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Enthusiast
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Device: Kindle, Sony PRS 300, IPod Touch (Stanza)
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Breaking in my new Kindle with a reread of A Song of Ice and Fire in anticipation for July, and enjoying some Jules Verne from the MR library. Also have to finish Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson.
Also have Frankenstein ready to go. I gave it shot, but did not seem to be in the mood to focus on it. |
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#9272 |
Wizard
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Device: Kindle Paperwhite
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I just finished Elegy Beach, a very enjoyable post-apocalyptic fantasy by Steven R. Boyett. I hope he decides to write more stories set in this really interesting universe. It reminds me a bit of Rich Cook's Wizard's Bane series, but grittier and more realistic, while retaining a lot of humor. The interplay between the characters is a lot of fun.
I'm going to give Code of the Lifemaker another try. After a promising prologue it completely failed to grab my interest. |
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whimsical
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: in darkness
Device: current: PPW 4. brick: K3 & Voyage.
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#9274 |
Space Cadet
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Karma: 4030536
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: South Africa
Device: Sony PRS-T1, Cybook Opus, Kobo Glo
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I know. The problem is having to wait for books 6 & 7. If he sticks to form 5 or so years is a bit long to wait!
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Maria Schneider
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Near Austin, Texas
Device: 3g Kindle Keyboard
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Wizzard
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Roundworld
Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia
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But it all seems to be overly pat when the same person who manages to maneuver others into participating in their dirty work also happens to have a convenient suddenly-revealed mental illness which semi-absolves them of responsibility and cuts off avenues of reflection into the darker side of human nature*. I just eye-roll at that sort of thing, which I first encountered in a particular series of cozy mysteries where I made the mistake of reading 5 in a row which did that convenient murderer-was-just-plain-wackadoodle-think-no-more-of-possible-reasons-for-killing-don'tchaknow-it-would-have-never-happened-if-they-hadn't-been-totally-doolally-all-along for each and every one. It's like, way to dismiss the broad spectrum of human motivation and stigmatize people with mental illness as ticking-time-bombs-of-random-murder while letting "normal" suspects off the hook because you just have to be visibly clinically insane in retrospect before you can kill someone. ![]() * "Oh look, crazy people are cra-a-a-zy! We all know good old salt-of-the-earth people in command of all their senses would never, ever try and kill anyone†…" † Despite what, centuries of recorded evidence to the contrary? |
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#9277 |
Only need one eye to read
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Darlington, England
Device: Kobo Touch N905C, Sony PRS-300, Nintendo DSi XL,
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Currently on a re read of Alan Dean Foster's For Love of Mother-not, the prelude to the thranx/commonwealth/pip and flinx series.
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#9278 |
Close to the Edit!
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: UK
Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"
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Just finished Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (came 3rd in the May 2011 Mobile Read Book Club Vote), which I really enjoyed, and have started Mystery by Jonathan Kellerman, the latest in his Alex Delaware series, all of which I have read.
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#9279 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Florida
Device: iPhone 6 plus, Sony T1, iPad 3
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Just finished David Balducci's Total Control. This is the first Balducci I've read and now have the whole series to look forward to.
Next Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan |
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Series Addict
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Florida, USA
Device: Kindle Paperwhite (2nd Gen)
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I'm reading Thieve's World, the first book in the Thieve's World Series by Robert Asprin. This is the first paper book/series I've read in about 4 or 5 months.
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Robert Lynn Asprin, Lynn Abbey, John Brunner, Poul Anderson, Andrew J. Offutt, Joe Haldeman, Marion Zimmer-Bradley & Christine DeWees. |
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Maria Schneider
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Near Austin, Texas
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#9282 |
Eager Reader
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Earth
Device: Nook
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I just got my nook today and I downloaded 'A Fool Again' by Eloisa James.
I'm planning to read that after I finish 'Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the somerset sisters' by Lesley M.M. Blume. (Which is very good, by the way) |
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#9283 |
Evangelist
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Karma: 864744
Join Date: Mar 2011
Device: Kindle 3, LookBook, Nook Simple Touch
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I finally finished the book I have been reading for a week (A Bend in the Road) It was not long 300 some odd pages, and it was not that I didn't enjoy it. Just been in a funk lately, hopefully that's past now..
what to read next.... |
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#9284 |
whimsical
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Karma: 88193939
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: in darkness
Device: current: PPW 4. brick: K3 & Voyage.
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I finished The Name of The Wind last night. Phew! What a long one. What next? ah yes, Hunger Game.
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#9285 |
Indie Advocate
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Device: Kindle
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