Well lately I picked up Altered Carbon, even though no one I knew had heard of it, and I just liked the sound of it. It was pretty damn great. I'm hoping to get more back into reading again, I really don't read enough[footnote]Novels that is. I don't think the internet counts when I say "I read a lot"[/footnote]...
I borrowed some random book called "Past Imperative" I think, the first part of a series called "The Great Game", off a friend of mine. He had bought it as random flight reading material in a Cuban airport.
It was awesome and many years later I bought the sequels for it as well, which were also very good.
I also used to make it a habit to visit used book stores and buy random books with interesting names or covers cheap. These days though, I mostly buy books by Pratchett or Gaiman.
Also, waiting for the next Song Of Ice and Fire
When you have to memorise several thousand words of it for an exam you'll realise that those metaphors aren't really that great...
OT: The Great Gatsby. Pretty short, but definitely worth a read. Also Jane Eyre - a very readable classic, well written with a strong plot and excellent language.
I've always had a soft spot for Stephen King stuff. I just started on the 3rd book in the Dark Tower series, and it is fantastic. It gets pretty haunting at some points, what with the whole apocalyptic sorta feeling. Great series though!
Not quite, but I do tend to buy/ask for books from new genres or authors without a recommendation, just read the back cover. So far it's been working really well, as the only books I own that I do not love are all unwanted gifts or were recommended to me.
Harry Turtledove's The Man With the Iron Heart was probably the greatest success in this way.
I always pick up a few random books I have hanging around when I have to visit my grandparents, while they have the internet it's slow so I have to find some other way to amuse myself.
Just finished reading a book called 'This is not a game' by Wather John Williams which was pretty good. It's like a crime novel with some interesting twists.
I have a long reading list and they are all in a big pile right next to my bed, so its not really a problem for me.
Saying that, last week I saw the Wasp Factory on one of my friends book shelves so I asked him if I could borrow it. I'd heard some good stuff about it (although, not much appart from the fact it was good). Turned out to be very entertaining.
I also borrowed Fight Club from him, mainly because tonnes of people on this forum are all like "best book evar". Haven't started it yet though. I read the first chapter, but seeing the film made the book lose a lot of its intrigue.
Never, since I always have a book ready to read. (SEE: EMERGENCY BOREDOM: Finishing the Tolkien Trilogy. I've never managed to get through it... about 500 pages left <.<)
Currently I'm reading 2 books. The Eagle's Conquest - Simon Scarrow & The Magician's Apprentice - Trudi Canavan.
Yes. I took The Gunslinger by Stephen King from my bookshelf and read that.
Now I'm finishing up the series with The Dark Tower. I think that's a success story.
Yes. I took The Gunslinger by Stephen King from my bookshelf and read that.
Now I'm finishing up the series with The Dark Tower. I think that's a success story.
Luckily for me, books II and IV were on that same bookshelf...but the real problem was III.
After I finished The Drawing Of The Three, I journeyed around my hometown, Stoke-on-Trent, searching various bookshops and libraries. No luck finding The Waste Lands. Finally, I asked the librarian for it. She searched the archives, and found that the whole of Stoke's library network had one copy. And it was on loan.
Fortunately, the next day, they called me to tell me it was back.
I was a bit luckier concerning books five and six. I was partway through Wizard and Glass when my girlfriend came home from Malta. With her, she had those two books. She'd seen them in a shop around there, and knowing I was reading a lot of Stephen King, she bought them for me.
I was only part way through the fifth book when my father developed a love of a local charity shop. So many King books in there. He came home with a massive hardback version of The Dark Tower, complete with illustrations and everything. I was like....damn.
I love reading almost as much as I do gaming. Let me introduce you all to a little beauty I discovered recently:
Leviathan By Scott Westerfeld. Click below for book cover
Leviathan is an Alternate History World War 1 novel. VERY alternate history.
The backstory is that Chuck Darwin discovered DNA, and made his own animals. Now, the British Empire and their allies use Genetically Engineered war machines, including flying jellyfish, wolf-tiger hybrids, and the Titular Leviathan, which is a giant flying whale used as an airship.
Meanwhile, Austria-Hungary, Prussia, and the Ottoman empire use giant war mechs, some described as bigger than a Cruise Ship, because they feel that fabricated animals are offenses to nature.
I could NOT make this up If I tried.
The main plot of the book concerns a British girl that disguises herself as a boy to get into the air force, running parallel to Franz's Ferdinand's Orphaned son. They meet up in Switzerland and... just read it. It's great, well written, and the second book,Behemoth, is coming out this October.
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