04-12-2012, 11:01 AM | #12901 |
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04-12-2012, 02:21 PM | #12902 | ||
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My one real complaint about the series is that hackneyed subtheme of the protagonist's angst and dithering about the beautiful but unacheivable female, etc., etc. But other than that, it's very well done. You've got an interesting magic premise combined with the ever popular bard, and a bit of fighting to keep it all moving along. And move along it does, I was up WAY too late last night. On to the second one! |
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04-12-2012, 02:30 PM | #12903 |
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Don't do that unless you really want to since I'll be telling you when I stumble onto it and my plans right now are to read all of them back-to-back.
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04-12-2012, 03:00 PM | #12904 |
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Since it made the Hugo shortlist, and I'm eligible to vote again this year, I've got started on A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin. I bought it (well, them - the uk paperback edition has been split into two, like the previous two volumes) a while ago, but was in no great hurry to read it given that the next one is probably still a long way off.
Even split into two the books are quite chunky. 600 and 500 pages of actual book, and a chunk of Appendix after that. I expect I'll get a free ebook version as part of the voter packet before long, and I might switch over to that if I'm still reading by then. I had to read the synopses on Wikipedia of the earlier books in the series, it's been so long. |
04-12-2012, 03:12 PM | #12905 |
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Oh, it would be because I want to. I really enjoyed these books the first time through, and it's been long enough that I'm about ready to re-read anyway. But probably not quite yet. It's about this huge TBR I need to deal with.
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04-12-2012, 03:18 PM | #12906 |
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My partial personal challenge this year was to read at least the first book in a series of a bunch of Epic Fantasy novels that have clogged up my TBR pile for a while (First three books in The Wheel Of Time, first three books in A Song of Ice and Fire, three books in The First Law, first two in the Malazan Book of the Fallen), but that's not going so well. I've read the first two books of The First Law series, but I've hit a mental brick wall. Can't generate the energy to work through these Epics.
So, I've been rereading and reading some mindless and fun fiction. Reread the first four (chronologically) in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Series, finally finished book 6 (When The Tide Rises) of David Drake's RCN Series, book one of The Cat Who series (The Cat Who Could Read Backwards) which I wasn't overly impressed with and am now moving onto the first book in the Jon and Lobo Series by Mark L. van Name (One Jump Ahead). Maybe in a couple of months I can again wrap my head around the epics and at least finish a few of what I have. Last edited by jgaiser; 04-12-2012 at 03:20 PM. |
04-12-2012, 06:26 PM | #12907 | |
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I had actually intended to finish the series last year, but I started reading them too late...So I will be reading books 1 and 2 for a 3rd time, and books 3 - 6 for a 2nd time. I find it kind of funny that I stopped at book 6 in both The Hollows and BDB. |
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04-12-2012, 06:36 PM | #12908 | |
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I read The Hunger Games a few nights ago and was pleasantly surprised, she writes pretty good and it the book never got boring. I'm not much for reviewing books or posting a long opinion on them but I would recommend the book, 10/10 stars. Last edited by The Terminator; 04-18-2012 at 12:34 PM. |
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04-12-2012, 11:19 PM | #12910 | |
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So I finish All Quiet on the Western Front. A super read. Now back to The Grapes of Wrath.
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What is this "mental brick wall" you were talking about? If you have sampled the others, can you compare 1st Law to them? It would be expanded later in 2nd and 3rd volume. Last edited by maianhvk; 04-12-2012 at 11:24 PM. |
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04-12-2012, 11:44 PM | #12911 | |
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I haven't done more than read the first couple chapters of any beyond The First Law series. I do like Joe Abercrombie's writing, but there are about a dozen main characters and three story threads running through the three books and by book three it was finally time to put them down and read mindless stuff for a while. I'll try to pick them up again later in the year. |
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04-12-2012, 11:52 PM | #12912 | |
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I have a soft spot for YA books, but I really needed something with more adult action and got just what I was craving. I used to read mostly murder myteries and occasionally something more indepth that makes you think, so this series is really the first of its kind for me. |
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04-13-2012, 02:43 AM | #12913 | |
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Egypt - How a Lost Civilization was Rediscovered by Joyce Tyldesley is now on my wishlist. Thanks
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04-13-2012, 03:50 AM | #12915 | |
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Was my favourite book when I was but a youngster. I should really reread it sometime soon. I'm reading the new Kellerman, Victims, for a bit of light relief before I move on to Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass. |
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