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Waters of Darkness
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"Old school swords, sorcery, and sails. Recommended from Black Gate." 22 hours, 53 min ago

 
Ex-Patriots
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by Peter Clines (Goodreads Author)
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Great North Road
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"Ultra, super, massive book that I will slowly be making my way through." Apr 03, 2013 04:57pm

 

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Waters of Darkness by David C. Smith
Mike is on page 81 of 182 of Waters of Darkness: Old school swords, sorcery, and sails. Recommended from Black Gate.
Waters of Darkness
Mike is reading Ex-Patriots: Listening to this on audio. Really digging it.
Ex-Patriots
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You by Austin Grossman
You
by Austin Grossman (Goodreads Author)
Austin Grossman’s You has drawn some comparisons to Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One from many venues but is a very different beast in many respects. While both lean on the nostalgia factor of readers You trades the frenetic action and bright palate f...more
Mike rated a book 4 of 5 stars
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
The Rithmatist (Rithmatist #1)
by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
I don’t understand Brandon Sanderson. Seriously. Most fantasy authors are lucky if they come up with one new fascinating and intricate fantasy setting. Most fantasy authors are lucky to come up with a single complex magic system (or unlucky depending...more
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Ex-Patriots by Peter Clines
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Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines
Ex-Heroes
by Peter Clines (Goodreads Author)
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The Blood Gospel by James Rollins
The Blood Gospel (The Order of the Sanguines, #1)
by James Rollins (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
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Steven Erikson
“Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living."
~Duiker, pg. 353
Malazan Book of the Fallen, Deadhouse Gates”
Steven Erikson

H.P. Lovecraft
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
H.P. Lovecraft, The Call Of Cthulhu

Glen Cook
“Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.”
Glen Cook, The Black Company

Glen Cook
“Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.”
Glen Cook, Shadow Games

Neil Gaiman
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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Mike has read 24 books toward his goal of 80 books.
 
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