I am reading Song of Ice and Fire right now. I have heard so many good reviews thatI decided to pick it up and finished the first book the day I bought it lol. I plan on reading two more this weekend
heh. I'm guessing you enjoyed the first one?
Going through them super quick is a lot of fun. But if you go back and read again you find out just how much information and foreshadowing/allusions GRRM packs into each page. There really aren't many sections that you can just skip. I'm talking sections like in LOTR when the group arrives at a new place and you know you can skip the next 3-4 pages as pointless description.
Going through them super quick is a lot of fun. But if you go back and read again you find out just how much information and foreshadowing/allusions GRRM packs into each page. There really aren't many sections that you can just skip. I'm talking sections like in LOTR when the group arrives at a new place and you know you can skip the next 3-4 pages as pointless description.
Yeah I actually enjoy all of the information given in thes enovels. LOTR could put me to sleep in some passages but I don't mind all of the detail in thes enovels.
I am a Stark family fan though so I am not liking where they left all of the characters at the end of the first novel. As for foreshadowing I haven't picked much up except some of the obvious ones(three dragons eggs for example) but I am still enjoying the novels. I actually started the second one today at lunch. I really wnt Joffery to go away, such a loathesome character and Sansa has no real redeemign qualities yet. I might just go home tonight, curl up onthe couch and read tonight
I'm reading A Canticle For Leibowitz right now. It's kind of refreshing to see a silver era sci-fi story that regards religion as anything other than evil or stupid.
I'm nearing the end of Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman (for the second time, actually, but it's a great read). Not quite sure where I'm headed after that one.
I'm reading The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (was bored, figured why not read the series again?)
Yeah, I went back through the whole thing before TGS came out, and I'm kinda glad I did. Because of the scope of the books it gets a bit tricky to keep track of who's who after a while. Also, upon reading Knife of Dreams for the second time, I realized that I must have torn through it the first time because aside from a few major plot points, I barely remember reading any of that one.
I've also got a friend of mine reading them now (he's about to start Lord of Chaos), so I'm getting to vicariously experience the feel of reading the series for the first time, which is pretty cool.
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And there's room for one more till the end of creation. Neil Gaiman, Sandman #4 - A Hope in Hell
I'm nearing the end of Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman (for the second time, actually, but it's a great read). Not quite sure where I'm headed after that one.
well, there's always more Neil Gaiman. Gathering Storm too (i bought it, but must finish the other book i'm reading before i dive into it). And there are these 3 gems of fantasy literature: A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin), Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erickson) and The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss).
-all 3 are the first books of their respective series. Listed in order of epic-win, though the Erickson and Rothfuss ones are close, Rothfuss could easily surpass Erickson if his second book is of high quality.
Oh...and while it's totally opinion: all 3 of those series are far and away better than WoT. This coming from someone who is eagerly anticipating TGS too
Death Troopers.
Zombies, Star Wars, and Zombies it just doesn't get much better then this. Oh and a little Event Horizon. That's always a blast.
...Event Horizon was a book? Do I have the right Event Horizon, the one about the lost spaceship that's found drifting with no crew and only a scrambled video log, and that one dude goes ape ****? I loved that movie, who wrote the book?
I'm nearing the end of House of Leaves, but I've still got a little ways to go. Goddamn, it's a good read. What's even more entertaining is that apparently the house is very close to where I live (when I'm not at college) in Williamsburg, VA. It was kind of cool seeing the Jamestown Settlement and even Colonial Williamsburg (I used to go to Duke of Gloucester street, which is mentioned in the book, almost every day to have coffee and flirt with the waitresses at Aroma's) talked about in there, even if it was only for a page or two. Johnny Truant is such a bizarre yet great character.
I'm also planning on getting around to the newest volume of the The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and Dante's The Divine Comedy. I'm also debating on whether to send for my copy of Alhazred by Donald Tyson. I really want to read it again, it's one of my favorite Lovecraftian novels. Tyson is one of the few writers that I wholeheartedly approve of writing Mythos novels, another one being Caitlin Kiernan. But Alhazred...it just seemed like Tyson captured perfectly the world that Abdul Alhazred inhabited, the brutality of the secret academies and monasteries housing elder secrets, and the callous, coldhearted nature off the protagonist himself. I think Tyson accomplished a near impossible task; he brought a mysterious, shady, unknowable character to life (and from the first person, no less), and at the same time doing everything else right too. He created a perfect blend of horror and fantasy. That book is epic (and I mean that word in every sense), and I really want to read it again. I'd also recommend it to anyone else, Lovecraft fan or not.
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I finally picked up The Gathering Storm, so that's what I'm reading currently..just started. Hopefully this writer can't match Jordan's unparalleled skills in plot tangles/new characters/random names suddenly becoming important.
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...Event Horizon was a book? Do I have the right Event Horizon, the one about the lost spaceship that's found drifting with no crew and only a scrambled video log, and that one dude goes ape ****? I loved that movie, who wrote the book?
No it was not a book. I was just comparing it. No other sci-fi novel that comes to mind was like Event Horizon at least that I've read. Movie was amazing though.
I just tried to read "A Clockwork Orange" but I just can't wrap my mind around the way it's written...so I'm reading "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" instead I love this book.
I'm not sure if this counts, since it's a graphic novel, but I just finished Locke and Key: Head Games. This is preceded by Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft. Despite the reference, the series doesn't appear to have anything to do with H.P. Lovecraft.
But anyway, this is one of the best horror/dark fantasy comic series I have ever seen. It is original, engaging, and the characterization is really great. And the way they started off the series was just freaking brilliant, they had me hooked from page 1. In fact, I don't have a single criticism, except that it takes too damn long for the graphic novels to be released after the individual comic books for the series are out. I'm not the only one who loves the series either, it's been nominated for a bunch of awards and there may even be a TV or movie franchise, take a look at the Wikipedia article. The authors really know how to build up a mystery, and from now on I think I have to buy the comics as they come out, not wait for the collection. Locke and Key: Crown of Shadows has started to come out in installments, and soon I'm going to the comic book store to try and find it. Looks like the psychopathic Sam Lesser is coming back.
Edit @Eevihl: Oh, I see. You got me excited there for a second, I really wanted to read the book if there was one.
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Death Troopers is written like if James Patterson were to have a prolonged discussion with George Lucas about how many Jar Jar Binks he could jam into a zombie novel.
[That's a prolonged way of saying ... quality of writing ... yeah.]
It does have Star Wars and Zombies though.
I've been reading the P.G. Wodehouse books. They're actually really funny, which is nice: also, they're free, which is nicer.
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and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
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As far as House of Leaves goes, it is amazing so far, although sometimes the crazy text arrangment irks me. I know it's artistic, but I like to read when I eat meals, and trying to eat and crane my head sideways is annoying. But aside from that, Danielewski's got me hooked, every time I pick that book up I cannot fathom how much work must have gone into creating it. If he ever wrote anything else I would buy it on the day it was released.
He has a second book, Only Revolutions, its a teenage love story, (try to bear with my description) Its written in a poetic form, reccoemnding you read 8 (or some number) pages of one side, then the same to the other. Its the same form of the poem, but one is from the girls veiw, the other from the boys veiw. Honestly, it started to bore me, but its a really quick read
@Everyone who read game of thrones: is the book worth picking up? What other books (In general, i'm a wide reader) are worth picking up, i have 2 12 hour drives next weekend
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Originally Posted by Alderant Baneslayer Angel could be hungover, slightly blind, and texting while flying and still win the game.
I just finished Great Expectations which was wonderful. I prefer the original ending, not the one that Dickens added later on. Joe was my favorite part of the whole novel. Wemmick was a close second.
I'm currently reading Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White which I've been told is one of the first "thrillers." It came out in 1860, the same time as Great Expectations.
@Everyone who read game of thrones: is the book worth picking up? What other books (In general, i'm a wide reader) are worth picking up, i have 2 12 hour drives next weekend
I'm biased, to be sure...but if you enjoy reading, are willing to work with more-difficult-than-standard material and prefer somewhat more mature subject matter...there is no other book/series i would recommend more than A Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire.
In the same dark fantasy vein, The Name of the Wind (patrick rothfuss) is excellent as well and the Malazan series (steven erickson), while more challenging that ASoIaF, is quite good too.
heh. I'm guessing you enjoyed the first one?
Going through them super quick is a lot of fun. But if you go back and read again you find out just how much information and foreshadowing/allusions GRRM packs into each page. There really aren't many sections that you can just skip. I'm talking sections like in LOTR when the group arrives at a new place and you know you can skip the next 3-4 pages as pointless description.
Yeah I actually enjoy all of the information given in thes enovels. LOTR could put me to sleep in some passages but I don't mind all of the detail in thes enovels.
I am a Stark family fan though so I am not liking where they left all of the characters at the end of the first novel. As for foreshadowing I haven't picked much up except some of the obvious ones(three dragons eggs for example) but I am still enjoying the novels. I actually started the second one today at lunch. I really wnt Joffery to go away, such a loathesome character and Sansa has no real redeemign qualities yet. I might just go home tonight, curl up onthe couch and read tonight
Started Shadow Puppets last night as well.
Both by Orson Scott Card, of course.
Those are both quite good books.
I'm looking to pick up The Gathering Storm this week, can't wait to read it really.
On topic: I'm reading The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (was bored, figured why not read the series again?)
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Yeah, I went back through the whole thing before TGS came out, and I'm kinda glad I did. Because of the scope of the books it gets a bit tricky to keep track of who's who after a while. Also, upon reading Knife of Dreams for the second time, I realized that I must have torn through it the first time because aside from a few major plot points, I barely remember reading any of that one.
I've also got a friend of mine reading them now (he's about to start Lord of Chaos), so I'm getting to vicariously experience the feel of reading the series for the first time, which is pretty cool.
Is it thief, thug or whore? There's one at the door...
And there's room for one more till the end of creation.
Neil Gaiman, Sandman #4 - A Hope in Hell
Zombies, Star Wars, and Zombies it just doesn't get much better then this. Oh and a little Event Horizon. That's always a blast.
well, there's always more Neil Gaiman. Gathering Storm too (i bought it, but must finish the other book i'm reading before i dive into it). And there are these 3 gems of fantasy literature: A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin), Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erickson) and The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss).
-all 3 are the first books of their respective series. Listed in order of epic-win, though the Erickson and Rothfuss ones are close, Rothfuss could easily surpass Erickson if his second book is of high quality.
Oh...and while it's totally opinion: all 3 of those series are far and away better than WoT. This coming from someone who is eagerly anticipating TGS too
...Event Horizon was a book? Do I have the right Event Horizon, the one about the lost spaceship that's found drifting with no crew and only a scrambled video log, and that one dude goes ape ****? I loved that movie, who wrote the book?
I'm nearing the end of House of Leaves, but I've still got a little ways to go. Goddamn, it's a good read. What's even more entertaining is that apparently the house is very close to where I live (when I'm not at college) in Williamsburg, VA. It was kind of cool seeing the Jamestown Settlement and even Colonial Williamsburg (I used to go to Duke of Gloucester street, which is mentioned in the book, almost every day to have coffee and flirt with the waitresses at Aroma's) talked about in there, even if it was only for a page or two. Johnny Truant is such a bizarre yet great character.
I'm also planning on getting around to the newest volume of the The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and Dante's The Divine Comedy. I'm also debating on whether to send for my copy of Alhazred by Donald Tyson. I really want to read it again, it's one of my favorite Lovecraftian novels. Tyson is one of the few writers that I wholeheartedly approve of writing Mythos novels, another one being Caitlin Kiernan. But Alhazred...it just seemed like Tyson captured perfectly the world that Abdul Alhazred inhabited, the brutality of the secret academies and monasteries housing elder secrets, and the callous, coldhearted nature off the protagonist himself. I think Tyson accomplished a near impossible task; he brought a mysterious, shady, unknowable character to life (and from the first person, no less), and at the same time doing everything else right too. He created a perfect blend of horror and fantasy. That book is epic (and I mean that word in every sense), and I really want to read it again. I'd also recommend it to anyone else, Lovecraft fan or not.
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It's just... so good! I was expecting a good read, and it has definitely fulfilled my expectations and then some. It is just full of history you never hear of, and current affairs that rarely go unreported or under-reported. The statistics and info is by far the most surprising thing.
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No it was not a book. I was just comparing it. No other sci-fi novel that comes to mind was like Event Horizon at least that I've read. Movie was amazing though.
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It shouldn't be "is put into the graveyard from the battlefield"
It should be "is put into the graveyard from play"
But anyway, this is one of the best horror/dark fantasy comic series I have ever seen. It is original, engaging, and the characterization is really great. And the way they started off the series was just freaking brilliant, they had me hooked from page 1. In fact, I don't have a single criticism, except that it takes too damn long for the graphic novels to be released after the individual comic books for the series are out. I'm not the only one who loves the series either, it's been nominated for a bunch of awards and there may even be a TV or movie franchise, take a look at the Wikipedia article. The authors really know how to build up a mystery, and from now on I think I have to buy the comics as they come out, not wait for the collection. Locke and Key: Crown of Shadows has started to come out in installments, and soon I'm going to the comic book store to try and find it. Looks like the psychopathic Sam Lesser is coming back.
Edit @Eevihl: Oh, I see. You got me excited there for a second, I really wanted to read the book if there was one.
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[That's a prolonged way of saying ... quality of writing ... yeah.]
It does have Star Wars and Zombies though.
I've been reading the P.G. Wodehouse books. They're actually really funny, which is nice: also, they're free, which is nicer.
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
He has a second book, Only Revolutions, its a teenage love story, (try to bear with my description) Its written in a poetic form, reccoemnding you read 8 (or some number) pages of one side, then the same to the other. Its the same form of the poem, but one is from the girls veiw, the other from the boys veiw. Honestly, it started to bore me, but its a really quick read
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I'm currently reading Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White which I've been told is one of the first "thrillers." It came out in 1860, the same time as Great Expectations.
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I'm biased, to be sure...but if you enjoy reading, are willing to work with more-difficult-than-standard material and prefer somewhat more mature subject matter...there is no other book/series i would recommend more than A Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire.
In the same dark fantasy vein, The Name of the Wind (patrick rothfuss) is excellent as well and the Malazan series (steven erickson), while more challenging that ASoIaF, is quite good too.