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Post by zaboozer on Jun 14, 2013 17:36:30 GMT -5
What is everybody reading at the moment? Finished reading a book you enjoyed?
At the moment im reading lost at sea by jon ronson, which im enjoying. He's the guy that wrote the men who stare at goats. All his books are about the weird adventures he has with extremists.
Also reading latest book in traitor spy trilogy by trudi canavan.
Lastly a load of rubbish crime books that seem to get dropped off at my house by family on a weekly basis, havnt got the heart to tell them stop.
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Post by Xero on Jun 23, 2013 0:00:52 GMT -5
I have a stockpile of books that I have collected from the bargain bin that I have not read yet.
I finished Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth about a month or so ago. I am a huge Uncharted fan so it was a must read for me. It was okay. The writing was not exactly top tier and the plot was average, so I guess it was better as a novel than a game. Thankfully, it was not Naughty Dog who wrote it.
I did pick up Dan Brown's latest called Inferno. I know his stories are not exactly amazing but I will say, I am about 75 pages into this new one and is definitely a page turner. I'll give my assessment when I eventually finish it. His last book, The Lost Symbol, was garbage.
Also, I am still about halfway through The Girl Who Played With Fire. To put into context, the last time I picked that book up was when I was in London two summers ago. Fortunately, I still remember everything about it.
The books I have but have not touched include: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest; two books by Brad Meltzer called Book of Lies and The Inner Circle (both bargain priced); two books by James Rollins called The Doomsday Key and The Devil Colony (again bargain); R.L. Stine's The Red Rain, which to be honest, I felt nostalgic when I saw the author's name; and finally, the Hunger Games Trilogy.
So yes, my book reading is probably equivalent to that of my video games stack.
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Post by zaboozer on Jun 24, 2013 15:59:47 GMT -5
read the hunger games trilogy, pretty easy read.
inferno is definitely on my list, have enjoyed all of his other books regardless of what critics say.
what are your favourite books xero?
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Post by Xero on Jun 26, 2013 13:37:33 GMT -5
Well, I am definitely going to take the easy way out and say I do not have a favorite, but some that I have enjoyed over the years is probably To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and anything by Jules Verne. I also really like The Divine Comedy, which is technically poetry but whatever lol.
I enjoy reading author's different styles and their interesting point of views.
I definitely want to get into reading Game of Thrones (rather than watch it) and the Jack Reacher novels. The problem is that I like hardback books, so finding those is rather difficult.
In regards to Dan Brown, my problem with him is that he tries to infuse the topic of science vs. religion in almost every novel. It's nice that he tries to balance the two, but his main character leans more toward the science side and in almost every resolution of his novels, Brown takes the easy way out just to please everyone. It would be nice if he picked a side lol. But I will say he definitely knows how to get the reader to keep reading.
What are your favorite books?
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Post by RedZack on May 4, 2014 15:42:33 GMT -5
Right now I read "A tale of a Malazan book of the fallen", it is from the genere epic fantasy and is published in 10 books, so far I am at the 7th book and it took me almost a year to come that far. It is written by Steven Erikson an Canadian Author. The series in fact epic, lots of charakters, different races, a mellenium old history and lots of battles. Like the Titel suggests its about something fallen, but who that is or what it might be is first explained in the third book. It has lots of storylines and almost each book adds a new one, ends one with a blast or conecting them. Just great, I loving it !
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