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[Voxr]

he's going to be doing a show not too far from where I live in a couple of weeks, already got tickets and a date

Sweet!

[Dermain]

 

Why would you torture yourself with that series?

 

I enjoyed reading them when I didn't know that there were better books around, but now they just make me want to puke. 

[Laamaa]

[aoibhealfae]

For me, Anansi Boys is more well-structured than most of his novels (including American Gods). The plot revolve all around each characters like pieces of puzzles and each connecting the plots to another, like the spiderweb analogies in the book. The characterization is more solid and I hardly find any fault with all of the characters. He usually like to drop manic pixie dream girl tropes but I'm quite happy that the female characters in this book were all fantastic and complex being who are less like a character and more like actual person. Including Maeve Livingstone and Rosie's mother. Fantastic ladies.

[Aimi]

He usually like to drop manic pixie dream girl tropes but I'm quite happy that the female characters in this book were all fantastic and complex being who are less like a character and more like actual person.

speaking of manic pixie dream girls, apparently in the most recent editions of American Gods, Delirium and Barnabas weren't at Lookout Mountain D:

[Katiefrost]

Just started, so far, so good. This author is very prolific. Nothing deep usually, but a good story teller.
http://davidbaldacci.com/

[The Uncanny]

[Rawgrim]

The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. Also reading Dragon Age: Last Flight. Should be done with both this week.

[Althix]

[ubermensch007]

Well, I'll tell you what I should be reading. I keep getting The Aenid, Gilgamesh and Ovid's Metamorphoses from the library. But I keep getting distracted by other things. So I haven't finished any of these classics of western literature yet. And this is coming from someone who read all 1000 pages of Game of Thrones: A Dance with Dragons. In just a few days. I really got to get on it... 

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

this post.

[Dermain]

this post.

 

Clever.

 

I finally managed to finish Midnight Tides (book 5 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson) and started The Bonhunters.

 

Here's hoping it doesn't take me another six years to finish it.

[Rawgrim]

Clever.

 

I finally managed to finish Midnight Tides (book 4 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson) and started The Bonhunters.

 

Here's hoping it doesn't take me another six years to finish it.

 

I am manning up to read the second book in that series. The first book was kind of a drag, but I hear it gets a lot better?

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

just finishing off Raising steam. i honestly don't want to finish it.

[TurianRebel212]

 

 

Very good book. No shocker there tho, Drew K. is a talented writer. Bout 200 pages in, really liking it thus far. Will get the other two. 

[Dermain]

I am manning up to read the second book in that series. The first book was kind of a drag, but I hear it gets a lot better?

 

Minor Edit: I misplaced Gardens of the Moon, so Midnight Tides is actually the fifth book.

 

I zoomed through the second, third and fourth book, but the fifth one was a drag for me (until I finally managed to get to around page 500 or so). 

 

For Midnight Tides Erikson switches to a different "world", but it's heavily tied into the ongoing story. It's sort of a prequel to events that happened in the fourth book, and that's why I had issues getting into it. I only ended up reading through it mostly because of the characters of Tehol and Bugg.

 

Unfortunately, I'm having the same issues with The Bonehunters as I did Midnight Tides. 

[The Uncanny]

[Just My Moniker]

 

Picked this up at the library today. The premise was a little hard to pass up 

[TheChosenOne]

[bEVEsthda]

<Brandon Sanderson: The Way of Kings

 

That is tremendous stuff!  Best Fantasy I've read in a long time. Also Brandon's best work.

...And unfortunately/fortunately(?) only the first part of a story he intends to keep writing for decades (maybe).

[bEVEsthda]

Thomas Pynchon: Bleeding Edge.

 

(Though I'm not so sure I should be reading that. I've been through open thorax surgery and removed half my lung, and to say that it hurts when I laugh, is one hell of an understatement; I'm close to death in violent pain cramps. And Pynchon has a tendency to throw out something hilarious, just straight out into the blue, at anytime. No warning.)

[Dermain]

Thomas Pynchon: Bleeding Edge.

 

(Though I'm not so sure I should be reading that. I've been through open thorax surgery and removed half my lung, and to say that it hurts when I laugh, is one hell of an understatement; I'm close to death in violent pain cramps. And Pynchon has a tendency to throw out something hilarious, just straight out into the blue, at anytime. No warning.)

 

Ow...

[TheChosenOne]

Thomas Pynchon: Bleeding Edge.

 

(Though I'm not so sure I should be reading that. I've been through open thorax surgery and removed half my lung, and to say that it hurts when I laugh, is one hell of an understatement; I'm close to death in violent pain cramps. And Pynchon has a tendency to throw out something hilarious, just straight out into the blue, at anytime. No warning.)

 

Sounds like hell and heaven at the same time. If that's possible

[bEVEsthda]

Sounds like hell and heaven at the same time. If that's possible

 

Mostly hell. No, all hell. And I have in fact stopped reading it. I got scared of serious injuries. It will have to rest.

Now starting on Lee Child: Personal, instead.

[Liadan]