Malfatron Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Reading george RR martins dunk and egg stories A bit slight, but well written, and excellent food description as always Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gnat Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Wrapped up the 2nd Mistborn book, Well of Ascension. Overall, I really liked the book, however, I felt like part of the game ended a little bit too on the nose, and the other part was a big old bait and switch. Overall though, the intrigue and political parts of the book were so well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT14 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 On 12/14/2017 at 11:48 AM, MikeT14 said: American Gods. This is pretty awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gnat Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I'm a ways through the 3rd Mistborn book. Feels like it dropped off and everything is going bad to at least some level. I expect there to be a solid redeeming bit at the end. Brandon Sanderson is generally pretty good for that. EDIT 1/31: Finished up the first trilogy. I liked the series and I feel like Brandon Sanderson wrapped it up well. It is definitely a series where you have to look at the second and third books as one otherwise neither of them as good, and it feels like it stretches on in the middle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistakey Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 The Trial - Franz Kafka 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleMugen Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 The Moon is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. About 100 or so pages in, pretty good thus far. More playfully written than I was expecting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skywindO2 Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Finished Oathbringer and started Ready Player One Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelKing728 Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 3 hours ago, skywindO2 said: Finished Oathbringer and started Ready Player One RPO was a lot of fun, even though the stuff from the 80s is before my time. I'm reading The Glass Castle. Wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLambert58 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Reading Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse. Some intense philosophical musings. Finished reading recently: Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer Very cool concept but doesn't seem anything like the movie coming out. Bird Box by Josh Malerman Intense post-apocalyptic story of a world where you can't look outside Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Classic time-travel, existential, WWII story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apparition Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Just finished: up next: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLambert58 Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 On 2/27/2018 at 4:21 PM, Starless said: Just finished: up next: I've heard good things about Canticle for Leibowitz. What did you think of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLambert58 Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 Just finished The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck for the first time. Phenomenal story - really puts you into the depression era. You feel it viscerally. I'd put it in my top 10 novels of all-time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apparition Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 45 minutes ago, JLambert58 said: I've heard good things about Canticle for Leibowitz. What did you think of it? I held off on starting it, actually. Reading some non-fiction instead, which I can't name here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT14 Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 Blindness by Jose Saramago. I heard it's very good, but it's tough to read sometimes. The conversations are long paragraphs with commas rather than the traditional dialogue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuechTheCat Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 I just finished The Dragon Reborn (third in the Wheel of Time series), and I've had it. I'd say three 600+ page doorstoppers qualifies as more than giving a series a chance, and I am just not into it. Definitely not slogging through the other eleven (?) or so books. 3 hours ago, JLambert58 said: Just finished The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck for the first time. Phenomenal story - really puts you into the depression era. You feel it viscerally. I'd put it in my top 10 novels of all-time. Beautiful book. I don't know if it'd be in my top ten, but there's so many Steinbeck novels that could compete for a spot there, I probably couldn't choose. Check out The Wayward Bus, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, or To A God Unknown if you want to read some more of his stuff. Avoid The Pearl and Tortilla Flats. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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