What book are you reading...

Conquistadors, by Michael Wood. An easy read and covered Cortes, Pizarro and a few others, and their conquests in the new world.

I have to say, I was rooting for the natives throughout. The Spanish had a lot more luck than they deserved.

I need to find something both readable and authoritative on the Aztecs- they're so alien.
 
Haha, and as if by magic! I found this in a charity shop. Not expecting great things, but gotta be worth 50p.

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Well, I abandoned the aztec book. It was a bit academic, and you can only read so much about how pottery is a key marker in tracking the development of a society and varies between tribes.

Back to 50s scifi for me. Arthur C Clarke it is.
 
Kyo said:
The Wheel of Time - Book 1, The Eye of the World. Robert Jordan. Pretty good so far.
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Have you read the series before? I love book 1 and 2. I'm on book 12 now and have had a bit of a love hate relationship with the rest of them (I think the prequel is one of the worst books I've ever read).
 
Sleep when your dead. There are 3 books with central Michael North character. Enjoyed them all really like british Reacher i guess.
 
hood1971 said:
Reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. 25% in and not sure what to make of it. The Martian felt like hard sci-fi, I felt the plausibility of the situation. This one is way out there.
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melmac said:
25% hmmm, I can't wait to see your review at the end of the book.
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Finally finished it and it was like watching multiple car wrecks - nauseating but impossible to look away. Hard to think that they were written by same person.
 
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Finally finished it and it was like watching multiple car wrecks - nauseating but impossible to look away. Hard to think that they were written by same person.
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haha, good description. I finished it because I hate leaving a book unfinished. Like you said in your first post, It was way out there from the very start. But I still felt it could be a good book and was still curious about what was going to happen. Then Rocky entered the story and it all went downhill after that.
 
RobDogDog said:
Have you read the series before? I love book 1 and 2. I'm on book 12 now and have had a bit of a love hate relationship with the rest of them (I think the prequel is one of the worst books I've ever read).
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No i havent even heard of the book series outside the show. Some of the posters recommended reading it in the WoT TV thread. Absolutely enjoying. Started with the prequel and half way book 1. Much better in the book than the TV imo. But the TV series was never going to able to replicate everything. With limited time and budget.
 
Dano said:
Some of them are 1300 pages long, I read them all over the course of about 13 months, would do it again too, suspect there is lots that I would have forgotten by the time comes around that I am up for a re-read, pound per hour entertainment was off the scale on those, I paid 99p each for them on kindle :D
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By the way if you like fantasy have you read Joe Abercrombie?

I am half way through book 3 of the "The First Law" trilogy and it is excellent stuff.
 
Yea so as noted above reading The Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie.

I have never read a chapter in a book before finished it and said wow. But after reading the chapter where
Logan has that duel with Fenris the Feared
I honestly said "wow" after I finished the chapter.

Book three took it's time to get going. Half way and all it was was just court intrigue etc but boy did it get going when it needed too!
 
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opethdisciple said:
Yea so as noted above reading The Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie.

I have never read a chapter in a book before finished it and said wow. But after reading the chapter where
Logan has that duel with Fenris the Feared
I honestly said "wow" after I finished the chapter.

Book three took it's time to get going. Half way and all it was was just court intrigue etc but boy did it get going when it needed too!
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It was an epic battle!!
 
Isn't the Bloody Nine such a great addition to British writing. A compelling character.

The follow up trilogy is very good too but had quite a bitter sweet finale for me. I wonder if we're getting a trilogy of trilogies.
 
I finished Reach For Tomorrow, by Arthur Clarke, last night. A dozen scifi short stories, mostly very good and lighthearted.

My favourite was where a space shop was stolen, on a very low gravity planetoid, by simply carrying it away while the baddies were asleep. A nice trick!
 
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