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Darujhistan said:
Very wise, Rothfuss is moving into GRRM territory with that final book. 12 years.... Likewise with George, he might as well give Brandon Sanderson a ring so the series gets finished.

I have a rule now that I never start a series that isn't complete.
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Talking about books and your username... the Malazan book of the fallen. A series I started probably around 2000 ish and only got through 6 of the books so far.

I have the other 4 on my self waiting to be read, but have been debating if I should start them from the beginning.

However the sheer size of each books I reckon it would take me at least around 3 years to get through all the books so I don't think I will be starting them from the begging.
 
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opethdisciple said:
Talking about books and your username... the Malazan book of the fallen. A series I started probably around 2000 ish and only got through 6 of the books so far.

I have the other 4 on my self waiting to be read, but have been debating if I should start them from the beginning.

However the sheer size of each books I reckon it would take me at least around 3 years to get through all the books so I don't think I will be starting them from the begging.
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Yes.

There's also several other series written by SE in the Malazan World, and a series by Ian Cameron Esslemont in the same World, I think we're up to 24-25 books in total now.

Ideally you'd start afresh but that doesn't seem viable given your reading style. Its a huge undertaking and many people find when they start a full re-read, they need to take a break and read other stuff anyway.

I'm on my fourth read through but it will be my last sadly, as I haven't even touched the other series I talked about.

Interesting brought up those Tchaikovsky books earlier, as I've been thinking about branching out into sci-fi as I've never really read all that much, and the stuff I'm interested in, are at least completed series.
 
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Darujhistan said:
Yes.

There's also several other series written by SE in the Malazan World, and a series by Ian Cameron Esslemont in the same World, I think we're up to 24-25 books in total now.

Ideally you'd start afresh but that doesn't seem viable given your reading style. Its a huge undertaking and many people find when they start a full re-read, they need to take a break and read other stuff anyway.

I'm on my fourth read through but it will be my last sadly, as I haven't even touched the other series I talked about.

Interesting brought up those Tchaikovsky books earlier, as I've been thinking about branching out into sci-fi as I've never really read all that much, and the stuff I'm interested in, are at least completed series.
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Other than the main series and the series by ICE, i haven't read any others.

So i need to read Kharkanas Trilogy, Path to Ascendancy trilogy and Witness Trilogy. I might need to reread all the books but that maybe best suited for audiobooks.

Maybe in 5 years i'll start those.

In the meantime, i'm finally reading the last book in the Broken Earth trilogy by Jemisin.
 
I finished The 1980 Annual World's Best SF last night. More scifi short stories.

It was a bit hit and miss- around half were pretty poor. 70s new wave SF often doesn't have a strong storyline or land its ending well.
 
Just finished Project Hail Mary, unsure start but utterly hooked by the end. Played out how I thought it would, it'll transfer to the silver screen well next year no doubt.

Andy Weir is a safe, accessible and funny author. Hollywood will be churning out adaptations of his books for years I bet.


Just started Wool, book 1 in the Silo series. Coming from Weir it's a bit of a shock, having watched the series I can see where the pacing comes from. Not unwelcome mind.
 
Read Blake Crouch's short story, Summer Frost. Very much like the film Ex Machina.

Finally started Wheel of Time 11, Knife of Dreams. I think I'm just reading them to complete the series at this rate. 30 pages in and there's been sword fight with 70 nonsensical stances which I found unintentionally hilarious between characters that I really couldn't care less about.

The word is exceptional. The storytelling is extremely bloated.
 
Just finished Market Forces, the last book of Richard K Morgan's I hadn't read.
It's a decent standalone story, set in a dystopian near-future where big businesses essentially control the world via backing military juntas and whatnot, and wealth inequality is enormous.
Very similar in style to his other books, the trademark ultra-violence and graphic sex scenes etc. Nothing earth-shattering like Altered Carbon, but fans of that will find this a good yarn, not too long either.
Looking forward to the final book in the Black Man trilogy due later this year.

On a related note I just read that he was lead writer for Crysis 2, huh.
 
RobDogDog said:
Read Blake Crouch's short story, Summer Frost. Very much like the film Ex Machina.
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If anyone is interested, this is part of the "Forward collection", which you can get for free on Amazon via Prime Reading, and it also includes the free audible books of all six short stories. So, you can go back and forth between reading and listening. Very handy.
Not a bad little freebie, I thought.
 
The Wandering Inn Book 2 Fae and Fare. Pirateaba.

It's odd. There are a lot of things I hate about this book. One main character's swing between amazingly competent to stupid beyond belief is a little annoying. The other main character's constant self loathing monologuing and her too cool for school attitude is wearing thin. The way the writing switches between first and third person based on which character you are with. That mechanic we all know and love where the main character/characters get themselves out of trouble with a solution that just comes to them at the last second. Either as a skill or talent that they had no idea they could do or some other contrivance. It's still annoying when it happens all the time. The over hyped, over the top reaction to every bit of Earth Culture that the main character introduces into this world, like pop songs and food(pizza and hamburgers) The meandering writing style. There are other things I don't like but you get the idea.

Yet despite all these flaws I am finding the book very hard to put down. It's compelling reading. The world building is fantastic. This other world is huge and filled with wonders, revealed in little snippets throughout the book. Hints to what might lay ahead. The supporting cast of characters are varied and interesting. And we are still finding out how humans from Earth ended up on this world. The author has mastered the art of keeping you reading one more page to find out what happens next. I say to myself, I will just read to the end of the chapter. Then three hours later I am still saying the same thing.

I am about 70% of the way through book 2 and I already know I am going to get book 3.
 
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I've taken a break from culture to squeeze in a cheeky trilogy. Reading The Black Iron Legacy by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan. Just started book 3. One of those trilogies where each book is pretty self contained. Interestingly the main characters change in each book with some new characters and some previous side characters moving to the forefront (and vice versa). The world building is really interesting, love the way god's are done in this.
 
In a bit of a lull with gaming, so dug my old Kindle reader out of its box and got 3 months free Kindle Unlimited as a nice bonus. Decided to work my way through the AmazonClassics, I don't think I've read ANY of the literature that is regarded as a classic. So beginning with 1984.
 
ic1male said:
Decided to work my way through the AmazonClassics, I don't think I've read ANY of the literature that is regarded as a classic. So beginning with 1984.
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This is the sort of thing I need to do. I’ve ‘read’ 1984 as an audiobook read by Adam Macey but really think I ought to get my head around some more classics.

Are they on Amazon Prime reading as well, do you know? I don’t have Kindle Unlimited.
 
Feek said:
This is the sort of thing I need to do. I’ve ‘read’ 1984 as an audiobook read by Adam Macey but really think I ought to get my head around some more classics.

Are they on Amazon Prime reading as well, do you know? I don’t have Kindle Unlimited.
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They definitely appear when you search "AmazonClassics" in the Prime Reading department so I guess so? I can't see as the KU sub overrides it.
 
I've not read in many years, fancied getting into reading again so asked my brother for a recommendation and told me to check out Brandon Sandersons work. Finished The Final Empire last night, amazing book and story. Only started reading it last Friday that's how much it had me hooked from the start. Started on Well of Ascension last night as well, seems like a huge universe so plenty more to sink my teeth into as well.

The way magic works is a definetly a unique one and I'm a big fan of it so far. Very surprised as to just how much happened in 1 book, I expected what happened in the first to span across all 3 so looking forward to see what the following books from Era 1 hold.
 
This is next on my list (briefly interrupting the Classics stuff) - a novel of Alien Isolation (the video game) - should be quite interesting. Another freebie on KU.

Alien: Isolation eBook : DeCandido, Keith R A: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Alien: Isolation eBook : DeCandido, Keith R A: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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And another thing I seem to have discovered - some of those AmazonClassics Kindle eBooks automatically come with the Audible version as a freebie. So you could swap between them seamlessly (I think) if you wanted to listen whilst out walking or such like. Isn't technology marvellous? :D
 
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