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Yippee38
Living the dream!
Cool. I'm glad to hear that.
It's pretty good so far. I hate when I pick a book at the bookstore and find out it is poorly written or a bad story. Reading some of those Jack Higgins books my dad lent me left me yearning for some really good fantasy.
booB
Señor Member
FINALLY finished Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Mercy. I think I'm officially done reading her D'Angeline novels, although Santa Olivia sounds really cool.
Just started Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies, and so far it certainly lives up to the greatness that was its predecessor.
Just started Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies, and so far it certainly lives up to the greatness that was its predecessor.
Yippee38
Living the dream!
Taliwakker
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JenniferLynn
AKA Irish
LK Hamilton's new Anita Blake series book - Skin Trade; her Meredith Gentry series - Stroke of Midnight; Charlene Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series - Living Dead in Dallas and Brad Meltzer's Book of Lies..
I tried to read Meltzer's 'Book of Fate' and couldn't get into it but I can't put 'Book of Lies' down... But I'm hoping I haven't figured it out in the first chapter...
The Sookie Stackhouse series (True Blood on HBO is based off of these books) is ok.. I'm not all that big on how she rights; I feel like I'm missing out on details - like it's too clean cut... But I'm hoping she 'dirties' it up a bit - description is HUGE with me (not minut details but give me SOMETHING more than just 'she was covered in blood'...) So far, I like the HBO series ALOT better than the books
I tried to read Meltzer's 'Book of Fate' and couldn't get into it but I can't put 'Book of Lies' down... But I'm hoping I haven't figured it out in the first chapter...
The Sookie Stackhouse series (True Blood on HBO is based off of these books) is ok.. I'm not all that big on how she rights; I feel like I'm missing out on details - like it's too clean cut... But I'm hoping she 'dirties' it up a bit - description is HUGE with me (not minut details but give me SOMETHING more than just 'she was covered in blood'...) So far, I like the HBO series ALOT better than the books
KaptainKrude
Your Psychotic Companion
OrbWeaver
BECAUSE FALCONER
I ordered the first six Anita Blake novels (in two omnibus editions) simply because I read a short story by Laura K. Hamillton that had Anita Blake in it, and I really enjoyed it. I've always been fairly wary of LKH because I hear her novels, especially her more recent ones border on the pronographic, and less on the actual story.
I have nothing against porn, mind you. But it seems a lot of horror writers rely on explicit sex a little too much. So here's hoping LKH isn't overboard with it in the early Anita Blake novels.
Yippee38
Living the dream!
It took me 8 days to read the 750 pages of "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. I really liked it. I look forward to the next book.
JenniferLynn
AKA Irish
The first 5 or 6 there's not nearly the amount of sex as the later books - hell if I remember correct there's little to none, however, the stories of the later books are still pretty good... It all ties into everything and that's all I'll say about it without getting into details... I love the books - I've read 'em all twice except 'Micah' - not all that good and the newest one...
I'm excited about Skin Trade 'cause Edward's back (you'll "meet" Edward - he's awesome)
Finished Meltzer's "Book of Lies" in 4 days - PHENOMINAL... LOVED it..
OrbWeaver
BECAUSE FALCONER
Finished the Inkheart trilogy. I enjoyed it. 
Now reading: Monster by A. Lee Martinez
On the back of the book:
The thing was big and white and hairy, and it was eating all the ice cream in the walk-in freezer. Four dozen chewed-up, empty cartons testified that it had already devoured half of the inventory, and it wasn't full yet. Judy beat a hasty retreat and walked to the produce isle, where dave was stocking lettuce...
"I thought I asked you to stock the ice cream" he said.
"No need," she said. "Yeti is eating it all."
He raised his head. "What?"
"Maybe not all of it," she said. "Doesn't seem to like the vanilla."
Now reading: Monster by A. Lee Martinez
On the back of the book:
The thing was big and white and hairy, and it was eating all the ice cream in the walk-in freezer. Four dozen chewed-up, empty cartons testified that it had already devoured half of the inventory, and it wasn't full yet. Judy beat a hasty retreat and walked to the produce isle, where dave was stocking lettuce...
"I thought I asked you to stock the ice cream" he said.
"No need," she said. "Yeti is eating it all."
He raised his head. "What?"
"Maybe not all of it," she said. "Doesn't seem to like the vanilla."
Pellaz
Tigron of Immanion
Wow, really? I'll bump it up on my to-buy queue.
Yeah, I did the whole "just one more chapter!" for about half an hour before bed last night. She made a wise choice in setting it 4-5 generations later - you get hints of what happened to old characters, but nobody has to try to live up to Phedre and Joscelin so directly now.
guardian26
Mike the Cop
Just finished The UNINCORPORATE MAN
From Publishers Weekley : Brilliant 21st-century tycoon Justin Cord is brought from cryogenic storage into a 24th-century society where people own stock in one another, safeguarding each other's welfare only out of economic self-interest. This is anathema to the defiantly individualistic Cord, who soon becomes a danger to the corporations that control the world and a symbol of freedom to the downtrodden penny-stock people. Cord's conversations with friends and enemies fill most of the book, alongside lectures on the mechanisms of the incorporated culture. The Kollin brothers keep the plot moving briskly despite the high proportion of talk to action. Their cerebral style will especially appeal to readers nostalgic for science fiction's early years.
This book was great! Could not put it down.
From Publishers Weekley : Brilliant 21st-century tycoon Justin Cord is brought from cryogenic storage into a 24th-century society where people own stock in one another, safeguarding each other's welfare only out of economic self-interest. This is anathema to the defiantly individualistic Cord, who soon becomes a danger to the corporations that control the world and a symbol of freedom to the downtrodden penny-stock people. Cord's conversations with friends and enemies fill most of the book, alongside lectures on the mechanisms of the incorporated culture. The Kollin brothers keep the plot moving briskly despite the high proportion of talk to action. Their cerebral style will especially appeal to readers nostalgic for science fiction's early years.
This book was great! Could not put it down.
Cool! Glad you liked it...I did, too...now spread the word some more!
I thought it was very well done for a first novel (especially one with two writers).
TwstDrSteph
Official Pagan Goddess
George RR Martin posted the following on his blog on June 22. Although he sounds optimistic, I doubt we'll see Dance of Dragons anytime soon. I know what writer's block is like, and so I sympathize with him to some degree, but this is getting just a bit out of control. Maybe when Brandon Sanderson is finished with Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series he can finish this one too. :Smug:
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"Guarded Optimism
Jun. 22nd, 2009 at 11:55 PM
I almost hate to say anything here, for fear of jinxing it... but for what it's worth, the last six weeks or so have been the most productive period I've had on A DANCE WITH DRAGONS in... well... a year at least, maybe several. In the last three days I've completed three new chapters. Not from scratch, mind you, these were all chapters that had been partially written, and in some cases rewritten, for months if not years. But they're finally done, and I've just reread them, and I'm almost convinced that they're Not Crap.
We'll see how I feel tomorrow.
Anyway, I know I don't talk about DANCE frequently here, and that's not going to change. Sorry, but I'm never going to be one of these writers who blogs daily about how many words they produced today. I don't like to talk about the good days for fear of jinxing myself (all writers are superstitious at heart, just like baseball players), and I don't like to talk about the bad days... well, just because. Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.
But I am making a small exception now because... well, I'm feeling rather jazzed right now, and for the first time in a very long while, I think I can see a glimmering that might just be a light at the end of the tunnel.
Now if I can only slash through the Meereenese knot that I've been worrying at since 2005, I may actually start to get excited."
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"Guarded Optimism
Jun. 22nd, 2009 at 11:55 PM
I almost hate to say anything here, for fear of jinxing it... but for what it's worth, the last six weeks or so have been the most productive period I've had on A DANCE WITH DRAGONS in... well... a year at least, maybe several. In the last three days I've completed three new chapters. Not from scratch, mind you, these were all chapters that had been partially written, and in some cases rewritten, for months if not years. But they're finally done, and I've just reread them, and I'm almost convinced that they're Not Crap.
We'll see how I feel tomorrow.
Anyway, I know I don't talk about DANCE frequently here, and that's not going to change. Sorry, but I'm never going to be one of these writers who blogs daily about how many words they produced today. I don't like to talk about the good days for fear of jinxing myself (all writers are superstitious at heart, just like baseball players), and I don't like to talk about the bad days... well, just because. Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.
But I am making a small exception now because... well, I'm feeling rather jazzed right now, and for the first time in a very long while, I think I can see a glimmering that might just be a light at the end of the tunnel.
Now if I can only slash through the Meereenese knot that I've been worrying at since 2005, I may actually start to get excited."
Pellaz
Tigron of Immanion
Well, a slight glimmer is better than no light at all.....
Now Reading: ehh, I'm between books right now. Considering dusting off Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
Now Reading: ehh, I'm between books right now. Considering dusting off Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
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