Just finished reading through Dan Simmon's Hyperion series. Pretty similar to other Simmons stuff: set a thousand years in the future, with weird and interesting worlds, weakly godlike AIs, deep navel-gazing on literature and philosophy... I'd recommend it.


I am a huge fan of The Way of Kings, and the sequel (Words of Radiance) is better. It's so, so good.

I should mention that that particular Sanderson series is the most focused on tying all of the others together -- while the story stands on its own perfectly well, there are a bunch of little ties to Elantris, Mistborn, etc. that are really well-done. In particular, do not read to the end of Words of Radiance without reading Warbreaker, there's one line that's meaningless without having read Warbreaker but a massive WAT if you have.

Elantris is IMO the weakest of Sanderson's books; IIRC it was one of his earliest novels and it does show. (I've read all his novels at least twice... yeah, I'm a fan.)


Hm, not sure what to read next. Guess I'll trawl this thread for ideas...

I stopped reading The Maze Runner Series at the beginning of the third book. The first book is good, the second book just regular, the third book I don't really know, but it started really bad. And I simply don't care anymore, it is almost impossible to carry a story through 4 books, based on only one idea and spend 80% of it at the first book. Maybe with only three books, I would try to finish it. But four books, better waste my time anywhere else.

It seems I will follow Rstnme's advice. I just started Kafka on the shore.

Let me know what you think!

Read some of the therapy books, then stopped because I'm no longer working on that project. Now I'm reading 2666.

1/3 of the book now. It is strange, such non-sense, but it is different and unexpected, which is good. It seems like a Stephen King novel without the horror or the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy without the humor.

This is pretty accurate. I haven't read anything like him, which is what keeps drawing me back to him.

Currently reading "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. It's a reread and personal favorite. Recommended.

Quoted for Truth

Time to update our list!

Currently reading:

• Homestuck by Andrew Hussie (at its home site)
• Paranatural by Zack Morrison (at its home site)
• the Lone Wolf series of second-person adventure novels (AKA "game books") by Joe Dever (ebook format available for free from Project Aon (also in Spanish and Italian) -- currently on book 2, Fire on the Water)
• the My Little Pony comic series by various artists and writers (digital comic format snagged from the Humble Book Bundle a few days back)
• The War of the Wheel by RavenoftheBlack (posted in the M:EM)

Not actively reading but still in the middle of somewhere:

• American Gods by Neil Gaiman (paperback)
• The Warlord's Legacy by Ari Marmell (paperback)
• V for Vendetta by several people (digital comic on Comixology)
• Dracula by Bram Stoker (free ebook through Project Gutenberg)
• The Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore (paperback compilation thingy {all three books as one})
• Twokinds by Tom Fischbach apparently? (at its home site)

EDIT: I should ask: should I be including the unfinished things which I read as more of it comes out, like the aforementioned Homestuck and Paranatural? If yes, then there's probably a few other things I could include; if no, then I'll need to take some of those things out of my list.

Started reading 12 Clocks bc Neil Gaiman recommended it, but it's not as fun as I thought it would be. Considering it probably takes 45 minutes to read and I've put it down several times, not sure if I'm going to finish.

I reread Stormfront over the holiday and thoroughly enjoyed it, especially seeing characters and their interactions from 14 years ago while knowing how they interact today.

Started The Magicians on Sunday, and I think it's the best urban fantasy I've read so far.

Finally started on Dresden Files - Skin Game. The second Rider book took me forever to finish, since practically the only time I've had the energy to read for fun lately is on the bus between school & home.

Love, love, love the Dresden files. Skin Game is, in my opinion, the second best in the series behind only Changes.

Last time I said I was reading Godel Escher Bach, but I was feeling sick and wasn't in the mood for anything deep so I switched to the last Wheel of Time book. Finished that (pretty good) now back to GEB. I also read a ton of SCPs in the meantime.

Is that the same SCPs I'm thinking of? Because if so you have chosen a worthy way to while away your time.

It is indeed my good dragon. I'm rather fond of Ronald Reagan getting cut up*.

*And if that sentence isn't a perfect hook to get people to check out SCPs I don't know what is.

I've got a couple of friends who read a fair amount of SCPs. I've had it on my favs, but as often as I'm on a computer, I don't like doing extended reading on one.

Just finished Charlie Stross's Merchant Princes series. The premise is that long ago a guy discovered that by staring at a particular knotwork design, he could move himself and anything he was carrying to a parallel universe, and repeating in the other universe would bring him back. His children used this (hereditary) ability to build a secretive cross-universe mercantile empire -- in our universe they traffic in drugs due to the high value/weight ratio, while the other got stuck in the Dark Ages and so fast communication and penicillin are priceless. (The plot and writing are really well-done, to be sure, but the setting and premise are the best parts, to me.)

Next up is a re-read of Worm, an absolutely fantastic apocalyptic superhero web serial. In all seriousness it's quite possibly one of the best things I've ever read.

Finally got around to reading Ready Player One. I'm about halfway through right now, and really enjoying it.

~SE++

On my list, but it keeps getting knocked back because I forget about it.

Heritage of Cyador

It's become one of my favorites to read again and again