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Rich_L said:
Yeah for sure, it's a cool world he created though and interesting perspective from the Annalists viewpoint etc.

Haven't read the Deaver books in a while, they are a fun read though nice and fast-paced :D

I keep thinking about starting Thomas Covenant but ended up starting Book 1 of Codex Alera, seems quite entertaining so far, reminds me a bit of Mistborn in the tone and writing.
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Just finished Coffin Dancer in a week, really good book with some great twists and turns and very tense moments, thoroughly enjoyable series so far :)

Covenant is... Weird, I just don't like the way the main character is portrayed making it very difficult for me to enjoy. I've heard rumours he changes but I'm struggling to get the motivation to find out if he does :p

Put it aside again and moved onto Spy who canon from the cold, by John Le Carre. Great author.
 
Recently read The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie. Now onto Horus Rising from Dan Abnett, felt a little slow to start but about half way through and enjoying it a lot more.
 
No1newts said:
Just finished Coffin Dancer in a week, really good book with some great twists and turns and very tense moments, thoroughly enjoyable series so far :)

Covenant is... Weird, I just don't like the way the main character is portrayed making it very difficult for me to enjoy. I've heard rumours he changes but I'm struggling to get the motivation to find out if he does :p

Put it aside again and moved onto Spy who canon from the cold, by John Le Carre. Great author.
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I've read most of Deaver's books and Coffin Dancer is perhaps my favourite, that or The Vanished Man.

I've just finished Brandon Sanderson's Elantris, which was an enjoyable standalone fantasy book and also World War Z which I really liked the writing style in.

Not sure what I'll read next though.
 
saw the trailer for enders game on youtube this afternoon ....... so i bought the books for my kindle just now liking it so far lol
 
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Got these pretty things a few days ago. Already read The Time Machine. Going to finish off A Feast for Crows before starting Fear and Loathing. I still have about 200 pages of Feast left though so will be a couple of days I imagine. I'm still deciding whether to read them all before starting dance with dragons or just a couple of them. Time will tell :p
 
I really enjoyed We Are All Made of Glue by Marina Lewycka and then yesterday I started:

Room by Emma Donoghue

Its a fantastic story that I would thoroughly recommend to everyone.

I don't normally read books like that but I couldn't put it down yesterday until my eyes wouldn't stay open, so I had alitle left for today that I read as soon as I woke up.

Really, Really Good Book
 
Destroyermen : Into the Storm , Taylor Anderson.
Wierd premiise , world war 2 destroyer and Japanese battlecruiser go into a storm and end up in an alternate earth with raptors in armour sailing 17th century ships and lemurs evolved instead of humans.
Thoroughly enjoyed it , did not realise there are several books in the series.
 
The Quantum Thief

Just don't know what to make of this book. Falls into the sci-fi category, with plenty of anti-hero gubbins mixed with manipulating memories in a hi tech way.

I should have loved this book. But I'm feeling empty/ hollow. I'm on my second reading of this book, but my stance has not yet changed. Shame.
 
i read Once Upon a Time in England yesterday and enjoyed it.

It's about a young white man who married a Malaysian in Warrington and the effect that racism and prejudice plays on them and their children.
 
ok finished the first Enders game book and started on the second ................. wtf its all over the place, i just cant get in to it :(
 
Inferno by Dan Brown

50% through. It's ok, it's Dan Brown and you know what you're going to get. Worth a read. Won't read it again.
 
leemk said:
Destroyermen: Into the Storm , Taylor Anderson.
Wierd premiise , world war 2 destroyer and Japanese battlecruiser go into a storm and end up in an alternate earth with raptors in armour sailing 17th century ships and lemurs evolved instead of humans.
Thoroughly enjoyed it , did not realise there are several books in the series.
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I've read the entire published series. A fun tale but not something I'd ever return to. I preferred "The Lost Fleet" (starts with 'Dreadnaught', as I recall), which is a bit more 'hard' sci-fi.
 
Just finished Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Fantastic book and gripping to the very end!

Back on to Thomas Covenant now, last chance before I burn the bloody thing :p
 
Been given the new Dan Brown book. I'm not really a fan of his work, but I'll give it a go. Otherwise I'm on book four of A Song of Ice and Fire.
 
Just finished "Boneshaker" by Cherie Priest. Disappointing. I'm not a fan of Steampunk, because most authors don't do it very well, and Priest is no exception. The problem is that the writer is usually too interested in creating the world and describing it is loving detail, and thus forgets to give us any characters fleshed out well enough to care about. Or a plot that is more involved than something which can be stated in a single sentence. And this book was basically Steampunk meets the zombies, thus combining two sub-genres I don't care about.

Now reading the second Harry Dresden book.
 
Lord of the Silver Bow - Book 1 of the Troy series by David Gemmel.

Sword and Scimitar by Simon Scarrow.

Never read any gemmel before but I have read 2 of simon scarrow's roman books.

Will review when I'm done :)
 
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