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Post by
Adamsm
So, I've read a lot of the books written by this
author
and am slightly looking forward to it; would be nice to have some new blood when it comes to Warcraft authors.
Post by
Gone
Any thoughts on this new Rowling book? I mean everybody knows its not going to be anywhere near as good as Harry Potter, idk how you can even be considered good by the masses under that shadow...
I read the description and I was just kinda meh. Still Im hopefull.
Post by
Adamsm
And just read a few of the 'missing' Dresden Files short stories: AAAA Wizardry and Curses. Both of those are excellent and it's entirely possible that we'll see a character from AAAA showing up as the series goes on.
Also, Even Hand, the other short is a great read as well.
If the Dresden fans on the boards want a copy of these and doesn't feel like torrent/download hunting, my email is in my profile; I'm more then willing to send out copies to people lol.
Post by
924752
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Post by
Adamsm
So finally getting around to re-reading the Mag Force 7 series; done by Margaret Weis and is a spin off of her Star of the Guardians series. Yes it's 'old' but it's still an excellent read with well fleshed out characters and some of the same good times that Star Wars had originally(the fact that Star of the Guardians has parallels to the original trilogy well...lol).
Post by
pioneers14
I'm just wondering how many "Wheel of Time" fans are out there. I am really looking forward to the final book this coming January. I have read
every single book.
I say it like that because I know that for awhile there, Robert Jordan's storyline in the series was very slow. Regardless, I plugged on through and am happy and excited to read the ending.
I am currently reading through some of the books. Right now, it is "The Shadow Rising." Anyone have any favorite books in the series or favorite/least favorite characters?
Post by
Monday
I was very excited when Brandon Sanderson took over. I've always been a Sanderson fan, and even more so after he picked up several dangling plotlines and made Rand likeable again. I'm waiting for the next book too ^^
Although it's a shame, I talked with him last year and he said he had wanted
Memory of Light
to be out in October, but because of editorial issues, he had to push it back until spring of 2013.
I just reread the
Keys to the Kingdom
series. God, I love that series so much. It's so original at every turn, all the names are amazing and the writing is fantastic. It's too bad they're junior/teen fiction books. I can't even imagine what they would be like if he doubled the length of each novel and moved the type in a bit.
Post by
oneforthemoney
Just been going through some of my old
Redwall
books. They're old, a little simple at times, and can be read in a single sitting, but I still like them. It's nice to read classic 'good guys vs bad guys' situations every now and then, and Brian Jacques is a good storyteller. It's just a shame he didn't write more than three
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
books. They had a lot of potential.
On that topic, are there ant books you all read for nostalgia's sake?
Post by
HiVolt
If anyone hasn't already mentioned it,
A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh
by Allan W. Eckert is amazing. If you're into histories, especially ones concerning Native American or early U.S. history, this is a definite must read.
For the wholly uninitiated, Tecumseh was a Native American Indian war-leader. Though he was never a chief, or even a very high-ranking official in his tribe, warriors from almost every Indian nation fought for him at one point or another throughout his military career. His tribe, the Shawnee, and over a dozen others fought against encroachment from French, British, and finally U.S. colonists, frontiersmen and soldiers. Tecumseh was the one tribal leader entirely dedicated to this effort.
The only problem that I can see with it is that Eckert is extremely detailed(I swear, there's one part where he uses over a page to list all of the wares in a trading post). There's also a !@#$ton of footnotes and a huge appendix, in case you didn't get enough throughout the story.
He also has a series of histories that I'm hoping I'll have time to read soon. It's all about the conflicts between American colonists and Native American Indians.
Post by
OverZealous
Recently picked up
Great North Road
and
Pandora's Star
by Peter F. Hamilton. Normally, I don't read much sci-fi aside from WH30K/WH40K, let alone Space Opera, but I was convinced by a friend to read something by him.
So far, I haven't been disappointed. His books are well-written and rather detailed, but don't take five-hundred pages before getting into the real story. Be advised that
Great North Road
has 1100 pages and is, physically, twice as big as your average book; meaning it will take
a while
to read, even for those of you who read really fast.
Anyway,
Great North Road
is great. Read it.
Post by
Rystrave
Do you guys have Kindles (or things like that) or do you still use a physical book? My boyfriend bought me a Kindle, and although it's incredibly handy, I have a hard time staying engulfed in a book on it, where as with an actual book it's much more gratifying and engulfing.
Post by
Adamsm
I read some books on the computer(mainly using Mobipocket reader or Abode) but I still would rather have an actual hardcopy of a book in my hands, just because it means I can read it wherever I want to heh.
Post by
Monday
Depends. I like owning the book, but my Nook is so nice for traveling. I can just download a bunch of books onto it and leave.
Post by
OverZealous
Do you guys have Kindles (or things like that) or do you still use a physical book? My boyfriend bought me a Kindle, and although it's incredibly handy, I have a hard time staying engulfed in a book on it, where as with an actual book it's much more gratifying and engulfing.
I agree. I much prefer physical books. I have a Kindle for emergencies, but usually I bring "real" books instead.
Post by
Adamsm
I think the only time I'd get a Kindle or some other book reader thing was if I was going away somewhere for a few months and I couldn't bring as many of my books as I want(I have over 500 in my personal library lol =P).
Post by
HiVolt
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
Spoiler-Free Synopsis: Crowely is a demon and Aziraphale is an angel. Both have been tasked by their respective masters to bring about Armageddon. Having lived on Earth since the beginning, they've both grown fond of the planet and the people that inhabit it. As such, they actively work to derail the plans of their bosses. There's only one problem: they can't find the Antichrist.
It's an awesome book, full of humor and fuzzy morality.
Post by
oneforthemoney
So, just finished reading a collection of shorts written in the H.P. Lovercraft's universe and style. Some were good, Stephen King's was one such, which captured the mood if perhaps not necessarily the full impact of one of Lovecraft's own, but the last story in the collection was...I couldn't make it past the first page. It started out horribly, beginning with humans traveling from one of the moons of Venus towards the tenth planet, arriving in the middle of them having sex with cyborg parts while one of them lamented over not having his genitals replaced with mechanical ones.
It was...I couldn't believe this made it into such a collection. It was absurd to even be put in with these others. It was a pulpy, sci-fi story and maybe some weird eroticism, not a weird tale, and certainly didn't belong amongst the others, which all had their own strengths and captured at least some of the Lovecraft charm. But this? I was simply embarrassed just to have even looked at it.
Post by
OverZealous
So, just finished reading a collection of shorts written in the H.P. Lovercraft's universe and style. Some were good, Stephen King's was one such, which captured the mood if perhaps not necessarily the full impact of one of Lovecraft's own, but the last story in the collection was...I couldn't make it past the first page. It started out horribly, beginning with humans traveling from one of the moons of Venus towards the tenth planet, arriving in the middle of them having sex with cyborg parts while one of them lamented over not having his genitals replaced with mechanical ones.
It was...I couldn't believe this made it into such a collection. It was absurd to even be put in with these others. It was a pulpy, sci-fi story and maybe some weird eroticism, not a weird tale, and certainly didn't belong amongst the others, which all had their own strengths and captured at least some of the Lovecraft charm. But this? I was simply embarrassed just to have even looked at it.
What's the name of the story? I don't recall ever reading that, so that might be one of the few I've missed.
Post by
oneforthemoney
Discovery of the Ghooric Zone.
Post by
Kristopher
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians and related books are awesome.
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