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19-11-2011 11:47AM

pH wrote: »

Post again when you've finished Evolutionary Void!

Ok, will do although I have skimmed over most of her multi-page bonking so far!

mcgovern · 21-11-2011 10:37AM

Use of Weapons was good, but for some reason it felt as if I'd read it before, seemed very familiar somehow.
Started The of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss based on all the reviews here. About 10% in, and not much has happened yet

AnCapaillMor · 22-11-2011 09:30AM

baz8080 wrote: »

Ok, will do although I have skimmed over most of her multi-page bonking so far!

I reckon hamilton's a dirty git, that or the wife has him under the thumb and she doesn't read his books. some of those scenes were crazy, i remember reading 1 part again because something happened and i thought i was going crazy. It was a good series in the end, not half as good as previous one though.

22-11-2011 11:12AM

Do you mean the dysfunction series? I really enjoyed the first book and half of the second but the third one was a right kick in the balls!

I reckon he is a bit of a dirty git though. I'm often reading his stuff on the Luas. If someone looked over my shoulder they'd think I was reading a "romance" novel,

AnCapaillMor · 22-11-2011 11:54AM

baz8080 wrote: »

Do you mean the dysfunction series? I really enjoyed the first book and half of the second but the third one was a right kick in the balls!

The first 2 commonwealths set before the void series same universe, pandora's star and judas unchained. great books, liked the reality dysfunction but the 3rd kinda pissed me off too.

JD1763 · 22-11-2011 01:38PM

Finally got to start the Cold Commands, really enjoying it so far. Like the gritty and violent feel it has in common with Abercrombie's series.

Also finished Flashback by Dan Simmons, liked the characters and the setting. But I think the story itself and its ending was a bit 'meh'.

nesf · 22-11-2011 04:23PM

Trying to read "Tigana" by Guy Gavriel Kay but finding it tough to concentrate at the moment so am making poor headway.

Tym · 25-11-2011 07:11PM

The killing Kind, by John Connolly.

Blegh, Mr Pudd

I'm also reading a couple of short stories from George RR Martin's Dreamsongs.

Yeah, I still have one other book I keep meaning to read, but it's the second of a trilogy so I might just stop or get the first book. Its called Evil for Evil, by Kj Parker.

Oh does anybody know an author called Joe Abercombie? Is he any good?

gufnork · 25-11-2011 07:22PM

'Wildcards' by 'George R R Martin', and I didn't even think much of the first volume of a song of ice and fire. Very different from those books so if your thinking, hmmmm.... I liked 'A Game of Thrones' so I'll like 'Wildcards' then, well maybe, but maybe not.

Still, I can whole-heartedly recommend these.

AnCapaillMor · 25-11-2011 07:30PM

Tym wrote: »

The killing Kind, by John Connolly.
Blegh, Mr Pudd

I'm also reading a couple of short stories from George RR Martin's Dreamsongs.

Yeah, I still have one other book I keep meaning to read, but it's the second of a trilogy so I might just stop or get the first book. Its called Evil for Evil, by Kj Parker.

Oh does anybody know an author called Joe Abercombie? Is he any good?

I enjoyed the connolly charlie parker books, think i read the one after that and then i started on scifi.

KJ Parker, weird books couldn't put them down but at the same time wasn't overly impressed.

Abercrombie, i know of an author that name, and yes get his books, very very good books. Start with the law trilogy first.

OwaynOTT · 25-11-2011 10:02PM

Quite like the wildcards books. Only read about 5 of them though.

Reading The Painted Man at the moment and so far I'm liking it. It's a really good concept.

Trojan · 25-11-2011 10:05PM

I'm currently reading "Yet another f$#king delayed release date for Republic of Thieves".

It's the 17th in the series, quite good - reminds me of Duke Nukem Forever.

mcgovern · 28-11-2011 11:44AM

mcgovern wrote: »

Use of Weapons was good, but for some reason it felt as if I'd read it before, seemed very familiar somehow.
Started The of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss based on all the reviews here. About 10% in, and not much has happened yet

I thought The Name of The Wind was very well written, but not much of a story there, and quite predictable.
Started The Road by Cormac McCarthy, which has not impressed me so far.

ixoy · 28-11-2011 03:36PM

"The Parasite" by Neal Asher. It's out-of-publication except as an e-book. It's a very early work by him and a bit rough around the edges but it's interesting enough. It's fairly short (it's a novella) but hopefully as much as fun as some of his Polity work (this is neither Polity or Owner-based material).

Zapp Brannigan · 29-11-2011 03:43AM

mcgovern wrote: »

I thought The Name of The Wind was very well written, but not much of a story there, and quite predictable.
Started The Road by Cormac McCarthy, which has not impressed me so far.

You, sir, are hard to please!

mcgovern · 29-11-2011 10:39AM

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

You, sir, are hard to please!

There were some gripping parts in The Name of The Wind. I remember my heart beating when he was playing in the Eolian? and thinking to myself that it was mad I was getting so drawn into an event which seemed quite mundane, but the story itself lacked excitement for me. Perhaps the sequels will be better, I'm guessing they are set when he is older.
The Road seems quite similar in ways. Not much happens, and in addition I don't like the writing style, but I still struggled to put it down last night. I think a lot of the shocking scenes to the likes of the Oprah Winfrey bookclub though have little to no impact on people who would have read more post-apocalyptic novels. It does draw you into the world very well though, I keep finding myself wondering what sort of event could have caused it all.

@ixoy
Thanks for the heads up on that, big fan of Asher so just ordered that. The whole 1-click ordering is a bit too easy

OwaynOTT · 29-11-2011 04:56PM

Red Seas Under Res Skies.

So far so good but going to read this one slow as possible.

Republic of Thieves where are you?

Manach · 29-11-2011 05:11PM

David Weber - Out of the Dark.
This has not had great reviews, but I like the concept of an alien invasion/supernatural creatures mash-up. So far, so good.

Shryke · 29-11-2011 06:33PM

Woken Furies by Morgan. As good as you'd expect a Kovacs novel to be. Waiting for The Cold Commands to arrive. Can't wait to see how certain characters twist..

spookwoman · 29-11-2011 11:09PM

Started RingWrold dont know what to read next

constantg · 30-11-2011 10:12AM

any idea when the 'final' Wheel of Time book is due out in 2012???

OwaynOTT · 30-11-2011 10:26AM

constantg wrote: »

any idea when the 'final' Wheel of Time book is due out in 2012???

It was meant to be out for a spring release but they decided to push ah it back till a fall(read autumn). So it can be revised and editors to a higher degree than the last two.

constantg · 30-11-2011 10:34AM

OwaynOTT wrote: »

It was meant to be out for a spring release but they decided to push ah it back till a fall(read autumn). So it can be revised and editors to a higher degree than the last two.

balls

was always a nice thing to read by the fire in winter with a mug of something!!

Any similar recommendations over the holiday season instead? Getting snuff by pratchett regardless....how much longer until we see an ankh-morpork fire brigade one??

OwaynOTT · 30-11-2011 10:51AM

constantg wrote: »

balls was always a nice thing to read by the fire in winter with a mug of something!!

Any similar recommendations over the holiday season instead? Getting snuff by pratchett regardless....how much longer until we see an ankh-morpork fire brigade one??

Snuff wasn't great, was alrite kinda like unseen academicals.

Have you read Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson? It's a good long read and is similiar to a WoT book.

Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch is excellent but nothing like a WoT book.

The Unremembered by Peter ORuillian. Cannot get any similiar than that.

Or Robin Hoobs Farseer trilogy, highly recommend that series. Assassins Aprentice is the first book. I think you would get them in o'Mahoneys in town.

AnCapaillMor · 30-11-2011 10:59AM

OwaynOTT wrote: »

It was meant to be out for a spring release but they decided to push ah it back till a fall(read autumn). So it can be revised and editors to a higher degree than the last two.

Meant to be feb(actually originally down for now) and is now down as next nov. Kick in the ass, just starting the crippled god and was hoping to have esslemonts stuff read by the time a memory of light came.

Contant i'd highly recommend the malazan books by eriksson if you haven't already rad them, its a more complex WOT but absolutely mind blowing.

OwaynOTT · 30-11-2011 11:05AM

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Meant to be feb(actually originally down for now) and is now down as next nov. Kick in the ass, just starting the crippled god and was hoping to have esslemonts stuff read by the time a memory of light came.

I think it's a good thing. Last two books felt rushed and a bit chaotic. Let him take his time with this one instead of bashing it out. An extra year is nothing when you look at GRRM.

Your right about originally being planned to be out now but it has been know for so long that it wouldn't be out till 2012 that I forgot.

Anyway at least it won't end up like republic of thieves.

TwoShedsJackson · 30-11-2011 01:30PM

Just finished 'Gardens of the Moon' which I though was decent but not amazing, does the series improve?

Now reading 'The Iron Jackal', the third in Chris Wooding's Tales of the Ketty Jay series. The usual shenanigans going on, it's a good fast read, if you were a Firefly fan and haven't heard if this series check it out, he pretty much ripped Firefly off but they are very fun reads.

AnCapaillMor · 30-11-2011 02:00PM

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

Just finished 'Gardens of the Moon' which I though was decent but not amazing, does the series improve?

I think so and it took me 2-3 attempts to finish gardens of the moon. Once you get your head around all thats going on, its a pretty amazing series.

Trojan · 30-11-2011 09:22PM

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

Just finished 'Gardens of the Moon' which I though was decent but not amazing, does the series improve?

I'm only on #3 but I'm finding it hard going - I'm just not all that bothered reading it. I think the style appeals to some and not to others.

I don't know if I'm getting more intolerant as I get older or read more, but I seem to have read a lot of stuff I'm not impressed with lately - from Trudi Canavan, Karen Miller, the Serrano Legacy (yeah I see a pattern there which I'm ignoring), and Malazan didn't grab me. Even Larry Niven's latest Dream Park one was rubbish, which was highly disappointing from one of my favourite authors (the editing was atrocious too which is just not professional).

Enough of the negative and on with the positive. The best thing I've read recently is Name of the Wind, that was awesome, particularly for a debut. Maybe I should read the Servant of the Empire series from Feist, haven't touched that yet.

fenris · 30-11-2011 11:26PM

Just finished Skulduggery Pleasant -very entertaining and set in Dublin - kind of!

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