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    I just finished reading 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell'. It is such a finely crafted novel that I was unable to start another book for a few weeks when I finished. It's an amazing book and very good.

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    Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula Le Guin

    Also, Rant is now my favorite Palahniuk, but I think things don't look promising for Chuck as his last two, Snuff and Pygmy, were both not very entertaining. Snuff might've worked as a short story but not as a novel. Pygmy was ok, but after some of the stuff I've read in other Palahniuk books, it wasn't really all that crazy or clever.

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    Gonna drop a HUGE list later, was considering starting this when I saw there was no "books" thread anywher, but for now

    Most recent read: Pratchett's "Thief of Time" (re-read)
    Most recent new read: Cory Doctorow's "Makers" (you can get a free, LEGIT, copy of any of his books at his website)

    Up next: Fuck, I dunno. Got Iain Banks' Culture and David Weber's Honor Harrington series read half through, but Jacqeline Carey has a new book out I want to read. There is even more stuff on the long backlog.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaelan? View Post
    Yeah, the watch ones are also my favorite series. I love Death as a character and there's some parts of some books I'll just never forget because they're just that good (like a good chunk of the color of magic) but as a continuous storyline spanning multiple books the Watch series is definitely does the most for me.
    I'm pretty much making my way through everything in order - with small detours for arcs I like better than others (I'm not actually much of a fan of the Watch ones to be honest - prefer the Unseen University ones, and Death is of course number 1). I live with someone who has his bookcase arranged in meticulous order so it's easy enough to start at one end and read to the other end.

    Totally fucked over a girl I used to work with when she reckoned she had us all stumped with her pet trivia question about what was the name of Death's horse and two of us got it right straight away.

    Chick lit book is NOT getting any better btw. It's not even trashy escapism bad - it's urge to murder brutally bad.

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    Doing last book of Dark Tower and midway through Dune right now.

    Aka stuff I should have read years ago. >_>;

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    Just do yourself a favor Kuno. Do not read any of the other Dune novels. You'll be reading until the end of time. And maybe one out of every ten are good(that comes from my wife, she's read them all I gave up after two other ones.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrillCS View Post
    Just do yourself a favor Kuno. Do not read any of the other Dune novels. You'll be reading until the end of time. And maybe one out of every ten are good(that comes from my wife, she's read them all I gave up after two other ones.)
    I read the 2 others that are part of the dune trilogy. Neither of them are very long and the 3rd one was pretty good, 2nd one was ok but it seemed like it was just setting things up.

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    Have any of you read a book called "Elsewhere"?

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    This was a great book as well that I read ^^.
    http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...n/30653992.jpg

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    dubliners by James Joyce

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    John Meaney - "Bone Song" & followup "Dark Blood"

    also been reading :-

    Dan Abnett -Eisenhorn Omnibus
    Joe Abercrombie - The First Law: The Blade Itself: Book One
    Before They Are Hanged: Book Two
    Last Argument Of Kings: Book Three

    Had started Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero by Dan Abnett, but Bleach 27 & 28 arrived the next day, so just reading them now. I tend to only read when I'm on my lunch break, or travelling on public transport.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrillCS View Post
    Just do yourself a favor Kuno. Do not read any of the other Dune novels. You'll be reading until the end of time. And maybe one out of every ten are good(that comes from my wife, she's read them all I gave up after two other ones.)
    I think the 6 Frank wrote are definitely worth reading, but not the 7895789289 other ones that his son and Anderson wrote. Those are shit.

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    Almost finished "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell about Operation Redwing. Like it very much, but it's a sad book.

    Going to read Salem's Lot after since I've always put it off.

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    Brill, I went to order First Lord's on amazon today and it was only $9.99, so if you can get past the mixing hardcover and paperback thing, it's a reasonable price and you don't have to wait a month.

    Just a heads-up in case you hadn't price-checked yourself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mertron View Post
    Don't expect too much. This, I think, is Chuck's least entertaining book. Snuff and Pygmy are pretty much tied for my least favorite Palahniuk.

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    Bah. Friend reccomended it to me, only things I've read by him are Fight Club, Survivor, and Diary. Survivor was excellent, Diary I thought was meh. We'll see I guess.

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