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Maklershed · Mar 1, 2014

Maklershed · Mar 1, 2014

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Blood on the Moon by James Ellroy

Hard copy

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

Shengar · Mar 1, 2014

At last March thread

Because I can't read properly earlier, I'll repost my question here.

Shengar said:
Since new thread is up, can I asked for recommendation? Recently I'm reading many information about Industrial Revolution, Meiji Restoration, and Victoria Era on the internet. But I deemed that floating information on the internet isn't enough to satiate my curiosity on the subject. So, does anyone on Gaf know which books is the best for me to read more on such subjects, Industrial Revolution, Meiji Restoration, and Victoria Era in general.

woodland · Mar 1, 2014

Right now reading Stonewielder, a Malazan spin-off. Looking forward to Words of Radiance and the prequel to lies of Locke Lamora - both are out in a few days. Yay

Prototype · Mar 1, 2014

the movie is a cult classic of mine and I finally have some free time and ran into a copy so I picked it up. So far, very different from the movie but I like it.

Maklershed · Mar 1, 2014

Shengar said:
At last March thread
Because I can't read properly earlier, I'll repost my question here.

Just to be sure - you want books with straight up facts, right? You don't want fiction set in those time periods?

Marcovaldo · Mar 1, 2014

finished definitely maybe from last month, started this:

Shengar · Mar 1, 2014

Maklershed said:
Just to be sure - you want books with straight up facts, right? You don't want fiction set in those time periods?

Yup, nonfiction, historical books. I'll probably get them first before I hit with the fiction.

Meteorain · Mar 1, 2014

Prototype said:
the movie is a cult classic of mine and I finally have some free time and ran into a copy so I picked it up. So far, very different from the movie but I like it.

Yea I read it only a few months back, was really surprised how different from the movie it was. Focused on completely different things. Very interesting read, albeit a very pro-military book.

kazebyaka · Mar 1, 2014

What an amazing series. It keeps getting more awesome with each book. Love, love, love it.

RatskyWatsky · Mar 1, 2014

Still making my way through

Some of the chapters are starting to feel repetitive (how many times are they going to have passionate mind blowing sex?!?!?!) but I'm still enjoying it. I am now obsessed with all things Scotland and I want to change my generic American accent into a Scottish one.

Haly · Mar 1, 2014

That new thread smell.

Like a new book.

Mackenzie 92 · Mar 1, 2014

Almost done with this. Great book.

Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile by Nate Jackson

Fuck Vince Vaughn. Lmao

TheCrazyGuru · Mar 1, 2014

Finished this recently as my first Orwell book. Pretty good overall and good to see a different perspective of the Spanish Civil War. The only thing bringing it down was the chapters dedicated solely to the political aspect of it.

I think I'll start this book now:

Nuke Soda · Mar 1, 2014

Prototype said:
the movie is a cult classic of mine and I finally have some free time and ran into a copy so I picked it up. So far, very different from the movie but I like it.

I wanted to read it, but then I kept hearing that the book was super serious without any hint of satire so I avoided it for quite a while. Read it last year and enjoyed it.

FTF · Mar 1, 2014

Doctor Sleepjust started, big fan of The Shining so hopefully this is good.

RatskyWatsky · Mar 1, 2014

I finished

Charming as hell, though only sporadically engaging. I loved the Wyverary, and I really liked what they did with the Marquess, but I feel like it should have engaged me more than it did. I literally fell asleep several times while reading this book.

ShaneB · Mar 1, 2014

Nearing 50% of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk... and it's completely missing the mark with me.

Picked up the Kindle Daily Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction as well.

Tragicomedy · Mar 1, 2014

I'm reading Mother Night by Vonnegut for the book club, as well as The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe.

Both will be put on the back burner in three days for Words of Radiance, which is my most anticipated book of the year. I've convinced my wife to read the first one.

Time to jump on the hype train, GAF!

Einbroch · Mar 1, 2014

Haven't read a book in a long, long time. Friend recommended this to me.

EverythingShiny · Mar 1, 2014

FTF said:
Doctor Sleepjust started, big fan of The Shining so hopefully this is good.

I absolutely loved it, almost more than The Shining.

Finished The Divided Mind last night. I'm not sure how I feel about the multiple doctors in the book arguing that most chronic pain that people experience is due to repressed emotions. I have a hard time buying it.

Currently reading Kindness Goes Unpunished (Walt Longmire Series #3):

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I'm definitely digging this series. I have a hankering for reading some sci fi, though, so I'm thinking of picking up the Vorkosigan Saga books.

rudieboy77 · Mar 1, 2014

This week I plan on listening to these two books, who knows what else though.

FL4TW4V3 · Mar 1, 2014

Einbroch said:
Haven't read a book in a long, long time. Friend recommended this to me.

Oh, I think you will enjoy it...

Massive Nights · Mar 1, 2014

Wow, I should not have started this book. I have way too much work to do and I can't put it down.

The Martian

Mackenzie 92 · Mar 1, 2014

Massive Nights said:
Wow, I should not have started this book. I have way too much work to do and I can't put it down.

The Martian

Right on. Glad you're enjoying it.

ShaneB said:
Picked up the Kindle Daily Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction as well.

Picked that up as well.

Jarlaxle · Mar 1, 2014

Still reading Abercrombie's The Heroes. I'm 200 pages in. It's pretty good but I was hoping to have it done before Words of Radience came out and I don't think that's going to happen. Probably be done with it by the end of the week though if I can find some time.

Lumiere · Mar 1, 2014

Finished Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold yesterday night.

It was the last Vorkosigan book I had left to read, so I'm actually quite sad that it's over. Now I wish I had left the Ivan novel for last to cheer me up a bit.

Cryoburn itself was probably the weakest of the "proper" Vorkosigan novels (that is, aside Falling Free and Ethan of Athos). Reading through the whole series was a fantastic ride though, in particular the stretch between the Borders of Infinity collection and Memory (publication order-wise) was of incredible quality - she definitely deserved all those Hugos

I'm really tempted to re-read the series in publication order sometimes soon, but I'll probably try to finish her Chalion books first.

EverythingShiny said:
I'm definitely digging this series. I have a hankering for reading some sci fi, though, so I'm thinking of picking up the Vorkosigan Saga books.

Yay, you should go for it!!

fierrotlepou · Mar 1, 2014

Still reading this. I'm at Part IV now and wow, this book is incredible. I can already guess why Crime and Punishment is regarded as a timeless masterpiece.

EverythingShiny · Mar 2, 2014

Lumiere said:
Yay, you should go for it!!

Do I just started at #1? Or is there a preferred reading order? I'm looking at the Wikipedia entry for the saga now and it looks like there's a whole different internal chronological order. I'm a little overwhelmed!

Piecake · Mar 2, 2014

eravulgaris said:
Still reading this. I'm at Part IV now and wow, this book is incredible. I can already guess why Crime and Punishment is regarded as a timeless masterpiece.

The Brothers Karamazov is even better

sqwarlock · Mar 2, 2014

After finishing Eleanor and Park a week ago, I'm torn on what I want to start reading first this month:

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Amy Falls Down by Jincy Willett
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Any opinions?

Lumiere · Mar 2, 2014

EverythingShiny said:
Do I just started at #1? Or is there a preferred reading order? I'm looking at the Wikipedia entry for the saga now and it looks like there's a whole different internal chronological order. I'm a little overwhelmed!

Agreed, it is definitely a bit overwhelming at the beginning! I'd recommend going by the internal chronological order - or at least that's what I did and I thought it worked out great.

Bujold herself provided a chronological list that can be found here. That said, the very first book in chronological order, Falling Free, is a bit of a spin-off and I'd recommend leaving it for later. Shards of Honor is the best starting point, in my opinion.

Also, if you pick up the first four omnibus editions, they follow the chronological order and even include the various novellas, so they're great in that sense. The later omnibus volumes shuffle things around a bit and also don't include a key novel in the middle - not sure what they were doing there.

I went by this order:

-Shards of Honor (included in Cordelia's Honor)
-Barrayar (included in Cordelia's Honor)
-The Warrior's Apprentice (included in Young Miles)
-"The Mountains of Mourning" [novella] (included in Young Miles)
-The Vor Game (included in Young Miles)
-Cetaganda (included in Miles, Mystery and Mayhem)
-Ethan of Athos (included in Miles, Mystery and Mayhem) - although this is only loosely related to the main saga
-"Labyrinth" [novella] (included in Miles, Mystery and Mayhem)
-"The Borders of Infinity" [novella] (included in Miles Errant)
-Brothers in Arms (included in Miles Errant)
-Mirror Dance (included in Miles Errant)
-Memory
-Komarr (included in Miles in Love)
-A Civil Campaign (included in Miles in Love)
-"Winterfair Gifts" (included in Miles in Love)
-Falling Free (included in Miles, Mutant and Microbes) - takes place 200 years before main saga but the next book has references to it
-Diplomatic Immunity (included in Miles, Mutant and Microbes)
-Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
-CryoBurn

Tugatrix · Mar 2, 2014

currently in the middle of it

what a fascinating book, has the same literary roots as 100 years of solitude which i love

RazorbackDB · Mar 2, 2014

100 pages left, i like it, but everything feels like is building up to something, it is the first book of the saga after all.

Mifune · Mar 2, 2014

Just finished up Gone Girl.

Thought the first half was just insanely brilliant but it pretty much ran out of gas after that. Ending was thematically consistent and interesting but still unsatisfying.

Overall I liked the book but feel a bit let down after that stunning opening.

Incandenza · Mar 2, 2014

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Just finished. Good lord.

Recommended to anyone with the stomach for it.

KidDork · Mar 2, 2014

Still plugging away on The Dragon Reborn. My one big (spoilerish) gripe:

Jordan doesn't like to write action scenes. Getting a little tired of shit starting to go down and then it's the aftermath with the next paragraph. I think this is high crimes in any adventure fantasy novel. He doesn't do this all the time, but more often than not, that's the route he's taking in this novel.

Aside from that, it's still Grade B fantasy for me. Not terrible, but not great. I find myself liking the characters (Nynaeve, Perrin) moreso than the story so far.

JLG- · Mar 2, 2014

Playing catch up. Just started The Way of Kings.

Mobius 1 · Mar 2, 2014

Incandenza said:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Just finished. Good lord.

Recommended to anyone with the stomach for it.

Changed my life. Not an overstatement.

I'm reading this:

Just a few chapters in, but it is classic Eco. So easy to lose yourself in his fantastic worlds.

qizah · Mar 2, 2014

I'm reading Crazy Town: The Rob Ford story, though, I really should hurry up and finish The Way of Kings already. I downloaded a preview of the Rob Ford book and was immediately hooked, ended up buying it. It's well researched, but it's deeply disturbing.

Good Job Bob · Mar 2, 2014

Very good stuff so far.

suzu · Mar 2, 2014

So I've been plowing through the Black Company omnibuses. Finished The Books of the South (followed the advice from the last thread and read The Silver Spike first... glad I did). Next..

The Return of the Black Company:

Murgen is all right, but reading his annals has been kind of a slog. The second part is better though.

The Artful Dodger · Mar 2, 2014

Good Job Bob said:
Very good stuff so far.

Flannery O'Connor is amazing!

Tremas · Mar 2, 2014

Just finished it. Took a while to get going, but was gripped from the introduction of Strangman onwards. Beautifully evocative writing from Ballard.

Heel · Mar 2, 2014

Mackenzie 92 said:
Almost done with this. Great book.

Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile by Nate Jackson

Fuck Vince Vaughn. Lmao

I'll have to check this out. Thanks for the heads-up!

fakefaker · Mar 2, 2014

Still marching through The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton. It's pretty amazing except for all the sex, not that I mind good sex, but the one main character is a total nympho.

ngower · Mar 2, 2014

I had to take a breather towards the end of the first book, and I'm still sort of reeling from the length of that book, this book and the books ahead, but once I get into a rhythm I should knock this one out rather quickly. Hoping to get caught up to the show by the 4th season premiere.

AngmarsKing701 · Mar 2, 2014

Still reading The Golem and the Jinni. I'm about 1/4 in and really enjoying it. Still deciding whether I'll jump into WoR next.

Mackenzie 92 · Mar 2, 2014

Finished up Slow Getting Up and started this.

This Perfect Day by Ira Levin

Pretty good so far.

Gordon0Freeman · Mar 2, 2014

LOVE the show True Detective. Any good crime drama books that ooze with atmosphere that's comparable to the show?

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