Morning guys, just thought I’d make a quick post, get in touch with my readers. I want to know what you’ve been reading lately? Several different books? A series of novels? Catching up on your comics? Is something you read recently worth my checking out? I want to know. Last night I finished the graphic novel X-Men: No More Humans, and throughout the past week or so I’ve been listening to To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan (which bundles together books 1&2 of the Riyria Revelations, a 6-part series). I’ll be reviewing them shortly. To Kill a Mockingbird has recently just become available on Audiobook for the first time in the books history.
Anything you want to read that I’ve reviewed previously? Let me know. If you want to catch the two books I’m currently reading, click the links below to grab a copy.
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Finally got round to reading Crimson Empire 3 last week, that was definitely worth the wait for! spalanz.com/2014/08/01/empire-lost/
I’ve now moved onto David Eddings’ Tamuli trilogy, not a bad start for the first book, Domes of Fire. If it’s anything like the Elenium, it should be pretty awesome!
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I’ve just finished Starship Troopers. Next up on my TBR list is Living Life Backwards.
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Starship Troopers! I wanna read that badly
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It was good, but I can definitely see why it was controversial. There’s a lot of pontificating about social theories.
On one level, I didn’t care for how the final big battle ended, but on another, that seemed like a logical, reasonable thing to happen. (No spoilers!)
Still, a very engaging story. I definitely enjoyed it more than Gateway, the Hugo/Nebula winner I read before Starship Troopers.
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I’m reading a non-ficiton book now: How Not To Be Wrong, which is about mathematics. There aren’t many formulas (you will learn why 0.999999… really does eqaul 1), but it’s still plenty geeky. I’m about 25% thru so far and having fun. 🙂
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Sounds like an adventure. Personally, I can’t stand math. I’ve never been much good sadly.
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Stephen Baxter’s The Time Ships. A really amazing book. It’s written to be a “sequel” to Wells’ The Time Machine, except it’s a lot more speculative and inclined towards hard science fiction. An excellent read that doesn’t pull a single punch so far.
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Hmm very interesting. I like the idea.
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It’s a pretty awesome book. Been nominated for 7 big SFF awards, and son a few of them, which is how I found out about it in the first place. And I can definitely see why.
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When was it released?
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1995.
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Just read The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith… so good… even better than the first in the series… so if you like detective novels check it out… or even if you don’t cause it’s not usually my thing but these are pretty groovy…
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Which series is that?
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Cormoran Strike series… he’s a detective with a false leg and penchant for awesomeness… the first book is The Cuckoo’s Calling…
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Oh, that’s J.K. Rowling’s new book series under a pen name. Sorry, I should’ve caught that.
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I considered mentioning that… but I really feel bad for her that her pen name got outed… and it seems most people who hated these books are folks who for some ridiculous reason went in expecting Harry Potter… people be crazy…
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Eh. What can she do. She’s rich. She makes good literature. You like it or you don’t.
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tru dat 😀
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Don’t laugh, but I’m just re-reading my collection of Heavy Metal magazines from the ’80s and just finished a novel by Ruth Ozeki called A Tale for the Time Being – Japanese pop culture, historical fiction and even a little woo-woo [sci-fi] LOVED it.
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Oh wow, that must be a trip through time.
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Maybe less plagiarised material as well?
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Not sure what you mean?
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Its a reference to Rowling
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I was going to start The Cuckoo’s Calling today. Have you read it? I thought it was time to read something of J.K Rowlings that didn’t have a wizard in!
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No, haven’t read it. Let me know what you think.
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Wow there are a lot of Trek books there. Awesome! I’m reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
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They were bequeathed to me in someone’s will actually. Can’t say I’ve read one
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“Children of the Mind”, currently – aka the 4th “Ender’s Game” book. Also, the Bible.
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How’ve you enjoyed the books after Ender’s Game? And the Bible is a given.
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I’ve really liked them. I’ve found them richer and deeper than the original.
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I just finished reading Ready Player One which was probably my favorite book. The mixture of virtual reality in a broken society was amazing. Currently I am reading Dark Eden which is about a culture on an alien planet. So far it’s pretty good.
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Interestingly, I was JUST encouraged to check this book out. I think I might just have to. Ready Player One, I mean.
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I absolutely recommend it!! The only downside is that they won’t have a sequel. I would have loved to see it as a series.
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I’m reading No Sanctuary by Richard Layman. It’s not one of his best works.
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I am currently reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Yes, it’s a shame I haven’t read them until now…
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But hey, gotta start at some point.
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True 🙂 i was surprised how the first one was so greatly adapted into a movie. It honestly was like I was watching the film rather than reading the book.
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Star Trek Mirror Universe Shards and Shadows! 🙂
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I’m currently reading “When The Devil Dances” by John Ringo. I don’t know why I keep re-reading that series but it’s one of my favorites.
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Is it an older series? What’s it about?
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It’s been out since the early 2000’s. The book i’m reading is the 3rd in the series. The series is commonly called the “Legacy of the Aldenata” or the “Posleen War Series” after the main alien baddies.
The basic premise is that there is a massive galactic society that is at war with one species and the only reason they make themselves known to earth is that they are so advanced they’ve lost any will or ability to actually fight. Humans are exceedingly good at that so they use us as their fighting force while also trying to keep us down at the same time.
Lots of action, military sci/fi. I like all of John Ringo’s stuff but this series is my favorite. If you count the side stories and off shoots there’s about a dozen books in the series at this point.
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Oh wow. Sounds quite interesting actually. May have to check it out at some point.
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I hope you do, it’s a very enjoyable read.
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Recently finished Well of Ascension from the Mistborn trilogy, so I’m probably going to pick up Hero of Ages soon. I usually take breaks between high fantasy series, but ugh, Sanderson tends to make me WANT to keep going even when I have a backlog of other books I should be reading. At some point I also probably need to obtain a copy of his other books, but I’m not sure where to start past the Mistborn series.
And I know it’s no substitute for the actual books, but I also have started on the graphic novel versions of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, which to me kind of makes the books go a bit faster!
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Well. Interesting you mention Sanderson. I personally recommend his new series, The Stormlight Archive, starting with The Way of Kings. Most of his fans agree that this series is his shining masterpiece. But I’ll have to check out the Mistborn books to be personally sure of that. They’re on my backlog.
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I will have to try Stormlight then. A few of my friends have been raving over Words of Radiance lately, and I understand that’s the sequel to The Way of Kings. I imagine his writing evolved between Mistborn and Stormlight, so I am looking forward to that!
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In my opinion, and I may get shunned for saying this, it puts Game of Thrones to shame. It’s on a whole other level of fantasy really.
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Hahaha. I actually don’t doubt that, and I more or less enjoyed the first three of ASoIaF.
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Hopefully it’ll be “Watching war films with my Dad” by comedian and all round good bloke Al Murray aka the pub landlord. After just listening to a review where he recounts a tale of watching A Bridge Too Far at the cinema and his dad shouting out loud “thats not a Tiger tank its a bloody modern Leopard tank” it brings back some very familiar memories.
http://bks1.books.google.co.uk/books?id=pZTUAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&imgtk=AFLRE70zXj8feBy7McK4e0MoILTeN8BdNL2zFAeKGUd6OeTqmdzss0-Vv14miMkxxqJDCLKGHUWKn5Hgscj7TLTpSCRsIUje3BcOPhVyydiFQ-0UumMKj17f9KaKB-zdaAiTI10ne_wq
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I’m reading Hamlet, because I own and helped Kickstart To Be or Not to Be, a choose your own adventure kind of humor book based on Hamlet. And I ‘m embarrassed to say that I’m not very familiar with the twists and turns of the original play! So, to get more enjoyment out of the funny book, I decided to read the original. I’m almost done!
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By “own” I mean I own the book, not that I had anything to do with it’s creation! Just clarifying.
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To be quite honest, I haven’t read it myself. But it’s one that I’ve always planned to. Let me know your thoughts.
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I’ve been getting into “The Devil In Amber” by Mark Gatiss. It’s a bit like James Bond, but with cumshots. Kind of addictive…
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Hahaha… I’m gonna go ahead and assume it isn’t a Doctor Who novel then.
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