Ifrit
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Sept 23, 2019 16:24:29 GMT
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Post by Ifrit on Sept 23, 2019 16:24:29 GMT
Have any of you been doing reading lately?
I have to read for a class of mine, and it got me interested in it again. I been reading Angel's Blood, from the Guild Hunter series, because it was all that seemed interesting in the pile of books in my class. It's not too bad
It has me thinking I might wanna try reading the wheel of time series again. I enjoyed that series a lot
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Sept 23, 2019 16:40:14 GMT
I read much, not only for the job. The last months I had a little hard science fiction revival, Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space series and Walter H. Hunt's Dark Wing series. And between them the latest Uhtred/Last Kingdom novel.
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Sept 23, 2019 17:44:34 GMT
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Post by Ifrit on Sept 23, 2019 17:44:34 GMT
What is that series about? Would you recommend it?
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Post by snowbite on Sept 23, 2019 17:49:07 GMT
Been whittling away at Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts. A thick tome, but very readable. I just need to make more time for it. Also recently began Swords and Swordsman by Mike Loades, but not yet far enough into it to comment.
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Sept 23, 2019 17:57:40 GMT
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Post by Ifrit on Sept 23, 2019 17:57:40 GMT
... Now that I think of it. I wonder if my English teacher would be fine with me reading a book about swords and their use, for my curriculum lmao
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Sept 23, 2019 18:06:33 GMT
What is that series about? Would you recommend it? Hunt is space opera (with swords, used by aliens). Reynold has a incredible amount of ideas and I like his stuff better, here is some info, better than I can explain it: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_Space_universe
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Post by Adrian Jordan on Sept 23, 2019 18:10:44 GMT
Oh yeah. Love reading. I'll second the Saxon series by Bernard Cornwell. I'm not actually into vikings, but that series is superb.
I just got a book for my birthday called Texas Flood about Stevie Ray Vaughn. He was a blues musician and one of the most monstrous guitar players of all time. Kicked extremely severe alcohol, heroin and cocaine addictions and unfortunately died in a helicopter crash.
I'm currently reading Across the Fence, by John Stryker Meyer. It's about his units covert operations in Cambodia and Laos during his time in the 5th Special Forces/MACV-SOG group in Vietnam. Some extremely amazing, and completely harrowing, stuff.
I've also got The Nuns of Nara, by I.J. Parker going, as well as a reread of The Hobbit(which will likely lead to a reread of the entire series).
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Post by MOK on Sept 23, 2019 18:33:37 GMT
If I'm not reading something online, I'm probably reading a book. At the moment I've got open Isles of Gold - Antique Maps of Japan by Hugh Cortazzi, a Finnish translation of Tacitus's Historiae, Robert E. Howard's Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures ("The Road of Azrael" still takes my breath away)... and Englantilaiset aaveet, a Finnish anthology of classic English horror stories (compiled and edited by Markku Sadelehto, because seriously who else).
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Post by wlewisiii on Sept 23, 2019 18:38:46 GMT
Reading. I love reading and have several books going right now: Rereading Roworth- bound copy of 3rd Edition of The Art of Defense on Foot The Elizabethan Book Of Common Prayer 1559 ed. John E. Bootey Moby semprini Beowulf - Heaney Translation, Norton Critical Edition ed by Daniel Donoghue
Plan to start on payday on my tablet via kindle: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer (translator), et al. .
Note, I don't list or count light fiction, especially SF, as I blow through that like candy. Sweet delicious candy but for real meals, books like the above are what count.
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Sept 23, 2019 20:08:49 GMT
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Post by Ifrit on Sept 23, 2019 20:08:49 GMT
Reading. I love reading and have several books going right now: Rereading Roworth- bound copy of 3rd Edition of The Art of Defense on Foot The Elizabethan Book Of Common Prayer 1559 ed. John E. Bootey Moby semprini Beowulf - Heaney Translation, Norton Critical Edition ed by Daniel Donoghue Plan to start on payday on my tablet via kindle: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer (translator), et al. . Note, I don't list or count light fiction, especially SF, as I blow through that like candy. Sweet delicious candy but for real meals, books like the above are what count. Beowulf was a favourite of mine. I read it, not knowing anything about Norse Mythology/stories and was blown away by it. First time I've seen a story end the way it did I was sad at how badly the movie butchered it
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Sept 23, 2019 20:28:41 GMT
I'm reading 'The Lies of Locke Lamora' Great fantasy thief and world building...loving it.
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Sept 23, 2019 20:54:23 GMT
Currently reading: David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (following on reading his Consider The Lobster) Legal Action Comics Volume 1 Das Schwert – Gestalt und Gedanke / The Sword – Form and Thought shop.histofakt.de/product_info.php?products_id=64&language=enStephen Kinzer, Blood of Brothers About to read: Fuchsia Dunlop, The Food of Sichuan Tom Holland, Millennium Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age Kaveh Farrokh, The Armies of Ancient Persia: the Sassanians Recently read: Strugatsky brothers, a whole bunch (The Doomed City, Roadside Picnic, Hard to be a God, Snail on the Slope, Monday begins on Saturday) Saburo Ienaga, The Pacific War, 1931-1945 Junji Ito, Uzumaki Hans J. Van De Ven, China at War Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth David M. Ewalt, Of Dice and Men John James, Votan and Other Novels Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare At Goats, and Them Neil Melville, The Two Handed Sword Ian McEwan, Solar Italo Calvino, If On A Winter's Night A Traveller Franz Kafka, The Trial Hannu Rajaniemi, Summerland (it was OK, but far short of the quality of Invisible Planets) Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master And Margarita John Foster, Cambrian Ocean World Will Self, Shark One-Punch Man (just caught up to what has been published after read them at about 1 volume per week or 2)
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Sept 23, 2019 21:49:19 GMT
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Post by theophilus736 on Sept 23, 2019 21:49:19 GMT
Currently finishing up LOTR. I'm always surprised by Tolkiens depth, and sad that after he stopped being taught everyone thinks his depth is just details lore and language.
Then I have a laundry list for a mens book club.
Joan of Arc, Twain (Through most of this, its okay at times, genius at others, and crap on rare occasions) The Path to Rome, Belloc A Christmas Carol, Dickens In this House of Brede, Godden The Power & The Glory, Greene One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn A Man for All Seasons, Bolt Shadows on the Rock, Cather Kristen Lavransdatter, Undset
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Post by stormmaster on Sept 23, 2019 22:38:55 GMT
I'm currently reading the Stormlihgt Archive series by Brandon Sanderson, on book 3 atm but I have been putting it for for so many months now that I have forgotten so much I feel I should start again from book 1 and do it all over again
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Post by Curtis_Louis on Sept 23, 2019 23:39:33 GMT
Just finished Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis (interesting read, even if you are not a RHCP fan).
and just started Thank you for my service by Mat Best
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Post by nerdthenord on Sept 24, 2019 0:04:20 GMT
Hyperion and Endymion series by Dan Simmons, and just finished The Commonwealth Saga by Peter Hamilton.
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Post by nerdthenord on Sept 24, 2019 0:10:28 GMT
Oh, and can't forget the fragment of Hyperion Keats actually wrote before abandoning it. I still love the language he was able to craft. Extremely evocative wordcrafting without getting too pretentious.
Saturn is fallen, am I too to fall? Am I to leave this haven of my rest, This cradle of my glory, this soft clime, This calm luxuriance of blissful light, These crystalline pavilions, and pure fanes, Of all my lucent empire? It is left Deserted, void, nor any haunt of mine. The blaze, the splendour, and the symmetry, I cannot see—but darkness, death and darkness.
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Sept 24, 2019 0:41:56 GMT
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Post by Ifrit on Sept 24, 2019 0:41:56 GMT
I might be alone here in that I enjoy novels aimed at women. That's like one of those things I can never share in real life lol. I was really into Anne Rice
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Post by Adrian Jordan on Sept 24, 2019 0:50:08 GMT
Good book's a good book, regardless of who it's aimed at. You ever read any Amy Tan? I read The Joyluck Club and it was outstanding. I have Valley of Amazement and it should be good as well.
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Post by nerdthenord on Sept 24, 2019 0:54:16 GMT
I might be alone here in that I enjoy novels aimed at women. That's like one of those things I can never share in real life lol. I was really into Anne Rice Yup, definitely alone there buddy. That is meant in good fun of course. For me it seems like I've accidentally gotten into two sci fi series with utterly terrifying monsters featured heavily. First it was MorningLightMountain from the Commonwealth Saga, now it's The Shrike from Hyperion. "Shudders" The Shrike is absolutely purified nightmare fuel embodied.
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