Announcing the Lies of Locke Lamora read along
Posted February 6, 2012
on:- In: read along | Scott Lynch
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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what you’ve been waiting for. This is the “February surprise”.
This is what all the fuss is about.
This spring, I invite you to join Dark Cargo, My Awful Reviews, @OhthatAshley posting at SF Signal, and Dark Cargo Explorer and Yours Truly on an epic journey through the elderglass towers, the corrupt marketplaces, the shark infested waters beneath the pirate ship fortresses, and the thief prowling alleys and bridges of Camorr. I invite you to join us on what could be the reading experience of your life. I invite you to join us on our read along of Scott Lynch’s debut novel The Lies of Locke Lamora, the unassuming looking fantasy novel that started cults, inspired restraining order style behavior, and quite possibly changed everyone’s ideas of dark fantasy and antiheroes. Don’t worry, we’ll be reading Red Seas Under Red Skies as well. Can’t have a summer without pirates, now can we?
If you’ve never read Scott Lynch’s Gentlemen Bastards sequence which starts with The Lies of Locke Lamora and continues in Red Seas Under Red Skies, this is your opportunity. If you’ve read one or both books before, the timing couldn’t be better for a re-read, as this whole thing is in preparation for the Republic of Thieves, due to hit bookstore shelves later this year. Yes! This year! Really! Scott Lynch said so!
How to join in, you ask?
It’s easy. all you have to do is reply to this thread* (or to any of the other participating bloggers) . I’ll add you to my super secret e-mail mailing list, and you’ll get an e-mail with discussion starters for each section of the book. Post your responses to your blog, and poof, the awesomeness has begun!
A few other little details everyone should be aware of:
Detail the first: We’ll be getting started with The Lies of Locke Lamora the first week of March and Red Seas Under Red Skies sometime in mid to late April (which should give everyone a chance to get copies), and we’ll read 120 – 160 pages per week, with discussions going up on the weekends. Paperbacks tend to run less than $10, electronic probably a bit less, audio probably a bit more, limited editions from Subterranean Press considerably more so. Any version is fine. Chapter breaks and other timing info to be posted later this month.
Detail the second: These are some of my favorite books, by one of my most favorite authors. You can expect much fan girlishness from me. What I said before about restraining order behavior? uh, yeah, that was me. Here’s hoping all the other bloggers will be much more mature and professional.
Detail the third: These books are rated super R for casual violence, violence towards children, promotion of flexible morals, massive amounts of glamorized criminal activity, occasional drug and alcohol use, a smidgen of bought and paid for sex, and oh gods, the swear words. So many deliciously magnificent naughty words! If you wouldn’t use the word delicious or magnificent to describe creative invective, and if you are at all offended by anything else listed above, this may not be the read al0ng for you. Really. I’m not kidding. Don’t even ask me if this would be appropriate for your fourteen year old kid.
and with that, which of you bastards is on board for this fucking thing?
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* don’t want to reply, or log your e-mail with WordPress? no problem. e-mail me at redhead5318 at gmail and after that a dot, and after that a com. (see how I confuse teh bots!)
71 Responses to "Announcing the Lies of Locke Lamora read along"
I missed the book club read last year and it’s been sitting on my to reads for a while now. Looking forward to participate.
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I’m in. Lies is one of my all time favourite books, I may as well read it for about the 6th time. I was planning to do this at some stage in preparation for Republic in any case.
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I have heard nothing, but great things about Scott Lynch. This gives me a great excuse to FINALLY read these 2 book by him..:) His writing sounds quite interesting.
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Sign me up. Both books are on my Kindle Fire waiting to start. Now I need to finish “The Blade Itself” first.
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Count me in 😀 As I was telling you over at Amy’s blog, I’m more likely to join the final discussion than the weekly ones, but it still sounds like a ton of fun. Thanks for hosting!
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These two books have been on my tbr list for quite some time. I have a tumblr account but I would love to join in too! I look forward to your email.
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Okay, I thought about it and decided to join in. I think I will go like Nymeth, though, and just join in for the end. Looking forward to FINALLY reading this book!
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Ditto what everyone else said about this book and tbr. But I suck at doing things. So consider me tentatively in.
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well, no talking cats, no cats at all until the 2nd book, and they don’t talk
No, but it’s a cool cat all the same.
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Finally got around to making sure my library had these books. I’M TOTALLY IN! And just in time too.
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I’m going to join in, but only for Red Seas Under Red Skies. I just read Lies early last year, and that’s too soon to re-read for me.
That said, I’ll certainly be following along and keeping up with what everyone thinks.
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Okay, I’ve decided to jump on board. I’m very much looking forward to exploring this world that Mr. Lynch has created. Can’t wait. Starting today at lunch for the first time ever read.
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Hope I’m not too late, I would love to join. I’ve been meaning to read this series for a few years now and there is no time like the present.
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Hiya, thanks for the comment on our Red Seas Under Red Skies post! I would be glad to join your read along – even though I won’t read along, but I’d be happy to follow up the discussions and participate if I can. Let me know what should happen from there… I’ve never done this before!
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1 | Ines
February 6, 2012 at 8:11 am
Lies of Locke Lamora has been on my TBR list for quite some time now so I’d like to join this read along (and make sure I actually read the book) but I don’t have a wordpress account just a blogger one.
So, I guess I’ll be sending you an email. 🙂
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Redhead
February 6, 2012 at 8:13 am
Ines, don’t worry, I can get your e-mail from your comment. but you can still e-mail me if you’d like to! 😀
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Ines
February 6, 2012 at 8:14 am
Forgot to ask.
Should we add a couple of beers for the read along? 😉
(I usually have a glass of something close by when reading in any case)
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