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Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: 33.9388° N, 117.2716° W
Device: Kindles K-2, K-KB, PW 1 & 2, Voyage, Fire 2, 5 & HD 8, Surface 3, iPad
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Bah, humbug!
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA
Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.
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#10608 |
Grand Sorcerer
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Karma: 464403178
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: 33.9388° N, 117.2716° W
Device: Kindles K-2, K-KB, PW 1 & 2, Voyage, Fire 2, 5 & HD 8, Surface 3, iPad
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#10609 |
Guru
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Townsend, WI
Device: Palm TX, PRS-505 (BLUE)
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Ditto that, plus they are all better then Moonlight Mile.
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#10610 |
David
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Norway
Device: Kindle, E.Edge (sold), Irex Iliad (retired)
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Starting on book 3: Kethril in the Willden Trilogy by John H. Carroll
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Norfolk, England
Device: Kindle Oasis
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Next I read The Amazon Legion by Tom Kratman More a political/military tract than a story. The new world is a thin allegory of our own. Readable, but irritating and I wouldn't recommend it. Now: 1636: The Saxon Uprising by Eric Flint. (Whoops - just realised I should read this before Ring of Fire III) So next: Ring of Fire III by Eric Flint The third anthology of stories set in the 1632 universe that are written by well-known authors, and which might have a little more bearing on the main plot lines than the short stories in the Grantville Gazettes. (This is the third "Ring of Fire" anthology. There have been 36 Grantville Gazettes so far!) Last edited by pdurrant; 08-26-2011 at 06:46 AM. |
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#10612 |
Nameless Being
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So I finally completed Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon. I am definitely looking for a less difficult read at this point. I considered starting on The Chinese Maze Murders on spec, but it looks like the book club winner is still up in the air. That Maze Murders wins is the only reason I would want to read it right now, so I decided to start on The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess; another splinter from The Great War and Modern Memory. This required a special order outside my local library system, it arrived yesterday and is actually quite short.
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Junior Member
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: USA-West of the Mississippi
Device: Nook
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#10614 |
Fanatic
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Device: none
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The Help, half way through it.
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#10615 |
The Forgotten
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Dubai
Device: Kindle Paperwhite; Nook HD; Sony Xperia Z3 Compact
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And I've finally finished A Dance with Dragons.
Since the book has undoubtedly been discussed in great detail, I will not bother giving in-depth thoughts on it. Suffice to say I was disappointed. A decent book, but not great. Probably competing with A Feast for Crows for the title of "Weakest Book in the Series". I am now going back to the book that I abandoned when ADWD came out: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Also, I will still be attempting to read The Illearth War (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant #2) alongside, though I actually haven't touched that in weeks. |
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#10616 |
Are you gonna eat that?
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Phillipsburg, NJ
Device: Kindle 3, Nook STG
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Run by Blake Crouch. its a great, fast paced horror/thriller about a family on the run from a wave of violent lunacy thats sweeping the nation. very fast paced, gory and disturbing.
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New York Editor
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Device: PalmTX, Pocket eDGe, Alcatel Fierce 4, RCA Viking Pro 10, Nexus 7
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I see Bantam Spectra never did correct that failure to label the book as part one of two. Simmons is adept at peeling layers back like an onion. When you get to Endymion and The Rise of Endymion, you discover that things are nowhere near what you assumed they were. ______ Dennis |
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New York Editor
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Device: PalmTX, Pocket eDGe, Alcatel Fierce 4, RCA Viking Pro 10, Nexus 7
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_The Dispossessed_ won the Hugo in 1975, as well. It's a worthy work, but I found it less satisfying than some of LeGuin's other books. The authorial strings are a little too evident in a few places, because she's more interested in making a point that telling a story. If you haven't read LeGuin's _The Left Hand of Darkness_ (also in the Hainish cycle), do. It's simply brilliant. Quote:
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New York Editor
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Device: PalmTX, Pocket eDGe, Alcatel Fierce 4, RCA Viking Pro 10, Nexus 7
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The book got some flak from Japanese, who were unhappy with the portrayal of their people and said it wouldn't have happened that way. That was somewhat amusing, as Clavell had lived in Asia, and put himself forward as an expert on Japanese culture who could help other westerners who had to deal with it. ______ Dennis |
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#10620 |
Evangelist
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Device: Kindle 3, LookBook, Nook Simple Touch
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I'm reading Bleeder tonight, it's last in the series I have been reading this week.
The King of Garrick wants to kill her. The King of Allel wants to love her. And shapeshifters stole her baby's soul! A hundred years after sea-level rise and global nuclear war wiped out most of humanity, Mallory is a chalice, one of the world's rare fertile females. Chalices live under the protection of Red City, which contracts with the kings of the Concord Cities to provide natural-born heirs. It's a pampered and easy life - until Mal is caught between one king's lust for world domination and the goddess Asherah's desperate plays for another god's attention. When Mal's undeclared - and forbidden - feelings for King Edmund grow too strong to be denied, she must confront the truth of her past and the most terrifying threat of all -- the inevitability of her destiny. |
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