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[MetalSlimeHunt]

I most recently read Margret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. The name is kind of misleading, as it's a post-US dystopia set in the 90's.

I hope to soon be reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, sequel to The Kite Runner.

[Sirus]

I remember reading The Kite Runner in high school. We were taking a sort of advanced English class that focused on things like foreign and civil rights literature.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

That's where I read it as well. I was kind of surprised it got approved.

[Sirus]

If Kaffir Boy got approved, I'm not surprised that KR did.

[Pnx]

I haven't done much reading in a long while. I was trying to read through Moby Dick a long while back, but I think I gave up on it because it was just too much of a chore. There was a lot of interesting stuff in there, but I think it was too hard of a nut to crack for me.

But I suppose it's about time I started looking into some more books to read, maybe I'll finally pick up Hous- sorry, I mean House of Leaves.

[ChairmanPoo]

I disliked Stieg Larsson and loathe Coelho. GRRM is good but his goodness does not justify his snail-pace typing

[UltraValican]

I'm currently readiing some book for an AP class I'm taking this school year.
When I finish that I plan on finishing  Grunts by Mary Gentle, then the Gaunt's Ghosts book thats been sitting on my night stand for about a year now.

[Yoink]

I disliked Stieg Larsson and loathe Coelho. GRRM is good but his goodness does not justify his snail-pace typing

Well that's... Uh... Helpful?

[Skyrunner]

(Unabridged) Three Musketeers was actually pretty good, even though it also is a so-called "classic."

I am currently reading Wheel of Time, Book Six, Lord of Chaos. I'm not sure if I should keep on reading it (since it has become a full-blown, politics-focused, slow novel), or if I should stop throwing money in that direction. :/

[kaijyuu]

Stop. 1-3 of wheel of time were great, 4-6 were meh, 7+ are horrible.

[Yoink]

I read the first... Two, I think?- and couldn't really see where it would go from there.
I read a heap of Raymond E. Feist's books just for the sake of following the series, and the later ones were just the same basic story repeated over and over, with some new 'twist' occuring each time.

Another series I can really recommend would be Chronicles of an Age of Darkness by Hugh Cook.
It was definitely worth the lengths I went to tracking all the books down. Shame the series never became as long as planned.

[Skyrunner]

Stop. 1-3 of wheel of time were great, 4-6 were meh, 7+ are horrible.

xD But I'm curious at what would happen ! D:

I also accidentally read a sub-title Egwene's Betrayal in Wikipedia and I'm wondering who she betrayed and what side.

I do think it could do with half of its current descriptive prose (arguably one of the author's distinctive qualities, but overdone in cases) and less useless actions (smooth skirt, rearrange folds of skirt, sniff, tug braid. . . ).

This summarizes much of the stuff that could have been cut:

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While Nynaeve tugged her braid, Elayne smoothed her skirts and Egwene folde[d] her arms under her breasts, all of them wishing Rand, Mat, Perrin and/or Lan were there so they could give them the rough side of their tongues and then take off their clothes to admire their pretty buttocks and so on.
Meanwhile, Rand, ever mindful of the oily taint of saidin, wished he knew as much about women as Mat and Perrin did. Perrin, ever mindful of Faile's constant nagging, wished he knew as much about women as Rand and Mat did. And Mat, freshly bedded at knifepoint by Queen Tylin, wished lhe knew as much, etc.

Elsewhere, in Tear or somewhere, the cleavage was robust, the chamber pots were made of porcelain, the lace dresses with the little silver thingies in them were very pretty and the forked beards shone in the pale summer morning like flaxen straw or some crap. Earrings were bright and sparkly and horses wore intricate, ornate saddles and, and uh...did I mention the cleavage and how firm and robust it was? Darkfriends walked the streets and did...things. Whitecloaks arrested anybody who said the word "darkfriend" and looked at them funny. Several Aes Sedai were stilled and then just as quickly unstilled...then stilled again if they stepped out of line. Other Aes Sedai, meanwhile, searched high and low for various weather-altering kitchen utensils. And the Sean'chean invaded every so often, just to keep things mildly interesting...

...and stuff

[Willfor]

You can tell this isn't reddit because it's been a page already and no one has rec'd Sanderson, or jumped in to say how overrated he is.

Strange, strange fantasy community we've got here.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Who's Sanderson?

[Willfor]

Brandon Sanderson. He took over the Wheel of Time series on Robert Jordan's death, and has written a number of his own works. The Mistborn Trilogy and Way of Kings are his most known works other than the Wheel of Time continuation at the moment.