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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.

Just finished:


One of the better ones in the series if you ask me, though the end seemed a bit rushed.

Up next:

Kilkrazy wrote:The Drawing Of The Dark by Tim Powers.

LOVED that book!

I love a lot of Tim Powers' stuff - though some of it is a bit out there.

Have you read THE ANUBIS GATES? A excellent time travel novel!

I'm finishing up Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series - book ten, THE CRIPPLED GOD.

If you like epic fantasy, this one will not disappoint.

Unlike certain other epic fantasy series, this one doesn't drag except for a bit in book nine.

Highly recommended!

I'm also working on BLOOD REAVER - so far so good, as A-DB does not disappoint!

Terry Brooks- The Word and the Void series.

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. ^^

Just finished:


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...

Now reading:

chaos0xomega wrote:

Awesome book - I think his own wartime experience (obviously) colored his viewpoint!

chaos0xomega wrote:

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.

If we're unlucky, THE HUNT FOR VOLDORIUS it is!

Book two of this omnibus.



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.

Timely, since soon(ish) Mr. Abnett is going to give us the long promised Eisenhorn vs. Ravenor!

Alpharius wrote:Timely, since soon(ish) Mr. Abnett is going to give us the long promised Eisenhorn vs. Ravenor!

What!? Confirmed?

Just finished reading Game of Thrones and now currently reading the first Horus Heresy book

Currently not reading anything.
Care to give advice on what next?
What's your favourite books?

Unstickied in the great sticky purge of June 2011

Waaagh_Gonads

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Unstickied in the great sticky purge of June 2011

Waaagh_Gonads

No one is safe.

Currently, I am reading:

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.

The Space wolf omnibus, just finished the Gaunts Ghost's novels a second time.

These:

Wizard's First Rule

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.

I´m reading A Feast of Crows by G.R.R Martin. It´s not as good as previous books but it´s still above average. After that Hyperion.

Right now I'm reading the monstrous regiment by Terry Pratchett, but I should be reading great expectations for English.

Right now, I'm reading The Great Gatsby.

100 odd pages in and enjoying it very much.

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.

Brave New World.

'More stitches means less riches'.

Then I might read the book wife got for my birthday.
'Why Socrates Died'.

reds8n wrote:

100 odd pages in and enjoying it very much.

Judging by that cover, I doubt very much that i'd be able to take the guy seriously

I'd probably still suffer his wrath, but hell, at least I could claim that he got me whilst I was down, clutching my ribs in laughter.

That is a hell of a jacket.

Hes undercover as a harlequin to get into the Black Library, obviously.

Just finished Double Eagle... epically awesome, I was left wanting more!

Starting on Flesh and Iron by Henry Zou.

Do all inquisitors wear technocolor dream coats?

I finished Black Man by Richard Morgan at the weekend. Very good reading.

Now I am on Perdido Street Station by China Mieville.