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What Are You Reading?; The bookworms shall inherit the earth!
Topic Started: Mar 5 2005, 07:18 PM (10,278 Views)
Materia Thief
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Black_Mage_Lulu
Jul 20 2012, 11:36 AM
I have just finished reading 'The Inferno by Dante' and I decided to pick up an old favourite -- 'The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks'.
I've heard about this (The Wasp Factory) and was told it was a mystery? Would you call that an accurate description? And would you recommend it to someone who isn't much of a mystery reader beyond the occasional Agatha Christie?

I just finished Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World. I thought it was surprisingly interesting--books about "first class passengers" or fabulously rich people as a group in general tend to be rather--flowery in their language. This book wasn't and felt more like a series of mini biographies. Not bad.
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I am currently reading The Night Circus~ This book, I swear, has to be one of the most beautifully written books I have read in a long time. The storyline is very stunning to the point you'll get lost reading it. The details are so very magical and vividly mesmerizing. Also, all the characters are all very unique, each in their own way.
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Ohh, I just finished The Night Circus, funny enough! I loved it, although I was definitely confused by one of the character's identity's at first. Can't wait for the inevitable movie though, this is a book begging to be made into a visual medium.

I'm trying to finish up A History of the World in 100 Objects right now. Great book, but very lengthy. I find it a very accessible read though.
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I'm reading the Da Vinci Code for the first time. Brown's writing style is awfully pretentious, but I can see the appeal in the story. I like it so far!~
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Lelei
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I'm reading The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet and A thousand splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
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I'm reading The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Has anybody read anything by this author? He's amazing! I loved his Mistborn Trilogy, I highly recommend that to any fantasy genre fan.
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Currently reading Lamplighter by D.M. Cornish, the second installment of his Foundling's Tale series. (Though the series used to be called Monster Blood Tattoo.)
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Lelei
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Currently reading 'And the mountains echo' by Khaled Hosseini. And 'The Pilgrimage' by Paulo Coelho.
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Reading "The Eidolon" by Libby McGugan one of the doctors who I work with at the hospital.
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Rereading The Hobbit because, shallow as this will sound, the Hobbit movie trilogy, along with reading The Lord of the Rings, have helped me appreciate it more. Back when I first read it, I was soooooooo impatient and wanted more action. These days I've mellowed out enough to enjoy it for what it is, plus the movies actually do and show a lot of the things I wanted to see in the book, like what exactly Gandalf was doing every time he left, plus actually showing us "The Necromancer." :3

No really, I'm sorry Tolkien, you can't just casually mention something like a freaking Necromancer, immediately tell the reader he's even more powerful than the story's actual villain Smaug, and not expect me to be curious. PJ one-upped you there :P
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I recently finished the Beyonders trilogy by Brandon Mull.

It was set up well, but around the middle of the second book it became clear that the author was so dead-set on having a particular character become the sacrificial lamb that he started making everyone act contrary to common sense and contrary to their own previously established characterizations just to get that character into the position where he *had* to be sacrificed.

So I was really disappointed, because you could just see the author sitting there trying to rely on a contrived TRAGIC!SACRIFICE to make his story be "good", when he could have spent that time coming up with a cleverer, more realistic way to resolve it.

I would not recommend this series or this author. He creates interesting characters and scenes, but is either not talented enough or else too sadistic to tell an ultimately satisfying story with them.

(Oh, there is also a character who starts learning magic, and is supposedly so gifted that within a few months she can rival centuries-old wizards and oracles. I didn't really care for that Mary Sue situation.)
Edited by Ultimavara, Jan 27 2016, 03:26 PM.
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