Sci fi/Fantasy books just aquired...

[Grey_Wolf]

Friends, 'mooters, fellow posters...

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

[Lalaith_Elf]

The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake

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

[BeardofPants]

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]

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

[zinnite]

'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]

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

[Mark of Cenla]

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]

i'm just bying books all the time lately! :D
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]

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]

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. :eek: Panic and destruction!

[Grey_Wolf]

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

[Melko Belcha]

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]

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

[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).

[BeardofPants]

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]

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

[Jabberwock]

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]

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

[Grey_Wolf]

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

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

[Falagar]

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 ;):

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...

[Grey_Wolf]

Thanks for the info.

[Grey_Wolf]

Books 9 thru 12 of Gear's the People series

[Grey_Wolf]

Have just bought Terry Brooks' High Druid of Shannara-trilogy.

[Grey_Wolf]

Harry Turtledove's Homeward Bound (this being the eighth part of the Worldwar series)