01-03-2014, 12:37 PM | #18496 |
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I have just started reading Revan (Star Wars: The Old Republic)
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01-03-2014, 12:42 PM | #18497 |
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Finishing up Doctor Sleep (15% remaining) and just starting Ryu Murakami's Audition.
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01-03-2014, 01:27 PM | #18498 |
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Wow. That's getting on for a full year's reading for me. I am still formulating my challenge for 2014.... No! I can't commit to such a narrow focus. Can I?
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01-03-2014, 01:33 PM | #18499 |
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01-03-2014, 03:34 PM | #18500 |
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It's amazing how it's so out of time that it's hard to tell when the action takes place. In the 70's? The 90's? Nowadays? Latinandgreek, I hope you'll like The Little Friend as much as you seem to have liked The Secret History. |
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01-03-2014, 05:37 PM | #18502 |
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I wouldn't recommend it. Read them while you're enjoying them, and when you feel like reading something else, read something else. I may have read them all, but that's over a (good grief!) 12 year period. Judging by my email records, I bought 1632 in early 2002, a couple of years after it was first published.
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01-03-2014, 05:48 PM | #18503 |
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I decided to pick up a paperback copy of Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde, which has been languishing on my shelf since 2004 or so - I'd devoured the first three Thursday Next books and then made it exactly 20 pages into Something Rotten before I put it down; I made another attempt some years later but didn't get any further.
Now I'm ~200 pages in and enjoying it quite a bit, so perhaps I just needed a break from the series. A rather long break... |
01-04-2014, 01:37 AM | #18504 | |
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01-04-2014, 03:20 AM | #18505 |
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I just finished the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb and really liked it. I had never read her stuff before but will definitely continue.
Right now I am reading Crown of Slaves, the first offshoot from David Weber's Honor Harrington series. It looks like the next Harrington book will be the third one in this series so I am finally giving it a go. |
01-04-2014, 05:41 AM | #18506 |
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01-04-2014, 06:24 AM | #18507 | |
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01-04-2014, 08:07 AM | #18508 | |
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One story was good, but had a serious problem that still irritates me. It's a bit spoilery, so the spoilery bit is in spoilers Life Flight by Brad R. Torgersen is about the first interstellar colonisation ship. Hibernation has been developed, so the colonists can sleep, unaging, for most of the 80 year journey. Some stay awake for a dozen years in turn, returning to hibernation after their shift. The journey starts with two adults and four children awake, (the children will grow to young adults during their awake period), and all the others in hibernation. Spoiler:
Now reading my newest purchase, (it was just £0.99 at Amazon UK today), highly recommend by Time Magazine and some members of MobileRead. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson |
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01-04-2014, 11:25 AM | #18509 |
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I am currently reading my longest-standing TBR: A Taste for Death by PD James. I received this book as a prize in 1986. To be more specific, I was given a book token, and used it for this and a Thesaurus*, which were then presented to me at a ceremony. I was already an SF&F reader by then, but felt I needed to pick something presentable, and I was enjoying the TV adaptations of the Adam Dalgliesh books at the time.
I believe I did attempt to read it at the time, but was put off by it being a bit slow and overy descriptive. I still find it little bit overwrought for my taste, but it's perfectly readable. I'm not quite two thirds of the way through, and I can't help thinking I'd be done by now if it was an Agatha Christie, but for all that I am quite enjoying it. I though this was probably the biggest barrier to completing my ABC Murders challenge this year, so I decided to get it out of the way as soon as possible. *I never really used the thesaurus much, either, but my parents got a lot of use from it for crosswords until it eventually fell apart some years ago. |
01-04-2014, 12:00 PM | #18510 |
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