Pheran
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This is the only long fantasy series I've intentionally avoided - too many negative reports, plus of course the author death and change in the middle.
This is the only long fantasy series I've intentionally avoided - too many negative reports, plus of course the author death and change in the middle.
Pheran
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Hmm, try Riordan's Percy Jackson series or perhaps Harry Potter. If you want to get a little more sophisticated go for the His Dark Materials trilogy by Pullman.
JamesV
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Jim Butcher. I loved that series, and couldn't really stand the Dresden files.
Shadows in Flight - Orson Scott Card. His Ender books are hit or miss, and this one was a big miss imo.
Still waiting on the sequel to Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson; hope he doesn't put out more crappy Mistborn spinoffs like Alloy of Law.
Just finished book 5 of A song of Ice and Fire. Will prolly start back in on some Reacher novels, then maybe re-read WOT beginning to end now that it's finished. Tablets and e-readers make it all some much more accessible.
KidNiki1
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Finished Son of Sedonia. A short, fast, sci-fi read that i enjoyed quite a bit. First time author, which is a bit evident. Still liked it though.
According to my kindle i am 41% of the way finished with The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson and holy crap do I think it is awesome. I am really really enjoying it a lot. After this one, I'm going to have to check out Mistborn.
According to my kindle i am 41% of the way finished with The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson and holy crap do I think it is awesome. I am really really enjoying it a lot. After this one, I'm going to have to check out Mistborn.
Pheran
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I read the first 7 Vlad Taltos books, ending with Orca. I decided to give that a rest for a while and I'm now reading Jacob Gowan's Psion series - I'm in the middle of Psion Gamma now. It's pretty good, the first book reminded me a little of Ender's Game though the writing isn't as powerful since these are technically meant to be juvenile books.
gorcorps
aka Brandon
- Jul 18, 2004
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Currently reading this: http://www.amazon.com/Wool-Omnibus-S...4676986&sr=1-1
Which so far has been fantastic. It seems to have started as an episodic release, but once all the "episodes" are released they put them together as one big book.
Very cool post-apocolyptic story about how the human race is now confined to a huge, underground silo. At this point they are several generations in, and current residents have never known what it is to be "outside", and in fact it's against the law to even mention the outside. What happens when you break the law? Well... you get sent out for "cleaning". The top level of the silo is the only place there's monitors with cameras that can see what's directly around the silo. If you get sentenced to cleaning, you get sent out to clean the cameras in this special haz-mat suit that gives you just enough time to clean until you drop dead. One would think since you were sentenced to your death nobody would actually clean the cameras, but everybody always does (and you find out why). That is until one day, when somebody breaks decades of status-quo by refusing to clean once they were banished... and then all hell breaks loose.
It's a well done story that IMO would make an excellent TV series.
Which so far has been fantastic. It seems to have started as an episodic release, but once all the "episodes" are released they put them together as one big book.
Very cool post-apocolyptic story about how the human race is now confined to a huge, underground silo. At this point they are several generations in, and current residents have never known what it is to be "outside", and in fact it's against the law to even mention the outside. What happens when you break the law? Well... you get sent out for "cleaning". The top level of the silo is the only place there's monitors with cameras that can see what's directly around the silo. If you get sentenced to cleaning, you get sent out to clean the cameras in this special haz-mat suit that gives you just enough time to clean until you drop dead. One would think since you were sentenced to your death nobody would actually clean the cameras, but everybody always does (and you find out why). That is until one day, when somebody breaks decades of status-quo by refusing to clean once they were banished... and then all hell breaks loose.
It's a well done story that IMO would make an excellent TV series.
The Admirals
Very interesting book about the four very different 5 star admirals in US History
The clone redemption
About a unique, modified clone who serves in an army where none of the other clones know they are clones. Covers a lot of ground and I really like his writing style (It's in first person and while the main character downplays or glosses over some actions to give you your first perspective on those actions you get a very different perspective of those actions through the dialogue of the people the MC talks to.)
That said I think the story line is bogging down a bit. Its not bad mind you just not blowing through the book in a couple days like the others
Very good and interesting series. The last one seemed a tad rushed and I felt a lot of the ancillary back stories could have been explained a lot more but I really liked it overall
One of the few books I have come across that I think does a decent job of telling a nuclear exchange story
Very interesting book about the four very different 5 star admirals in US History
The clone redemption
About a unique, modified clone who serves in an army where none of the other clones know they are clones. Covers a lot of ground and I really like his writing style (It's in first person and while the main character downplays or glosses over some actions to give you your first perspective on those actions you get a very different perspective of those actions through the dialogue of the people the MC talks to.)
That said I think the story line is bogging down a bit. Its not bad mind you just not blowing through the book in a couple days like the others
Very good and interesting series. The last one seemed a tad rushed and I felt a lot of the ancillary back stories could have been explained a lot more but I really liked it overall
One of the few books I have come across that I think does a decent job of telling a nuclear exchange story
Uppsala9496
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Just finished reading these. Waiting patiently for Legacy to come out. Really good reads.
Pheran
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Not sure what you mean by Legacy - the Shift Omnibus is next in the series and then Dust, which just came out.
Pheran
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Finished this through Psion Delta, there are still two more books to come.
Now I'm reading Wool's Dust and then I plan to move on to James SA Corey's Expanse trilogy.
Didn't like Shift nearly as much as Wool. Haven't tried dust yet
Reading "The Silvered" by Tanya Huff
Just another fantasy series. It is just ok.
JamesV
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Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter - The Long War
The second book in the "Long Earth" series, where humans have figured out a way to 'step' to neighboring Earths, where so far they have explored millions of different Earths to the 'east and west' of 'Datum' (or our Earth).
Pretty interesting, and strange at the same time. First book is the Long Earth.
The second book in the "Long Earth" series, where humans have figured out a way to 'step' to neighboring Earths, where so far they have explored millions of different Earths to the 'east and west' of 'Datum' (or our Earth).
Pretty interesting, and strange at the same time. First book is the Long Earth.
IronWing
No Lifer
- Jul 20, 2001
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I set the book down for a bit and have started reading it in earnest now. Lawrence is infuriating. The man can write, stringing beautiful paragraphs together for up to maybe three pages at a time. Then he jumps to something else, then back, then off again, maybe never finishing what he started.
His tale is interesting and this is the definitive go-to book for complex racial insults.
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Just finished Stephen King's Dr Sleep (nice to find out how Danny Torrence from the Shining turned out.) Now reading Junkyard Dogs by Craig Johnson which I think is the fifth Walt Longmire book (for those of you who watch Longmire.)
JamesV
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Just finished Catcher in the Rye. Trying to read some 'classics' and read more outside of fantasy and sci-fi. Can't believe all the hype around this book, and my aunt has gone to great lengths showing her disdain for people wanting this book in the curriculum (when she was a teacher). Somewhat interesting at certain parts, but overall meh.
Now reading Farside by Ben Bova.
Now reading Farside by Ben Bova.
After about the thousandth recommendation of Blood Song by Anthony Ryan i finally read it. Id say it lived up to the hype.
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