muskellounger said:
I really wouldn't bother. This is the only case I know where the movie is better than the book. Like tracepaper said, too long winded. There is too much detail , leaving nothing for the imagination.
I need to get me some R.A. Salvatore, never read anything. Can anyone recommend a certain series? There is so much to choose, don't know where to start.
The Drizzt Do'urden series is pretty good.
@muskellounger - I know what you mean about the over abundence of detail - I got about as far as the five page essay on the different types of Hobbit's feet and my eyes started glazing over.
Robert Jordans Wheel of Time series is bloody fantastic. I warn new readers that the first book has a slow start, that seems over detailed, however, it all comes into play down the line. Well worth the time. The final book, a Memory of Light is coming out in January, I can not wait!
Just read Metro 2033, then Roadside Picnic - both really good. Now started in on Chris Wooding's Ketty Jay Novels - so awesome. Steampunk airships ftw.
Hey all...this Saturday is free comic book day(USA). Take a kid, go to your local shop, grab free stuffs.
@precipice66 steampunk airships online(no release date)
http://gunsoficarus.com/
Sweet. Thanks Muskellounger
I am legend was a good classic book but is a book of its time.
At least the tittle of the book made sense unlike the recent movie.
Hunger games is not bad for a kids book. I have not seen the movie but I cannot see how it could be made as a movie suitable for children.
. I am about due for another re-read of dune.
I have been working my way thru the top 100 science fiction books of all time.
I think I read rainbow6 again as a palate cleanser.
klawhammer said:
I think I read rainbow6 again as a palate cleanser.
This book has been sitting unread on my shelf for about two years. Every time I get near to reading it I order more books off Amazon. It's a bit of a beast as well so I know I'm going to have to be in the mood for Tom Clancy. Last time I read his stuff I tackled all the big hitters like Red October, Cardinal of the Kremlin, Red Storm Rising, and the (sort of) trilogy where Jack Ryan becomes President. That truly was an epic read and it comsumed a couple of months of my reading time.
I'm reading The Rock and the River. GREAT BOOK!
I'm currently going through all the Mass Effect novels. They're pretty cool so far. A little worried about getting to Deception though, what with all the fan outrage at the inconsistencies.
Been reading Debt of Honor lately. It's about a trade war between the U.S. and Japan, fueled by lingering anti-American sentiment from WWII. I'm enjoying it, but some of my Japan-obsessed friends don't approve of its subject matter.
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Reading I Hope they serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max. It's Offensive, Dark, Disgusting, Sexist, and Hilarious all at once. If you love having a laugh at someone else's expense, sometimes even your's, and Dark Humor, you should check his books out.
I'm reading Red Seas Under Red Skies, the second book of the Gentlemen Bastards sequence by Scott Lynch. He's an amazing writer who I seriously see being on the level of George R. R. Martin when he manages to get the third book of the series into print (he's promised this year. I want it so bad D: ). The world is a phenominally well built fantasty world, and the characters are so... well, you love them. It's graphic and violent (the first book, The Lies of Locke Lammorra, has a very graphic scene in which someone is hung upside down from the roof of a mob boss' hideout and then has a bag of crushed glass pressed in to his face until he dies. That one made me squirm) but I've also laughed several times simply due to the sarcasm and wit of the characters.
I'd seriously reccommend supporting this author. He's worth it.
I finished the Hunger Games trilogy and I really liked them, a nice mix of interesting concepts, a variety of characters, some you hate some you love and some you're not quite sure about as well as a good plot line led this to be one of my Favourite series going.
I'm waiting to get Dragon Rising for The Song of Ice and Fire series. I have to say these books, (and the TV series that comes with them) has me hooked. I saw series one a few months later got the books started reading one, moved onto something else, a few months later came back to it and ploughed through the rest of the 5 books in less than a week. The scope and detail is staggering, every character in the story feels like he has had a full life up to that point and their actions are influenced by it. On top of all this he not only manages to surprise me but practically bring me to tears at several points, anyone whose read them will know what I mean The red wedding.
For my next book I'm thinking We the Living by Ayn Rand.
@Atlas - My boss in work made me read the first GOT book and then I was hooked. Took me a month and a half (A week - did you even sleep?!) to read all the books and I just couldn't put them down. Most days I'd roll into work after just a few hours sleep. My boss couldn't really say anything because it was all his fault. The TV series rocks. My favorite season two pairing has got to be Tywin/Arya.
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