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  • Who here is a Dresden Files fan? I sure am.
    I'm what you call a fan, but I'm not a huge one. Read about 4 or 5 of the books and watched the show. I really enjoy contemporary fantasy stories.
  • The show is my personal holocaust.
  • I read Scott Pilgrim and am now reading Lost at Sea. I also reread Time and Temp so that I could run it; it's an rpg about temp workers traveling through time to fix anachronisms.
  • NECROMANCY

    Who here is a Dresden Files fan? I sure am.
    I just read the first two. Thought they were good. I'm totally going to read them all.

    But man, how the hell can anyone survive the beatings he gets?? He got PULVERISED in Fools moon! Dude should be fucking dead! :)
  • I just finished reading (well listening to) Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, which was a fantastic book. I really need to read more of his stuff (I've only read Snow Crash and Anathem so far.)
  • BlackJack count? It should.
  • Just curious, anyone know how to publicly share a google bookshelf? Would pose the whole "what I read and here are my thoughts on the matter" something worthwhile.
  • In the past three weeks I have devoured Robert Jordan's The Gathering Storm and The Towers of Midnight, from The Wheel of Time series. Now I have a little more than a year to wait for the release of the 14th and final book of the series, which I have been reading since I was 16. For those of you keeping score at home, that's almost exactly half my life.

    Some interesting totals from Wikipedia: The series has just over 11,000 pages and 14 million words. Listening to the audio books would take 17 days, 11 hours, 30 minutes.
  • In the past three weeks I have devoured Robert Jordan's The Gathering Storm and The Towers of Midnight
    I too have been reading that series for just as long. I haven't had the heart to read both of the books by Brandon Sanderson. They're sitting on my book shelf taunting me. Maybe after I finish with Hyperspace.
  • NECROMANCY

    Who here is a Dresden Files fan? I sure am.
    I just read the first two. Thought they were good. I'm totally going to read them all.

    But man, how the hell can anyone survive the beatings he gets?? He got PULVERISED in Fools moon! Dude should be fucking dead! :)
    Oh god there are so many things I'd like to say but won't for spoilers.
    1) Book 1 and 2 bear very little similarity to the series at large, it gets tremendously better.
    2) Harry's capacity for assbeatings is explained at some point quite satisfyingly.
    3) The Dresden Files is one series I encourage people to consume via audiobooks because of their overwhelming quality.
  • yeah, listening to the audiobooks. I really like the narrator. I think some people don't like his breathing, but I think it adds to the atmosphere.

    Almost through book 3, these books are so damn action packed, the action per page ratio is VERY high. Makes Sword of ice and fire series feel like molasses.
  • reading
    everything bad is good
    under the dome
    Insomnia
    Earth: a tourist's guide
    World wide Graffiti

    trying to find:
    A boy and his dog
    I have no mouth but i must scream
    Hyper space
    Scary stories to tell in the dark


    Don't even tell me to buy them online because the fun is in the adventure finding then across the globe.
  • Haven't visited this thread in a while, so to respond to that Star Wars Expanded Universe discussion from December:

    - The "Heir to the Empire" trilogy: sad that it hasn't held up. The reason this is always cited is because for many people it was the first thing they read in EU. It came out in 1991, way before Star Wars had its big resurgence. There were very very few other Star Wars novels at the time and it is largely credited with kicking off the EU, and once Lucas saw how successful it was, potentially causing enough of a snowball effect to result in the late-90s Star Wars mania. Among Star Wars fans it's a landmark series, but that doesn't mean it's good writing. Last time I read it was in junior high and it sounds like I'd be best not to revisit it.

    - The "Tale of..." series: I agree, avoid the Bounty Hunters one. It's mediocre while the Cantina and Jabba's Palace ones are superb. I love short story Star Wars, and these do an awesome job of not having the movie characters in them (a plus in my book), while dancing around the actual movie events to help ground them in the fiction.

    - "I, Jedi": Was awesome. Last great Star Wars book I read before I stopped. I agree that if you have enough time and are a big enough Star Wars nut, the Rogue Squadron books are essential pre-reading for this one.
  • FYI, Brian Jacques, who wrote the Redwall series, died on Saturday. I never read those books, but I understand they are fairly prominent juvenile fantasy novels.
  • edited February 2011
    FYI, Brian Jacques, who wrote theRedwallseries, died on Saturday. I never read those books, but I understand they are fairly prominent juvenile fantasy novels.
    Whoa. I was just reminiscing with my parents on Saturday about those books. It was definitely one of my favorites series in both grade and high schools. Crazy coincidence.
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  • Hey Dresden Files fans - I have a question. No spoilers please.

    Having just finished book 3 and loving it, I can't help but wonder does the series really take it up a notch?

    I don't mind "monster of the week" but I can see already with the universe Butcher created, that there is SO much potential for awesomeness.

    I just want to know, do you get to actually see the oft talked about white council at some point? Are there any multi-wizard fights?

    Like some serious, balls to the wall wizard action, possibly using the once mentioned "linking" to form a powerful group?

    Michael is a kick ass character, hope to see more of him too.

    Basically, does it ramp it up?
  • Brian Jacques, who wrote theRedwallseries, died on Saturday
    Ah bummer he was one of the first authors I actively followed.
    Starting on;
    the Lensman series, but is slow going.
    The Lies of Locke Lamora, again slow going really finding it hard to like the characters.
    The Complete Robot by Asimov.
    A history of the world in 100 objects by Neil MacGregor.
    Lost to the west by Lars Brownworth.
    Lord of the Rings series (again)

    Finished;
    Janisseries by Pournell.
    World war Z (was good the first time upon re-reads lost a lot of its shine)
    The Birghtonomicon by Robert Rankin (well listened)
    Trojan women (the Greek play)
    The history of the kings of Britain by Geoffery of momouth
    20,000 leauges under the sea
    Frankenstine
    Love and hate all people, Bill Hicks
    The Mists of Avalon
    (Many history books that are very dull for people who aren't as sad as I am and find interesting)
  • the Lensman series, but is slow going.
    The prose is so purple! I love what Lensman did for scifi and I have pulp copies of almost all of the books, but it's so hard to read.
  • Dammit, I read every Redwall book Jacques wrote for about 5 years. There goes my childhood.
  • It is tough, my girlfriend's Dad is an old school British nerd. He holds skills that are terrifying, and a library that is basically the spare room of books.
  • I just want to know, do you get to actually see the oft talked about white council at some point?
    Yes.
    Are there any multi-wizard fights?
    Yes.
    Like some serious, balls to the wall wizard action, possibly using the once mentioned "linking" to form a powerful group?
    Yes.
    Michael is a kick ass character, hope to see more of him too.
    Yes.
    Basically, does it ramp it up?
    Yes.
  • edited February 2011
    yeah, listening to the audiobooks. I really like the narrator. I think some people don't like his breathing, but I think it adds to the atmosphere.

    Almost through book 3, these books are so damn action packed, the action per page ratio is VERY high. Makes Sword of ice and fire series feel like molasses.
    The Dresden Files audiobooks are superior to the traditional reading experience because of James Marsters, he absolutely brings the characters to life in a way I've never heard anyone else do (and I'm quite the audiobook consumer).
    Having just finished book 3 and loving it, I can't help but wonder does the series really take it up a notch?
    The series changes tremendously starting at book 4, it changes in exactly the way you specifically seem to hope it'll change. Summer Knight, book 4, was the first book in the series I read and I was lucky because if I had started with book 1 and 2, I would have really had the wrong impression of the whole series.
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  • Oh shit, this is exactly what I wanted to hear :)
  • just finished alone against tomorrow. Felt good to read books back when they were good.
  • So I read Mogworld, I never seen a book start great and end so badly. It is the case of the first two chapters being awesome and the rest of it being the author repeating penis over and over again. Concept was awesome but the execution was terrible, he needed a ghost writer to help save it.
  • I haven't finished "Hyperspace" yet, mostly because I made the awesome yet terrible mistake of buying one of the TED books, "Reality is Broken", for mah kindle. It's a much more interesting read than Hyperspace. Sorry Rym.
  • I'm actually reading a Shadowrun novel right now...I know...I know!
  • Just finished The Appeal a few weeks ago, which officially clears me out of my John Grisham library. I'm bringing a couple of books with me on the long bus ride to Pax, and I need some suggestions on what to read first.
    Here's what I'm bringing:
    Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    Pride And Prejudice with Zombies
    A Game Of Thrones
    Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
  • Just finished The Appeal a few weeks ago, which officially clears me out of my John Grisham library. I'm bringing a couple of books with me on the long bus ride to Pax, and I need some suggestions on what to read first.
    Here's what I'm bringing:
    Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    Pride And Prejudice with Zombies
    A Game Of Thrones
    Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
    Hitchhiker's guide you will be in a place where people will be quoting it might as well get the reference
  • Hitchhiker's guide you will be in a place where people will be quoting it might as well get the reference
    At least read the first book. I enjoyed all of them, but there's no question that the first is the best.
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