Currently: Rise of Endymion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_Endymion) - Dan SimmonsThat book left me feeling seriously pissed by the end. I still absolutely love the first two books in that series and will recommend them to anyone, but everything about the last two just felt like a total cop-out. I cannot even count how many major plot points set up by Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion were dismissed by, "Oh, that character was just lying for no reason other than to **** with the audience."
Damn good books, both of them. Even better are the looks people give you on public transport when they realise the rowdy looking teenager's reading about "Airpower in Small Wars: Fighting Insurgents and Terrorists".
It was rather weird when a cute looking girl about my age tapped me on the shoulder and inquired as to whether I was a terrorist. :D
Just Finished: The thousandfold thought / R. Scott Bakker.*
Just Finished: A feast for crows / George R.R. Martin.*
*Two series that I recommend you avoid.
Currently: Rise of Endymion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_Endymion) - Dan SimmonsThat book left me feeling seriously pissed by the end. I still absolutely love the first two books in that series and will recommend them to anyone, but everything about the last two just felt like a total cop-out. I cannot even count how many major plot points set up by Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion were dismissed by, "Oh, that character was just lying for no reason other than to **** with the audience."
Just Finished: The thousandfold thought / R. Scott Bakker.*
Just Finished: A feast for crows / George R.R. Martin.*
*Two series that I recommend you avoid.
Why? While they're certainly not pleasant reads, but they're also unquestionably some of the best work going on in modern fantasy, and about the only hope we have of ripping epic fantasy out of its Tolkienesque rut.
Bakker is weird as **** and his books even made me wince a few times, but George R. R. Martin, on the other hand, is a critical and commercial darling with about the most die-hard fanbase an author can hope for.
I've been enjoying Brandon Sanderson lately, especially the Mistborn series.I'll have to try that out, as I really loved Elantris. It's one of the very few completely-stand-alone works of fantasy I can think of.
Current: Backlash - Aaron Allston
Just Finished: Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
Queue: Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
I've been enjoying Brandon Sanderson lately, especially the Mistborn series.I'll have to try that out, as I really loved Elantris. It's one of the very few completely-stand-alone works of fantasy I can think of.
Finished recently:
Red Mars / Green Mars / Blue Mars, all by Kim Robinson. Excellent "realistic" sci-fi series about the colonization/terraformation of Mars that I can't recommend highly enough.
The Black Hole War - My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics --> I dunno. Got it from some book club promotion thing. Might read it eventually. :X
Winning Chess Middlegames - Ivan Sokolov (http://www.chessvibes.com/reviews/review-winning-chess-middlegames/)Interesting.
It's a technical book. About chess. :nervous:
The Malus Codicium, which is known to you feeble mortals as the collected omnibus of the Eisenhorn novels.
The Malus Codicium, which is known to you feeble mortals as the collected omnibus of the Eisenhorn novels.
The Malus Codicium, which is known to you feeble mortals as the collected omnibus of the Eisenhorn novels.
A resounding Meh, sir.
I need to get into the Dirk Pitt series. I've read both of Cussler's Sea Hunters books about his real-life shipwreck-finding escapades, and I found his writing style massively entertaining. (His description of a potato assault on a French naval frigate is something else. :D) I'm sure his fiction is every bit as fun.
I read this thread. :P
I read this thread. :P
But I'm not an Admiral yet. ;7I read this thread. :P
Now go read a book. :rolleyes:
But I'm not an Admiral yet. ;7I read this thread. :P
Now go read a book. :rolleyes:
Plus, I'm writing one! :D
But I'm not an Admiral yet. ;7I read this thread. :P
Now go read a book. :rolleyes:
Plus, I'm writing one! :D
What's the title of the Book you write?As of now, it's not known...yet.
"Books i've read"? :P
So am I, but it doesn't stop me from reading. Writing is what November (http://www.nanowrimo.org) is for.Guy, it's a joke...listen to the promotion briefing for becoming an Admiral.
So am I, but it doesn't stop me from reading. Writing is what November (http://www.nanowrimo.org) is for.Guy, it's a joke...listen to the promotion briefing for becoming an Admiral.