Yeah, one is about to close but it wasn't a very good one. I used to have 10 near me!!
Reading in January 2012
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Yeah, one is about to close but it wasn't a very good one. I used to have 10 near me!!
Pher
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Finished "The Name of the Wind, A Wise Man's Fear and The Blade Itself this month. Discovered Rothfuss after finishing and re-reading the current books of ISoIaF, LOVE 'The Kingkiller Chronicles'. Currently breezing through Before They Are Hanged which I am really enjoying. Thanks to SFFworld forums for the Abercromie recommendation, spot on for my tastes. Looking forward to many great recommendations in the future!
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Rob, you know what this means, don't you?
ROAD TRIP!
Anyhoo, back on topic. I just managed to read a whole chapter of The Goblin Corps last night. I'm getting a little tired of the f-bombs, but it's still pretty darned good.
It's a terrific, fast read. Brutal in spots, but Barlow doesn't really linger on the brutality and at no time does he make it attractive. And that he can weave more than one love story in with the pack warfare is truly commendable. One of my favorite, and maybe one of the best, novel-length reads I've had in the last two-three years.
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Rob, you know what this means, don't you?
ROAD TRIP!
Anyhoo, back on topic. I just managed to read a whole chapter of The Goblin Corps last night. I'm getting a little tired of the f-bombs, but it's still pretty darned good.
Indianapolis, otherwise known as the circle city, naptown, and the center of the world for the next week or so.
I think you're going to be very, very busy. I also think, if you read those with nothing between, you're going to get really, really sick of horror.
There's a lot there that's on my shelves awaiting me, in particular some of those Ramsey Campbell titles. I'm planning on reading The Grin of the Dark soon (not in your pile), and maybe the Dark Companions collection, as well. Farris' All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By is another possibility for this year.
I'd strongly recommend The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. "The Yellow Sign" in particular is very good; "The Repairer of Reputations" is even better, and is certainly one of the strangest stories I've ever read. Also Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan" (I haven't read the other story in that collection, yet).
In Fears Unnamed by Tim Lebbon I'd draw your attention to the novella, "White"; it's a great read. Maybe especially if you have snow on the ground. I haven't read the collection, The Hounds of Tindalos but the title story is one of the better Lovecraft pastiches from the early years of his mythos. Pulp fun. The Ambrose Bierce collection should be good, too, though I find a couple of his tales at a time is about all I want; I don't read his collections straight through.
Straub's lost boy lost girl is powerful stuff. The main character was introduced in Koko and became the main character of The Throat, as well. But I think LBLG stands alone just fine.
I hated Thomas Tryon's Harvest Home when I read it back in the 1970s. I think I need to reread it, though. It's stuck in memory more than some books I liked a lot more at the time. And enjoy the Robert Bloch collection. When I was in my teens and 20s they seemed to be everywhere, and now they're rare as hens' teeth.
Randy M.
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I remember back when my mom was a member of one of the book clubs popular in the 70s/80s (either the Literary Guild or the Doubleday Book Club) she bought this book and to this day, she said it was one of the scariest book she ever read.
I have actually got through The King in Yellow, it is a collection of stories that will stay with me for a very long time, truly unnerving stuff.
I have a lot of fantasy and science fiction that is not shown in the pictures, I would get tired of just horror. In fact, Dune is my next read. I've never read it and it is suppose to be one of the best in science fiction.
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Herbert made some odd stylistic choices, but in spite of that Dune is transfixing and addictive. I've never read any of the sequels or prequels, though. Once I came to the end, I thought, that's the story, there really isn't a need for more.
Randy M.
I've heard many say that the other four that F. Herbert wrote were actually very good, I'll probably get around to reading them sooner or later.
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Finished The Hedgewitch Queen by Lilith Saintcrow last night. When I purchased it, I thought it was a stand alone, so when the story abruptly ended with our heroine in a very tough spot I have to admit I was upset. It's always jarring to have a book end like that, especially when you didn't know it would.
The book isn't spectacular by any stretch of the imagination, but I found it fun. I did find it to be a bit repetitive, and I hated how the heroine would gain a backbone, but then she'd swoon, or have to be carried off. That was annoying and category romancey, I felt. Other than that, I did enjoy it. While I spotted the "twist" in the first couple of chapters, I'll be reading the sequel. I'm interested in seeing how it all comes together.
The book isn't spectacular by any stretch of the imagination, but I found it fun. I did find it to be a bit repetitive, and I hated how the heroine would gain a backbone, but then she'd swoon, or have to be carried off. That was annoying and category romancey, I felt. Other than that, I did enjoy it. While I spotted the "twist" in the first couple of chapters, I'll be reading the sequel. I'm interested in seeing how it all comes together.
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I didn't know that either - thanks for the heads up. I agree that books shouldn't end so abruptly that you don't get satisfaction to the book you just read. My philosophy is make people "want" to buy the next in the series...but don't "force" them to.
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I looked the book up today and found we have to wait until June for the sequel. From the title I believe we're going to get a different POV, which irks me a bit. I wanted to see Vianne come into her own.
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Well, the book, as mentioned, is called The Hedgewitch Queen. I found it interesting because it has a female main character who's a bit of an underdog, but coming into power. There's magic, romance, intrigue and violence. Personally, I find that kind of combination an interesting one.
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I finished American Gods by Gaiman last night (he accomplished a lot). With all the Wise Man's Fear talk going on here I figured it's finally time read it. 75 pages in and I'm very happy with my decision. It's good to be back in the Four Corners.
I finished American Gods by Gaiman last night (he accomplished a lot). With all the Wise Man's Fear talk going on here I figured it's finally time read it. 75 pages in and I'm very happy with my decision. It's good to be back in the Four Corners.
I only buy paperback so I'll have to wait until WMF comes out in mass market but I'm really looking forward to it. I just finished The Name of the Wind recently and was really blown away with how good it is. I'm about 180 pages in to Knife of Dreams right now (most of which was the prologue, lol) and when I'm done with that I'm moving on to Dune for the first time.
lol, I take it that you aren't a WoT fan or at least the fact that he tended to overdo the prologue.
Yep, it totally got me, lol
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