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JK, The Swallow's Tower by Andrzej Sapkowski (6th book of The Witcher (Geralt of Rivia) series)
Just loving the books... They're awesome!
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Good stuff man I loved the series and replayed the first 2 Witchers after that to get hyped for the 3rd last year.
Reading the Hero of Ages, of the Mistborn trilogy now by Brandon Sanderson
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After i played the 2nd game i found out that it has a book saga, and then i searched them by land and sea until i found them...
Totally worth it.
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What language are you reading it in? I'm currently reading "Season of storms" again and read the whole saga. It is awesome.
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Yo también!! =D
I have just began the 2nd one, I am enjoying it a lot, it's a very peculiar world where everyone goes for himself (just as the real world, but with monsters and magic! <3)
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I really, really wanted to read the witcher books before playing the games, but no bookstore that I visited had them :(
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probably the best for you - first translation of Sapkowski's novels was horrible - probably reason why it didn't get even good reviews not to mention popularity. Thanks to exposure of books thanks to game they finally properly translated the books so it's much better reading them nowadays :D:
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Interesting! I'm gonna try looking for them again.
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My advantage is that I'm from Poland, so I have read it in original ;) And I did it many years before the first game has come out ;)
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Good for us mate ;) ....by the way- nice profile, I'm impressed.
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Me too! I also read Hussite trilogy and few of his novelettes...
Well I read a lot - almost 300 books from two public librarys and similar ammount of books read from friends and school libraries, maybe some more ^^
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I... I seriously clicked the thread eager to write this response, damn
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It's the 2nd time i'm reading it... I just cant stop D:
I really like to see how Andrzej Sapkowski changed how he writes over the years... Now it's even more addictive :c
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Just started "Lady of the Lake", 7th book of this series. To be honest I expected a little bit more from it, but it's still great :D And it's very inspiring for me as Pole to see that so many gamers around the world are reading and actually enjoying Sapkowski's books ^^
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Oh, and also "Król bólu" by Jacek Dukaj. One hell of a brick.
On my way to "High-rise" by James Ballard and then probably Bruner's "The Sheep Look Up" or Brown's "Red Rising". I guess I'll need some serious dose of s-f after "The Witcher" :D
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The 7th book has something very special... I really liked it.
There is a tv serie named "The Hexer", as long as i know...
Never watched it, but if you do, post what u think! :D
<3
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You mean the polish one, from 2002? Avoid it, I'm afraid that fantasy movies/tv series made in Poland are just terrible :D
I guess it's better to wait for upcoming movie, directed by Tomasz Bagiński (same guy who did all the cinematics in Wicher 3 - which are pure awesomeness ) ^^ It might take a few years though...
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This thread...
And, before that, my puzzle threads.
Books? What are those?
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Just started Last and First Men. Old sci fi from the 30s that is supposed to be really good
I also just finished up With The Old Breed which was basically a marine's memoirs about fighting in the pacific in WWII. Pretty brutal stuff, and you don't normally see these kinds of books written by frontline soldiers.
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I may have to check out Last and First Men, I'm always surprised at how good older science fiction novels are, you'd think if any genre wouldn't age well, it'd be science fiction, yet almost all of the older titles I've read I've enjoyed
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The reason is that a lot of current mainstream sf writers (not all ofc - Blindsight is for example a freaking masterpiece and I'm sure it will age very very well) use sf just as an excuse for their story. They come up with some fancy-shmancy technology and just use it as a setting for yet another adventure story. It's mostly fiction with a very little science.
Oldschool scifi writers, at least the ones you stil remember nowadays, were including a lot more of scentific thought and using story as a way to ask questions and think about not only science, but also humanity, thought process, society and whatever you can imagine. Because of that even if their vision of te future may have been wrong and we may know it now it doesn't change all thisscientific thinking. Ok - we may have internet instead of telepathy, but does it change the process of thinking about moder societies? Nope. On the other hand low-lvl sci-fi that was just using setting for adventure novel will look silly nowadays - because neither setting work anymore nor the story can work when we know ideas behind it are wrong ;p
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thanks. this looks awesome.
have you read "Lord of light"?
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Ah, I remember reading with The Old Breed for a history class. It was a good read. I liked that it was a firsthand account, but it was brutal like you said.
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I'm reading Deutschstunde by Siegfried Lenz. The English version of this book is called The German Lesson.
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"lezte Stunde waren wir...." I always took Stunde as last moment but I see you can use it as class. = )
I'm gonna search for an original version of this book. Looks interesting.
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World War Z by Max Brooks (reading that until I get hold of the first GoT novel)
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Follow You Home by Mark Edwards
surprisingly entertaining
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I finished yesterday "Ulysses", tough reading, very tough xD. I don't know what I'll be reading next though. Uprooted is on my wishlist.
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Are you going to read the whole series or just the one book?
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I don't think mine is as exquisite as the rest but I'm reading the Scion of Ikshvaku.
Not a great or perfect writer but I like the way he changes the myths into a believable story.
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And "A Bridge Too Far" by Cornelius Ryan.
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I recently finished re-reading the Wolf Brother series by Michelle Paver and The Song of Ice & Fire series by George R. R. Martin for the gazillionth time, planning on reading some Witcher and S.D. Perry Resident Evil Novels
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whats the Wolf Brother?
asking is better than googling, cause i don't read boring reviews ;)
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Wolf Brother is an amazing series about a 12 year old boy (Torak) in the Hunter and Gatherer (New Stone Age) era who loses his father to a bear attack and befriends/saves a wolfs pup not too long after, Torak's father tasks him with going to the Mountain of the world spirit and ask the spirit to destroy the bear before it destroys all life in the forest and that the bear is possessed by a demon. He doesn't belong to any tribe unlike most of the other people in that world and only relies on himself and the wolf (which he calls wolf) to survive, he also discovers he can talk to the wolf in the wolfs "language". The book also features chapters in the wolfs POV which have been written by Michelle after spending much time observing wolves and their behavior. The first book deals with Torak and Wolf trying to survive the bear that killed Torak's father and who's been hunting them.
Wolf Brother is the first book in a 6-part series called Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. I really recommend them if you like adventure books.
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Chapters in the Wolfs POV? cool.
have you read White fang? and The Call of the Wild
both include a lot of POV from the dog/wolf
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I NEED to know what happens to kvothe. That guy needs to release the third book already!
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It took like 4 years for him to release A Wise Man's Fear after The Name of the Wind, didn't it? he's almost as bad as G.R.R. Martin, The Name of the Wind was phenomenal though!
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No! Please don't mention it - I want to foret about this series - just ecause Rothfuss is taking so freaking long to write the next book I literally cannot stand it and have withdrawal sympthoms... ;(
Jokes aside - for me Rothfuss is the best fantasy debutant of the last decade. I just wish he could work faster...
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Fully agreed. I've read a lot of series that start great but really fall apart as the series progresses ... Gentlemen Bastards series is an unfortunate example of this. First book is amazing. Second less so. Third is fucking terrible.
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this look awesome!
but only 2 out of three... should i wait?!?!
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since i have four books incoming by mail, i'm fine for a month or so. maybe he will finish ;)
it is already on my wishlist and i will get it. it only costs 10$ (in book depository)
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I haven't read that but it's my friends favorite book. She made me wait at books-a-million for 5 hours straight so she could stand in line and get an autograph from the author
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Yepp, some of the best books i've ridden in the recent years, also dying for the 3rd to show off.
And Epic Fantasy is one of my favorite genres! :)
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I have just finished reading Michel Robert's last book and I wasn't sure what to read next. Thanks to your post, it will be Foundation (yes, I like to read books again sometimes).
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Nothing, yet. But I've bought The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and will start reading it next week :P
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Well to put it simple - I really REALLY dislike Coelho. For me he is just a scribbler who writes simple novels, fills them up with cheesy pseudo-phylosophical bullshit and cheesy metaphores, gives mentioned pseudophilosophical sentences that may look deep, but if you actually think about any of them turn out really shallow, and because of this all gets a huge following that I believe is undeserved. And all these ppl who will tell you everywhere that you must read Coelho because how deep it is and how it will change your life - strangely enough feedback received mainly from people who don't read a lot themselves so don't really have any comparisson to actually deep and valuable literature.
TL;DR He's a stupid scribbler who writes shallow novels for stupid people to make them feel good about themselves because they read such "rich" (in their mind) literature.
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I must admit, I myself don't read a lot. That shouldn't neccessarily mean I'll find it that great at all. I was just curious about this book, wanted to give it a try, so I'll do it. Maybe I'll come to the same conclusion as you did, but who knows.
Anyways, thanks for your input.
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Ofc I didn't intend to say "If you like Coelho you're an idiot" - I just wanted to say that I personally hate Coelho because I personally think his books are pseudo-intellectual works for idiots ;p It doesn't mean that everyone reading them will be idiots - I for example enjoy reading Star Wars novels or WH40k novels, simply because I like the universes. And I'm well aware that they are rather lowest possible examples of sci-fi - so I wouldn't bring them up in intellectual discussion about the genre, but I simply enjoy them ;) What I try to say is that even if a book is written so that biggest idiot will understand it it doesn't mean only idiots can enjoy it ;)
Sorry if I sounded like I was making fun of you because of you wanting to read Coelho :D:
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It's fine, don't be sorry for saying your opinion :P Everyone is different. I understood your reply, it's only that I express myself in a weird way. Don't mind me ¦D
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" I for example enjoy reading Star Wars novels or WH40k novels, simply because I like the universes. And I'm well aware that they are rather lowest possible examples of sci-fi - so I wouldn't bring them up in intellectual discussion about the genre, but I simply enjoy them ;)" Damn right, I can't spend all my time reading 1,000+ page historical novels and Shakespeare:P I love pulpy SF and fantasy.
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THANK YOU, I thought I was the only one to hate him >.<
Reading The Alchemist was boring as hell, and everyone was telling me that if I disliked it, it was because I was too stupid to understand the "deepness" of this book...
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A collection of Lovecraft's short stories, currently going through The Shadow over Innsmouth.
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Oooo, good choice. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is great one and one of my favorites. Dagon and The Dunwich Horror are probably my other faves and definitely worth reading
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I basically bought 4 books. Call of Cthulhu which is the collection of the short stories, The Case which you mentioned, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and The Mound.
So far so really good.
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I've been looking for a good collection of Lovecraft stories to get, what's the collection you have called?
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As I stated above, it's called Call of Cthulhu, which is also the title of the short story :>
What's worth mentioning is that the books are in Polish. The Call of Cthulhu one even has a special intro describing Lovecraft and his work called Shadow from Providence which I haven't found anywhere else.
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If you want to read them in English you can download the books from Wikisource in Epub or Pdf formats.
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You should try "At The Mountains of Madness" once you are done with those if the collection doesn't already include it.
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I loved "Call of Cthulhu," but after you've read a few Lovecraft stories, it starts to dawn on you how repetitive his plots and his layouts are... I'm especially irked by his tendency to use powerful italics and chilling exclamation marks(!) for revelations that the readers have already sussed out pages and pages ago. :P
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This Thread came to mind as I was loading this page, and nothing ha
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I'm waiting for book 3 of Companion's Codex to arrive in the mail, once it does I'll be reading that on top of the other one I'm reading. Such a good series :>
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i read all of them (that were published up to 5 years ago i think)
the best are the first three (in chronological order, not publication)
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damn..so when Drizzt is on surface, all the novel goes downhill?
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no. but it has ups and downs.
you can sort of feel Salvatore is not trying hard anymore, cause everyone will buy the books...
i actually quite liked Cadderly series (same world, diff chars). but that should come after you read drizzt enough
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Do visual novels count? Just finished reading eden* yesterday. It was beautiful.
Also, Choice of Robots. That's a great CYOA. Still gonna try to find other story branches. ^^
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I enjoyed the Temeraire series.
Currently in the midst of...
This Kind of War by TR Fehrenbach. It's a small-unit-focused military history of the Korean War, and bitterly sarcastic at times.
Dune. Time to reread Herbert.
Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore. In all my years studying the Soviet Union, I have yet to read this. How did that happen? Probably because I'm a military historian and not a political one. It's less of a bio of Stalin than a study of his inner circle.
And according to my Kindle, I am 9% through Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory...although I don't remember starting it.
I read multiple books at the same time.
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my currently reading list is a bit longer than what I put just in the OP
I know I'm a few chapters into the 2nd Monster Hunters International book (like the Dresden files but not as good and with more guns), i'm working on Volume 1 of Asimov stories, I'm a handful of pages into Dracula on my kindle (and similarly a few pages into the Le Fantome De Opera on my kindle), and I want to say I've started a few other books but I can't even be sure about that.
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Juuust finished Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King.
I was terribly disappointed. The writing style itself is great as always, which made me never want to put it down once I'd picked it up, but the plot, which is, you know, the meat of the story, is so uninspired, boring and trite that there was nothing to make me want to pick it up in the first place.
"Oh no! Mr. Bad Guy is going to kill like A THOUSAND generic nameless people!!!" Why should I care? They're not real people. They're characters in a story, so they don't get my sympathy as a given. You have to make me care about them first. Give them at least some characterization, something to make them feel real so it'd make a difference to me if they lived or died.
So yeah, I was planning on picking up Finders Keepers(the sequel) next but I'll probably go for something else now. I was thinking either the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy or maybe I could start reading a game of thrones. I know, those are long overdue!
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there are constantly threads for music, movies, and games, but so little love for the written word!
I'm currently reading Uprooted by Naomi Novak. I thoroughly enjoy her Temeraire series and I highly recommend it to anyone who is remotely interested in historical fiction (even if you don't it's worth looking into).
update: Now reading "Blood and Iron" by a local author
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