Anybody ever read Invisible Man? I think it might be the best book I've ever read in that it made me feel alternatively angry and sad and whatever other emotional state it wanted me to be in. Like, it's not my favorite book by far but it might be the best written one I've ever read.
Well the first section just...stopped. Wasn't really expecting that but then I haven't really tried to learn about the book before reading it. Seemed like the proper way to approach it. Like it so far.
Just finished Terminal World, didn't find it nearly as good as Reynolds' other books. The world had some promise but he didn't explore it enough, and the main character was really hard to care about.
Didn't have any of my unread books with me so impulse-bought the first Malazan from the Kindle store. Been a while since I read any fantasy except ASoIaF, it'll be interesing to see if I like it.
Just finished Terminal World, didn't find it nearly as good as Reynolds' other books. The world had some promise but he didn't explore it enough, and the main character was really hard to care about.
Didn't have any of my unread books with me so impulse-bought the first Malazan from the Kindle store. Been a while since I read any fantasy except ASoIaF, it'll be interesing to see if I like it.
The more Reynolds I read, the more I realize he's an Idea Guy, and not a Character Guy. Terminal World had a pretty good idea, but he wanted to write a romantic adventure story, not explore the idea.
Who was it that's been reading Monster Hunter International?
Because I picked up Larry Correia's Hard Magic and been reading that, I've thoroughly enjoyed it, got about a hundred pages left to go.
I read one of them, the last one actually, and might pick up the other two. I started Hard Magic but it seemed dumb as hell and didn't grab me so I dropped in for something else. I might pick it back up again if you really think it's good.
Who was it that's been reading Monster Hunter International?
Because I picked up Larry Correia's Hard Magic and been reading that, I've thoroughly enjoyed it, got about a hundred pages left to go.
I read one of them, the last one actually, and might pick up the other two. I started Hard Magic but it seemed dumb as hell and didn't grab me so I dropped in for something else. I might pick it back up again if you really think it's good.
I didn't really start liking it until I was about six chapters in, but I really enjoyed the alt-history take, and the Depression era stuff, and the magic powers. It turned out to be a hell of an action packed book. I also didn't realize that they had a glossary in the back until I was over 3/4 of the way through with it, trying to figure out how much I had left.
But yeah, I ordered Spell Bound, and the most recent Monster Hunter book that was just released, and Low Town, so I've got some reading to do.
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Finished Cloud Atlas. I'll make a longer post when I'm not on my tablet. I liked it as a collection of stories and as a structure but I wasn't blown away by its profundity.
Finished Cloud Atlas. I'll make a longer post when I'm not on my tablet. I liked it as a collection of stories and as a structure but I wasn't blown away by its profundity.
I actually am a huge fan of magicsturbation in writing, as a huge D&D nerd, so I loved the hell out of the first few chapters but Michael Kramer sounds like he is about to fall the fuck asleep at all times. Ugh, I think I might actually have to READ a book
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The sequel to John Dies at the End, This Book is Full of Spiders, comes out SO SOON, Oct 2. I can't wait.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I have no idea what book I want to be reading right now
I have a big ol' stack next to my bed
And each night I pick a different one and they are all equally unappealing
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What're you itching for, genre-wise?
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I don't really know
I think I'll eventually start reading one of these history books (lined up right now I believe is a history of dueling, a John Wilkes Booth bio, and a book on a Jewish psychic employed by the Nazis), but I was kind of hoping to break things up with something light in the wake of my last book
And the lighter stuff I have has just been woefully unappealing
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
You got an e-device?
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Naw. Probably should, for the amount I read and the amount I want to be a travelling gypsy, but I'm still too attached to my shelves and shelves of books.
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Anyway the lighter stuff I've been reading has been The Three Musketeers which is still awesome. And hilarious.
You could also try Berlin Noir because they are my current everyone-read project, and are quick reads. Or I'm also currently reading the series the show Bones is based on which is pretty fascinating from a forensic mystery perspective even though I don't identify that strongly with the protagonist. Because the author is really a forensic anthropologist so it's all super-accurate. Oh yeah and I also read Light Boxes which is super-pretty. And very very short.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
So Cloud Atlas was a fine book, but I think I was expecting a bit too much from it. I was hoping the six stories would tie up and into each other in interesting and significant ways. They really don't, each one really stands by itself for the most part. I think I was hoping for something more like Hyperion, which I would say is a better book, still.
On each individual story:
Adam Ewing: This one was okay. Had me reaching for my dictionary which is uncommon, and hard to do, frankly. I would say this is a Melville story? Or almost something like Darwin, which I haven't actually read. Didn't get a whole lot out of this one, other than Adam Ewing is an okay guy, and most everyone else is some degree of jerk. Except Autua.
Robert Frobisher: My favorite. Mr. Frobisher is quite a likable rapscallion, and I enjoyed all of his misadventures and wittiness. And it has a nice and sad ending.
Luisia Rey: I felt like this one tied in the least to the other stories thematically. It reads pretty much like a conspiracy thriller, which are totally common these days. Probably the easiest and most exciting to read, although remembering who was who from one half to the second took some effort. An entertaining read, but not much meat on its bones.
Timothy Cavendish: I wasn't feeling this one through the first half. Cavendish was kind of a whiny old jerk. I think his imprisonment and escape did his character some good, it was much more fun in the back half. A generally funny story, it feels like someone already made this into a movie. I kept seeing an aged Colin Firth as Cavendish. Very British.
Sonmi-451:Competes with Frobisher for my favorite section. I really liked the interview format, learning about this future world, an unraveling what went on to bring her to this point. This section should be plenty flashy for the movie.
Zachry: Phew, the dialect. Reading this part got to be a chore at points. It was an interesting take on the post-apocalyptic world though.
Is there any good criticism of it? I'd really like to read someone talk about themes and motifs and such.
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i'm trying really hard to like Monster Hunter International because it's a cool book but about the time the dude literally refers to multiple black people as Blacks, with a capital B, i'm like uhhhh could you sound like more of a backwards ding dong
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and right on the heels of that is an old southern guy basically bitchin about damn liberals and their Monsters' Rights Groups and i'm suddenly really uncomfortable
but goddammit i wanna read about a dude shooting draculas
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I've read some of Jorge Luis Borges and I'm a bit embarrassed to say that some of the stories went over my head
Like if I ever meet his ghost I'd be all sheepish and like "Mr. Borges, sir, you're a great author and all, but I'm sorry that I couldn't appreciate some of your works."
But I did like "Asterion", "The Garden of Forking Paths" and "Emma Zunz"!
I've been reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and I'm not sure how I feel about it.
I like the change in perspective during one of my favorite periods of history, but there is something about her writing style that just makes it really slow reading for me. I don't know what it is.
My library just got a book called, I shit you not, WWW.COM
The description:
"As the internet expands and creates a playground, Ramon Ramirez & Daniel Munger surreptitiously slither to the top by creating an inconspicuous organization, The Secret Society, which makes them the most powerful and feared men in America; and they only have 1 rule: There Are No Rules! A simple click can get you sex, money, and even murdered! Unexpectedly, things change when Ramon and Daniel's fate leads them to cross paths with a charismatic group of ambitious women paired with sinister talents. These women have a master plan to outsmart the smartest and do the unachievable. Take down The Secret Soceity from the bottom to the top, One by One. Open WWW.COM and see Chance, Seven, Justice, & Patience validate the dangers of the click into the unknown"
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I have no idea what I just read. It looks like it's in English but I dunno.
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Because I picked up Larry Correia's Hard Magic and been reading that, I've thoroughly enjoyed it, got about a hundred pages left to go.
let me know what you think
that'll make sense in a bit
Didn't have any of my unread books with me so impulse-bought the first Malazan from the Kindle store. Been a while since I read any fantasy except ASoIaF, it'll be interesing to see if I like it.
insightful stuff, mannnnnnnn
The more Reynolds I read, the more I realize he's an Idea Guy, and not a Character Guy. Terminal World had a pretty good idea, but he wanted to write a romantic adventure story, not explore the idea.
I read one of them, the last one actually, and might pick up the other two. I started Hard Magic but it seemed dumb as hell and didn't grab me so I dropped in for something else. I might pick it back up again if you really think it's good.
I didn't really start liking it until I was about six chapters in, but I really enjoyed the alt-history take, and the Depression era stuff, and the magic powers. It turned out to be a hell of an action packed book. I also didn't realize that they had a glossary in the back until I was over 3/4 of the way through with it, trying to figure out how much I had left.
But yeah, I ordered Spell Bound, and the most recent Monster Hunter book that was just released, and Low Town, so I've got some reading to do.
I'm on the final 30 pages and it's been excellent.
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I don't know if I understood it
Like, I think I got one or two layers of it
But that was fucking bizarre
best characters go
I say Sonmi Zachary and Frobisher
I actually am a huge fan of magicsturbation in writing, as a huge D&D nerd, so I loved the hell out of the first few chapters but Michael Kramer sounds like he is about to fall the fuck asleep at all times. Ugh, I think I might actually have to READ a book
UGH
The sequel to John Dies at the End, This Book is Full of Spiders, comes out SO SOON, Oct 2. I can't wait.
I have a big ol' stack next to my bed
And each night I pick a different one and they are all equally unappealing
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I think I'll eventually start reading one of these history books (lined up right now I believe is a history of dueling, a John Wilkes Booth bio, and a book on a Jewish psychic employed by the Nazis), but I was kind of hoping to break things up with something light in the wake of my last book
And the lighter stuff I have has just been woefully unappealing
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
You could also try Berlin Noir because they are my current everyone-read project, and are quick reads. Or I'm also currently reading the series the show Bones is based on which is pretty fascinating from a forensic mystery perspective even though I don't identify that strongly with the protagonist. Because the author is really a forensic anthropologist so it's all super-accurate. Oh yeah and I also read Light Boxes which is super-pretty. And very very short.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
On each individual story:
Robert Frobisher: My favorite. Mr. Frobisher is quite a likable rapscallion, and I enjoyed all of his misadventures and wittiness. And it has a nice and sad ending.
Luisia Rey: I felt like this one tied in the least to the other stories thematically. It reads pretty much like a conspiracy thriller, which are totally common these days. Probably the easiest and most exciting to read, although remembering who was who from one half to the second took some effort. An entertaining read, but not much meat on its bones.
Timothy Cavendish: I wasn't feeling this one through the first half. Cavendish was kind of a whiny old jerk. I think his imprisonment and escape did his character some good, it was much more fun in the back half. A generally funny story, it feels like someone already made this into a movie. I kept seeing an aged Colin Firth as Cavendish. Very British.
Sonmi-451:Competes with Frobisher for my favorite section. I really liked the interview format, learning about this future world, an unraveling what went on to bring her to this point. This section should be plenty flashy for the movie.
Zachry: Phew, the dialect. Reading this part got to be a chore at points. It was an interesting take on the post-apocalyptic world though.
Is there any good criticism of it? I'd really like to read someone talk about themes and motifs and such.
but goddammit i wanna read about a dude shooting draculas
Heh heh heh
EDIT: Oh wait, here's the author's Entire Life Story
i'm not super crazy about victorian lit myself but how does someone not enjoy this book
I think the prose style really turns some people way off. But it's very in keeping with a lot of my favourite authors, so.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
and fantastical things described in a sober, detailed manner
Jorge Luis Borges wrote a lot about fictional books.
"Tlon, Uqbar Urbis Tertius"
"The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim"
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"
All of those are excellent
it was something, that's for sure
Like if I ever meet his ghost I'd be all sheepish and like "Mr. Borges, sir, you're a great author and all, but I'm sorry that I couldn't appreciate some of your works."
But I did like "Asterion", "The Garden of Forking Paths" and "Emma Zunz"!
I like the change in perspective during one of my favorite periods of history, but there is something about her writing style that just makes it really slow reading for me. I don't know what it is.
How random.
The description:
"As the internet expands and creates a playground, Ramon Ramirez & Daniel Munger surreptitiously slither to the top by creating an inconspicuous organization, The Secret Society, which makes them the most powerful and feared men in America; and they only have 1 rule: There Are No Rules! A simple click can get you sex, money, and even murdered! Unexpectedly, things change when Ramon and Daniel's fate leads them to cross paths with a charismatic group of ambitious women paired with sinister talents. These women have a master plan to outsmart the smartest and do the unachievable. Take down The Secret Soceity from the bottom to the top, One by One. Open WWW.COM and see Chance, Seven, Justice, & Patience validate the dangers of the click into the unknown"