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I started reading war and peace again.


Just finished Les Miserables, and I found it too happy.


I like my 19th century classical literiture.....

 Jimsolo wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
11/22/63 by Stephen King. It's a damn good read so far and is admittedly my first King book

King keeps doing that Michael Jordan retirement thing, but I think it was definitely worth it in this case. I'd go so far as to call 11/22/63 one of my favorite King novels, and DEFINITELY my favorite time travel story. (Of course, I normally hate time travel stories.)

Yeah I think doing a good time travel story is tough to do, it's easy to turn it into a mess. I'm digging this a bunch so far, and I'm roughly half way through it. It's hard to read though because my job takes the majority of my day but I'm slowly getting it done

I just finished re-reading the first two discworld book (The Colour of Magic, and The Light Fantastic).

Necronomicon, The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft.

I have come to realize that it is not an easy read.

Quanah Parker and the wars between the Comanche Empire and Texas/US

http://www.amazon.ca/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful/dp/1416591060/ref=sr_1_2/177-6626619-3633435?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1440446031&sr=1-2&keywords=quanah+parker

The Better Angels of Our Nature

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
I just finished re-reading the first two discworld book (The Colour of Magic, and The Light Fantastic).

Good choices. I've read several disc world books but I've read guards guards twice over and loved it both times

Who needs books when you have Dakka OT to keep you entertained?

I just finished the Abhorsen saga by Garth Nix. Seriously dark magic, where the deus ex machina is worse than the bad guy!

I might have to start reading the Black Company to maintain this mood.

 Frazzled wrote:
Quanah Parker and the wars between the Comanche Empire and Texas/US

http://www.amazon.ca/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful/dp/1416591060/ref=sr_1_2/177-6626619-3633435?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1440446031&sr=1-2&keywords=quanah+parker

Amazing book!

 Ahtman wrote:
Who needs books when you have Dakka OT to keep you entertained?

Just got done watching Gladiator eh?

Marius Mules was pretty good and informative

At the moment I'm mostly reading through a bunch of Osprey books on the Anglo-Zulu War. This is pretty much just reference material for the models I'm doing though.

As for more narrative works...

Zulu Rising, by Ian Knight Still a historical account of the war - but it goes into far more depth than the Osprey books.

I am one of those readers who starts a lot of books simultaneously, sometimes dropping some and adding others. ADD is a thing that what was I saying?

The last book I finished was Kitty Saves the World, the last of the Kitty Norville books, which was a satisfying ending to the series even if parts of it felt a bit rushed. Now I'm reading the Corum trilogy by Moorcock, which is really good in an old-timey serial fantasy way, like Vance or Howard. I am also reading the first Book of Swords by Saberhagen, which is kind of alright in an old-timey serial fantasy way, like Lieber or uh, some of those other writers who weren't good or bad enough to remember. I've started the Kris Longknife series, but so far it's not getting much traction with me. Every time I read the Robotech Tactics thread, I get through another chapter or two in the Robotech novelizations. I am also going through the BL End Times books, but stalled out when I heard they were releasing omnibuses later this year. And I keep reading RPG or gaming sourcebooks for a little bit of flavor now and then.

Nonfiction is mostly about history for me. For my fantasy army project, I've been reading Osprey books about Chinese and Mongolian warfare, as well as Adrian Krautsomethingorother's history of Chinese civilization. I have also been reading about Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations.

Currently reading the Von Beck trilogy from the Eternal Champion. I would have started with Elric, but I don't have the initial books, and I'd like to read them sequentially.

However, two books I keep coming back to deserve mentioning

The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero, by Robert Kaplan,
http://www.amazon.com/The-Nothing-that-Is-Natural/dp/0195142373

and
In the Dust of this Planet: Horror of Philosophy Vol 1 by Eugene Thacker.
http://www.zero-books.net/books/in-the-dust-of-this-planet

 KingCracker wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
11/22/63 by Stephen King. It's a damn good read so far and is admittedly my first King book

King keeps doing that Michael Jordan retirement thing, but I think it was definitely worth it in this case. I'd go so far as to call 11/22/63 one of my favorite King novels, and DEFINITELY my favorite time travel story. (Of course, I normally hate time travel stories.)

Yeah I think doing a good time travel story is tough to do, it's easy to turn it into a mess. I'm digging this a bunch so far, and I'm roughly half way through it. It's hard to read though because my job takes the majority of my day but I'm slowly getting it done

Oddly enough, I just finished 11/22/63. Took me a lot longer than normal, I kept putting it down during the summer. Not my favorite by King, but great nonetheless. I also just finished Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry. It was close enough to Monster Hunter International to grab my interest, yet different enough to be refreshing. I'm currently half way through the second book in the series, Dragon Factory.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I am also reading the first Book of Swords by Saberhagen, which is kind of alright in an old-timey serial fantasy way, like Lieber or uh, some of those other writers who weren't good or bad enough to remember.

I've read the Books of Swords, they are awesome! You should also check out the Empire in the East series by Saberhagen; they are like prequels to the Books of Swords. Another good older series like those is the Horseclans stories (by Robert Adams? Not sure if that author name is right... ). I've read thirteen of those (out of at least 18 published), and am hoping eventually to find the others and read them too.

Just finishing off another re-read of Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy. Damn good dark gritty fantasy. Well worth at least one read if that sort of thing sounds appealing to you.

 Jimsolo wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Quanah Parker and the wars between the Comanche Empire and Texas/US

http://www.amazon.ca/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful/dp/1416591060/ref=sr_1_2/177-6626619-3633435?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1440446031&sr=1-2&keywords=quanah+parker

Amazing book!

It is indeed. Taking me forever to finish, but its incredibly good.

 ZergSmasher wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I am also reading the first Book of Swords by Saberhagen, which is kind of alright in an old-timey serial fantasy way, like Lieber or uh, some of those other writers who weren't good or bad enough to remember.

I've read the Books of Swords, they are awesome! You should also check out the Empire in the East series by Saberhagen; they are like prequels to the Books of Swords. Another good older series like those is the Horseclans stories (by Robert Adams? Not sure if that author name is right... ). I've read thirteen of those (out of at least 18 published), and am hoping eventually to find the others and read them too.

I also have the Empire in the East books, so I might read them after the Books of Swords. I might have one of the Horse Clans kicking it somewhere, but isn't that series really old school and hard to find? For a while, the local Friends of the Library was selling a lot of classic fantasy, such as Moorcock and Lin Carter and Burroughs for a quarter each, but last year they decided to stop selling any books printed before 2000.


Then they doubled their prices.

Started reading the Wheel of Time series again, this time beginning with the prequel novel and then diving into the series proper. I should be done in about five months.

Sagas on sagas on sagas. And lovecraft because lovecraft.

The shepherd's crown.
With tears in my eyes.

 Mr Nobody wrote:
Necronomicon, The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft.

I have come to realize that it is not an easy read.

Try his complete fiction. It has everything where the necro only has "the best"

 ZergSmasher wrote:
20000 Leagues is a very good read. I might also recommend Journey to the Center of the Earth, also by Jules Verne.

Mysterious Island (trans. Sidney Kravitz) is next up on my list for Verne. Getting worthwhile English translations is (surprisingly) a chore.


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 LeCacty wrote:
Try his complete fiction.

Yep and here's the edition you want:

http://www.amazon.com/New-Annotated-H-Lovecraft-Books/dp/0871404532

I'm halfway through Metro 2033. He really is a good author, the world he jas created feels so real. I actually already read 2034, as there was a wait list on 2033.

Just finished The Martian. Damn, what a great book.

I'm just re-reading the Ex-Heroes series by Peter Clines ahead of the new book coming out next year. Superheroes vs zombies ... I'm enjoying it just as much the second time around.

 LeCacty wrote:

 Mr Nobody wrote:
Necronomicon, The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft.

I have come to realize that it is not an easy read.

Try his complete fiction. It has everything where the necro only has "the best"

I thought about it, but decided not overwhelm myself and stuck with just "the best".

I am making my way through A Song of Ice and Fire (just started A Storm of Swords), but between school, miniatures, sports, the internet, video games, my job, friends and still having to get enough sleep I no longer read much nowadays. It took me over a year to get through Game of Thrones and Clash of Kings.
However, last year I also managed to read Radetzky March, of which I am quite proud. Great novel if you want to get a feel for the old pre-WW1 Europe.

I'm reading Henry Rollins' "A preferred Blur".