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ParamoreAddict
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I'm currently reading Insurgent by Veronica Roth. I love the Divergent series so much! What are you reading?
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  • adamtall
    adamtall Posts: 275 Member
    just finished my 3 reread of the kingkiller chronicles by Patrick Rothfus and started on Jim Butchers - Furies of Cauldron

    any fantasy nerds out there have to read the name of the wind and wise mans fear (kingkiller chronicles)
  • Weightlossdude53
    Weightlossdude53 Posts: 70 Member
    Murder at the Palace: An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery. I'm a mystery fan!
  • liftingandlipstick
    liftingandlipstick Posts: 1,857 Member
    Rereading Fahrenheit 451 for the first time since high school. Also about to start the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.
  • MistressPi
    MistressPi Posts: 514 Member
    Rereading Fahrenheit 451 for the first time since high school. Also about to start the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.

    I'm reading the Outlander series! Love it. Currently waiting for "A Breath of Snow and Ashes" from the library.

    Currently reading, "You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself" by David McRaney. Nonfiction about how psychological biases color our perceptions (and internal conceptions of truth). Very, very interesting.

    http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-So-Smart/dp/1592407366
  • Asheea
    Asheea Posts: 211 Member
    Divergent &
    Face of God by Bill Myers
  • emilycwright85
    emilycwright85 Posts: 8 Member
    The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

    The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey comes out tomorrow! Can't wait!
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    The Book of Beasts by John Barrowman and his sister. Also I guess, technically, the Wind in the Keyhole from Stephen King but frankly I started it over a month ago and it's just so boring I don't know when/if I will finish it.

    I just finished Four by Veronica Roth. So over waiting for the 3rd of the Kingkiller Chronicles...
  • ParamoreAddict
    ParamoreAddict Posts: 839 Member
    The Book of Beasts by John Barrowman and his sister. Also I guess, technically, the Wind in the Keyhole from Stephen King but frankly I started it over a month ago and it's just so boring I don't know when/if I will finish it.

    I just finished Four by Veronica Roth. So over waiting for the 3rd of the Kingkiller Chronicles...

    I'll get to Four eventually too. Looks really good and I have it already. I would love to see a prequel about Tris's mom. Such a great character and, from what we know about her, she just always intrigued me.
  • adamtall
    adamtall Posts: 275 Member
    So over waiting for the 3rd of the Kingkiller Chronicles...


    oh my god me too although im excited about the auri novella in october
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    So over waiting for the 3rd of the Kingkiller Chronicles...


    oh my god me too although im excited about the auri novella in october

    Yes it's pre-ordered. But it will be nice to understand her more, she confuses the hell out of me.
  • bunsen561
    bunsen561 Posts: 5 Member
    Methuselah's Children by RAH.
  • Ceratopsy
    Ceratopsy Posts: 2,100 Member
    just finished my 3 reread of the kingkiller chronicles by Patrick Rothfus and started on Jim Butchers - Furies of Cauldron

    any fantasy nerds out there have to read the name of the wind and wise mans fear (kingkiller chronicles)

    Kingkiller Chronicles has been on my "must read" list for too long. I'm finishing Queen of the Tearling right now but these will have to be next.
  • adamtall
    adamtall Posts: 275 Member
    So over waiting for the 3rd of the Kingkiller Chronicles...


    oh my god me too although im excited about the auri novella in october

    Yes it's pre-ordered. But it will be nice to understand her more, she confuses the hell out of me.

    preordered as well :) i think i kind of got a feel for her but im sure the book will raise more questions than it answers because you know pat hates us.
  • verptwerp
    verptwerp Posts: 3,629 Member
    Murder mystery series by Victoria Houston ...... "Dead Lake" ...... "Dead Jitterbug" ...... "Dead Madonna" ...... you get the idea ..... quite a bunch of characters ...... reminds me of the movie "Fargo" ...... and lots of references to fly-fishing, boating, hunting, drinking and so on :drinker:

    Great fun !
  • basicjim
    basicjim Posts: 69 Member
    any fantasy nerds out there have to read the name of the wind and wise mans fear (kingkiller chronicles)

    I'll second that!! WONDERFUL books!
  • basicjim
    basicjim Posts: 69 Member
    I am on Book 5 in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I think I need to take a break before going on to 6-12. The names and places keep popping up in my head.
  • Soggynode
    Soggynode Posts: 1,179 Member
    Unstable Prototypes - Joseph Lallo
  • adamtall
    adamtall Posts: 275 Member
    I am on Book 5 in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I think I need to take a break before going on to 6-12. The names and places keep popping up in my head.

    ive heard so much about the WoT series and its so one side or the other never in between. people either love it or think its to long and drawn out and hate it. what is your take on it

    also great ticker i love AoT
  • timetravelforfitness
    timetravelforfitness Posts: 242 Member
    I am on Book 5 in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I think I need to take a break before going on to 6-12. The names and places keep popping up in my head.

    ive heard so much about the WoT series and its so one side or the other never in between. people either love it or think its to long and drawn out and hate it. what is your take on it

    also great ticker i love AoT

    "I hate to say it, but after the other author took over the books got a LOT better. I don't think it's ever a good idea for a writer to have his/her significant other being their editor," she said while pulling on her braid ...
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I am on Book 5 in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I think I need to take a break before going on to 6-12. The names and places keep popping up in my head.

    ive heard so much about the WoT series and its so one side or the other never in between. people either love it or think its to long and drawn out and hate it. what is your take on it

    also great ticker i love AoT

    "I hate to say it, but after the other author took over the books got a LOT better. I don't think it's ever a good idea for a writer to have his/her significant other being their editor," she said while pulling on her braid ...

    I have to re-read them to be honest, I read the first ones pretty fast then had to wait months between the last few, so yes it got a bit confusing at times, lol. But yes Brandon Sanderson did an amazing job (but again, I love what that guy does anyway, plus he's a very cool fellow).
  • cHaRlIe0411
    cHaRlIe0411 Posts: 137 Member
    A Feast for Crows. It's taking me forever to tear through it, since I have less time to read than usual, but the Song of Ice and Fire series is really good.
  • grimendale
    grimendale Posts: 2,153 Member
    Currently making my way through the Dresden Files. Up to Proven Guilty now (I love horror films, so this one's been especially fun).
  • ScottyNoHotty
    ScottyNoHotty Posts: 1,957 Member
    Good Omens...again

    and the Elminster series.....

    and Harry Dresden....
  • dward59
    dward59 Posts: 731 Member
    A Feast for Crows. It's taking me forever to tear through it, since I have less time to read than usual, but the Song of Ice and Fire series is really good.

    Take your time. Until that final book is out, you will be gnashing teeth with the rest of us who await it!

    Recently read "Ready Player One" and loved it. Of course it was written to my teen years so I may be biased. Currently reading Anathem by Neal Stephensen. While a bit slower starting, I am really enjoying it now.
  • spud_chick
    spud_chick Posts: 2,640 Member
    Just finished Skin Game (most recent Dresden Files). Listening to Mists of Avalon because I've somehow never read it and I love the narrator, Davina Porter. Before bed I usually try to read something light; right now I'm on the first book in the Kane Chronicles (The Red Pyramid).

    ETA: Davina Porter narrates the audiobooks for the Outlander series, which I have read and listened to all of. I also read and listened to Skin Game, because the narrator for that is James Marsters, Spike from BtVS. I never really did audiobooks until I realized they were the perfect accompaniment to walking, and now I listen all the time. But I still read ebooks aplenty, too.
  • basicjim
    basicjim Posts: 69 Member
    I am on Book 5 in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I think I need to take a break before going on to 6-12. The names and places keep popping up in my head.

    ive heard so much about the WoT series and its so one side or the other never in between. people either love it or think its to long and drawn out and hate it. what is your take on it

    also great ticker i love AoT

    "I hate to say it, but after the other author took over the books got a LOT better. I don't think it's ever a good idea for a writer to have his/her significant other being their editor," she said while pulling on her braid ...

    LOL! Nynaeve!
  • basicjim
    basicjim Posts: 69 Member
    I am on Book 5 in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I think I need to take a break before going on to 6-12. The names and places keep popping up in my head.

    ive heard so much about the WoT series and its so one side or the other never in between. people either love it or think its to long and drawn out and hate it. what is your take on it

    also great ticker i love AoT

    I think it is well written and has the whole 'epic' feel to it. I like that the main characters aren't so willing to be the ones to save the world. If someone came to me and told me I was a chosen one and would save the world, I don't think I would pack up and head off, I would think they were nuts. That is more of the take on this series.

    I like the books a lot. The 'battle of the sexes' gets old, but it is pretty integral to the story. I get annoyed that the main characters don't actually talk to each other honestly, but keep secretes and make assumptions that make everything more difficult for everyone. I guess the fact that annoys me is testimony to how involving the books are. If it wasn't a good book, I wouldn't care. Maybe Jordan was trying to make a statement about how all of us interact with other people.

    Anyway, I like that the book is well paced. It doesn't jump over too much and it doesn't drag too much. Some series do either one or both. This one does on occasion, but for the most part, tempo is good.

    I think that Jordan does a good job of introducing new characters and having a big cast, but not making them so obscure that you keep going "Wait, WHO was that?"

    I have also heard that after Mr. Jordan's death, the new author did a wonderful job with the books.

    I think that if you pick up the first book and read the first 100 pages, you'll know if its for you or not. I was hooked much sooner than 100 pages. If you read 100 pages and don't like it, your not out too much!

    :-)
  • bmele0
    bmele0 Posts: 282 Member
    I'm with MistressPi, reading the Outlander series.

    For fun times - Off to Be the Wizard (2.0)

    And I want to read Jacqueline Carey's Agent of Hel series.

    I have been avoiding Book 10 in the Wheel of Time series like the plague- I heard it was terrible and I haven't felt like trudging through it to get to 11.
  • jorge_ta83
    jorge_ta83 Posts: 49 Member
    Starting the Wheel Of Time series, book 1.

    Re reading the Harry Potter series, currently reading the Order of the Phoenix.
  • kaniob
    kaniob Posts: 363 Member
    Currently reading book 4 of Wheel of Time, book 2 of the Tide Lords quartet by Jennifer Fallon

    adamtall wrote: »
    just finished my 3 reread of the kingkiller chronicles by Patrick Rothfus and started on Jim Butchers - Furies of Cauldron

    any fantasy nerds out there have to read the name of the wind and wise mans fear (kingkiller chronicles)

    I agree with this wholeheartedly. Also, Codex Alera (the Jim Butcher series) is GREAT.

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