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Encryptic posted:Just about to start Resolution by Robert B. Parker - the sequel to his Western Appaloosa which I just read yesterday. I was about to ask you how Appaloosa was, but since you just bought the sequel I guess I know all I need to know. I just bought Fall of Hyperion, and will probably start it today, unless I buy the 3rd Dexter book today, in which case I'll probably start that and leave the Simmons for later in the week.
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My copy of Neal Asher's Line War should be in my mailbox any day now. It's the last Ian Cormac novel, and like most of the rest of the series I've had to have it imported from the UK because Tor only wants to release books 1 and 3 in the US for some reason (this may not be true anymore, actually, I haven't checked recently, but the last novel is definitely not released in the US). Anyway, I've got a hardon the size of Florida in expectation for this, I've been gay for the series since Gridlinked and there was some pretty serious poo poo that went down at the end of book 4.
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Apr 22, 2009 23:53
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Joshtafari posted:I'm in the same boat as you with importing Asher's books. There's a prequel book out in the Cormac series, 'Shadow of the Scorpion' if you need more after you get done with 'Line War'. Shadow of the Scorpion owns. The blurb's not joking when it talks about Cormac's "bloody past", that book was as violent as gently caress, even for Asher. I've still got Hilldiggers, Cowl, and most of his short stories to work my way through yet, though, so I ain't hurting yet. Thanks, though.
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Apr 23, 2009 01:58
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Sympodial posted:Tristan Egolf's been favorably compared to John Kennedy Toole and seems like a relatively unheard of author so I'm going to give Lord of the Barnyard a shot this week. That is a great loving book, good choice. If you like Egolf you should check out Arthur Nersesian, specifically The gently caress-Up.
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May 1, 2009 05:42
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Started Dan Simmons' Summer of Night on the bus this morning. Good first chapter (edit: make that first two chapters, the first is just a short blurb about the history of the school), I went into it knowing that it was pretty much It, but as far as I'm concerned any good author that wants to rewrite a King novel should feel free to do so. It also reminds me of McCammon's Boy's Life, which reminds me that I probably ought to read some more early McCammon. I've read everything from Blue World forward, excepting the most recent Matthew Shephard novel, and I think I read Baal, but he's got a lot of stuff I haven't read. Boy's Life was the sheeee-it, and every thing else of his I read was passable at worst, so it's kinda odd that I haven't dug any deeper. Ballsworthy fucked around with this message at 18:55 on May 5, 2009 |
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May 5, 2009 17:10
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Stanley Park, by Timothy Taylor, it's a comedy about a heated rivalry between two schools of culinary thought (local, traditional styles vs. post-national fusion) in Vancouver BC. So far in the first chapter our protagonist, a chef, is meeting his father who is a participatory anthropolgist studying the homeless population of the titular park; they catch a duck and the chef son is roasting it over a fire and goddamn it made me hungry. Liking it a lot so far. Update: this guy needs to stop talking about black cod, I love black cod like I love my mother but I never see it around here. The book isn't really about what I said it was about up there, that's just some marketing BS that I fell for; it's really just about a chef struggling to keep his restaurant open, but I'm enjoying the heck out of it. Ballsworthy fucked around with this message at 18:55 on May 13, 2009 |
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May 11, 2009 20:06
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Watership Down. Haven't read it in like 20 years so I just picked up a new copy, really interested in seeing what I think about it now that I'm a grown-rear end man. After this I think I'll pick up some more Adams, particularly interested in Shardik and Traveller.
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May 15, 2009 21:35
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The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. Holy poo poo this book is great. Interesting characters, great violence. Started it yesterday and I'm almost 200 pages in already, I wanted to call in sick today so I could keep reading. Who knew a torturer could be such a sympathetic character?
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May 20, 2009 16:45
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Hooray for payday-Friday book buying jags. I purchased: the new Mieville Books two and three of Joe Abercrombie's First Law series The Unblemished by Conrad Williams I haven't purchased this one yet because it's new and expensive, but I'm going to as soon as I can find a reasonable copy, it looks awesome: http://www.amazon.com/Food-Younger-Land-Food-Before-Restaurants/dp/1594488657/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2 Amazon posted:Award-winning New York Times–bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system brought the country closer together; before chain restaurants imposed uniformity and low quality; and before the Frigidaire meant frozen food in mass quantities, the nation’s food was seasonal, regional, and traditional. It helped form the distinct character, attitudes, and customs of those who ate it. Ballsworthy fucked around with this message at 20:58 on May 29, 2009 |
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May 29, 2009 20:51
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Ballsworthy posted:The Unblemished by Conrad Williams Started this last night. Jesus gently caress christ mohamed miles davis, this poo poo is severely hosed up. Loving it.
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Jun 11, 2009 18:27
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Dinner Dream posted:Just bought The Final Solution by Michael Chabon, I've never read any of his stuff but heard good things about it as a whole, not anything about The Final Solution specifically, although the first two chapters are kind of stilted so far. Not the best introduction to the man's work, imo. Try not to form any lasting impressions about him based on that one alone. Not that it's bad or anything, it's just not much like the rest of his stuff.
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Jun 18, 2009 16:23
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Just picked up The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz-Zafon's follow-up to The Shadow of the Wind, which was one hell of a fun book, imo. I've heard it described as a prequel, but I suspect it's more of a prequel in spirit than in fact. Regardless, it's a gothic tale of books and authors set in 1930s Barcelona; count me in. Edit: whoever came up with these dust covers that only partially cover the book needs to be shot, though. It's like a guarantee that the loving thing is going to get torn. Ballsworthy fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Jun 30, 2009 |
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Jun 30, 2009 20:28
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Rim, by Alexander Besher, book one in a VR/Eastern Mysticism/cypberpunk/espionage trilogy. I read the series when it first came out back in the mid 90s and am interested to see how well its held up against both my improved taste in scifi and the technological advances of the last fifteen years. Historical perspective can make early-internet-era scifi seem pretty fatuous, but I'm a couple chapters in and so far so good.
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Jul 20, 2009 23:20
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Dan Simmons' Lovedeath, a collection of novellas. Read the foreword and the beginning of the first piece and it's already better than anything I've read in the last week or so.
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Jul 21, 2009 16:16
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The Algebraist by Iain M Banks. I've been meaning to read him for a long time now, and I actually picked this book up on a whim months ago and then promptly forgot about it completely. Started it this morning, I was sold by the time I read "Uncle Slovius had some years ago assumed the form of a walrus."
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Oct 13, 2009 16:25
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Trotsky1940 posted:Ironic you mention; I just started Terror and am loving it. Of course, being an Arctic history nerd with a love of John Franklin lore certainly does not hurt... It is a great book, but Simmons himself admits (in the foreword to Lovedeath) that he struggles with the endings of his larger works. Personally I loved every single sentence of The Terror, and even liked the ending of Hyperion, but I'm a big fan of non-traditional endings.
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Oct 16, 2009 02:15
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Beaters posted:I posted a couple of days ago about what I'm reading. This is what I just less than an hour ago bought: That is loving radical.
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Nov 14, 2009 00:37
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Gay4BluRayz posted:The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart When I saw that book on the shelf I knew there was no way I was walking out of the bookstore without it. My poo poo luck was that it was just before xmas so I gave it to my brother. The cover art is kick-loving-rear end. Has anyone read it? Is it as good as it looks?
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Dec 29, 2009 23:47
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Bernard Cornwell's The Burning Land  gently caress yeah gonna get my sword porn on.
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Jan 29, 2010 21:18
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Evfedu posted:Finally let myself start on The Last Argument of Kings and am p. downhearted. The First Law trilogy has been the best fantasy I've ever read by quite a long margin, and when it's done it's done. Good news! Best Served Cold brings back a healthy chunk of characters and at least indirectly continues the core conflict of the trilogy. I suspect his fifth book will follow the same pattern (I'm guessing Bremer dan Gorst for one of the main characters).
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Feb 28, 2010 20:49
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Hedrigall posted:I just started The Secret History by Donna Tarte. 16 pages in and I'm already hooked by the characters and the writing style. It's a chunky book too, 630 pages in my edition, this one will take me a while. Don DeLillo's End Zone and Jonathan Lethem's As She Crawled Across the Table are both pretty awesome
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Mar 11, 2010 19:19
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Started Johnny Got His Gun last night, jesus gently caress christ I should have read this a long time ago.
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Mar 27, 2010 20:52
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Facial Fracture posted:I just started Nick Tosches's King of the Jews, which I'd forgotten about until I saw it in paperback with a "sale" sticker on it yesterday. I like Tosches, I figure I'll like this. Thanks, I'd forgotten that I need to read that. His Dean Martin bio rocked my poo poo.
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Mar 30, 2010 17:00
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It would be pretty funny if they literally meant one used book, this book, this one right here is the one that is 100% off, not any of the other ones. And it's Koontz.
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Apr 2, 2010 04:42
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I'm about 100 pages into The Girl Who Played With Fire and I'm already sick of the phrase "sex mafia". I enjoyed the first one and I expect I'll enjoy this one, but the author really does go on about irrelevant details sometimes. Hooray, a list of all the things the protagonist purchased to furnish her new apartment, the brand of dining room table she chose will certainly be important later in the book.
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Syrinxx posted:Admit it, you're just nostalgic for the first book's two page description of her new Mac laptop It's true and I would also like to hear more about the software she uses and how many frozen pizzas she purchased this week sex mafia.
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