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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #495 on: July 16, 2016, 05:30:43 pm »
Managed to find pdf versions of every single Animorphs book.  Nostalgia, here I come. 
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #496 on: July 16, 2016, 06:25:26 pm »
Finished It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis.

It was ok, I guess. Ending felt unfinished.
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« Reply #497 on: July 22, 2016, 11:21:23 am »
I hope to read Weapons Systems and Political Stability.
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« Reply #498 on: July 23, 2016, 09:10:02 am »
Reading Thomas Bernhard's Walking at the moment. Christ, it feels as if the text has pinned me up against a wall and is slowly throttling me. It's wonderful.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #499 on: July 23, 2016, 10:19:13 am »
Quote from: Twinwolf on July 13, 2016, 07:40:26 am
I read the first couple books of The Dresden Files. Interesting series.
They only get better.
It does have a specific kind of character development, though.
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For a similar series (if a little more Sue), try the Iron Druid chronicles.
Similar to Dresden, but he's not a wizard, he's a 2000 year old Druid.
It's kind of the opposite in that he's basically at the height of his power at the beginning of the series, and then slowly sheds it as the story unfolds.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #500 on: July 31, 2016, 01:36:58 pm »
Finished the Mistborn trilogy this morning. Moving on to Wax and Wayne.

 Gotta say I'm really liking Sanderson's style. Will have to check out his other stuff and this Cosmere thingy
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #501 on: July 31, 2016, 01:54:30 pm »
Currently reading The Big Think Book by Peter Cave.

He has a really good take on philosophy, and it's delivered really well.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #502 on: July 31, 2016, 02:38:00 pm »
Quote from: Furtuka on July 31, 2016, 01:36:58 pm
Finished the Mistborn trilogy this morning. Moving on to Wax and Wayne.
Mistborn... Breaths and heightenings?

Personally I only really got stuck on his words of radiance books.

Currently just got given two short novella series, tales of the Malazan empire and the Malazan book of the fallen, so I should work through those pretty quickly.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #503 on: July 31, 2016, 02:45:22 pm »
Green Mars. The book is making me try to figure out if a huge supercompany acquiring Mars is a good or a bad thing, so I'd say it's as good as the first one so far.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #504 on: July 31, 2016, 02:45:39 pm »
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Quote from: Furtuka on July 31, 2016, 01:36:58 pm
Finished the Mistborn trilogy this morning. Moving on to Wax and Wayne.
Mistborn... Breaths and heightenings?

Personally I only really got stuck on his words of radiance books.

You're thinking of Warbreaker. Mistborn is more metally.

I do agree that the Stormlight Archives are easily Sanderson's best series. Book 3 when
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #505 on: August 01, 2016, 06:57:50 pm »
I picked up Three Body Problem via Tor's monthly book club thing. (free book once a month? sure, why not.) It's...okay. I guess. Near-future sci-fi set against characters would grew up during China's Cultural Revolution. It was originally written in Chinese, and while the translation is good it's got a sort of a very flat, factual tone. It's currently trying my patience by trying to describe this Avant Garde Future Game that just sounds...bad. And nonsensical. I dunno, has anyone read and enjoyed this? I keep seeing its name go by, but I'm increasingly inclined to dump it for some other book.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #506 on: August 01, 2016, 09:02:01 pm »
I read it about half a year ago. I really enjoyed it. I say you should stick with it, if only because it's one of my favorite books.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #507 on: August 01, 2016, 11:04:50 pm »
I very much enjoyed it. Not everyone has to have the same taste, though.
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« Reply #508 on: August 10, 2016, 10:56:37 am »
"The Last of All Possible Worlds" By Peter Drucker. I've apparently dedicated myself to reading absolutely everything by Drucker, but I've yet to regret even a second of it because holy hell is this some rich, tasty fiction by the guy that normally only wrote about Business and how to be a Manager.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #509 on: August 10, 2016, 11:52:14 am »
Haven't been reading as much as I would have liked recently, to be honest. Being on the computer way too much is definitely a part of that, but I can't exactly say that the books I've found have been riveting, either.  :-\
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