EPTWhat Are You Reading 2017 - Page 2
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kwizach
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
To OP : Le Rouge et le Noir is great. Mathilde is hilarious. Try la Chartreuse de Parme after, it's at least as good imo. Also PKD's the shit, but so is Lem. Reading Svevo atm, albeit slowly cause I have to grade boring maths and I had to see family for some reason. Pretty amusing so far. Also, what I read in 2016 here.122 pages a day for funsies. | ||
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123Gurke
France154 Posts
On January 03 2017 04:57 corumjhaelen wrote: ^lol To OP : Le Rouge et le Noir is great. Mathilde is hilarious. Try la Chartreuse de Parme after, it's at least as good imo. Thanks for the recommendations! My progress so far is very slow, but I am enjoying it nevertheless. On January 03 2017 04:57 corumjhaelen wrote: Also PKD's the shit, but so is Lem. Reading Svevo atm, albeit slowly cause I have to grade boring maths and I had to see family for some reason. Pretty amusing so far. Also, what I read in 2016 here.122 pages a day for funsies. So you are telling us that you do not have kids? | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
On January 03 2017 06:34 123Gurke wrote: Thanks for the recommendations! My progress so far is very slow, but I am enjoying it nevertheless. So you are telling us that you do not have kids? Certainly not  Wouldn't be possible to read half that if I had. | ||
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123Gurke
France154 Posts
On January 03 2017 06:54 corumjhaelen wrote: Certainly not Wouldn't be possible to read half that if I had.That is still an optimistic estimate. I have read not more than 1000 pages last year, most of that while I was traveling or ill. So be careful kids: having children really cuts into your reading time.  | ||
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Thermia
United States866 Posts
On January 02 2017 04:40 goody153 wrote: About to finish book 2 of Travellers Gate trilogy (it got better) Trying out ![[image loading]](http://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327917754l/9579634.jpg) Definitely waaay darker than what i expected. I read this out of the promise that i'll be reading a protagonist (or anti-hero whatever) that is not morally just at all. + Show Spoiler + and the first 15 pages showcases him and his group doing pillaging of innocent villages(murder, plunder, rape etc) though they didn't detail the act completely just implied or explicitly said so it's kinda bearable ? Apparently it's for some sort of important political move which i assume is trying to topple the local Baron (though i'm sure there's gonna be some sort of bigger motivation or greater good shit he's doing but he's still pretty irredeemable from the looks of things ) Not the type of book you'd just chill with and can be anger inducing Have you read any of Will Wight's other books? He seems like a great up and coming fantasy writer IMO. I liked the Elder Empire and Cradle series even more than Traveler's Gate (which I read first). + Show Spoiler + If you read his blogs, it appears they all take place in the same universe or something? Kind of like the cosmere | ||
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goody153
44088 Posts
On January 05 2017 00:19 Thermia wrote: Have you read any of Will Wight's other books? He seems like a great up and coming fantasy writer IMO. I liked the Elder Empire and Cradle series even more than Traveler's Gate (which I read first). + Show Spoiler + If you read his blogs, it appears they all take place in the same universe or something? Kind of like the cosmere No just the Travellers Gate(i'm not even done yet since i'm alternating between book 2 of it, Prince of Thorns, book 3 Malazan and Babylon Steel(idk just some weird book i picked up)) Damn so it's like cosmere ? I always liked shared universe stuff(so long as it's not between two or more authors that i don't like ). Any suggestion of his other great series ? | ||
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B.I.G.
3251 Posts
-"Guide to Investment Strategy" by Peter Stanyer -"Inferno" by Dan Brown -"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu -"Il Principe" by Nicollò Machiavelli -"The Eye of the World" by Robert Jordan -"Red Seas Under Red Skies" by Scott Lynch -"Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner -"He's Just Not That Into You" by Greg Behrendt -"REDACTED" by REDACTED + Show Spoiler + (The Mystery Method) -"Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin (yes I still havent' finished it stop judging me) Yes I know I need to finish some of this shit. | ||
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RvB
Netherlands6196 Posts
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Flicky
England2659 Posts
On January 04 2017 19:38 Flicky wrote: I finished Er Ist Wieder Da by Timur Vermes not long ago and I'm not hugely sure on how I felt about it. I read in German but I am not German which means a lot of the contemporary German references flew over me, but I'm not sure I'd be hugely into those anyway (I'm not a fan of easy satire). Anyway, a lot of issues I have with the book is how it goes so slowly to begin with and the lengthy Hitler monologues while not much is going on. Having Hitler talk about modern things is just too straight forward. Not to say I didn't laugh at some of these things. For me the book became great when Hitler was portrayed as human and in his interaction with other people he cared for, and in Hitler's playing of the TV system to become famous. These parts were very enjoyable and there were points where I was hoping Hitler would work things out with his assistant. Those bits were enjoyable. Aside from that, not a whole lot happens in the 400 pages. I'd much rather the lengthy monologues in the start were taken out or dispersed and there was more actual story, thought I'm glad they didn't go full fish out of water with it. Also, about 50 pages before the end there's an entire chapter of Hitler's thoughts on things. Hey, decent read. Would be better if I was German. (Ps. writing the Berlin accent phonetically is horrible to read) Quoting myself to here because I thought were were going to use the 2016 thread a little longer. | ||
Liquid`Zephyr
United States996 Posts
just started the blade itself and liking it so far | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
In December I read: JR, by William Gaddis Augustus, by John Williams The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark Jakob von Guten, by Robert Walser Didn't read for pretty much 3 weeks of December cause of family/vacation stuff. Starting 2017 with The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki | ||
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
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goody153
44088 Posts
On January 05 2017 11:03 IgnE wrote: So you read those four books in the 10 other days of December? Idk i don't think it's odd for csheep. I've finished entire books before within a day or two. Recently i've finished travellers gate 1 recently around 3 days or something (not exactly sure but it didn't last a week) | ||
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Acrofales
Spain17955 Posts
On January 02 2017 19:31 maybenexttime wrote: I definitely do not recommend reading P. K. Dick's novels. I tried two of them and they were just bad... T___T P. K. Dick has a great imagination and invents great stories. It's just a shame his execution is bad. Unlike Clarke or Asimov, who could actually write, in addition to coming up with the story. Michael Crichton suffers from a similar problem imho. As does Ramez Naam, whose book I just finished: Uninteresting characters and flat prose made me enjoy this a lot less than I should have, given the plot and world building. | ||
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SCC-Faust
United States3736 Posts
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goody153
44088 Posts
On January 05 2017 19:38 SCC-Faust wrote: I'm finally finishing Way of Kings. Started like a year and some days ago and got halfway through and stopped for whatever reason, even though I loved it. Already bought the next book in the series. It is an extremely good book and if anyone enjoys fantasy, I highly recommend it. The first half is kinda not that great (alot had the same experience and i myself had difficulty getting past the earlier parts of WoK) but after that it just kept getting better and better. You'll find the book 2 much MUCH better than book 1 (no more of that bummer parts that book 1 had) | ||
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B.I.G.
3251 Posts
On January 05 2017 04:14 RvB wrote: How are you able to read so many books at the same time? I can't manage more than one. Well 6 of those books are informative so they are more about absorbing knowledge than anything else. As for the novels, I have a pretty good brain for keeping those stories apart so it never really gets confusing if thats what you mean. | ||
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Salteador Neo
Andorra5591 Posts
On January 05 2017 19:48 goody153 wrote: The first half is kinda not that great (alot had the same experience and i myself had difficulty getting past the earlier parts of WoK) but after that it just kept getting better and better. You'll find the book 2 much MUCH better than book 1 (no more of that bummer parts that book 1 had) I had the same feeling about The Way of Kings, but I don't think the first half is bad per se, it's just really slow. The second half is pure awesome tho, and I think it makes the first book slightly better than the second. | ||
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