YOU MUST TELL ME ... What else are you reading?

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« Reply #165 on: May 27, 2014, 09:22:15 am »
Finished Blood Song by Anthony Ryan, and I am not sure why I liked it as much as I did.

The Divine Invasion by PKD. All hail Philip K Dick!

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« Reply #166 on: May 27, 2014, 06:07:53 pm »
Finished Carlton Mellick III's Adolf in Wonderland--it was pretty fun.  Kind of Lewis Carroll + Kafka + Nazis.  I found it a satisfying read even though the main character seemed to be static throughout, which was weird for me.  Now I'm half way through Mellick's I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter.  Pretty fun.  Romcom with demons n shit.

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« Reply #167 on: July 01, 2014, 04:02:06 am »
I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter was great fun!!!  It was a formula hollywood romcom with demons and shit.  Also finished the Prince of Thorns, I think Bakker fans would enjoy.  OOOHHH, also finised Person by Sam Pink.  Highly recommended to Chuck Palahniuk fans!!!

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« Reply #168 on: July 04, 2014, 05:10:58 pm »
Rereading Before They Are Hanged and Angelmaker.  Sentence by sentence, Angelmaker is a joy.

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« Reply #169 on: July 04, 2014, 05:30:43 pm »
Love Abercrombie's First Law. Great stuff.

Most recently finished Gardens of the Moon (Erickson) and TDTCB, slowly working my way through TWP and started Deadhouse Gates (Erickson).
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« Reply #170 on: July 10, 2014, 08:38:45 am »
Started Hyperion two days ago. About 25% through as finding it hard to get reading time. Have all of the series bought and ready to read.

Very intrigued so far - concepts are taking time to come to the fore but this is allowing good development of the characters.

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« Reply #171 on: July 19, 2014, 10:34:45 pm »
Hyperion is a book like no other.
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« Reply #172 on: August 01, 2014, 07:42:27 am »
A lot on my plate, currently.

I'm about 600 pages into Samuel Delany's Dhalgren, which is turning out to be an incredibly complex and moving work.

I'm also working through:

Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus and Manuel DeLanda's Philosophy and Simulation.  And on the side, I'm really enjoying the Saga and East of West comic series.

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« Reply #173 on: August 01, 2014, 09:36:54 am »
Started Fall of Hyperion a few days ago. Struggling with reading time at the moment due to work commitments.

I really like the switch of PoV with the Pilgrims taking a bit of a back seat (at least in the first 10%) and expanding upon the Hegemony through M Severn. Loving Simmons writing style and slow reveal of the major players.

Also made me aware of just how many SciFi stores have a government called The Hegemony! Maybe too much SF on my part.


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« Reply #174 on: August 04, 2014, 07:16:10 pm »
Have been busy staying indoors since it is summer(only reptiles enjoy this kind of heat), reading plenty.

Food of the gods by Terence Mckenna
Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmonds
The Tyrants Law(book 3 of Dagger and the Coin series) by Daniel Abraham
Monopolizing Knowledge by Ian Hutchinson
 

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« Reply #175 on: August 20, 2014, 12:19:43 pm »
Robin Hobb has just started on a new series with Fitz and the Fool, so I will read the Tawny Man trilogy first. You got to love Fitz and the Fool!

Also reading Robert Sapolskys collection of essays called The trouble with testosterone.

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« Reply #176 on: August 21, 2014, 03:45:36 pm »
I'm reading The Widow's House, recently released book 4 in Daniel Abraham's The Dagger and the Coin quintet.

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« Reply #177 on: August 21, 2014, 04:28:16 pm »
It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy by D. Michael Abrashoff.

"Mandatory" reading for all project managers in my company...

I am also reading Ilium by Dan Simmons with Olympos, Hyperion and the Fall next up.

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« Reply #178 on: August 24, 2014, 04:00:38 am »
I'm reading Tiberius by Alan Massie. It's basically Tiberius narrating his memoirs and is very good. I finished Massie's Augustus before this one and he also has a Caligula novel that I plan on reading in the future. Anyone that's a fan of I, Claudius should check these out, they're just as well written imo.

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« Reply #179 on: August 25, 2014, 07:04:40 pm »
Just finished the Fall of Hyperion.

Spoiler free review: Really satisfyingly complex and interwoven ending with a few nice mysteries left. Not as well structured as Hyperion and an odd change in Pov characters. Completes the series as a whole even though I know there is the Endymion duology all major plot points are pretty much resolved if this duology were the only.

Now onto either Patrick Rothfuss The Name of The Wind which I bought today or Adrian Tchaikovsky Heirs of the Blade continuation read.