Sci fi/Fantasy books just aquired...

Grey_Wolf · 02-15-2004, 02:35 PM

Friends, 'mooters, fellow posters...

...let me have your latest aquisitions...

Lalaith_Elf · 02-15-2004, 02:49 PM

The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake

Hopefully I'll get to read it this time before someone steals my copy again!!!

BeardofPants · 02-15-2004, 03:59 PM

Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith. It's a collection of short stories based on humanity in the distant future after a 'dark age'. Very good stuff. So far I've read "Scanners live in vain".

brownjenkins · 02-15-2004, 04:00 PM

i' rereading stephen king's gunslinger stuff atm... will need something new soon though

zinnite · 02-15-2004, 06:04 PM

'King Rat' by China Mieville, 'Jennifer Government' by Max Barry, 'Pattern Recognition' by William Gibson, and 'Titus Groan' by Mervyn Peake (the first book of the afforementioned trilogy).

Lady Ravyn · 02-15-2004, 09:51 PM

just bought all six books in the sword-dancer series by jennifer roberson i love those books

Mark of Cenla · 02-16-2004, 06:42 PM

I am currently reading the second book of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice trilogy. I bought all three of them at once. Peace.

Lady Ravyn · 02-16-2004, 11:37 PM

i'm just bying books all the time lately!

just bought yime of twins (even though i already read it) and i have war of the twins and test of twins on order

Dwarven Sen · 02-18-2004, 06:39 AM

So far this week i've read daggerspell, darkspell and am half way through dawnspell by Katherine Kerr. Is it any wonder i don't get work done if i'm constantly reading? Plus no money. Being a student and trying to keep up a book addiction isn't easy. Though there is this great second hand bookshop just around the corner from me. It doesn't sell the little book of calm. i wonder if that means that no-one has ever tried to get rid of one once they've bought it, or they swollowed it?

**Nurvingiel** · 02-23-2004, 01:28 AM

I recently got Morgawr, by Terry Brooks. I realize I don't have all his Shannara books, and I don't have all of Jack Whyte's books.

Panic and destruction!

Grey_Wolf · 04-01-2004, 01:22 PM

Today I bought Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy.

Melko Belcha · 04-08-2004, 11:03 AM

Right now I am reading The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan. Next is Running with the Demon by Terry Brooks, The Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind, Immortals by RA Salvatore, then Legends II Edited by Robert Silverberg.

Falagar · 04-08-2004, 12:45 PM

Just bought The Dragon Reborn (third book in WoT) by R. Jordan, and almost ordered Legends I (mostly for the Martin-story).

Jabberwock · 04-08-2004, 09:33 PM

I just bought Greg Keyes's Briar King and I have to say that it is a huge disappointment. I really enjoyed Waterborn and Black God, but Im hating Briar King. It's absolutely boring and in the first 150 pages (as far as I've got so far) nothing has happened. It reminds me of a Wheel of Time book: plodding, shallow, and a waste of time (looks around expecting a mob of Jordan fans to start throwing stones).

BeardofPants · 04-09-2004, 12:25 AM

Ah don't worry about that. You shouldn't find any of those heathens here. The only thing you've got to worry about whether or not you're wearing pants.

Millane · 04-09-2004, 01:27 AM

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Originally posted by Jabberwock
I just bought Greg Keyes's Briar King and I have to say that it is a huge disappointment. I really enjoyed Waterborn and Black God, but Im hating Briar King. It's absolutely boring and in the first 150 pages (as far as I've got so far) nothing has happened. It reminds me of a Wheel of Time book: plodding, shallow, and a waste of time (looks around expecting a mob of Jordan fans to start throwing stones).

what classifies a Jordan fan, is it holding out to the 6th book before succumbing to a less boring (and far more enjoyable book). in that case im a Jordan fan yet despite reading something around 4,500 words of WoT last year, i can barely remember anything (i have to push myself to remember some of the characters names).

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Plus no money. Being a student and trying to keep up a book addiction isn't easy. Though there is this great second hand bookshop just around the corner from me.

Second hand bookstores are the way to go, i always went to this awesome second hand bookstore (havent been for awhile now though), not because of money but because they had a better range than that cesspit of literary trash that is Dymocks, plus the bloke that runs it if great, he found my friend some rare as Hellraiser book for $120 or thereabouts and had it in a few weeks, as opposed to another friend who ordered a relatively common book ( A game of thrones) from Dymocks and got it in about two months

i usually get books from melb so i dont have to go to Dymocks but sometimes its vital, i dread those times.

Jabberwock · 04-09-2004, 11:58 AM

Darn it! I only made it to the fifth WoT book before I got bored as hell and quit. You're right, though. I can only remember four or five character's names.

Falagar · 04-17-2004, 11:33 AM

Anyone here read Steven Erikson's The Gardens of the Moon?

Grey_Wolf · 04-17-2004, 12:14 PM

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Originally posted by Falagar
Anyone here read Steven Erikson's The Gardens of the Moon?

No. Is it good? What's it about?

Falagar · 04-17-2004, 12:36 PM

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Originally posted by Grey_Wolf
No. Is it good? What's it about?

Hard to explain, really...I'll just quote what it says on the back of the cover

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Originally written on the back of the cover:
The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake, lord of Moon's Spawn, and his Tiste Andii. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins.

For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, yet holds out and it is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze.

However, it would appear that the Empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister, shadowbound forces are gathering as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand...

The first 100 pages or so are pure confusion (in my opinion, of course). After that it begins to get interesting, when the story moves towards Darujhistan and we get to meet a few characters inside the city.

I have a hard time trying to make up my mind about it...I'm now 445 pages into it, out of ca 730, and some passages are fun to read, others slower...

02-15-2004, 02:35 PM	#1
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Sci fi/Fantasy books just aquired... Friends, 'mooters, fellow posters... ...let me have your latest aquisitions...

02-15-2004, 02:49 PM	#2
Lalaith_Elf Her Infernal Majesty Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,188	The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake Hopefully I'll get to read it this time before someone steals my copy again!!! __________________ "It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

02-15-2004, 03:59 PM	#3
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith. It's a collection of short stories based on humanity in the distant future after a 'dark age'. Very good stuff. So far I've read "Scanners live in vain". __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

02-15-2004, 04:00 PM	#4
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	i' rereading stephen king's gunslinger stuff atm... will need something new soon though __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

02-15-2004, 06:04 PM	#5
zinnite Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA Posts: 195	'King Rat' by China Mieville, 'Jennifer Government' by Max Barry, 'Pattern Recognition' by William Gibson, and 'Titus Groan' by Mervyn Peake (the first book of the afforementioned trilogy). __________________ A citizen runs to the fire department yelling that he's spotted a roaring blaze from his car. "WHERE IS IT?" the fire department asks, pen ready. "It rises like some brooding , glaring trail of cosmic fury from- " "WHERE? WHERE?" "Oh. Well, it blazes up from a crimson-sheathed visage brooding darkly above the haunted towers of impotent indignity which, like melons hovering unhappily over lifetimes of empty meaning which-" "THE ADDRESS!" "Oh. Oh, I didn't notice. But look for a brooding, glaring trail of cosmic fury rising from a crimson-sheathed visage-" They lead him back to his car, and send him on. -- Philip K. Dick "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -- Diderot

02-15-2004, 09:51 PM	#6
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	just bought all six books in the sword-dancer series by jennifer roberson i love those books __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

02-16-2004, 06:42 PM	#7
Mark of Cenla Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: central Louisiana Posts: 105	I am currently reading the second book of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice trilogy. I bought all three of them at once. Peace. __________________ Mark Wellman ><>

02-16-2004, 11:37 PM	#8
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	i'm just bying books all the time lately! just bought yime of twins (even though i already read it) and i have war of the twins and test of twins on order __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

02-18-2004, 06:39 AM	#9
Dwarven Sen Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Edinburgh University Library Posts: 410	So far this week i've read daggerspell, darkspell and am half way through dawnspell by Katherine Kerr. Is it any wonder i don't get work done if i'm constantly reading? Plus no money. Being a student and trying to keep up a book addiction isn't easy. Though there is this great second hand bookshop just around the corner from me. It doesn't sell the little book of calm. i wonder if that means that no-one has ever tried to get rid of one once they've bought it, or they swollowed it? __________________ Destroy the dementors not the demented. Dont heckle the supervillain Note to Self: Remember that sarcasm is hard to detect from text. What ever you do, don't click this link! my LJ

04-01-2004, 01:22 PM	#11
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Today I bought Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy.

04-08-2004, 11:03 AM	#12
Melko Belcha Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Behind the Walls of Night Posts: 286	Right now I am reading The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan. Next is Running with the Demon by Terry Brooks, The Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind, Immortals by RA Salvatore, then Legends II Edited by Robert Silverberg. __________________ "....rapturous words from which ultimatley sprang the whole of my mythology" - JRR Tolkien Hail Earendel brightest of angels, over middle-earth sent unto men Crist by Cynewulf (lines 104-5)

04-08-2004, 12:45 PM	#13
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Just bought The Dragon Reborn (third book in WoT) by R. Jordan, and almost ordered Legends I (mostly for the Martin-story). __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle.

04-08-2004, 09:33 PM	#14
Jabberwock Enting Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Canadian temporarily in USA. Posts: 55	... I just bought Greg Keyes's Briar King and I have to say that it is a huge disappointment. I really enjoyed Waterborn and Black God, but Im hating Briar King. It's absolutely boring and in the first 150 pages (as far as I've got so far) nothing has happened. It reminds me of a Wheel of Time book: plodding, shallow, and a waste of time (looks around expecting a mob of Jordan fans to start throwing stones).

04-09-2004, 12:25 AM	#15
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Ah don't worry about that. You shouldn't find any of those heathens here. The only thing you've got to worry about whether or not you're wearing pants. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

04-09-2004, 11:58 AM	#17
Jabberwock Enting Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Canadian temporarily in USA. Posts: 55	... Darn it! I only made it to the fifth WoT book before I got bored as hell and quit. You're right, though. I can only remember four or five character's names.

04-17-2004, 11:33 AM	#18
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Anyone here read Steven Erikson's The Gardens of the Moon? __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle.

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