What are you reading right now?
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I wasn't mad on his last one either. It was all a bit airy fairy. Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons were pretty good.
CongratsI think Deception Point was my favourite Dan Brown novel...
Saint_Dee
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Indeed, I loved Cold Fire, The Funhouse, and Velocity
KofDelight
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Does manga count as reading?I mean there are words
Shingeki No Kyojin
Shingeki No Kyojin
Piesank
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I stopped reading Angels and Demons because it is the exact same story as Da Vinci code - Tom Hanks knows an old truth, there is a hot girl working with him, there is an assassin and some hidden secret society. . .
steaksauce
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Good decision. You won't regret it. Also get the novellas, there are 3 of them.
steaksauce
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After reading the Lost Symbol I have come to the conclusion that Dan Brown who is trying to ride on the success of DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons. The Langdon guy is not very likeable and a bit pretentious and just an all round know-it-all prick. I actually did an art history class at varsity after reading Da Vinci Code and learned that he made a crap load of assumptions and far-fetched deductions to prove his points.
BlackSwan
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I'm actually reading Guards! Guards! One of the only Discworld novels I never got to!
ok so I read lots... most if it crap pulp (I read bodice rippers mostly so yeah... BLUSH) but here follows a few of my fav's and unfav's.
I read lord of the rings, started at the Hobbit... it was terrible. I only started giving a f*ck about what was going to happen at page 800. The writing style is just soooo dang old and stretched out and those dang hobbitses sure like to friggen sing a lot... in my opinion, rather watch the movies. The misty mountain song is so much nicer when done by hot dwarfs...
This leads me to Robert Jordan's Wheel of time series... there was just waaaay to many similarities with LOTR. I mean really?? every thing is there... the chosen unlikely one, his friends helping him on a dangerous journey to fight against a terribly dark power that has been vanquished before but has come back. he has a sword instead of a ring... yada yada yada... sigh... I know this is the way epic myths are supposed to be written, but eish.... too much of the sames... and it just keeps going. Even after the author dies it just keeps going, every book near 1000 pages!!.... I'll wait for the movies of these too frankly.
I lurve lurve lurve Terry Pratchett, and on that note, I have some to sell as I don't want to keep my hard copies any more... PM me ;p
Another series that has some local sci-fi flava is Tad Williams's Otherland series... damnit people it's got a Bushman and a Zulu girl in it! well to be fair, people across the globe really and they are pulled into the internet in a virtual reality world and they are stuck there etc etc ... just pure awesome! READ IT! it has lots of interesting ideas about how virtual reality could work, and how one could obtain immortality by uploading yourself online... sucha good series I have all of the books and plan to keep them forever and ever...
Iain Banks (RIP) has some really goooood books too. Not only the hard deep space sci-fi stuff, or the weird dreamy stuff (The Bridge), but his regular stories were good too, like "The Crow Road" and "Espedair Street". Check him out. High octane good writing stuff.
Douglas Adams of course... all of his stuff... even the Dirk Gently books. I loved those... the one with Thor and Odin in the old age home... hehe... good good good.
I don't really read a lot of the fantasy stuff anymore due to the books sucking and having too many elements of LOTR in them... But the Liveship series by Robin Hobb I read all of em... er except the last one... but it's been years so I will have to reread before I can get to the new one... but a good series.
CJ Cherryh's Chronicles of Morgaine series... I just adore this... It's about a woman who is the last of her race, tasked with closing the gates between worlds with her sword, that works like a key kinda, but if she takes it out of the scabbard, you get sucked into the void between the gates and you stop being a problem... so it's all about how she has to do this job and how she cannot worry about people and then this guy swears to protect and follow her etc etc I guess it is the romance between them that I like, but also that she is such a bad ass cold biatch. I like strong, tortured female characters. It is a rather old series and Mrs Cherryh's style isn't for everybody, but you can get used to it.
I have lots of e-books to get through but I have to sleep sometimes too...
I read lord of the rings, started at the Hobbit... it was terrible. I only started giving a f*ck about what was going to happen at page 800. The writing style is just soooo dang old and stretched out and those dang hobbitses sure like to friggen sing a lot... in my opinion, rather watch the movies. The misty mountain song is so much nicer when done by hot dwarfs...
This leads me to Robert Jordan's Wheel of time series... there was just waaaay to many similarities with LOTR. I mean really?? every thing is there... the chosen unlikely one, his friends helping him on a dangerous journey to fight against a terribly dark power that has been vanquished before but has come back. he has a sword instead of a ring... yada yada yada... sigh... I know this is the way epic myths are supposed to be written, but eish.... too much of the sames... and it just keeps going. Even after the author dies it just keeps going, every book near 1000 pages!!.... I'll wait for the movies of these too frankly.
I lurve lurve lurve Terry Pratchett, and on that note, I have some to sell as I don't want to keep my hard copies any more... PM me ;p
Another series that has some local sci-fi flava is Tad Williams's Otherland series... damnit people it's got a Bushman and a Zulu girl in it! well to be fair, people across the globe really and they are pulled into the internet in a virtual reality world and they are stuck there etc etc ... just pure awesome! READ IT! it has lots of interesting ideas about how virtual reality could work, and how one could obtain immortality by uploading yourself online... sucha good series I have all of the books and plan to keep them forever and ever...
Iain Banks (RIP) has some really goooood books too. Not only the hard deep space sci-fi stuff, or the weird dreamy stuff (The Bridge), but his regular stories were good too, like "The Crow Road" and "Espedair Street". Check him out. High octane good writing stuff.
Douglas Adams of course... all of his stuff... even the Dirk Gently books. I loved those... the one with Thor and Odin in the old age home... hehe... good good good.
I don't really read a lot of the fantasy stuff anymore due to the books sucking and having too many elements of LOTR in them... But the Liveship series by Robin Hobb I read all of em... er except the last one... but it's been years so I will have to reread before I can get to the new one... but a good series.
CJ Cherryh's Chronicles of Morgaine series... I just adore this... It's about a woman who is the last of her race, tasked with closing the gates between worlds with her sword, that works like a key kinda, but if she takes it out of the scabbard, you get sucked into the void between the gates and you stop being a problem... so it's all about how she has to do this job and how she cannot worry about people and then this guy swears to protect and follow her etc etc I guess it is the romance between them that I like, but also that she is such a bad ass cold biatch. I like strong, tortured female characters. It is a rather old series and Mrs Cherryh's style isn't for everybody, but you can get used to it.
I have lots of e-books to get through but I have to sleep sometimes too...