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Max Power



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The Day Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko. Could be so much better than it is. Ultimately a let down with promising bits.


Have you read the Night Watch? Because it makes a lot more sense if you do. I've read all three and The Last Watch. They are definitely different and not what I expected but I did find myself really wanting to find out what was really going on and what the next intrigue was going to be Smile


Yeah, I read the Night Watch and thought pretty much the same. Started well but tailed off. I'd read the third but it's not top of my wish list.
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Max Power



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shriker wrote:
Max Power wrote:
The Day Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko. Could be so much better than it is. Ultimately a let down with promising bits.


Have you read the Night Watch? Because it makes a lot more sense if you do. I've read all three and The Last Watch. They are definitely different and not what I expected but I did find myself really wanting to find out what was really going on and what the next intrigue was going to be Smile


Yeah, I read the Night Watch and thought pretty much the same. Started well but tailed off. I'd read the third but it's not top of my wish list.
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Alia



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PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2011 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Steampunk" anthology by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer. Would be a great read, but poor Polish translation and lack of basic proofreading made it a nightmare from time to time. Which is a pity, because the collection of stories is really interesting.
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Shriker



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PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2011 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Day of the Jackal Smile bit off my usual type but everyone says it's a classic.
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Conrad



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PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2011 2:14 pm    Post subject: More books to read Reply with quote

Finished the Valisar trilogy and was quite impressed with it.
Lots of twists and turns in the plot and the ending, while slightly recognizable, but not readable, was good.

Will definitely pick up more from this author at a later date.

Now I'm reading:

Kingmaker/Kingbreaker by Karen Miller
The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks

So many books so little time. Sad
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wigwam



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PostPosted: Thu May 19, 2011 3:57 pm    Post subject: Re: More books to read Reply with quote

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The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks


I enjoyed that trilogy.
I have just finished Brandon Sanderson's Way of Kings.
Just about to start Feist's At the Gates of Darkness having read Rides a Dread Legion just before Way of Kings
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Kerela



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PostPosted: Thu May 19, 2011 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle...if I find time between all the work for uni Confused
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Mantyluoto



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PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2011 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kerela wrote:
The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle...if I find time between all the work for uni Confused


a great book, read it a few years ago.
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PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2011 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i am currently three quarters of the way through "Fall of Thanes" by Brian Ruckley. like the previous two its a good read, but i'll be glad when its finished, the unrequited love of the "hero" for one of his party is still going 1 and a half books later....

Next on my list is The Mazalan series.... and i mean all of them in chronological order, including the Ian Esslemont ones slotted in at the right spot! starting with Night of Knives

Nice one!
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Kerela



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PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2011 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mantyluoto wrote:
Kerela wrote:
The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle...if I find time between all the work for uni Confused


a great book, read it a few years ago.


It is. Finished it today Very Happy I had already read it ages ago but forgotten nearly everything.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

just finished reading Brandon Sanderson's Way of Kings. Thought it was excellent.
Not too chuffed to learn it is first of a proposed (massive!) 10 book series and the next one will be 2012 AFTER he finishes Jordan's Wheel of time Sad
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Currently reading "The Life of Pi". A friend of mine was giving it out on World Book Night so I thought I'd give it a go, not very far in and it's a slow start, but I'm hoping it will pick up soon as it goes into the main storyline.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shriker wrote:
Currently reading "The Life of Pi". A friend of mine was giving it out on World Book Night so I thought I'd give it a go, not very far in and it's a slow start, but I'm hoping it will pick up soon as it goes into the main storyline.


I wish you well, quite how it won the 2002 Booker prize I'm none too sure! Shocked
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Patrick Mahon



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just finished James Lovegrove's 'The Age of Zeus' - very chunky for an SF novel (at nearly 700 pages), but great fun!
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Judas Unchained, by Peter F Hamilton.

Next on the bookpile is a much anticipated re-read of A Game of Thrones, by George R R Martin.
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