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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
On September 25 2014 15:33 Manit0u wrote: ![[image loading]](http://www.lipstickandlibraries.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Blindsight_book_cover.jpg) Blindsight by Peter Watts Blew me away. Borrowed it to a couple of friends and it blew them away too. Awesome book, couldn't put it down until I was finished pretty much. Thanks for the recommendation. Its available for free online (legally) too. | ||
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Just_a_Moth
Canada1964 Posts
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On September 25 2014 17:53 Zealously wrote: I bought all ten books when The Crippled God was published and it still bothers me that my Reaper's Gale is the wrong edition. If you're obsessive about your bookshelf, just buy the "right" edition (NO MATTER THE COST) I managed to find it in Amazon, it's out of stock and "usually ships in 10 to 13 days" so hopefully that works out for me. | ||
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Nesto
Switzerland1318 Posts
On September 20 2014 11:29 Djzapz wrote: I don't know where to ask this so I figured I'd ask here. I'm buying the 10 Malazan books, I have the first 4, the books 6 to 10 are available in the edition that I have. But 5 isn't. This is the layout of the books of my collection (available for books 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10): These are all available from amazon.ca and other retailers. As you can see, there's a "banner" type thing at the top and the title of the book at the bottom. This is the layout of the book 5 that's available on amazon.ca: So I'm looking for the right one: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](https://p.gr-assets.com/max_square/fill/books/1366996057/345299.jpg)  . Is this the worst feeling or what.Try finding a matching Malazan Hardcover set, only then will you know true despair^^ After looking around for an eternity for the hardcover versions of Deadhouse Gates and Memories of Ice, I managed to find them through Amazon Market place in the US. I paid like 60-70$ including delivery only to find out that for some reason the newer books are like 1cm bigger in height. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17685 Posts
On September 25 2014 19:13 Liquid`Jinro wrote: Awesome book, couldn't put it down until I was finished pretty much. Thanks for the recommendation. Its available for free online (legally) too. If you liked it, you might also like his Rifter Trilogy. Although you'll have to brace yourself for some recurring themes from Blindsight in there. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On September 26 2014 04:26 Nesto wrote: Try finding a matching Malazan Hardcover set, only then will you know true despair^^ After looking around for an eternity for the hardcover versions of Deadhouse Gates and Memories of Ice, I managed to find them through Amazon Market place in the US. I paid like 60-70$ including delivery only to find out that for some reason the newer books are like 1cm bigger in height. That's horrible -_-. Edit: I just received 5 of the 6 books I needed to complete my small collection. One had a dent and the corner was bashed in (thanks UPS) and one was from the wrong edition. Thankfully Amazon's support is great... but the books I receive from them are often beat up as hell... | ||
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Vaelone
Finland4400 Posts
I picked this up from kindle sales a while back and I found it to be quite a enjoyable and easy read in-between reading Malazan books. It tells a story of a lvl 4 mutant thug called Hank thats living a life on space station, he has a bad habit of getting in situations that are way over his head. It might be pretty shallow though when compared to likes of Malazan. | ||
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{ToT}ColmA
Japan3260 Posts
anyone has some good books read? have my eyes on "the warded man" but not sure yet...and for christ sake its so shitty to buy books where the story isnt finished yet......fucking rothfuss | ||
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Barteh
Netherlands108 Posts
On January 25 2015 00:49 {ToT}ColmA wrote: just finished the night angel trilogy by brent weeks, its pretty good, finished all three books in 8 days cuz i couldnt set the books aside. ending felt a bit rushed, everything else was pretty good, gonna read the mistborn stuff when it arrives... but till then i ll try to finish the prince of nothing trilogy which is good but the names in the book are too weird, its like he smashed the keyboard randomly to get those names :y anyone has some good books read? have my eyes on "the warded man" but not sure yet...and for christ sake its so shitty to buy books where the story isnt finished yet......fucking rothfuss Have you read the Gentleman Bastard books? You could also try some of Sanderson's other works, Warbreaker was really enjoyable for me, and his "new" main focus series is amazing so far (Stormlight archive). If you want to really commit to a series, I am a *huge* fan of the Malazan book of the fallen. It consists of 10 books + some novels to explain extra bits. But I would only suggest reading them if you can deal with the drawbacks of such a big series; you'll not always understand everything, it has ups and downs, but ultimately it was definitely worth it. | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On January 25 2015 02:04 Barteh wrote: Have you read the Gentleman Bastard books? You could also try some of Sanderson's other works, Warbreaker was really enjoyable for me, and his "new" main focus series is amazing so far (Stormlight archive). If you want to really commit to a series, I am a *huge* fan of the Malazan book of the fallen. It consists of 10 books + some novels to explain extra bits. But I would only suggest reading them if you can deal with the drawbacks of such a big series; you'll not always understand everything, it has ups and downs, but ultimately it was definitely worth it. starting this tomorrow. i need a good book to read for 2015  | ||
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8b/TheWayOfKings.png/200px-TheWayOfKings.png) ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/WordsOfRadianceCover.png/220px-WordsOfRadianceCover.png) love these books and would recommend them to anyone who likes epic fantasies | ||
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{ToT}ColmA
Japan3260 Posts
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VGhost
United States3616 Posts
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Thermia
United States866 Posts
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Nesto
Switzerland1318 Posts
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Wesso
Netherlands1245 Posts
On January 27 2015 01:36 Nesto wrote: has anyone read the Lightbringer series by Brent weeks? is it any good? I really enjoyed the first one, the sequels a bit less but still very enjoyable. | ||
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kiryah
Korea (South)65 Posts
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Nesto
Switzerland1318 Posts
The final book came out in march and it's a really great read. | ||
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BByte
Finland49 Posts
The sequel, Ancillary Sword, wasn't quite as good but still nice. The third part of the trilogy should come out later this year. | ||
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Schmobutzen
Germany284 Posts
That is why I can not recommend Blindsight at all - it is badly written, for a novel - the characters, oh the characters, and the dialogue and..., the conscience "essays" are good, but than, you are better off reading some philosophical treatise on it. | ||
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