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[karushna5]

 

Actually a pretty fun humourous cheeky book. It is at the same time a comedy and also doesn't take the darker aspects of vampires away.  Lots of gaming jokes, an everyman hero. Its like if Purple Hawke was a vampire. An early scene is him trying to get a job at a bank, but he has to apply in the day time, so he dresses head to toe with a ski mask, only to be attacked as a robber when he gets there. Theres more sex in it than books I normally read, but even that is a bit tongue and cheek, and i found I liked that aspect, despite usually disliking it. The book just really surprised me.

[Serelir]

Sounds fun! I love vampire novels, as long as they don't twinkle.

[The Uncanny]

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[karushna5]

Fun story, when I was a kid, my dad would get a audiobook for long trips. He thought The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells would be perfect for listening to visit my grandma. Instead he got Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, and never have 2 classics with similar names been so wildly different or varied appropriateness for kids.

[Serelir]

I'm on a Vargas Llosa kick lately. I've started this one, which is wonderfully disturbing:

 

 

I want to read Stephenson's Seveneves next, but someone swiped it from the library before I could get my hot little hands on it, grrr!

[Rawgrim]

Rise of a Merchant Prince. Book 2 in the Serpentwars Saga, by Raymond Feist. Great so far.

[aka.700]

Three books currently.
Utopia by Thomas More
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Both are in English.
Also a Turkish personal development book;
'Limit-sizsiniz' You're limitless-You're the limit (it has a double meaning) by Mümin Sekman

[Serelir]

Finished the erotic horrorshow and started this one last night:

 

 

Because I gobble up mysteries like candy. Bonus points for Venice and opera.

[The Uncanny]

[NeonFlux117]

 

 

Very good and fun novel. Surprised by how well written these Star Wars novels of the last 5 or 6 years have been. 

 

Malgus is a beast and tier 1 Sith Lord. In fact, I like him way more than Vader, he might be my favorite Sith Lord. He's awesome. 

[Giantdeathrobot]

Three concurrently;

 

The Count of Monte Cristo, in original French. Well, re-reading to tell the truth, but Dumas is just a great writer so why not.

 

Moby Dick. I was lacking in American classics. Unintentionally hilarious because the prose and language is highly phonetic and everyone seems to speek with thee's and thou's. Also prone to entire chapters full of exposition that has little to no bearing on the plot. 

 

And a small history book about the conferences of Yalta and Potsdam. Main takeway: it's kinda insane how the Cold War was already nigh underway even before Hitler finally kicked the bucket. Also Stalin was an ******* but we knew that already.

[karushna5]

Three concurrently;

 

The Count of Monte Cristo, in original French. Well, re-reading to tell the truth, but Dumas is just a great writer so why not.

 

Moby Dick. I was lacking in American classics. Unintentionally hilarious because the prose and language is highly phonetic and everyone seems to speek with thee's and thou's. Also prone to entire chapters full of exposition that has little to no bearing on the plot. 

 

And a small history book about the conferences of Yalta and Potsdam. Main takeway: it's kinda insane how the Cold War was already nigh underway even before Hitler finally kicked the bucket. Also Stalin was an ******* but we knew that already.

 

Another Dumas fan! I always wanted to learn French because French literature used to be my hearts blood. Dumas, Hugo, Rostrand. To be able to read it in the original French is amazing. And quite frankly I am jealous. Have you read The Cavalier of Maison Rouge? That, and the musketeer series were always my favorites by him.

 

Moby Dick is the worst. My dad always joked that if you got nothing else from Moby Dick, you would learn how to be a Sailor due to all the unneeded explanation of how sailing works. I swore I would finish it, and then quit before I hit page 50. Moby Dick is an accomplishment of patience and fortitude, and any one that finishes it deserves accolades.

[Giantdeathrobot]

Another Dumas fan! I always wanted to learn French because French literature used to be my hearts blood. Dumas, Hugo, Rostrand. To be able to read it in the original French is amazing. And quite frankly I am jealous. Have you read The Cavalier of Maison Rouge? That, and the musketeer series were always my favorites by him.

 

Moby Dick is the worst. My dad always joked that if you got nothing else from Moby Dick, you would learn how to be a Sailor due to all the unneeded explanation of how sailing works. I swore I would finish it, and then quit before I hit page 50. Moby Dick is an accomplishment of patience and fortitude, and any one that finishes it deserves accolades.

 

Well French is my native tongue so I'm kinda cheating here  . No, I haven't read that one. The Mousquetaires were great but I think I prefer Monte Cristo. I'm not finished yet but the character building is top notch, even if it has some flaws such as Maximilien's lovey-dovey story.

 

I'm not far into Moby Dick and I can see why he said that. It's a bit of a pattern with writers of the last decade or two, like how Victor Hugo spent entire chapters describing Notre-Dame and its history and why it should be preserved (granted, his foreword made it clear he had an agenda here).

[Tidus]

A Ralph Compton Western novel.

[karushna5]

Well French is my native tongue so I'm kinda cheating here  . No, I haven't read that one. The Mousquetaires were great but I think I prefer Monte Cristo. I'm not finished yet but the character building is top notch, even if it has some flaws such as Maximilien's lovey-dovey story.

 

I'm not far into Moby Dick and I can see why he said that. It's a bit of a pattern with writers of the last decade or two, like how Victor Hugo spent entire chapters describing Notre-Dame and its history and why it should be preserved (granted, his foreword made it clear he had an agenda here).

 

Cavelier of Maison Rouge has a lovey dovey story but it really got me, it has a building plot like Monte Cristo but camaraderie and drive like the musketeers, it really summed up Dumas views about the French Revolution, which I always enjoyed more than Tale of 2 Cities or The Scarlet Pimpernel. If you dislike lovey dovey just don't ever read The Scarlet Pimpernel. I signed up for an action adventure story, and I got a really messed up couple who can't talk to each other. She accidentally betrayed him, he ignores her, and then he kisses stuff she touched when she isn't looking, it's just really bizarre thing to focus most of the book on when your hero is smuggling people across borders.

 

They did love their exposition, but they really wanted the history in historical fiction. That was the genre with the most attention.  Although I admit I find history of a place a little more interesting than sailing. Ever read the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian? Its a modern book but a little more fun and fast paced than Moby Dick, although it gets a little over the top with drama in later books.

[Serelir]

Dumas fan here, too! I second the O'Brian recommendation - they're excellent! I did have to acquire this to fully understand some of the lingo:

 

[Lady Artifice]

I just re-read Watership Down, and I plan to start The Ocean at the End of the Lane soon. 

[TheJediSaint]

Just finished Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.

 

 

Amazing premise, somewhat inconsistent execution.  The good parts are really good, the bad parts are just kind of absurd.

 

Still, it's made me more than a little wary of Earth's natural satellite now.

[aoibhealfae]

just started this book midnight..... finished it by morning...... I did get sleep.... and a mighty muscle ache

[mybudgee]

[leighzard]

Upon googling that, I will now be purchasing this for my father for his birthday in the very near future. Thank you for saving me from racking my brain for gift ideas.

[mybudgee]

Upon googling that, I will now be purchasing this for my father for his birthday in the very near future. Thank you for saving me from racking my brain for gift ideas.

"Charlie Trotter's Vegetables" is also off the hook

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

 

the English version though...

 

*goes alternative again*

[Killdren88]

When not reading ASOIAF I partake with my friends in the Fanfiction.net drinking game. For every misspelled word you take a shot. For every sentence that makes you cringe you take a shot. There are other rules but ill spare you all.

[Simfam]

 

Dunno how I feel about the tense switching from past to present. Still I like it; it's different from what I usually read. Not my favourite when it comes to descriptions though, I feel the more you try to put into the scene the more you clutter the reader's mind and obstruct their imagination. My favourite parts are the conversations by far.