02-15-2004, 02:35 PM | #1 |
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Sci fi/Fantasy books just aquired...
Friends, 'mooters, fellow posters...
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02-15-2004, 02:49 PM | #2 |
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The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Hopefully I'll get to read it this time before someone steals my copy again!!!
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02-15-2004, 03:59 PM | #3 |
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Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith. It's a collection of short stories based on humanity in the distant future after a 'dark age'. Very good stuff. So far I've read "Scanners live in vain".
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02-15-2004, 04:00 PM | #4 |
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i' rereading stephen king's gunslinger stuff atm... will need something new soon though
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02-15-2004, 06:04 PM | #5 |
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'King Rat' by China Mieville, 'Jennifer Government' by Max Barry, 'Pattern Recognition' by William Gibson, and 'Titus Groan' by Mervyn Peake (the first book of the afforementioned trilogy).
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02-15-2004, 09:51 PM | #6 |
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just bought all six books in the sword-dancer series by jennifer roberson i love those books
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02-16-2004, 06:42 PM | #7 |
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I am currently reading the second book of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice trilogy. I bought all three of them at once. Peace.
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02-16-2004, 11:37 PM | #8 |
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i'm just bying books all the time lately!
just bought yime of twins (even though i already read it) and i have war of the twins and test of twins on order
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02-18-2004, 06:39 AM | #9 |
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So far this week i've read daggerspell, darkspell and am half way through dawnspell by Katherine Kerr. Is it any wonder i don't get work done if i'm constantly reading? Plus no money. Being a student and trying to keep up a book addiction isn't easy. Though there is this great second hand bookshop just around the corner from me. It doesn't sell the little book of calm. i wonder if that means that no-one has ever tried to get rid of one once they've bought it, or they swollowed it?
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I recently got Morgawr, by Terry Brooks. I realize I don't have all his Shannara books, and I don't have all of Jack Whyte's books. Panic and destruction!
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04-01-2004, 01:22 PM | #11 |
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Today I bought Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy.
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04-08-2004, 11:03 AM | #12 |
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Right now I am reading The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan. Next is Running with the Demon by Terry Brooks, The Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind, Immortals by RA Salvatore, then Legends II Edited by Robert Silverberg.
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04-08-2004, 12:45 PM | #13 |
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Just bought The Dragon Reborn (third book in WoT) by R. Jordan, and almost ordered Legends I (mostly for the Martin-story).
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04-08-2004, 09:33 PM | #14 |
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I just bought Greg Keyes's Briar King and I have to say that it is a huge disappointment. I really enjoyed Waterborn and Black God, but Im hating Briar King. It's absolutely boring and in the first 150 pages (as far as I've got so far) nothing has happened. It reminds me of a Wheel of Time book: plodding, shallow, and a waste of time (looks around expecting a mob of Jordan fans to start throwing stones).
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04-09-2004, 12:25 AM | #15 |
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Ah don't worry about that. You shouldn't find any of those heathens here. The only thing you've got to worry about whether or not you're wearing pants.
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04-09-2004, 11:58 AM | #17 |
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Darn it! I only made it to the fifth WoT book before I got bored as hell and quit. You're right, though. I can only remember four or five character's names.
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04-17-2004, 11:33 AM | #18 |
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Anyone here read Steven Erikson's The Gardens of the Moon?
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I have a hard time trying to make up my mind about it...I'm now 445 pages into it, out of ca 730, and some passages are fun to read, others slower...
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