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Reading third New Crozubon book by China Mieville, really struggling. I'm hating author and his books more with each page, he's a pretentious *****.

Sits with a theasaurus in his lap whilst writing and thinks using complex words makes up for poor storylines, it seriously doesn't. Will perservere though because the first two were decent enough.
 
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Loving it lol classic take on the whole redshirts
 
Ah, Scalzi fan you are?

I love his books (got hooked when Tor.com had Old Man's War as a free download), as you say a great take on the whole Redshirts thing and quite funny in places.

If you've not heard it, there is a Jonathan Coulton (still alive etc) song that IIRC Scalzi commisioned.
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If you've not read them his other books (the Old Man's War series, Agent to the Stars etc), are very good.


Talking of Tor.com, they had a free download of all the short stories they've published on the site over the last 5 years the other day, which I downloaded and started reading :)
It's already given me two or three authors to try and I'm only a fraction of the way through it (in the C or D authors) - it's about 3000 pages.
 
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Read them all, so I'm on the 10th Dan Shepherd book by Stephen Leather. Really enjoyed them all actually, there's only a few 'sets' I have managed to get into and considering this is 10 books in, I'm surprised!
 
Been reading a fair amount of David Gemmell books lately, currently on Quest for Lost Heroes. They're all ones i read back in the 90's and not what i'd normally read now but i'm still enjoying them.

Once i'm through this series i might go further back and read the Dragonlance series, i don't think i've read them since they started coming out in the 80's. Not sure if i'll still like them but on a bit of kick going through the easy reading ones that i used to.
 
Just finished Steven Erikson's 'Gardens of the Moon'. Very hard work but reasonably enjoyable. I'll give the next one, 'Deadhouse Gates', a go at some point purely because the general consensus if that it's much better.

Next up is Joe Abercrombie's 'Last Argument of Kings', the final book of the First Law Trilogy. The first two were excellent so have high hopes for this one.
 
"Down to the Bone", the last of Justina Robson's Quantum Gravity (horrible name) books. Robson is a writer who doesn't get the fame she deserves, probably because none of her books have robots, lasers or spaceships in. But she produces genuinely original F/SF, which is pretty rare. She also does much better characterisation than most SF writers, although that's not hard. But this series is hard to follow at times, not helped by spreading the reading of the five books out over about six years.
 
Magicians End

I read all the others so felt like i should finish. To be honest Feist made a complete balls of his Universe a while back. The book is okay (just), doubt I will read it again unlike his earlier efforts.
 
Frxn said:
I was late to the party with ASoIaF, currently 75% through the first one.
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Managed to finish it off a couple days after that post and have started on A Clash of Kings, 18% through it so far. I've no idea how long the series will take but hoping to have those currently released completed before Spring next year.
 
Cosa Nostra

Just finished Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia by John Dickie and it was a really excellent read.

One of the best non-fiction books I've ever read.

For any of you that also watched Corleone on Sky Arts this is a must read.

Who would have thought that oranges and lemons would give birth to the Sicilian underworld.
 
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