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Which book are you reading currently? #5

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by dmc, May 4, 2006.

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    Nope; picked up Singularity Sky on a whim when I saw it in hardback for $4, and that was the first Stross book I read.

    Having finished Lion of Senet--and not having my opinion of it changed by the second half of the book--I am now reading Sebastian by Anne Bishop.

    Pretty fun.
     
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    It's not really hard to finish a book in 2 days :/ I finished Thud! in 2 days. Thud! was awesome, I love the Sam Vimes mystery type stories. Am now reading an FR novel, Whisper of Waves by Philip Athans. Pretty good so far.
     
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    Reading the Magicians Guild by Trudi Canavan. This is good stuff. Easy to read and entertaining. I like it :) .
     
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    Um, Enagonios, best not to say "pretty good" and "Philip Athans" in the same proximity with Tal around... :mommy:
     
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    Athans isn't that bad :p I enjoyed Annihilation from the WotSQ series as well :p Why? What did he write that was so crappy? :confused:

    Now going to start Promise of the Witch-King by Salvatore.
     
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    [​IMG] I'm holding myself back here, just barely... make a search for "Athans" in this forum.
     
    Taluntain, Sep 19, 2006
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    I finished Golden Fool today (it was pretty good) and started on Fool's Fate. This series really feels more like one novel arbitrarily split in three instead of being a trilogy of three related novels.
     
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    *cough* Baldur's Gate *cough*
     
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    Search result for "Athans" on this forum. Quoting Tal:
    Straight and to the point :p
     
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    ah i see :p still, Annihilation wasn't bad :p and all game novelizations suck ass anyway, with the exception of "The Dig" by Alan Dean Foster.
     
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    Just finished all eleven of Robert Jordans Wheel of Time series in 2 weeks. Going to get the latest Raymond Feist tomorrow.
     
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    In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Not bad - no where near as good as One Hundred Years of Solitude...
     
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    Having almost finished Deadhouse Gates, I've ordered Gardens of the Moon, Memories of Ice and House of Chains. Until they arrive I will be reading Inside Out - A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason, as one of the actual members of the band I figure he may actually know something about them :p
     
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    Reading A Cruel Wind by Glen Cook

    Actually an omnibus hardcover collecting the first three "dread empire" books. I'm not sure how they're chronicles of the dread empire, since at the point I am in the first novel, the empire's been dust for hundreds of years.

    Ah well, I expect all shall be revealed.
     
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    Just starting Blood Canticle by Anne Rice. I have missed Lestat.
     
    kuemper, Sep 22, 2006
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    You must have liked it then, DS.

    Flight of the Nighthawks? Let us know if it is any good. I've been putting off getting it.
     
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    Yes, especially if you actually buying them. I love those books, but I still get them from the library.

    Still reading Memories of Ice. What a great book. Quick Ben rules.
     
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    I just finished reading Fool's Fate. It was excellent. It more than made up for the slow start in the first book. I sat down after dinner and read for an extra five hours above what I would normally read - which I have not been inspired to do in quite some time.

    I will be working from home tomorrow so I will probably not start anything else until Monday.
     
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    'Across the face of the world', by Russell Kirkpatrick. A proper Tolkenian style fantasy epic. And the first of an incredible trilogy.

    Thing is, these books are by a New Zealand author and are, at present, only available in NZ, Australia and the UK. But whenever they come out anywhere else i would highly recommend them.
     
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    Sorry? You read a book for FIVE hours AFTER dinner? No wonder you can finish books in a couple of days!

    Any relation of Ian?
     
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