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Post by Daos on Jun 3, 2008 15:31:59 GMT -8
I'm currently re-reading Kaz the Minotaur of the Dragonlance series. If Richard A. Knaack has ever written something bad, I've yet to come across it.
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Post by Airellian on Jul 3, 2008 5:05:25 GMT -8
While I'm waiting for my local bookstore to get King's Shield in stock (I should have pre-ordered it), I'm re-reading both Inda and The Fox, written by Sherwood Smith.
Here's a blurb about Inda, since I'm too lazy to come up with one myself:
"Indevan-Dal is the second son of the Prince and Princess of Choraed Elgaer, destined to become his elder brother Tanrid's Shield Arm-his military champion. Like all second sons, he is to be privately trained at home by Tanrid, the brother whose lands he will one day protect.
"When the King's Voice comes to summon Inda to the Military Academy, he might well feel foreboding, or even fear-war is imminent-yet youthful Inda feels only excitement. But there are things that Tanrid hadn't prepared him for, and Inda will soon learn that the greatest threats to his safety will not come from foreign enemies, but from supposed allies within his own country."
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Post by Keith on Jul 7, 2008 14:08:44 GMT -8
I picked up World War Z the other day, pretty amazing. If you read any of the Zombie Survival Guide, it's definitely worth picking up. The "story" per se is a collection of fictional first hand accounts of the Zombie uprising, done in a great fashion.
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Post by Keith on Jul 8, 2008 13:35:32 GMT -8
I also just picked up "Mort" by Terry Pratchett, this is the first of his books I'll be reading. I'm about 50 pages in and it's good times.
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Post by Airellian on Dec 22, 2008 11:31:23 GMT -8
A while ago, I finished the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, the guy who will be writing A Memory of Light, the last book in the Wheel of Time series.
Before that I finished reading The Magicians and Mrs. Quent.
Before even that I finished reading 1776 by David McCullough.
Recently, I started up the First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.
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Post by Daos on Feb 2, 2009 16:56:05 GMT -8
Has anyone here read the Foundation series by Issac Asimov? I heard that Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) is directing the movie, and now I want to read them before they're horribly butchered beyond recognition.
I've also always been curious about Asimov's "Lucky Starr" series.
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Post by Daos on Jun 11, 2009 16:41:36 GMT -8
I've been reading the first two Lucky Starr books, and I just love them. They're so campy, even though they were meant to be totally scientifically realistic at the time (in the 50s). You gotta love a story that takes places in the far future, but where people still use paper messages and computers have vacuum tubes.
I wish more science fiction stories took place in our own solar system.
Reading these books makes me want to run a Spelljammer game so bad. Well, maybe someday.
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Post by Shannon on Dec 3, 2009 12:00:40 GMT -8
Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesI haven't read it yet, but, I can't begin to tell you how psyched I am that such a book even exsists! I have high hopes -- Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books. Add zombies and I may weep with delight.
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Post by Daos on Dec 3, 2009 17:43:00 GMT -8
I'm reading The Stolen Throne and about to start The Calling. Both are prequels for Dragon Age that focus on King Maric and Loghain and are written by one of the game's head writers.
So far, not bad. It's hardly Shakespeare, but it's on par with your typical fantasy novel.
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Post by Matthew on Dec 4, 2009 0:18:10 GMT -8
Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesI haven't read it yet, but, I can't begin to tell you how psyched I am that such a book even exsists! I have high hopes -- Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books. Add zombies and I may weep with delight. Here's my killjoy-esque comments on the book from back in February when I first heard the news. Keep in mind, I was in a fairly grumpy mood when I wrote this. arcona.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/zombies-are-apparently-here-to-stay/Let's see... I just finished A Spy by Nature by Charles Cummings. A tale of industrial espionage. I thought it was brilliant, although the main character... well, it was me! Almost, anyway. A weak-willed, cowardly, sex-addicted pathological liar? Sounds a bit like me on my worst days, at any rate. I think I'm about to start Knights of Dark Renown by David Gemmell soon, which is probably a bit more up the alley of y'all here. Maybe someday I'll be brave enough to start the original Dragonlance trilogy that's been sitting in my bookcase for the last four or five years...
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Post by Derk on Dec 4, 2009 4:58:33 GMT -8
Do any of you like Redwall? If so, you'd love Mouse Guard. And if not, you'd probably like it anyway. www.mouseguard.net/The story is pretty good, satisfying if a bit unoriginal, and the writing is solid, but the art is fantastic. Now that I've finished both volumes, I still like to just crack open a random page and stare at it for minutes at a time, just absorbing the imaginative and meticulously drawn scenery. Right now, I'm reading Feast of Souls while I should be writing a paper. I'm a huge fan of C.S. Friedman, and so far (only 100 pages in), it doesn't quite stack up to the sheer artistry of her other works (most of which are sci-fi, so I wouldn't be surprised if no one here knows who she is), but it's got me eager to read more, which must be a good sign.
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Post by Daos on Dec 11, 2009 10:53:57 GMT -8
Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesI haven't read it yet, but, I can't begin to tell you how psyched I am that such a book even exsists! I have high hopes -- Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books. Add zombies and I may weep with delight. They're also making Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters. Bleh. I don't know. Maybe these books are really funny, but from what little I've seen they are neither clever or funny. I guess it's a good thing I'm not a big Jane Austin fan, because this strikes me as the kind of thing that would really piss me off if I were. In any case, I just read that Hollywood is making a movie on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, starring Natalie Portman. Man, shoot me in the head, please.
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Post by Daos on Dec 31, 2009 1:05:54 GMT -8
I got a new book recently, I received it on Christmas from the girl I'm crushing on. It's called 'The Pillars of the Earth' by some bloke named Ken Follett. I've never heard of him or the book itself, but from what I can understand, it takes place in the 12th century and is about a man who is trying to build a cathedral.
That sounds terribly dull, but it's actually a very interesting look into life in that era. Or so I assume. I have no idea how accurate it is or how much research the author actually did on that time period. Hmm...
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Post by Shannon on Dec 31, 2009 4:17:23 GMT -8
Finished PPJ&Z and while I found the novelty enjoyable, towards the end, the author got a little too vindictive with the books antagonists.
Also read Too Many Curses by A. Lee Martinez, which, while a cute idea, the ending was just kind of... trite. Compared to the rest of the novelty of the book, it just didn't pan out. I much preferred Gil's All Fright Diner, by the same author. As a matter of fact, the end of Too Many Curses reminded me a lot of Gil's All Fright Diner.
The Pillars of the Earth sounds familiar. I think I tried to read it, but, it was a bit dry for me. Maybe, if I can find the book around here somewhere, I'll try to read it again. It should be interesting, if for no other reason than Ken Follet is more renouned for his thrillers/ mysteries.
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