Great book: Crap movie. The mobile infantry went from crisis suits with mini nukes in the book to guardsmen with autoguns in the movie.
I'm reading the First Heretic right now. started out great then got pretty depressing later (in defense of that obvious statement I will say I didn't realize it went through the dropsite massacre).
Just finished The First Heretic today. there was no silver lining to that ending. by the end it was written like the bad guys were good guys and vice versa. possibly the most grimdark HH book yet.
A collection of Isaac Asimov's favorite short stories. The one called "The Final Question" resulted in a brain explosion. Read it if you get the chance, all that would help would be a basic knowledge of Entropy. It's explained somewhat in the book, too.
I'm only 50 odd pages in, but it's been good so far.
The revealed stuff about the titular chapter is all pretty cool so far, and he has a ncie turn of phrase here and there.
His work so far has gotten better from book to book -- Flesh and iron is vastly superior to Emperor's mercy IMO -- even with all the.. err... scandal and clamour that ( sort of) surrounded it.
reds8n wrote: I'm only 50 odd pages in, but it's been good so far.
The revealed stuff about the titular chapter is all pretty cool so far, and he has a ncie turn of phrase here and there.
His work so far has gotten better from book to book -- Flesh and iron is vastly superior to Emperor's mercy IMO -- even with all the.. err... scandal and clamour that ( sort of) surrounded it.
and from there it hit the forums, blogs etc etc. Now it might have been a mistake, or a homage or he might even have had permission, I dunno, but GW/BL haven't said anything about it either way to my knowledge.
and from there it hit the forums, blogs etc etc. Now it might have been a mistake, or a homage or he might even have had permission, I dunno, but GW/BL haven't said anything about it either way to my knowledge.
Yikes. Unfortunately the most likely explaination is plagarism.
Nonetheless, this sounds like is about Space-Cajuns in Space-Nam! That's win-win for me.
A load of stuff at the moment as per usual due to school commitments (eugh, I'm such an ass for taking so many classes), but amongst my personal reads is The Peshawar Lancers, by S.M. Stirling, which I picked up today after a month or so of hunting. I've only been able to read the appendixes at the back about the setting etc, plus a brief synopsis of the plot up to a point, on the way home today on the train, but it seems to be alright all things concidered, and I'll take it any day over the novels that my education forces me to read, so it can only do good things when posed up against that. Uh, I'm probably going to have another go at reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest at some point in the near future too, after I was distracted from it by bloody Alasdair Gray drivvle ¬¬, and continue reading the Lies of Locke Lamora series too if the author bothers to release the next novel some time in the near future (heh, he spent a year and a half learning everything there is to know about 15th centuary gallions just so as he knew he was getting everything right for his second novel), but I couldn't recommend that series higher to anyone who's into the fantasy genre, especially if its the more realistic, underhanded, grit in the face and tequilas at midnight kind that your into. ^^
Just finished "Prospero Burns" - worst book from Abnett yet (I usually like his work).
Now I've started rereading "Empire from the Ashes" by David Weber for the 5th or 6th time - I just love this book (who wouldn't love a book about a moon sized, intelligent battleship with a nice touch of humour ).
Wymalla, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is an awesome book. I tried reading some other books of Keseys afterwards, and they're more "modern" than it. "Sailor Song" had some cool ideas and parts to it, especially the backstory of the "BackAtcha! Bandit".
Which, coincidentally, has a specific referance to Warhammer on page 452 where it talks about H.G. Wells' fascination with pre-tabletop military strategy games and how they've changed since his day.
Do you read like 3 books a week reds8n? How the Tau doing in that one?
Automatically Appended Next Post: Just finished The Siege of Vraks Trilogy. Man, that was grim darkness at its finest. Unfortunately, the Death Korps take a back seat in the 3rd one but I guess that can't be avoided. Definately gives a great example of how most Chaos Rebellions happen.
Just starting on "A Thousand Sons" after finishing "The Purging of Kadillus" this morning.
It was very refreshing to see the Dark Angels portrayed as the zealous sons of the Lion they are, rather than just "rawr must hunt Fallen!11!!!" that we usually get.
And of course, Scout-Sergeant Naaman brought back fond memories. Wish I'd bought the model when I had the chance.
Tim O'Brien's books. He's a great writer. Check out his book "The Things They Carried". It's a collectoin of interwoven short stories based on his experiences in 'nam. Great read.
I'm re-reading _Dune_ (again!), and finding it as mind-blowingly brilliant as ever.
I'm also reading the first of Isabel Allende's young adult fiction series, _City of the Beasts_, which is beautiful -- as fast-moving and fun and accessible as good pulp fiction, but almost as thought-provoking as Borges or Calvino.
In non-fiction, I've almost finished Klein's _No Logo_, which is a must-read for 21st century living, I think.
I'm also partway through _Why Mrs Blake Cried_, which is an exploration of the 18th century poet & artist William Blake's radical beliefs on religion and sexuality -- wonderfully off-the-wall stuff.
Finally, I just started Campbell's _Occidental Mythology_, and am finding it more accessible than I'd expected -- some great scholarship in there though.
KamikazeCanuck wrote:bad! Apparently all Catachans are immature jerks.
Have to say that I quite enjoyed it. None of the characters came across to me as immature jerks. I thought it represented a small, tight squad existing on their own fairly well.
Black Library just informed me that my copy of the BL Chapbook and Helion Rain shipped, so that will be what's on my reading docket once they arrive.
In the meantime, I'm reading "The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian" which is an omnibus of "The Tower of the Elephant", "Queen of the Black Coast", and "Black Colossus".
I'm reading the Ice and Fire Series by George R.R. Martin. I'm on Storm of Swords, and let me tell you ladies and gentlemen, the series is freaking amazing. Incredible characters, story, plot twists. All around excellent reads. While the show seems largely well cast, like any visual rendering of a book much is lost. Check out Game of Thrones and go from there. Cheers.
^ me too. Am on the first book though, i must say i have been rocketing through it haven't read a book this fast since Girl with the dragon tatoo. As for the series i love it as well, i actually like the artistic liscense they have thus far taken, can't wait for the tournament
The Man Who Would Be King, because i like Kipling but i also wanted to see if it had anything to do with the Iron Maiden track. But after that, i'll start on Defender of the Imperium. It seems popular!
It's the latest limited edition novella, sold out now but a few copies will be at various GD's and the like.
See the BL thread in news and rumours for further details.
A little over 100 pages in currently and I'm enjoying it a lot. Some nice ideas at work and he quickly and effectively fleshes out the setting without boring the skin off of ones face.
Just finished Prospero Burns, Dead Men Walking, War by Sebastian Junger, and Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail by Rick Newman and Don Shepperd. Have a bunch of books floating in my head right now for what I should read next, not sure what I'll go for.
The Hoods by Harry Grey for about the sixth time. It runs on a bit, but its definately a good hands on account of prohibition era America. Oh, and none of its based on any real events...honest. ^^
Its a good one! Very similar to Starship Troopers (the book, not the movie... well, there are some similarities to the movie as well I suppose...) in theme, but be prepared for a bit (a lot) of culture shock. More than once while reading it I was asking myself what the hell was going through the author's mind when he wrote this...
Awesome book - I think his own wartime experience (obviously) colored his viewpoint!
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Also awesome, but sadly most of the subsequent BL authors who decided to use the Alpha Legion forgot to read this book and have, instead, related them to full on mustache twirling villains.
You'll love the Legion after reading LEGION, and then you'll cry to see how they are represented in THE HUNT FOR VOLDORIUS and in the short story "The Long Games of Carcharias".
I see a sad future in the 40K literature for them. If we're lucky, it will be more like how they are shown in "The Face of Treachery" from AGE OF DARKNESS.
Also, finishing my character for Pathfinder. We're running through Carrion Crown, so I'm reading over Pathfinder Player's Guide and Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide.
Agincourt, Henry V and the battle that made England, by Juliet Barker
Medieval Warfare Triumph and Domination in the Wars of the Middle Ages, by Peter Reid
Agincourt 1415, by Michael K. Jones
Henry V the Rebirth of Chivalry, by Malcolm Mercer
I'm a history major, and my most recent research paper is on Agincourt its a bloody brilliant little subject in history.
and after that, all the books up until Faith of the Fallen, at which point I need to purchase the rest
Got into The Sword of Truth series by accident, after I was up early one morning flicking through the channels, and I happened upon SyFy, which was currently showing an episode of Legend of the Seeker. It ticked all the boxes for me, being set in a fantasy medieval setting, mad and humouous yet equally wise wizard, hawt follower(s), hawt main character.
After watching the first few episodes one-a-day on SyFy(since neither series has a region 2 DVD release date yet), I decided to see if I could get hold the books... it was then that I found out there were 11 of them (not including the Prequel or the forthcoming Omen Machine book), but continued undeterred.
After ~12 hours of reading on and off, i'm about 3/5 into the first book, and love the fact that they're all reasonably long.
I heartily recommend this series to lovers of fantasy; Terry Goodkind has a knack for writing, where some books are simplistic in their language, and others too complex, I think he's found the right balance between the two, and is able to conjure up powerful images without the reader having to look up every other word in a dictionary.
Currently I am brushing up on my firearms design theory and taking a peek at Gérard Métral`s "Do it yourself Submachine Gun"....it's always interesting to see what designs come out of a "Do more with less" mentality.
DISCLAIMER: No, i'm not building things I shouldn't be building.
Nemesis by James Swallow... the last HH novel I think I will be reading... Im a little over the oppressing atmosphere and look forward to on-selling this lot so I can move forward with something else.
Old World Secrets The Omega Project Codes By Brandon Levon. Its about a load of things all though its a book based on conspiracys. They siezed the guys house then he was found in a burned out car. Some guy also killed himself after reading the book.
Please don't attach non wargaming images to Dakka, use image tags/similar please.
Hoo boy, here's my reading load:
-The Girl Who Played With Fire, for some mindless summer brain-trash that's fun,
-I Am America (And So Can You!), for more silly nonsense,
-America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, for an education in civics with plenty of humor,
-The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, for some AWESOME post-apoc fiction that's great for english class discussions, and
-The Left Hand of Darkness, for similar reasons.
Those last two on the list have won many awards, and I suggest them to anyone.
The Forgotten Highlander. About a Scottish soldiers experiences at the hands of the Japanese, really good and brutal at what our lads went through, then had to sign something when they were free saying that they werent allowed to talk about what they suffered. Its really making me hate the japanese, they still dont educate there kids on what their imperial army done to people, they got off free while the Nazis are the evil bad guys of today. They are about equal in my mind. Ok need to calm down haha.
Oh btw I dont really hate japanese, is a place I want to go visit, just angry at their governments complete denial at their actios during the war.
Just finished "Flowers for Algernon". Very moving.
Now reading "non-stop" by Brian Aldiss. Not the best in Gollancz' SF masterworks series, though all the others have so far been well worth it.
Next in line: The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester.
FITZZ wrote: Trying to read " Blood Gorgons" by Henry Zou, but honestly it's boring the hell out of me, still...I'm only 30 pages in so I suppose I'll press on.
it gets better, or at least i thought so
just finished reading through the dark heresy core book
not sure what i'll move on to next
Going through my annual re-read of Frank Herbert's Dune. Also working through Firedrake by Nick Kyme and The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Oh, and starting the Kay Scarpetta series again with Post Mortem by Patricia Cornwell.
Just finished ''The Wise Man's Fear'' by Patrick Rothfuss it's an interesting read with a good story line, but the previous title is needed to understand what on earth is going on (''The Name Of The Wind'')
I'm now finally getting round to reading George Orwell's ''1984'' ,finally, having read his animal farm in first year of secondary school! With that said his work is doubleplusgood IMO.
I just finished reading the Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, which was stonkingly good, and now I'm moving onto the sequel, Red Seas Under Red Skies.
Loved all of Dan Abnett's other books, had to get in on this one...
Just finished "Double Eagle" and "Blood Pact" as well, both are on my list of awesome BL books...
Can i ask WARORK, is this the first (and/or last of these that Abnett did?), ive looked into getting it in the past but i never got a definitive answer (and i hate reading books out of sequence these days).
just got my English Lit reading list today...
I'd post it and everything but i... well i didn't lose it, i just can't find it... it's around here somewhere...
I got through the first part, with Mocker finding Varth and Nepathene sleeping together, but I can NOT understand whats going on in it; Could anyone explain?
I just read Desert Raiders last week. Quick read for a road trip. Started and am half way through Patriot Games by Clancy. I figure I should at least attempt to read of his books I have.
I gotta make up a list of BL books I want so the FLGS can order them for me.
AvatarForm wrote:Reading Towers of Midnight, Brandon Sandersen.
Isn't that technically Robert Jordan? Also, how does Sanderson's writing compare to the rest of the series? I've read 1-9, but never found the rest, however, my Parents got me a Kindle yesterday for Graduation so books here i come! (If only the BL was on eBooks )
MrDwhitey wrote:Just reread the Seafort Saga up to the first timeskip.
I must be a sadist for enjoying the pain the main character goes through and inflicts. Every. Single. Page.
Heard of those. Are they any good?
They can be quite good (personal opinion of course), but it's often overshadowed by how much emotional pain is inflicted.
I'm quite serious, the main character has so much self loathing you wonder why he doesn't spontaneously detonate. But he doesn't just cause himself constant pain, he takes every single opportunity to emotionally destroy any character introduced to him. But it all turns out "ok" as he saves the day.
Really, it's like watching a train approach a chasm, once you get started you can't stop, waiting for the inevitable breakdown.
AWESOME book. Best space opera to have come out in years, IMHO, though it is not a space opera in the traditional sense, because humans have not yet left the SOlar system. Pretty much everything in the Solar System is colonized though. Not finished with it yet, but so far there is a war brewing between the Asteroid belt and Mars.
Automatically Appended Next Post: It is also kinda like dead space for reasons I won't spoil.
Ian Watson's "The Inquisition War", which I managed to buy second hand off of a friend for a £1, Miguel Pinero's "Short Eyes" and "USSR, The Land and People", from the Novosti Press Agency Publishing House (1976), a great collection of tails from some of the USSR's best writers of the time.
Oh and I just finished reading Chris Wooding "Retribution Falls", a great swashbucking steampunk tale (though I did read the second one in the series first however), the second Ciaphas Cain omnibus (predictable, but still fun enough to keep you reading), Metro 2034 (though I guess I really ought to wait till the English version comes out as my Russian is a bit imperfect) and the novelisation of the game "RAGE", by Mathhew Costello, which was actually pretty good and honestly should have had a ton of plot elements from it included into the game (thus why people keep on berrating its plot for being a little 2D). If I can get a hold of any of them I hope to start reading some of the Eldar Scrolls novels some time too. ^^
i've made it through a few books this week (one of the last of the few benefits of working nights at my job)
Procession of the Dead by Darren Shan-ok book, but i probably won't bother with the rest of the series
Devices and desires, also Evil for evil-both by K. J. Parker- i'll probably try and finish up the trilogy this next week
Ashes and Angel Wings by Greg Stolze- an ok quick read, doubt i'll trouble with tracking down the rest though
Crucible of War - Military History of the F&I War, for college/pleasure (needed to pick a book for an essay, and of course I chose one that's 900+ pages) The Oxford History of the British Army - doesn't need an explanation, college Storm of Steel - WWI personal history, for college Sharpe's Triumph - Kindle, pleasure Eisenhorn Trilogy - rereading, pleasure
On the 'To Read' list: The Somme - book on the WWI battle, college The Bitter Road to Freedom - WWII history, college Pegasus Bridge - WWII history, college This Terrible Sound - Battle of Chickamauga, Civil War, pleasure Napoleon's Russian Campaign - doesn't really need an explanation, pleasure Whatever Sharpe book catches my fancy on the Kindle, pleasure
AWESOME book. Best space opera to have come out in years, IMHO, though it is not a space opera in the traditional sense, because humans have not yet left the SOlar system. Pretty much everything in the Solar System is colonized though. Not finished with it yet, but so far there is a war brewing between the Asteroid belt and Mars.
Automatically Appended Next Post: It is also kinda like dead space for reasons I won't spoil.
The cover art is REALLY familiar, does it say where it is from?
I'm working my way through a few things at the moment.
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (for a bet)
Catch 22 (Joseph Heller),
and
The Cold Commands (Richard Morgan)
Just finished 'The knife of never letting go,' great read.
Now I'm on to 'Firedrake' by Nick Kyme (spelling?)
Also, reading 'Grail,' 5th book in the Pendragon cycle by Stephen Lawhead
Currently Re-reading "Brave New War" By John Robb, it's a must read for anyone harping on about the omg TERRAR on their tiny violins.
next up?
re-read of House of leaves
Working for the devil - lilith saintcrow
Dead man rising - lilith
the devils right hand - lilith
Selene - lilith
The Death's Head trilogy by David Gunn
Lady of devices by Shelley Adina
I KNOW that some idiot will post twilight so I have prepaired this incase of major herp-a-derp. Please copy and paste this when ever you see a twilight thread
Twilight's ridiculous abuse of vampires and werewolves is not news. What is, however, surprising, is that in Twilight, the Werewolves are supposedly descended from the Pacific Northwest's Quileute Nation — a Native American civilization which, for the idly curious, is still around. Stephanie Meyer never asked the Quileute for permission to steal and frankly distort their peoples' sacred origin stories as an attempt to legitimize the backdrop of the lycanthropes in her book series. And she's laughing all the way to the bank.
I am about to start Caesars Commentarii De Bello Gallico tomorrow, while I sit through Jury Duty.
I am also in the middle of the first book in the Horus Heresy series.
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its a bloody brilliant little subject in history.
