Karsa Orlong
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Under A Glass Moon by Dream Theater
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I'll never give up "proper" books, whatever I decide - for a living room without a few books is an empty place, isn't it, folks?
Yeah, eBooks will never replace them, for me. Like you, my problem is shelf space. I'm using my ereader for books/authors I'm not sure about (or don't want to collect). I certainly can't imagine replacing my Steven Erikson collections with ePub editions
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Just finished Dissolution and thought it was terrific. In a way, I read it at the right time, because I only recently read Wolf Hall, so seeing Thomas Cromwell from another point of view was really interesting. I thought the central mystery worked well and kept me guessing. I'll be making a point of buying the other novels in the series pretty much immediately
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I buy the eBooks from Waterstones.
I'm not quite sure what Waterstones are trying to achieve with their eBook prices at the moment. W H Smiths are generally cheaper. For instance, Waterstones still want £5.49 each for Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, whereas Smiths are knocking them out for £2.72 each. Waterstones want £13.99 for Justin Cronin's The Passage, Smiths have it for £10. It's putting me off buying from Waterstones at the moment.
Edit: D'oh, just saw you'd already replied to my post in the other thread
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I saw that W H Smiths have reduced the prices of their eBooks (so they're now competitive with the Kindle prices on Amazon, yay), so got the following five books for a total of £16:
A Maiden's Grave by Jeffery Deaver
Gravity by Tess Gerritsen
Redbreast by Jo Nesbo
The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson
My TBR pile seems to have increased dramatically this week
Also read about 100 pages of C J Sansom's Dissolution last night. Absolutely loving it
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Iorek Byrnison from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
Oh, yeah! I forgot about him! He is a brilliant character and I loved him. He's my sixth.
I remember giving a little (silent) cheer every time he appeared
Actually, I completely forgot about Jack Reacher. In the first few books he was great, although he is starting to get a bit omniscient now
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'The Abyss' by Orson Scott Card
Interesting choice - I read it before seeing the film and thought it was quite a lot better than the movie. And it had the advantage of making me go out and buy Ender's Game by the same author, which is one of the best sf novels I've ever read.
Last night I read about 80 pages of C J Sansom's Dissolution and was really enjoying it
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Truce at Bakura and The Courtship of Princess Leia
I seem to remember reading those two years ago and enjoying them. I seem to remember quite liking Children Of The Jedi as well.
I haven't read any since the prequels came out, they greatly diminished my interest in the franchise.
Same here. A shame, really, cos I still love the original versions of the first trilogy, but I've got no time for the special editions, and the prequels are just cgi nonsense.
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Do I detect a whiff of anorak here??
Whiff? It's positively a stench
I might also have pre-ordered their 3cd/2dvd Live At The Albert Hall package which is coming out next month ...
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Unforgiven II by Metallica. (Before that One-Metallica, and Fade to black-Metallica.) (Yes, I'm a fan)
Fade To Black is a stunner
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Cricket
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Finished Christopher Priest's Inverted World. Couldn't wait to finish it, to be honest - I found it rather dull.
Next up, C J Sansom's Dissolution.
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At the moment:
Karsa Orlong (obviously!) from Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of The Fallen
Arya Stark from George RR Martin's A Song of Ice & Fire
Silk from David Eddings' Belgariad
Iorek Byrnison from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
Gully Foyle from Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination
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A few of my faves:
"Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book." - Steven Erikson, Gardens of The Moon
"In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the boy, Paul." - Frank Herbert, Dune
"'Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.'" - Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
"Then, it was as though everything was stripped away: sensation, memory, self, even the notion of existence that underlies reality - all seemed to have vanished utterly, their passing marked only by the realisation that they had disappeared, before that too ceased to have meaning, and for an indefinite, infinite instant, there was only the awareness of something; something that possessed no mind, no purpose and no thought, except the knowledge that it was." - Iain M. Banks, Feersum Endjinn
"America was never innocent." - James Ellroy, American Tabloid
although the one that always sticks in my mind is:
"Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick." - Stephen King, The Shining
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Mellotron Scratch from my favorite CD Deadwing by my favorite band Porcupine Tree
I love that song. Great album, too
Rainbow Trip by Riverside
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Is Wayne playing Mikael?
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Have you read anything by Stross before? I have one of his books on my TBR pile so I'm interested to know what he's like.
No, this'll be my first. If I read it before you read yours I'll let you know
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While Anathem by Neal Stephenson is interesting to a degree, it's not grabbing me at the moment. This is a book that requires my full concentration, and I can't give that right now.
Think I will put it down and read I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.
I really struggled with Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Parts of it were fun but, for the most part, it was like reading a textbook.
On the other hand, I Am Legend is a corker, so good decision, I reckon
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Just bought:
Apartment 16 - Adam Nevill
The Final Empire (Mistborn Book 1) - Brandon Sanderson
The Left Hand of God - Paul Hoffman
The Fuller Memorandum - Charles Stross
Lustrum - Robert Harris
Should keep me going for a while. Or, at least, they would if I didn't continually have the urge to buy more
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Mongrels episode 7
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Opeth - The Baying of The Hounds
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Finished Steven Erikson's Midnight Tides. Loved it first time around, loved it even more on re-read
Have now started Inverted World by Christopher Priest.
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I watched the movie last night. As book to screen adaptations go I thought it was excellent (although they all have to live up to LA Confidential, imo).
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ELO - Out Of The Blue
Your Book Activity Today - Thread 12
in General Book Discussions
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I loved C J Sansom's Dissolution so much I may just have bought the other books in the series ... Dark Fire, Sovereign and Revelation - so that's now 13 books I've added to my TBR pile in the past few days