Finished Old Man and the Wasteland (great apocalypse story, especially if you're looking for something that's very Falloutish) and started The Heroes


The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

I stopped reading And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder for now. I became a bit bored with it. I will finish it later. I started reading Pillars of Earth. I'm about 8 chapters in & I like it thus far.

Finished Roadside Picnic and thought it was really good.

Now I'm reading The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett.

Some good deals on Kindle books lately.

Under the Doom by Stephen King is the daily deal today at $1.99. Also grabbed 11/23/63 for $3.99. And a couple other books for $2.99 or so--Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell.

The other day I got Neil Young's autobiography and a George Washington bio for $1.99 in an earlier daily deal.

11/23/63 was my favorite book from last year

28 books read last year. (And then some. I didnt count ones I didnt fully finish and I'm sure there's a few I forgot to add to good reads)

Made a thread for it. Feel free to add your stats to it.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...d.php?t=335312

About the same for me. 26 with two in progress (The Color of Magic and Walking Dead Compendium Vol 2) that I may finish before the 1st.

Down from 41 finished last year.

I'm on volume 8 (last one) of "Preacher". Fantastic graphic novel.

Not sure what I'll read next. Maybe some stuff on my Kindle.

61 books for me

Goodreads is nice, but I wish when I rated a book an added it to my read shelf, it automatically included the "date read" as well. I always have to go back and edit that in. It doesn't post to my facebook with each book either. :sad:

Their recommendations aren't 100% useful either.

a) All you have to do is click 'set today as date read'.

b) It posts to my activity feed automatically. Not sure why it doesn't work for you.

Originally Posted by Maklershed a) All you have to do is click 'set today as date read'. b) It posts to my activity feed automatically. Not sure why it doesn't work for you.

That requires an extra click. If I'm rating, and adding the book to my read (done) shelf, it should automatically set the date as date read.

Then again, sometimes I'm adding two or three books at once and I don't want them to all have the same "completed" date.

Finished The Color of Magic. Enjoyed it a lot. Will definitely be reading more Discworld novels in the future, even made a Discworld collection on my Kindle.

On to:

Bait and Switch by Barbara E. She did Nickeled and Dimed. Ho hum so far.

Theft of Swords by Michael J Sullivan.



Eh. It's not bad. The writing is pretty simplistic. There's no flowery sentences or pages of description and narration.
And so much banter everyone banters. It's like I can see the characters turning their head to the camera and smirking ala Jim from the Office.

Just finished Year Zero a few days ago.



Gonna start World War Z soon.

I finished the Color of Magic yesterday, and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I was planning on reading something else next, but now I'm going to start:

I'm definitely on a discworld kick now. I finished The Light Fantastic, which was again quite good.

I then immediately downloaded and started


This series so far is better than I expected, and I've heard the books only get better as you go along.

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Finished up This Book Is Full of Spiders by David Wong and The 50 Year Sword by Mark Danielewski. Spiders was good, albeit a little disappointing. Not entirely sure what Wong was going for with the furgun, and I'm pretty sure he didn't mean for Amy to come across as such a huge asshole. 50 Year Sword initially irritated me with its gimmicks, but it wasn't really an issue.

Starting up The Way We Never Were after years of mykevermin talking about how great it is.

Reading the Princess Bride. The movie didn't talk much about Fezzik's past, considering Inigo's relationship with that cheapskate six fingered Duke did take up a good part of the story.