What are you reading right now? : Othor Games

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:42 pm

This joke's probably already been done but,

This thread :bigsmile:

Reading the sword of truth series. Seems to be going downhill after the third book though...

Ravin

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:54 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temeraire_(series) Which is all three novels packed into one book. I'm on book two. Took me bout' 5 days to read the first book, as I read late an=t night only.

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:00 pm

I'm still waiting for that final book to come out.. .I hope it's done well... really too bad about Rob

There are two more to go. Towers of Midnight and A Memory of Light.

The last book got split up into three separate books, because there is too much to tell. I'm pretty glad that I've only reached book seven so far, so to give Mr. Sanderson more time to write the other two novels.

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:01 pm

I'm reading some random assorted myths in my World Mythology class at school. Sounds cool right? monsters and demons and fighting and family dram...but so repetitve and very very basic plots.

Example:

"I married my mom and she killed my brother who is also my son...I will go to the underworld and fight some monsters."

that about sums it up.

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:50 am

Breaking Dawn.

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» Fri May 27, 2011 2:49 pm

:cryvaultboy:

I'd have to agree.

Does anyone have or know of any books on Canadian history that they'd recommend?

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:19 pm

And bugger all these tired old retreadings of books you all recommended a 100 times, read summat else for gawds sake.

Recommend some then?

I plan on reading Ulysses since it got voted the best book in the English language of the 20thC, and it was given a good review by George Orwell (I read all my media on a 60 year delay, so I get them after the copyright expires. There's some troubling stuff going on in Korea at the moment isn't there?)

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:49 pm

Nothing I want something to read though. Any suggestions on something with dragons? (besides the Eragon trilogy)

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:27 pm

Nothing I want something to read though. Any suggestions on something with dragons? (besides the Eragon trilogy)

Dragonlance Chronicles?

» Fri May 27, 2011 2:39 pm

the forums?

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:49 am

I'm reading The Gunslinger by Stephen King - the first in the Dark Tower series. I'm enjoying it so far.

Stephen King is definitely my sort of writer - he knows how to write, but doesn't let the language get in the way of the story (c/f Michael Crichton, Greg Keyes). I like my fiction to be in that kind of "prose script" - simply telling the story without too much in the way of "aren't-I-clever" linguistic gymnastics. I suppose it's the opposite of writers like Cormac McCarthy or Irvine Welsh.

Stephen King is kind of hit or miss with me. Some of his stuff is amazing (The Stand, It, Dark Tower...) but a lot of his stuff can be pretty bad. I haven't tried one of his books in a while, but I picked up Needful Things a week ago and I don't think I'm going to finish it.

The Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin is one of my all time favorite fantasy stories, the way he writes the chapters from a Point of View of each main character kind of grows on you as the series progresses. I think one of my all time favorite fantasy characters has to be Tyrion Lannister the Imp. At first you hate the man, but as the story progresses and the character is developed more you begin to love the man. If they ever made his books into a movie I do believe the role of a lifetime is in the character Tyrion.

Great books. Really hope HBO picks the show up. The casting for the pilot was pretty incredible, a lot of big names.

I've had the Complete Sherlock Holmes sitting on my bookshelf for a little while, so I just started reading that.

» Fri May 27, 2011 7:47 pm

read teh entire percy jackson stories last week. they were pretty good. I just now finished Needful things. At about 700 pages im done reading for a little while

» Fri May 27, 2011 3:50 pm

Lord of the Rings.

going to re-read Harry Potter later.

» Fri May 27, 2011 3:06 pm

Lord of the Rings.

going to re-read Harry Potter later.

I love the Harry Potter series. I've read them a bunch of times. I can't just pick one up and read it though. I have to read them in order. It just isn't the same otherwise...

(btw: this is an awesome emoticon. I haven't been here a lot lately and this is a great addition! :vaultboy: )

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:55 pm

Right this second I am reading you the words I type on the screen as I type them making sure I dont make an error.

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:25 pm

Dragonlance Chronicles?

Just started reading that, about 50 pages into the first book. Seems pretty interesting.

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:56 pm

reading through The Gathering Storm again. good book. good series.

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:32 pm

reading through The Gathering Storm again. good book. good series.

Personally I wouldn't go as far as to say it is a good series, as the books in the middle are terribly slow and it seems as though at that point the author lost direction. The first book also has the issue that it is too like Lord of The Rings and the ending felt (IIRC) rather tacked on. In other words, it lacked consistency, could have done with being a lot faster in places as well as less subplots.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:25 pm

Just picked up a copy of "The Infernal City" from the library. It's pristine. Apparently I'm one of the only Elder Scrolls fans in the area that also enjoys reading. :hehe:

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:34 am

Ender's Game....

» Fri May 27, 2011 12:21 pm

Just picked up a copy of "The Infernal City" from the library. It's pristine. Apparently I'm one of the only Elder Scrolls fans in the area that also enjoys reading. :hehe:

If you have started it, how does it compare to other fantasy books? I often found that books based on a existing set of ideas tended to rely on the fact that fans of the series would buy the book so the book wasn't great. Probably the wrong place to be asking this question

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:38 am

Ender's Game....

Good one. The series becomes a bit heavier a read after the first book, I had a hard time with the pacing of "Speaker for the Dead"

If you have started it, how does it compare to other fantasy books? I often found that books based on a existing set of ideas tended to rely on the fact that fans of the series would buy the book so the book wasn't great. Probably the wrong place to be asking this question

Nope. Picked it up about a half an hour ago.. I'll start it tonight.
I'm obviously gonna give it a chance, but I know what you mean.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:23 pm

During the past week or so I've been reading through by copy of Franz Kafka's complete short stories in no particular order, particularly the ones I hadn't yet come across in the other Kafka books I own. The Judgement and The Burrow struck me as particularly harrowing.

However, on Friday I received in the mail a copy of Turn Off Your Mind, a nonfiction work about the occult background of the 1960s counterculture movement by Gary Lachman, which I've now been ploughing through over the weekend.

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:46 am

I find it very hard to casually read anymore. I used to read right before bed until I got tired, so now when I read a few pages in a book, I get really sleepy and find myself taking a nap.

But I just had a 26 hour plane journey, so I had plenty of time to do nothing. I read parts of Family Kingdom by Samuel Woolley Taylor. No one say anything about the content matter, if you know what it's about; I'm just stating that that is what I read. It's a pretty interesting and humorous read.

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:20 am

I'm about to pick up The Wheel of Time series again, I'd recommend it to anyone who likes a good fantasy series.