Author Topic: The Book Club: Fiction Discussion Thread (Read 36453 times)

sirpercival · « **Reply #40 on:** November 30, 2011, 09:27:55 AM »

I'm reading the new Mistborn book, the Alloy of Law. Very strange... turn-of-the-century allomancy? What happens when allomancers start playing with superconductor properties and exotic materials?

trappedslider · « **Reply #41 on:** November 30, 2011, 02:48:47 PM »

Quote from: altpersona on November 30, 2011, 12:08:13 AM

i think iv read all the Ender series (in the last 3 months or so). the later books are less good than the older ones, but i disagree w/ some of the descriptions given them here.

after these three company books, iv told my boy i'll read hunger games that he's insisting on... i may just wait for the movie...

I loved the Shadow Series over the Xeno and Children ,and it did get tied up nicely IMO in Ender In Exile and you should read The Hunger Game trio before going to see the movie,It will give you a mroe soild footing on the movie than jsut seeing the movie would.

Libertad · « **Reply #42 on:** December 07, 2011, 01:41:04 PM »

The fourth book of the Eragon series came out recently. Any thoughts on it?

altpersona · « **Reply #43 on:** December 07, 2011, 05:00:00 PM »

finished heavy time and hell burner; cherryh ends books oddly. just sort of stops mid tought, the end.

also read the new dresden 'ghost story', liked it. poor harry...

radionausea · « **Reply #44 on:** December 08, 2011, 04:21:43 PM »

Read eleven Dresden Files books in, oh god, 8 days. Why didn't anyone warn me that it is literary crack?

sirpercival · « **Reply #45 on:** December 08, 2011, 04:36:48 PM »

That happened to me too. It's sooo addictive.

altpersona · « **Reply #46 on:** December 08, 2011, 04:46:56 PM »

ya, read em all back to back... its better that way.

Mooncrow · « **Reply #47 on:** December 08, 2011, 06:55:48 PM »

Quote from: radionausea on December 08, 2011, 04:21:43 PM

Read eleven Dresden Files books in, oh god, 8 days. Why didn't anyone warn me that it is literary crack?

Once you toil through the first three, yeah, the rest grab a hold and don't let go until you're done^^

Nemo · « **Reply #48 on:** December 17, 2011, 08:39:45 PM »

Lately been reading classics, Fight Club and Catch-22 for example. Now I'm enjoying Hoghfather

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trappedslider · « **Reply #49 on:** December 17, 2011, 10:06:12 PM »

Got done reading Variant by Robinson Wells, It was good. I really didn't see the twist coming

SneeR · « **Reply #50 on:** December 17, 2011, 11:20:25 PM »

Anyone ever read Gunner Cade? No one has ever heard of it as far as I can tell, but it's a great read!

How about Wild Seed by Octavia Butler? A good read, that, though a bit weird and raunchy...

trappedslider · « **Reply #51 on:** December 28, 2011, 10:34:40 AM »

I found a ocuple of books that I wanna buy LEgend by Marie Lu and The future of us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. I recently finshed I, Robot: To Protect by Mickey Zucker Reichert it was vewry good, I cna't wait to read the others in this new I robot triology. Also finshed reading what there is so far in the Gone series by Michael Grant, two more books to be published before it's done.

radionausea · « **Reply #52 on:** January 23, 2012, 01:55:11 AM »

Quote from: radionausea on November 30, 2011, 02:48:02 AM

Just endured the first book of The Black Company - does it get better? Because as it is I feel like I'm reading the dribblings of a 17 year old who's decided they're going to be a novelist. It doesn't have any continuity, is full of tiny deus ex machinas and the characters are flat.

I'd heard great things about this series. If I feel this way about the first book is it worth me continuing? It would be the first time I've not finished a series so I probably will anyway but just want to know if its going to be an endurance test or a pleasant surprise.

To answer my own question - it does get better. Not enough that I'm going to read the Books of the South but better. Cheers for the PI recommendation Mooncrow, will give them a whirl

trappedslider · « **Reply #53 on:** January 23, 2012, 11:12:37 AM »

Picked up both books I wanted and read them erlaier this month. They were both good. I'm currently reading the new Star wars book Darth Plagueis

kurashu · « **Reply #54 on:** January 23, 2012, 01:14:03 PM »

Quote from: Libertad on December 07, 2011, 01:41:04 PM

The fourth book of the Eragon series came out recently. Any thoughts on it?

It's a trilogy right? So, why was there a fourth? (answering: Hitchhiker's Guide doesn't count) I read the first two, at the time I thought it was awesome. But then when I began reading more and expanding my horizons, I realized how cliched and trash they were.

Arz · « **Reply #55 on:** January 23, 2012, 02:47:05 PM »

Those looking for a good period mythology should check out "Bridge of Birds" by Barry Hughart. A good transliteration of a Chinese tale.

Monotremeancer · « **Reply #56 on:** January 23, 2012, 04:06:51 PM »

Quote from: kurashu on January 23, 2012, 01:14:03 PM

Quote from: Libertad on December 07, 2011, 01:41:04 PM
The fourth book of the Eragon series came out recently. Any thoughts on it?

It's a trilogy right? So, why was there a fourth? (answering: Hitchhiker's Guide doesn't count) I read the first two, at the time I thought it was awesome. But then when I began reading more and expanding my horizons, I realized how cliched and trash they were.

I thought the first two books were okay for his first books. But when I saw what he let them do to his work and then approved of it I turned away and never looked back.

Can anyone offer me some thoughts on Trudi Canavan's "The Magicians Guild"? I've been thinking of reading it once I take a break from Robert Jordan for two or three months.

radionausea · « **Reply #57 on:** January 23, 2012, 05:54:12 PM »

I enjoyed them. Not ground-breaking stuff but the characters are well put together and have interesting motivations. You'll probably blitz through them compared to the pace of reading on WoT

kurashu · « **Reply #58 on:** January 24, 2012, 09:28:42 PM »

Allegedly getting a Lord Dunsany book for my birthday. Another short story collection I'll always mean to finish but never quite get around to.

InnaBinder · « **Reply #59 on:** January 26, 2012, 07:32:52 AM »

Reading Madame Bovary, for a class. I feel vaguely like I'm rooting for the wrong team, given the professor's comments to date. . . .

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