Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
A Game of Thrones
Buddy, you think you look strong? You’re wearing a cape.
I really need to finish Drood. I enjoyed what I had read.
You make a good point Bright Eyes. I guess I can try to forgive you.Originally Posted by Ricky
To quote a famous movie, "We'll always have Children of the Corn."I'm not sure we can be friends anymore.
I may have paraphrased a bit.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
A Game of ThronesAWESOME!
"So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another."
Starting The Passage... now!
Wanted: Human skin edition of The Book of the Dead. Will accept PC copy.
Ahhh yeeeeeahhh!A Game of Thrones
Fantastic book! Can't wait for The Twelve!
Fantastic book! Can't wait for The Twelve!
Really good book!
Buddy, you think you look strong? You’re wearing a cape.
Re-reading Dance with Dragons. Got bored waiting for Mr. Martin to finish his opus. So I am going to reread all 5 books in backward chronological order. Anything to pass the time until #6 becomes available. Now I know how all the Tower junkies felt wondering if the dagnabbit thing would ever get finished.
People are always talking about truth.Everybody knows what the truth is,like it was toilet paper or somethin...All there is is bull*...One layer of bullshit on top of another...what you do in life...pick the layer of bull* that you prefer...
I just finished a reread of Cell and I think I'm going to start a reread of the DT series.
John
Finished Skeletons in the Closet and started on The Reading Promise. If you love books, The Reading Promise is worth a look.
Reading Joe R Lansdale right now - finished the story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" last night. Although its a story he's well known for (and apparently was adopted for TV) I had never read it nor seen the TV version. LOVED IT. Highly recommended. The twist at the end was brilliant.
China Mieville - Railsea
Yes, it's great. The tv version I believe was the first ep of Mick Garris' Masters Of Horror series.
I'm reading two great pieces of sword and sorcery:
Elric: To Rescue Tanelorn by Michael Moorcock; I'm on "The Singing Citadel."
The Hammer and the Blade by Paul S. Kemp; A priest to the momentary god, Egil, and his companion, Nix, make a living as tomb raiders; the story opens with them clearing out the tomb of a wizard king notorious for trafficking with demons and devils. Seems they've made an enemy from one of said demon's worshippers. Lots of snark between the duo. The prologue is essentially an action sequence, but Kemp manages to do some worldbuilding through the brief descriptions of the tomb, including its murals, artifacts etc. without sidetracking from their mission.
For next tomorrow evening and Saturday morning's long car rider, I've got The Rage of the Dragon by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. For my week at the beach, I've got Gardens of the Moon and The Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson. The sample chapter of Gardens included a witch, a couple of necromancers and some shadow hounds--a great hook for a reader like myself, in other words.
The Elric stories are awesome. I keep meaning to go back and read them again, but haven't ever gotten around to it.
I am now reading The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie. This is the fifth book in a row of his that I have read, starting with The Blade Itself. I think that people who are into A Song of Ice and Fire would probably enjoy them. There is a trilogy and two standalone books, plus I read somewhere that he has a deal to write four more. There's that same sort of sense about them of not being certain who the good guys are supposed to be that I think permeates ASOIaF.
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
I was flying out for a little vacation, but my flight got delayed for four hours. Worse, the book I'd taken along was in my checked baggage. So I picked up The Strain at the airport bookstore, a new hardcover remainder for 8 bucks. Read about 120 pages so far, really good. The back mentions Stephen King and Michael Crichton, but it's definitely mostly the latter. Which is good.
Just started reading this. It's the author's debut novel but I've heard some very, very good things. Really looking forward to getting into the meat of the story.
I've got about 50 pages left of The Strain. It's still good. Can't wait to read The Fall.
Only 175 pages left to go in A Dance With Dragons, f*cking loving it!
“There are no men like me. There's only me”- The Kingslayer
I'm with you there.Everything I've read by Sowell is very good.
I finished The Strain. Read Willa (Stephen King short story), and started The Fall tonight.
The Strain was really good. I think I posted about it in here shortly after it came out and no one said much. I am glad to see it getting a lot of love these days. I didn't like the third book as much as the other two though.
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
We def. talked about it. Also randomly across the forum too.
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