Currently struggling with A Feast for Crows... I've been reading it for about a year now; it's my least favourite in the series by far. Need to push on through so I can get back to the interesting characters!!

Teodice

Sweden641 Posts

January 30 2012 10:23 GMT

#323

Currently enjoying:

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I can´t say if I like it or not so far. I was just out of stuff to read so I grabbed the first thing I saw. Way better then the movie thou.

Hopefully I´ll be able to find some new refreshing stuff to enjoy here!

Teodice

Sweden641 Posts

January 30 2012 10:26 GMT

#324

On January 30 2012 19:21 Brett wrote:
Currently struggling with A Feast for Crows... I've been reading it for about a year now; it's my least favourite in the series by far. Need to push on through so I can get back to the interesting characters!!

Christ man, that book man... It gets better later on but shit, I found it really hard to swallow that one. Luckily for me I got it on Audio book and with my mindless work I made it through in the end.

My favourite in that series so far is a Dance with Dragons. Really looking forward to the release of The winds of winter!

IdrA

United States11541 Posts

January 30 2012 10:57 GMT

#325

does anyone know if glen cook is still planning on publishing the next 2 black company books?
and if theres an eta

zalz

Netherlands3704 Posts

January 30 2012 11:10 GMT

#326

On January 30 2012 19:26 Teodice wrote:

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I felt that Dance suffered from the same problems. Incredibly long with very little happening.

It all feels like setup with very little being resolved.

After the third book and the major event that shook the status quo, the series has been a little aimless. It was a ballsy move, but I am not sure if GRRM can manage to keep a handle on his story.

Edeen

United Kingdom18 Posts

January 30 2012 11:14 GMT

#327

The series so far has been awesome, highly recommended.

xrapture

United States1644 Posts

January 30 2012 12:01 GMT

#328

Tried to read Dance with Dragons, but it's even worse than Feast for Crows so I had to stop. Probably going to reread Hyperion next.

Zeon0

Austria2995 Posts

January 30 2012 14:25 GMT

#329

u scare me. 1-3 of song of ice and fire were awesome, but i am also disappointed in feast for crows (i'm at ~700/1000). i hope you are not right ...

synac

Finland13 Posts

January 30 2012 14:32 GMT

#330

Dance with Dragons is definitely better than Feast for Crows, but worse than the first three books.

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benshin

Norway27 Posts

January 30 2012 14:38 GMT

#331

Books i've read in january and february 2012

Cormac CcCarthy: The Sunset Limited. - Awesome, simplistic Cormac style story. It's about mr white and mr black, an atheist and a Christian, discussing life and death.
Originally a play, also made a film out of it, starring Samuel jackson and Tommy Lee Jones.
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Haruki Murakami: After The Quake. Short stories around the time of the Kobe quake in Japan, 1995.

Kurt Vonnegut:
A Man Without A Country. Imo the best and most honest work of this great author, packed in this small series of short stories.
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Breakfast For Champion. Funny on many levels. I guess I gotta reread it, cuz It diden't really turn me on the Vonnegut way. And I really suppose this should be one of these books.
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Cat's Cradle. Awesome start on this book, loved the father of the Abomb character. Too bad he tries to pack up so many points/criticism in such a short book.

Sudhir Vankatesg: One day as a gang leader. Half ass book about gangs in Chicago. Imo, a good thought, but seems like he wrapped it up to fast. Not gonna bother uploading a pic for this one...

Julian Rubinstein: Ballad of The Whiskey Robber. This is a book I highly recommend. It's a real story about a Huangrian/romian goal keeper, who decides to become a bank robber. Gives great and original insight of post-communistic Budaphest, in an original and hysterical way.
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Hunter S. Thomson.
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Speaks for itself. Funny and entertaining.

The Rum Diary. So far the best I've read by Thomson. Indescribable entertaining, and so much style packed in so few pages! GO AND BUY, NOOOW!!
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Mitch Albom: Five People You Meet In Heaven. Cute little book about shallow existensialism based around one individual..ish.

Karl Ove Knausgård:My Struggle vol 1(out of 6). Already a classic in Scandinavia. Danish Kapital compares him to Goethe and Hamsun. A "rockstar" in Norway. This is some awesome, but really wierd shit. Describes daily events in a cathing and unshy way.
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Reading atm:
On The Road, Keruac
HST. The Essentials. Mostly Rolling Stones aricles written by Thomson. And some mails between him the RS staff/editor.
The Sun Alsos Rises - Hemingway

Mr Showtime

United States1353 Posts

January 30 2012 15:06 GMT

#332

ofc

BaconofWar

United States369 Posts

January 30 2012 15:21 GMT

#333

Marc elliot's book: From Tourrete's to tolerance

Shirow

Austria70 Posts

January 30 2012 15:25 GMT

#334

I try to read a few "classic" ones as well as some new ones every year. Last year i finished every book of Haruki Murakami (i started three years ago) and my only "classic" ones were The great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) and Tolstoi's War and Peace. So i have to make up for it this year.

The first one will be: The Brothers Karamazov (Die Brüder Karamasow), Fjodor Dostojewski
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Second: Crime and Punishment (Schuld und Sühne), Fjodor Dostojewski
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Third: Anna Karenina, Lew Nikolajewitch Tolstoi
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Fourth: 1Q84, Haruki Murakami
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YES I was waiting so hard for this book :D

The ones mentioned above will not be the only ones I read. Just the ones I really want to read this year and wich I will give priority.

€: I forgot one important on my list. Actually an American patient on my ward recommendet it to me (as I was the only one who could really talk to him) and I think I have to give it a try.

Fifth: Altas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
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Dankbeer

United States61 Posts

January 30 2012 15:31 GMT

#335

Just finished:
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World War Z is a collection of short stories told in an interview style narrative. Many of the short stories are fairly interesting.

Starting:
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It's a real horrorshow novel.

Dankbeer

Flicky

England2666 Posts

January 30 2012 15:32 GMT

#336

On January 01 2012 22:26 Salteador Neo wrote:
I'm reading "The magician's guild" and so far I think it's an obnoxious PLAGIARISM of "The mistborn" series by Sanderson.

Ok well because no one else has said it, The Magician's Guild was published 5 years before any of the Mistborn books.

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Surprisingly good considering the awful cover. It was in the horror section but it's not got anything close to horror for the first like, 300 pages. A pretty decent book about people going crazy with the tedium of work with a bit of Sci-fi and that thrown in. A bunch of video-game references too.

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Will be next, should be cool.

After that, The Bonehunters. I try to take gaps between Malazan books but this one has been a tough wait.

Cambium

United States16368 Posts

January 30 2012 15:40 GMT

#337

On January 14 2012 06:58 ukas wrote:
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Best book this year, and i'm starting Domain of the dead

great book!

Auren

United States82 Posts

January 30 2012 16:02 GMT

#338

On January 30 2012 19:23 Teodice wrote:
Currently enjoying:

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If you end up liking it I definitely recommend you try his book, Angels and Demons next. I read them both back to back and enjoyed Angels and Demons more because I felt like the pacing of the story moved a lot quicker.

Gyger

Norway18 Posts

January 30 2012 16:06 GMT

#339

I'm reading this for the 4th or 5th time now:
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I just got this in the mail and can't wait to get started:
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I've been reading this for ages now and can't seem to finish:
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And I'll probably start this soon to:
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kahite

France3 Posts

January 30 2012 16:16 GMT

#340

Just finished :
Foundation Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation Isaac Asimov
Foundation's Edge Isaac Asimov
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