What book are you reading?

Restless Soul

India's Unending jJourney by Mark Tully - I got a signed copy and all!

smile05

essex boys - bernard o mahoney

ForestBrain

Finished "Midnight Tides" and am now on "Devil Bones". I'm determined that I will read at least forty books this year. I'm up to 32. The reason it's so few is because twelve of them were 800+ pages. But I'm going to switch to a few shorter books because they are books I've been holding off on because of the Steven Erikson books.

catch22

game of thrones- george rr martin

small town beck

Danger. Danger. I went to this second hand bookstore near to where I have started going for groceries I got four books yesterday for $17. I read one since then by Ken Follett "Whiteout" and I am going to start another this evening.

I have to get back into "Eat, Pray, Love" but I was just in the mood for a page turner.

catch22

small town beck wrote:

Danger. Danger. I went to this second hand bookstore near to where I have started going for groceries I got four books yesterday for $17. I read one since then by Ken Follett "Whiteout" and I am going to start another this evening.

I have to get back into "Eat, Pray, Love" but I was just in the mood for a page turner.

second hand bookstores are the bane of my existence any time i've almost cleared my shelf of things to read, i wander into one and it's all over!

small town beck

catch22 wrote:

second hand bookstores are the bane of my existence any time i've almost cleared my shelf of things to read, i wander into one and it's all over!

Mine too. I had a stack on the counter and he kept suggesting books to me... he was like "you realize if you buy three more, you will get another one for free" :eek: I said no I better stop. Plus I still have books at home that I haven't read.

rrivers

ForestBrain wrote:

Finished "Midnight Tides" and am now on "Devil Bones". I'm determined that I will read at least forty books this year. I'm up to 32. The reason it's so few is because twelve of them were 800+ pages. But I'm going to switch to a few shorter books because they are books I've been holding off on because of the Steven Erikson books.

My wife and I have a contest every year to see who can read the most books. Last year I read 30 and she read 31. Right now this year I'm at 16 and I know she's one or two ahead of me, but she just read the "Twilight" series which I think should count for one book.

rrivers

catch22 wrote:

game of thrones- george rr martin

How is that series? I've heard good things about it.

catch22

rrivers wrote:

How is that series? I've heard good things about it.

i'm only a little ways into the first book. i'm enjoying it a lot so far. great writing and fascinating characters. i've not dipped into the genre in a while, not since robert jordan killed my interest with his never-ending, money-making saga. this is a lot more grounded than most fantasy, almost a straight medieval period piece. very good so far.

catefrances

small town beck wrote:

Danger. Danger. I went to this second hand bookstore near to where I have started going for groceries I got four books yesterday for $17. I read one since then by Ken Follett "Whiteout" and I am going to start another this evening.

I have to get back into "Eat, Pray, Love" but I was just in the mood for a page turner.

$17? lightweight!! you come book shopping with me and i hope you like 2 minute noodles, cause you wont be eating anything else for a month.

i just joined the folio society. pretty pretty books.

rrivers

catch22 wrote:

i'm only a little ways into the first book. i'm enjoying it a lot so far. great writing and fascinating characters. i've not dipped into the genre in a while, not since robert jordan killed my interest with his never-ending, money-making saga. this is a lot more grounded than most fantasy, almost a straight medieval period piece. very good so far.

I've heard that about Jordan's series. I really enjoyed the first book in the Wheel of Time series, but I've hesitated picking up the second one because of hearing a lot of people say just what you said.

Last night I was at Barnes and Noble and a guy working there told me he was an "expert" in fantasy and if I needed assistance he would help me. (It didn't come out arrogant like it might look reading it!) Anywho, he told me the George RR Martin series was really good and he said he bailed on The Wheel of Time 100 pages into the tenth book, but he thinks he'll pick it up again when the final posthumous book is released. He recomended a book called "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. It's a first novel and it is a trilogy but the other books aren't out yet. I'm looking forward to reading it even though that Wheel of Time book is really the only fantasy I've ever read, except maybe the Dark Tower series.

catch22

rrivers wrote:

I've heard that about Jordan's series. I really enjoyed the first book in the Wheel of Time series, but I've hesitated picking up the second one because of hearing a lot of people say just what you said.

Last night I was at Barnes and Noble and a guy working there told me he was an "expert" in fantasy and if I needed assistance he would help me. (It didn't come out arrogant like it might look reading it!) Anywho, he told me the George RR Martin series was really good and he said he bailed on The Wheel of Time 100 pages into the tenth book, but he thinks he'll pick it up again when the final posthumous book is released. He recomended a book called "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. It's a first novel and it is a trilogy but the other books aren't out yet. I'm looking forward to reading it even though that Wheel of Time book is really the only fantasy I've ever read, except maybe the Dark Tower series.

i've never heard of 'name of the wind.' i just read the gunslinger and enjoyed that. george martin is a lot more like robert jordan though. it's epic, and more traditional fantasy... ie swords and whatnot. but martin doesn't have the magic and fanciful elves and whatnot of most fantasy. there is a decent amount of court intrigue and the like, so it is not quite as much of an adventure story as robert jordan or lord of the rings. however, i read a lot of reviews and talked to a lot of friends and it seems martin is pretty widely regarded as the best out there right now.

i dropped out of robert jordan about halfway through the sixth book. that first one was excellent, and so were the next two. but after that, the end just seemed to get further away. once it's done, if people seem ok with the ending, i might give it another chance.

rrivers

catch22 wrote:

i've never heard of 'name of the wind.' i just read the gunslinger and enjoyed that. george martin is a lot more like robert jordan though. it's epic, and more traditional fantasy... ie swords and whatnot. but martin doesn't have the magic and fanciful elves and whatnot of most fantasy. there is a decent amount of court intrigue and the like, so it is not quite as much of an adventure story as robert jordan or lord of the rings. however, i read a lot of reviews and talked to a lot of friends and it seems martin is pretty widely regarded as the best out there right now.

i dropped out of robert jordan about halfway through the sixth book. that first one was excellent, and so were the next two. but after that, the end just seemed to get further away. once it's done, if people seem ok with the ending, i might give it another chance.

Yeah, "The Name of the Wind" is a fairly new book. I'll let you know how it is.

Yeah, from what I've read, I would agree that Martin is really liked. I will give that series a chance one day.

The guy I was talking to yesterday told me Jordan just had no control over the plot and he kept introducing new plotlines, a lot of which were never resolved or took too long to resolve. He also said he introduced a new major character in book ten that just added to the mess.

I really liked the first book though so I think I will give the series a shot. Unfortunately, it sounds like if I read a couple of more it will just suck me into when reading where it starts to get lame.

Is your signature from "The Usual Suspects"?

catch22

rrivers wrote:

Yeah, "The Name of the Wind" is a fairly new book. I'll let you know how it is.

Yeah, from what I've read, I would agree that Martin is really liked. I will give that series a chance one day.

The guy I was talking to yesterday told me Jordan just had no control over the plot and he kept introducing new plotlines, a lot of which were never resolved or took too long to resolve. He also said he introduced a new major character in book ten that just added to the mess.

I really liked the first book though so I think I will give the series a shot. Unfortunately, it sounds like if I read a couple of more it will just suck me into when reading where it starts to get lame.

Is your signature from "The Usual Suspects"?

yeah, you could see jordan losing control. it was a shame, because those first few books were among the best i'd ever read. honetly, you could sort of stop after the third book and call it the end. i remember the first time reading it thinking it seemed like he had envisioned that as the end, but the success allowed him to expand the story, which got way out of control. the last one is coming out soon though. then i'll consider it again. lemme know how that book turns out, though between classes and the length of these novels, ill be hung up on martin for a while

and yes, it is!

rrivers

catch22 wrote:

and yes, it is!

Great flick!!!

vduboise

rrivers wrote:

He recomended a book called "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. It's a first novel and it is a trilogy but the other books aren't out yet.

I just finished reading this. A friend gave it to me and I loved it. Can't wait for the next one.

catch22

rrivers wrote:

Great flick!!!

my all time favorite, hehe.

rrivers

vduboise wrote:

I just finished reading this. A friend gave it to me and I loved it. Can't wait for the next one.

I'm really excited to read it. Everything I've heard about it is positive. The guy who recommended it said the only problem is the rest of the series isn't out yet. I checked the author's website and he said the trilogy is finished and they are going to release each book a year apart.

urbanhippie

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne.


Wow....