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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #375 on: March 23, 2015, 02:34:22 pm »
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I've read the first Genghis Khan book. It was excellent. If you just glance at a random page it might look dry, but could hardly put it down. Does the quality remain the same? 2100~ pages of the same would be ecstatic.

Never felt like the quality dropped, in both series.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #376 on: March 23, 2015, 03:23:47 pm »
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Just  finished the 4 first books of "A song of fire and Ice", and I`m totally amazed, even though the 4th books was a bit boring compared to the 3 prequels!

Today I started reading the "Hedge Knight" which is a book that takes places 200 years~ before the events of a song of fire and ice!

Good reads!

Omfg, it took you this long. Dunk and Egg series is also great, although that series lack epicness, it is warm and heartfelt and beautiful and quite different than Song of Ice and Fire.
I mean, what have you got to lose? You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing, what have you lost? Nothing!

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #377 on: March 24, 2015, 03:18:08 pm »
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Omfg, it took you this long. Dunk and Egg series is also great, although that series lack epicness, it is warm and heartfelt and beautiful and quite different than Song of Ice and Fire.

It took me 1 month to finish all 4, I read them everywhere, in my bed, at my work, at the shitter, literally EVERYWHERe  :mrgreen:

gonna give a go to the book you suggest!
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #378 on: March 24, 2015, 05:31:44 pm »
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It took me 1 month to finish all 4, I read them everywhere, in my bed, at my work, at the shitter, literally EVERYWHERe  :mrgreen:

So you were reading those 4 books everywhere and it still took you a whole month to finish reading them?  :? It's not like you've read a dozen books, just... 4 :? But okay I guess!  :wink:
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #379 on: March 24, 2015, 05:45:57 pm »
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So you were reading those 4 books everywhere and it still took you a whole month to finish reading them?  :? It's not like you've read a dozen books, just... 4 :? But okay I guess!  :wink:

2400 pages give or take...
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #380 on: March 24, 2015, 08:20:40 pm »
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gonna give a go to the book you suggest!
Dunk and Egg series is actually Hedge Knight and two sequels.  :mrgreen:
I mean, what have you got to lose? You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing, what have you lost? Nothing!

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #381 on: March 25, 2015, 06:01:05 pm »
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a canticle for leibowitz

I dunno about you but I'd never heard of this book, which is frankly criminal.

I can't figure out why people like Ender's Game. :/

I read it, the writing felt overly simplistic and the story itself very cliche

Ender's game is 30 years old, It probably created alot of the cliche bits you are thinking out, such as bug like aliens, hive minds etc. those were truly quite original ideas once, hard as that is to imagine to believe today.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #382 on: March 25, 2015, 06:38:49 pm »
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That's not too old. Aliens, hive minds, etc - none of those are ideas that originated there. And it's not like the book is about hive minds anyway.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #383 on: March 25, 2015, 08:08:34 pm »
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New JOe Abercrombie's book is out, Half the world. I've read only first few dozens of pages and it's quite entertaining so far.

Recently reading Milan Kundera's books, a lot of wisdom you can find between the pages of his books :P
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #384 on: March 28, 2015, 06:11:00 pm »
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That's not too old. Aliens, hive minds, etc - none of those are ideas that originated there. And it's not like the book is about hive minds anyway.

Yeah. Card is no Heinlein. I recently wondered if my dislike of Card was due to his personal life, but then I remembered that I read Ender's Game before I knew anything about him. Tried to re-read it and you know what? Not that great. He's not bad, but there's no reason for him to occupy the place in science fiction/YA that he currently enjoys.

I'm not fond of Abercrombie's new series. It's still decent, but it's definitely his weakest work to date. The craft is still there, it just reads like he didn't have as much invested in it. Perhaps, in an attempt to reach a different audience, he's lost some of his footing.

Or, because I am not that audience, I don't find it as appealing as they might.

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #385 on: March 31, 2015, 02:28:14 am »
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Dream Singers: The African American Way with Dreams by Anthony Shafton

Pretty much all of this is anecdotal, but it's a really cool look into folklore and superstitions that are ignored in modern life except in the context of dreams. Plenty of rational people will make judgements based on things that have happened in their dreams, even if they don't believe in things like ghosts or fortune-telling and all that junk. Tons of excerpts from interviews so it's a really cool primary source on the subject. I don't think there's any other book out there that covers this topic. At all.
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irl something shorted on the shuttle and laika overheated and died within a few hours of liftoff and for a brief while one could look up to the stars and see a light shooting across the sky that was actually a warm dog corpse slingshoting about the earth at thousands of miles per hour which was arguably humanity's greatest achievement so far

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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #386 on: March 31, 2015, 08:31:26 pm »
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Yeah. Card is no Heinlein. I recently wondered if my dislike of Card was due to his personal life, but then I remembered that I read Ender's Game before I knew anything about him. Tried to re-read it and you know what? Not that great. He's not bad, but there's no reason for him to occupy the place in science fiction/YA that he currently enjoys.


Funny I accidently starting reading the foreword and learned he was a mormon. I was raised to be mormon and so I seriously thought that knowledge would utterly ruin the book for me. But surprisingly I don't think there is a mormon propaganda in it at all. Infact the idea of 3rd children being illegal was interesting because imo its our near future, and also because its the opposite mormon babyspamming ideals.

Enders game did feel like a sci fi classic to me but pherhaps I just haven't read enough sci fi yet. I did read one of Card's other books "pastwatch" and its probably one of the most utterly stupid premises ever created, and yet its still well written (don't read it anyway because you will lose braincells.)
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #387 on: March 31, 2015, 08:33:51 pm »
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It took me 1 month to finish all 4, I read them everywhere, in my bed, at my work, at the shitter, literally EVERYWHERe  :mrgreen:

gonna give a go to the book you suggest!

You gotta read faster then bro, the books arent very long, there are no long words, and no difficult themes or any reason to need to go back and check you understood something. They are kids books Panos.
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #388 on: April 21, 2015, 08:22:31 pm »
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I just started Blood Meridian.  First time with any Cormac McCarthy.  I'm having difficulty adjusting to his punctuation and style but the story and the characters are awesome.

I'm a bit into Nabokov's Lolita.  I'm just realizing now that I watched the film adaptation a couple of years ago. Lolita is supposed to be one of the greatest novels ever written and it certainly seems so despite Nabokov's aristocratic disposition which is funny but irritating.  I like his humor quite a bit and some of his descriptions of love & lust for Lolita are probably the most romantic things I've ever read regardless of his *cough* predilection for nymphets.

In addition to those novels, I began ASOIAF to see what all of the hype is about.  I watch the television show as well, so I guess you can call me a fan (bye street cred, jk).  GRRM's style of writing is pretty simple.  He doesn't stand out as a writer on his own but he clearly stands out as a writer of fantasy.  I wouldn't call myself particularly versed in the fantasy genre, having read only CS Lewis, JK Rowling, a meager bit of Tolkien, and that's about it that I remember.  But unlike CS Lewis or Tolkien, GRRM manages to avoid most of the moralistic clichés that dominate the fantasy genre.

I also just finished On the Road.  It was fairly underwhelming.  I've read a couple books by Burroughs.  I've read and disliked Allen Ginsberg's poetry.  I heard a lot of good things about Kerouac.  That he's the masculine Beat writer.  The golden boy.  But if it wasn't for Mexico, Neal Cassidy, or the visit he made with Burroughs, I doubt I would have enjoyed this book.  I attempted Dharma Bums afterwords but I immediately disliked the pseudo Eastern philosophy but it seemed cool to read about Gary Snyder vicariously through Kerouac.  It seems like I like everything in Kerouac's books except Kerouac himself.
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Re: What We're Reading
« Reply #389 on: April 25, 2015, 01:11:09 pm »
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bump..What are you guys reading??  :)  Still slugging away at the books I mentioned above.
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