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[kilakan]

Unfortunately I don't really know for you... live near an absolutely MASSIVE chapters store with an owner obsessed with books so he always stocks one of everything usually.

Just finished Ben Bova's Mars, and another book called The First Power Play.

Both excellent novels, started on Lens of the World but can't stand the writing style... moved to Sword of The rightful King but for a story of king Aurthor it's really lackluster so far. 

[Whisperling]

live near an absolutely MASSIVE chapters store with an owner obsessed with books so he always stocks one of everything usually.

I like this guy already.

[Arcvasti]

Just started on Reapers Gale, Seventh book of the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

[Generally me]

Just started on Reapers Gale, Seventh book of the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

What is that series like?

[Emma]

I like them, they are a little dense but they're still quite good. I still have to finish the second though so I'm probably not the best source of info on them.

[Arcvasti]

Just started on Reapers Gale, Seventh book of the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

What is that series like?

I'd say it hits a decent balance between Wheel of Time's long neat character arcs and A Song of Ice and Fire's grim grittiness without being either overly long and not feeling like anything is being accomplished or needlessly edgy and bopping you on the head with death and rape and similar every chapter. If you have no idea what's going on: Keep reading. Usually, you can infer what you're missing from context eventually or it'll be explained in greater detail later.

[Tack]

I thought pratchett's later works picked back up in quality. Especially the discworld series, the last few books I really enjoyed. Some of the middle ones, not as much.

I dunno, Thud/Snuff was the high point for me. Unseen Academicals you noticed a decline, and Raising Steam was one of my least favorites, despite it having all my favorite characters.

[Yoink]

I'm reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.
While the author rambles a bit at times, the setting itself is compelling enough that I don't really mind. Also I suppose it's kind of appropriate given the subject matter, and it's based on a true story besides. Still, the descriptions of beautiful historic buildings, antique furniture and the restoration and preservation of such are most likely my favourite thing about this book.
That and the drunken partying. All subjects close to my heart.

[Arx]

Just finishing Thanks for the Feedback by Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone, and picking up Stormbird by Conn Iggulden.

The former is on the science and art of giving and taking feedback, and the latter is historical fiction because I don't have it in me to read two science/learning books in a row this year.

[Generally me]

Just read The Sin Eaters Daughter. I liked it until up the ending which I personally found a bit rushed.

[Emma]

I finally finished Deadhouse Gates and have absolutely zero idea why I stopped reading it for a while. I'm now reading Memories of Ice.

[Yoink]

Finished Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil yesterday, and I've made a start on The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño.
It seems really good so far. Currently stopped at 80 pages, and my OCD is fighting a losing battle for me to wait there a while.

[NJW2000]

Do you read much by Bolano? By Night in Chile was the last I read, do you have any reccommends?

[Yoink]

Nope, this is actually the first of his I've read.
It certainly won't be the last, I'm really enjoying it. I'll have to pick up By Night in Chile sometime.

[Helgoland]

El Libro De Los Abrazos by Eduardo Galeano. In Spanish, so I have to use a dictionary and read very slowly, but it's soooooo worth it. Example:

Spoiler: Original (click to show/hide)

Celebración de la voz humana /1

Los indios shuar, los llamados jíbaros, cortan la cabeza
del vencido. La cortan y la reducen hasta que cabe
en un puño, para que el vencido no resucite. Pero el
vencido no está del todo vencido hasta que le cierran la
boca. Por eso le cosen los labios con una fibra que jamás
se pudre.

Spoiler: Ad hoc translation (click to show/hide)

Celebration of the human voice/1

The Shuar indians, those which are called Jíbaros, cut off the heads of their defeated enemies. They cut it off and shrink it until it fits inside a fist, so that their enemy will not resurrect. But their enemy is not truly defeated until they seal his mouth. For this they sew shut his lips with a fiber that will never come loose.

Spoiler: Illustration on the website I retrieved the text from (click to show/hide)

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