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I need more books.
Recommend me non-generic fantasy that's similar to Scott Lynch and GRR Martin please.
Or historical novelists who aren't Bernard Cornwell
Recommend me non-generic fantasy that's similar to Scott Lynch and GRR Martin please.
Or historical novelists who aren't Bernard Cornwell
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currently chewing my way through Dan Abnett's - The Saint (gaunt omnibus). good writing style that keeps you entertained throughout.
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Starting to re-read the Harry Potter series, I need more books though really. Haven't read anything new in quite a while.
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Bought some books the other day:
Atlas shrugged -Ayn Rand
Twilight of the idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo - Freidrich Nietzche
Human is? - phillip K Dick
I haven't really read any of them yet apart from a few of the stories in 'human is?', which so far are good and entertaining like most if dick's work. I'll post some brief reviews when I finish them (and if I remember )
Atlas shrugged -Ayn Rand
Twilight of the idols/The Antichrist/Ecce Homo - Freidrich Nietzche
Human is? - phillip K Dick
I haven't really read any of them yet apart from a few of the stories in 'human is?', which so far are good and entertaining like most if dick's work. I'll post some brief reviews when I finish them (and if I remember )
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RedTeamWins wrote:Atlas shrugged -Ayn Rand
Beware, this is the only book that's defeated my friend who read James Joyce's Ulysses as light bedtime reading.
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Finnvitka wrote:I need more books.
Recommend me non-generic fantasy that's similar to Scott Lynch and GRR Martin please.
Or historical novelists who aren't Bernard Cornwell
Simon Scarrow's Centurion series is good if you like Rome
Manda Scott's Boudica books are heavy going but very good - just finished those.
The Guinevere series by Alison Borchdart (sp?) - didnt get on with them personally but everyone else I know who has read them loved them, so perhaps im missing something.
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Currently - Nick Laird - Utterly Monkey.
Having to force myself to pick it up, which is never a good sign.
Having to force myself to pick it up, which is never a good sign.
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It has to be said I'm quite a slow reader.
for the last 14 months Ive been reading The Real Middle Earth: Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages. by Brian Bates. Im only about halfway through. and its not as if its even a big book (320 pages) but I just dont get round to reading often enough.
for the last 14 months Ive been reading The Real Middle Earth: Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages. by Brian Bates. Im only about halfway through. and its not as if its even a big book (320 pages) but I just dont get round to reading often enough.
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I am engrossed in Stephen King's Dark Tower books again. The BG announcement made me decide to give them another go.
I was really unimpressed with The Gunslinger because I found it very predictable, and was ultimately why I didn't progress further into the series before. The Drawing of the Three has been phenomenal though, and well worth battling through the first book again.
I shall be picking up The Waste Lands tomorrow.
I was really unimpressed with The Gunslinger because I found it very predictable, and was ultimately why I didn't progress further into the series before. The Drawing of the Three has been phenomenal though, and well worth battling through the first book again.
I shall be picking up The Waste Lands tomorrow.
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Rereading the Lord of the Rings, I'm just starting book four.
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WorMzy wrote:Rereading the Lord of the Rings, I'm just starting book four.
How? Its a trilogy!
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keera_envenomed wrote:WorMzy wrote:Rereading the Lord of the Rings, I'm just starting book four.
How? Its a trilogy!
Technically it's made up of six books, each volume (Fellowship, Towers and King) consists of two each.