[cerveza_fiesta]

i know I know *bows head in shame*

I do like the general story though. The world is ridiculously developed. I like all the cities and nations and stuff, even if the interactions are abit oversimilified into red vs. blue. Plus I keep hoping for Rand to purge the taint and start wailing on some darkfriends instead of running around like a retard and fighting the dark one at the end of each book.

hehe...purging taints is a dirty job

But they're kind of like LOTR or Star wars that way. They are a standout popular item in a genre that you can't really not read and call yourself a fan.[/QUOTE]

[Hume]

Still haven't read Knife of Dreams..

Not sure If I ever will.

Anyways Im still on Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlan

Very good book too.

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. Plus I keep hoping for Rand to purge the taint and start wailing on some darkfriends instead of running around like a retard and fighting the dark one at the end of each book.

You will be waiting for a long time. Oh it does happen. But way further down the track than it should have.
Oh and its your own fault if you decide to read this

[Dancer+]

I'm reading Mordant's Need by Stephen Donaldson.

I'll soon be reading Mordant's need in my economics class.

[ch'arlz]

Just finished Charles Stross's Halting State. From his blurb:
"A near-future thriller set in the bizarre world of the software houses that develop massively-multiplayer online roleplaying games. A bank has been robbed, a start-up company's massive IPO postponed, and the company's lead programmer has gone missing. It's up to an unlikely team of investigators, sent in by the venture capitalists backing the IPO, to figure out what happened and get the money back. There's just a slight catch: the robbers were a gang of Orcs, and the money may have been smuggled over the border into another reality ...."

I rather enjoyed the book. The setting is near-future (2020ish) Edinburgh and Glasgow. Published by Ace in a hardcover in October 2007, and by Orbit in the UK in trade paperback in January 2008.

[Mentalist]

Keeping with my insane scheme of "reading the first book of a series to figure out if I like the series",I have finished vol 1 of "Otherland"

Currently reading
"The Darkness that comes before"
Loving the world, although can't stop comparing Holy War witht the Crusades.... Also, having trouble catching onto the pacing....

[Spindrift]

reading those dragon books by naomi novak. the first one was pretty cool. They are steadily declining in coolness as the series goes on

[caladanbrood]

Rereading Bonehunters, because I realised I remember less of it than any other malazan book.

[Sinisdar Toste]

faust, meditations and a compilation of aristotles works. plus im slogging through willy shakespeares complete works in my spare time, im up to merchant of venice

[Dag]

Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind

[Dancer+]

Mordant's need - Stephen Donaldson

[Mentalist]

Scratch what I said about Bakker's pacing-- I got into it and finished the book yest. It is absolutely awesome, and once exams are over and I'm going on a crazy book-buying spree, "Prince of Nothing" is on the very top of the list.

meanwhile, I've started Harry Turtledove's 'Into the darkness", a part of 6 or 7 book series described as "alternative universe WW2 with magic instead of science". only read the first chapter so far (and that had, like 4 or 5 POVs), but we shall see what happens...

[MecnunK]

The sum of all Men- David Farland and its a bit of a uphill struggle tbh..

Also bought King's Dragon , Kate Elliot..I dont know why... will start on that tomorrow when I am on a plane..

[Mort]

Just finished the first omnibus of Glenn Cook's Cruel Empire.... I'd forgotten how much he enjoys killing protagonists off..
Also just finished his Passage at Arms... best book in that style that I have read since rimrunners..
Have the first book of the Instrumentalities of Night ready to go

[Dancer+]

Gimli and the Magic Axe - Nick Taylor

[Centzon Totochtin]

Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

[Crop]

Well i just finished "Shadows linger" by Glen Cook, which was very good. And i am searching for "The white Rose".

I'm also planning on starting to read the Elric of Melniboné books, but i don't know which one to start with

[Mentalist]

@ Crop-- i've wondered the same thing myself...
Here's what google had to offer

http://www.multivers...read.php?t=3562
A list compiled by fans

And this is what Amazon says
http://www.amazon.com/Elric-Recommended-Re...m/3M6GU8H932D4W

[Crop]

Hey, Thanks kud

I'll start writing a christmas wish list:D

-have rep!

[Mentalist]

Yes... Many a list this year should start with words "Dear Amazon.com.uk"
And featute words like "Crimson", "Hounds" "Return", "Toll", "and" in no particular order...

[caladanbrood]

kud13;231238 said:

Yes... Many a list this year should start with words "Dear Amazon.com.uk"

This would generally get nowhere;)