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I finished Accursed Tower. Not a good as Roger Crowley's other books (to be fair, they are oustanding), probably due to the lack of reluable sources and eyewitness accounts.

Quote of the book from a French crusader on picking up a saracen armoured tunic to use in lieu of his lost shield:
"...which helped me greatly, since I was only wounded by their arrows in five places, and my horse in fifteen"

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Taking a pause in Foundation and Empire to jump into Leviathan Falls - Foundation is good but hard to get too invested with the high turn over in characters etc.

As expected Leviathan Falls is great so far, just annoyingly short - really want it to be at least 5 books longer than it is :D
 
Finished a fantastic series lately.

Josiah Bancroft - The Books of Babel

This is a debut series and is absolutely incredible. Anyone has the slightest interest in fantasy should check this out. It follows a school teacher and his fiancee visiting the tower of babel, the manmade wonder of the world. A very personal adventure story with some great characters and fantastic prose. Discovered this because an author I follow was raving about it (Mark Lawrence) and it's slowly been spreading from author to author.
 
I finished The Gates Of Athens by Conn Iggulden yesterday. It's about the battle of Salamis in ancient Greece. It was a page turner, but pretty generic.

I started Melmoth, by Sarah Perry yesterday.
 
The terminal list by Jack Carr.

A Jack Reacher type book. quite enjoyable and written by a genuine navy seal.
 
Still ploughing through the GOT books, about halfway through Book 4 Storm Of Swords, Blood And Gold. Just reached the part where Joffrey
gets his lot. Good riddance as he's even more irritating than in the TV show.
Overall very good though finding the chapters jumping around between characters and locations does interfere with the continuity.
Still wondering how George got away with publishing sexual situations between characters who would be under age in most civilised western societies, not to mention getting a bit fed up reading about Tyrion's stiffies in particular. Well I guess that's a small part of the overall story...
 
I finished Leviathan Falls a few days ago and really liked it.
I'm sad that the Expanse has finished, but I'm now looking forward to the collected short stories and novella's which is due out in a few months, and hoping we'll see some more shorts at some point.

Currently reading "Out of the Dark" by David Weber which is quite a fun, silly, military/sci-fi about an alien invasion.
 
Werewolf said:
I finished Leviathan Falls a few days ago and really liked it.
I'm sad that the Expanse has finished, but I'm now looking forward to the collected short stories and novella's which is due out in a few months, and hoping we'll see some more shorts at some point.
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Same and same - the novellas have all been good to date and hope the same applies to the sins of our fathers but still really gutted to leave the expanse universe behind, although i've not started season 6 yet & theres the tell tail game coming up as well...
 
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. From the same author as The Martian and does have quite a few similarities. Some good characters and an enjoyable read.
 
After a much needed break, I've picked up Wheel of Time book 10 again. About halfway through now and I think the break did me good as I'm flying through.

Also going to start Recursion by Blake Crouch on my commute.
 
RobDogDog said:
After a much needed break, I've picked up Wheel of Time book 10 again. About halfway through now and I think the break did me good as I'm flying through.
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Book 10 is really the last low point in the series and book 11 definitely picks things back up again - I'd probably say it's the best book of the second half of the series.
 
I just finished Under The Mountain Wall by Peter Mathiessen.

He spent six months living with an uncontacted tribe in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea in the early 1960s. It was the stone age there. It was extremely violent, and nothing ever changes. It's an entirely factual account, with no comparisons drawn with modern society

A very interesting, and beautifully written, book.
 
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