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ManiacFather
11-05-08, 16:34
What (Book) is everyone reading?
What is your opinion?
Note: You should post a short description about your book, no 1 word post.
Dean Koontz Cold Fire
About a man who rescues people last second before they die. A reporter witnesses one rescue but the dose research and finds he has rescued people 13 times in the last seconds.
Give more and opinion when finished
Mostly menus at the moment.
Actually not a lot lately as I have not had time. But soon as I am on it I will let you know.
thezombiemessia
15-08-11, 22:54
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A bit of thread Necromancy here (just a hint to you guys, it is possible to search the forum for threads far older than what you see), but I'm going through a fit of book reading at the moment...so I felt like bringing this thread back and seeing if anybody else here has heard of books :D
In the past 3 weeks I've read:
Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy
Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings (Book one of the Stormlight Archive)
Brandon Sanderson's Elantris
Sanderson is a fantasy writer who has taken the task of finishing Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series after the original authors untimely and much lamented demise.
The second best fantasy author I've read in a very long time (the first being the work of Robert Jordan). I can highly recommend any and all of his books.
Elantris was Sanderson's first published book, but has only been published in the UK for about 4 days now. His Mistborn Trilogy and The Way of Kings are far newer, but have been available for a fair amount of time.
The next book I'm going to read is (funnily enough) Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker. This was his second published book, and won't be published in the UK until sometime in December...I was lucky to find an American copy that a friend had purchased.
Anybody doing some reading? Anything to recommend?
Anybody else a fan of Sanderson or Robert Jordan?
thehappyun
16-08-11, 03:08
Haven't read in a while but the greatest books for me are:
Dragonlance books
Terry Pratchett Discworld (it's NOT a game! )
East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl, written by John Steinbeck
The old man and the sea, Ernest Hemingway < short pure gold
I have enjoyed Frank Herberts Dune book
Tolkien, of course, close to three times, Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
I have yet to read Harry Potter, they kindof were released when I was tired of fantasy books and went to school, between trying to get an engineering degree and stayin in good shape there wasn't time
I also grew up with computer games before voice acting, so did a lot of reading there, Champions of Krynn, Eye of the Beholder, Diablo I and II, X-Wing, Warcraft I, II and III, too many to mentions withs screens and screens of pure text soo good
I also liked Frank Millers take on Batman, a comic and 'The Watchmen', that was one epic, mature comic, it had seriouis content serious faces went very deep almost of mockery of comics with it's seriousness, and of course any good comic, read a lot of Tintin, anything fantasy or otherwise exciting and generally interesting (read with explosiions and bad guys needin a pummeling hihi
I used to read like a maniac lol would stop eating to just read for ten hours, finish a book then resume eating, not the longer ones but fantasy novels oh yea forget everything like a great game, man any book that does that is worth itself
Good books are. A-MA-ZING !
I've just finished reading: Mysteries from Forgotten Worlds (1972) by Charles Berlitz.
Pretty good, was his analysis of a possible seafaring contact with America from Europe before 9000 B.C. and after that date with regard to the Phoecinians and Carthginians and other ancient peoples. But in a nutshell, a parent civilisation where all other races etc are descended from. Relics and carved-scripts found in unusual places.
Currently im in the middle of battle royale, Koushun Takami which im sure many are aware of, set in a japan where students are taken to an island and have to fight to the death until one student remains.
My next two ready to go are hunger games and left hand of darkness.
However i have to recommend my two favourite books of all time which are 'The picture of Dorian Gray' Oscar Wilde and 'The third Policeman' Flann O Brien
Im sure many know the premise of Dorian Gray thanks to the terrible movies that have been produced althought the orginal 1945 movie is quite good.
The third policeman is quite bizzare, emcompassing everything from philosophy,atomic theory,life, death, existence, the nature of time.Its dark, thought provoking and very funny. They are currently making a movie of Flann's other books 'At swim two birds'
Flann's books had admirers such as james joyce,aldous huxley and graham greene.
I cant recommend this book enuff
A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin
RED-DRAGON-CRO
16-08-11, 09:35
Metal Gear Solid by Raymond Benson
(i was quite suprised when i found it, never saw that they sold before game inspired books in the shop i found it)
Well what its about you can know already if you played MGS1 but it is quite enjoyable to read it.
thezombiemessia
16-08-11, 10:23
Currently im in the middle of battle royale, Koushun Takami which im sure many are aware of, set in a japan where students are taken to an island and have to fight to the death until one student remains.
My fiancée has a copy of this somewhere. I tried reading it myself, but couldn't quite get past the copious amounts of translation errors :p I'll probably give it a go again in the future, perhaps if I find a better translation...
A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin
If you like Martin's stuff, then I can very much recommend reading The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (and Brandon Sanderson for the final 3 books). All 3 authors have recommended each other in the past :p
AlienHunter
16-08-11, 10:43
Tom M. Apostol - Calculus (Volume 3)
LOL i wanna die. I have an exam in three weeks, so i'm higly entertained by this kind of stuff D:
draconacticus
16-08-11, 12:54
Just finished reading "Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world"
Which was really interesting. Did you know Genghis Khan and his descendants invented equal rights for women, free education for all, paper money, religious tolerance and encouraged free trade and an end to regions pillaged with war lords?
Amazing bloke.
I'm currently reading a few martial arts books at the moment, not got time to dip my head into anything deep right now.
Thought I would try the Harry Potter books, only on the first one and it's ok so far. Not my normal type of reading though.
Also awaiting the RE books