I finished "14" by Peter Clines. I liked the book.

Reading now "Black Company" by Glen Cook, after knowing he was the precursor of the gritty fantasy genre, I had to read something from him.

Just got done reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, always enjoy reading it. Not sure what to read next..I want to read Notes from the Internet Apocalypse by Wayne Gladstone which is basically : the net crashes and there's no way to bring it back online and this is the main character's journal over a time period.

From amazon : When the Internet suddenly stops working, society reels from the loss of flowing data and streaming entertainment. Addicts wander the streets talking to themselves in 140 characters or forcing cats to perform tricks for their amusement, while the truly desperate pin their requests for casual encounters on public bulletin boards. The economy tumbles and the government passes the draconian NET Recovery Act.

For Gladstone, the Net’s disappearance comes particularly hard, following the loss of his wife, leaving his flask of Jamesons and grandfather’s fedora as the only comforts in his Brooklyn apartment.　But there are rumors that someone in New York is still online. Someone set apart from this new world where Facebook flirters "poke" each other in real life and members of Anonymous trade memes at secret parties. Where a former librarian can sell information as a human search engine and the perverted fulfill their secret fetishes at the blossoming Rule 34 club. With the help of his friends---a blogger and a webcam girl, both now out of work---Gladstone sets off to find the Internet. But is he the right man to save humanity from this Apocalypse?

Now that's a fun series of books - probably some of my favourite fantasy novels even if the later books do lose some of the thematic elements I enjoyed so much in the early days. Still a decent read though.

The Black Company series started off really really good.

Then you get to the third anthology, and it just dies off a little interest wise for me. I've read the first two about 5 times each, and I've read the second two twice each.

I am already hooked. Since I liked Joe Abercrombies and George R. Martins books, I thought I would be at least at home, I was wrong, it is better than I thought.

The screenplay for Interview with the Vampire.

The Alloy of Law
Brian Sanderson's story about magic-users in a fantasy world with a WWI-ish tech level. A lawkeeper from the Roughs returns to the big city to inherit his position as the head of a noble house, but when a crime spree breaks out in Elendel he finds he can't leave his past life of @ss-kicking behind. The magic system revolves entirely around the use of different metals, which makes for some neat interaction with the wild west style gunfights.

A honeycomb patterns in the concrete about 6 foot away that looks like it's spelling a word that I should read.
Nope, gone.

So I am trying to get through Dan Brown's Inferno. I really liked the Da Vinci Code, and I thought Angels and Demons was good. I haven't read the 3rd book.

Anyone have tips for getting past page 1? Also is this

Haven't read anything of Brown's in a while, actually, but your spoiler sounds about right.

Reading the Lies of Locka Lamora right now and really loving it. I haven't enjoyed high fantasy this much since Game of Thrones.

I read four books from him and I decided to quit reading anything from him again. Ever. Even when the main character is not Robert Langdon, he/she acts exactly like Robert Langdon.

Mr.Brown rejects the pen and writes with a brick. Interesting scenarios, great pacing, but weak with everything else.

It's just........

I've read the dude's books. And I feel like now 2 chapters in I've already read this.

That's how I feel about Dean Koontz.

~SE++

It's kind of the mainstay of genre fiction versus literature, at least that's what my reading group argues.

Genre Fiction = read for pleasure
Literature = read for thought

Brown is very much of the thriller genre, so you can generally know ahead of time what you're going to get.

Reading The Secrets of Magic. After that, I'll probably cruise though the Dragons & Monsters anthologies.

Did you read the Mistborn trilogy first?

I liked the first two books in the Mistborn trilogy.

I think the third one completely dropped the ball.

I did not. I'm looking to pick them up though.

I don't think so, Yes, the explanations were not what I was expecting, but they were rigorously tied to his world and he managed to put all dots on is. Overall a really nice trilogy.