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Which book are you reading currently? #4

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by Taluntain, Oct 31, 2005.

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  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    No books in a while for me, I'm still trying to catch up on all my other "required" reading...
     
    Taluntain, Oct 31, 2005
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    I'm reading "The Bartimaeus Trilogy" and "The Keys To The Kingdom" series.
     
    shadow lurker, Nov 1, 2005
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    I suppose I should put in a plug for the Golden Age classic "The Weapon Shops of Isher" by A.E. van Vogt. My daughter was so knocked over by it that she tried to talk her high school English teacher into assigning it for the whole class. That didn't fly, needless to say. Still, it's more fun than "Beowulf".
     
    Cernak, Nov 1, 2005
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    aside from tons of required reading, I'm reading Confess, Fletch by Gregory Macdonald.
     
    Enagonios, Nov 1, 2005
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    I finished The Hard Way Up - the last couple stories were a bit stupid. I have started on book four - Spartan Planet.

    So far it is a big step up from the first three but given his track record on the first three books I am sure that Chandler will have found some really lame and stupid way to end the book.
     
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    Pyramids by Terry Pratchett. His books are hilarious.
     
    Elvenblade, Nov 1, 2005
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    Hmm, this "Magician" is a bit weak so far. How on earth did it get into the Top 100 books of all time?
     
    Harbourboy, Nov 1, 2005
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    The Butcher Boy by McCabe...funny at times, but mostly tragic.
     
    Uytuun, Nov 1, 2005
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    "Magician" is a great book. That trilogy by Feist is one of my favorites.
     
    Blackthorne TA, Nov 2, 2005
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    BTA, I hope it gets better then. I'm 200 pages in and yet to encounter anything other than a bunch of one-dimensional characters doing dull things (like travelling through a dangerous ancient dwarven mine tunnel because the mountain pass is snowed in - wonder where that idea came from?)
     
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    :lol: You remind me of this guy in highschool. I loaned him my "Riddlemaster" trilogy and told him they were good. True, the story started slowly, but ended up pretty good. Well, every day when I saw him he'd smile and say "Boooriiinng", and I'd tell him "Just wait, you'll see" and in the end he agreed with me :)

    Hopefully this will turn out the same. It has been many years since I've read "Magician", but I do remember it fondly :)
     
    Blackthorne TA, Nov 2, 2005
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    I agree with BTA: Feist's "Magician" is a great trilogy. But it's been 15 years since I've read them also. I not sure how they would hold up on a first reading today.
     
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    I just finished Garth Nix 'Abhorsen' series. Good stuff.
     
    Cúchulainn, Nov 2, 2005
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    JSBB: You seem to read an amazing amount of mediocre crap. Maybe you should try reviews or something first :p
     
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    @ Aikanaro - with the volume of books that I read it is inevitable that I will get a fair amount of crap - especially when I try new authors. Also, when it comes to books (and most other things actually) my mediocre/decent/good/excellent scale tends to be skewed higher than most people's. It is a very rare book indeed that would earn an excellent on my scale.

    I have finished book four (Spartan Planet) - for once Chandler's ending wasn't bad. Still, the same general idea was done a lot better by Lois McMaster Bujold in Ethan of Athos. I have started on book 5 - The Inheritors. So far it has fairly dull. I suppose that book 4's males only planet of homosexuals and book 5's matriarchal nudist society may have been controversial enough to support a book with relatively little plot back in the 70s but frankly I am not so easily impressed.
     
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    Chugging away at Sue Grafton's alphabet series. I'm halfway through 'C is for Corpse' and next up is 'E is for Evidence'.
     
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    @ kuemper - What happened to D?
     
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    @JSBB - D is in Deerlake :lol: Really, it's in Deerlake at that library and I can't be bothered requesting it.
     
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    The Illearth War - Stephen Donaldson
     
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    The Blue Dress -Libby Hawthorne (I think)
     
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