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What are you reading (May 2012)
- Thread starter Maklershed
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Randolph Freelander
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Easystride
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Just finished A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and loved it!
I'm going to start And Then There Were None next.
I'm going to start And Then There Were None next.
brianjones
Member
it's not very good so far (about halfway)
not sure why i decided to read it, i kind of liked the movie i guess and was thinking about it recently
the writing is really pedestrian
Conquistador, S.M. Stirling
I just finished the first two books in the Mistborn series by Sanderson and really enjoyed them. I had just finished reading A Dance with Dragons and didn't know if I would want to read more fantasy but after starting The Final Empire, I just could not put it down. I really like the unique way he developed to explain the powers that the allomancers have.
Hopefully I will finish up the third book in a couple days and then I have to decide if I want to read the fourth book. Has anyone read Mistborn: The Alloy of Law and if so how does it compare to the other Mistborn books?
Hopefully I will finish up the third book in a couple days and then I have to decide if I want to read the fourth book. Has anyone read Mistborn: The Alloy of Law and if so how does it compare to the other Mistborn books?
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
James Clavell - Shogun ?
M.M. Kaye - The Far Pavilions ?
It's a real epic, huge book: almost 1000 pages and still topical since most of the book deals with the second Afghan war and the disastrous attempt to establish a British base in Kabul. I read it almost 20 years ago and loved it then. If you want more, there's also "Shadow of the Moon" (about the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857) and "Trade Wind" (about the Zanzibar slave trade) by the same author.
I would but I just started this:
Maybe next summer. =p
Three Kingdoms is a very hard read even for Chinese or Asian people. You better be prepared.
If anyone is interested in translated Chinese martial art/comedy novel, there is Deer and the Cauldron by Jin Yong. Some plots were left out but it is very easy to read. Some considered this the best book by the most popular Chinese author. No Kindle unfortunately.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Deer-Cauldron-First-Book/dp/0195903234
Thought it's a SciFi novel..at first I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't but it turned out to be one of the best books I've ever read.
Now I'm reading that one:
Once again, I have no idea what that book is about (not even the genre). Reading is way more fun that way.
btw: Are ther any other books like cosmos, that are informative and easy to read and understand? I'm not the brightest dude so I get easily confused by big words or too scientific stuff
Maklershed
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Still reading through Great Expectations and really loving it. I'm bummed now that I've waited until 32 to finally read a full Dickens novel for pleasure. I should've never have let myself been intimidated by it.
In other news, I have this preordered and I can't wait to read it:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374299277/?tag=neogaf0e-20
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen
In other news, I have this preordered and I can't wait to read it:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374299277/?tag=neogaf0e-20
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen
NekoFever
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I finished off my Hitchhiker's Guide omnibus and I've currently got about 100 pages left on this...
I'd seen the movie first, which isn't usually my preferred order, but I'm not sure which one I like best. For the first third I'd have said the movie because I liked how it implied certain things that the book makes explicit, but I've enjoyed the book more and more as it went on. I still feel that it doesn't leave much to the imagination, though. Even so, the first thing I do when I finish it will be to watch the film again.
Considering my usual rate of reading, I've been doing well this month.
I'd seen the movie first, which isn't usually my preferred order, but I'm not sure which one I like best. For the first third I'd have said the movie because I liked how it implied certain things that the book makes explicit, but I've enjoyed the book more and more as it went on. I still feel that it doesn't leave much to the imagination, though. Even so, the first thing I do when I finish it will be to watch the film again.
Considering my usual rate of reading, I've been doing well this month.
Quality choice.
Altered carbon. One of the best crime sci-fi, or just scifi at that, novels of all time.
amazon link
sparky2112
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Finally finished. As much as I liked it, I also found it a bit tedious, and I'm not sure it amounted to all that much. Franzen is very, very good with individual scenes and his insight into the human condition is equally sharp; in this case, it was the overall story that fell short for me. Makes me want to go back and reread The Corrections, which I'm fairly sure hung together a little better than this...
I haven't read it yet as I'm still on the second book but it was my understanding that it isn't really part of the series. It's more of a stand alone set in the same universe. I may be wrong about that though.
I need more. now.
Bridge up!
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Fuck Hell Yes
nakedsushi
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Gave up on reading an urban fantasy about fairies. I just can't do fairies!
Started this on a gaf recommendation and LOVE IT so far.
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
I'm just picturing all of the Firefly crew as the characters.
Started this on a gaf recommendation and LOVE IT so far.
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
I'm just picturing all of the Firefly crew as the characters.
Leeroy3101
Banned
I can't bring myself to read any Lovecraft at night. I think he's the first author to sort of instill some sort of terror in me to continue reading. Yet, I like his stuff a lot. It's a bit odd.
Leeroy3101
Banned
Never finished The Lost World. I got bored of it about halfway through.
Meus Renaissance
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BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Finished The Sisters Brothers.
My highest possible recommendation.
On to Colson Whitehead's Zone One.
My highest possible recommendation.
On to Colson Whitehead's Zone One.
Maklershed
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I got the movie bluray set and watched Jurassic Park for the first time since the 90s and was shocked at how mediocre I find it now compared to when I was a kid. Now to be fair it is nearly 20 years old so I excuse the CGI (its particularly bad in the Gallilimimus stampede scene) but some of the acting and dialogue was really stiff and awkward. And lets not even get into the raptors opening doors.
How is the book? Do they go into a lot of the story that the movie doesn't cover or is it mostly a 1:1 adaptation?
It's significantly different than the film. Particularly the ending.
Maklershed
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Long price is amazing. Start with that
Start with The Long Price Quartet. It's complete, and now that Tor is publishing the two-volume onmibuses, it's easy to get your hands on the whole thing for a reasonable price.
His new series is also excellent, but, like the rest of us, you'll have to wait for each volume to be published. Two out so far, three to go. Luckily Abraham writes quickly and puts out a book a year.
Grimm Fandango
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The Fifth Elephant
Liking it better than Jingo definitely.
Liking it better than Jingo definitely.
Hmm.. looks interesting. New humanist.org.uk image. ;p
br0ken_shad0w
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I need more. now.
After a 6 month hiatus, I've finally have some free time now. I've just finished reading Part II and while the pacing has slowed somewhat, I just cannot put it down.
DesertEater
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Just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Garcia Marquez.
Man, what a great book.
Next: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera.
Man, what a great book.
Next: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera.
bloodydrake
Cool Smoke Luke
Hmm if you like a blend of scifi and fantasy take a look at David Webers Off Armageddon Reef.
Neffarias_Bredd
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In the midst of reading
thanks to this thread
This book is so awesome. I was expecting some nice swashbuckling viking tales, but did not expect the humor that the book seems to produce effortlessly and consistently . Started off slow but really started to pick up after a bit, and I've barely put it down since. Recommended to everyone who likes books and stuff
This book is so awesome. I was expecting some nice swashbuckling viking tales, but did not expect the humor that the book seems to produce effortlessly and consistently . Started off slow but really started to pick up after a bit, and I've barely put it down since. Recommended to everyone who likes books and stuff
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
I just finished reading....
About to start reading....
About to start reading....
Finished Moby Dick a few days ago - the ending really puts the tone of the book in a entirely new context, but yeah while I felt the philosophical and thematic content during the middle-sections flew over my head somewhat, the start and end of the book is just wonderful, definitely lives up to it's reputation; I'm already looking forward to re-reading it a few months from now, and picking up on what I missed during my initial reading.
Now Reading - Siddhartha by Herman Hesse; first two chapters were really wonderful, I expect to go through this quickly (because it's so short) even though I am taking it in slowly.
Now Reading - Siddhartha by Herman Hesse; first two chapters were really wonderful, I expect to go through this quickly (because it's so short) even though I am taking it in slowly.
I fucking love that book even tho it kind of gets redundant after 200 or so pages. The mood it presents is stunning, and I'm shocked there hasn't been a film made about it yet.
Wiktor
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Finished
Pretty good, altough not the best in the series. The two lead characters are in different places for majority of the novel and the investigation and murders get overshadowed. The ending did partially make up for it though.
Now starting:
I liked the promos of the upcoming tv show based on this series
Pretty good, altough not the best in the series. The two lead characters are in different places for majority of the novel and the investigation and murders get overshadowed. The ending did partially make up for it though.
Now starting:
I liked the promos of the upcoming tv show based on this series
Can anyone recommend me a good horror/fantasy novel (must be available for nook). Some of my favorites include: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, IT and Dark Tower series by Stephen King, A Song of Fire and Ice, etc
I have also been looking at picking up "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfus - never read anything by him.
Thanks!
I have also been looking at picking up "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfus - never read anything by him.
Thanks!
Finished God's War, and I have a hard time deciding what I thought about it. I think I liked it. The writing was excellent, the characters were excellent, but I am not so sure about the actual story.
Now I think I will tackle the Mongoliad or the Winds of Khalakovo
Now I think I will tackle the Mongoliad or the Winds of Khalakovo