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Just finished the last 40 pages of Along Came A Spider by James Patterson. The first of the Alex Cross series.

I nearly read it straight through last night until my eyes got the better of me at 4 this morning.

Really enjoyed it, one of Patterson's better ones. I was sure I had seen the film but I couldn't remember the plot so I've either forgotten it or never seen it.


Now onto the 2nd in series Kiss The Girls which I know I have definitely seen the film (some years ago) and guess the book will be better as always.
 
Just finished Kiss The Girls by James Patterson and as expected it was far better than I remember the film being.

Will start Jack and Jill tomorrow (3rd in Alex Cross series)
 
Just finished Jonny Got His Gun, wow, if you haven't read this I suggest you do so. An extremely powerful anit-war novel. Would rate among the better books I have ever read.

Onto Good Soldier Sjveck now :)
 
Listening to my first audio book - Clash of Kings.

Disappointed by the narration, but it is really convenient to listen to in the car. Narration aside, enjoying it so far.
 
Struggling to finish the second Thomas Covenant book, the third is a monster by the looks of it too, I don't know what keeps pulling me back to the book, perhaps I'm too stubborn to leave it alone!

Also reading The Dig, and Sniper. Sniper isn't a patch on Sniper One (so far at least) but easy to read compared to Covenant..

Just got myself a Nook Simple, loving it so far!
 
Just finished The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie and loved it! Great characters, great story and set in a fantastic world full of detail.
Now I need to find another book/series to read which will match this.

@Punt - Book 3 is great. Glokta was probably my favourite character.
 
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Well, I've just finished reading the Domination series by S M Stirling. Very, very interesting series, well worth a read for lovers of sci-fi, alternate history and dystopia.

I'll leave it to Stirling to explain the general gist of it:
"But oh, how the details would be different if it had not been Columbus, but another man a few years later! And how those changes might have rippled on, growing through the years.

So a thought came to me; suppose everything had turned out as badly as possible, these last few centuries. Great changes make possible great good and great evil. The outpouring of the Europeans produced plenty of both.

The great free colonies of North America were perhaps the best, for it was here that the great 18th-century upsurge of popular government began, and here the power that broke the totalitarians was founded. My friend Harry Turtledove has imagined a world in which America broke apart in its Civil War, and no strong United States was ready to come to the aid of the beleaguered Allies against the Central European aggressors.

Imagine a change even more fundamental. Perhaps the worst product of the great wave of European expansion, before this century of ours, was the South Atlantic system of slaves and plantations.

Eventually it faded away—or was blown away by the cannon of Grant and Sherman, although we still feel the aftereffects.

What, though, if a fragment of that system had fallen on fertile ground, and grown? Say that the potential of South Africa, so neglected by its Dutch overlords, had fallen prey to it . . . a base for that deadly seed to grow, unchecked by free neighbors, until it was too strong to stop. An Anti-America, representing all the distilled negatives of Western civilization."

I can heavily recommend the series, as well as other series that Sirling has writen. He is a great 'what-if' writer, and while the sheer speed of technological advance in the Domination world is a little fantastical, it makes it no less an engrossing read.


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I'll check out the Abercrombie stuff, thanks!
 
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molinari said:
Just finished The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie and loved it! Great characters, great story and set in a fantastic world full of detail.
Now I need to find another book/series to read which will match this.
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I went straight from the First Blade Trilogy to Glen Cook's Black Company series. I enjoyed the Books of the North, but the later stuff was a bit meh
 
TehBluebear said:
So, how grimdark is it? I fancy getting something after my re-read of Against a Dark Background (Banks)
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Well, if I were to say Joe Abercrombie's Twitter handle is LordGrimdark then that may give a clue ;) He has a very sardonic sense of humour, which is something I enjoy when done intelligently.

Have you tried Scott Lynch's "The Lies of Locke Lamora" ? Similar style of writing and worth a punt.
 
Just finished Ender's Game.

I didn't expect the book to be so dark and militaristic. Poor Ender gets emotionally and physically tortured. He's a tool/puppet and he submits anyway. Bah, that's made me feel depressed.
 
Finished number 3 in Alex Cross series last night Jack and Jill and thought that this was the best one so far.

Lovely intricate plot, though I guessed one of the killers early on, it was a guess and I wasn't sure until the reveal. One of my guessed guilty was way off the mark.

Onto number 4 tonight Cat and Mouse
 
Finished Dune. Thought it started really well but finished in a bit of a rush.
Now reading the second Witcher book, Blood of Elves. Good so far. Geralt has been a bit anonymous though.
 
Finished Alex Cross number 4 in series Cat and Mouse and thought the story would have been better split between two books.

Never mind, was enjoyable enough.

Now onto number 5 Pop Goes the Weasel
 
Andrew_McP said:
Finished 'The Wise Man's Fear' by Rothfuss this week. I find this guy a bit frustrating. Great short story writer, lousy novel writer. However after listening to the following podcast, I can understand why these books turned out this way.

http://twit.tv/show/triangulation/99
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Agree.

I don't understand the Rothfuss circle jerk from the fantasy folk. Very average novels at best, personally I would say they are poor.
 
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