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Post by Pombar on May 25, 2007 12:27:30 GMT
The problem with Crossroads of Twilight is that the story does not move any further than the end of Winter's Heart, and nary a thing happens. Knife of Dreams = way better.
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Post by Pitt on May 25, 2007 16:04:33 GMT
So I've heard. However, I've also heard that Perrin tortures some people for information. Significant character development, even if it doesn't move the story on much. Still, isn't Egwene getting captured at the end and the mystery of who betrayed her meant to be the biggest thing that has further reaching consequences in the novel?
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Post by Pombar on May 26, 2007 10:25:52 GMT
Yeah, but the fact that two non-major things happen and that's it in a huge book which we waited 3 or 4 years for kinda sucks. And we had to wait another few years before anything interesting happened.
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Post by Pitt on May 26, 2007 13:38:13 GMT
And we still have another two or three years to wait for the end, provided Robert Jordan recovers enough to write it at all.
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Post by Pombar on May 29, 2007 15:41:12 GMT
And that's why I prefer Goodkind. Even if he does go on a bit of a rant and loses some of his narrative integrity in the 8th book and bits of the 9th book. But the tenth was bloody awesome so I'll forgive him. In the end, Sword of Truth > Wheel of Time.
But yes, attempting once again to read Ian Irvine's new series, because his last was utterly fantastic and really quite refreshing after all the high fantasy I'd been reading, but I always get distracted. Blast...
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Post by Smithy on Jun 2, 2007 15:59:02 GMT
Finished Dune, it was glory and joy.
Just started Once and Future King.
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Post by Pombar on Jun 11, 2007 22:23:39 GMT
Just finished Transmetropolitan finally (did the last 4 volumes in an afternoon). Awesome stuff, and a fitting end, but that level of awesomeness was hardly surprising.
Reading through Fables at the moment. Good series thus far, definitely. But I'm starting to think this whole 'embodied god/fairytale/concept/etc' will get old pretty soon. Neil Gaiman did it with Sandman, and more obviously in American Gods, and it seems the other stuff, while more taking it as inspiration than ripoff material, is kind of overdoing it now.
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Post by Pitt on Jun 12, 2007 16:41:27 GMT
The second Thomas Harris novel; a book by the name of Red Dragon.
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Post by nirvana on Jun 13, 2007 21:49:56 GMT
I've just started The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Wanted to read it for ages simply because of the concept. Don't know if its any good though, but shall find out.
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Post by Samface on Jun 14, 2007 12:39:38 GMT
I've been sort of curious about that since it came out. Do tell what it's like when you're finished. (Also, welcome back ) Just started on Titus Alone. Still really confuses me.
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Post by Pombar on Jun 14, 2007 13:41:27 GMT
Titus Alone has an unfairly bad rep. I thought it was rather brill.
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Post by Jafar on Jun 14, 2007 14:59:47 GMT
Michael McKinley's "Hockey: A People's History", based on the CBC special. Fantastic book; it feels a lot more like a long tale than a bland history of a sport. A huge positive is its focus on women's hockey, and some rare hockey-related folk songs.
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Post by Samface on Jun 15, 2007 12:15:14 GMT
Titus Alone has an unfairly bad rep. I thought it was rather brill. Having got a bit further on, I'm enjoying it more. The first few chapters were just all over the place and didn't seem to make much sense.
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Post by Pombar on Jun 19, 2007 16:39:52 GMT
But Titus Alone is Steampunk and therefore it can forgiven for any transgression.
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Post by Pitt on Jun 19, 2007 17:05:04 GMT
Legacy of the Force Volume 4: Exile. It's good to read, but I noted a sudden, dramatic change in character for Jacen Solo about halfway through, which seemed somewhat abrupt.
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Post by unikron on Jun 19, 2007 17:12:36 GMT
Good Omens
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Post by Samface on Jun 19, 2007 18:49:02 GMT
Finished Titus Alone, enjoyed it a hell of a lot more this time around. Shame Peake couldn't manage any more Titus books. Now on John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things, which started out slightly pompous and has swiftly mutated into sheer excellence, although it is still a bit "DO YOU SEE WHAT I AM DOING?" in places. Largely superlative though. The dwarfs crack me up. ;D
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Post by Zerolus on Jun 19, 2007 21:52:43 GMT
Picked up Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday by Alan Dean Foster, which is a prequel novel to the upcoming film. So far? Well, the human bits are kinda boring (Naturally. It's not the writer's fault. Humans in Transformers are just boring by default. ), but everything else involving the Transformers themselves is pretty good. This whole new Transformers continuity is looking to be pretty interesting, to say at least. So yeah, the film may* be pretty good. As far as plot is concerned, at any rate, but that'll do it for me. *Emphasis on may as I'm keeping in mind that the book and film aren't written by the same person. But there's still the concept, and it was Roberto and Alex who came up with that concept, not Alan.
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Post by Super Sonic on Jun 25, 2007 15:31:30 GMT
Just read my first Terry Pratchett novel, Equal Rites. Pretty good stuff; the sarcasm reminds me of the Red Dwarf novels.
Also reading Sutherlands of Ngaipu out of genealogical curiosity, about to read Going Postal by Terry Pratchett and also just started The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
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Post by Feniiku on Jun 25, 2007 15:37:05 GMT
I've been reading loads of books lately. Finished Alan Dean Foster's version of Alien a while ago. It was meh. That and I had VGcats jokes stuck in my head the whole time XD
Reading The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert now.
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Post by Super Sonic on Jun 25, 2007 15:41:42 GMT
Reading The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert now. Have you read any other James Herbert books?
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Post by Feniiku on Jun 25, 2007 16:24:13 GMT
Yeah, a couple. Don't remember what they were called though, but they're better than Stephen King
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Post by Super Sonic on Jun 25, 2007 16:44:53 GMT
Yeah, a couple. Don't remember what they were called though, but they're better than Stephen King I've read The Dark, Moon, Sepulchre, Haunted and a couple of others... they are, ALL. THE. SAME.
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Post by nirvana on Jun 27, 2007 9:02:10 GMT
Finished The Five People You Meet In Heaven last night. Good book. Bit more dark in a few places than I thought it would be but that didn't bother me. Very easy to read and imaginative.
Gonna start Fat by Rob Grant soon.
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Post by Samface on Jun 28, 2007 18:51:50 GMT
Lost Things was very good. I stand by my earlier comments.
Now reading Umberto Eco's In the Name of the Rose, which is spending 50% of the time interesting me and 50% of the time boring the hell out of me. It's a heady mixture!
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