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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #285 on: September 07, 2013, 10:28:07 am »
Death Warmed Over.  It's about a zombie P.I. and it's utterly hilarious so far.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #286 on: September 11, 2013, 03:41:14 am »
I've been reading Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield.  It's basically a historical fiction novel about the Battle of Thermopylae.  It's actually pretty interesting and so much better than 300 ever could be. 

Battle Royale was a good one.  I'm tempted to re-read it.  It was just so raw and visceral that I just couldn't put it down.  I actually watched the movie a few weeks ago and thought it was good, but the book was definitely better.

I think that next on my table though is Game of Thrones.  I just started watching the series and it has really drawn me in even though I've seen the first 2 episodes.  My only question is should I wait on this and read The Wheel of Time series instead, since it's actually finished.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #287 on: September 11, 2013, 06:23:35 pm »
Depends on how much of WoT you've read. The first 4 books are excellent, then the series bogs down until book 11. Some of those inbetween books are like 800-1000 some pages of book. Most of them go very far in to a boring subplot that wasn't needed to be focused on. Then there was the book with the huge prolouge that has every character in the series(including unimportant characters) describing the same damn event.

I'd say go with The Song of Ice and Fire series(aka, Game of Thrones).

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #288 on: September 12, 2013, 01:57:52 am »
Depends on how much of WoT you've read. The first 4 books are excellent, then the series bogs down until book 11. Some of those inbetween books are like 800-1000 some pages of book. Most of them go very far in to a boring subplot that wasn't needed to be focused on. Then there was the book with the huge prolouge that has every character in the series(including unimportant characters) describing the same damn event.

I'd say go with The Song of Ice and Fire series(aka, Game of Thrones).

This is why i continue to put off reading the series.  It's a massive undertaking and I hear that it is worth it, but i hear the middle books get so bogged down that it's hard to finish.  I'm just not sure I'm ready to drop that kind of time into it yet.  Maybe at the beginning of next year when life slows down a little.  I've started GoT and am liking it so far, although admittedly I'm only about 40 pages in.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #289 on: September 12, 2013, 02:19:18 am »
A lot of parts in Game of Thrones can drag. Just putting that out there. With that said, I couldn't fucking get into the Wheel of Time. I have a bunch of the books but I just can't read them. It didn't help having a dudebro tell me for two years they were the best thing ever and hinted more than once that I could never be as good of a writer. When that same person knew that I write and already agonize over feeling like I'm not good enough.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #290 on: September 12, 2013, 04:34:42 pm »
There are parts of Game of Thrones that drag, painfully detailed descriptions of meals, I'm look at you. But it's not like the middle WoT books where the vast majority of the books are bogged down.

As for if WoT is worth reading, that I think is a personal decision and the only way you'll know for sure is reading the books. I thought the ending was good, even if bits of it were pretty obvious. But I'm not sure if that ending was worth waiting half my life for. Maybe I'd feel different if I had started reading the series after all the books were published.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #291 on: September 12, 2013, 05:41:55 pm »
I'm reading Looking for Alaska but I'm having a really hard time finding the motivation to finish it because my mom read it first and spoiled it for me. Then she refused to apologize because she "had no way of knowing {I} hadn't finished it yet", despite the fact that I was still, y'know, reading the goddamn book and talking about how I knew something bad was going to happen but almost didn't want to find out what it was. I also got Mass Effect: Ascension but haven't started it yet.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #292 on: September 13, 2013, 08:57:00 am »
Just don't read Mass Effect: Deception. Ugh what a piece of shit that book is.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #293 on: September 22, 2013, 02:53:39 pm »
There is a Janny Wurts book called To Ride Hell's Chasm.  It's a massive doorstopper of a book, but it's AWESOME.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #294 on: September 22, 2013, 07:25:45 pm »
I finished A Storm of Swords now it's on to A Feast for Crows.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #295 on: September 22, 2013, 07:58:50 pm »
Lets Examine Diabetes With Owls, David Sedaris' latest collection of essays. Some truly funny essays in there.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #296 on: September 23, 2013, 07:39:22 am »
I finished A Storm of Swords now it's on to A Feast for Crows.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #297 on: September 25, 2013, 01:40:42 pm »
Lmfao indeed.

Also, I spy a line in A Feast for Crows that reminded me of Battlestar Galactica: "Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will preforce happen again, he said."


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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #298 on: September 26, 2013, 10:12:44 pm »
I just started Razor's Edge(Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion) by Martha Wells

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #299 on: September 26, 2013, 10:20:39 pm »
I took a small break from A Feast for Crows so I could read Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero. It was an extremely short read, but fascinating. Though there were a few glaring errors when it came to grammar and the like. Hrn.

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