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Quicksilver, the first book in the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. Kind of picked it up on a lark. Also bought the other two books, the ones that have all the books combined. Also The Illuminatus Trilogy I had been curious about this one for a while. So far its pretty good.
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jimcunningham posted:Also, I just got 'Long Hard Road Out of Hell' by Marilyn Manson for $6. I've read about 75 pages this afternoon. He's pretty hosed up. I can't remember where I read it, but most of the stuff in that book was made up, or that is what someone was alleging. Content: Prelude to Foundation gonna read the "core books" of the series.
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Hit up the bookstore got some stuff: Empress Karen Miller The Riven Kingdom Karen Miller Shadowmarch Tad Williams The Last Wish Andpzej Sapkowski Not the usual non-fiction/essay stuff I usually get.
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Just started Hammer of God the third book in a trilogy by Karen Miller. So very good I wish it didn't have to end.
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Innocent Mage by Karen Miller, just got done reading her other trilogy. I am also starting Shadowmarch by Tad Williams, hopefully its good.
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Dr Scoofles posted:I started one of her books, Empress I think it was called, and found the actions of her protagonist to be so outlandish and unbelievable that I sadly had to shelve it. I don't know why but the fantasy genre tests my patience more than any other. I have a slight prejudice in that I imagine a lot of authors in that genre have great imaginations and zero life experience, which is reflected in their work. 'Cool dragons, awful dialogue' kind of thing. It gets better, and there is not one dragon in the whole book. I say give it another shot, it gets alot better that it fleshes out a whole religion/world and the ending if you make through the trilogy is insane.
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Sep 25, 2010 02:10
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The Way of the Shadows by Brent Weeks. So far its really interesting and apparently I have been buying Orbits catalog without realizing it.
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Sep 27, 2010 02:33
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I got Mister B Gone by Clive Barker. So far I am conflicted, its an interesting first person fictional account of a demon. I am about 1/4 of the way through and the narrative becomes muddled. Anyone else given this a shot?
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Oct 17, 2010 01:41
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Thats exactly how I approached it.
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Oct 17, 2010 12:51
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Shadowmarch by Tad Williams. So far the beginning is pretty interesting, I know its a series of 4 books and I already bought the 2nd with the third on the way when its released in November.
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Oct 27, 2010 03:44
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Just bought these: Return of the Black Company Glen Cook Chronicles of the Black Company Glen Cook The Many Deaths of the Black Company Glen Cook The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie Trying the Black Company books based of a recommendation, I have one of the compendiums at home, these round out the set. Also with the Abercrombie book going off a recommendation and because he seems popular in the book barn.
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Jan 2, 2011 03:33
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AmericanGeeksta posted:As mentioned in the Scifi and Fantasy thread, I just started A Song of Fire and Ice's first book, A Game Of Thrones. Its been pretty excellent through the first 40 or so pages I just started this also, watched the show on HBO and thought I better read all the books before the next season.
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Jun 27, 2011 23:11
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Started The Black Prism by Brent Weeks. Read the Night Angel Trilogy and thought it was pretty cool, so I figured why not give this a try. Hopefully he isn't as misogynistic in this one as the earlier trilogy.
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Dec 5, 2011 16:40
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The Nerdist Way Chris Hardwick. I had no idea that it was a self help book for nerds. I thought it would be filled with stories from the podcast or his tour but nope, its a self help book. I am going to read it anyways. The Man in the Rockefeller Suit Mark Seal. Pretty interesting so far. A man from Germany assumes the identity of a Rockefeller and gets away with it for a very long time.
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Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Paulson. I am reading it as a follow up to another book I read, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick because both of them were part of the same story just from different perspectives, so it will be interesting to see how they tell the same story.
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Johannes Cabal the Detective finished the first one, thought I might as well read the next two. Hopefully its like the first one in the series and maintains the same tone as the first one.
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nate fisher posted:Help picking my next book. 1984 or Brave New World? My vote is for Brave New World, I remember reading it for the first time and just falling in love with it.
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Hitch posted:I just started reading Antifragile - Things That Gain from Disorder. Both of his books are amazing, did you read The Black Swan? Antifragile ties into that book alot. I don't know about a separate thread but it would be nice to have a place to discuss his books and books of this kind such as Oliver Sacks, but I think even that could have its own thread.
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