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Not the most intelligent read but they are kind of fun and pass the time. The Jack Reacher series is also the fastest selling series at one a second.
I just finished this trilogy a few hours ago and found it to be incredibly enjoyable. It has a slightly faster pace than say, a song of ice and fire but manages to maintain some amazing characters. Sure the characters may not have the depth of say Jon or Tyrion in ol' Georgies masterpiece but it comes close and it actually had me laugh out loud, which is very rare for a book, let alone a fantasy novel.gamer @ heart said:
Scullibundo said:Now I'm about to start reading The Road.
The fourth one features a significant uptick in Card's religious proselytizing. I liked Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead but after the third book and the first 50 pages of the fourth, I found it insufferable and quit.gdt5016 said:I'll take a break from Sci-Fi and read The Road. It's short so I should probably be done by tomorrow.
Edit: Just finished Children Of The Mind. While the weakest Ender book, it was still great. The next book wrapping it all (?) up should be pretty damn great.
Sounds interesting. I think I'll look into itKildace said:
Just finished Hyperion and working on The Fall of Hyperion.
The book deserves all the praise it's been getting in this thread. Possibly the best Sci Fi Book I've ever read, combines Bank's skill at creating a complex, coherent plausible civilization with a very tight narrative. I'm kicking myself for not picking it up earlier.
Dan said:The fourth one features a significant uptick in Card's religious proselytizing. I liked Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead but after the third book and the first 50 pages of the fourth, I found it insufferable and quit.
BenjaminBirdie said:Anyone else doing this?
http://infinitesummer.org/
Three months, like a million pages. Spend the summer with the best book ever!
Anyway, that's what I'll be reading this month.
Oh... thought it was the third since he was saying the next one wrapped it up. I stopped following the whole series after hating what I'd read of Children of the Mind then.Scullibundo said:Children of the Mind IS the fourth one. I really loved the third (Xenocide, even though the first 100 pages were grueling), but I will agree the fourth was a letdown. My qualms with it have nothing to do with religious preaching though.
BenjaminBirdie said:
Love always triumphs :sappyDan said:Couples started to use this law in order to allow love marriages without requiring the consent of parents. So a woman would allege that her desired husband had raped her, he wouldn't oppose, and the parents would have to allow the marriage. Now that's crafty!
Scullibundo said:Children of the Mind IS the fourth one. I really loved the third (Xenocide, even though the first 100 pages were grueling), but I will agree the fourth was a letdown. My qualms with it have nothing to do with religious preaching though.
gdt5016: Did you read the Shadow saga?
Dr.Acula said:Just started. Am at The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment.Sonic balls? Does Hal really face some kind of blind, tennis-ninja?!
FnordChan said:Yep, I'm on page 70 or so, having recently finished Footnote 24. Woo boy. So far I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I got a couple of hundred pages into Infinite Jest when it was first released but got distracted, so I was glad to have an excuse to give it another shot.
FnordChan
gdt5016 said:Oh yes. My recent read through of CotM wrapped up my second read of the entire thing (plus Ender in Exile for the first time).
I slightly prefer the Original Quartet over the Shadow series. If only because I find Shadow Puppets to be (by far) the weakest book.
I agree with your thoughts on Xenocide (though not to the "grueling" extent). But after the initial hump, I found the Path storyline to be near equally engrossing as the other lines.
Another thought:
I first read the whole thing about 3/4 years ago, I was much younger, and I had no clue about Card's politics/social views. Lets just say that this time certain passages in both series screamed "WTF."
Salazar said:authorised biography of John Mortimer
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy said:Finished Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson
Kildace said:
Just finished Hyperion and working on The Fall of Hyperion.
The book deserves all the praise it's been getting on Reading-Age. Possibly the best Sci Fi Book I've ever read, Simmons has Bank's skill at creating a complex, internally coherent civilization with a unique narrative structure. I'm kicking myself for not picking it up earlier.
Tim the Wiz said:Love Rumpole, might give this a try.
Dust of Dreams is coming out in two months time.
Robin Hobbs new book coming out soon as well! The Dragon Keepers
Scullibundo said:Yet I find Shadow of the Giant to be the strongest, on par with Ender's Game.
Whilst it is directly influenced by Mormonism (I didn't know this till after I read the first two books since I know nothing of the religion) you should give Card's Homecoming series a read. There a five books and the first four are all brilliant (the fifth being utter shit). Whilst it is inspired by Mormon books he twists it into a great sci-fi story and like the Ender series I love the characters. The Ships of Earth is the best one.
nakedsushi said:I'm happy to see so many people reading. I picked up a lot of good suggestions on what to read next.
Just a question, but do most of you read physical books? Anyone doing ebooks?
If anyone is on GoodReads, add me http://www.goodreads.com/nakedsushi
Ebooks all the way. I got me a Sony PRS-505 and I LOVE IT.nakedsushi said:I'm happy to see so many people reading. I picked up a lot of good suggestions on what to read next.
Just a question, but do most of you read physical books? Anyone doing ebooks?
cody said:The prose really fits well in the audio version and adds a certain "this is happening" feel to the action. I've got BLOOD MERIDIAN on my reading list, though, and I'm not sure how satisfied I'll be with all the and and anding going on over the course of 300ish pages. I'll give it a shot, but I'm guessing McCarthy is better heard than read.
Salazar said:Still physical books, and the occasional audiobook. I chose Librarything over Goodreads. I've not updated in a while, and I have a mountain of books still to catalogue, but it's a good site.
http://www.librarything.com/home/Cleomedes
Teddman said:Ebooks all the way. I got me a Sony PRS-505 and I LOVE IT.
E-readers are the way of the future, any book buff should pick one up right away. Totally changes the way you read for the better, you tend to read faster, read more, and it's so much more convenient.
Have you seen the movie with the same title? Sounds like the movie was based on the book.Hilbert said:I finished "The Descent" which was a terrible book about an underground civilization that spawned our legends of Demons and Satan.
Cdammen said:Have you seen the movie with the same title? Sounds like the movie was based on the book.