The last Dresden book. I'll get there after I finish Rider at the Gate.

Just got a collection of short stories from Patricia Briggs on the Mercy Thompson series that finally included Alpha and Omega, which she had sold in the beginning and apparently has finally gotten back her rights on it so she could publish it for herself as well.

~SE++

"What I wish I knew when I was 20"

I finished the Uplift trilogy. Now I wonder what I will read next.

Finished Color of Earth and am reading Why I Write. From here I'll read some writing therapy books to research a work-in-progress.

Landover series. Currently rereading. On book 5. It's by Terry Brooks.

Read Snowcrash. It was great. For those of you who don't know, it's probably the second most important cyberpunk book ever written*. In the later parts author appeal gets a little heavy, but it's still a great book.

After that I started reading Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Never read any Edgar Allan Poe before, but I'm starting to think he's overrated. Guy just doesn't know when to stop writing. The descriptive bits go on and on and on until I lose interest. The stuff happening/word count ratio is criminally low. Guy totally had a fetish for really long sentences too.

Just started reading Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. I've wanted to read this book for a long time now and I'm pretty excited.

*#1 spot goes to Neuromancer for starting the genre.

Rereading Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series.

On book 3.

I need to get around to both Snowcrash & HGttG.

Currently reading the second Rider book by CJ Cherryh, Cloud's Rider. People who said these books are scary must be equinophobes. Decent scifi-ish western, but not scary, imo.

The Guns of August is what i just recently finished up not sure what to read nexzt

Has anyone read "The Way of Kings"? I'm thinking that's going to be next on my list - I really enjoyed how Sanderson finished up WoT.

Have not read The Way of Kings. Elantris & Legion are on my near future reading list though.

Since last time, I read 2 Monster Hunter International books, The Lies of Locke Lamora and a book that I did not finish (stopped at 3/4), and reading right now the Maze Runner Series, currently at the half of book 2.

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.

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