What are you reading?
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While baking lighting I'm currently reading through Zone One by Colson Whitehead. It's an existential look at a recovering New York City after a zombie apocalypse.
I'm also spending time here and there reading some Fables, which is a nice surprising treat.
I'm also spending time here and there reading some Fables, which is a nice surprising treat.
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I'm on the Walking Dead comics, Bone comics, and that Steve Jobs bio book.
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_lost_city_of_Z.html?id=RC0iwqo53EgC
so far about halfway through. pretty awesome reading.
I really dig it. It's definitely not for everyone as it goes back and forth between flashbacks of the main character of his life before, during and after the apocalypse and some of it can be a bit mundane, but I love those kinds of anecdotes.
I can strongly recommend her if you're into fantasy. She writes everything in first-person narrative, which at first feels strange, but then gives you a very deep connection with the main character.
She also wrote the Soldier's Son trilogy which is very good.
Now I have about 11 books waiting to be read, and I'm going back and forth with which ones to start with.
YES to both of these. House of Leaves is incredible, especially when you delve into all the supporting material like Johnny Truant's letters from his mother.
I'd also highly recommend Anathem by Stephenson.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I got through Quicksilver, but it seemed like hard work at times. Haven't bothered with the other two yet, and I'll probably need to re-read Quicksilver before I do. I hear good things about his new book, although some reviews said he had dumbed-down a little compared to his previous novels.
Currently on the 4th book, The Shadow Rising
So far I love the story :P although much more light hearted than ASOIAF
Also working my way through Drawn To Life, a great bible of insights for animation and loose sketching.
As for me, I'm going through the John Carter stuff since seeing the movie. Got me interested.
I just started this recently, it kind of feels like China decided to write a Neil Gaiman story but that doesn't detract from it (I love Neil Gaiman)
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A great nonfiction book - from the writer of "The Men Who Stare at Goats"
Before that I worked my way through Neal Stephenson's Reamde. While it's not really a story that needs to be 1042 pages long, it does have some interesting ideas. One of the major story arcs is about the development and running of an MMORPG. Stephenson evidently has a pretty decent understanding of games any I think quite a few of the more innovative concepts he comes up with would do well in an actual game.
I think the book does suffer a little from Stephenson's tendency to cram too many ideas into the one story, albeit not to ridiculous extent of Snow Crash, but it's worth a look if you're not scared off by a book larger than an Oxford dictionary.
I've tried to get into that book about three times, and each time the prose puts me off. Something about it feels really clunky, and I felt like he strays a little too close to some pretty well-established noir cliches. It'sa shame, as the premise really appeals to me.
I'm about two-thirds of the way into this right now, and I've enjoyed it so far, but King's last few books have felt like he plugs a series of character names and rough plot elements into some sort of bestseller generator. It feels very similar to books like Needful Things, and there's been a few times where the extremity of some characters' actions have broken the suspension of disbelief.
Great book that was recommended by a friend...will read through the Mistborn series afterwards
I don't think I'm familiar enough with noir to pick the cliches.
Have mostly listened to audiobooks lately so nice to read a book again.
That's a great one. I read it when it first came out.
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(It's not anywhere as malicious as it sounds, don't freak out)
Have you read the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jodan? After his death, Sanderson picked it up for the last couple of novels. Last one should be coming out sometime soon. I really enjoyed it, it's like a longer version of LOTR.
Currently reading jPod by Douglas Coupland (the guy who wrote Generation X). His take on what goes on in a game dev company, it's hilarious.
So true! It's my favourite fantasy series, but it was getting a little hard to get through. The last couple of books have been killing me with how amazing they are!! Not sure what I'm gonna do with life once I'm done reading the last book, after it comes out...
So AtlusZMH -- Stick with it!! It starts to get a little slow around book 7 or so, but you're well rewarded with the last few!!
I also read jPod some while back. It really is quite hilarious, I enjoyed it a lot!
Currently, I'm reading the latest Fables volume. Good fun so far! Love the series.
Also finished the Hunger Games not too long ago. Very cool series!
Currently reading Bad Science
It's a really great series! James Jean does in fact only do the covers, though they certainly are beautiful.
It's a great comic to get into if you like twists on classic Fables. The idea is that the Fables are all driven from their homelands and gather in our world, the "mundy" world, where they're forced to lead a normal life while trying to figure out a way to take their homelands back. I think what's most interesting about the series are the characters, as they're based loosely on what we know from their stories. For an example, 'Prince Charming' is actually the same guy in all the stories where he's said to appear, so basically he's a cad and all the gals that were with him hold a grudge, from Snow White to Sleeping Beauty, to Cinderella. Fun stuff like that. It's also a very well written series, so there's that too
There's a good chance I'm not doing the series any justice, but give it a look anyway! Though I'd suggest trying more than one volume, as the first book was probably my least favourite.
Awww shit yeah. Make sure you read The Scar and Iron Council after that.
How in the world did I have this strange feeling that this thread would practically be about China Mieville from the beginning?
Seriously my favourite author: Currently reading Looking for Jake and other stories by him.
Also Dark is the Moon by Ian Irvine.
you should also read "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat,phenomenal read and quick too.
sorry for double post.
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