So are you reading a book?

Mutantgod

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May 4, 2012, 7:13:08 PM

"ream de" by Neal Stephenson is what Iam reading right now... as well as James Gleick's "The Information" ... last thing I have finished reading was "Anathem" also by Neal Stephenson...

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Apr 8, 2012, 12:00:23 PM

gigau wrote:
Making a pause in Raymond Feist's Riftwar Cycle series, currently reading Fall of Giants from Ken Follett

I loved his epic medieval series "Pilliars of the earth". But this new one is on the world war two ?

And I'm currently reading the fourth book of Game of Thrones.

VIPSharidann

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Apr 7, 2012, 5:20:58 PM

Am also considering adding 1Q84 to my reading list.

Boygor

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Boygor

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Apr 5, 2012, 9:21:56 PM

I read a lot of non-fiction, especially histories of empires/civilisations.

I'm currently reading "The wars of Afghanistan" (current events/geopolitics) but I'm also a sucker for any decent sci-fi lie the original dune novels or "First and last men" (Olaf Stapleton).

It's nice to meet some like minded book enthusiasts!

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Apr 5, 2012, 4:04:42 PM

Brilliant, people who actually read good books :-)

Currently I'm about to finish Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland. Split between finally reading George R.R. Martin's A Dance With Dragons (bought it on the day it was released, somehow not read it yet) or going for 1Q84 when I'm done.

Of more academic stuff I'm reading Jonaton Porritt's Seeing Green (3rd time, always get waylaid while reading it and decide to read from the beginning when I get back to it being as I quite like his style), 3 reports on Danish, Norwegian and Faroese security and this most wonderful book on the European Union and its institutions. Particularly enjoy falling asleep while reading about the Court of Justice, or getting shocked by discovering that some of the stuff actually is interesting, however unbelievable that sounds.

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Apr 4, 2012, 7:59:27 PM

Vance is great, Lyonnesse is also a great cycle from him.

Also, nobody mentioned him ... Peter Rothfuss.... The name of the wind is awesome.

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Apr 4, 2012, 5:13:35 PM

Loddfafnir wrote:
I find Isaac Asimov's short stories very pleasant to reread.

I second that. Asimov is a great author, but his stories aren't as well thought out as those of Herbert for instance.

Vance is good too : The cycle of Tchaï is really epic.

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Apr 4, 2012, 5:06:15 PM

I find Isaac Asimov's short stories very pleasant to reread.

Currently, I'm reading Blindsight and Starfish from Peter Watts and Axiomatic from Greg Egan.

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13 years ago

Mar 13, 2012, 10:49:21 AM

Are the Hunger Games good books ? Would you recommend them TBK?

Martok

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13 years ago

Apr 4, 2012, 3:57:55 PM

Bbentheclag wrote:
Thanks guys for all reference, I m currently out of idea of new scifi writer.

I read lot of fantasy and scifi but : M. Moorcock series, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne Mc Caffrey (old fantasy), franck Herbert (dune saga), JRR Tolkien, Akira and Gumnn, Terry Pratchett (lot of fun), Peter F Hamilton (Fallen Dragon and Commonwealth saga ; I particulary like the science orientation of wormhole), Kevin J Anderson (the saga of sevens suns),... some other but they did not mark me as this list

Isaac Asimov. Accept no substitutes.

Bbentheclag

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Bbentheclag

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Apr 3, 2012, 8:35:12 PM

Thanks guys for all reference, I m currently out of idea of new scifi writer.

I read lot of fantasy and scifi but : M. Moorcock series, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne Mc Caffrey (old fantasy), franck Herbert (dune saga), JRR Tolkien, Akira and Gumnn, Terry Pratchett (lot of fun), Peter F Hamilton (Fallen Dragon and Commonwealth saga ; I particulary like the science orientation of wormhole), Kevin J Anderson (the saga of sevens suns),... some other but they did not mark me as this list

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Apr 2, 2012, 5:34:16 PM

empreintes wrote:
I'v just finish "La Horde du contrevent" and start Ubik by Philip K. Dick

Ubik is nothing but a masterpiece, enjoy

I'm currently reading Axis, the sequel to Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson.

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Apr 2, 2012, 3:37:42 PM

maceman wrote:
If you like hornblower you gots ta read Alexander Kent Bolitho novels

Hmm. I think these have been mentioned to me as well (also in conjunction with Hornblower). Thanks for the recommendation!

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Apr 1, 2012, 11:32:22 PM

EVE - Templar One, I tend to avoid these kind of books (sydicated video games books).

Just started it a few days ago but so far so good, quite convoluted but interesting as it plays out...

maceman

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Apr 1, 2012, 10:54:37 PM

If you like hornblower you gots ta read Alexander Kent Bolitho novels

Martok

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Martok

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Apr 1, 2012, 7:57:08 PM

Am about to start reading Hornblower and the Hotspur, the last book (that Forester wrote) in the excellent Horatio Hornblower series. I can't believe I only started reading these a few months ago for the first time; I should've gotten into them years ago!

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13 years ago

Mar 29, 2012, 8:03:09 AM

Robert Jordan lost it after the first 3 books. the next 7 books where just staling and staling and staling.and staling.

Any one read perdito streat staion?

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13 years ago

Mar 7, 2012, 9:28:50 AM

About Vorkosigan saga.... the next book in the series comes out in november : Captain Vorpatril's alliance. In the time frame, it ought to be between Diplomatic Immunity and Cryoburn. And it features "Ivan, you idiot!" of course, hence the title. Provisional title of the book was "Ivan, his book!"

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Elwood

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Mar 7, 2012, 9:18:37 PM

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Mar 7, 2012, 9:11:35 PM

Currently reading Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn's last book. And right after that one, i'll still have the last book of the Greg Mandel's trilogy (from the same author) to read. And after that one, the last of Robert Morgan's Kovacs book, Woken Furies.

From this, you can guess that i'm a sci-fi guy.

(and after that i'll have to read A Song of Ice and Fire, from book 2, since i've already red "a Game of Thrones", so i sometime check what's happening in fantasy's world

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