EPTDecided to start reading a book, and without being able to decide whether to finally finish The Hunger Games series, or read Game of Thrones, I went with the latter.
So yep, reading A Clash of Kings now.
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youngminii
Australia7514 Posts
Decided to start reading a book, and without being able to decide whether to finally finish The Hunger Games series, or read Game of Thrones, I went with the latter. So yep, reading A Clash of Kings now. | ||
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ZapRoffo
United States5544 Posts
Most recently finished newly read thing was A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr. which I mostly enjoyed but it felt slightly like a chore in parts of it, and a little overly alarmist (doesn't translate as well into the sophisticatedness of what we perceive as threats in modern times I guess). I liked the storytelling flair, it was more interestingly presented than the vast majority of science fiction. Also recently finished re-reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets which I'm convinced now is the best of them, it's such a well-paced and exciting mystery without really any notably glaring flaws or holes, and has great whimsy and goofiness at the same time. | ||
Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On May 09 2012 13:32 Cambium wrote: + Show Spoiler + Just finished: ![[image loading]](http://blog.mydot.com/image.axd?picture=2012%2F3%2FSuzanneCollinsBooks2.jpg) Read this in five days after watching the movie. It was a surprisingly good read; book three was lacking, but it wasn't terrible. The writing style sucked, there was almost no character development, and the plot was linear; but overall, it was fun and enjoyable. Reading: ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/A_Dance_With_Dragons_US.jpg) I've been putting this off since last year hoping that I would catch a paperback version, but I finally gave up and started reading it. So far so good, a lot more engaging than book four to say the least. Next up: ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/Inheritance2011.JPG/200px-Inheritance2011.JPG) It's either going to be this, Ready Player One or 1Q84, but this book won out, and the others have to wait. Just finished: This was a surprisingly good read after great disappointment with Feast. A lot of actions and changes in and outside of the Westeros. This is probably my favourite after Clash. Reading: ![[image loading]](http://assets2.bigthink.com/system/idea_thumbnails/42199/original/1Q84.gif) Next up: | ||
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Epx
Switzerland209 Posts
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On May 31 2012 15:32 youngminii wrote: Have not read a book in years, the last being Catching Fire (Mockingjay wasn't released at the time). Decided to start reading a book, and without being able to decide whether to finally finish The Hunger Games series, or read Game of Thrones, I went with the latter. So yep, reading A Clash of Kings now. Mockingjay is probably the worst of the three, but it does tie up all/most of the loose ends. A Clash of Kings is a great book. | ||
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Creach
United States4 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.fizzythoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/100yearsofsolitude.jpg) Awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome book, and I dont read. | ||
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JesusHadAegis
Australia11 Posts
![[image loading]](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N6APHtFPWNc/SLWitxDd7FI/AAAAAAAAAa8/dn5Ms0paY4k/s400/Carl.Sagan-Billions.%26.Billions.jpg) Another really easy book to read which examines a neuro-scientists gripping memoirs about the power of addiction and its adverse effects on the brain. ![[image loading]](http://www.sunbookshop.com/cover_images/feb/Adult%20Cover%20Images/04%20Memoirs%20of%20an%20Addicted%20Brain.jpg) Currently in the middle of this book and have enjoyed the authors perception on the human illusion but it has also been one of the most difficult books I have read. ![[image loading]](http://static.lulu.com/product/ebook/the-illusion-of-i-and-other/17382261/thumbnail/320) I just ordered this and cannot wait to read it. ![[image loading]](http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/guineapigbook.jpg) | ||
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MurdockA
Argentina28 Posts
![[image loading]](http://itthing.com/wp-content/uploads/art_of_war_cover.jpg) Great Book | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/141370000/141379617.JPG) | ||
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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/TheNameoftheWind_cover.jpg) and ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/The_Wise_Man%27s_Fear_UK_cover.jpg) great books, both part of the Kingkiller Chronicle. | ||
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DawN883
Sweden558 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/kYal5.jpg) Decided to read it after I heard Ray Bradbury died | ||
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EdaPoe
Netherlands82 Posts
![[image loading]](http://mitpress.mit.edu/images/products/books/9780262061483-f30.jpg) Next I am probably going to start ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D2MDCQG9L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg){kind=icon} | ||
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Sgany
United Kingdom790 Posts
Would anyone be able to comment on the book Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky? ![[image loading]](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t8x40LwuShw/TrIxc-mfHGI/AAAAAAAAAyM/uJTkKH1KJDY/s400/steve-jobs-book.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://assets2.sharedreviews.net/images/reviews/53225/business_non_movies_alice_buffett-fp-9afc07dec923ce7ed67c6eb5a32ceb40.jpg) | ||
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Brainsurgeon
Sweden359 Posts
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In)Spire
United States1323 Posts
Currently I have bought: 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment, Utopia, Slaughterhouse-Five. Anything else yall think is worth the time? | ||
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elt
Thailand1092 Posts
On June 09 2012 14:37 In)Spire wrote: I'm planning on doing some summer reading! Can anyone recommend books that make you think? Currently I have bought: 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment, Utopia, Slaughterhouse-Five. Anything else yall think is worth the time? Brave New World by Huxley and the less well known We by Yevgeny Zamyatin goes together well with 1984. People throw in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood into the mix as well, but personally I didn't enjoy it as much. Might have been to do with the fact that I had to do it for IB, while the others I read out of choice. Personally reading: ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61aPZsxoHkL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg){kind=icon} Quirky and amusing behavioural economics book. Plus it was only USD9.88 on Amazon at release which makes me better disposed towards it as well. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/147870000/147873655.JPG) Anyone read his Night Dawn Series, any good? | ||
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Salteador Neo
Andorra5591 Posts
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Ephemerality
United States203 Posts
Recently I've been re-reading the Wheel of Time series to gear up for the release of the final novel which will hopefully happen this fall :D On Monday I'm picking up Princeps by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. who writes a ton of novels in really in depth worlds. If you haven't read The Magic of Recluce you should at least try it, it's probably one of my all time favorite books. His books don't have as much action as others but, like I said, really go into the details of how magic might effect a world. | ||
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Solarized
United States11 Posts
On June 09 2012 14:37 In)Spire wrote: I'm planning on doing some summer reading! Can anyone recommend books that make you think? Currently I have bought: 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment, Utopia, Slaughterhouse-Five. Anything else yall think is worth the time? Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a fun satire about middle-class America in the 1950s. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster is a collection of three "detective" novellas based around general questions of identity and the "realness" of reality (or what we call "reality"). Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki is about a young Japanese man who moves to Tokyo to study at the Imperial University and his subsequent unexpected growth as a person. Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow investigates an aristocrat's agonizing, destructive passion towards a woman and the effects of Westernization within 20th century Japan. (On a more personal note, I'm interested in which translation you have of Crime and Punishment). | ||
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