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06-26-2008, 03:35 PM
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| Dresden Files 6-9 Book of the South -Glen Cook Dragonforge -James Maxey A note on Maxey, his first novel is called Bitterwood and its pretty good, the world is a nice twist to it that I won't give away and the story is basically Robin Hood with dragons.
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06-30-2008, 09:16 PM
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| Don't ever order from Borders. I usually use Barnes and Noble, but some dumbshit bought me a gift card to Borders. So I ordered some books online and it's been over 10 days and their tracking still isn't updating. Yet they said they had the books and shipped em.
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| Since last post I've finished a few, most notably Acacia by David Anthony Durham after finishing his historical fiction Pride of Carthage. Pride was pretty good but Acacia sucked, just awful. A surprising delight was The Gladiator from Harry Turtledove's young-adult Crosstime Traffic collection. It's a series of unrelated books about alternate realities and in this one the Soviet Union won the cold war. The book is about a gaming/comic store called the Gladiator that runs card games/pnp rpgs/board games that somehow becomes the seed for freedom. The most recent scifi/fantasy i finished was Charles Stross' Halting State which is an amusing near-future romp about a bank heist by orcs and a hijacked dragon in a global MMORPG. Stross is a fucking hack and blatant polemic but the book should appeal to most folks around here. It goes into some pretty challenging and complex notions about the global economy (the victim company is called "Hayek Associates" lol), market forces and every gaming meme you can think of from the future of pnp gaming to LARPING. Stross is one of the most prolific singulatarian writers around, so folks who are into Vernor Vinge would probably enjoy the book. In fact, Hugo-winner Vernor Vinge was a huge fan of the book... he was among some of the folks praising the book on its jacket, next to Id's John Carmack and Bruce Schneier of Applied Cryptography: Quote:
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07-04-2008, 10:44 AM
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+18 Internets | Khorum, if you're into historical fiction, have you tried any of Michael Curtis Ford's books? The Last King and The Sword of Atilla were good books. I have the rest, but still haven't gotten around to reading them. |
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07-04-2008, 12:06 PM
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| Just finished Blink which I'm sure many of you have read. I'm not sure I learned a whole lot rather than reading more in depth about something I already knew. It's about the power of our subconscious in making snap decisions (as opposed to more long-term stuff like dreams). Like how you just *know* someone is a shithead liar the moment you meet them, how did you know that? Interesting book, quick read. So I'm usually into history and realized recently that I have neglected McCullough. So I bought John Adams and 1776. Started 1776 yesterday and I can already tell I'm gonna like it.
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07-04-2008, 12:59 PM
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| I got a few: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly The Overlook by Michael Connelly
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