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What else are you reading?
Awesome. Thanks for starting this thread. Makes me think you've done this kind of thing before...Well, besides setting this group up and keeping up with some (very frustrating) baseball results, I've been reading too.
I'm re-reading Assassin's Apprentice in preparation for reading the other two books in Robin Hobb's first trilogy.
I'm also working on an audiobook of Enemy of God, the second in the Warlord Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell.
I've also been fitting in short stories from Nightmares and Dreamscapes. I'm currently stuck with only 400 pages to go in The Stand. That's where I was when Dance came out and I haven't gotten back to it. But I should point out that it's my fourth reading of this book, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to drift away so easily.
Hey, I was going to read some of The Dark Tower: The Fall Of Gilead tonight as well!I'm also reading Mistress of the Empire, which I'm kind of forcing myself through. I don't hate it... It's just sort of boring me right now. But I want to get it done, since it's the third in the series.
Once I'm done with that, I'll be joining Chris on his Hobb trilogy read. This will be my *cough*third*cough* re-read. Heh... I loves me some Hobb :)
I, too, will be reading Assassin's Apprentice very soon. What a coincidence! ;)I also have After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn out from the library, so I'll need to fit that in somewhere - probably before AA.
And then in another group, we're reading Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene in August, so I'll have to smoosh that in too. LOL
*pokes Becky*Hurry up and start AA! Don't make me break the cricket whip out of retirement...
She's gotta finish Dance first! She's been reading it about as long as it took Martin to write it. Well..ok. Maybe not that long.
Chris wrote: "She's gotta finish Dance first! She's been reading it about as long as it took Martin to write it. Well..ok. Maybe not that long."LOL No kidding.
Oh and Dawn. You think of yourself as an SK noob, but you've now read more Dark Tower than I have. I've only read the first two graphic novels.Though I still win on frequency.
You will be happy to know that I have hit the halfway mark though! :P
Yay! Valar Morghulis! Fear cuts deeper than swords! Winter is Coming!
Only two? Geez, you're such a noob :P
Hey now. If you pressure me into reading them, I'll have to put down something else to make the time.
Noooo, I'm not trying to make you read them. I like knowing more than you... I feel powerful.
Just finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which despite the ridiculous name is actually a really good book.
I have Exit the Actress from the library and I really need to get started on Swan Song and I'm also reading Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Oh and I recently finished The Warded Man which I also really, really liked so I need to read the sequelThe Desert Spear very soon.
I have Exit the Actress from the library and I really need to get started on Swan Song and I'm also reading Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Oh and I recently finished The Warded Man which I also really, really liked so I need to read the sequelThe Desert Spear very soon.
Dawn wrote: I'm also reading Mistress of the Empire, which I'm kind of forcing myself through...."
Good job, Dawn!
I read the first book in that series, and it was ok, but I haven't managed to talk myself into the next two.
Good job, Dawn!
I read the first book in that series, and it was ok, but I haven't managed to talk myself into the next two.
Lots of Nightmaring and Dreamscaping going on around here.
Jennifer - the Empire series is turning out to be very... Wordy. It's just not holding up when compared to all of the awesome I've been reading lately. The story is good, really good in parts... But very very wordy. It makes me tired to read it. But I shall persevere and finish it!
I'm not Dreamscaping, but I might Atlantisize myself next month.. Or maybe the month after... Hobb stories first, than King.
Dawn wrote: "Jennifer - the Empire series is turning out to be very... Wordy. It's just not holding up when compared to all of the awesome I've been reading lately. The story is good, really good in parts... Bu..."
Exactly why I am procrastinating. It's too much effort for me to read those. It takes me forever and while I enjoy some of it, I really end up feeling annoyed and impatient.
Exactly why I am procrastinating. It's too much effort for me to read those. It takes me forever and while I enjoy some of it, I really end up feeling annoyed and impatient.
:) I am currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo and enjoying it.Chris,
I have Enemy of God and then Excalibur chalked into my schedule for October. :0)
Those are wicked covers. I also found the audio for Excalibur, so that's on tap next.Didn't you read these already?
I'm also reading The Count of Monte Cristo (with Terri).But I'm also reading 2 other chunksters this month:
Uncle Silasand
The Mists of AvalonSO, as you can probably guess, I'm not planning on getting started on any Martin books this month. ;).
Yep. They are a reread for me. It's been a long, long time since I read them and I have no recollection of the story. So I am going to buddy read them with a friend and revisit the story, kicking off from book two.I love many of Cornwell's covers, but this Arthur series covers are the coolest I think. :)
COMC is such an awesome book. I loved it. :)
Cornwell has definitely become a favorite.Oh and COMC. I saw the movie not too long ago.
Always good to see another convert to Cornwell. :D
I'll be reading The Last Kingdom at some point this year... not sure when though.
I'm definitely starting a reread of The Last Kingdom September 1.All are welcome to jump on that date train with me. {:D
I probably won't be ready then, but I'll be reading it this year for sure.
Wow. There are people up this early? WTF?
Ummmm, hello, 19 month old! LOL :P
OK. So what's my excuse?
ETA: 19 month old dragon. Extreme parenting. I had to charbroil an entire cow for breakfast.
Hehe...hence your title.
What did you think of The Affinity Bridge, Jessie? It looks interesting.
Dawn wrote: "What did you think of The Affinity Bridge, Jessie? It looks interesting."I liked it well enough - it just had been talked up to me so I was a little underwhelmed. BUT it was good enough to make me excited for the second
:D
I'm currently reading Assassin's Apprentice, Mistress of Rome, Nightmares and Dreamscapes and audioing The Dark Tower.Add another to the list of people who loved COMC. Excellent book!
I'm reading The Magician's by Lev Grossman:http://levgrossman.com/magicians.html
I'm really digging this book right now. I was in a lull after DWD and couldn't find anything to captivate me so I was reading a few different books including: Bill Bryson's "At Home", Tad Williams "Tailchaser's Song", Ben Aaronovitch's "Midnight Riot" and rereading "Going Postal" by Pratchett. All of these books are good too, but nothing could fill that void, until I picked up The Magicians. It's like if fucking Harry Potter were a real teenager and the whole book wasn't based on some cockamamie "mother's love and protection" bullshit (which i have HUGE issues with, but I'll leave that for another message board)
:)
I second the Love for Cornwell's Arthur series and anyone reading either the Farseer or Tawny Man series. The Fool rocked my proverbial socks, i tell you what.
I'm reading The Magician's by Lev Grossman:http://levgrossman.com/magicians.html
I'm really digging this book right now. I was in a lull after DWD and couldn't find anything to captivate me so I was reading a few different books including: Bill Bryson's "At Home", Tad Williams "Tailchaser's Song", Ben Aaronovitch's "Midnight Riot" and rereading "Going Postal" by Pratchett. All of these books are good too, but nothing could fill that void, until I picked up The Magicians. It's like if fucking Harry Potter were a real teenager and the whole book wasn't based on some cockamamie "mother's love and protection" bullshit (which i have HUGE issues with, but I'll leave that for another message board)
:)
I second the Love for Cornwell's Arthur series and anyone reading either the Farseer or Tawny Man series. The Fool rocked my proverbial socks, i tell you what.
a Review of The Magicians by our main man:" “These days any novel about young sorcerers at wizard school inevitably invites comparison to Harry Potter. Lev Grossman meets the challenge head on... and very successfully. The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. Solidly rooted in the traditions of both fantasy and mainstream literary fiction, the novel tips its hat to Oz and Narnia as well to Harry, but don't mistake this for a children's book. Grossman's sensibilities are thoroughly adult, his narrative dark and dangerous and full of twists. Hogwart's was never like this.”
—George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series
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Uh oh. Don't let the Potter freaks see that review. They'll interpret it as blasphemy.I agree with you about the void. I was the same way for a couple of weeks after finishing Dance. I couldn't put my heart into anything I was reading.
Exception: Joe Hill's Locke & Key graphic novel series. I LOVED these. I breezed through all four of them in a weekend and wanted more. Unfortunately it was a quick fix is all.
Cornwell and Hobb are fixing me up nicely though. The Hobb is a re-read but I'm looking forward to jumping into the rest of Farseer and getting to the good stuff. Cornwell just rocks. I'm halfway through the middle book of the Arthur series, with the third on tap after I finish this one.
I read The Magicians in June and liked it a lot. I'm looking forward to The Magician King, which releases tomorrow.
DOES IT RELEASE TOMORROW? oh MAN! Do I have some sweet timing or what? That's exciting. Im actually a big Harry Potter fan..until the last book, she lost me there but everything previous I really liked.
Joe Hill..this is Stephen King's kid, right?
I love the Harry Potter series, love it. GRRM disappoints me in writing it off like that. Tsk! I didn't care for The Magicians at all, and was so bored and annoyed by it that I actually couldn't even make it to halfway before chucking it. *shrug*
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I am currently working on a much over-due and slacking re-read of Stephen King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes in addition to Dance, and I'm thinking about throwing in The Dark Tower: The Fall Of Gilead this evening too.
OK, that's me. Now you go. :)