Which one? There are probably books like that for every sport.
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee book 2) just arrived. Whee!
I really like the cover of this thing. Has a cool retro 70s type vibe to it.
dat book is definitely on my list. thanks for the warning though, i'll try not to read it in public.Just started this:
Man, I'd be down for reading that version of LotR!A Song of Ice and Fire (in german). Just finished A Storm of Swords and started a feast of Crows. Damn these books. If George R.R. Martin would have written Lord of the Ringsnobody would have survived long enough to get even close to Mordor. Aragon kills Frodo, Gollum kills Saruman, Boromir kills Faramir and Joffrey would rule Gondor with Gandalf.
It's really good. What made me want to read it was something I read in One Night Stands with American History. It was a blurb about Garfield being able to write in Latin with one hand and write in Greek with the other at the same time. It sounded like he was a pretty smart guy and it was a shame that his term as President was only a few short months.
Most of the book is focused on Guiteau and Garfield, but it discusses the main four men involved, Garfield, Guiteau, A. G. Bell, and Dr. Doctor Bliss. Yes, the doctor's first name was Doctor, go figure. It goes into the early life of Garfield a little bit, but not too much where it's boring. It talks about A. G. Bell and how he invented the metal detector specifically to find the bullet in Garfield. Guiteau's craziness is discussed as it builds up to the shooting. Finally, the Doctor's history is discussed pretty quickly in a few pages after the shooting.
All I can say is, I'm very glad for modern medicine. In the end, if the Doctors had left Garfield alone and not worried about the bullet in him, he would have probably lived.
A Song of Ice and Fire (in german). Just finished A Storm of Swords and started a feast of Crows. Damn these books. If George R.R. Martin would have written Lord of the Ringsnobody would have survived long enough to get even close to Mordor. Aragon kills Frodo, Gollum kills Saruman, Boromir kills Faramir and Joffrey would rule Gondor with Gandalf.
Holy crap. I can't believe how well this series ended. Just finished book 3 and I'm still blown away the following day at how good this book was. I had NO idea at the ending and everything was planned out so well. Even small things from the first book which I never bothered to think twice about turned out to be megaton revelations in the finale.
Awesome, awesome, awesome book and series. I can see why Robert Jordan chose Sanderson to finish the wheel of time. If he does anywhere near as good of a job with that series as he did with Mistborn, I'll forgive Jordan for the 9000 pages of descriptive nothingness.
I've always been slightly unsure of that myself.From what I remember, The Hegira is sort of a general term for the age when humanity left earth and began to colonize other planets. So for example, "pre-Hegira" basically just means Old Earth. There's a more specific term used for what happened to Earth, but I won't mention it in case you haven't gotten that far.
Precisely.You're refering to the big mistake right? That's when a black hole "accidentally" got into Earth or something like that?
I just finished the final [sixth] book of the Codex Alera by Jim Butcher. Man, what an awesome and epic fantasy series, this man can do no wrong.
I cannot recommend it enough. End of sixth book is the end of the saga, all the story lines are completed, no cliffhanger. EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ IT NOW.
I loved that series, but I'm glad he finished it. I hope he starts another new series with a planned ending, because Dresden is starting to get too much power creep.
Post-apocalyptic? Wow, that's cool.Dresden Files does have a planned ending though, heck he's gone as far as to tell us the last three books will be set post-apocalypse. After reading about Jim's writing style I think it's safe to say he wouldn't write something without a plan.
Trying to read the latest Lee Child book The Affair. This is laughable.
I've always known he wrote tripe but it seems he decided to step it up a notch.
I don't think I'll finish it.
Post-apocalyptic? Wow, that's cool.
I've always wondered if I should give Dresden Files another shot some day. For some reason, Storm Front really struck me the wrong way. Finished it and did not enjoy it.
Storm Front is the worst in the series; I think everyone would agree.
I have a confession GAF I read Terry Goodkinds new book. It was terrifyingly terrible.
The best of them are like, I dunno, 80's action movies. Badass ex-MP dude goes around boning women while solving crime and killing people that deserve it.There is something really bad but equally entertaining about Lee Child's books. I haven't read the prequels though.
Is Mistborn worth reading if I couldn't finish Way of Kings? I felt so incredibly bored and then heard it only gets good during its last third which is a bit harsh when your book is 1200+ pages.
Yes, Mistborn's world is less dense so it requires less world building and it's much faster paced.
It might make you want to get into the Way of Kings again. I admit I couldn't get into it until about 20% of the way through because I didn't really understand the concepts of the world. It started reaching brilliant levels only when I learnt what all the terms meant, the political situation of the world and when I started to connect more to the characters. It is quite a slow burn.
Finished:
Really liked it. Starts off as a standoff between a writer and his muse, who has come to him rather peeved that all of his female characters die gruesomely. He shrugs it off by saying that it's all just a game--yet to her as a figment of his imagination it is some thing far more--or something. Think I'll track down her other books.
I'm 2/3 through The Hunger Games (first book) and story-wise it's cliche after cliche, writing is so poor like I'm reading bad movie script. I've decided to finish at least the first book but...does it get better later on?
Anyone here already read Alastair Reynolds´Blue Remembered Earth? If so, how was it?
it's really one note so far but i'll be damned if the humor doesn't greatly appeal to me
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haha.. i never got around to the book
I'm 2/3 through The Hunger Games (first book) and story-wise it's cliche after cliche, writing is so poor like I'm reading bad movie script. I've decided to finish at least the first book but...does it get better later on?
I have so far read the two prologues and started the first chapter. I'm really liking it. Especially the philosopical bits in the second prologue were great. I like this sort of stuff and hopefully there's more of that.