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I'll be starting on the second Halo: Forerunner Saga book very soon.

Just finished Legion and the Salamanders omnibus... Better get on to Caiphus Cain: Hero Of the Imperium (Basically an Omnibus for those who dont know)

Just started this book:
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
Looks like it'll be a background of cultural and social changes that contributed to WW I and how Tolkien & Lewis rediscovers their faith amidst all of that.

Unremembered Empire

I just finished "Fur, Fortune, Empire: The Epic History of The Fur Trade in North America" which I highly recommend.

I'll be moving onto "Atlantic Frontier" next.

Just finished reading Red Seas Under Red Skies (book 2 of the gentleman bastard series) now waiting for the next book to arrive.

It was pretty good!

Still best book ever is The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

Everyone should read it, you'll love it, unless you have no soul.

The Essentials of Edgar Allan Poe, Technical Communication, Mask of Gods Series by Joseph Campbell.

 obsidianaura wrote:
Just finished reading Red Seas Under Red Skies (book 2 of the gentleman bastard series) now waiting for the next book to arrive.

It was pretty good!

Still best book ever is The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

Everyone should read it, you'll love it, unless you have no soul.

I have signed copies of both of these :-) A joint signing a couple of years ago by Rothfuss and Lynch. Still waiting for the next books from both of them.

 obsidianaura wrote:
Just finished reading Red Seas Under Red Skies (book 2 of the gentleman bastard series) now waiting for the next book to arrive.

It was pretty good!

Still best book ever is The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

Everyone should read it, you'll love it, unless you have no soul.

The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies were fantastic. Awesome fantasy-heist novels.

And then Republic of Thieves came along and ruined the series for me. YMMV, of course.

And call me soulless, but I couldn't finish Name of the Wind, and ignored the rest of the series.

As for me, I'm reading The Military Experience in the Age of Reason and the first of the Drizzt 25th Anniversary collections. Man, what great trash. It's like fantasy junk food.

 grrrfranky wrote:

 obsidianaura wrote:
Just finished reading Red Seas Under Red Skies (book 2 of the gentleman bastard series) now waiting for the next book to arrive.

It was pretty good!

Still best book ever is The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

Everyone should read it, you'll love it, unless you have no soul.

I have signed copies of both of these :-) A joint signing a couple of years ago by Rothfuss and Lynch. Still waiting for the next books from both of them.

Argh I'm so jealous! I must try and do that next time Rothfuss comes to the UK if he ever does. I've been waiting for Doors of Stone forever! I do feel sorry for him and the amount of hassle he gets from people telling him to get on with the book though.

I read the KKC books at least a couple of times a year now, I love those books, like seriously love them, it's even quoted in my sig. There's a film deal and TV deal in the works but I cant imagine how they'll do it.


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 obsidianaura wrote:
Just finished reading Red Seas Under Red Skies (book 2 of the gentleman bastard series) now waiting for the next book to arrive.

It was pretty good!

Still best book ever is The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

Everyone should read it, you'll love it, unless you have no soul.

The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies were fantastic. Awesome fantasy-heist novels.

And then Republic of Thieves came along and ruined the series for me. YMMV, of course.

And call me soulless, but I couldn't finish Name of the Wind, and ignored the rest of the series.

As for me, I'm reading The Military Experience in the Age of Reason and the first of the Drizzt 25th Anniversary collections. Man, what great trash. It's like fantasy junk food.

Soulless!

I saw a review saying something similar regarding G-bastards 3. I won't trust your judgment on it though based on your Rothfuss rejection .

Anyone looking forward to the next Reckoners book from Brandon Sanderson, and the next Stormlight Archive book?

Heart Stone C J Sansom

A good series ot muder mysteries/plots which depict well the Tudor period and the danages of them. Good characters and a good read

I finally got the third Dread Empire's Fall book. Great series so far! It's one of the best-written space operas I've read in recent years, and has an almost retro feel due to the intermingling of all the alien species into one empire, which isn't something I've seen a lot lately.

The new Saxon Stories book, Warriors of the Storm, by Bernard Cornwell.

I've been reading it at work over my lunch breaks for the last 3 days - I'm already halfway through. I'm enjoying it, but its following the same formula as most of the previous books...

Danes come.
Danes feth gak up.
Danes are sneaky.
Uhtred figures it out.
Uhtred humiliates the Danes.
Uhtred offends a priest.
Uhtred threatens to kill a priest.
Uhtred buts heads with pious Christians.
Uhtred fights the Danes in a big climactic battle (?).
Uhtred still hasn't taken back Bebbanberg.

 whembly wrote:
Just started this book:
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
Looks like it'll be a background of cultural and social changes that contributed to WW I and how Tolkien & Lewis rediscovers their faith amidst all of that.

I have seen that in the bookshops in Oxford, which of course has a strong connection with Tolkien and Lewis.

Please would you review it when you've finished?

For myself, I've just finished Death On The Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Cherwell-British-Library-Classics/dp/0712357262

The average review is 3/5 stars but I think it is worth 4/5. The ending is a bit flat, but the rest of the novel is a great read of life in 1930s Oxford University. It helps that I know central Oxford city fairly well.

I'm reading larry snotter and the full blood princess

Just finished The Course of Empire by Eric Flint and K.D. Wentworth. Pretty solid, 'specially since I got the e-book for free off Amazon. Good sci-fi that does a solid job of making aliens seem alien. Reading the sequel now, it was seven bucks.

You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney

I was at the book fair at my oldest daughter's school earlier this week and they had a section for 'grown up' books and I saw it. It looked interesting so I bought and have thus far been pleased with it.

Sadly, I've been neck deep in research materials for various classes and haven't read much for fun...

My "guilty pleasure" read right now is the Word Bearers omnibus.

Reading A Fine and Private Place by Peter Beagle.

I'm reading Blasphemy by Douglas Preston. It's pretty good so far, if you like some Science vs. Religion kind of drama in a fictional setting.

Stop Staring

I need to refresh on some concepts that I feel, my understanding thereof, have stagnated into a terminally weak area

A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I'm not really getting into it. Close to putting it aside and continuing the Black Company series.
I'm on page 40 something, does it get better if I mostly didn't like it that far?

 Hanskrampf wrote:
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I'm not really getting into it. Close to putting it aside and continuing the Black Company series.
I'm on page 40 something, does it get better if I mostly didn't like it that far?

Hitchhikers is Marmite, you love it or hate it. So if you're not getting on with the zaniness and craziness and random tangents about the mole people of the Xeleron Quadrant and their interpretation of Beatles lyrics* then it only gets more of that as it goes on.


*Warning: May not actually contain mole people...

I'm currently reading "The Way of Kings" pretty good so far.

 Hanskrampf wrote:
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I'm not really getting into it. Close to putting it aside and continuing the Black Company series.
I'm on page 40 something, does it get better if I mostly didn't like it that far?

No. You are probably too old or well-read to enjoy the book. This is a normal reaction if you are in your 20's.

Just finished The Martian. Quite enjoyable.

Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka. An excellently written historical action novel set in the late 1800s about a Japanese Lord and an American gunfighter who goes to Japan seeking revenge against an enemy, and ends up getting embroiled in a civil war. Samurai, ninjas, tea parties and geishas -what more could you ask for?

Just finishing book 9 in the series 'Arisen' by Micheal Stephen Fuchs. Its the what if in a zombie apocalypse with a tier 1 special ops team.Yeah its a bit of good easy and enjoyable reading, plenty of blood, guts and guns.

 Hanskrampf wrote:
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I'm not really getting into it. Close to putting it aside and continuing the Black Company series.
I'm on page 40 something, does it get better if I mostly didn't like it that far?

I love Hitchhiker's Guide, but I can understand that it's not for everyone. The late Douglas Adams had a very strange sense of humor that I find enjoyable, but YMMV.

 Paradigm wrote:

Hitchhikers is Marmite, you love it or hate it. So if you're not getting on with the zaniness and craziness and random tangents about the mole people of the Xeleron Quadrant and their interpretation of Beatles lyrics* then it only gets more of that as it goes on.

*Warning: May not actually contain mole people...

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

No. You are probably too old or well-read to enjoy the book. This is a normal reaction if you are in your 20's.

 ZergSmasher wrote:

I love Hitchhiker's Guide, but I can understand that it's not for everyone. The late Douglas Adams had a very strange sense of humor that I find enjoyable, but YMMV.

Thanks for the answers, I think I'm just reading through it because there ARE pieces that I actually like. And I just realized that it's a very short book (I have a omnibus with all 5 (?) novels), so I'm already halfway through as of today. Maybe the second one is better?

I have just finished Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel.

It's an apocalypse novel involving a mutated flu that wipes out 99% of the population in a couple of weeks thus causing the collapse of modern civilisation. Rather than a linear narrative, it time-slices through events in the pre- and post-apocalyptic world, seen through the eyes of a number of people who know Arthur Leander, a 51-year-old Canadian film and stage actor. Another linking device is a comic book called Station Eleven, written by Leander's first wife, that passes through various people's hands and acts as a metaphor for the real calamities in people's lives.

While there are some fight scenes, it isn't primarily an action story. It's a novel about loss, regret, redemption and hope for the future. That makes it sound a bit 'girly' but the 'relationships' angle is very well done, it is really well written and I thoroughly enjoyed it without feeling any gender bias.