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Travis Traverses A Total Tomes Trek in 2014
Oh no. I had The Blade Itself which made him fall over himself to make me take The Lies of Locke Lamora. I believe both are good, but bookseller man swears on the second.
Ah yes now I remember - well I have both to read very soon.
I confuse myself most of the tine.
Finished The Heroes. Maybe worth a 3.5 could of been better. It was a long 3 days of battle. Now I'll have to revamp the list a bit as I think I'll ride the Abercrombie train for a while. Just started The Blade Itself
Travis of NNY wrote: "Finished The Heroes. Maybe worth a 3.5 could of been better. It was a long 3 days of battle. Now I'll have to revamp the list a bit as I think I'll ride the Abercrombie train for a while. Just star..."I'm looking forward to your comments on The Blade Itself. I have it coming up on my audiobook queue.
We so should make a buddy read for The Blade Itself - quite a few of us are going to be reading it in either Slicks or Mickeys!
I have the blade itself on my list also. That is one I cannot wait to read.
I think it will be a while before I get to The Blade Itself. But, if you want to start a buddy read for it, that will be great and I'll catch up down the road, like March or April. I had to chuckle over "Slicks or Mickeys".
Janice wrote: "Travis of NNY wrote: "Finished The Heroes. Maybe worth a 3.5 could of been better. It was a long 3 days of battle. Now I'll have to revamp the list a bit as I think I'll ride the Abercrombie train ..."The narrator had a couple characters which I can only describe as a soft spoken man with a lisp speaking with a mouth full of marbles. Took me a bit to adjust to it but eventually I did. Also several times the word grimaced is used which around here anyway we do not pronounce grim-ayced. Drove me crazy.
Slick is officially slugged! Had my Pratchett experience which I find seems to improve the more you read. No 5 stars but all 3 and 4 which is good enough for me. Now on to Mickey which has some heavy lifting involved.
I need to first go check my list since I have made a bunch of changes primarily by adding the rest of Abercrombie's books to it. I get on author/series fixes I've found lately. It's easier for me to stick with one either in a series to keep track of characters easier, or just sticking with an author because the writing style is familiar.
Travis of NNY wrote: "Slick is officially slugged!"Congratulations! You are the first to complete the challenge, and it's only Jan 11th! That's amazing!
Wait! What am I getting all excited about? I don't have the badges ready yet. I guess I'm doing more badges tomorrow morning!
Wow! This is so impressive! I hope to finish my first book by Tuesday. And I've borrowed a few of your books to put on my shelves.
Now you're just showing off Travis! No seriously, that's impressive work! Congrats! Glad you enjoyed your Pratchett experience - which was your favourite?
My thoughts exactly, Sarah :P
Mort and Sorcery. Where as Equal Rites was my least favorite so fat.
I started down the road to read all of the Discworld books at one time, but got bogged down in the 2nd I think, and lost intrest. Your reading challenge had re-awakened the desire, Travis, but I am not sure I am ready to put my heart into it. I know I have them all (at least up to #35) on a flash drive or disk somewhere, but after listening to the first one from Audible, I think I will have to re-think it. I really want to listen to Mort.
Finished Before They Are Hanged and went right into Last Argument of Kings. I'm loving this trilogy right now and while its nice to know there should be some closure with it only being a trilogy it's also a bit disappointing not to have it be a longer series. The next problem I'll have is since I've so far read almost entirely fantasy I'll have to convince myself to read another genre. Not just for the sake of this challenge, but I don't currently own many fantasy that I haven't read and I really don't need to buy more books at the moment. Trying to knock down the ones I own already.
Good to hear that you're enjoying the series. I'm really looking forward to getting started now. I too have read loads of fantasy recently. I'm currently reading Burial Rites which is historical fiction and I'm finding it much easier to wiz through compared to my recent fantasy reads because it's based in "our world" with "real names"!
OMG! You're scaring me. I just made my topic in fright. Finally! :pWell done!
Finished both Last Argument of Kings and Red Country which unfortunately means I have read everything Abercrombie has to offer and must wait for new books to come out. Thought about leaving my chunksters for a while, but looking at other books I don't currently own much that is less than 500 pages so might as well keep going. Started the The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle which of course has instantly pulled me in to that usual slightly confused yet mystified state that is Murakami's writing. if the writing wasn't so good everytime I know none of these books would get my attention. One of the few author's I can truly say keeps my attention because of the writing. Just something about it.
Cherie wrote: "I started down the road to read all of the Discworld books at one time, but got bogged down in the 2nd I think, and lost intrest. Your reading challenge had re-awakened the desire, Travis, but I a..."I would put these books in the category of entertainment. Can't say as though they are the next great novel but they are rather easy and light and sometimes that's just what the doctor ordered.
Sarah wrote: "Good to hear that you're enjoying the series. I'm really looking forward to getting started now. I too have read loads of fantasy recently. I'm currently reading Burial Rites which ..."I know what you mean there.
Pragya wrote: "OMG! You're scaring me. I just made my topic in fright. Finally! :pWell done!"
Nothing too scary. Just books with more words than a shorter book would have.
Finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle which is my fifth Murakami and although I still enjoyed the writing itself found myself too lost to give it any more than a 3. I always feel I haven't quite grasped the whole meaning of any of his books but this one seemed more than usual. Really the main problem I had is it seemed many ideas in the book were ones that I've seen used in other books by him. I don't know which books were written first or later, but it seemed parts of this book were just sections of a couple other books pasted in. That's just my opinion anyway.
I own a copy of "Wind-Up Bird" because my older bro gave me a copy. He's an avid Murakami reader and fan. Our tastes often agree, but diverge as well. Look forward to reading this one this year. I'm committing to it as one of my Chunksters.
Maybe I won't rush out and buy it then! I do want to read some of Murakami's though at some point as I am intrigued by his style of writing.
It's been on enough lists that at some point this year there probably should be many candidates for it as a buddy read. My favorite still is Kafka on the Shore but was either of these books much harder or stranger than the other I really could not say.
The thing with strange/weird fiction/writing styles is that you can think it's good and enjoy the story but still not being completely sure what the hell is going on. I have found this with Jeff Noon's books.
That pretty much sums up Murakami and it was more the repeat of ideas rather than anything else that brought a lower rating for me.
Hope you like the discworld books Travis. If I get a vote for some of your later books...I'm all in favor of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. I loved it.
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) took me a few days to get through but it was well worth the time. Hope you like it.
Finished both Lonesome Dove and Wool. Two very different books but enjoyed both. I was dissapointed though to learn sequels to wool are all prequels. Would like yo knowmore how the multi silo life will continue. And what of #17 especially. Well into One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest then a break to read someother books before polishing off mickey for the end of the month.
I'll definitely get to the Malazan book of the Fallen whether or not in this challenge. I still need to put Lucifer's Hammer. The Dreaming Void and Caliban's War in since I own these already
Let me know what you think of "The Dreaming Void" since I'll be getting to that trilogy later this Winter. I really liked the other stuff I've read by Hamilton so I'm pretty excited about the void trilogy as well. I can't remember if you've gotten into theOld Man's War series yet or not but I think those are great too.
Glad you enjoyed Wool. I believe book 2 Shift Omnibus Edition (Silo, #2) is a prequel but I was under the impression that book 3 Dust took up after Wool finished. Off to check it out now! I have Shift on my kindle to read for the chunkster challenge although I won't get to it for a while.
I enjoy Scalzi much and haven't gotten to the Old Man's War series yet unfortunately. You are absolutely correct about Dust Sarah. I am glad for a continuation and got my books mixed up before when I was checking them out.
I read Lucifer's Hammer sometime after Hale-Bopp comet made an appearance. I read somewhere that although thee book was written 17 years earlier, had some eerie similarities. In the book, the comet Hammer-Brown not only had the same initials but was also discovered simultaneously by two men, one an amateur astronomer. I rather enjoyed the story, but shuddered to think of what could happen in the event of an impact with a comet.
finished Love and War another 5 star read. Now Mickey's has been marauded!
Wow! You are trouncing the mascots!!
This next section both Horns and 11/22/63 are kindle so that is going to take me a while. I'm more of a fast listener than reader. Plus the week of the toppled will set my focus to other reads as well .
I thought 11/22/63 was a quick read ( well it seemed that way) so I am sure you will breeze through it.
I loved 11/22/63 and I felt it was a quick read considering it's length. I'll be intrigued to hear what you think of Horns - I've not read that one yet!
Really enjoyed both books as I am a lifelong Stephen King fan. Enjoy Trav and if you need any SK book recommendations, hit me up :) The older stuff (Pet Sem, Salem's Lot, Carrie, The Shining, IT, The Stand) are all great and a lot of his middle stuff is pretty interesting as well (you should check out Gerald's Game if you want an interesting psychological thriller/horror kind of story that's pretty short). Of his newer stuff, I loved Joyland last Summer and I think it's best read over the Summer so keep it in mind if you haven't gotten to that one yet. Horns was pretty cool and I've really enjoyed the Locke and Key series (graphic novels) by Joe Hill as well.
Did you re-do your links and I missed it until now? ha ha ha, the hunchback needs regular check-ups!
Not so much re-doing as adding in books here and there. Most cases I've just added in books by the same author so they link easily without breaking any links already in place. Of course whenever I edit a post somewhere nothing shows up as new posts so in most cases any books I've added I haven't made mention of until I actually read the book.
Cherie wrote: "Did you re-do your links and I missed it until now? ha ha ha, the hunchback needs regular check-ups!"Agreed, not to mention the "still feeling horny" link. LOL!
Marnie wrote: "I thought 11/22/63 was a quick read ( well it seemed that way) so I am sure you will breeze through it."I agree with Marnie, Travis. Mostly because you will not want to put it down once you start! I read it twice - back to back - in a couple of days.
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I bumped it up my TBR after your comment on what that bookseller said to you!