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Sep 06, 2019 03:44PM
Dungeon Samurai Volume 1: Kamikaze by Kit Sun Cheah
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I am currently reading (listening to the audiobook) The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller, and it is brilliant. I can't put it down, and I don't want it to end!
The last book I read was Neuromancer by William Gibson. I thought it was a fantastic read. However, I did get lost a few times simply because I wasn't acclimated to the prose of Gibson. Once I got used to that I sped through the book and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I just finished reading To Be Taught, If Fortunate and I frankly loved it. I only wish it had been longer. For the story that was being told, novella length was correct...but I wanted more of both the stories and the characters. I know it is one of the nominations for the BoTM for October, and no matter what I recommend it! :)
In the last couple of days I finished Children of Blood and Bone (Fantasy) and Silence of the Girls (Ancient Historical themed Fiction). Both were fantastic. I recommend them both :)
Xavier wrote: "The last book I read was Neuromancer by William Gibson. I thought it was a fantastic read. However, I did get lost a few times simply because I wasn't acclimated to the prose of Gibson. Once I got ..."Makes me want to re-read it. I've only read it the once over a decade ago, but it was great!
I finished Scourged, the last book in the Iron Druid Chronicles. Looks like it got a good deal of hate from fans but I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
Emmeline wrote: "Makes me want to re-read it. I've only read it the once over a decade ago, but it was great!Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) by William Gibson"
I think Gibson started losing his cool when he stopped writing about ninjas with detachable thumbs.
Cupcakes & Machetes wrote: "I finished Scourged, the last book in the Iron Druid Chronicles. Looks like it got a good deal of hate from fans but I thoroughly enjoyed myself."
I've been so leary of reading this because of all the hate that it got
I've been so leary of reading this because of all the hate that it got
Roger wrote: "Cupcakes & Machetes wrote: "I finished Scourged, the last book in the Iron Druid Chronicles. Looks like it got a good deal of hate from fans but I thoroughly enjoyed myself."
I've ..."
I really think it was because it didn't end the way people wanted it to.
I've ..."
I really think it was because it didn't end the way people wanted it to.
Just finished The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
I have no review other than I was, for the most part, very satisfied.
I finished Jade War by Fonda Lee. It's the second book from the Green Bone Saga and I really loved it!!
Mogworld by Yahtzee CroshawIt was fine enough but suffers for being not as good as Orconomics (which spoofed similar topics) and Yahtzee's subsequent book Will Save the Galaxy for Food.
I finished reading:
For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished:
The Bloody Crown of Conan by Robert E. Howard
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Quest for Simbilis by Michael Shea
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And I started reading:
Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Enjoyed Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer. It's a sci-fi world with battlesuits in some kind of feudally-influenced society with mech-jousting! A graphic novel with appealing characters and gorgeous colours.
The Poisonwood Bible Really impressed me. Very good writing, giving each character as they took over a distinctive and consistent voice.
No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Man-Eater in History by Dane Huckelbridge (3 stars)K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs - liked it a lot (4 stars)
Freya wrote: "Early Riser by Jasper Fforde, and it was really good!"
Fforde tends to be pretty damn good. ;)
Fforde tends to be pretty damn good. ;)
Freya wrote: "Very true Wayland! I've only read one other of his books (The Last Dragonslayer)"
His Thursday Next series was brilliant IMHO.
His Thursday Next series was brilliant IMHO.
Ahh is it? I always feel a bit uncertain when authors play with characters from other series', which is what Thursday Next does, right?
Freya wrote: "Ahh is it? I always feel a bit uncertain when authors play with characters from other series', which is what Thursday Next does, right?"
Sorta. She works fur "Juris Fiction" the book police, that prevent books from getting changed. It's more like literary satire. I thought they were brilliant, personally.
Sorta. She works fur "Juris Fiction" the book police, that prevent books from getting changed. It's more like literary satire. I thought they were brilliant, personally.
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