What are you reading right now?

[TiliaLyn]

Originally posted by Link: Currently reading Sword of Shannara for the gazillionth time, because I have got nothing else to read and this was the only book that I hadn't begun with for about half a year. Although Sword isn't overly good -- to be honest, it's just a plain bad Lord of the Rings rip-off -- it's entertaining nonetheless.

Now I know why <u>Sword</u> seems a bit familiar, it does pattern itself after <u>Lord of the Rings</u>.

Originally posted by Link: The book you were reading, TiliaLyn, is the Death Gate series (by Weiss and Hickman). It has a very refreshing twist to what elves and dwarves and the likes are usually portrayed like. The story is rather complicated (as it's a seven book series), so you really need to keep your focus on the book, or you'll get lost.

Yes, it is a Weiss/Hickman book and <u>Death Gate</u> sounds right. I have tried to start it a few times, but it was difficult to begin. I believe it is the perspective Weiss/Hickman have written from. Sometimes its in narrative, other times it's first-person and then I believe there was even some third-person.

I hope to get a good start in <u>Test of the Twins</u> today at lunch. It's raining proverbial cats and dogs today, great day for lunch at the local pizza place. It's just been too hot recently.

Originally posted by Link: The book I think I'm going to need next is the follow up to Raymond E. Feist's King of Foxes. After a rather disappointing Shards of a Broken Crown, I thought the story about Claw (is that his English name) was decent to say at the least. After that, I may throw myself into the world of George R. R. Martin. I only hear good things about his A Song of Ice and Fire (or something close), so I reckon I'll be trying him out for size.

I am not familiar with Feist, or Martin. so you'll have to post later, after you have read <u>A Song of Ice and Fire</u> and expound.

Good day to everyone, Happy Tuesday! Oh, and watch out for falling trees.

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[Link]

Oh -- before I head off to do some rowing, an advice to all fantasy-lovers out there. Check out Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials

Haven't got the time to elaborate on it right now, but trust me when I say it's one of the best fantasy series out there. Do a search on this forum for more info, I've posted a topic about it before.

[TiliaLyn]

Thanks Link, the next time I'm out to purchase a new book, I will definitely look for this one.

Tilia

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[Link]

You're welcome.

Funny fact about me and those books is that at one time a received the third book of the trilogy (called the Amber Spyglass) for Christmas, but never really got into it. Not until at one point I forced myself to accept a whole different fantasyworld and just read on. It's one of the best damn things I've ever done.
Suffice to say, I bought the first two parts of the trilogy as soon as possible and right at that time there was a program on British television about the top 3 books/books series ever made. Right there on number two was Philip Pullman's trilogy.

[Jotin]

finishing 100 years of solitude, 30 more pages to go

[Stratos]

Just started reading "From the Corner of his Eye" by Dean Koontz. I got is as a gift so I suppose I should read it.

[Orbost]

Currently re-reading "Bravo Two Zero" by Andy McNab, his true account of a British SAS mission during the first Gulf War that went horribly wrong.

Next up ont he rack will be "Cryptonomicon" by Neil Stephenson, a 1000 pager that I have had my eye on for months. Finally caved in and bought it yesterday.

[TiliaLyn]

Isn't it funny how it takes a bit to actually decide on purchasing a book, even though we think we want it right away. I'm always worried when I am looking at a book by an unknown author that if I do spend the money for the book, it may suck.

[Orbost]

Oh, I know. I wander into bookshops at least twice a week on my lunchbreak, and just nose around. And I can pick up a book a dozen times and think 'yeah, this looks cool', but it will take me months to actually buy the thing.

Also, I don't like to spend heaps of money on new books when firstly, I have a huge collection of books to reread at home, and secondly, my wife is not a big reader and gets grumpy if I splurge out on hundreds of books.

[RoSs_bg2_rox]

Originally posted by Orbost: Currently re-reading "Bravo Two Zero" by Andy McNab, his true account of a British SAS mission during the first Gulf War that went horribly wrong.

A good read, I'd say one of his best. There was a documentary on about this before, in dispute of the accuracy of numbers. It was very interesting. The part I find scariest (if indeed it was real) and hardest to believe (not that it really bothers me either way) is when he mentions the tank fire and heavy military fire against 3 guys or how ever many it was, and they were running with their full kit, and they got away, with an army after them basically.