[August 2015] What Are You Reading?

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Spartain104

First Post

• Aug 25, 2015

• #11

Reading through Michael J Sullivan's Riyria Revelations. On the second omnibus "Rise of Empire" and its fantastic! A good read for fantasy and adventure!

 

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Nellisir

Hero

• Aug 29, 2015

• #12

Jhaelen said:

Well, it certainly lacks a bit of the 'wow-factor' of the first novel, because its scope is much reduced: Basically, the entire action revolves around a single space station. The narrator's viewpoint is also less effective because it's no longer really an Ancillary. Still, even though it's not as groundbreaking or exciting as the first novel, it's well-written, and I'm eager to know how where the story will lead.

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I'll second this. I liked the second one, except for a moment when we more or less definitively find out a secondary character's actual sex. That bugged the crap outa me. I'm not sure it was as good as the first, but it was certainly good.

 

Nellisir

Hero

• Aug 29, 2015

• #13

I'm having another fit of disjointedness, and simultaneously reading back issues of Uncanny X-Men circa 2001 (OMG it just sucks SOOO bad); The Power of Six (Book Two of the Lorien Legacies; don't ask); something something Adventures of the Butterfly Girl (it's weird, like a dark Gaiman or Valente but not quite as good); and The Island of the Day Before, by Umberto Eco.

Earlier I reread Lamb and River of Gods, because I wanted to read something I knew would be good.

 

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mflayermonk

First Post

• Aug 29, 2015

• #14

Reading Last Call by Tim Powers. I'm 50 pages in and still confused no the characters and their role. I guess it will all unfold in the future.

After watching "Black Sails" I decided to reread Thieves World (after 20 years or so). The first Thieves World is still pretty good.

 

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mflayermonk

First Post

• Aug 30, 2015

• #15

Has anyone read the Runelords series by David Farland-and is it any good?

 

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juanlb

First Post

• Aug 31, 2015

• #16

I'm reading The Three-Body Problem, a science fiction by Liu Cixin.

 

Ebon Shar

Explorer

• Sep 8, 2015

• #17

mflayermonk said:

Has anyone read the Runelords series by David Farland-and is it any good?

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I did not care for it at all. It's been too long ago that I tried to read it to give you specifics, but I remember disliking it quite a bit.

 

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Janx

Hero

• Sep 8, 2015

• #18

Walt Longmire series. Book six I think. Junkyard Dogs