What are you reading right now?
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Snare
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Nah, I've read others before. I take what the library gives.
If you like Terry Goodkind you might also appreciate Raymond E Feist. Just go and get em from Exclusive Books
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That's cool. I would love to own one but I always miss the physical books
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McT
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Deliberating between "The Age of Miracles" and "A Game of Thrones" .
I am a terrible reader. Do most of my reading at work reading policy wording, claims reports, researching specific subjects in the internet for information, etc. By the time I get home reading is the last thing I feel like doing.
"The Age of Miracles" has been a mammoth effort. Interesting story but the manner in which it's written (first person?) makes it difficult to follow.
I am really eager to read the series of books starting with the "A Game of Thrones". The television series has been riveting and the books are usually better. So reckon I must try to read them all.
I am a terrible reader. Do most of my reading at work reading policy wording, claims reports, researching specific subjects in the internet for information, etc. By the time I get home reading is the last thing I feel like doing.
"The Age of Miracles" has been a mammoth effort. Interesting story but the manner in which it's written (first person?) makes it difficult to follow.
I am really eager to read the series of books starting with the "A Game of Thrones". The television series has been riveting and the books are usually better. So reckon I must try to read them all.
Snoek
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lol I think everyone prefers the hardcopies cos we all have this idea of the library in our house with all the books we've read
I'm reading Stardust - Neil Gaiman. I've started collecting his works (slowly but surely). I'm looking too move off froom him for a while but I'm a bit put off by starting a new book just before exams. I tend to get really tied up in book series and can't do anything before I've finished them >_<
Saint_Dee
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I find it just as hard to read a book written in first person. I recently read Eon: The Dragoneye Reborn, it had a great concept, but simply because of the style of writing, I consider it a terrible book. First person view that only focused on the main character, which makes every other character feel flat without personality.
The only books I've enjoyed with a first person perspective, are the Lorien Legacies, because they don't focus on one character throughout each book, but even then the characters have a habit of being too alike because most writers using that style of writing tend to infuse their own personalities in the POV characters.
Mister 44
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lol I think everyone prefers the hardcopies cos we all have this idea of the library in our house with all the books we've read
I'm reading Stardust - Neil Gaiman. I've started collecting his works (slowly but surely). I'm looking too move off froom him for a while but I'm a bit put off by starting a new book just before exams. I tend to get really tied up in book series and can't do anything before I've finished them >_<
I don't, actually. I do most of my reading in bed after Mrs 44 have gone to sleep, so I use my tablet or phone to read. I won't get an e-ink device without illumination for the same reason.
Snare
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Game of thrones is great...for the First 3 Novels. After this it kind of feels like you're trying to extract ice cream from a slab of concrete
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Lol, you just read with NightVision goggles
Piesank
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During my holiday I finished two Myron Bolitar novels by Harlan Coben.
Fade Away and Back Spin the Myron Bolitar series is quite enjoyable as he isn't your run of the mill detective, he is a sports agent who got injured before his dream NBA career got ended with a knee injury, it reads very easily and is funny and it isn't seen from first person perspective, which I hate in novels.
Currently on a stand alone from Harlan Coben - No Second Chance but it is already getting my dander up because the tone is more serious and it is in first person. . .
Fade Away and Back Spin the Myron Bolitar series is quite enjoyable as he isn't your run of the mill detective, he is a sports agent who got injured before his dream NBA career got ended with a knee injury, it reads very easily and is funny and it isn't seen from first person perspective, which I hate in novels.
Currently on a stand alone from Harlan Coben - No Second Chance but it is already getting my dander up because the tone is more serious and it is in first person. . .
Mister 44
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Finished Deeply Odd and the recycling from previous books in the series seems to be intentional, so it is "wait-for-the-next-book" to see how things end.
Started rereading "Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jnr. It is one of my favorite books of all time and one of only a handful that I've read more than once. This is my fourth reading and the first in almost a decade.
The reason I like the books of Vonnegut is that his stories have so many levels that you are bound to pick up something you missed the first (few) times. His style of literature does not relate to everybody. He disguises his style of satire and social commentary as cheap b-grade sci-fi which will put off both hardcore sci-fi fans as well as literary snobs.
In Slaugterhouse-Five it is the story of Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist that gets unstuck in time during WW2 and gets involved with aliens from the planet Tralfamadore that can see in four dimensions.
But what it really is, is a satirical anti-war story with the firebombing of Dresden a central point. The fire-bombing of Dresden was a real event perpetrated by the USA and Britain. Kurt Vonnegut was a prisoner of war in Dresden at the time, which makes the book semi-autobiographical.
Some sources claim more people died in Dresden than in Hiroshima, but with estimated death tolls starting at 25,000 and topping out at 500,000 the truth will probably never be known.
So it goes.
Started rereading "Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jnr. It is one of my favorite books of all time and one of only a handful that I've read more than once. This is my fourth reading and the first in almost a decade.
The reason I like the books of Vonnegut is that his stories have so many levels that you are bound to pick up something you missed the first (few) times. His style of literature does not relate to everybody. He disguises his style of satire and social commentary as cheap b-grade sci-fi which will put off both hardcore sci-fi fans as well as literary snobs.
In Slaugterhouse-Five it is the story of Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist that gets unstuck in time during WW2 and gets involved with aliens from the planet Tralfamadore that can see in four dimensions.
But what it really is, is a satirical anti-war story with the firebombing of Dresden a central point. The fire-bombing of Dresden was a real event perpetrated by the USA and Britain. Kurt Vonnegut was a prisoner of war in Dresden at the time, which makes the book semi-autobiographical.
Some sources claim more people died in Dresden than in Hiroshima, but with estimated death tolls starting at 25,000 and topping out at 500,000 the truth will probably never be known.
So it goes.
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Snare
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I also read Deeply Odd recently and did not like how the entire series seems to have reached a point where its written for the sake of being written.
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It's amazing kid. then again I have yet to read a work by Orson Scott Card that didn't emblazon my spirit and invigorate my mind.
MalicE
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so I've been told. but I'm still in two minds. don't want the book spoiling the movie for me
Snare
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Usually the book does actually enhance the movie instead of ruin it. Esp since a movie cannot even begin to cover all of the content contained within the original source material. So reading the book first helps to fill in the blanks that the movie inadvertently has to leave out.
MalicE
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fair enough. or you get annoyed by all the things they messed up in the movie version
Snare
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fair enough. or you get annoyed by all the things they messed up in the movie version
The trick is to fully understand that they are totally different forms of media; the beauty is seeing how one translates into another whilst taking great care to make note of successful interpretation instead of dismal translation