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Post by Devo DrakeFox on Aug 23, 2011 20:22:53 GMT
I've just finished reading the second of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books, Fool Moon. Too bad Andy can't loan me the next one until he comes back from i43. No matter, I have some graphic novels I've not yet read.
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Post by Turbocharge on Sept 17, 2011 21:48:28 GMT
Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer.
Yes, it's a kids book, but it's a damn good series. Think Harry Potter, only hilarious and bad-ass.
Now I think I'm going to have to read something mature to balance it out.
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Post by Eleonora B.M on Oct 14, 2011 13:58:25 GMT
the Arabian Nights, one of Agatha Christie's books and still reading Tucidide's War of Peloponnesum
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Post by ShayMay on Nov 2, 2011 0:35:41 GMT
The Braided Path.
It had a little trouble focusing, and conflict resolution was executed through (admittedly, quite exciting) combat a little too often, rather than more subtle methods, but all-in-all, if you enjoy some light war strategy, sexual politics (first book is rife with this - it all pays off plot-wise, but sometimes it feels like it's genuinely trying to arouse you, which is toned down in the latter two), and genuine suspense and likable characters, I can't help but give it a recommendation.
Be warned, though, don't go into this if you're squeamish.
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Post by Sonicchimp on Nov 2, 2011 18:02:32 GMT
I've gotten into the Vampirates series by Justin Somper. Technically kids books but the combination of pirates and vampires was too much to resist .
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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Feb 1, 2012 9:36:51 GMT
Mass Effect: Deception. Only a couple of chapters in, but good [censored]ing Lord this is painful. Not only is it badly-written, but there are a number of blatant continuity errors (some nit-picky, but the vast majority of them are so huge making it impossible to reconcile with the games or the other tie-in material), and it doesn't acknowledge the player's ability to affect events in the games (even the other tie-in material managed that, forced Councillor choice notwithstanding).
Come back, Drew Karpyshyn; all is forgiven.
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Post by reallywf on Feb 1, 2012 10:06:17 GMT
Terminal World, and House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds.
They're OK, but still suffering from Reynold's difficulty writing endings involving closure.
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Post by Tom J on Feb 1, 2012 15:51:49 GMT
Latest read*: Bad Science :B
Latest bought: 1984 & 11.22.63 (fic), and Selfish Gene (non-fic).
Can anyone recommend some good books? Or, books I should have read by now but haven't?
Most of the books I have are non-fiction; always felt and still do feel iffy about spending a lot of money on just stories :T
*listen rather
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Post by reallywf on Feb 1, 2012 16:52:19 GMT
Can anyone recommend some good books? Or, books I should have read by now but haven't? Most of the books I have are non-fiction; always felt and still do feel iffy about spending a lot of money on just stories :T With regards to fiction, anything Terry Pratchett. Especially Night Watch, and Nation. Other fiction: The Hobbit (duh), Century Rain (Alastair Reynolds), and Stormbreaker (Anthony Horowitz). If you're looking for more Non-fiction: How To Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Character & Viewpoint (Orson Scott Card), and How Not To Write a Novel by Howard Mittlemark and Sandra Newman. And if you don't feel like any of those, there's always fanfiction: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, covering Harry's first year at Hogwarts in an "alternate" universe. Still in the process of being written, and to date contains more pages than the first four books of the series combined. Should keep anyone going for long enough, if they can wade through the ocean of scientific logic/analysis vs magic. Lampshades, lampshades everywhere. |
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Post by Samface on Feb 1, 2012 21:40:42 GMT
Most of the books I have are non-fiction; always felt and still do feel iffy about spending a lot of money on just stories Got a library near you? Go nuts there. As for recommendations, depends what you like. Few of my favourites, in no particular order: - Most Stephen King. The Stand, The Dark Tower septology (? It's seven books), Hearts in Atlantis, Under the Dome, The Shining, I could go on for a while
- Dickens - David Copperfield, Dombey and Son and Little Dorrit
- Fantasy: Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, the Harry Potters, various Neil Gaiman (American Gods and Stardust especially)
- P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster books - The Code of the Woosters is probably the best
- Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space trilogy
- Anything by Haruki Murakami except 1Q84
- Few one-offs: Dracula, The Beach, Life of Pi, The Lovely Bones, A Clockwork Orange, The Time-Traveller's Wife, The Lonely Londoners, Gods Behaving Badly, Lés Miserables, Jane Eyre, Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell, Lord of the Flies, Atonement, Of Mice and Men, The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster), The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
- Non-fiction wise, anything by Bill Bryson is usually a good bet
- I'm going to stop writing this now
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Post by Devo DrakeFox on Feb 2, 2012 0:10:36 GMT
I bought the Gears of War novels about a month ago. Currently reading through Anvil Gate.
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Post by The Shad on Feb 17, 2012 17:48:35 GMT
The Big Sleep.
So quotable.
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Post by Eleonora B.M on Mar 6, 2012 18:19:50 GMT
The chained Prometeus- classic tragedy by Eschilus
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Post by Badly-Drawn Manchild on Apr 8, 2012 19:06:07 GMT
Darkly Dreaming Dexter. As a fan of the TV show I thought I'd have a read of the source material. Only had time for a couple of chapters, but already I love Dexter's narration. Michael C. Hall captured that personality perfectly on-screen.
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Post by Pitt on Apr 8, 2012 22:49:30 GMT
Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
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Post by Robert Frazer on Apr 11, 2012 1:36:28 GMT
After resisting purchasing a Kindle for as long as I could, I had to strike my colours after starting my current job as a holiday rep - last season I discovered that trying to cram half-a-dozen paperbacks into a rucksack just doesn't work. I have to admit that it's been a superb bit of kit (although every time I buy a book I knot my insides with another guilty twinge how that it's people like me who are killing the high street...), but it has made my reading almost schizophrenic as I flit back and forward from collection to collection.
That said, I've been settling longer than most on John Buchan's The Complete Richard Hannay. I anticipate that most people have read, watched or at least heard about The 39 Steps, but there's also a whole series of books featuring the hero of that novel; they follow his further adventures throughout the First World War, plus some other intrigues that fall across his path after he retires into genteel squirearchy. They're marvellous works (although the last one runs out of plot), vividly described and emotively motivated, and Hannay himself is an ideal character.
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Post by The Shad on Jan 19, 2013 20:36:58 GMT
Started 52 books in 52 weeks. Just finished my third.
So far, I've done Raymond Chandler's Playback, Grant Morrison's Supergods and Peter Dendle's Satan Unbound. Up next, Terry Pratchett's Truckers and either the Baghavad Gita or You are not a gadget, if I can find either one.
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Post by ShayMay on Jan 19, 2013 20:39:15 GMT
Truckers is incredible. In fact, the whole Bromeliad is incredible.
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Post by The Shad on Jan 19, 2013 21:03:04 GMT
Truckers is incredible. In fact, the whole Bromeliad is incredible. Does it have a man learning the ancient art of assasination from the scorpion god, while also telling the history of an entire art medium? Because Supergods does and that's the benchmark this year. |
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Post by Super Sonic on Jan 20, 2013 14:23:58 GMT
I'm about 40 pages in to In Search of Schroedinger's Cat by John Gribbin and my brain hurts.
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Post by Devo DrakeFox on Jul 22, 2013 16:20:48 GMT
I've been a long-time fan of the Guyver anime. The 1990 OVA was the anime that got me into anime, but neither that nor the 2005 series tell the whole story. So I've started reading a scanlation of the manga which has been going since 1985 and is apparently STILL going.
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Post by RedDevilDazzy on Jul 22, 2013 22:01:27 GMT
I'm currently reading Sonic Universe, The Tails Adventure Book 5. I suppose it's good reading the Universe comics in book form.
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Post by modochi on Aug 19, 2013 17:35:48 GMT
100 Danish cooking recipes.
Yup, I'm sending my friend down under something useful for once, and I took the chance to peek through it to see if there's anything I'd like to make myself.
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Post by Hevs on Sept 17, 2013 19:39:42 GMT
The Tommyknockers by Stephen King. This is the third book of his I've read (The first being Dreamcatcher and the second being It). It's alright so far, although I tend to find that's really as far as Stephen King's books get. I've read enough duds to know if I can tolerate an author, I oughta stick with them. That being said, I never really find his protagonists likeable or relatable.
Then, who am I to judge, I only bought 2 of his books because they had pretty covers.
>_>
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Post by Super Sonic on Sept 19, 2013 16:36:37 GMT
2001: A Space Odyssey
Much better than the film!
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