c - 13's Reading Log

c - 13 · 04-05-2008 10:32AM #1

So since the start of the year as far as I remember I havent finished one book. Sure i've started a lot of them but I havent finished any of them. So i'm hoping to improve on this (wouldnt be hard).

As of yesterday -

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood

Currently Reading -
Book 2 - Hearts Blood

These are fairly short books coming in at only about 100 pages a piece, which is pretty much why I chose them. Lets me ease back in to reaing.

I've also managed to make my reading easier by obtaining them in ebook format and reading them on my mobile. Makes it much easier to get a chapter or two in when waiting for something !

c - 13 · 04-05-2008 05:50PM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood

Currently Reading -
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

c - 13 · 05-05-2008 11:41AM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

Thoughts:
Whilst not a very bad read not something I would either recommend or return to. The third book was a bit of a slog as I found it pretty uninteresting. Very easy reading throughout and a nice way to let me take up my reading quota.

Although I know its aimed at "Young Adult" readers I had hoped it to be a bit like His Dark Materials in that it worked on a couple of levels, sadly not. Oh well a start is a start !

Currently Reading -
James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire

c - 13 · 13-05-2008 05:44AM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire

Currently Reading -
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm

Thoughts:
This series is'nt gripping me all that much, its very by the books in terms of content. Heroine coming of age develops magical powers, prophecies and her going off to overthrow some dark lord. I've started it so ill try to finish it out, but to be honest trying to finish of the first book even seemed a fair amount of effort. Also the Author seems to have some love interest with apostrophes and uses them in every second characters name, place name and so on. Which can pet pretty damn annoying.

c - 13 · 01-06-2008 07:59AM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm

Currently Reading -
Book 3 - Wit'ch War

Thoughts:
Still not gripping me, ill finish the entire series out though if I can. Its been slow going due to the lack of interest in the books. Hopefully I can pick up something decent after this lot.

Also jumping in and out of Malazan Book of the fallen 1 - Gardens of the Moon. Think this is my second time trying to read this one ? Gets an awful lot of praise but i'm finding it a bit of a struggle to get into it unfortunately

c - 13 · 10-06-2008 12:05PM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War

Currently Reading -
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate

Thoughts:
Got through this one a little faster than the others I think, so thats good. Looking forward to finishing out this series at this stage. I'm unsure as to what to start on after this though.

Beruthiel · 10-06-2008 12:14PM

c - 13 wrote: »

Also jumping in and out of Malazan Book of the fallen 1 - Gardens of the Moon. Think this is my second time trying to read this one ? Gets an awful lot of praise but i'm finding it a bit of a struggle to get into it unfortunately

I just had to comment on this.
I read that book in a week. Couldn't put it down.
Are you by any chance still in the first 100 pages or so? If that's the case it really kick starts at around 110 or so.
Am on the 3rd book at the moment and they are just getting better and better!

c - 13 · 10-06-2008 12:47PM

Beruthiel wrote: »

I just had to comment on this.
I read that book in a week. Couldn't put it down.
Are you by any chance still in the first 100 pages or so? If that's the case it really kick starts at around 110 or so.
Am on the 3rd book at the moment and they are just getting better and better!

I know I was surprised that I couldn't get into it myself after reading so many good reviews. I think i'm somewhere in the high 200's page wise ?

I'll give it my full attention after I finish off the current series. I have the first two of the malazan in paperback and the rest of the series on ebook format I think.

Its excellently written but I just didn't find it captivating me for some reason. Hopefully it will pick up as I get to the second book though. I'm still looking for something to rival a song of ice and fire

c - 13 · 14-06-2008 11:19AM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War

Neil Strauss - The Game

Currently Reading -
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate

Thoughts:
So I fancied a change of scenery this week, something completely different to break up the series of books i'm currently reading. So after seeing people raving about it around boards and in other places I got my hands on a copy of Neil Strauss' - The Game. Supposedly a work of non-fiction that delves into the world of so-called "pick up artists".

Not normally what i'd read at all. I went through it at a reasonable pelt, I found it surprisingly interesting but not something i'd go back to. I have reasonable doubts that this is a non-fiction work, unsurprisingly.

Cringe-worthy mind chewing gum is what i'm going to have to call on this one I think. At least ill know what people are saying on the (multiple) threads on AH and the like that reference the book now though

c - 13 · 29-06-2008 03:15PM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War

Neil Strauss - The Game

George Orwell - 1984

Currently Reading -
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate

Thoughts:
So I fancied a change of scenery again this week, I'd been meaning to get around to reading 1984 with a long time so I decided to give it a shot. I haven't read a book like this in quite a long time. Interesting, quite shocking in places and definitely one to make the reader think. I think this should be recommended reading for anyone who hasn't already.

Back to the 4th Banned and Banished book now. I will get through those eventually.

c - 13 · 30-06-2008 02:19PM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War

Neil Strauss - The Game

George Orwell - 1984

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Currently Reading -
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate

Thoughts:
Another one off my "To Read List". For the most part I found 2001 to be very interesting, however due to my own faults of not reading Sci-fi very much I found the imagery very hard to visualise at times and as a result founf the last 1/3 of the book tough enough reading.

The famous scene with HAL will forever remain as one of the most tense passages I have ever read.

I have the sequels 2010, 2061 and 3001 as well but am unsure if I will continue with them ?

Can anyone who has read them tell me if they are worth continuing with ?

c - 13 · 01-07-2008 12:33PM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War

Neil Strauss - The Game

George Orwell - 1984

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Currently Reading -
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate

Thoughts:
Yet another I have been meaning to read with a long time. Possibly the most interesting of all the ones I have read so far to be truthful. "Androids" did take me a bit to get into (possibly the futuristic concept again, I seem to have problem getting my head around those initially for some reason) but once it got moving I couldn't put it down. Very interesting and quite fast paced.

c - 13 · 03-07-2008 06:19AM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War

Neil Strauss - The Game

George Orwell - 1984

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Series
Book 1 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Currently Reading -
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate

c - 13 · 03-07-2008 09:20AM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War

Neil Strauss - The Game

George Orwell - 1984

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Series
Book 1 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Book 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Currently Reading -
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate

Thoughts -
Didn't find this one as good as the first book. Still enjoyable just not quite as enjoyable. Will start on the third one now I think.

c - 13 · 14-07-2008 05:44AM

c - 13 wrote: »

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate

Neil Strauss - The Game

George Orwell - 1984

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Series
Book 1 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Book 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Currently Reading -
Book 5 - Wit'ch Star

Thoughts -
Finished book 4 a few days ago but just never got around to updating this log. Broke my own mini-goal of reaching the double firures read too (just never noticed). Looking forward to finishing out this series (hopefully during the next week). Unsure what to start next though.

c - 13 · 20-07-2008 08:02AM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate
Book 5 - Wit'ch Star

Neil Strauss - The Game

George Orwell - 1984

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Series
Book 1 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Book 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Currently Reading -
R. Scott Bakker - The Prince of Nothing Trilogy
Book 1 - The Darkness That Comes Before

Thoughts -
Glad to be finished that Banned and Banished series. Didnt do it for me at all really and was a bit of a struggle to finish out. Very predictable reading too.

Have heard some people recommend the prince of nothing series so giving that a blast now. Too early on to form an opinion on it as of yet.

c - 13 · 16-09-2008 07:28AM

Arise From the ashes you phoenix

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate
Book 5 - Wit'ch Star

Neil Strauss - The Game

George Orwell - 1984

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Series
Book 1 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Book 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

R. Scott Bakker - The Prince of Nothing Trilogy
Book 1 - The Darkness That Comes Before

George RR Martin - A Song of Ice & Fire
Book 1 - A Game of Thrones

Currently Reading -
Book 2 - A Clash of Kings

Thoughts -
Havent been reading at all recently so I though i'd give myself a little bump back into it be reading one of my favorite series again. Absolutely love these books. Have also got a copy of "The Hedge Knight" spin off which I havent read before so i'm looking forward to that. Going to finish off the main series first just to refresh my memory though.

c - 13 · 18-10-2008 02:25PM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate
Book 5 - Wit'ch Star

Neil Strauss - The Game

George Orwell - 1984

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Series
Book 1 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Book 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

R. Scott Bakker - The Prince of Nothing Trilogy
Book 1 - The Darkness That Comes Before

George RR Martin - A Song of Ice & Fire
Book 1 - A Game of Thrones
Book 2 - A Clash of Kings

Currently Reading -
West of Jesus - Steven Kotler

Thoughts -
Decided to take a break from the fantasy/sci-fi for a bit and started this one last night. Very easy reading, plus I'm moving quite quickly through it because its mostly based on a subject that I love

Finding I'm reading a lot less recently for some reason. I must try to make more time but the only chance I get at the moment is when I'm in bed.

c - 13 · 19-10-2008 03:40PM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate
Book 5 - Wit'ch Star

Neil Strauss - The Game

George Orwell - 1984

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Series
Book 1 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Book 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

R. Scott Bakker - The Prince of Nothing Trilogy
Book 1 - The Darkness That Comes Before

George RR Martin - A Song of Ice & Fire
Book 1 - A Game of Thrones
Book 2 - A Clash of Kings

Clive Barker - Books of Blood
Books of Blood - Volume 1

Currently Reading -
West of Jesus - Steven Kotler

Thoughts -
Just picked Books of blood today, wanted to read midnight meat train after seeing the film and just finished it off. Quite good, short though. I may return to the other books in the series at a later date.

c - 13 · 25-11-2008 05:53AM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate
Book 5 - Wit'ch Star

Neil Strauss - The Game

George Orwell - 1984

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Series
Book 1 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Book 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

R. Scott Bakker - The Prince of Nothing Trilogy
Book 1 - The Darkness That Comes Before

George RR Martin - A Song of Ice & Fire
Book 1 - A Game of Thrones
Book 2 - A Clash of Kings
Book 3 - A Storm of Swords
Clive Barker - Books of Blood
Books of Blood - Volume 1

Currently Reading -
West of Jesus - Steven Kotler

Thoughts -
Moved away from West of Jesus for a while (depressing me a bit) and went back to RR Martin - A Storm of Swords. I love those books. Going between West of Jesus and A Feast for Crows at the moment.

c - 13 · 08-01-2009 05:57AM

Books Finished -
Jame Yolen - Pit Dragon Trilogy
Book 1 - Dragons Blood
Book 2 - Hearts Blood
Book 3 - A Sending of Dragons

James Clemens - The Banned & The Banished (5 Books)
Book 1 - Wit'ch Fire
Book 2 - Wit'ch Storm
Book 3 - Wit'ch War
Book 4 - Wit'ch Gate
Book 5 - Wit'ch Star

Neil Strauss - The Game

George Orwell - 1984

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy Series
Book 1 - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Book 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

R. Scott Bakker - The Prince of Nothing Trilogy
Book 1 - The Darkness That Comes Before

George RR Martin - A Song of Ice & Fire
Book 1 - A Game of Thrones
Book 2 - A Clash of Kings
Book 3 - A Storm of Swords
Book 4 - A Feast For Crows

Clive Barker - Books of Blood
Books of Blood - Volume 1

West of Jesus - Steven Kotler

White Line Fever - Lemmy Kilmister

Have been away from boards for a while so thats my total books read from log start to the End of 2008 (leaving me with a total of 22 books read). Ill be starting a new list in the same format for 2009 in my next post.

c - 13 · 08-01-2009 06:20AM

Books Finished -

None At Present

Currently Reading -
Terry Goodkind - The Sword of Truth Series
Book 1 - Wizards First Rule

Thoughts -
This is another re-read for me. I read the initial 5/6 books before the series was complete. Went back to finish it when the series was finally done but got annoyed with it while trying to re-read the first ones so gave up. Going to finish it off this time, just to say I finished the series. Its still a bit grating though.

Hopefully my total books read this year should be well up thanks to the ebook reader my lovely g/f got me for xmas. Bloody delighted with that so I was.

c - 13 · 21-01-2009 04:46AM

Books Finished -
Terry Goodkind - The Sword of Truth Series
Book 1 - Wizards First Rule

George RR Martin - The Hedge Knight

Currently Reading -
Book 2 - Stone of Tears

c - 13 · 09-02-2009 11:35AM

Stuck in a bit of a rut at the moment. My ebook reader took a tumble that destroyed the screen and i've no paperbacks with me (not at usual living quarters) there's also no bookshops within a feasible distance.

I got so desperate I read a copy of Twilight someone had around the house and i'm starting on the second one now

c - 13 · 25-02-2009 04:37AM

Books Finished -
Terry Goodkind - The Sword of Truth Series
Book 1 - Wizards First Rule

George RR Martin - The Hedge Knight

Stephanie Meyer
Twilight
New Moon
(Cant continue with these, even if they were free, not to my taste at all)

Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Education Of A Body Builder

Currently On Hold -
Book 2 - Stone of Tears

Currently In Progress -
Bill Hicks: Love all the people
George RR Martin - Dream Songs
Luke Rienhart - The Dice Man
L. E. Modesitt, Jr. - Saga Of Recluse Book 1: The Magic Of Recluse

c - 13 · 08-03-2009 10:51AM

Books Finished -
Terry Goodkind - The Sword of Truth Series
Book 1 - Wizards First Rule

George RR Martin - The Hedge Knight

Stephanie Meyer - Twilight Series
Book 1 - Twilight
Book 2 - New Moon

Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Education Of A Body Builder

Luke Rhinehart - The Dice Man
This was only okay, think I may have hyped it up quite a bit in my head before reading due to all the recommendations I had seen on the Lit. board. I'm going to give the sequel a blast now as well.

Currently On Hold -
Book 2 - Stone of Tears

Currently In Progress -
Bill Hicks: Love all the people
George RR Martin - Dream Songs
Luke Rhinehart - Search For The Dice Man
L. E. Modesitt, Jr. - Saga Of Recluse
Book 1: The Magic Of Recluse

My younger brother recently got me reading graphic novels, always thought of them as kiddy comic things but with Watchmen coming up I decided to dig it up and have a read and I have to say I think these might be overlooked by a lot of people just because they are in an animated form (I ashamedly was in that camp myself until recently). Going to track these seperately from my main novels list as I intend to read quite a few of these over the course of the year too

Graphic Novels Finished -
Watchmen

Graphic Novels To Read -
Maus

c - 13 · 21-03-2009 07:04AM

Books Finished -
Terry Goodkind - The Sword of Truth Series
Book 1 - Wizards First Rule

George RR Martin - The Hedge Knight

Stephanie Meyer - Twilight Series
Book 1 - Twilight
Book 2 - New Moon

Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Education Of A Body Builder

Luke Rhinehart - The Dice Man

L. E. Modesitt, Jr. - Saga Of Recluse
Book 1: The Magic Of Recluse

Really not sure what to make of this one. It left me with a feeling of "WTF, is that it ?". There was no character development, a hell of a lot going on that didnt really have anything to do with any kind of plot (which was barely existant in the first place). Yet and for all that i've started reading the second book in the series, ill decide if i'm goign to stick with it or not then, there's 15 books in the series but i'm already feeling doubtful ill make it the entire way through them all.

Currently On Hold -
Book 2 - Stone of Tears

Currently In Progress -
Book 2: The Towers of the Sunset
Bill Hicks: Love all the people
George RR Martin - Dream Songs
Luke Rhinehart - Search For The Dice Man

Graphic Novels Finished -
Watchmen

Graphic Novels In Progress -
Maus[/QUOTE]

c - 13 · 24-03-2009 10:36AM

Books Finished -
Terry Goodkind - The Sword of Truth Series
Book 1 - Wizards First Rule

George RR Martin - The Hedge Knight

Stephanie Meyer - Twilight Series
Book 1 - Twilight
Book 2 - New Moon

Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Education Of A Body Builder

Luke Rhinehart - The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart - The Search For The Dice Man

L. E. Modesitt, Jr. - Saga Of Recluse
Book 1: The Magic Of Recluse

Currently On Hold -
Book 2 - Stone of Tears

Currently In Progress -
Book 2: The Towers of the Sunset
Bill Hicks: Love all the people
George RR Martin - Dream Songs
Yann Martel - The Life Of Pi

Graphic Novels Finished -
Watchmen

Graphic Novels In Progress -
Maus

Finished search for the diceman, enjoyed mroe than the original I think, might just be because it seemed a bit more structured to read, a little short though and the ending was pretty abrupt.

Starting on "The Life of Pi" now, have seen it recommended a lot on the Literature board so thought i'd give it a go.

c - 13 · 02-04-2009 10:51AM

Books Finished -
Terry Goodkind - The Sword of Truth Series
Book 1 - Wizards First Rule

George RR Martin - The Hedge Knight

Stephanie Meyer - Twilight Series
Book 1 - Twilight
Book 2 - New Moon

Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Education Of A Body Builder

Luke Rhinehart - The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart - The Search For The Dice Man

L. E. Modesitt, Jr. - Saga Of Recluse
Book 1: The Magic Of Recluse

Yann Martel - The Life Of Pi

Currently On Hold -
Book 2 - Stone of Tears

Currently In Progress -
Book 2: The Towers of the Sunset
Bill Hicks: Love all the people
George RR Martin - Dream Songs
The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Graphic Novels Finished -
Watchmen

Graphic Novels In Progress -
Maus

Just finished "The Life of Pi". Really enjoyed it, its got such a great style to it and is an absolute pleasure to read even though the narrative style bogged me down a bit for the first few chapters until I got used to it. For a book that is set in such a restrictive environment too it doesnt get old. I particularly enjoyed

The two variations of the story he told to the Japanese in the last few chapters, thought that was a fantastic idea

. Definatly a book that I would recommend.

Going to begin Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" now based on another users post on the literature board again.

c - 13 · 08-04-2009 01:21PM

Books Finished -
Terry Goodkind - The Sword of Truth Series
Book 1 - Wizards First Rule

George RR Martin - The Hedge Knight

Stephanie Meyer - Twilight Series
Book 1 - Twilight
Book 2 - New Moon

Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Education Of A Body Builder

Luke Rhinehart - The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart - The Search For The Dice Man

L. E. Modesitt, Jr. - Saga Of Recluse
Book 1: The Magic Of Recluse

Yann Martel - The Life Of Pi

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Currently On Hold -
Book 2 - Stone of Tears

Currently In Progress -
Book 2: The Towers of the Sunset
Bill Hicks: Love all the people
George RR Martin - Dream Songs

Graphic Novels Finished -
Watchmen

Graphic Novels In Progress -
Maus

Finished "The Road" just now, quite short but good nonetheless. A very disjointed (or want of a better word) writing style though which I found broke the book down a bit and didnt allow it to flow properly. Which seemed to suit the style of the book anyway. Some excellent imagery too the awful

image of the infant being cooked

is one that will be at the back of my mind for a whiel I reckon.

Should finish up on Love all the people later today too.

Think ill leave the Saga of Recluse books too (may or may not finish this one). I just cant make myself like them at all. They're the sort of books where you hate all the characters and dont really care what they do and as a result really detaches you from the book.

c - 13 · 29-04-2009 05:55AM

Books Finished -
Terry Goodkind - The Sword of Truth Series
Book 1 - Wizards First Rule

George RR Martin - The Hedge Knight

Stephanie Meyer - Twilight Series
Book 1 - Twilight
Book 2 - New Moon

Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Education Of A Body Builder

Luke Rhinehart - The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart - The Search For The Dice Man

L. E. Modesitt, Jr. - Saga Of Recluse
Book 1: The Magic Of Recluse

Yann Martel - The Life Of Pi

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Bill Hicks: Love all the people

Currently On Hold -
George RR Martin - Dream Songs

Currently In Progress -
Book 2 - Stone of Tears
John Krakauer - Into The Wild

Graphic Novels Finished -
Watchmen

Graphic Novels In Progress -
Maus

Books Unfinished -
Book 2: The Towers of the Sunset

Just cant bring myself to like this series at all. Should probably have guessed that from the first book, it doesnt say a lot about it when your favorite character is a donkey ...

EBook reader has now been replaced so i'm going back tt finish the sword of truth series.

Also accidentally left my copy of Dreamsongs in Ireland so thats gone on hold for the minute

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