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Parmenion



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Im a big fan of andy mcdermott...great fun to read and boy can he write...really prolific.

you should also try David Gibbins...his are a bit more details historically but thats because he is a marine archeologist...but its not to the extent it will bore you, his latest Mask of troy is really excellent.
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Aces



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have just started reading The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson.

And I must say I am freaking excited to see what new wonders this book has to reveal!! Cool
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pandora's Star by Peter F Hamilton. Great sci-fi writer, very interesting plot, if not a little similar to Night's Dawn Trilogy.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh.

I just love his effortless style and the accuracy of his humour. Brilliant stuff.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just started 'The Left Hand of God' by Paul Hoffman. Never heard of him or the book but the half-price sticker on the cover in Waterstones was too much to resist. Once this is polished off it's most likely time to steal a certain new Barclay book from Lou (Selik) so I can meet a young(er) Auum. Very Happy
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Max Power



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drizzt wrote:
Just started 'The Left Hand of God' by Paul Hoffman. Never heard of him or the book but the half-price sticker on the cover in Waterstones was too much to resist. Once this is polished off it's most likely time to steal a certain new Barclay book from Lou (Selik) so I can meet a young(er) Auum. Very Happy


An Auum who seems to do more talking than I recall from the Raven books. Enjoy.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drizzt wrote:
Just started 'The Left Hand of God' by Paul Hoffman. Never heard of him or the book but the half-price sticker on the cover in Waterstones was too much to resist. Once this is polished off it's most likely time to steal a certain new Barclay book from Lou (Selik) so I can meet a young(er) Auum. Very Happy


I posted a thread about this one a while back, its a good read, very different from a lot of other fantasy out there.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Currently reading Elves, of course! Razz Finished the Tomb of Hercules by Andy Mcdermott, really enjoy his writting and the corny humour of Eddie Chase Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just finished Sacred vault...the humour is still there i think the myth was a little stretched at this point, but his book turn over is phenominal..so i will forgive him...still a good 4/5 on amazon...took all of 2 days to read about 500 pages...

Amusing to read that he had one of his producer friends look at ...i think Tomb of H and cost it for a Movie...just roughlt...it came it a little over $200m dollars putting it in the top 10 of all time for cost....so he doubts they will ever get made.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:23 pm    Post subject: Steven Burst Reply with quote

Im am reading the prequel series to the Vlad Taltos novels: the phoenix guards; 500 years after; the paths of the dead; the lord of castle black and Sethra lavode.


All and all a good read. Very different from the Vlad style of writing. An academic historian writing in a modern idea of what old style English sounded like. Or my version of it.

I found parts of it to be quite monty python like.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Have a good weekend.

Sincerely,
Con
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just finished The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko (had to check my kindle to spell that Razz ) and will soon be reading The Day watch Smile
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Łukianienko (that's how we spell his name in Polish) is a very popular writer over here in Poland. And I think he's very good. I've also seen a film based on "Night watch" and it's quite interesting, too (there's also a "Day watch" film, but I haven't seen that one).
And it's also nice to hear that he got published in English.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wolfsangel by MD Lachlan

Almost finished it now (I find time to read so fleeting these days) and I heartily recommend it. It has oddities for sure but it's a book that paints a very vivid portrait of the Norse world in which it is set and its mythos is rich and detailed. Good characters, a tight storyline and some terrific ction sequences.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 1:21 pm    Post subject: Re: Steven Burst Reply with quote

Conrad wrote:
Im am reading the prequel series to the Vlad Taltos novels: the phoenix guards; 500 years after; the paths of the dead; the lord of castle black and Sethra lavode.


didn't know there were any prequels.
Excellent - thanks for the heads-up!
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

James wrote:
Wolfsangel by MD Lachlan



That's one I've been meaning to pick up.

Just finished Lord Sunday by Garth Nix. Not an unsurprising end to the series.

Just started Surface Detail by Iain M Banks
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