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Shift

[Bobby]

[Alicja]

twelvejan wrote: "I'm reading Hugh Howey's . Didn't think I will enjoy it this much!"

I've started that on my Kindle, I like it too. Was surprised at the end of that first part at how that ended.

(Which reminds me, my currently reading list is out of date!)

[Erica]

Reading Shogun: A Novel of Japan and about to start The Song of Achilles on my kindle. Just borrowed it from the library.

[Bobby]

Read a long time ago and remember a pretty good movie adaptation with Richard Chamberlain as well.

[Alicja]

Read last year and liked it. Not as much fighting as you'd expect and get a bit romance-y in places.

[Tim]

I'm reading The Mongoliad: Book One . Not too much "fantasy" yet. There's a fictional Order of Knights but no elves or fairies so far.

[Dawn]

Tim wrote: "I'm reading The Mongoliad: Book One . Not too much "fantasy" yet. There's a fictional Order of Knights but no elves or fairies so far."

There is several authors on this one?? Can you tell the different writing styles??

[Alicja]

twelvejan wrote: "Alicja wrote: "twelvejan wrote: "I'm reading Hugh Howey's . Didn't think I will enjoy it this much!"

I've started that on my Kindle, I like it too. Was surprised a..."

Nothing wrong with liking Hugh Howey. Have you read Wool Omnibus yet?

[Alicja]

twelvejan wrote: "Definitely not! He's got many rave reviews for his works. Didn't regret checking him out. I have not read Wool yet but definitely in the pipeline. Have you read it?"

It's been on my Kindle forever and I keep getting distracted but I will sometime soon. I have vacation coming up in June so I figure I can visit Grandma and then pretend I want to walk the city and read instead.

[Tim]

Dawn wrote: "
There is several authors on this?? Can you tell the different writing styles?? .."

I think you probably can, but more from the way the story jumps about rather than from the style. I'm just past the end of the free kindle sample (10% of the book?) and have been through 3 separate threads with different, so far unrelated characters and themes.
Still it's good enough for me to shell out and buy the rest of it.

[Dawn]

Sounds interesting Tim. Hope it all ties together nicely.

[Erica]

Alicja wrote: "Read last year and liked it. Not as much fighting as you'd expect and get a bit romance-y in places."

Ughh, not romance-y! It's not my thing.

[Alicja]

Erica wrote: "Alicja wrote: "Read last year and liked it. Not as much fighting as you'd expect and get a bit romance-y in places."

Ughh, not romance-y! It's not my thing."

I don't want to discourage you from reading it but the first half is about Achilles and Patrokles growing up and falling in love. Even later during the war you'll get some camp romance.

Here is my review if you want more specifics, memories of books fade with time: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Dawn]

I've had a couple friends that raved about Wool Omnibus but I'm always concerned about it because it started out as a self-pub book and I haven't had particularily good experiences with those.
So if you two could get a move on and give me your opinions...... ;)

[Alicja]

Dawn wrote: "I've had a couple friends that raved about Wool Omnibus but I'm always concerned about it because it started out as a self-pub book and I haven't had particularily good experiences ..."

Can't speak for Wool but his other work Sand Omnibus is great so far (though I am only 25% in). I think worse stuff has been published so I'd try it. If you want to wait, it may take a few months. :P

[Dawn]

I'm in no hurry, I'm waiting to collect as many opinions as possible before I decide. I have 1000 (literally) other books on my TBR so I'm not in a rush. :D

[Dawn]

I still haven't tried any Mary Renault books and will have to do so sometime. I think I have The Praise Singer in my TBR.

[Jaime]

I am currently reading , and . I hope to have them read within the next three weeks.

[Mark]

interesting.

[Dawn]

That one looks curious Mark. I thought it was going to be a Bow Street Runner type book until I read the synopsis.

[Allison]

Mark wrote: " interesting."

Hmm. Interesting indeed. Just added the whole series....

[Jane]

Dawn wrote: "I'm in no hurry, I'm waiting to collect as many opinions as possible before I decide. I have 1000 (literally) other books on my TBR so I'm not in a rush. :D"

Do you ever go through and weed out stuff? I go through periodically and stuff I'm no longer interested in, I delete.

[Mark]

Dawn wrote: "That one looks curious Mark. I thought it was going to be a Bow Street Runner type book until I read the synopsis."

I did but its not, well not so far.

very interesting magic setup. Its very historical urban fantasy.

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Dawn wrote: "I've had a couple friends that raved about Wool Omnibus but I'm always concerned about it because it started out as a self-pub book and I haven't had particularily good experiences ..."

In my humble opinion, Wool Omnibus was great. Gave it 5 stars. I'm reading Shift right now, and it's good so far.

[Dawn]

Jane wrote: "Do you ever go through and weed out stuff? I go through periodically and stuff I'm no longer interested in, I delete."

I just did that a couple weeks ago actually. I am down to 958 on the TBR, I think I got rid of around 100. I looked through the whole list and couldn't get rid of any more than that. :)

[Dawn]

Derek wrote: "In my humble opinion, Wool Omnibus was great. Gave it 5 stars. I'm reading Shift right now, and it's good so far...."

Yeah, I got that from your review!!

[Allison]

Jane wrote: "Dawn wrote: "I'm in no hurry, I'm waiting to collect as many opinions as possible before I decide. I have 1000 (literally) other books on my TBR so I'm not in a rush. :D"

Do you ever go through an..."

No way! I obviously wanted to read them at some point. The only thing keeping me from reading all of my 3,000+ books is death. And when I die, I won't know how many books I didn't get to anyways :P

[Dawn]

lol

That should only take you 60 years if you take into consderation the books you will still add.....

[Allison]

Well, I don't plan on dying any time soon.... and like I said, I'll never know....

[Missy]

I jusy finished Odin's Wolves Raven book 3, and am going to read Whale toad and back to GilesvKristian . I say this because it is my inteny although it could change....I get mixed reviews and have read mixed reviews on Whale Road. Because of the mixed reviews I will give it about 5 chapters but it is so hard when you find a story teller with talent! I truly believe that Giles Kristen will only get better and better, he isn't Bernard Cornwell but he is sharp , crisp, delightful and insightfull. so what if any thoughts on Whale Road?

[Dawn]

Little do you know......you'll be somewhere in the afterlife moaning about the books you didn't get to finish. ;)

[Dawn]

Of course, if we didn't spend so much time on GR's we could get more reading done!

[Allison]

Dawn wrote: "Of course, if we didn't spend so much time on GR's we could get more reading done!"

Tru dat!

[Dawn]

Missy wrote: "I jusy finished Odin's Wolves Raven book 3, and am going to read Whale toad and back to GilesvKristian . I say this because it is my inteny although it could change....I get mixed reviews and have ..."

Any thoughts on The Whale Road?? You will find some of the biggest fans of Robert Low in this group! :)

I do suggest you give it more than 5 chapters. While I really like this series it took me a bit to get into the first book. I suggest at least 125 pages for a good idea of the book and the rest of the series.

[Dawn]

Oh wait, maybe I mean 150 pages. I just reread my review and it said "it was a solid 4 star despite the first 100 pages"

[Missy]

Thank you, ill read your comments...

[Carlos]

Derek wrote: "Dawn wrote: "I've had a couple friends that raved about Wool Omnibus but I'm always concerned about it because it started out as a self-pub book and I haven't had particularily good..."

It is my shelf waiting to be read, (long sigh...) I am in the middle of The Skystone. Surprisingly good so far.

[Jane]

Reading The Agricola and the Germania / Tacitus online.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Missy wrote: "Thank you, ill read your comments..."

Like dawn, Missy, I recommend getting at least to halfway. I am one of the biggest fans of that series and yet I nearly gave up on The Whale Road when I first discovered it. The first 100 pages or so didn't grab me much and I found them disorienting.

I put the book aside, came back to it a long time later and tried again. Fell in love with the series after that. Very glad I gave it another chance.

[Edward]

Love historical fiction but attempting to go through all the classics I've bought. Right now reading:
The War of the Worlds

[Dawn]

Hi Edward, I do like the classics too. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells has always pissed me off though, so I refuse to read it! :)

BTW, you can link to books on GR's by using the add book/author link right above the comment box. Instead of a third party link.

[Edward]

Dawn wrote: "Hi Edward, I do like the classics too. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells has always pissed me off though, so I refuse to read it! :)

BTW, you can link to books on GR'..."
Yes Dawn I just figured that out and I think I corrected it (I think), first time reading H.G.Wells; but so far my favorite author is Bernard Cornwell. Just finished up reading War Lord Chronicles-loved them, now I expect every Historical novel to be written that well. Thank you and I'm glad to be here.

[Dawn]

I think you found the right group. We're big Cornwell fans here!!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Edward wrote: "Love historical fiction but attempting to go through all the classics I've bought. Right now reading:
The War of the Worlds"

Hi Edward. Welcome. :)

I felt the same way about Bernard Cornwell when I found The Last Kingdom. It woke me up. Made me realise a lot of the stuff I had been reading before was truly second rate.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Dawn wrote: "Hi Edward, I do like the classics too. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells has always pissed me off though, so I refuse to read it! :)

BTW, you can link to books on GR'..."


Why did it p#ss you off? Curious to learn more.

[Dawn]

Oh, it's the ending. I hate science fiction books where humans win by default. Really, really hate them, I want one side or the other to fight and win. Not this (view spoiler)[story where we get to the end of the book and happen to survive because the aliens couldn't breathe our air and have to leave. (hide spoiler)] I mean seriously, what a crappy anti-climactic ending!!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Ahh..gotcha. That's interesting. A very good point too!

[Sceadugenga]

In for a penny...in for a pound, I can't get enough of this series so now I'm off to Miklagard in the company of Raven Odin's Wolves

[Dawn]

And then you'll be finished the series....what will you read next??