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Kyo said:
Just started the Mistborn - The final Empire from the Cosmere series by Brandon Sanderson. Not too bad so far.
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You're in for a treat, IMO. It took me two goes to get into it but then I was hooked. Loved the trilogy. The second trilogy is excellent too.
 
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checjb said:
You're in for a treat, IMO. It took me two goes to get into it but then I was hooked. Loved the trilogy. The second trilogy is excellent too.
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Is there a particular order to read the Cosmere books? I read they are all interconnected despite being separate?
 
I'm about 75% the way through Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell and though I expected some silly half baked horror, it's really well written and pulls in characters from the first 4 hellraiser movies in a really grounded, well as grounded as this material can be, fashion.
 
Kyo said:
Is there a particular order to read the Cosmere books? I read they are all interconnected despite being separate?
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If there is an order I'm not aware of it. TBH, the Cosmere is such a huge undertaking that I just read the various series as I fancy and smile if I find an Easter egg link.
 
potatolord said:
I think the only Strugatsky book I read was one with some guy time travelling to the renaissance, or similar? Edit: hang on, I think he was dropped off on a primitive planet which was in the renaissance, rather than time travelling?
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Sounds like "Hard to be a God". He's a member of a superior race, tasked with observing, but not interfering, with a war-like inferior race on another planet. But he finds it impossible to keep aloof as his mission requires.
 
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Meridian said:
Sounds like "Hard to be a God". He's a member of a superior race, tasked with observing, but not interfering, with a war-like inferior race on another planet. But he finds it impossible to keep aloof as his mission requires.
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That's tge one! Thanks.

I'm reading Utz by Bruce Chatwin at the moment. He was a good writer.
 
I've finished Utz, by Bruce Chatwin. It's a short novel about a man who collects porcelain. Nothing much happens, but it's well-written and a good read. I enjoyed it.

This is a spoiler warning. A web search for the "Just porcelain collection utz 2001" gives a rather nice coda to the book.
 
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Richie said:
Working my way through The Expanse (James Corey) just now after watching the TV series. Currently about half-way through book 5.
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Started Book 8 a few days ago (Tiamat's Wrath). Still loving this whole series. Shame it ends on Book 9 (plus novellas which I am reading in the recommended order between main books so only 2 Novellas to go) :(
 
Wanting to try and get back into reading more consistantly this year, it seems that most of the time I barely read, then if I go on holiday I read a book every day or two and don't want to do anything else but as soon as I'm home again my brain switches and thinks if I have free time I should be on the PC or watching tv or something, often feeling like I've wasted my time afterwards!

I finished Sharpe's Command a couple of weeks ago, think it's my first Sharpe novel I've actually read despite really enjoying Cornwell's other books (saxon stories, his arther trilogy etc), wouldn't say it was my favourite but enjoyable.
And now I've just started The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Novel by Paterson Joseph, not far in enough yet to have much of an opinion yet.
 
Finished Morning Star by Pierce Brown, book 3 of Red Rising. Thoroughly enjoyed it and my enjoyment kept increasing through the book.

Now reading Joe Pickett book 10 which seems a completely different style to his previous books. It's good though!
 
Taking a break from Sci-Fi and Fantasy (and Reacher), i've just finished the following series (has taken a while):

The Bolitho Novels by Alexander Kent (Douglas Reeman)
Eagles of the Empire by Simon Scarrow

Both series are well worth investing some time in and a nice break from the norm i would be reading.
 
kefkef said:
Taking a break from ... Reacher
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It's funny, I just finished Personal and I was thinking maybe I should take a break from Reacher books. I do like them, but it does get a bit annoying how he solves things by stating something as a fact and that means he finds people or what have you... ('It stands to reason he'd hole up in a town about 12 miles out from the point, he'd change town every night and he'd go in a clockwise position. It's been four nights, so he'd be in this town' and there he is... really? 'He'd need a hotel on the main road, but not the first, that would be too obvious, he'd stop at the second hotel' and there he is...)
 
I'm reading through the Discworld series again. Unfortunately just got to Thud! - which is excellent, but is also the last book before the embuggerance clearly effected his writing. Next will be Unseen Academicals, which is when characters started to have constant long monologues (which I've always suspected is a consequence of him dictating the books rather than typing them himself, thereby losing a natural self-editing step). Still readable books with great ideas, but harder to read and saddening at the same time.

Once I've finished these - I'll be starting from scratch with the Stormlight Archive in order to start the new 5th book properly primed.
 
kefkef said:
Taking a break from Sci-Fi and Fantasy (and Reacher), i've just finished the following series (has taken a while):

The Bolitho Novels by Alexander Kent (Douglas Reeman)
Eagles of the Empire by Simon Scarrow

Both series are well worth investing some time in and a nice break from the norm i would be reading.
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Cant beat a bit of Cato and Macro :)

Currently reading Three Days in April by Edward Ashton, not enjoying it as much as Mickey7
 
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