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Finished Speaker for the Dead about a week ago and moved onto the next book in this series, Xenocide. A couple of the chapters in this book have dragged a little, but I'm still enjoying the story overall.
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Reading What The Night Knows by Dean Koontz
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Finished reading Xenocide and Children of the Mind to wrap up the Ender's Quartet series. Picked up Star Wars: Bloodline today. I'll see if there's anything interesting in this one.
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Reading through D&D manuals. Yes, I'm a bit of a dork. But we get drunk and have a hell of a good time adventuring.
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I want to read this one book. It's called House of Leaves. Either that, or Pet Semetary.
House of Leaves sounded interesting because it's supposed to mess with your mind and whatnot. Like, the book breaks the fourth wall sometimes, a page might be only half filled with words in order to represent the main character's mind slipping into delusions and insantity, etc.
The book really screws with your head, so I've heard.
House of Leaves sounded interesting because it's supposed to mess with your mind and whatnot. Like, the book breaks the fourth wall sometimes, a page might be only half filled with words in order to represent the main character's mind slipping into delusions and insantity, etc.
The book really screws with your head, so I've heard.
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Are you serious?! Drew just got so much cooler in my book! I WANNA PLAY DRUNK D&D!!!One Drew Remains wrote:Reading through D&D manuals. Yes, I'm a bit of a dork. But we get drunk and have a hell of a good time adventuring.
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LMAO! We get together about every 3 weeks. It's a blast. Right now we're close to the middle of a campaign that our DM has ran several times. He says no one has ever finished it. Last session our Paladin got killed by a vampire monk (I know, I know) and I (a sorcerer) nearly did before narrowly escaping.
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Gotta put in a plug for a couple of amazing non-fiction/history books...
Dead Wake by Eric Larson (writer of Devil and the White City and In the Garden of Beasts) about the Lusitania. Absolutely fantastic. Larson's best book yet, and the two I mentioned were great.
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown about a college 8 man crew team in the Depression that competes in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Unbelievably moving story.
Dead Wake by Eric Larson (writer of Devil and the White City and In the Garden of Beasts) about the Lusitania. Absolutely fantastic. Larson's best book yet, and the two I mentioned were great.
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown about a college 8 man crew team in the Depression that competes in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Unbelievably moving story.
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I can't believe this thread exists lol.Violent Corpse wrote:Does anybody else read more than one book at a time?
I usually do a book a week, depending on how fast it reads & how much time I got. Typically read before bed or during the day. I try to get a chapter or two a day.
I started back "recreational" reading during college, quit during grad school, started back after. I get about 20-25 books a year, 2 a month, but I'm gonna shatter that this year.
If it's a series, I'll go in order. Hunger Games, Divergent series, and a series by Patrick Robinson about submarines.
I'm on the Longmire series. There's a Netflix show based on it.
Next year, I'm gonna do the Wayward Pines trilogy and start on the "Alex Cross" series by James Patterson. If anybody has any good recommendations, let me know. My wish list on Half.com is pretty lengthy.
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Just read The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, and what a sobering read. It's basically about the massive disappearance of species from the earth since humans have been on the scene, in essence, the sixth mass extinction since life began on Earth. It also gets a bit into climate change and especially the progressive acidification of the oceans from the increased CO2 in the atmosphere. It won the Pulitzer for nonfiction and is a very easy yet very informative and very important read.
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Reading Stephen Kings Firestarter right now
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Any good? I'm rereading the second Dark Tower now.One Drew Remains wrote:Reading Stephen Kings Firestarter right now
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Back on a Murakami kick, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Had been saving it for a suitable moment, seems now is it.
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It's alright. I'm 100+ pages in and there has been one really chilling scene. I have high hopes for it. I love the 2nd dark tower book (minus the detta Walker stuff) a couple of nice shoot outs there.
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I was reading this thread for some recommendation for next book and found this gem from 2012Arctic wrote:Well, I finished A Dance With Dragons, and now I have to find something else to read for the next two or three years until The Winds of Winter is released.
You should guys read Joe Abercrombie, both The First Law and Shattered Sea trilogies if you like some dark humor based epic fantasy
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Oh, wow, haha, GRRM never disappoints (when it comes to procrastination that is).
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^ I've heard it's pretty badly written. Any truth to that?
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Eh, I don't know. I'm almost 200 pages in and I don't think it's that bad. This is the first Sanderson book I've read, so I'm not sure how it compares to other works he's done. I'll probably have to read more of this one to get a stronger opinion on it. But so far it's been a decent read. I wouldn't call it amazing but I wouldn't call it bad either. My main issue with it is that even though the story kind of tries to be unique, it really cherry picks a lot from other popular stories. It's like if the hobbits went out on a quest and they were able to use the force, that's this book lol.
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