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    have unfortunately finished Cherie Priest's Dreadnought. i liked Boneshaker but this one was way better. I thoroughly enjoyed this one and could have done with it lasting another week or so. I just looked and there's a new one on the horizon though so I'm a happy man.
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      CommentAuthorFauxhammer
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2011
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    @razrangel: I loved Sandman Slim, and the sequel, Kill The Dead, is a wicked romp as well. And yes, Mr. Kadrey occasionally stops by; he'd had a residency thread a while back.
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      CommentAuthoroldhat
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2011
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    Currently reading Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism by Laurie Penny and loving it.

    On a side note, I'm really loving my ereader.
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      CommentAuthoroddbill
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2011
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    Oldhat, which ereader did you get?
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      CommentAuthoroldhat
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2011
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    I ended up going with the kobo wifi touch. Some of the features are okay, and I find it lacking, but in the end I'm there to read newspapers and books, so it succeeds really well on that end.
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      CommentAuthorFauxhammer
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2011
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    I really didn't see a lot of difference between the e-readers I looked at; I went with the Kindle over the Nook simply due to the physical keyboard. They're media delivery systems, no more and no less, and if it does that well, you're in business.

    There's just something science-fictional about wanting a book, pressing a button, and having that book.
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      CommentAuthoroldhat
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2011
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    I admit that sometimes I feel like in Star Trek while reading it. What I love though, is that it's freed up lots of space in my purse. I'm able to take my camera with me every day now.
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      CommentAuthoroddbill
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2011
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    I also love that I can eat with one hand and easily click through pages with the other. It seems like a small thing, but it is a huge improvement for someone who often tries to squeeze in some reading during meals not to have to wrangle propping a ream of bound paper open with one hand.

    I got a nook, mainly because I liked how it felt in my hand. For actual core functionality, I find all ereaders about equally good.
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    I just finished reading Leaves from the Pie Tree: memories from the composing room floor by Jim Rimmer. It's an interesting little book about him getting into the printing press business, which lead to graphic design, how he met granny, and the way he designed and cast fonts. I also read Being Five or Six by him as well. It's something he printed up back in '84 and showcased a font he named after his deceased daughter. The story was a quick little adventure that a boy would go through back in the day when he was 5 or 6 years old. It was pretty awesome... You can see it Here. (It's only 11 pages, you should all give it a shot.)

    Still going through Bloodshot by Cherie Priest. It's taking longer than I want it to be.

    PS: I prefer my Kindle over the Nook that I tried using. Same goes for the Sony one I used. But it seems to really come down to whichever one you used first. (I have Kindle, boss has Sony, his wife has Nook. We've all tried using each others and we all prefer the ones we have for various reasons, all of them minor.)
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    I also loved Sandman Slim (I have Kill the Dead coming in the mail), and I got exactly what I was expecting out of it - dirty-ass genre fiction. The only thing that I didn't like was the constant going back to Tom Waits' Alice. For whatever reason it just never felt like it worked, and I'm a big Tom Waits fan obviously, just look at my moniker here.
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      CommentAuthorJay Kay
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2011
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    I saw Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness at a Savers for cheap and got it. I'm only on the first chapter and...I dunno, maybe I was too tired when I was reading it, but it's really sluggish and awkward to read so far.
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    after a years break - with a week and a half of my holidays left - i'm finally digging in the the final Dark Tower book.
    I'm really not a Stephen King fan but thought i'd give this lot a go. it's taken me two or so years to get this far and the books have been a real mixed bag but generally the right side of readable. after all this time and effort though i'd really like the ending not to suck which has always been my number one beef with him.
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    Now into Jonathan Carrol's Glass Soup. Also have The Year's Best Science Fiction: 27th Annual Edition on my iPhone/Kindle.
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      CommentAuthorFauxhammer
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2011
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    @oldhat @oddbill The new touchscreen Nook, however, is hot. Had I waited until now to get one, I would have gotten that.
    • CommentAuthor256
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2011
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    Finished:
    Where They Lay by Earl Swift. About the (ongoing) attempt to recover remains of US servicemen from Southeast Asia. Some very interesting moments, but largely verging on the fascinatingly dull category.
    Big Dead Place by Nicholas Johnson. Revealing the black, bureaucratic heart of the white continent, Antarctica. Very interesting, but sort of depressing since I'd completely swallowed the utopian PR version of the Antarctic programme.
    Pyramids by Terry Pratchett. Forgotten how good this is.
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      CommentAuthorOsmosis
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2011
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    From reading academic-y things like a good chap, I've spun out on an early-Gibson kick; sprinted through Burning Chrome and Neuromancer (re-re-re-re-read), but bizarrely I have never finished up the Sprawl trilogy, so I'm putting that right. Count Zero is doing his thing with the loa and the lean-small-ruthless-Maas and the art gallery curator. Who seems, with a hindsight from reading the late works, a proto-Cayce/Hollis, as a lady of culture-but-little-money hired by a cryogenic Bigend.
    • CommentAuthorallana
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2011
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    I'm onto House of Chains. The worst thing about these sprawling, multi-timed, multi-charactered universes is how much you actually need to use the glossary. ("Icarium? Which one's he again?" / "Torvald Nom, isn't he the - no, wait, that was another Nom. Nom nom nom.")
    • CommentAuthorMaC
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2011
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    I finished A Dance with Dragons recently, I thought it was a really good read until I got to the final string and felt the dread set in at the idea of waiting like other aSoIaF fans for years for the next book. I'm not loving how long we're lingering in this phase, but with so many characters what can you do I guess? There is one new character whose introduction I feel kinda sucks and upsets things. And one potential "resolution" I felt was totally inadequate. On the whole though I really loved aDWD, it sucked me while I was reading, the Reek chapters are amazing. Loved the Jon stuff. But as the pages ran out it was a bit unsatisfactory but it does set a cool stage for the next entry.

    Currently on deck is Grant Morrison's Supergods. I'm a little down on comic books atm so I'm waiting to crack that when the excitement for the medium seizes me again.

    I also picked up Jordan's Wheel of Time set for 40% off at Borders. Only the first 3 books but I'll give it a shot. Hopefully its enjoyable though today I am reading mixed reviews.
    • CommentAuthorDC
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2011
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    Finished the Tales of Dunk and Egg audiobook while I was reading A Feast for Crows. I really liked it and it was the perfect companion to aFfC because
    there were a lot of references to Dunk and Egg in Brienne's and Aemon's chapters which otherwise I wouldn't understand.

    After aFfC, I read 2001, A Space Odyssey in 3 days. Anyone recommends the sequels?

    In the comics department, I read Hellblazer: The Family Man and now I'm into Slow Storm by Danica Novgorodoff.
    • CommentAuthorMaC
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2011
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    @DC

    I've been interested in Dunk and Egg, would you say it's worth putting in the rotation when I do my Ice and Fire re-read?

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