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Patrick Mahon
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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What did you think of 'Judas Unchained', Max? I've got a copy here at home, but haven't got round to starting it yet. Should I? |
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Max Power
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Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 467 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Patrick Mahon wrote: | What did you think of 'Judas Unchained', Max? I've got a copy here at home, but haven't got round to starting it yet. Should I? |
Just finished it and would definitely recommend it. Have you read The Nights Dawn Trilogy? I thought the ending of that hurried along a little too quickly after some marvellous exposition. This didn't suffer with that, I didn't think. _________________ If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. |
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Thraun
Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 115 Location: England
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Finishing reading the first two books in the Game Of Thrones series, moved onto the third last night and still enjoying them _________________ Yes, I'm still alive. Drop me a PM if you like ![Razz](images/smiles/icon_razz.gif) |
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Tk421
Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 275 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Literally today just finished The Warlord's Legacy by Ari Marmell. Very very good read. So is the first one, The Conqueror's Shadow, too actually. _________________ "Right so we're going to steal a bomb that can be remote detonated, take it back to our base and then huddle around it? That sounds like a great plan." |
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Lizzy
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Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 674 Location: the wilds of the West
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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Curently reading Hereward, by James Wilde. Debut historical novel about Hereward the Wake. Very bloody and very good so far ![Razz](images/smiles/icon_razz.gif) _________________
Listen to Lizzy, she's always right! as said by Jovial |
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James Site Admin
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Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 479 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:21 am Post subject: |
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Just finished reading Shadow's Son by Jon Sprunk and I can heartily recommend it. Assassins, intrigue, deception, betrayal, dark magic... good stuff.
Now reading Songs of the Earth by Elspeth Cooper. So far, so very good indeed. _________________ 'A human with a hand outstretched in friendship carries the fangs of a taipan in his palm.' A TaiGethen saying. |
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wigwam
Joined: 10 Aug 2010 Posts: 59
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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Excellent - will have to fit that one in before Feb when I turn my attention back to the Taigethen!
I have recently read Lies of Locke Lamora by James Corey and The Conquerer's Shadow by Ari Marmell both of which were very good reads. |
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Shriker
Joined: 09 Nov 2009 Posts: 127 Location: Manchester
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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Is Feb when the next book is out? Awesome Anyway, currently reading the second half of Breaking Dawn again, from the part where the part 1 of the film finished girlfriend told me off from not starting from the beginning ![Razz](images/smiles/icon_razz.gif) _________________ Who's the bigger fool, the fool or the fool who follows him... |
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Patrick Mahon
Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Posts: 15 Location: Aylesbury, UK
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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Shriker wrote: | Is Feb when the next book is out? Awesome |
Amazon has the publication date as 16 February - can't wait! |
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wigwam
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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Shadow's Son was cool James.
Reading the follow-up Shadow's Lure and it is rather more stodgy I feel.
Have to finish this up before I turn my attention to the scribbling of some whipper-snapper I have heard about called Jimmy Barclays or something - I understand the book is about pixies or fairies or elves or some such... ![Cool](images/smiles/icon_cool.gif) |
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Thraun
Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 115 Location: England
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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Finished reading Elves: Rise of the TaiGethen over the weekend. Now twiddling my thumbs over what to read next ![Laughing](images/smiles/icon_lol.gif) _________________ Yes, I'm still alive. Drop me a PM if you like ![Razz](images/smiles/icon_razz.gif) |
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James Site Admin
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Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 479 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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Finished Songs Of The Earth.
It's all right. Very well written but just that bit slow for me. Could have been a shorter and snappier book while losing nothing critical. Worth a read, though.
Now reading 'I, Partridge' which is just fantastic. _________________ 'A human with a hand outstretched in friendship carries the fangs of a taipan in his palm.' A TaiGethen saying. |
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Patrick Mahon
Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Posts: 15 Location: Aylesbury, UK
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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What are you doing, spending precious moments reading other people's books James? You should surely be making your way onto the (currently empty) fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square right now, reading extracts of 'Rise of the TaiGethen' to all and sundry instead?!!
(Yeah, OK, you may get arrested - but what a PR coup!) |
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James Site Admin
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Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 479 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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It's a brilliant idea, Patrick. I'm on the next train with a ladder a water pistol for fending off the forces of law and a copy of the book...
By the way, forgot to mention that I also just finished 'Are we nearly there yet?' by Ben Hatch which is a true life account of a family's 8000 mile trip around the UK researching a travel guide. Full review will be up in the blog as soon as I can get it done but suffice to say it is absolutely brilliant.
For any of us with or without kids it is a cautionary but ultimately life-affirming tale. _________________ 'A human with a hand outstretched in friendship carries the fangs of a taipan in his palm.' A TaiGethen saying. |
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Gwydion
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Joined: 26 Feb 2012 Posts: 1
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:41 am Post subject: |
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Just reading Chris Bunch's DragonMaster Trilogy, which has a take on dragons as a kind of living warmachine and has interesting references (implied , not laboured) to WW1 and the attempts of the Royal Flying Corps to gain recognition. Great air battle action scenes too.
Apparently Bunch wrote something called The Sten Chronicles in which he showed 'the realities of politics and power and to place a working-class man into this series, letting the reader see through his eyes and watch as he grows to be a real and realistic hero' - sounds interesting ,
has anyone read these? |
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