Books Whats everyone reading atm?

[TdC]

ANANSI > rest

Recommend me some non-scifi-nerdy-geeky-magic-sword book pls.

Feeling like reading something serious now

Highly recommend some Haruki Murakami... any of his books, but I certainly enjoyed Dance dance dance and Kafka on the Shore

ty m8, will check em out on amazon

I've read both Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood. Apparently the latter has been made into a film that is actually worth your while...according to a discerning friend of mine.

 

[Helme]

Currently reading Best Served Cold, by Joe Abercrombie.

It's probably the best fantasy book I've read so far. The characters are interesting, the writing is superb, the setting grim without being too depressing. There's plenty of humour and some of the situations have had me laughing which is a decidedly odd reaction to a book, or at least an unfamiliar one.

I'd highly recommend it, especially to people who enjoy the darker, more cynical spectrum of fantasy. It doesn't require you reading his trilogy, but some of the characters do make a come-back, and some of the events are better understood if you have, but you won't miss much.

 

[Rulke]

So i had a note that Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch was released today - went on to check and... 17th november.

Think I'm only gonna read series that are finished from now on

 

[Helme]

As I thought then

Rothfuss' next book is out in two weeks however, so there's always that. As for waiting for series to finish, I wouldn't go that far but there are certainly a few authors with a bad record. There's also quite a few with very good ones, Sanderson is one, Butcher is another.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Currently "Luke Rheinhart"'s The Dice Man.

 

[Calaen]

As I thought then

Rothfuss' next book is out in two weeks however, so there's always that. As for waiting for series to finish, I wouldn't go that far but there are certainly a few authors with a bad record. There's also quite a few with very good ones, Sanderson is one, Butcher is another.

The Left hand of God - read it now!!!

 

[Helme]

Dunno what that has to do with my post but I'll put it on the list... after Name of the Wind, Heroes, Stormlight, and before Pratchett 1-36(I still haven't read him, which I guess is sort of odd for someone who reads as much fantasy as I do).

 

[Ormorof]

i am now reading The Black Company - Glittering Stone series, have been reading the previous series in drips and drabs over last few years love the way they progress (although in a somewhat confusing manner at times)

 

[TdC]

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

 

[Wij]

Nineteen Eighty Four

 

[DaGaffer]

Treasure Island. Never actually read it before and it was pre-installed on my Kindle app. NB. The Amazon UK Kindle store sucks donkey balls; there's a ton of stuff available in the US but not in the UK.

 

[Calaen]

Treasure Island. Never actually read it before and it was pre-installed on my Kindle app. NB. The Amazon UK Kindle store sucks donkey balls; there's a ton of stuff available in the US but not in the UK.

I myself read that a couple of weks ago, I really enjoyed it, although I was talking like a pirate for a couple of days afterwards

 

[sayward]

Am at last reading the final book in the Earth's Children series(Clan of the Cave Bear) by Jean M Auel.
It's been on my shelf for about 8 years. It's not as good as the others but it makes a change from my usual murder and mayhem books.

 

[Helme]

Well I actually finished Best Served Cold, and it took a lot longer than I wanted it to but wow, what a book. It was fucking excellent, the momentum that was building up throughout the entire book never once slowed down, the plot twists were interesting and not obvious, or moronic. Abercrombie likes to play with reader expectations and this book turned it up to eleven, he subverts dozens of fantasy tropes in the span of a few pages and rather than just being annoying you end up wondering throughout the entire book - what could he possibly do next? The answer is, quite a lot.

As for the actual writing, anyone who has read Abercrombie before knows how different his writing is, but where the First Law was sometimes a bit awkward BSC has none of that, it's very cleverly written, both funny and grim at the same time - you'll be laughing at jokes the characters make about child slavery and then wonder what the fuck is wrong with you. Every character is different from the next, some of them will change dramatically throughout the books, some for the better - some for the worse(and how much worse....)

Anyways, mini-review aside I can't recommend this book highly enough. As for what I'm reading at the moment, I'm a few chapters into Lies of Locke Lamora - it hasn't really grabbed me yet, but then it hasn't really gotten started.

 

[Alliandre]

Treasure Island. Never actually read it before and it was pre-installed on my Kindle app. NB. The Amazon UK Kindle store sucks donkey balls; there's a ton of stuff available in the US but not in the UK.

I haven't really had this problem with my kindle, but then I haven't searched for any more obscure books yet. I'd love to be able to get books in different languages though.

I'm currently reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

 

[Ch3tan]

I've shelved Perdidio Street Station for a bit, due to The last Malazan Book of the Fallen landing on my doorstep on Monday.

"The Crippled God"

 

[Rulke]

Wise Man's Fear out tomorrow, can't wait

The story so far: (spoilers ofc)

Much win

 

[Helme]

Wise Man's Fear out tomorrow, can't wait

It's out, restart steam.

 

[Rulke]

yup, third of the way through

 

[Ch3tan]

So maybe people will take this with a pinch of salt, but Martin himself has given a release date for Dance with Dragons, the long awaited 5th instalment of a Song of Ice and Fire.

Set Your Calendars: A Dance With Dragons Comes Out on July 12 | Tor.com | Science fiction and fantasy | Blog posts

 

[TdC]

I just finished Neuromancer. I'm now reading Snow Crash. It's a bit of a cyberpunk week

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Gonna give The Satanic Verses a go.

 

[mrtom]

Diaspora by Greg Egan. Heavy stuff!

 

[Rulke]

This blew my mind

MAJOR spoiler for Wise Man's Fear and Kvothe's famiy

Spoiler

Dark Laurian, Arliden’s wife,
Has a face like a blade of a knife
Has a voice like a prickledown burr
But can tally a sum like a moneylender.
My sweet Tally cannot cook.
But she keeps a tidy ledger-book
For all her faults I do confess
It’s worth my life
To make my wife
Not tally a lot less...

The song implies that he calls his wife Tally because she’s good with numbers, but the much more likely reason is because Tally is short for Netalia...(it is mentioned that the stolen away lackless sister’s name is netalia)

Furthermore, the last three lines, when spoken aloud sound like “It’s worth my life to make my wife Netalia Lockless.” It seems likely that the real reason Kvothe’s mother made his father sleep under the wagon after he made that song is not because it had a bad meter as Kvothe claims but because it gave away her identity as Netalia Lockless.

That's pretty fking subtle!

 

[cHodAX]

Just read the Darth Bane trilogy, not bad at all. Now moving onto the Mass Effect books, see if there is anything interesting in those that holds the story of the games together.

 

[Billargh]

Just picked up American Psycho, £2 at HMV

 

[TdC]

just finished Revelation Space

 

[Calaen]

This blew my mind

MAJOR spoiler for Wise Man's Fear and Kvothe's famiy

Spoiler

Dark Laurian, Arliden’s wife,
Has a face like a blade of a knife
Has a voice like a prickledown burr
But can tally a sum like a moneylender.
My sweet Tally cannot cook.
But she keeps a tidy ledger-book
For all her faults I do confess
It’s worth my life
To make my wife
Not tally a lot less...

The song implies that he calls his wife Tally because she’s good with numbers, but the much more likely reason is because Tally is short for Netalia...(it is mentioned that the stolen away lackless sister’s name is netalia)

Furthermore, the last three lines, when spoken aloud sound like “It’s worth my life to make my wife Netalia Lockless.” It seems likely that the real reason Kvothe’s mother made his father sleep under the wagon after he made that song is not because it had a bad meter as Kvothe claims but because it gave away her identity as Netalia Lockless.

That's pretty fking subtle!

Yay someone else saw it!!!!! Slow start but he had a lot to live upto after the first book. Finished it last night and can't wait for the final book!!!

Spoiler

He actually gave us quite a bit of information other than the song, his mother told him that his father had stolen her away. He was also sure he had met Meluan before but couldn't put a finger on it, and we all know Kvothe has a super memory, so the only reason why he couldn't pin it down would be due to him locking his memories of his folks away after the murder.

 

[leggy]

Always got a couple on the go:

Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

 

[old.Tohtori]

Read books online - Dark Aurora by Leo Sebastian Kihlman

Very fun, worth a read, novel idea in my opinion.