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RobDogDog said:
I settled on reading Elantris as my bus book. About 60% through and it's okay. I like the Elantris sections, less so the other bits.

Bedtime book is The Long Walk by Stephen King's Bachman alter-ego. Only one chapter in and it's already captivated me.
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Just read the synopsis on the Long Walk, I like the plot, might pick this up myself :D
 
I just finished Sapiens, by Yuval Hariri.

A reflection on the history of homo sapiens and "progress".

Thought provoking in parts, but I thought it could have done with a heavy edit for length in some places.
 
Just finished The Man Eaters Of Kumaon (1946), by Jim Corbett- it was excellent.

He was an Edwardian gentleman in India who hunted man eating tigers. A local village would send him a letter and he would go to help.

I had never realised just how terrifying a rogue tiger is. Whole areas became unsafe, for years. One tiger alone killed and ate hundreds of people.

The best anecdote concerned a man fleeing an angry tiger, who had the bad luck to literally trip over a sleeping bear. Cue Benny Hill style chase pandemonium...

By the end of the book, I really liked him. He was a genuinely good man, taking huge risks to help people he didn't know.
 
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Still working through The Last Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwell, currently just started Warriors Of The Storm.

The events and sequencing of the books compared to the TV show have pretty much diverged by this point. Some elements of the TV series (Aethelwold getting his eye put out as punishment for treason) simply don't occur in the book. Ragnar and Beoca are very much minor characters and die in a footnote, not the dramatic demise of the show. Brida hardly exists after the first book. Haesten is much nastier in the books. It is very much told from a first person POV (Uhtred) so again parts of the story are more of a footnote than the more expansive (and different) on screen depiction. Uhtred (IMHO) is also far less likeable than the TV shows depict him - the books make him more of a cold killer with a penchant for seeking out and stirring up conflict. There's also much more seafaring than on the show. Also by the time of Warriors Of The Storm the character is somewhere in his mid fifties and hasn't even retaken Begganburg yet.

Still the books are a good read even if the plot in each one largely follows the same formula.
 
Vern1961 said:
Still working through The Last Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwell... the books are a good read even if the plot in each one largely follows the same formula.
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Bernard Cornwall's books all have the same plot, and the same characters. You could pretty much run a "find and replace" to produce your own

Having said that, they are very readable.

Try the Warlord Chrinicles- they're my favourites of his
 
"The Kaiju Preservation Society" by John Scalzi. I'm really enjoying it. Nice balance of humour, nerdiness, intrigue and monsters. Great fun.
 
bulletv1 said:
Currently reading Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter which the film and tv series Shooter is based off. Enjoying it so far, it's a bit dry, but I'm still finding it a good read. Also listening to Red Country by Joe Abercrombie which is the 3rd follow up book from his First Law series which i loved. They are mainly focussed on new characters but the surviving people from the first law series pop up in conversation or in person which I quite like. I've then got Sharp Ends to listen to.

I've also got Price of Thorns and The Lies of Lock Lamora on my Audible to listen to.
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We just finished The Lies of Lock Lamora on Audible, and LOVED it, started the second book now.

Could make an awesome HBO show.
 
Gooner Leroy said:
Just started the malazan series. Only a few chapters into the first book but have a feeling I'm going to enjoy this series
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It's quite a ride, I really want to do a second read through but I really don't think I can cope with the commitment for a few years yet lol :D

Edit: Currently reading Bone Silence (Revenger series) by Alastair Reynolds, third in the sequence and I'm struggling to see how he is going to wrap any of it up in time at the moment, suspect there will either be another series or he'll just ignore some of it...
 
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Just finished Alpha 9, edited by Robert Silverberg.

More scifi short stories: most really good, with only one poor.

It had The Monsters (robert sheckley) In it, which is one of my favourite stories.
 
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