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04-05-2008, 11:28 AM | #142 |
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I finished 'Guards,Guards' last night. I loved it! Are there more books with Carrot in them? I liked him, and it doesn't seem as if his story is done yet.
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04-05-2008, 02:36 PM | #143 |
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Yep.
First seen: Guards! Guards! Also in: Men at Arms Feet of Clay Jingo The Fifth Elephant The Truth The Last Hero Night Watch Thud! (from wiki) Personally, I like wotshisface better... Vimes.
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04-05-2008, 03:26 PM | #144 |
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Yay! Glad to hear it!
I liked Vimes too, but I liked Carrot best.
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04-05-2008, 07:55 PM | #145 |
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But Vimes is so... droll. Glad you liked 'em. The Night Watch will always be my favourite part of the Disc World series (in fact I think Guards! Guards! was my first discworld novel).
You might also enjoy the wee free men cos it's got violent lil' blue buggers with red hair, who like to fight, drink and steal, not necessarily in that order.
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04-06-2008, 12:24 PM | #146 |
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Other than being blue, they sound a lot like my family's ancestors.
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04-07-2008, 04:59 AM | #147 |
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Halfway through Gaiman's "American Gods"- excellent!
Fairly dark, and definitely adult fare, but wonderful stuff.
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04-07-2008, 05:11 AM | #148 |
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Yay - Neil Gaiman rocks.
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04-09-2008, 04:27 PM | #149 |
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I'm wanting to start The Fifth Elephant, but not until I finish HoME X.
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04-12-2008, 02:33 PM | #150 |
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I've just finished Revelation by Carol Berg, and have started Foreigner by CJ Cherryh, both of which are excellent and tempt me to buy the sequels.
A couple of people have recommended Neil Gaiman to me, too, but I'm not sure if his writing is quite my type of thing - no harm in trying, though, I suppose!
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04-12-2008, 02:46 PM | #151 |
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The only thing by Neil Gaiman I've read is 'Good Omens', but perhaps after I finish everything I'm reading right now, I'll give him a shot.
Is Foreigner the first book of that series, Aiká? It's been so long since I've read Cherryh that I can't remember.
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04-12-2008, 02:50 PM | #152 |
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It is the first book - I'll admit the amount of alien (atevi) vocabulary used without explanation threw me a little at first, but I do like the idea (and it helped when I found the glossary in the back )
But there are 8 sequels, so I'll have a nice long reading list to look forward to!
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04-12-2008, 02:55 PM | #153 |
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If it's the first then I think I've read it...and several of the sequels. They were quite good.
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04-13-2008, 01:34 AM | #154 |
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I just finished 'The Fifth Elephant' - Liked it a lot better than 'Guards, Guards' (which was good, too).
*loves Carrot*
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04-16-2008, 04:04 PM | #155 |
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Does anyone know the Bitterbynde trilogy by Cecili a Dart-Thornton? I think many of you would like it .
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04-16-2008, 05:31 PM | #156 |
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Nope, not heard of it.
Just finished 'Going Postal' by Terry Pratchett. Quite good. Started 'Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel'
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04-19-2008, 02:04 PM | #157 |
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I'm not still reading it as I finished it yesterday, but Snakecharm, The Kiesha'ra volume two, by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. It's young adult fiction- I read volume one (Hawksong) when I was a lot younger (but still kind of old for YA, admittedly). But, it's fun and I like it. The author was very young when she published these books- maybe 16 or so for Hawksong, and her first book when she was 13- so she's kind of an inspiration to me.
They're about shape-shifters mostly. Very fun. I can't put them down until I'm done. I'm still reading Stone of Tears too, the second book of the Sword of Truth series. I like it a lot. It's so cheesy though... |
04-24-2008, 03:09 PM | #158 |
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I just finished reading Katherine Kurtz's Chronicles of King Kelson series... The original trilogy was sooooo much better. I think that she got slightly confused with the later writing she went into with the series.
Since I finished that and needed something lighter to balance me, I'm re-reading the Beowulf Shaeffer book Crashlander by Larry Niven. Really nice because it's short stories that continue, so it doesn't require a whole lot of continuous reading to get into it. |
04-25-2008, 08:28 PM | #159 |
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Finally finished Two Handed Engine, selected short stories of Kuttner and Moore. Collections like this always take me awhile to get through as I usually just read a story every day or two (bed time story ) and this one had 37 of them. I very much recommend this book if you like classic science fiction.
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