Favorite Reads

[ill]

I like Scalzi.

Just need the library to open again..... Going to be soon too.

I got it on my Kindle from their digital collection.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

I got it on my Kindle from their digital collection.

Oh I know you did.

I've still got lots left before I run out so no panic here.

 

[ill]

Oh I know you did.

I've still got lots left before I run out so no panic here.

I still have Pierce Brown's second trilogy to start. Those will take me some time.

But I need a break from the sci fi books for a minute.

Reading a YA book called Nevermoor. A friend said it was really good, so why not. Should be a quick read.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

I still have Pierce Brown's second trilogy to start. Those will take me some time.

But I need a break from the sci fi books for a minute.

Reading a YA book called Nevermoor. A friend said it was really good, so why not. Should be a quick read.

I've been doing the Prey series by Sandford and Wilbur Smith African adventure.

 

[ill]

I've been doing the Prey series by Sandford and Wilbur Smith African adventure.

a friend of mine from college who I want to sleep with convinced me to read a Victorian age romance novel.

fucking kill me now.

I am only in Chapter 2.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

a friend of mine from college who I want to sleep with convinced me to read a Victorian age romance novel.

fucking kill me now.

I am only in Chapter 2.

If I can't get into a book by end of chapter 3 I dump it.

 

[Cobrabit]

I still have Pierce Brown's second trilogy to start. Those will take me some time.

I've read the first 5 and waiting for the release date for the 6th so I can re-read number 5 to lead up to it. Good series.

 

[ill]

I've read the first 5 and waiting for the release date for the 6th so I can re-read number 5 to lead up to it. Good series.

the first 3 were awesome. I met him at Comic Con last year, really nice dude. I will read just about anything he puts out now.

 

[ill]

yo

romance novels are trash.

not even giving me a chubby.

 

[GeekSportsFan]

If you are into history, I am reading a great book It details the lives of sailors in the British navy in the mid 18th through mid 19th centuries. Fascinating that the sailors who were victims of the press gangs eventually accepted, and some thoroughly enjoyed, life in the navy.

 

[Bridgeburner]

Anyone ever read any Brian McClellan? I just started the Powder Mage Trilogy and I'm hooked. Really pretty good.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Library opening up in 1 week!

Takeout style. No browsing, just online order and pick up.

 

[ill]

finally got The Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie on my Kindle. Been looking forward to wrapping up that trilogy for a while.

I also got The Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb to listen to on my drive to NJ this weekend. I am trying to decide between that and The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune that I got on Audible.

 

[Bridgeburner]

Anyone ever read any Brian McClellan? I just started the Powder Mage Trilogy and I'm hooked. Really pretty good.

Just about to start the third book. Easily one of the best "working" fantasy writers going right now.

 

[ill]

going to be finishing Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy soon with a couple random books laying around to read next.

Really a great, bloody series with some great characters. I am looking forward to reading the one offs and second trilogy.

 

[Bridgeburner]

Oh, and I should ask, anyone as excited as me about the just-announced Kingsbridge prequel coming from Ken Follett, set around the year 1000?

Coming up soon. September.

 

[ill]

Has anyone read The Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger?

It looks like the fantasy writing community is cancelling him for being a racist asshole.

 

[Bridgeburner]

Red Rising

I was jonesing for some Expanse and thought Red Rising might be something similar. Didn't even read the description before buying it. Had no idea it was a kids book and a Hunger Games rip off (I read the HG when my daughter asked me to 10 years ago... should have been titled "what we wore during the revolution".).

Still. It's not bad. I ended up enjoying it even if it's not the most original idea. I might have to do some homework to see if the story "grows up" or just continues to be a YA kids series. Undecided on whether to continue or not.

 

[ill]

Red Rising

I was jonesing for some Expanse and thought Red Rising might be something similar. Didn't even read the description before buying it. Had no idea it was a kids book and a Hunger Games rip off (I read the HG when my daughter asked me to 10 years ago... should have been titled "what we wore during the revolution".).

Still. It's not bad. I ended up enjoying it even if it's not the most original idea. I might have to do some homework to see if the story "grows up" or just continues to be a YA kids series. Undecided on whether to continue or not.

Red Rising is in no way a kids book. It's fucking gore and blood. If you are letting your kid read that...that's fucked up.

and I would say it grows up...or at least stays about the same.

I don't think anyone categorizes the Red Rising series as a YA book.

 

[ill]

Red Rising is in no way a kids book. It's fucking gore and blood. If you are letting your kid read that...that's fucked up.

and I would say it grows up...or at least stays about the same.

I don't think anyone categorizes the Red Rising series as a YA book.

well apparently there is a mix of what it would be...

Red Rising: A Case Study in Classifying Young Adult