A new reading thread.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1535528-what-books-are-you-reading-6/

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1511198-what-books-are-you-reading-5/

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1502784-what-books-are-you-reading-4/

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1482535-what-books-are-you-reading-3/

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1472256-what-books-are-you-reading-2/

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1466290-what-books-are-you-reading/

To kick it off, I just placed my order for the first two Witcher books, The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny. Now to wait until they arrive.

At 2037 yesterday evening I finished The Sword of the Lictor, volume three of Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun, and soon afterward began reading volume four, The Citadel of the Autarch.

i read anything neal stephenson (last one: "seveneves") and david marusek (last one: "mind over ship", sequel out soon from what i heard) release (which i never regretted), and whatever friends give me and tell me to read (which i regret about 2/3 of times, but the remaining third is worth keeping up the practice)

and generally, i prefer contemporary authors, and i rank them by some type of "interesting thoughts per page" ratio (you wouldn't believe how many authors this kicks out if you just set a minimum of 1 already

Still reading War and Peace in my Kindle Fire. I had resisted reading from a tablet for years because I'm old fashioned and stubborn, but man, I wish I started reading from a tablet years ago. I absolutely love it.

I left ASOIAF for too long, so I'm going to start again from the beginning and enjoy the series over the summer


I'm also reading Daughter of the Empire by Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts. It's a good book, but I feel at times the two authors' styles clash and at parts you can very much tell that one part was written by a man who writes short sentences and other parts were written by a woman who writes longer sentences. Both good styles, but it's a bit jarring to see the change sometimes from page to page and even sentence to sentence. But otherwise I'd give it a healthy 7.5/10

I thought Blood of Elves was the second Witcher book?

It's the third one, according to what I've read. It's also the first full novel of the series - the two before it are short story collections.

ETA - after doing a bit more reading, it looks like I was partly mistaken. Blood of Elves was the second book in the series that was published, but the third one in the story line progression.

Hello! It's been a really long time since I last read a book (sad I know) but I picked up one called Big Jack is Dead. It's by Harvey Smith, one of the guys behind Deus Ex and Dishonored. About family abuse and how that shapes a person. Almost done, haven't decided if I like it though.


I bought Dune at a used book store recently, I should read that soon too.

I've been debating about an e-reader (in my head) for about a year now. I wonder if I should "take the plunge", too...

for my part, i won't.

books age better than readers.