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RobDogDog said:
On to Wheel of Time Book 8. Wish me luck.
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I've been listening to them for the first time, having read them a number of times in the past. I think PoD is a little slow, whereas listening to WH was actually quite enjoyable, which made me think I'd not treated it seriously enough when reading it.

CoT is very slow, however. What I will say is that despite this part of the series being slow to very slow at points, there are some major events that take place that are great to read.
 
Earth[Tera].bin said:
Magician - Another book I discovered from reading this thread. :)
Enjoying it a lot so far, half way through and can sense things ramping up so it's definitely my go to book at the moment.
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Raymond E Feist? If so I read that over 30 years ago, might give it another go as I loved it. I'm also pretty sure that there is an updated version.
 
Earth[Tera].bin said:
Magician - Another book I discovered from reading this thread. :)
Enjoying it a lot so far, half way through and can sense things ramping up so it's definitely my go to book at the moment.
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The first fantasy novel that I ever read. It's brilliant. Make sure you read the remaining two books in the Riftwar Saga. Silverthorn and Darkness at Sethanon.

And if you like that series of books and want more. Suggest you read The Empire Trilogy next, it starts with Daughter of the Empire.

For me those two Trilogies are the 6 best Raymond E. Feist books.
 
Earth[Tera].bin said:
Magician - Another book I discovered from reading this thread. :)
Enjoying it a lot so far, half way through and can sense things ramping up so it's definitely my go to book at the moment.
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So, so, jealous.

Its a great series, lengthy and all, but some of my favourite characters ever come from this.

That he managed to write so many 'side stories' from characters involved in the main story is a testament to the lore and world he created.
 
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nands said:
Raymond E Feist? If so I read that over 30 years ago, might give it another go as I loved it. I'm also pretty sure that there is an updated version.
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It is yeah, I believe this is his full draft he initially wrote before the publishers trimmed/butchered it.

melmac said:
The first fantasy novel that I ever read. It's brilliant. Make sure you read the remaining two books in the Riftwar Saga. Silverthorn and Darkness at Sethanon.

And if you like that series of books and want more. Suggest you read The Empire Trilogy next, it starts with Daughter of the Empire.

For me those two Trilogies are the 6 best Raymond E. Feist books.
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Thanks, I've got the Riftwar sequels lined up but will out the others too.

wesimmo said:
So, so, jealous.

Its a great series, lengthy and all, but some of my favourite characters ever come from this.

That he managed to write so many 'side stories' from characters involved in the main story is a testament to the lore and world he created.
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I find myself hoping for chapters revolving around Pug, Tomas and Macros at the moment, although others are peaking my interest ,Martin for instance and Amos.
 
neviditelny said:
I think the only book I have actually never finished reading is The Farm by Tom Rob Smith, mainly because there was so many things that were just plain wrong for as a Swede (the book is set out in south Sweden). Otherwise I will finish every book that I start even though some of them can take time.
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James Joyce's Ulysses is about the only book I've abandoned. I did make it a few pages in though so I've probably still read more than many who claim to have read it. Pompei by Robert Harris I found almost unreadably bad despite liking a bunch of his others.
 
David Gemmell is one of my favourite authors and I have read every one of his books. Or thought I did. Just last week, I discovered two books by Him that I never even knew existed. And both books are not the usual genre for Gemmell.

Rhyming Rings: A Crime thriller set in the 1980s, with just a touch of the Occult. It was found by his wife after he died. It was strange to read a book by David that wasn't fantasy. And I am guessing this book was one of his early novels, just never published. It's a little clumsy. It's like he was trying out lots of things to see which would stick. There are plot holes and it's a little predictable. Also, it's kind of dated. But, it's still a really good read, His writing style is brilliant and just sweeps you along.

Not the greatest crime novel ever. But, if you are Gemmell fan then I think it's a must read.

White Knight, Black Swan: This is a thriller set in London in 80's. Written under the Pseudonym Ross Harding. To me this was a much better book than Rhyming Rings and much more like the David Gemmell we are used to from his Heroic Fantasy Novels. No magic or anything like that in this book. This gripped me from start to finish and I read it in a couple of days.

I was sad all over again when I came to the end. I realised that this is the last time I will ever read a new David Gemmell book.

For those of you who have read a lot of David Gemmell, you will see ideas and characters that he carried through to his Fantasy Novels. Nogusta in Winter Warriors is nearly a carbon copy of Mister Sutcliffe in Rhyming Rings. As For White Knight, Black Swan, well, when you read about Bimbo, how could you not think Bison from the Winter Warriors??
 
Just finished Wheel of Time 8, Path of Daggers. For a supposed slog book, I enjoyed this one. Probably one of my favourite in the series so far.

Now reading Power of The Dog by Don Winslow. 40 pages in and liking it a lot.
 
Gray Mountain, John Grisham.
I can’t fault the guy, everything that he writes is well thought out, and holds your attention, but I felt a cloud of depression hanging over me as I started it, I’m two thirds of the way through, and it’s still a little bit there.
It starts with Samantha Kofer, a lawyer at a New York firm just avoiding being laid off at the start of the crash of 2008?, but having to work for free somewhere as a kind of furlough deal.
She finds herself working for a legal aid outfit in Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains, handling divorces for redneck women with scruffy kids in tow, and getting mixed up with a sexy young married lawyer, who’s fighting for the little guy being crushed by coal mining companies that ruin the mountains with their strip mining.
His little plane crashes in mysterious circumstances, and he dies, cue his younger brother homing in on Samantha, scoring big time, then working with her against the nasty mine companies.
I won’t give it up, but the squalor of the Appalachian folk is bringing me down.
 
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