I think my favorite book series is Warriors xD yay for cats! lol

Yeah, I started reading the series after seeing most of the two seasons. It is less interesting knowing what will come so far, though like other books there is so much more of an explanation of why things occur in a show or movie. I was actually lost I found to what was really happening in the show until reading it course.

OT: Reading the second book of a Song of Fire and Ice: A clash of Kings. I read only on my tablet now and this series was the first book , or non-college book I read in 7 years. It is pretty chill to want to read after having more than enough I had to read in college. I also am going to read the Pulitzer prize winner "the road" soon. Once you go tablet you never go back. 

I've just started reading Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Right now I'm reading my Philosophy book. I'm not currently reading anything for fun though.

Yes to the highlighted--nothing against everything else you said, but I've read Lovecraft and Sun Tzu. Sun Tzu is one of those texts everyone should read. I read it, funnily enough, after playing Advance Wars, as if it would somehow help me in that!

Great selection of Lovecraft stories there, too. I'd add The Shadow Over Innsmouth to those recommendations. Lovecraft's bad stories are pretty damn bad, but he makes up for that because his best stuff is pretty much in a league of its own.

And on the paper vs ebook side, like I mentioned, I got a kindle earlier and will now be buying the majority of my books through that. It's a great reading experience, honestly, coming from someone who amassed over 500 books. I cut that down to 250 when I left university because I then needed to move house twice. I'm now living in my parent's new (old) house while they renovate it, and it's just not practical to own so many paper books when I'm young and not settled down anywhere. I'll be holding onto quite a few of my paper books, but anything I can get cheaply/for free through kindle I'll get rid of the physical copy. I'll still buy stuff like Hyrule Historia, or Firefly: A Celebration, because they're more like books were eight centures ago: carefully constructed, lavish tomes that celebrate the material in them. One of the downsides during book history to mass production of books (a small downside versus the propagation of literacy), was the way in which books went from being crafted beautifully, to being near identical pieces with small, dull typeset. It's one of the reason I love my illustrated, hardcover Tolkien editions: it's a celebration of just how brilliant that particular text is.

I'd love to own the fancy, hardcover editions of A Song of Ice and Fire that they do, too. That being said, I'd recommend dedicated e-readers to anyone that loves reading. The practicality and pricing options are great, and it's a really good experience. I have a backlit one and won't be going back to paper books for the majority of my reading: but as I said, high quality physical volumes will always have a home on my bookshelves.

Again, I'd highly recommend them. I got the set after the first season of Thrones, and went through all of them very quickly. I expected a lot of the attraction to Martin was due to his characters and the machiavellian, complex nature of his plots, but his writing style is excellent and extremely readable--far better than I was expecting. I suppose for some people his descriptions of violence and food might be on the verbose side, but I had no problem with it.

He's attached some realism to a fantasy world, particularly the medieval kind of realism so absent from centuries of literature, and really absent in the kind of neo-Tolkienian fantasy that became prevalent in the sixties through eighties: Martin however, depicts the paradox of noble knights slaughtering innocents, of kings in castles living next to peasants in hovels, and the kind of amoral political manouvering that dominated European societies for centures, resulting in brutal conflicts like the War of the Roses here in Britain. That being said, one of the key themes of the book is the return of magic to the world. It's not massively explicit, because the political schemes and personal dramas of the characters are the focus in Martin's texts, but it's obviously there.

But yeah, like I said, I highly recommend them. You get a huge amount of brilliantly crafted, well-written material for your money, and it really fleshes out the television show.

700 pages into Book 3 Malazan Book of the Fallan 

So good. 

At the moment I am reading the Horus Heresy series of books from the Black Library.

Right now reading a novel called Fear to Tread which highlighs the Blood Angels Legion.

So far so good as this is an extremely rich universe and the writers appear to have done it justice.

For those interested here is a sample from this book.

Spoilers

For a moment, Sejanus thought he saw something dark pass over Horus’s face; then the instant was gone. ‘We have dethroned all the gods,’ said the Luna Wolf, ‘and you are only pale shadows of those things.’

The grey let off a hooting cry in its own language and the legion of nephilim advanced, each of them phosphorescing an angry yellow. ‘We will destroy you,’ it said. ‘We outnumber you.’

Horus gave a rueful nod and drew his sword, a massive scimitar-curve of oiled steel and adamantium. ‘You will try,’ he said. ‘But today you face the Emperor’s sons, his warriors. We are the Luna Wolves, and this Legion is the anvil upon which you will be broken.’

From high overhead there was a low crackle and a sound like distant thunder as sonic booms from the upper atmosphere reached the desert floor. Sejanus looked up, his acute eyesight picking out lines of white contrails, hundreds in number, flaring out behind great crimson tears and scarlet-hued hawks as they fell at supersonic speeds towards the silver sands.

‘We are the anvil,’ Horus repeated, pointing with his sword. ‘Now behold the hammer.’

The heavens screamed.

Ejected from the launch tubes of a dozen capital ships and battle-barges in low orbit, a rain of ceramite capsules tore through the outer atmosphere of Melchior and fell like flaming meteors towards the Silver Desert. Falling with them were diving hawks; Stormbirds and assault gunships turning and wheeling through the air towards the gargantuan nephilim encampment.

They were red as blood, red as fury, and within they carried company upon company of the warriors of the IX Legion Astartes. The speed of their assault was the key to victory; the alien invaders and their zealots had successfully been drawn out to confront the massed forces of the Luna Wolves, leaving the defences on their flanks thinned and permeable. But the xenos giants were not slow in their thinking, and the moment they understood that they had been duped, they would attempt to regroup and fortify.

Yes. Holy crap yes. I watched season 1 & 2 then read the books. The first two could be a bit slow (knowing what will happen) But there is so much stuff that the show cut that keeps everything very interesting. Also: DAT Storm of Swords. One of the best books I have ever read.

Yes. Books 1, 4, and 5 are great imho.

2 and 3 are just good. But all are worth reading.