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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1075 on: March 05, 2015, 09:26:46 PM »
Also reading Shift omnibus. Incredible combination of a great story with horrible prose.
yup, just like ASOIAF imho

And also would make a great hbo show!
I'm super pumped for Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell on BBC. That had a great story AND fantastic dialogue.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1077 on: April 07, 2015, 12:09:25 PM »

Just finished The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan.  It contained a surprising amount of very graphically depicted hardcore gay sex.  Like a geez guy amount of it.  I suppose it was okay on the whole.

Any chance you mean two chicks :sad:

"OK on the whole" isn't the greatest endorsement you have ever given.

Have you read the Black Company series?  I haven't, but have contemplated it frequently. 

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1078 on: April 07, 2015, 12:10:15 PM »
Oh, and I am soldering through Abercrombie's new YA series.  Felt that I owed it to Joe.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1079 on: April 07, 2015, 12:17:19 PM »
I'm super pumped for Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell on BBC. That had a great story AND fantastic dialogue.

if it's like the book the first 12 episodes will be about giving you the feel of a forest or a house or something and really getting close up on what it looks like and immersing the watcher in this rough ridin' place without anything actually happening.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1080 on: April 07, 2015, 12:17:38 PM »
Is that the one with Half a King, or whatevs?  If so, not good?  I bought the HaK book but haven't read yet. 

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1081 on: April 07, 2015, 12:25:04 PM »
you know what movie I would like to see made? The Book of the New Sun. Just to see how they would do it. and to watch people watching it like, "what in the eff is going on here?"

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1082 on: April 07, 2015, 12:58:46 PM »

Is that the one with Half a King, or whatevs?  If so, not good?  I bought the HaK book but haven't read yet.

Ya, it was good.  I was entertained.  Just started the second one.  I think people are just grumpy that Abercrombie stooped to YA.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1083 on: April 07, 2015, 01:35:34 PM »

Just finished The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan.  It contained a surprising amount of very graphically depicted hardcore gay sex.  Like a geez guy amount of it.  I suppose it was okay on the whole.

Any chance you mean two chicks :sad:

"OK on the whole" isn't the greatest endorsement you have ever given.

Have you read the Black Company series?  I haven't, but have contemplated it frequently.
I have read it and enjoyed it.  I don't think I went all the way through them. 
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1084 on: April 07, 2015, 02:21:49 PM »

Just finished The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan.  It contained a surprising amount of very graphically depicted hardcore gay sex.  Like a geez guy amount of it.  I suppose it was okay on the whole.

Any chance you mean two chicks :sad:

"OK on the whole" isn't the greatest endorsement you have ever given.

Have you read the Black Company series?  I haven't, but have contemplated it frequently.

Not two ladies.  I was in a mood when I wrote that.  Have not read the black company. 
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1085 on: April 07, 2015, 02:29:22 PM »
Have you read the Black Company series?

i read one once.  got bored with it, not sure if i finished it.  i used to like his fantasy/detective books a little.
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1086 on: April 07, 2015, 03:13:45 PM »

Have you read the Black Company series?

i read one once.  got bored with it, not sure if i finished it.  i used to like his fantasy/detective books a little.

I don't really like most detective books.  I don't care for the whole "who dunnit" thing.  I have really gotten into fantasy over the last 7 or 8 years. 

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1087 on: April 13, 2015, 01:44:45 PM »
Read this over vacation:

http://www.amazon.com/American-Nations-History-Regional-Cultures/dp/0143122029/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428950376&sr=8-1&keywords=American+Nations%3A+A+History+of+the+Eleven+Rival+Regional+Cultures+of+North+America

The first half, about how different the colonies were, was really, really good. Then the second half he tried to make every major event in American history fit into his neat little boundaries he created in the first half. It definitely made me want to learn more about New France and Champlain but overall it was pretty meh just because of the awful second half.

Also reading The Savage Detectives. Like, hardly anything seems to happen, but I love it.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1088 on: April 13, 2015, 01:51:53 PM »
Also reading The Savage Detectives. Like, hardly anything seems to happen, but I love it.
That on my to-do list.  I am excited about it.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1089 on: April 13, 2015, 02:05:16 PM »
Just finished up re-reading Player Piano by Vonnegut. Wow! For a dystopian novel written in the early 50's it hits incredibly close to home. Certainly worth a read.
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1090 on: April 15, 2015, 01:59:02 PM »
Dirty White Boys.  I am two chapters in.  Does it get any better?  I mean, so far this guy has used roughly half a chapter to describe the main guy's dick and also used "bulging muscles" to describe the same guy something like 3 times over a period of 1-2 pages.  The first chapter is quite possible the worst chapter I have read, of any book, for a very long time. 

Does it do a complete 180 anytime soon?


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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1091 on: April 15, 2015, 03:51:52 PM »
half a chapter to describe a diirk?  you cannot be serious. 
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1092 on: April 15, 2015, 03:53:24 PM »
downloaded acc's Childhood's End onto the kindle. hoping to knock it out before it gets the syfy channel miniseries treatment.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1093 on: April 15, 2015, 04:07:36 PM »
Dirty White Boys.  I am two chapters in.  Does it get any better?  I mean, so far this guy has used roughly half a chapter to describe the main guy's dick and also used "bulging muscles" to describe the same guy something like 3 times over a period of 1-2 pages.  The first chapter is quite possible the worst chapter I have read, of any book, for a very long time. 

Does it do a complete 180 anytime soon?

I thought it was okay, aside from all the graphic homoeroticism.   

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1094 on: April 15, 2015, 04:47:21 PM »
Guys, I don't write these books, I just read them.

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« Reply #1095 on: April 15, 2015, 05:04:45 PM »
well now i'm puzzled as to why you don't want read my gay sex books. 
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« Reply #1096 on: April 15, 2015, 05:07:28 PM »
i just finished the night angel books and they're easily as good as those.  #recommendation
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1097 on: April 15, 2015, 05:15:13 PM »
I'm about 1/3 the way through 1Q84 and I'm still not quite sure wtf is going on but it has my balls.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1098 on: April 16, 2015, 07:10:54 AM »

i just finished the night angel books and they're easily as good as those.  #recommendation

OK, OK.

I am almost done with this dorky YA Abercrombie book. 


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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #1099 on: April 16, 2015, 09:14:49 AM »


Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski

I just read this.  Quick read, really interesting point of view and very intense.
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