Author Topic: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings (Read 288839 times)

ozzy554 · « **Reply #1750 on:** January 22, 2018, 04:35:29 PM »

Criminal Vol.1: Coward By Ed Brubaker

Batman: Superheavy by Scott Snyder

Evermind · « **Reply #1751 on:** January 23, 2018, 10:22:06 AM »

Quote from: Evermind on January 17, 2018, 12:06:08 PM

Quote from: Podaar on January 17, 2018, 05:45:15 AM
Red Seas under Red Skies was my favorite of that trilogy. My son says I'm crazy, but for me, it was the most fun of them all.

I'm just over a hundred pages in, I love it so far. The sheer size of balls these guys have continues to astonish me.

Alright, this book officially has the best quote of the series so far.

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...how the hell was he going to explain what had happened to the ship? Some nautical technicality?

'Squiggle-fucked the rightwise cock-swabber with a starboard jib,' he whispered to himself, 'when I should've used a larboard jib.'

Podaar · « **Reply #1752 on:** January 23, 2018, 04:52:11 PM »

Love me some Gentlemen Bastards.

Gonna start in on rereading the Earthsea series tonight in honor of Ursula Le Guin's passing.

SchecterShredder · « **Reply #1753 on:** January 23, 2018, 07:19:41 PM »

They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie

masterthes · « **Reply #1754 on:** January 23, 2018, 08:34:16 PM »

Magic by William Goldman

Evermind · « **Reply #1755 on:** January 24, 2018, 11:10:09 AM »

Quote from: Podaar on January 23, 2018, 04:52:11 PM

Love me some Gentlemen Bastards.

Gonna start in on rereading the Earthsea series tonight in honor of Ursula Le Guin's passing.

Just found out about this today, very sad news. The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness are among my absolute favourite books by any writer.

masterthes · « **Reply #1756 on:** January 24, 2018, 05:20:34 PM »

A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

ozzy554 · « **Reply #1757 on:** January 24, 2018, 07:21:37 PM »

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Evermind · « **Reply #1758 on:** January 25, 2018, 11:14:08 AM »

Finished Red Seas Under Red Skies and loved it even more than the first book in the series. What an awesome discovery.

Turning away from fantasy for a bit to finish Kenzie/Gennaro series with Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane.

WDADU · « **Reply #1759 on:** January 25, 2018, 04:07:50 PM »

Lehane rarely, if ever, disappoints. As far as the Kenzie/Genarro books, I've only read the first two, A Drink Before the War and Darkness, Take My Hand. I think Sacred is next, which I gotta hunt down soon. If you like Lehane, he released a new book last year called Since We Fell and it was pretty good.

masterthes · « **Reply #1760 on:** January 25, 2018, 05:58:21 PM »

Going to brag a bit if you don't mind. This last book I recently finished became the 1,000th thing I shelved on my Read pile (that includes some graphic novels, scripts, and some children's books). I'm sure there's a few I have forgotten to include on my shelf, because every so often I'm like, oh I've read that.

Anyway, to the book I am currently undergoing. Last year, his The Child Thief was one of my favorites of 2017. Now, I'm reading his latest: Lost Gods by Brom

Evermind · « **Reply #1761 on:** January 26, 2018, 06:46:27 AM »

Quote from: WDADU on January 25, 2018, 04:07:50 PM

Lehane rarely, if ever, disappoints. As far as the Kenzie/Genarro books, I've only read the first two, A Drink Before the War and Darkness, Take My Hand. I think Sacred is next, which I gotta hunt down soon. If you like Lehane, he released a new book last year called Since We Fell and it was pretty good.

I thought Sacred was a bit over the top (or maybe more than a bit), but the next one, Gone, Baby, Gone was an absolute blast of a book. Loved that one.

I also have Since We Fell waiting on my bookshelf, bought it last year but didn't get to read it yet. I'm looking forward to it though.

masterthes · « **Reply #1762 on:** January 27, 2018, 12:21:18 PM »

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

masterthes · « **Reply #1763 on:** January 29, 2018, 04:24:39 AM »

Going to give Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz a try

Kwyjibo · « **Reply #1764 on:** January 30, 2018, 08:15:00 AM »

To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams

Evermind · « **Reply #1765 on:** January 30, 2018, 09:51:47 AM »

Moonlight Mile was alright as a closing book in the series, but I don't think the continuation of one of the earlier book plots was a good idea, and also it's almost always hilarious to read books with Russian mafia in them. A mixed bag of a book, all in all. If I had to rank Kenzie/Gennaro series, I would've gone with Gone, Baby, Gone > Prayers for Rain > Darkness, Take My Hand > Sacred = Moonlight Mile > A Drink Before the War.

Next up, the book about which contents I have not a slightest clue, by the author I've never heard of, The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley.

Jarlaxle · « **Reply #1766 on:** January 30, 2018, 10:07:39 AM »

Quote from: masterthes on January 20, 2018, 12:00:33 PM

With this year being the centennial of the ending of World War I, I thought I would educate myself with some books on the subject, starting with The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

How was this one? I'm currently reading Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger, which is phenomemal, and want to continue my WWI binge.

masterthes · « **Reply #1767 on:** January 31, 2018, 09:18:42 AM »

I gave up after the third chapter. It was too detailed and lost me completely

SchecterShredder · « **Reply #1768 on:** January 31, 2018, 10:43:17 AM »

I almost gave up on They Came to Bahgdad at the halfway point, but I stuck with it. It was ok, but I kind of regret finishing it. My wife brought up a good point: "Why slog through a bad book when there are literally millions of other books to read?". That will probably be my mindset moving forward.

Waiting on a few books from Amazon, so in the meantime I picked up Foreign Agent by Brad Thor.

WDADU · « **Reply #1769 on:** January 31, 2018, 11:41:21 AM »

About to start Cat's Eye, by Margaret Atwood.

masterthes · « **Reply #1770 on:** February 03, 2018, 09:08:50 PM »

Reagan: The Life by H.W. Brands. For the rest of the year, I decided to read at least one big book a month off of my TBR. Each one was picked by random number generator, and this was decided for February. Time to learn about the President of my childhood

SchecterShredder · « **Reply #1771 on:** February 06, 2018, 06:17:45 PM »

Good Omens by Gaiman/Pratchett. This one 's been on my shelf for awhile, but i never got around to it.

masterthes · « **Reply #1772 on:** February 08, 2018, 05:19:35 AM »

Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan

jasc15 · « **Reply #1773 on:** February 08, 2018, 07:18:05 AM »

Do magazine articles count? I'm reading The White Darkness. A descendant of Ernest Shackelton's crew is attempting a solo crossing of Antarctica through the south pole on foot. (if you know the outcome of his trek, please don't spoil it..)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-darkness

masterthes · « **Reply #1774 on:** February 11, 2018, 09:05:42 AM »

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Volume 1 edited by Walter Hooper. I became interested in reading collections of correspondences when I read the two collections of Hunter S. Thompson's letters from a few years back, which I really enjoyed, so it's lately been a sub genre that I've become interested in

chknptpie · « **Reply #1775 on:** February 12, 2018, 06:42:44 AM »

Quote from: masterthes on February 11, 2018, 09:05:42 AM

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Volume 1 edited by Walter Hooper. I became interested in reading collections of correspondences when I read the two collections of Hunter S. Thompson's letters from a few years back, which I really enjoyed, so it's lately been a sub genre that I've become interested in

You should give Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence a try, but you need to see the physical books since the letters are removable letters and postcards. It's an interesting trilogy.

masterthes · « **Reply #1776 on:** February 12, 2018, 07:55:35 AM »

Also going to be reading Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha by Kim Newman

Evermind · « **Reply #1777 on:** February 12, 2018, 10:48:24 AM »

Finished The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley. Yeah, this one didn't go really well with me, to be honest. For three different points of view, I was interested in only one—the other protagonist spent his time doing jackshit for like 3/4 of the novel despite an exciting beginning which was his first chapter—and yet another protagonist had only few chapters in the whole novel (and I thought her setting was the most exciting of all three) and ended up being absolutely inept at anything which actually made me facepalm a few times. Now to mention I thought the plot was a bit boring and the twists were mostly obvious.

Oh well, maybe I'm just not into the grim and dark fantasy anymore, because this book has a lot of glowing reviews. Not going to continue with that trilogy.

Instead, I'm returning to Scott Lynch and starting Republic of Thieves. If the first two books are any indication, this is going to be a much better read.

ozzy554 · « **Reply #1778 on:** February 12, 2018, 05:14:12 PM »

American Vampire vol.5 by Scott Snyder

masterthes · « **Reply #1779 on:** February 13, 2018, 01:27:30 PM »

Giles Goat Boy by John Barth. Loved the Sot-Weed Factor from a few years back. Hopefully, this will be just as good

chknptpie · « **Reply #1780 on:** February 13, 2018, 07:31:55 PM »

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

SchecterShredder · « **Reply #1781 on:** February 14, 2018, 07:20:40 AM »

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

masterthes · « **Reply #1782 on:** February 15, 2018, 03:39:35 PM »

Just finished reading The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend. Moving on to the sequel, The Growing Pains of (most of these books are quite short)

masterthes · « **Reply #1783 on:** February 16, 2018, 02:28:17 PM »

Getting back to some genre fiction with Kraken by China Mieville. I fell in love with Perdido Street Station years ago. Hope this will get a similar reaction

Sacul · « **Reply #1784 on:** February 16, 2018, 06:02:38 PM »

Went on a trip some weeks ago and read the manga Uzumaki by Junji Ito. Very original horror based not on monsters or paranormal crap, but on a pattern, a spiral, that haunts a town. It's got a fantastic art style to it, very detailed and slightly into the uncanny, and the plot goes in many unexpected directions. It's mature and dark, and I highly recommend it. There's a wonderful hardcover edition, get that one.

And finally finished Song of Susannah, which was great! I don't really know why people think low of this book, it had great action, lots of lore and twists excellent scenes as usual.

Before tackling The Dark Tower, I want to delve into House of Leaves.

News: Paralyzed official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7m7l8iqGAk

Author Topic: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings (Read 288839 times)