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Post by newt5996 on May 5, 2019 16:15:32 GMT
Currently reading Brandon Sanderson’s The Well of Ascension. I really liked Mistborn yet didn’t think it needed a sequel, even if the sequel is just as good as the first one.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on May 6, 2019 10:45:42 GMT
continued reading Erimem's 2015 adventures with the Beast of Stalingrad and the One Place
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Post by kurumais on May 20, 2019 13:40:35 GMT
i finished the light novel goblin slayer. it was ok but didnt give the reader anything the anime does. its a bare bones telling of the story you will see if you watch
the anime. you dont get any insight into the characters heads or thoughts. there are currently 7 volumes of light novels in this series. my advice just watch the anime
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Post by muckypup on May 20, 2019 19:03:42 GMT
Robert Jordan’s eye of the world ......
It’s a great book, sometimes gets a bit muddy in the telling like the green man section and the endless dreams........
Second time I read it, hope to complete series this time, sort of gave up last time about book 6.........but that was a long long time ago, when there was only 6 or 7 books released.......
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Post by newt5996 on May 23, 2019 20:18:06 GMT
Robert Jordan’s eye of the world ...... It’s a great book, sometimes gets a bit muddy in the telling like the green man section and the endless dreams........ Second time I read it, hope to complete series this time, sort of gave up last time about book 6.........but that was a long long time ago, when there was only 6 or 7 books released....... Fair warning Book 8 is perhaps the most dragging of the 9 I’ve read because Mat doesn’t appear Andy Mat’s plot in 7 and 9 should infuriate you. But Book 9 is amazing which I finished yesterday meaning him on to the lowest rated entry. Before that I’m reading Sanderson’s The Hero of Ages which is great.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on May 25, 2019 13:29:06 GMT
The Vinyl Detective 4: Flip Back by Andrew Cartmel. Four books into Cartmel’s mystery series and some strengths & weaknesses in his writing are becoming clearer. He creates interesting characters and well thought out mysteries with lots of possible suspects. He can write a mean set piece and isn’t afraid to embrace the absurd but as a writer he doesn’t have the best handle on dialogue. There are times where his characters say something that is supposed to be witty or clever but instead feels like Cartmel is writing what he thinks clever and witty people would say. Some times it is fine but sometimes it just feels unnatural and forced. That being said, four books in and I’m still reading and will buy the fifth when it comes out. I just wish Cartmel would do an extra polish on his dialogue.
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Post by tuigirl on Jun 2, 2019 18:57:53 GMT
Came home today and saw the latest book of one of my favorite German-writing authors on Amazon for my Kindle. Just spend 4 hour straight reading, made it half-way. Very well written German Sci-fi thriller. Lots of suspense and slight horror notes, the whole thing plays out in a sanatorium... plus the science in the fiction is very well researched and so far has not devolved into total hokum as so often the case.
However, the further I get with my reading, this sounds more and more like an origin story for the Cybermen.
I cannot be absolutely sure the author is a Whovian, but there has been a quite suspicious mention of fish fingers and custard. Not sure if she tries to come out to her German readers (at least the few who are Whovians) or if she is trying to fly under the radar, hoping nobody notices the similarities.
But even if she had "borrowed" elements of the story, it still is a gripping read.
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jun 8, 2019 22:05:28 GMT
Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism by Dean Goodson
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Post by melkur on Jun 9, 2019 22:47:54 GMT
Over the past few days I've been starting to read the 'Narnia' series for the first time (Over lunch at work today I started to read 'The Horse And His Boy').
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Post by tuigirl on Jul 7, 2019 17:47:55 GMT
The latest Rivers of London novella "The October Man". Not as good as most of the others in the series, however still above average. I liked the change of pace of a new narrator and exploring a new place and country. As a German, I think the descriptions and behaviours of the Germans were quite accurate, there were only a few things that betrayed the fact that this was not written by a German (yeah, apart from the language). So well done and very well researched. I hope this is a built up to some international magic cooperation coming up, maybe fighting a major European threat.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2019 19:31:05 GMT
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey. Brilliant book.
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Post by Hieronymus on Jul 7, 2019 22:56:30 GMT
Almost finished with Joseph Conrad's Nostromo. I can see why it's so highly praised.
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Post by Digi on Jul 7, 2019 23:30:08 GMT
Let's see....my last two were Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World (re-read) Alexander Freed - Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron
Currently: Roméo Dallaire - Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
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Post by coffeeaddict on Jul 8, 2019 0:24:05 GMT
Just re-read Prince of Thorns so I could remember what happened before I read the rest of the series. Also read the novelization of Days of Future Past. The Marvel and DC novels from Titan Books are enjoyable, well written books.
Next I plan to read the last book in the Demon Cycle series. The latest Shannara book from Terry Brooks is also on the list for the next week.
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Post by newt5996 on Jul 11, 2019 3:11:34 GMT
As mentioned in What’s made my day, Lord of the Rings! And after that I’m doing Doctor Who: The Highest Science and The Pit.
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jul 24, 2019 10:30:32 GMT
Fiction reading - Bernard Cornwell: The Flame Bearer
Non-fiction reading - Martyn Lloyd Jones: Born of God
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jul 26, 2019 21:34:48 GMT
Not sure if this counts:
Reading Beast Quest Ferno to my 8 year old a chapter a night for his bedtime story.
He's enjoying it but tbh I'm not really. I think I'll try to get him onto Narnia next.
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Post by newt5996 on Jul 31, 2019 19:19:57 GMT
Finished Wizard and Glass last night and moving right along to The Wolves of the Calla after I get through Doctor Who: Dreams of Empire. I enjoyed it though felt the middle flashback sections dragged.
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Post by Digi on Jul 31, 2019 19:25:47 GMT
Currently: Roméo Dallaire - Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in RwandaFinished this off, started and finished Tim Zahn's Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason, and have now dipped back into Herodotus' Histories which I read bits of now and then, even though I've read it through before.
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Post by Hieronymus on Aug 3, 2019 21:49:36 GMT
Finished Nostromo (wow!)
Halfway through Chapterhouse Dune (was interrupted back when I started it before, so had to restart to know what was happening)
Beginning Titus Groan (Gormenghast I)
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