Just finished reading The Kite Runner. Amazing book. Fantastic from start to finish, highly recommended.
Up next: Life of Pi. Saw the movie and knew I had to read the book. Anyone else read it???
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I just noticed yesterday that I have Life of Pi on my bookshelf. Wife must have gotten it. Will read it after I am done with the finale of The Dark Tower again.
| Branko2166 said: 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. |
COPAIN !
I've this one to read yet. Know No Fear is awesome, especially after the huge letdown which was Prospero Burns and Thousand sons. My favorite of the whole Horus Heresy is Mechanicum, I love its descrition of princeps, I felt the same thing as a princeps in a Titan when I had my first dreadnought in EVE ^^. However, I m a bit concerned with the discontinuous quality between the titles of Horus Heresy. The first arc till the Flight of the Eisenstein is yet to be completed and it's been years I've been looking for a sequel.
Have you read Battlefleet Gothic ? Bit harder to find now, but the story is stunning !
Well, I just finished The Gathering Storm, book 12 of Wheel of Time. I'm hoping to get the series finished before everyone gets bored of discussing the ending.
Since I tend to read one book in paperback and one on Kindle at the same time, I'm also about halfway through 11.22.63 by Stephen King, a novel about a man who finds a portal to 1958 in his local burger bar and pledges to stop the Kennedy assassination from ever happening. It's not high literature, but it's still a great read with a few very quotable lines, like:
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.
and
But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.
I've also got Ubik by Phillip K Dick ready on the Kindle for when I finish, and I'll finish off the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson after that (I've only read the first).
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J_Allard said:
2 and 3 are just good. But all are worth reading. |
You think so? This is actually the reverse of what most people (including myself) think.
Books 1-3 are, in my opinion, excellent, and some of the best pieces of fantasy writing ever. Books 4 and 5 are a lot slower and more irritating, but very good all the same.
Do join us in the A Song of Ice and Fire thread which contains unmarked spoilers for all novels, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED if you have finished the series: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=152596
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| Attoyou said: 700 pages into Book 3 Malazan Book of the Fallan
So good. |
I'm about a full book behind you, when did you start reading the series? I started about 2-3 months ago.
I went to the library today and picked up the book I had on hold. So, now I'm reading The Last Apprentice: Night of the Soul Stealer by Joseph Delaney.
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There is definitely an inconsistency but it is to be expected considering there are multiple authors.
I only recently got into reading the warhammer 40K books. Before that I would spend hours reading the fluff on lexicanum and other sites.
At the moment besides fear to tread which I am finding really well done I am also reading the Primarchs which is a series of short stories.
I was actually considering getting Prospero burns because I find the space wolves interesting.
I haven't read Battlefield Gothic yet.
I also purchased the Horus heresy book "Betrayal" from forgeworld although it is fairly expensive. Half of the book is fluff and the rest is detailed info on units, campaigns and rules. But it was an impulse by on my part :)
Re-reading Watership down at the moment and I just placed an order for The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia.
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mtu9356 said:
I'm about a full book behind you, when did you start reading the series? I started about 2-3 months ago. |
Its been 4-5 months now. Im a bit of a slow reader but i also like to switch to a different book after every 2-3 books in a series so i don't get burnt out. Been a amazing read so far. My plan is to finish this one and then the next book and take a break and read ether The Darkness That comes Before By R. Scott Baker or Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Also thinking on reading the side books by Ian C Esslemont for the Malazan books so its going to be a long time before i finish the series lol.
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