - the calculor, composed of hundreds of individuals working on abacuses set up in parrallel-processing banks. A machine created to confirm the Highliber's theory that the ancient machines that ended the world before were not destroyed, and may in fact stil be a threat. That's just the initial premise, the story goes in directions I don't want to mention for fear of spoilers. It's a pretty drat good series IMO.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Re: back logs. Mine isn't getting any better because Downbelow Station gets delivered this week. I've never read Cherryh. I started out with the Chanur series on February 8th last year, thinking "hey, space opera, might be cool!" I've now read 27 Cherryh novels 
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RoboCicero posted:Anyone able to give opinions on The Fold by Peter Clines? Seems interesting but I'm hesitating on buying it. I would use the free sample option, but I can't figure out how to access it through the web app / phone app. It's horrible crap featuring a Mary Sue main character that is autistic but also has eidetic memory and gets the girl at the end. We are reminded of his perfect memory on every other page. The plot twists are telegraphed and the writing leaves much to be desired. The worst book I've read this year.
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Koesj posted:I started out with the Chanur series on February 8th last year, thinking "hey, space opera, might be cool!" I've now read 27 Cherryh novels Is Cherryh extremely your poo poo or is she that consistently good?
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I've come around on the Vlad Taltos books after a shaky start. I've been devouring them, on book 8 now I think (Dragon).
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Apr 5, 2016 23:39
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less laughter posted:Pretty tepid reviews on both Amazon and Goodreads though.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:For variety, I highly recommend the audio books narrated by Scott Brick if you haven't listened to them already. It's a shame that they had another narrator do book 3 though. I love Scott brick's narrations and was bummed to learn recently that he is apparently a crazy person who is treating his thyroid cancer with alkaline water or some such quack therapy and accordingly will probably die sooner rather than later 
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holocaust bloopers posted:Is Cherryh extremely your poo poo or is she that consistently good? Cherryh can write a hell of a book.
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fritz posted:Cherryh can write a hell of a book. What's her notable work, or a good place to start?
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holocaust bloopers posted:What's her notable work, or a good place to start? Cyteen or Downbelow Station are both hugely beloved.
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Apr 6, 2016 01:22
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Orwell wrote an essay about someone who did it professionally. The image he painted in his elegantly simple prose was not pretty. Edit: forgot to quote the post above re book reviews and on my phone so can't fix it easily.
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General Battuta posted:Cyteen or Downbelow Station are both hugely beloved. Downbelow Station is a great book but can be tough going. Maybe start with the first Chanur book?
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Medusa's Web felt an awful lot like Tim Powers trying to write a better version of Three Days to Never, and I definitely preferred the more science-fictional approach to mashing together Gnosticism and Kabalistic Judaism.
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I started reading Downbelow Station a week or so ago and have found it incredibly interesting but also a little more dense than some of the sci fi I've been reading as of late. Cherryh doesn't hold your hand. Plot lines get thrown at you left and right and POV characters switch around pretty swiftly. It feels like a lot of pieces moving slowly, and I can already see bits where things are starting to come together. It's really impressive so far, but not the light space opera I might have otherwise expected.
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