The Great Hullabaloo: BOOKS.

[Jan]

Halfway through "The Blade Itself" by Abercrombie and I have to say that it rather lives up to the hype so far. While it can´t hold a candle next to Scott Lynch´s "Locke Lamorrah"-books it is definitely a brisk and funny read with good pacing and an interesting world building.

While not being a big fantasy reader, should I give the "Game of Throne" books a chance, given the ravings about the TV-adaption and my previous stated tastes?

[Ed Hocken]

Been reading Edmund Morris' "Colonel Roosevelt"

Rherb, if you're a true TR fan. You'll want to check out this trilogy.

[Howard]

Hehe. I'm just like you mate. It's right there, but it's the end. I may want to keep it for the summer...

I have The Warded Man and House of Leaves sitting right beside it.

I'm definitely keeping it for summer. I've got a pile of junk reads that I want to burn through first. Sweeten the palate, so to speak.

[Shit Dickface]

And Then We Came to the End by Josh Ferris.

Interoffice politics, relationships, and the minutiae of what happens to a small group of advertisers as their firm begins to migrate toward nonexistence.

The most interesting guy in the book has already left the firm at the point I currently find myself, and yet the interest in everything--however boring in real life--remains.

hey dude what did you think of this I liked it

[Martin]

Hehe. I'm just like you mate. It's right there, but it's the end. I may want to keep it for the summer...

I have The Warded Man and House of Leaves sitting right beside it.

[Howard]

Still sitting in my pile. Part of me doesn't want to read it because that's it.

[Martin]

Howard? Erikson?

[Shit Dickface]

Finally paid off that $150 library debt (long story short: I'm a lazy idiot) and picked up:
Stoner - John Williams
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy (read the first 50 pages before, had to return it)
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
The Lie That Tells The Truth - John Dufresne

I guess I wanted some period pieces to read - the Westwood liberry didn't have The Easter Parade so I grabbed Revolutionary Road instead. TLTTT is a book on writing that I sped through a while back and wanted to enjoy a little more now that I'm trying to get back into writing on the reg.

[Martin]

Yo Howard. got The Crippled God? I just got it, thanks to Canada Post...

Will read it after Caine Black Knife. How's the new Ruthfuss?

[Ed Hocken]

I've been reading One L by Scott Turow, which is a diary of his first year at Harvard Law School. I learned that I was right to have never EVER gone to law school.

[BillyG]

Got the new Rothfuss book from Amazon yesterday. Haven't even opened the box, because I want to finish Feast For Crows first.

[Martin]

No clue. Heh, I'm gonna ravage this book when it's out. By that I mean fatherhood ravage: 1 month instead of 2...

[Howard]

Still showing as a March 1st delivery here. Please, please, please let nothing happen to the US date.

[Martin]

Fuck. The Crippled God is delayed a month!!!!!!!! It wasn't shipped yesterday! March 25th! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

[Captain Russ]

And Then We Came to the End by Josh Ferris.

Interoffice politics, relationships, and the minutiae of what happens to a small group of advertisers as their firm begins to migrate toward nonexistence.

The most interesting guy in the book has already left the firm at the point I currently find myself, and yet the interest in everything--however boring in real life--remains.