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  • #5002
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    mickmac76 wrote: »
    Finished The Girl with All The Gifts. It's OK I suppose, aimed at teenagers and I wouldn't be surprised to see a cinema version in the next couple of years.



    Wasn't that film released earlier this year?


  • #5003
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    mickmac76 wrote: »
    Finished The Girl with All The Gifts. It's OK I suppose, aimed at teenagers and I wouldn't be surprised to see a cinema version in the next couple of years.



    Wasn't that film released earlier this year?


  • #5004
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    About 100 pages in and liking it so far.
    Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild.

    Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. But if standing and fighting is hard, leading a company of men - or worse, a company of mercenaries - against the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder.

    It takes all the advantages of birth, training, and the luck of the devil to do it.

    The Red Knight has all three, he has youth on his side, and he's determined to turn a profit. So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess and her nunnery, it's just another job. The abby is rich, the nuns are pretty and the monster preying on them is nothing he can't deal with.


  • #5005
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,733 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Rereading the Deatstaker series. Pure escapist space opera.


  • #5006
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    About 1/3rd through Pushing Ice.

    Quite enjoying it, too.


  • #5007
    conacks
    Registered Users Posts: 38 ✭conacks


    Reading the 3rd book in Kristian Britian's green rider series. Really good reading so far......would recommend


  • #5008
    Nody
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,334 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    Paddy Samurai wrote: »
    About 100 pages in and liking it so far.
    Have to return to it; was my business travel book but only a couple of hundred pages in on that one.


  • #5009
    mcgovern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭mcgovern


    Finished Dauntless, I'll probably read more of the series but won't be in a huge rush to do so.
    Then read The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley. There are several different races (that I couldn't really find any difference between), several sexes (with the only difference being that 'women' are great and 'men' are mostly just there to look pretty) and several types of magic (most of which had very little difference between them). Needless to say I wasn't a big fan of it, which was a shame as the world had potential, it just doesn't really explore the interesting parts of it.
    I'm now reading Death's End, the final book in Liu Cixin's trilogy. I'm about 30% in and I'm not really sure where it is going, I was hoping we were going to get to see more of the universe, but it's still focused on Earth/Trisolar.


  • #5010
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,777 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    machalla wrote: »
    Interesting about the Catharism link, thanks for the pointer. I'm slowly getting round to finishing the third Inheritance book (Kingdom of Gods). I've enjoyed the series, its nice to read something that isn't typical epic fantasy or grimdark.

    I heard Lock In was not up to Scalzi's usual standard from one big fan. I see its now book 1 of a series.

    https://www.goodreads.com/series/135720-lock-in

    Finished Lock In last night, enjoyed it well enough but not quite enough to pick up the sequel just yet. Had a feel of Daemon or Ready Player One meets CSI. I read one of Scalzi's other books is reminiscent of Haldeman's The Forever War which I was a big fan of back in the day and may try next.


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  • #5011
    machalla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭machalla


    smacl wrote: »
    Finished Lock In last night, enjoyed it well enough but not quite enough to pick up the sequel just yet. Had a feel of Daemon or Ready Player One meets CSI. I read one of Scalzi's other books is reminiscent of Haldeman's The Forever War which I was a big fan of back in the day and may try next.

    Old mans war most likely. Its always an easy read and entertaining as well. I'd recommend them highly.

    Anything I've read of his I've enjoyed.

    If you like well written military sci-fi Marko Kloos is well worth a look for his frontlines series.


  • #5012
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    ^^ Also would highly recommend Old Mans War. The first two books I thought were outstanding.

    Agree that Lock In was good, but not great.


  • #5013
    machalla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭machalla


    I see the latest expanse book is out (book 6). I thought the last one was very weak but I'll give it a go as the original trilogy was a good read.

    Babylon's Ashes


  • #5014
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,777 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    machalla wrote: »
    Old mans war most likely. Its always an easy read and entertaining as well. I'd recommend them highly.
    Dades wrote: »
    ^^ Also would highly recommend Old Mans War. The first two books I thought were outstanding.

    Good enough for me, just ordered for the Kindle.


  • #5015
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    20% into "Apex", the final book in Ramez Naam's Nexus trilogy. It's a good read so far - great pacing and some neat ideas as to where trans/post- humanism might go. It's a bit like an airport thriller series for cyber geeks.


  • #5016
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Hang on

    Lads


    They're making a tv series of Patrick rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles!!!
    Is this why the last book never appeared???

    https://www.facebook.com/empiremagazine/posts/10154844186422708


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  • #5017
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    I think his mental health problems were also a factor.


  • #5018
    Nody
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,334 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    david75 wrote: »
    Hang on

    Lads


    They're making a tv series of Patrick rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles!!!
    Is this why the last book never appeared???

    https://www.facebook.com/empiremagazine/posts/10154844186422708
    Looking forward to his, hrm, "education", scenes in the demon world...


  • #5019
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,563 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Thargor wrote: »
    I think his mental health problems were also a factor.

    Is that not Scott Lynch? Never heard that Rothfuss had the same delays issues as well.


  • #5020
    vasch_ro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭vasch_ro


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Stiger's Tigers, (Chronicles of An Imperial Legionary Officer Book1).

    As above, it's a bit of Roman Legions with added Elves and possibly Dwarves. Short enough but an enjoyable read. I will be downloading further books in this series:)

    Thanks read it and the next two on the strength of this, easy to read, and your right is roman legions in fantasy setting but its entertaining


  • #5021
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Decided to finally finish Wheel of Time series. Started at book 4, so it'll be ages before i'm done, but i feel like i owe it to the series. It was pretty much my intro to epic fantasy, and i only got to book 9 originally.


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  • #5022
    Nody
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,334 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    Kiith wrote: »
    Decided to finally finish Wheel of Time series. Started at book 4, so it'll be ages before i'm done, but i feel like i owe it to the series. It was pretty much my intro to epic fantasy, and i only got to book 9 originally.
    Be warned book 10 and 11 will be the low point of the slog through it all.


  • #5023
    Trojan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,413 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    Is that not Scott Lynch? Never heard that Rothfuss had the same delays issues as well.

    Hasn't been mentioned officially anywhere I've seen, but that'd be my speculation. Fear of failure.

    🎙️ The Recognized Authority Podcast



  • #5024
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,563 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Nody wrote: »
    Be warned book 10 and 11 will be the low point of the slog through it all.

    Much easier now that the 4-5 wait fir them to come out is gone.

    Me before Crossroads of a twilight:

    This will be a return to form! The whole Perrin/faile issue should be over and wow that ending in Winter's Heart! Where will Jordan go with this now? Glad the long wait is over.
    Now to start reading...

    A few days later:

    Ah for fcuk sake.


  • #5025
    vasch_ro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭vasch_ro


    machalla wrote: »
    Old mans war most likely. Its always an easy read and entertaining as well. I'd recommend them highly.

    Anything I've read of his I've enjoyed.

    If you like well written military sci-fi Marko Kloos is well worth a look for his frontlines series.


    Thanks picked up and really enjoying it so far ( book1 in the frontline series)


  • #5026
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    Much easier now that the 4-5 wait fir them to come out is gone.

    Me before Crossroads of a twilight:

    This will be a return to form! The whole Perrin/faile issue should be over and wow that ending in Winter's Heart! Where will Jordan go with this now? Glad the long wait is over.
    Now to start reading...

    A few days later:

    Ah for fcuk sake.

    I think book 10 is where i stopped last time. I remember
    Egwene getting captured at the end i think and loads of stuff with Faile being carried on some Aiel's shoulders.
    That's about it :P

    The Malazan series took over my life for a few weeks after i read the first one. Have to go back and finish that now as well.


  • #5027
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,563 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Kiith wrote: »
    I think book 10 is where i stopped last time. I remember
    Egwene getting captured at the end i think and loads of stuff with Faile being carried on some Aiel's shoulders.
    That's about it :P

    The Malazan series took over my life for a few weeks after i read the first one. Have to go back and finish that now as well.

    That was literally, the most underwhelming spoiler ever written on the Internet.
    :pac:


  • #5028
    wyrn
    Registered Users Posts: 6,980 ✭✭✭wyrn


    I'm still waiting to get some free time to dig into Malazan series. I hadn't heard of it until someone in here put up that Gardens of the Moon was on sale in Dealz :D Still haven't started it because someone else said there are a lot of characters and I wanted to have a good run with the book, not just dip in and out. It's been that long since I bought the hardback in Dealz, that I also bought the ebook version when it was on sale. Hoping to finally start the series over Christmas.


  • #5029
    Trojan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,413 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    wyrn wrote: »
    I'm still waiting to get some free time to dig into Malazan series. I hadn't heard of it until someone in here put up that Gardens of the Moon was on sale in Dealz :D Still haven't started it because someone else said there are a lot of characters and I wanted to have a good run with the book, not just dip in and out.

    It's not that bad, just make sure you get a run at it - clear your schedule so you've got nothing on that decade, and keep 3 or 4 foolscap notebooks and a multipack of Bic biros so you can keep track of who's who.

    🎙️ The Recognized Authority Podcast



  • #5030
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Gardens definitely throws you in the deep end, but it's one of my favourite books of all time. I remember being on a train from Carlow to Newbridge while reading the last 100 or so pages, and missing my stop because i was so engrossed. I wasn't even mad, as it meant i had plenty of time to finish the book. It's an excellent book.


  • #5031
    machalla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭machalla


    I was wandering the shelves of a bookshop yesterday and came across various authors I've been intending to read "someday".


    Lucius Shepperd


    Christopher Priest

    Jeff Vandermeer

    Does anyone have any particular recommendations for books from these authors?

    Or who have you been meaning to get around reading that you just haven't quite managed yet.


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  • #5032
    Trojan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,413 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    Priest wrote The Prestige which was a pretty cool movie, but I haven't read the novel. One for The List!

    I started book 1 of Vandermeer's Southern Reach series but I couldn't really get into that and shelved it. It seemed a bit slow moving, more atmospheric than plot-driven, and I like me a good fast-paced plot. I recommend reading the Kindle free sample to find out if it's your kinda thing.

    🎙️ The Recognized Authority Podcast



  • #5033
    mcgovern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭mcgovern


    I read The Inverted World by Christopher Priest and found it very tough going and didn't like the ending.
    Also read Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) by Vandermeer. I thought this was also tough going (for different reasons) but I'd recommend it over The Inverted World (unless very sciencey sci-fi is your thing).


  • #5034
    Andy-Pandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Andy-Pandy


    Im on an extended holiday at the moment. Plenty of time to catch up on some reading . Finally got around to The Princess Bride, really enjoyed it. Read some Harry Bosch (Michael Connolly) books , i'm currently reading The Psychopath test by Jon Ronson, its grand. Im planning on reading the complete Dresden files (only ever listened to the audiobooks, highly recommended) and if i dont read the Mazalan books over the next five weeks i never will. Im getting through a book a day and its the thing that my dreams are made of.


  • #5035
    Bits_n_Bobs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Bits_n_Bobs


    Currently reading Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho and it's an almost perfect holiday read, nice pace, well written and fairly engaging. It's not really a page turner - more a gentle amble.

    Re-read The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin followed by the second in the series The Obelisk Gate. Both awesome books, intelligently written without being in the least intimidating. In short - go read both of them over Christmas and you can thank me in the New Year :)


  • #5036
    machalla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭machalla


    Andy-Pandy wrote: »
    Im on an extended holiday at the moment. Plenty of time to catch up on some reading . Finally got around to The Princess Bride, really enjoyed it. Read some Harry Bosch (Michael Connolly) books , i'm currently reading The Psychopath test by Jon Ronson, its grand. Im planning on reading the complete Dresden files (only ever listened to the audiobooks, highly recommended) and if i dont read the Mazalan books over the next five weeks i never will. Im getting through a book a day and its the thing that my dreams are made of.

    Living the dream!

    I wouldn't wish the Malazan on you but you may enjoy more than I did with any luck.

    The Dresden files are great. Check out the spin-off stories as well (Sidejobs, Backup). Even the graphic novels aren't bad. I miss the old covers for the books though. The American covers are awful.

    I just had a thought, any Christmas themed Sci-fi/Fantasy books anyone can recommend? The only one that springs to mind for me is Arthur C. Clarkes "The Star" short story and its a bit depressing really.


  • #5037
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,733 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    vasch_ro wrote: »
    Thanks read it and the next two on the strength of this, easy to read, and your right is roman legions in fantasy setting but its entertaining
    I have read and listened to the first three in the series and found them excellent. The prequel to the series, Stiger, is just released in time for my Christmas time off.


  • #5038
    Andy-Pandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Andy-Pandy


    Just started The handmaids tale by Margaret Atwood. I know little of Margaret Atwood except she is adamant she doesn't write science fiction. So far it's coming across as dystopian science fiction, I'm enjoying it but only 10% or so into it.


  • #5039
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Manach wrote: »
    I have read and listened to the first three in the series and found them excellent. The prequel to the series, Stiger, is just released in time for my Christmas time off.
    Downloaded last night. Thanks for that, I didn't know it had been released.


  • #5040
    mcgovern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭mcgovern


    machalla wrote: »
    Living the dream!

    I wouldn't wish the Malazan on you but you may enjoy more than I did with any luck.

    The Dresden files are great. Check out the spin-off stories as well (Sidejobs, Backup). Even the graphic novels aren't bad. I miss the old covers for the books though. The American covers are awful.

    I just had a thought, any Christmas themed Sci-fi/Fantasy books anyone can recommend? The only one that springs to mind for me is Arthur C. Clarkes "The Star" short story and its a bit depressing really.

    I'm reading Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather, which is somewhat Christmas (Hogswatch) themed.


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  • #5041
    Fian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭Fian


    Andy-Pandy wrote: »
    Just started The handmaids tale by Margaret Atwood. I know little of Margaret Atwood except she is adamant she doesn't write science fiction. So far it's coming across as dystopian science fiction, I'm enjoying it but only 10% or so into it.

    I think she is less adamant about that nowadays then she had been. She labels it "social science fiction" or "speculative fiction." She seems anxious to make it clear that her writing does not involve spaceships etc.

    The Oryx and Crake/maddadam/flood trilogy is also worth a read if you enjoy handmaids tale. in fact pretty much anything by Margaret Atwood is worth a read. the blind assassin is great.


  • #5042
    machalla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭machalla


    I'm taking a plunge on The Witcher books (Andrzej Sapkowski) just to see if they are any good. Knocked down in price on the kindle store at the moment.

    Maybe I'll dig out the Hogfather too since I haven't read that since it came out originally.


  • #5043
    shrapnel222
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    finished rereading diamond mask, the 2nd in the galactic milieu trilogy. Such a good read.

    now about 150 pages into the inheritance trilogy. this really has bags of potential. really enjoying it so far.


  • #5044
    Andy-Pandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Andy-Pandy


    I'm just about to start Gardens of the moon, im fairly sure i read it when it first came out. This series has been bothering me for years, im a big fantasy reader and have read all the great series. ill either be sucked in and read them all in the next week or two or i'll never try them again.


  • #5045
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    I've just finished Steiner which I really enjoyed, an enjoyable pace in the book though they are too short which is a pity.

    Onto Hunting the Eagles by Ben Kane which is more of an historical than a fantasy novel but in much the same category as Steiner. It's the story of an excursion across the Rhine to recover 3 lost Eagles by Romans ambushed in the forests. It's enjoyably simple for a Christmas read.


  • #5046
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    I've just finished Steiner which I really enjoyed, an enjoyable pace in the book though they are too short which is a pity.

    Onto Hunting the Eagles by Ben Kane which is more of an historical than a fantasy novel but in much the same category as Steiner. It's the story of an excursion across the Rhine to recover 3 lost Eagles by Romans ambushed in the forests. It's enjoyably simple for a Christmas read.

    Yep I enjoyed Ben Kane in the past,and I still have a couple of his books to read.If you like Ancient Rome,make sure to read Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem,or anything by Harry's Sidebottom.


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  • #5047
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    shrapnel222 wrote: »
    finished rereading diamond mask, the 2nd in the galactic milieu trilogy. Such a good read.

    now about 150 pages into the inheritance trilogy. this really has bags of potential. really enjoying it so far.


    Inheritance trilogy was my favourite read this year. Really worth your time.


  • #5048
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    There are 2 fantasy and one sci-fi trilogies called Inheritance, which one are ye recommending?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_Trilogy


  • #5049
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Thargor wrote: »
    There are 2 fantasy and one sci-fi trilogies called Inheritance, which one are ye recommending?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_Trilogy



    I'm talking about NK Jemisins inheritance trilogy


  • #5050
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,733 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Not quite SciFi, but the One second After book by Forschen. It is about the after-effects of an EMP attack on the US. Rather grim so far.


  • #5051
    Yareli Small Above
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Yareli Small Above


    Read the world walker which was great. I'm getting a little tired of typos and grammar issues in kindle books though.
    Read kate elliott's black wolves book 1, it's brilliant like her stuff usually is
    Read time rats as well, very entertaining


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