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Gareth
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Posted - 15 Jun 2016 :  21:43:15  Show Profile Send Gareth a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Finally getting round to Brimstone Angels. I have Lesser Evils, The Adversary, Fire in the Blood and Ashes of the Tyrant to follow, but because I know they have some of the same characters and follow chronologically I am reading them in order.

Its taken me a while to get into, but thats because I have been picking it up and putting it down for a while. Its very enjoyable though, and I am looking forward to reading the rest.
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I was reading the newest Star Wars book, Bloodline, but I had to put that down -- Stiletto just came out this week. It's the sequel to The Rook, a kinda-sorta "X-Files meets the X-Men" type mashup that has become one of my fave books.

I've not gotten very far into it. I just laid hands on the book last night, and I didn't have as much time to get to it as I should have liked.

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Wow, no one has commented in a couple weeks?

I read and thoroughly enjoyed Stiletto, then finished Bloodline, which was thoroughly meh.

I read an Iron Kingdoms ebook, The Blood of Kings. Normally I'm not a fan of ebooks, but I'd heard that Cygnar had a new king, and since that's my faction, I was eager to see how it played out. It started a bit slow, but once it got going, I really enjoyed it.

Somewhere in there, I also read Mechanical Failure, which was, like Stiletto, thoroughly enjoyable, and which will make my list of the best books of 2016.

I just finished The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe, which makes the title character a werewolf (classic variety, not D&D or Hollywood variety) and strands him on an island sacred to Cthulhu and frequented by his cannibal worshippers. I really like Peter Clines's stuff, but this one was a miss for me.

I'm now working on The Gospel of Loki, which does something I've wanted to see for a while -- it's a first-person POV, told by Loki, who of course makes himself out to be not quite the bad guy. I'm not overly keen on the way each chapter is basically its own tale, almost a standalone tale in a larger epic, but there's a lot of humor, and I like the respinning of the mythology.

Not really sure what will be next, but since I've got some travel time coming up, I need to pick something.

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Artemas Entreri
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Posted - 05 Jul 2016 :  21:25:54  Show Profile Send Artemas Entreri a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert

Wow, no one has commented in a couple weeks?




I'm having a down reading year due to spending more time on other hobbies.

I started Lords of Destruction, Book 2 of the Death Dealer Saga, by James Silke. I love me some nice 80's Sword & Sorcery!

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cheriebrown
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I am back reading the sellsword series, imo the best realms series to date!

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I read Mars, Inc - The Billionaire's Club and The Red Plague Affair, mostly on the out of state trip -- between airplane time, my wife driving the car, and hanging out in the hotel room with our little guy while she was spending time with her family, I had plenty of time to read.

(It was late, and he needed to wind down and go to sleep. I was actually quite fine with this arrangement; I like her family, but a lot of them I was meeting for the first time that weekend. I was very comfortable doing my own thing while she bonded with them.)

I'm now reading an alt-history called Joe Steele. The premise is that Stalin was born in the US (his dad had left Russia and came to the US), and winds up becoming President. It's kind of weird -- I don't feel particularly enthusiastic to keep reading it, but I want to see how the story plays out.

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VikingLegion
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Wooly, I saw you commented on Ready Player One back on page 1 or 2. I somewhat recently finished this utterly terrific book for the first time. I don't know how it eluded my attention for years, I guess I've been so preoccupied with TSR/WotC books it must have somehow slipped under my radar. Within minutes of finishing it I immediately jumped online to alert over a dozen of friends I grew up geeking out with - playing D&D, watching Voltron, Beastmaster, etc. - basically people all in the ideal age category to really appreciate what that story celebrates. A bunch of my friends tore through it in 2-3 days (like myself) because it is so irresistible. I rarely re-read a book anymore, because I have so many on the mountain ahead of me, but this one almost certainly will become an annual event.
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quote:
Originally posted by VikingLegion

Wooly, I saw you commented on Ready Player One back on page 1 or 2. I somewhat recently finished this utterly terrific book for the first time. I don't know how it eluded my attention for years, I guess I've been so preoccupied with TSR/WotC books it must have somehow slipped under my radar. Within minutes of finishing it I immediately jumped online to alert over a dozen of friends I grew up geeking out with - playing D&D, watching Voltron, Beastmaster, etc. - basically people all in the ideal age category to really appreciate what that story celebrates. A bunch of my friends tore through it in 2-3 days (like myself) because it is so irresistible. I rarely re-read a book anymore, because I have so many on the mountain ahead of me, but this one almost certainly will become an annual event.



I'm glad you liked it! I really love that book, myself.

His second book, Armada, is good, too, but doesn't knock it out of the park the way Ready Player One does.

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Thelonius
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Just finished reading Terry Pratchett's Lords and ladies and got American Gods waiting on my shelves for the next week when I start my holidays

"If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single ideal." - Kreia
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The Red Walker
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quote:
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Just finished reading Terry Pratchett's Lords and ladies and got American Gods waiting on my shelves for the next week when I start my holidays



oh what joy for you!

American gods is next up on my re read stack! So amazing

A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka

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quote:
Originally posted by The Red Walker

quote:
Originally posted by Thelonius

Just finished reading Terry Pratchett's Lords and ladies and got American Gods waiting on my shelves for the next week when I start my holidays



oh what joy for you!

American gods is next up on my re read stack! So amazing



I wasn't a huge fan of American Gods, myself, but I really liked the sequel, Anansi Boys.

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The Red Walker
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quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert

quote:
Originally posted by The Red Walker

quote:
Originally posted by Thelonius

Just finished reading Terry Pratchett's Lords and ladies and got American Gods waiting on my shelves for the next week when I start my holidays



oh what joy for you!

American gods is next up on my re read stack! So amazing



I wasn't a huge fan of American Gods, myself, but I really liked the sequel, Anansi Boys.



For me it was opposite.

But I liked Neverwhere even more than both of those.

I am currently reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman and trying to start

The Gunslinger by Stephen King, I don't like his horror at all....but keep getting poked, prodded and begged to try the dark tower series.

I'll have to admit, it has a great opening line....

"The man in black fled across the desert,
And the gunslinger followed"

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I read The Dark Tower many, many years ago, and found it not to my liking.

I've got mixed opinions on Stephen King stuff. Some I've liked, some I've hated... And even some of the tales I've liked, I've not liked his writing style.

I read the re-release of Neverwhere at this same time last year -- I started it on the plane to GenCon. It's another odd one, for me. I liked it, but at the same time, it's not one I can muster enthusiasm for.

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Lamora
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I just finished Rothfuss' The Wise Man's Fear and Name of the Wind. I had forgotten how absolutely amazing both were. Now I can only wait semi-patiently for the 3rd book.
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Portuguese D. Ace
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Two days ago i started "the Lies of Locke Lamora"

Sweet Tymora, what a joy.

Cant put it down.

(Just finished the three main books of The First Law)


Please, bring back the Realms. I'm really fed up with the Sword Coast.


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quote:
Originally posted by Portuguese D. Ace

Two days ago i started "the Lies of Locke Lamora"

Sweet Tymora, what a joy.

Cant put it down.

(Just finished the three main books of The First Law)





What did you think of the First Law? I loved it. The Lies of Locke Lamora was fantastic as well.

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quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert

I'm now reading an alt-history called Joe Steele. The premise is that Stalin was born in the US (his dad had left Russia and came to the US), and winds up becoming President. It's kind of weird -- I don't feel particularly enthusiastic to keep reading it, but I want to see how the story plays out.



I finished this one yesterday... And I don't think I'll read it again.

The book (perhaps inevitably, given the subject) brings Animal Farm to mind, for me. Not as much for the political angle, but instead, what that angle represents: the hopeful revolution, followed by a descent into tyranny and a reality darker than the one that was revolted against.

By the time I got to the end of Joe Steele, I was mostly interested in what was going to happen after Joe Steele died. I wanted to see the next President was going to do to undo what Steele had done.... And that wasn't what happened. So the book ends on a rather bleak note, which for me makes for some very dissatisfying reading. It may work for some, but not for me.

The book didn't bug me the way The Man in the High Castle did, but it is similar in that it's not one that I can recommend to anyone.

I'm currently reading Aftermath: Life Debt, the newest Star Wars book. Not sure what will be next on the list, but with GenCon approaching, I've got to keep it in my reading plans.

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Portuguese D. Ace
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quote:
Originally posted by Artemas Entreri

quote:
Originally posted by Portuguese D. Ace

Two days ago i started "the Lies of Locke Lamora"

Sweet Tymora, what a joy.

Cant put it down.

(Just finished the three main books of The First Law)





What did you think of the First Law? I loved it. The Lies of Locke Lamora was fantastic as well.



I loved it as well. the main story was a little bit straightforward for my taste, but damn, Abercrombie CAN write some characters!

Glokta hypnotized me.

I still have to read the other four spinoffs.


On the other hand, I just finished The Lies of Locke Lamora (I devoured it)and... i loved it way more than the first law.
i loved everything of it. the characters, the storyline, the descriptions. it felt really complete, while, in comparison, the first law lacked something...



anyway, it feels a little bit weird to me, that almost every name in Locke Lamora has an Italian feeling (i'm Italian).

The name Camorr is ODDLY (or purposefully...?) similar to Camorra, the name of an italian type of Mafia...

Now i'm already onto Red seas under a red skies

Please, bring back the Realms. I'm really fed up with the Sword Coast.


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The Sage
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I really need to get into those 'Locke Lamora' books. Every reader I know comfortably swears they're a "rippin' good yarn."

...

As for what I'm reading at the moment... mopstly re-reads while I await a shipment of new books. So, old DRAGONLANCE re-read in the form of Fistandantilus Reborn, Mark Waid's phenomenal Irredeemable and Incorruptible comic books, the Tome and Blood earlier 3e D&D supplement.

The only really new "read," is most of the current issues I'm interested in picking up from DC's Rebirth [yes, again!] line.

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Just finished "Spellstorm" and now it's "Death Masks"...Then it's time for "The Sundering" Series. I got to get caught up after almost 3 years...

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quote:
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I really need to get into those 'Locke Lamora' books. Every reader I know comfortably swears they're a "rippin' good yarn."


I need to check those out, myself. That and Name of the Wind. I've got the latter book, but I've not gotten around to reading it.

quote:
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As for what I'm reading at the moment... mopstly re-reads while I await a shipment of new books. So, old DRAGONLANCE re-read in the form of Fistandantilus Reborn, snip



Oh, man, why would you do that to yourself? I go out of my way to tell people they don't need to read that as part of the Lost Gods trilogy, because all it does is intro the one character...

Reading that one is a chore, for me.

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It's a slog for me as well, but I'm presently referencing some pertinent lore on Skullcap at the moment, and I recall this novel featuring that location pretty significantly at the beginning.

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Starting KJ Parker's Devices and Desires.

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quote:
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I really need to get into those 'Locke Lamora' books. Every reader I know comfortably swears they're a "rippin' good yarn."





Do it. Do it now.

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quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by Artemas Entreri

quote:
Originally posted by Portuguese D. Ace

Two days ago i started "the Lies of Locke Lamora"

Sweet Tymora, what a joy.

Cant put it down.

(Just finished the three main books of The First Law)





What did you think of the First Law? I loved it. The Lies of Locke Lamora was fantastic as well.



I loved it as well. the main story was a little bit straightforward for my taste, but damn, Abercrombie CAN write some characters!




Yes Abercrombie writes the best characters in fantasy IMO.

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I finished reading Aftermath: Life Debt. It wasn't bad, but it similarly wasn't great.

I'm currently reading Ghost Rebellion, the next book in the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series, and I'm quite enjoying it -- it's been a fun series, overall.

I hope to finish this one before boarding the plane on Wednesday, and heading to GenCon.

I'll be taking two books with me in dead-tree format, for the trip. These looked promising enough that I'll share the URLs. I discovered both of those thru some book list email that I wound up on -- Goodreads, mayhaps.

The Interminables and Dark Matter: A Novel

And I'm quite looking forward to my friend Beth's new book, which comes out this month:

Breath of Earth

I've really enjoyed Beth's other stuff (and our lovely Lady Hooded One said that Ed like Beth's first book and was going to pick up her second), so I've high expectations for this one.

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So I read Dark Matter: A Novel on the plane to Indy, and very much enjoyed it.

I started The Interminables soon after, and finished it last night. Not bad, not great -- some really nifty ideas, but the execution wasn't as nifty.

I just this morning started one of the many books I picked up at GenCon, Betrayal of Ideals -- it's a new BattleTech novel that finally tells the tale of Clan Wolverine, also known as the Not-Named Clan. It is, thus far, told from the PoV of Khan Sarah McEvedy.

And since it's about Clan Wolverine, it's set in the past (at least, the past for the BattleTech Universe). If it was set in the post-Jihad present, I'd likely not have touched it.

I am hoping that this book finally and definitively links the Minnesota Tribe to Clan Wolverine. It's pretty obvious the Tribe was the remnants of the Clan, but I don't think they've ever explicitly confirmed that.

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Reading KJ Parker's Devices and Desires. It's pretty good so far. I'd compare it with the following analogy: Devices & Desires is to Engineering what Pillars of the Earth is to Architecture/Construction ... so if you like what Pillars did for architecture and want something similar for engineering, then this might be the book for you.

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quote:
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So I read Dark Matter: A Novel on the plane to Indy, and very much enjoyed it.

I started The Interminables soon after, and finished it last night. Not bad, not great -- some really nifty ideas, but the execution wasn't as nifty.

I just this morning started one of the many books I picked up at GenCon, Betrayal of Ideals -- it's a new BattleTech novel that finally tells the tale of Clan Wolverine, also known as the Not-Named Clan. It is, thus far, told from the PoV of Khan Sarah McEvedy.

And since it's about Clan Wolverine, it's set in the past (at least, the past for the BattleTech Universe). If it was set in the post-Jihad present, I'd likely not have touched it.

I am hoping that this book finally and definitively links the Minnesota Tribe to Clan Wolverine. It's pretty obvious the Tribe was the remnants of the Clan, but I don't think they've ever explicitly confirmed that.

Granted, I've been out of the loop with much of the later Jihad material, and granted further that you've mostly avoided nearly all of it... but I recall reading something linking the remnants of the Wolverines, the Tribe, and the Word of Blake... to the point that the Jihad was really some secret part of the Wolverines and their revenge against the entire populated space of humanity - Successor States and Clans included - for their own Clan's ultimate destruction centuries earlier.

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Posted - 14 Aug 2016 :  00:09:32  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Sounds like a theory, more than anything else... The BattleTech wiki doesn't even mention that possibility.

I was a bit disappointed in a couple of things with Betrayal of Ideals... One was that after the focus left one particular group of Wolverines, they weren't mentioned again -- so the fate of that group is unknown. And the major disappointment was the lack of any reference to the Minnesota Tribe, other than in the ComStar-focused epilog. There was heavy mention of the 331st Division, and we know that the Tribe included a logo similar to that, but that was the only real connection.

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