What fiction book are you currently reading?
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Correira's "Hard Magic" - good stuff, definitely some echoes of MHI, but who wouldn't like the X-Men stuck in the roaring 20s?
Webers "Out of the Dark" - opened well, some good modern survivalist type fiction for "what if the aliens invade," and a piss-poor ending. Unfortunate.
Working on Jeff Shaara's "Gone for Soldiers" - a good look at the Mexican-American war through the eyes of the officers who would be the movers and shakers of the Civil War, particularly Captain Robert E. Lee.
Webers "Out of the Dark" - opened well, some good modern survivalist type fiction for "what if the aliens invade," and a piss-poor ending. Unfortunate.
Working on Jeff Shaara's "Gone for Soldiers" - a good look at the Mexican-American war through the eyes of the officers who would be the movers and shakers of the Civil War, particularly Captain Robert E. Lee.
Omar B
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Heads up dudes. Terry Brook's Shannara series of novels is being turned into a TV series. This was just announced yesterday so if you wanted to jump into a new series right now this is gonna be the hot one. http://screenrant.com/terry-brooks-shannara-tv-series
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This could either be very awesome (ala Game of Thrones) or Suck (ala Sword of Truth)
I hope for Awesome.
As do we all. The realist in me knows SUCK is more likely...
Dumas actually wrote a whole series of books following the musketeers through their lives. There's a good reason why they're classics.
I just read J.K Rowlings "The Casual Vacancy". As a writer of adult fiction, she fails. Needs to stick to childrens books.
Now I'm reading "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn. So far it's also not doing much for me.
Also recently finished Koontz' "Odd Appolcolypse" and "77 Shadow Hill", both of which were good, but not as good as I expect from Mr Koontz.
View it as a series of shorter adventures, linked by the characters and some continuing stories. It's easier to read it that way than as a giant novel, I found. And realize that Dumas wrote over a long period as a series of serials, so there are details that don't always run consistent... kind of like in comic books.
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Just finished King of Thorns, the sequel to Prince of Thorns. Wow, it outdoes the first book and I thought Prince of Thorns was very entertaining, though quite dark.
Recommended if you don't mind the protagonist being half-evil himself.
Recommended if you don't mind the protagonist being half-evil himself.
Mauthos
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Currently reading The Painted Man by Peter V, Brett. Good start so far and an interesting premise, enjoying it.
Omar B
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Half evil? How dare you sir. Come back to me with a book where everyone is evil!
Death of an Adept - Katherine Kurtz & Debra Turner-Harris.
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
Steve
Mostly Harmless
Pillars of the earth was great. Read that years ago.
I just finished Lightbringer by Brent Weeks. Good fantasy.
Also reading the Red Branch Cycle, by Randy Lee Eikhert. Good stuff.
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"Fifty Shades Darker" by E L James. I guess I'm feeling a little randy.
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Phil Rickman's latest.... The Heresy of Dr Dee, superb.
