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[Emma]

Isn't it Book 4?

[Cthulufaic]

planning to re-read all of my Honor Harrington books, and then read the rest of the series that I have on an official CD(which hopefully still works)

Space battles are so fucking epic

[Zrk2]

Forgot to mention this earlier. The Shadow Rising. Part 3 of the WoT series.

Good. Don't give up.

[i2amroy]

Forgot to mention this earlier. The Shadow Rising. Part 3 of the WoT series.

Good. Don't give up.

If you ever feel like giving up, just know that if you can make it to the last 3 books suddenly it becomes a lot easier to read.

[Yoink]

I've been reading an interesting, obscure cyberpunk novel called 'reMix', by some dude called Jon Courtenay Grimwood.
The book was first published in 1999, it's interesting seeing which of his ideas of the future actually came true. It's a pretty interesting novel so far, too! Action, violence, sex, dark humour, the lot. At first I thought it was going to have an irritating Mary Sue of the angstiest kind for a main character, but... well, not to give anything away, but it doesn't.

I literally found this book in a second-hand store by just rummaging through their book collection to find something interesting.
It has a bright purple and green cover, too, which is cool.

[TheKaspa]

Isn't it Book 4?

It is.

[Arx]

On another note I've also been reading The Dwarves by Markus Heitz it's pretty good so far and there was one plot twist pretty early on which, was well executed in my opinion.

I tried to read that, but something about it just didn't work for me. I'm not sure what.

[TheKaspa]

Well the first book was interesting, although it reminded me of Battle for Wesnoth, the story of "Heir to the Throne", the first campaign.
The other were weird, and I didn't like the steampunk likeness of certain ideas.

[Dutrius]

Isn't it Book 4?

Yeah, my mistake. it was late at night and my internet died when I tried to change it.

Forgot to mention this earlier. The Shadow Rising. Part 3 of the WoT series.

Good. Don't give up.

If you ever feel like giving up, just know that if you can make it to the last 3 books suddenly it becomes a lot easier to read.

I know, I'm rereading them because why not.

[Tylui]

I suppose I might as well ask for a recommendation here, but could anyone point me to a decent fantasy book that's actually, y'know, fantastical? Like not yet another rehash of Tolkeins ideas. Something fairly unique. Game of Thrones is cool, but a bit dense.

You could try The Obsidian Trilogy. It's pretty fantastical! Although it's fairly... tame? I guess impaling people on spires isn't very tame but there's something teeny feeling about the novels imo. Maybe it's just because it's a coming-of-age story.

I'm currently reading a non-fiction called The Perfect Theory by Pedro G. Ferreira. It's all about the history of General Relativity.

[Arx]

I suppose I might as well ask for a recommendation here, but could anyone point me to a decent fantasy book that's actually, y'know, fantastical? Like not yet another rehash of Tolkeins ideas. Something fairly unique. Game of Thrones is cool, but a bit dense.

Peter V. Brett's The Painted Man (and sequels) are pretty good.

Brent Weeks's Night Angel series is pretty good too. It has a handful of interesting concepts.

They're both pretty damn dark, though.

[Bohandas]

I've been reading Whargoul (<-Contains Adult Content), by Dave Brockie (the now deceased former frontman from GWAR)

[Yoink]

So, having finished reMix (which was mildly entertaining despite containing a lot of Mary Sue-type bullshit) and in need of something new to read I raided my friend's collection of cheesy old sci-fi novels, none of which he's read to my knowledge.

I picked out one called Nine Princes In Amber by Robert Zelazny, since it didn't look too offensively bad, and it's turning out to be somewhat interesting so far. That's probably largely due to the main character being an amnesiac, and not only that but trying to hide the fact from everyone he interacts with whilst still trying to work out what the hell is going on and who's trying to kill him.
Maybe it won't be quite as entertaining once he gets a better idea of things, but for now it's pretty good.

[NJW2000]

Waterlog by Roger Deakin. It may just be the waterpolo player in me, but I think his commitment to the idea of water as a separate way of thinking about the world and doing stuff is great. I want to go swimming in rivers and moors and stuff now, of course...

Oh, and Roger Zelaney is pretty good I think... try his Deus Irae, which he did with Philip K. Dick, it's a really fun read... I especially loved Oh Ho.

[penguinofhonor]

Last week I finished John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead. It's very postmodern and very good. The main narrative follows a journalist covering a John Henry festival - the kind of guy you hire when you just need to fill space on a page with some drivel. Most of the book focuses on him and it's pretty funny, lots of eccentric characters. Typically it gets no more serious than making some cynical jokes about commercialism or journalism.

The main plot takes place in about half of the chapters and is interspersed with other stories that usually have a more serious tone. The most prominent is a retelling of the John Henry myth. There are also backstories of various characters, and some stories that are only connected thematically and through mentions of John Henry.

It's kind of dense, but definitely worth the read.