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What are you reading (May 2011)
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brianjones
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Apple Sauce
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xxjuicesxx
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AlimNassor
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manifold: Space. by Stephen Baxter. It's really quite good.
angelkimne
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Wow, I'm glad I don't have that version.x3n05 said:Now reading (like many others here):
Edit: Then again the new TV show cover ain't much either.
Scythian Empire
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Simply incredible. Just got up to the 3rd card, and I'm so drawn into Ed's world. Can't wait to find the secrets at the conclusion.
Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club
Research for a short story I'm writing for a fiction class.
Currently reading The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway, prepping for my trip to France/Spain later this summer. Magnificent thus far, as usual for Hemingway fare.
I'm also thoroughly on the Ice and Fire bandwagon, finished Clash of Kings yesterday. I plan on plowing through Storm of Swords once I finish Sun, and probably A Visit From the Goon Squad. These Ice and Fire books are excellent and very engrossing, but they take up a good chunk of reading time so I'm trying to mix in a bit of variety. The first two books have taken me like 2-3 weeks, and Storm is several hundred pages longer than each.
I'm also thoroughly on the Ice and Fire bandwagon, finished Clash of Kings yesterday. I plan on plowing through Storm of Swords once I finish Sun, and probably A Visit From the Goon Squad. These Ice and Fire books are excellent and very engrossing, but they take up a good chunk of reading time so I'm trying to mix in a bit of variety. The first two books have taken me like 2-3 weeks, and Storm is several hundred pages longer than each.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I'm like 95% of the way through The Gods of Mars and will start Warlord of Mars. I hope to get through most of the series this month since I'll be done with college for the time being.
Femmeworth
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Scythian Empire said:
Fanboydestroyer
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Still continuing my journey with Mr. Wolfe. Just finished up Lake of the Long Sun the other day and have now started Calde of the Long Sun. but due to finals and graduation I haven't had much chance to do any enjoyment reading =( soon though, soon.
brianjones
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angelkimne said:
i hate when books are made into movies/tv shows and that shit gets plastered all over the covers
nakedsushi
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Reading another book by one of my fav. authors:
The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
Weird that this book has so many alternate titles. So far, so good and very very neurotic.
I don't blame you. I read Dust by Elizabeth Bear and thought it was just awful. Very full of itself and its pseudo-Christian mythology. I'm through with her after that.
How about Diamond Age for sci-fi? It's a big book and takes a while to get going while the world is established, but once you get to know the characters, it's kind of like watching a series.
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
Oh nice, I forgot this was out. Not sure if I'll jump on this yet. I was so disappointed with the last book in the series, I don't know how much more I can take. As soon as the (spoiler for the series)
The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
Weird that this book has so many alternate titles. So far, so good and very very neurotic.
Bootaaay said:Just got done reading these two;
Now I'm reading Ink & Steel by Elizabeth Bear, and I wish I wasn't. It's a fanciful tale of magic and intrigue set in the realm of Elizabeth the 1st and with Shakespeare as the protagonist, but it's too full of itself for my liking and I'm having trouble getting through it.
Can anyone else recommend me some interesting sci-fi novels? It's a genre I traditionally have preferred to watch rather than read, but Tau Zero has given me a taste for it, so something similar would be welcome as I'll probably abandon Ink & Steel before the end.
I don't blame you. I read Dust by Elizabeth Bear and thought it was just awful. Very full of itself and its pseudo-Christian mythology. I'm through with her after that.
How about Diamond Age for sci-fi? It's a big book and takes a while to get going while the world is established, but once you get to know the characters, it's kind of like watching a series.
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
Weenerz said:
Comes out Tuesday, Amazon says it'll be here by Wednesday.
Oh nice, I forgot this was out. Not sure if I'll jump on this yet. I was so disappointed with the last book in the series, I don't know how much more I can take. As soon as the (spoiler for the series)
fairies appeared in the series, it was downhill.
evilpigking
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Nothing at the moment =(. Might look into grabbing a used copy of Surrender to the Will of the Night by Glen Cook (Instrumentalities book 3) in hardback rather than wait for the paperback this fall.
RhombusPrime
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For maybe the fifth time? Reading it again makes me worried about how much the movie will ruin the book for me :/
HiroProtagonist
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Finished this a few days ago. It got more interesting after Abrahams decided to turn one of his characters on its head. Well, maybe not completely on its head, but enough for me to drop my assumptions about where each character was going.
The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham
At about the half way point in this. It feels a bit more like work than I was expecting.
Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 by Mark Twain
I'm about 30% (my kindle still doesn't show page number - even with the update) into this so far. Its unique enough to keep me interested despite some corniness and stilted dialogue.
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham
At about the half way point in this. It feels a bit more like work than I was expecting.
Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 by Mark Twain
I'm about 30% (my kindle still doesn't show page number - even with the update) into this so far. Its unique enough to keep me interested despite some corniness and stilted dialogue.
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
nakedsushi said:Reading another book by one of my fav. authors:
The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
Weird that this book has so many alternate titles. So far, so good and very very neurotic.
I applaud your taste in authors. Personally I cannot get enough of the opening paragraph of Lolita. The harmonic almost mellifluous rhythm of his sentences made me a Nobokov fan for life.
British Monsoon
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nakedsushi said:How about Diamond Age for sci-fi? It's a big book and takes a while to get going while the world is established, but once you get to know the characters, it's kind of like watching a series.
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
Done and done, I really enjoyed Anathem, but haven't had a chance to read his other stuff, this seems like as good a place as any to start so thanks for the recommendation
Frankenstrat
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at the moment, my physics textbook. However, since that's boring, here's what I will be reading in the near future:
alex chilton
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Can anyone recommend any good anthropology-related books? I guess something akin to Guns,Germs and Steel. Thanks
HiroProtagonist
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sixghost said:Reading textbooks at the moment, fucking finals
After the semester I'm going to make my first real attempt at reading Infinite Jest, unless I can get my hands on a copy of DFW's unfinished book that was just published.
I hope you plan on getting the physical copy of Infinite Jest, and multiple bookmarks . I can't imagine reading the kindle/ebook version. Has anyone tried?
choodi
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Still trudging through this...it is getting a bit better, but I am over a third of the way through and NOTHING is happening!
At least I am starting to like some of the characters (Glokta and Logen) and am a little interested in their back stories. Is Jezal meant to be so boring and unlikeable?
Liquid Helium
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Qwomo said:
About 55% of the way through, so good, feels almost like a murder mystery more than a generic fantasy book.
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Deleted member 1235
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Gaf, I need a fantasy recommendation, I've just read in this order
Everything by Joe abercrombie
Both scott lynch books
both Patrick rothfuss books.
They were all gold in order of shinyness
1. Patrick rothfuss
2. Abercrombie
3. Scott lynch
now I need something Very similar to fill the void until the next patrick rothfuss book
Anyone got something similar? ASOIAF already read/pre-ordered.
EDIT: Almost done with Stephen King 'the dead zone' it's alright I guess, not one of kings best by any stretch.
Next I have a book by china meiville called 'the scar' and after that Dune (which I never read)
I don't remember this being the case at all. Stick with it. Yes Jezal is supposed to be a tosser.
Everything by Joe abercrombie
Both scott lynch books
both Patrick rothfuss books.
They were all gold in order of shinyness
1. Patrick rothfuss
2. Abercrombie
3. Scott lynch
now I need something Very similar to fill the void until the next patrick rothfuss book
Anyone got something similar? ASOIAF already read/pre-ordered.
EDIT: Almost done with Stephen King 'the dead zone' it's alright I guess, not one of kings best by any stretch.
Next I have a book by china meiville called 'the scar' and after that Dune (which I never read)
I don't remember this being the case at all. Stick with it. Yes Jezal is supposed to be a tosser.
Granger Danger
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catfish said:Gaf, I need a fantasy recommendation, I've just read in this order
Everything by Joe abercrombie
Both scott lynch books
both Patrick rothfuss books.
They were all gold in order of shinyness
1. Patrick rothfuss
2. Abercrombie
3. Scott lynch
now I need something Very similar to fill the void until the next patrick rothfuss book
Anyone got something similar? ASOIAF already read/pre-ordered.
Greatest fantasy series ever
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Deleted member 1235
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will look into. thanks for the recommendation.Emonga said:
Greatest fantasy series ever
How.... magic is it? Something I like about the books I've been reading is that the wizards and crazy crap is always from a very limited source. With Abercrombies books, there is only a bit, with the Rossfuss books it's almost from a scientific angle and so on. Same with ASOIAF.
Granger Danger
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A bit more than in those books, but still minimalistic.
HiroProtagonist
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catfish said:
Malazan is also my favorite fantasy series, but comes with tons of magic n' wizards n' dragons n' such.
I just started the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, and based on your list - you'd like it. So far there hasn't been much 'magic', but a system more akin to sympathy in the Rothfuss books.
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Edit: I keep calling it "Mystborn." errr. :|
Doppelleben (double life) by green party congresswoman Antje Vollmer.
I recommend it for everybody mildly interested in the 3rd Reich and able to read German. It's a biography of Count and Countess von Lehndorff and how they became part of the plot to assassinate Hitler (yes, the one from the Tom Cruise movie). Vollmer is an unlikely biograph because she comes from the political left and she admits herself that she didn't plan for this biography to be as favourable of the Lehndorffs as it turned out to be. So it is a very honest book on the dynamics of the Nazi regime and why the German elites and intellectuals didn't stand up against it way, way earlier.