[Mentalist]

Starling, on 03 January 2014 - 07:46 AM, said:

Geez, Ment makes us all look like under-achievers.

That's only b/c KSC doesn't do a list. Instead, he lists a dozen new books every week he posts in the "Reading a t' moment?" thread,

[Coco with marshmallows]

aiming for about 1 a week, of which I hope for over 70% to be new books (a fellow has to have his occasional re-reads of an old favourite).

[Tsundoku]

Once it has been deemed safe enough for me to get my books out of the boxes in the garage, I resolve to get into the large amount that I own that I haven't finished or even started yet.

By "safe" I mean "safe from the toddler", whose chief method of investigation involves chewing anything and everything.

[Aptorian]

You should take it to the vet and get it defanged. And declawed while you are at it, I've heard toddler fingernails can cut through flesh like a hot knife through butter.

[End of Disc One]

Oh are we doing resolutions for 2014 now? Mine is simply to end the year with a smaller TRP than I currently have. Right now I have 23 books to read and currently reading. That doesn't include any sequels that come after books in my TRP. So I want to knock more books off my list than add.

As for particular books, I would like to finally dab into Stover's CoCaine.

[Kruppe's snacky cakes]

Will read the next book in the following series:

Ringworld
The Wheel of Time
Codex Alera
The Wolfblade Trilogy
Sword of Truth (sorry, anti-Goodkinders)
A Song of Ice and Fire
The Dark Tower
Malazan, of course (will be Dust of Dreams)
Shannara
The Percheron Saga
The Instrumentalities of the Night
Sword of Shadows
Mistborn
Kate Connor, Demon Hunter
The Wicked Years
Odd Thomas
Repairman Jack
Ender
Spellman Mysteries
The Night Angel Trilogy
Crossroads
Adventures of Zachary Nixon Johnson
The Psalms of Isaak
Millennium Trilogy
The Books of the Elements
Stormlord
Travis Chase
Corvis Rebaine
The World House
Heart of the World
The Outcast Chronicles
The Ancient Blades Trilogy
The Kingkiller Chronicles
Daniel X
The Hunger Games
Morlock Ambrosius
Chronicles of the Raven
The Gideon Trilogy
Skulduggery Pleasant
100 Cupboards
Gone
Tiffany Aching
The Berinfell Prophecies
Eli Monpress
Green
Super Human
Bright Empires
Dragoneye
An Ancient Earth

Will begin the following series:

Saga of the Exiles
The Saga of Seven Suns
The Dreaming Void
Dragon Age
Safehold
Marsbound
The Black Sun's Daughter
Lightbringer
The Dagger and the Coin
The Expanse
The Riyria Revelations
A Shifted World
The Klaatu Diskos
Silo Saga
Echoes of Empire

Will find a mashup novel I like...knocks on wood. Les Miserablezombies, why hasn't anyone written you yet?

[Overactive Imagination]

Read less fantasy and more history and non-fiction. That's basically it!

[cortezthekiller]

• Read the first three Malazan Book of the Fallen Books - I've nearly completed GotM
• Read Ulysses

I'll read a ton of other stuff as well, but that's what I'll set out to do.

[Coco with marshmallows]

I Am Brian Blessed Not Brent Weeks, on 03 January 2014 - 01:38 PM, said:

aiming for about 1 a week, of which I hope for over 70% to be new books (a fellow has to have his occasional re-reads of an old favourite).

So far slightly ahead of the game:

The Iron King, Maurice Druon (first in the series, new for me)
Ex Purgatory, Peter Clines (fourth in the series, new for me)
The Clown Service, Guy Adams (first in a newly started series, new for me)
Gallow - The Crimson Shield, Nathan Hawke [possibly the coolest author name ever. Sounds like an 80's action movie hero..... Arnold Schwarzenegger IS Nathan Hawke!] (first in the series, new for me)

So, 24 days in, 4 new books read

[Binder of Demons]

Abyss, on 02 January 2014 - 03:43 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 02 January 2014 - 02:46 PM, said:

Abyss, on 02 January 2014 - 02:40 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 01 January 2014 - 08:45 PM, said:

hmmm. all right let's do a 2014 list.
...
Series to finish:
...
Alan Campbell, Deepgate trilo
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Ment'.... if you ever believed anything i've ever told you, believe this: it's not worth it.

this anti-reco will be taken under most serious consideration

Related discussion over the the READING AT T'MOMENT thread forces me to clarify that the first book likely is worth reading, the second radically less so and the third will just make you self-angry for having read the second and then forcing yourself to read the third.

I bailed after the 2nd book, and have resisted the usually strong desire to complete a series, since it fell away in quality. Some great ideas in the first book though.

[Chaeone]

Just finished listening to the audio book of "Ready Player One" by Earnest Cline. It's read by Will Wheaton and is an absolute blast. Highly recommended to everyone, the plot is bananas, the premise is also crazy and its ridiculous fun. I don't want to even try to give a description of what its about because i don't want to spoil anything for anyone, but trust me when i say, your inner nerd will thank you for reading or listening to it. Simply amazing.

[Baco Xtath]

Chaeone, on 25 January 2014 - 04:54 PM, said:

Just finished listening to the audio book of "Ready Player One" by Earnest Cline. It's read by Will Wheaton and is an absolute blast. Highly recommended to everyone, the plot is bananas, the premise is also crazy and its ridiculous fun. I don't want to even try to give a description of what its about because i don't want to spoil anything for anyone, but trust me when i say, your inner nerd will thank you for reading or listening to it. Simply amazing.

Definitely seconding this. Such a fun listen. I restricted myself to only listening to this one while working out and I ended up putting in 2 hrs every day for a week.

[Abyss]

Binder of Demons, on 24 January 2014 - 10:52 PM, said:

Quote

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Series to finish:
...
Alan Campbell, Deepgate trilo
...

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I bailed after the 2nd book, and have resisted the usually strong desire to complete a series, since it fell away in quality. Some great ideas in the first book though.

I know!That's what's so irritating about it.

[Chaeone]

Baco Xtath, on 25 January 2014 - 06:50 PM, said:

Chaeone, on 25 January 2014 - 04:54 PM, said:

Just finished listening to the audio book of "Ready Player One" by Earnest Cline. It's read by Will Wheaton and is an absolute blast. Highly recommended to everyone, the plot is bananas, the premise is also crazy and its ridiculous fun. I don't want to even try to give a description of what its about because i don't want to spoil anything for anyone, but trust me when i say, your inner nerd will thank you for reading or listening to it. Simply amazing.

Definitely seconding this. Such a fun listen. I restricted myself to only listening to this one while working out and I ended up putting in 2 hrs every day for a week.

Baco, would you mind putting together a list of good audiobooks you've listened to? After seeing some of your postsin other discussions, i think i might have similar tastes to you. the only audiobook i've listened to is Ready Player One, but i want them for the gym, as i'm in the same boat as you, will work out much longer when listening to something good.

[Baco Xtath]

Chaeone, on 06 February 2014 - 07:43 PM, said:

Baco Xtath, on 25 January 2014 - 06:50 PM, said:

Chaeone, on 25 January 2014 - 04:54 PM, said:

Just finished listening to the audio book of "Ready Player One" by Earnest Cline. It's read by Will Wheaton and is an absolute blast. Highly recommended to everyone, the plot is bananas, the premise is also crazy and its ridiculous fun. I don't want to even try to give a description of what its about because i don't want to spoil anything for anyone, but trust me when i say, your inner nerd will thank you for reading or listening to it. Simply amazing.

Definitely seconding this. Such a fun listen. I restricted myself to only listening to this one while working out and I ended up putting in 2 hrs every day for a week.

Baco, would you mind putting together a list of good audiobooks you've listened to? After seeing some of your postsin other discussions, i think i might have similar tastes to you. the only audiobook i've listened to is Ready Player One, but i want them for the gym, as i'm in the same boat as you, will work out much longer when listening to something good.

I started Daemon by Daniel Suarez three days ago and am almost done am now 5 hrs into book two. Sort of the same vein as Ready Player One but much more violent, more obscene....etc but really good. John Dies at the End and the sequel are both fantastic stuff. Sort of comedy/horror/sci-fi mishmash but pure fun.

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is a fantastic narrator that makes the Peter Grant books (starting with Midnight Riot/Rivers of London) and Blue Remembered Earth a listening experience that is unbelievable.

But a lot depends on what you're in the mood for so by genre my favorites are (quality of performance included):

Sci Fi:
Thirte3n (or Black Man)
All Banks
All Reynolds
the Gap Cycle (very intense)
the Quantum Thief and sequel (but you really have to pay attention)

Fantasy:
Name of the Wind (Nick Podehl is probably my favorite narrator)
Blood Song
Dresden Files
Peter Grant series
Acts of Caine (though the narrator takes some getting used to)

General Speculative Fiction/New Weird:
Finch (fantastic listen)
Milkweed Triptych
the Troupe
Anansi's Boys
Neverwhere
Crooked Little Vein
the Gone-Away World
14

[Macros]

I had planned a year of zero rereads (I do an inordinate amount of rereading) but hit my old faithful empire trilogy again two weeks ago.
aside from that little speed wobble, I'm going back on the new stuff for the rest of 2014. Unless, like, possibly, somehow, Lord of the Silver Bow happens to find its way off the shelf again

[Chaeone]

Baco Xtath, on 06 February 2014 - 09:31 PM, said:

Chaeone, on 06 February 2014 - 07:43 PM, said:

Baco Xtath, on 25 January 2014 - 06:50 PM, said:

Chaeone, on 25 January 2014 - 04:54 PM, said:

Just finished listening to the audio book of "Ready Player One" by Earnest Cline. It's read by Will Wheaton and is an absolute blast. Highly recommended to everyone, the plot is bananas, the premise is also crazy and its ridiculous fun. I don't want to even try to give a description of what its about because i don't want to spoil anything for anyone, but trust me when i say, your inner nerd will thank you for reading or listening to it. Simply amazing.

Definitely seconding this. Such a fun listen. I restricted myself to only listening to this one while working out and I ended up putting in 2 hrs every day for a week.

Baco, would you mind putting together a list of good audiobooks you've listened to? After seeing some of your postsin other discussions, i think i might have similar tastes to you. the only audiobook i've listened to is Ready Player One, but i want them for the gym, as i'm in the same boat as you, will work out much longer when listening to something good.

I started Daemon by Daniel Suarez three days ago and am almost done am now 5 hrs into book two. Sort of the same vein as Ready Player One but much more violent, more obscene....etc but really good. John Dies at the End and the sequel are both fantastic stuff. Sort of comedy/horror/sci-fi mishmash but pure fun.

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is a fantastic narrator that makes the Peter Grant books (starting with Midnight Riot/Rivers of London) and Blue Remembered Earth a listening experience that is unbelievable.

But a lot depends on what you're in the mood for so by genre my favorites are (quality of performance included):

Sci Fi:
Thirte3n (or Black Man)
All Banks
All Reynolds
the Gap Cycle (very intense)
the Quantum Thief and sequel (but you really have to pay attention)

Fantasy:
Name of the Wind (Nick Podehl is probably my favorite narrator)
Blood Song
Dresden Files
Peter Grant series
Acts of Caine (though the narrator takes some getting used to)

General Speculative Fiction/New Weird:
Finch (fantastic listen)
Milkweed Triptych
the Troupe
Anansi's Boys
Neverwhere
Crooked Little Vein
the Gone-Away World
14

Thanks a million, I think i'll start with Banks then, reading Consider Phlebus on and off recently, but I might just get the audiobooks and go from there, I loved Player of Games, one of my all time favorites, so Banks it is, but i'm going to have to save this list

If I come across anything worth recommending, i'll let you know, and thanks again

[Coco with marshmallows]

I Am Brian Blessed Not Brent Weeks, on 24 January 2014 - 10:26 PM, said:

I Am Brian Blessed Not Brent Weeks, on 03 January 2014 - 01:38 PM, said:

aiming for about 1 a week, of which I hope for over 70% to be new books (a fellow has to have his occasional re-reads of an old favourite).

So far slightly ahead of the game:

The Iron King, Maurice Druon (first in the series, new for me)
Ex Purgatory, Peter Clines (fourth in the series, new for me)
The Clown Service, Guy Adams (first in a newly started series, new for me)
Gallow - The Crimson Shield, Nathan Hawke [possibly the coolest author name ever. Sounds like an 80's action movie hero..... Arnold Schwarzenegger IS Nathan Hawke!] (first in the series, new for me)

So, 24 days in, 4 new books read

Add to the above:

The Emperor's Blades, Brian Stavely (first in a new series, new for me)
Gallow - Cold Redemption, Nathan Hawke (second in the series, new for me)
Andromeda's Fall, William C Dietz (first in a series, new for me)

41 days, 7 books. Not bad at all.

[Macros]

I'm gonna aim for 40 new books for the rest of the year, having only managed 3 so far.
Qaulity may be scrificed, but I'm thinking of starting with a series on my e-reader to break me in

[Ukjent]

My aim is 50. Thought it would go poorly but after a spree Monday I'm actually 2 books ahead.