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Originally Posted by Fjordson Yeah, same here. I've only been into the series for about 4 months. Must be really rough for long time fans. --- On a slightly related note, I've been looking around for another quality fantasy series to get into after I finish Feast for Crows. I keep coming back to the Malazan books, it sounds super interesting and I've heard great things about it. However, my slight hangup is that when I look at sites like Amazon and Goodreads the reviews can vary wildly. Some say that it's extremely difficult to understand and that Steven Erikson's prose is really unreadable at parts. Any CAGs out there who've read them that agree or disagree with that? It's not that I'm afraid of a challenging series, it's just that I do a lot of my reading in the midst of traveling for work so I don't always have large amounts of time to invest.

I've only read two of the Malazan books. (The first and the third). And while they -are- good. They are confusing as shit too. I kept refering to the glossary in the back as well as checking the wikipedia page. There's over 5 distinct rces, sub-groups in those races. Each race has it's own gods and worship and each race has it's own magic system as well.

It is good, gritty, bloody fantasy though.

So I just finished this

And it was pretty good. Lesser authors would have dragged the first book out into three books, spending a whole book just on the main characters youth and development into the warded man.

This guy just sort of condenses it. However too much time is spent on the early childhood years at the village hamlet and too little on the building of the warrior stage.

Appearently it's been optioned for a movie as well.

Well I finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. What a great book. IMO, it's superior to the Bladerunner (even though Bladerunner is still amazing). The book is vastly dissimilar from the movie. Mak, you should give it a read when ya get a chance. It's short, easy and pretty amazing.

I'm moving on to Doctor Who: The Pirate Loop by Simon Guierrier. I love Doctor Who and I'm enjoying the book thus far.

Originally Posted by GhostShark Well I finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. What a great book. IMO, it's superior to the Bladerunner (even though Bladerunner is still amazing). The book is vastly dissimilar from the movie. Mak, you should give it a read when ya get a chance. It's short, easy and pretty amazing.

Nice. Thanks for the info. I just bought it for my Kindle.

Black Hawk Down and then I'm going to to read One Bullet Away.

Originally Posted by mr_burnzz Yea, I suppose you're right. I was just comparing it to the book and we all know the book is always better.

That's one case I disagreed. Thought the movie was great, had read the book prior and didn't dig it that much. Just hated the writing style. And the movie with it's visuals etc. did a better job of getting the emotional impact across to me.

CAG I want your input on this. I have to choose a supplemental novel for my British Literature class and I've narrowed my choices (from the selections) to Brave New World and Great Expectations. Which one should I go for?

But on topic, I'm currently reading The Plague by Albert Camus.

Originally Posted by PhantomaZero CAG I want your input on this. I have to choose a supplemental novel for my British Literature class and I've narrowed my choices (from the selections) to Brave New World and Great Expectations. Which one should I go for? But on topic, I'm currently reading The Plague by Albert Camus.

Brave New World. It is a fantastic sci-fi/philosophical novel that deals with the many social issues that still plague us to this very day.

I'll second Brave New World. Classic stuff.

I'm reading Star Wars: Stealth it is set during the Clone Wars cartoon time frame but is an adult novel. (There have been a bit to many references to how bad Anakin wants to get home to stick the dongsaber to Padme).

Not bad so far, not an award winner but not bad.

I enjoyed Brave New World the movie or miniseries with L. Nimoy waspretty bad but the book is good.

Since I just sorta moved and my stuff is in chaos I'm not even sure where I put my Game of Thrones but I just purchased Vol1-6 of Scott Pilgrim and now that I own it official-like I'm reading it again.

I'm really digging these Doctor Who novels. They're quick, easy reads and you'll probably be entertained if you're a fan of the series.

Finished Playback by Raymond Chandler in a day and a half.


I might have read it before, but I didnt seem to mind. Still a great book, tons of quotable lines.

Originally Posted by PhantomaZero CAG I want your input on this. I have to choose a supplemental novel for my British Literature class and I've narrowed my choices (from the selections) to Brave New World and Great Expectations. Which one should I go for? But on topic, I'm currently reading The Plague by Albert Camus.

Have you ever seen the movie The Island? Brave New World seems to have been a heavy source of inspiration for that movie (as far as I can tell), and if you enjoyed it, you should certainly enjoy Huxley's work.

Originally Posted by GhostShark I'm really digging these Doctor Who novels. They're quick, easy reads and you'll probably be entertained if you're a fan of the series.

Which Doctor are you reading? I refuse to read/watch etc. anything with the 11th Doctor.

Also just started reading Force Unleashed II.

Just finishing up "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close". Really great book that I had a hard time putting down.

Originally Posted by Hell Monkey Which Doctor are you reading? I refuse to read/watch etc. anything with the 11th Doctor. Also just started reading Force Unleashed II.

I'm nearly finished with The Pirate Loop. It's with the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones so it's filled with awesome.

Finished The Pillars of the Earh. Overall it was kind of meh. Maybe I'd have liked it more if I hadn't watched the mini-series first. But the writing style is pretty boring, and the book as a whole ends up pretty dul when you know all the main plot points.

There are some differences between the two of course, but relatively minor. Some things happen a bit differently (someone dies differently, or for a different reason etc.), there's a bit of extra story at the end that goes beyond the end of the mini series (well kind of, some stuff that happens there happened in the miniseries as well), but that part wasn't particularly compelling in any event.

Originally Posted by dmaul1114 Finished The Pillars of the Earh. Overall it was kind of meh. Maybe I'd have liked it more if I hadn't watched the mini-series first. But the writing style is pretty boring, and the book as a whole ends up pretty dul when you know all the main plot points. There are some differences between the two of course, but relatively minor. Some things happen a bit differently (someone dies differently, or for a different reason etc.), there's a bit of extra story at the end that goes beyond the end of the mini series (well kind of, some stuff that happens there happened in the miniseries as well), but that part wasn't particularly compelling in any event.

Totally agree. I found the main storyline interesting but I thought the book was in need of some serious editing.

today im starting Fool's Errand, first book of the Tawny Man trilogy. Looking forward to it since I really liked the Farseer trilogy.