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What are you reading (May 2012)
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Finished Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson over the weekend. The end was pretty entertaining but it took way too long to get there and then wrapped up super quickly.
And the two main characters didn't actually do that much. The book would've been far more interesting if it had focused more on the Vasher/Denth conflict.
Currently reading:
The final part of the Night's Dawn trilogy. Truly a behemoth series, 4000 pages in total... I think I'll done with any space operas for a few month once I finished it lol.
Really hilarious short stories! I greatly recommend it to anyone, of any gender or age.
Recently read:
I watched the movie when I was a kid, but there are so many (pop)culture references to this tale that I had to read it at some point!
The final part of the Night's Dawn trilogy. Truly a behemoth series, 4000 pages in total... I think I'll done with any space operas for a few month once I finished it lol.
Really hilarious short stories! I greatly recommend it to anyone, of any gender or age.
Recently read:
I watched the movie when I was a kid, but there are so many (pop)culture references to this tale that I had to read it at some point!
The Culture Vulture
Member
2/3 of the way through American Gods and just stating Kitchen Confidential
en_Confidential.jpg[/IMG]P.S. Am I the only person that had no idea they made a TV series of Kitchen Confidential starring Bradley Cooper. That was mind blowing when I hit google for an image of the book.
en_Confidential.jpg[/IMG]P.S. Am I the only person that had no idea they made a TV series of Kitchen Confidential starring Bradley Cooper. That was mind blowing when I hit google for an image of the book.
Yep just finished the book. I have no idea how he'll wrap up it all up in one more book, considering the pace and where the story is at, unless the tale of Kvothe is much shorter than I initially thought it was.
Also agreed on the
bandit and Felurian arc
he sure liked explaining his lengthy sex filled romps. I was getting a bit tired of it.
Presumably The Kingkiller Chronicles, concluding with The Doors of Stone, will bring Kvothe up to his current point (
fleeing into hiding after killing the King
Kote/Kvothe re-emerging into the world to finish his quest of vengeance against the Chandrian.
nakedsushi
Member
Finished but disappointed with:
When We Were Executioners by J.M. McDermott
It wasn't as good as the first book and nothing happened! The prose is still wonderful, but I wish that *more* was revealed.
When We Were Executioners by J.M. McDermott
It wasn't as good as the first book and nothing happened! The prose is still wonderful, but I wish that *more* was revealed.
OttomanScribe
Member
It is blowing my damn mind. Anthropological history of debt. I want to do my own research before I swallow it all, but daym. Read it.
Today I started The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy, but I just finished The Knockout Artist, by Harry Crews, and just loved it. It was a touch funnier than A Feast of Snakes, not as funny as some of the rest of his later body of work, but it was definitely very grotesque. I really loved it. In the three books I've read by Harry Crews in each one the climax and denouement seem to happen very, very quickly in the last few pages of the book. In both this and Feast, Crews is only really concerned with the arc of the protagonist and everything else, every they might be leaving behind, is just left as it was. It may not satisfy someone who just HAS to have all their plot points dealt with, in fact it would probably enrage them, but it really satisfied me as I was very involved with the protagonists. Great author. Everyone needs to read him.
DesertEater
Member
Feminism is For Everybody by Bell Hooks
I was always interested in the topic. Influenced by a gaffer's post here(Mumei), I bought the book.
I'm almost done with it now. Very interesting read, yet as Mumei said, it assumes that you're already a feminist. Other than that I've been enjoying it a lot.
I was always interested in the topic. Influenced by a gaffer's post here(Mumei), I bought the book.
I'm almost done with it now. Very interesting read, yet as Mumei said, it assumes that you're already a feminist. Other than that I've been enjoying it a lot.
Agreed, At least we are going to get more of Vasher in the sequel..
Starting up this one
I'll just let the amazon description describe it:
This is a great book.
Currently reading:
Really hilarious short stories! I greatly recommend it to anyone, of any gender or age.
Just read the original novel simply because I'm studying French and Zola and Flaubert are way out of my league, but I was pleasantly surprised. I want to order some of the sequels - which would you recommend?
Currently reading:
The final part of the Night's Dawn trilogy. Truly a behemoth series, 4000 pages in total... I think I'll done with any space operas for a few month once I finished it lol.
Since you can read french have you read Bernard Werber scifi books? Can't read french but my wife has described them to me and they sound damn good.
nakedsushi
Member
Starting up this one
I'll just let the amazon description describe it:
Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I'm not a big fan of Jane Austen, but I do like Fantasy.
TwiztidElf
Member
Not sure what the GAF consensus is on The Hunger Games, but I'm about half way through it and quite enjoying it. A lot better than I was expecting.
A nice easy reading pallette cleanser.
A nice easy reading pallette cleanser.
You will probably not like it then. It is very much ladies being proper, sitting room gossip, horse rides through the country with illusionary magic woven in.
I've started The Android's Dream by John Scalzi. Only read a little bit so far so no real opinion.
Lol. There is something so cathartic about 40k books. Is that series good? I only read Abnett's stuff and the Space Wolf series.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Lol. There is something so cathartic about 40k books. Is that series good? I only read Abnett's stuff and the Space Wolf series.
Are you familiar with the Flashman novels? It's heavily inspired by those. WH40K action with much more snark and humor. Enjoying them immensely right now.
JeTmAn81
Member
This is pretty cool. I've always wondered why so many of these books came out, but if they're all as good as this one then it makes sense. I get a distinctly Alan Moore feel from these stories about people who suddenly gain superpowers (or super deformities) and how they impact the post-WWII world. A few of the stories are by George R. R. Martin himself, which pleases me as a Song of Ice and Fire fan, but so far they are all good no matter who wrote them.
JeTmAn81
Member
I've listened to a good portion of the audiobook version so far. Katniss is surprisingly unlikeable when compared to the movie version. The book just spends way too much inside her head, and what you find there is fairly 1-dimensional.
Finished that now onto:
Catching Fire is the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.
Finished that.. Now onto:
bengraven
Member
I always save this thread until there are at least four or five pages because it's like pure porn to me.
..and I just saw this and looked it up. Wow, that's an incredibly cool concept. I can't believe no one else has used it before.
Edit: aaaaand I just learned that this isn't a new book series and has been around since the 90s.
My wife is a huge AB fan and had no idea about that series until a year or so ago, too.
..and I just saw this and looked it up. Wow, that's an incredibly cool concept. I can't believe no one else has used it before.
Edit: aaaaand I just learned that this isn't a new book series and has been around since the 90s.
My wife is a huge AB fan and had no idea about that series until a year or so ago, too.
Trojita
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I love the covers and Imperium propaganda.
disappeared
Banned
Just wrapping up Brave New World.
I'm about half way through 11.22.63 and absolutely loving it. I'm so relieved to hear that it doesn't flame out the way King books have a propensity to do.
I particularly like the way he just marinates in late 50s Americana for the first third or so of the book and I adore the metaphors he throws into the writing.
I particularly like the way he just marinates in late 50s Americana for the first third or so of the book and I adore the metaphors he throws into the writing.
Easystride
Member
Just finished Norwegian Wood. I should have been studying for finals, but I couldn't put the book down. Anyone have any recommendations for some more slice of life books?
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is pure slice-of-life; and probably my favorite novel of all-time!
Escape Goat
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brianjones
Member
can tell im gonna love bukowski
Reading GAF I need some help here. I've suddenly gotten the itch to read a great book that sucks me in again, the last book I read was The Count of Monte Cristo back in November and I absolutely loved it. Now I'll admit I'm not much of a reader but every once in a while a book just completely captures me though usually it's not from me actively looking for a book to read, honestly this might be the first time I do this, so I don't know where to start. I mean I read manga but that's different from an old fashioned book, so I'm open to suggestions. My favorite books would be The Count of Monte Cristo, How to Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451, the Great Gatsby. Though I really enjoy fantasy stories of all kinds I don't think I'm looking to read anything too medieval-ish. I just want a great book with a great universe or characters. Anybody who reads a lot have a recommendation? I was thinking of maybe reading King Solomon's Mines or even the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the Faded Sun Trilogy.
Easystride
Member
Thanks for the suggestion! Sounds like a good read. My library actually has the Kindle version available surprisingly, so I will start reading it right away! It is nice to break away from my fantasy and sci-fi comfort zone. I've been missing out on a lot of good books.
I never finished the first book. It felt like it was going nowhere and the characters were just boring.
The Death Cure by James Dashner
Well. I guess that's that.
It wasn't bad exactly, just... disappointing. I mean, really?Eh.The entirety of the first and second books were just a waste of time? Along with the bulk of this one? Yikes. Why didn't they just round up all the immunes and send them to the island or whatever to begin with? Could've had a lot more than 200 there, if 1% of the population was immune.
Plus, I hate plot-induced stupidity, a crutch that Dashner relies on too much.
Oh well.
Next up: Guns of the South.
kruis
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How about Charles Dickens? Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Little Dorrit ... all great reads.
Or try "Locksmith" by Sarah Waters, a recent novel that's firmly Dickensian. Other personal favorites are "An Instance of the Fingerpost" and "Stone's Fall" by Iain Pears, nice fat multifaceted historical novels.
DesertEater
Member
Check out Catch-22 by Joseph Heller or Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
I recently finished reading Feminism is For Everybody by Bell Hooks.
It was mentioned last month, I think, here.
A really interesting read.
Currently reading Resistance, Rebellion, and Death by Albert Camus,
and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
eattomorro
Neo Member
You can't go wrong with underwater zombies!
eattomorro
Neo Member
Felidae looks awesome, thanks for sharing.
Mike Works
Member
Finally reading:
Just over half way through the book and I think I'm going to write like McCarthy from now on. It's just so awesome.
Just over half way through the book and I think I'm going to write like McCarthy from now on. It's just so awesome.
sankt-Antonio
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... I'm reading Carl Sagan's "Contact", the "Song of Fire and Ice" saga and Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel". I like reading multiple books at the same time. But i guess these are all old hats for most of you.