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OwaynOTT · 22-12-2017 07:31PM

Ok, so I got Oathbringer from my library after some wait. Bring it home and leave it on kitchen table.
Walk the dog and come to my girlfriend telling me I ruined Christmas.
She had bought it as present, can't even get books from the library now!
Also, I can't read it until Christmas Day!

Army_of_One · 22-12-2017 07:41PM

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Ok, so I got Oathbringer from my library after some wait. Bring it home and leave it on kitchen table.
Walk the dog and come to my girlfriend telling me I ruined Christmas.
She had bought it as present, can't even get books from the library now!
Also, I can't read it until Christmas Day!

lol hate that

alchemist33 · 22-12-2017 09:06PM

Have The Girl With All The Gifts for Christmas reading, and it's very good so far.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 22-12-2017 09:14PM

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Ok, so I got Oathbringer from my library after some wait. Bring it home and leave it on kitchen table.
Walk the dog and come to my girlfriend telling me I ruined Christmas.
She had bought it as present, can't even get books from the library now!
Also, I can't read it until Christmas Day!

Get a sample on the Kindle.

But don't tell her I told you:D

ixoy · 22-12-2017 11:18PM

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Ok, so I got Oathbringer from my library after some wait. Bring it home and leave it on kitchen table.
Walk the dog and come to my girlfriend telling me I ruined Christmas.
She had bought it as present, can't even get books from the library now!
Also, I can't read it until Christmas Day!

Sure you can't read that book, but you could look at a site such as this one...

OwaynOTT · 23-12-2017 10:29AM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Get a sample on the Kindle.

But don't tell her I told you:D

ixoy wrote: »

Sure you can't read that book, but you could look at a site such as this one...

That's dishonest, boo hiss!

smacl · 27-12-2017 05:59PM

Finished Freedom over the Christmas (sequel to Daemon). Like the original, very readable and entertaining but very much more of the first book. If you enjoyed the original (I did) worth a punt.

LionelNashe · 28-12-2017 06:30PM

Sleeping Beauties, by Stephen King; a christmas present.

david75 · 29-12-2017 06:44PM

I know I posted this already and I’m sorry but I sat down again last night and read this book again in one sitting. It really is astonishingly good. And I’m not overselling it. Do yourself a massive favour and get it. This is dying to be made into a tv series and apparently they have a sequel on the way. Get in on the ground floor. It’s like €3 on Amazon. I’m blown away with what they did here. Time travel never spoke to me at all. But I’ve never seen it done so well. Impact. Cause. Effect. Result. I could go on and on. Give it a go.

https://www.facebook.com/HindsightTheNovel/

ixoy · 31-12-2017 12:10AM

44% into Neal Asher's "Infinity Engine", the final book in his Transformations trilogy. Enjoyable as ever - I think Asher's ability at characterisation has improved over the years, evident in my liking a number of the characters. Plenty of high tech as well, although perhaps so far lacking a little in some of the high-octane action although I suspect that's going to change.

Thargor · 31-12-2017 12:53AM

Yeah his Polity stuff is brilliant. The Owner Trilogy is good aswell, massively overpopulated Earth run by a fascist world government.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 31-12-2017 02:30AM

Just finished book 3, The last mortal bond by Brian Staveley. Gladly finished as I might have a chance to get a sleep pattern back again.

Super story well told. The only weakness for me was Adares storyline. It seemed a bit stuck on and there to move the other storylines onwards.

Onto Shogun by James Clavell now, it's almost fantasy, dealing with a journey into an unknown society.

Tomorrow though, sleep beckons.

nhur · 02-01-2018 03:04PM

+1 for Clavell... Historical fiction... Dying to get to Hong Kong after reading Tai-Pan (set at the founding of HK) and the Noble House ( same dynastic family set in the 80s...and made into a watchable TV movie with pierce brosnan)

Army_of_One · 02-01-2018 09:27PM

nhur wrote: »

+1 for Clavell... Historical fiction... Dying to get to Hong Kong after reading Tai-Pan (set at the founding of HK) and the Noble House ( same dynastic family set in the 80s...and made into a watchable TV movie with pierce brosnan)

Shogun is one of my books that Ive read every 2/3 years since I was in my mid teens but could never click with the rest of the books in the series.

Shogun was made into a tv series with Richard Chamberlain...I remember it as being good but maybe it hasn't aged well

kirk buttercup · 03-01-2018 11:21AM

Liu Cixin - the wandering earth . I got it for Christmas and I'm really enjoying it .

smacl · 03-01-2018 05:00PM

kirk buttercup wrote: »

Liu Cixin - the wandering earth . I got it for Christmas and I'm really enjoying it .

Just started into The Three Body Problem last night and loving it.

ednwireland · 03-01-2018 05:02PM

Done with known space books. Reading dragons egg by Robert l forward.

mcgovern · 04-01-2018 08:48AM

ednwireland wrote: »

Done with known space books. Reading dragons egg by Robert l forward.

I quite liked Dragons Egg and also Liu Cixins Three Body Problem trilogy.

I finished Star Wars Thrawn which was ok, but if it wasn't about Thrawn I probably wouldn't have finished it.
Also read Star Wars Aftermath by Chuck Wendig which is set after the original trilogy but before The Force Awakens. It would also probably not have been finished if it wasn't Star Wars though I heard the series gets better.

On top of those I read The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard, which is set in Paris after a magical war involving fallen angels. I don't get the critical acclaim for this, the only thing it has going for it is an original setting (and even then we don't get to see more than one or two very small parts of Paris).
Then it was The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi, it was ok, better than any
of the above and I'll read the next one when it comes out.
All of that in a rush to reach my reading goal for the year of 50 books, but I just missed out.
I'm now reading The Scarab Path by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Book 5 in Shadows of the Apt series). Really liking it so far, centred around some of the main characters but there are also hints that the world is about to expand and I'll get to see some new types of Kinden.

Thargor · 04-01-2018 09:28AM

I thought that Thrawn book was complete and utter crap. Pointless boring story badly that read like bad fan fiction. Such a disappointment. The original Thrawn trilogy is still one of the best Sci fi series you can read though and I don't even like Star Wars.

nhur · 04-01-2018 10:58AM

Army_of_One wrote: »

Shogun was made into a tv series with Richard Chamberlain...I remember it as being good but maybe it hasn't aged well

I liked it - watched it a couple of years ago.. along with Tai-Pan and The Noble House (after reading the books, of course).

Army_of_One · 04-01-2018 11:42AM

nhur wrote: »

watched it a couple of years ago

must watch it again so..was hesitant cos I didn't want my memories of it to be ruined

david75 · 04-01-2018 12:57PM

That Star Wars aftermath trilogy is a real chore and it does improve after the first. It’s the low point of the new Star Wars canon. Bloodline(about Leia in the new republic and setting up the resistance) Lost stars, dark disciple, perfect weapon, Lords of the sith, Tarkin-all far better and worthy of your time.

stesaurus · 04-01-2018 01:51PM

Listening to the audiobook of Artemis. Ticking along nicely so far.

Rosario Dawson is a good fit as narrator but can't but help slipping into thinking I'm watching an episode of Archer, her voice is so similar to Aisha Tyler's Lana Kane. Or is it possible to be raciallly prejudice to a voice, haha

kirk buttercup · 05-01-2018 12:23AM

I have to say I'm loving Liu Cixin The Wandering earth. Really great surprise how good it is .

david75 · 05-01-2018 02:46AM

smacl wrote: »

Just started into The Three Body Problem last night and loving it.

I have this series and keep putting them off. I must get to them.

david75 · 05-01-2018 11:04PM

Just over a third the way through Three body problem.

Yeah. This book is mental.

Thargor · 06-01-2018 12:56AM

kirk buttercup wrote: »

I have to say I'm loving Liu Cixin The Wandering earth. Really great surprise how good it is .

Just ordered thanks, never heard of it and Ive read his other stuff.

lordgoat · 06-01-2018 11:39PM

Fire and Fury - Book 1 of a new series. Parallel universe in a dystopian United states who are under the control of a maniac overlord. Not sure where it's going. Tragically funny in places.

Nody · 07-01-2018 07:33AM

lordgoat wrote: »

Fire and Fury - Book 1 of a new series. Parallel universe in a dystopian United states who are under the control of a maniac overlord. Not sure where it's going. Tragically funny in places.

Are you sure it's a parallel universe and not someone's diary of the 2016 election?

Xofpod · 08-01-2018 09:29AM

Boy on the bridge, M.R. Carey. A big disappointment after the first book - just felt so unnecessary.

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