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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Just started re-reading Dinocalypse Now by Chuck Wendig. I've read the book but never read the rest of the trilogy, and 3 years are enough for me to forget most of what happened there. Anyway, great start, grabbed me by the balls and it's not letting go. It's a pulp adventure story about dinosaurs trying to take over Earth.

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A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin.

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Metamorphoses by Ovid.

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Book:
Drood- Dan Simmons
&
Comic:
Wasteland- Antony Johnston & Christopher Mitten

I am actually not enjoying Wasteland. I am just trying hard to finish it. As I bought the bundle for it thinking that I'd love it. Usually I am all about most things post apocalyptic themed but I find this to be extremely boring & hard to keep my interest.

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Finished Old Man's War (that ending really got me, props to you Scalzi for being such a fantastic wordsmith) and definitely plan to read the rest of the series.

Started Imzadi last night, already halfway through. Enjoying it a lot more than I expected I would.

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didn't you mean this
almost the same site...

i tried to read a Startrek book once, it wasn't that good...

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Ah yes, thanks for the correct link.

Like a lot of tie-in fiction they vary greatly in quality. I remember reading some TNG and DS9 novels alongside the shows but don't remember them that well.

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Greg Egan - Axiomatic (Sci-Fi anthology)

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Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer.

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Just finished Neil Gaiman "Smoke and Mirrors"
man, the last story was one of the best i've read. no spoilers
ok, one. it's good!

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Just getting started in The Peripheral by William Gibson

Before that, if graphic novels count (and they should):
Whatever happened to the Caped Crusader by Neil Gaiman, art by Andy Kubert

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Terri Prattchet disk world...

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41 books...

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After completion of the Wheel of Time saga by Robert Jordan... I'm now cathing up the classic One: LotR

I've to admit that probably WoT is my nr 1 "fantasy" ever at pair with Andrzej Sapkowski's Geralt saga (to be completed, missing last 2 books).

LotR is great and I'm enjoyng it much, but...

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This thread, again... Sigh D:.

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we can't always do puzzles :)

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How the f**** can't I google what's the english title of Michael Mansfield's book?? Something like Hunger, but google tries to force an old, left-wing barrister's memoirs on my throat while I know that M.M. is actually a quite good horror-writer, something like Stephen King. I'll be back if I find the title but literally google gives nothing to " Michael Mansfield writer -barrister -memoirs book list". It's just incredible.
LOL it's just an alias of a hungarian writer :D It got me seriously confused (you know if google doesn't find something, that thing does not exist)

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maybe you should add a page on wiki.
this is all i got :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Michael_Mansfield_(writer)

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Perhaps an english version doesn't exist..
This is all goodreads has: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/265046.Michael_Mansfield

Or you could search the web via its ISBN :)

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Okay, I didn't expect somebody to reply - turned out Michael Mansfield is only an alias, he's a Hungarian writer, so that's why his books/titles can't be found in english (yet? :) )

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Well, if he has published something with that pen-name, it has to be somewhere. So yes, the more obvious solution is that an english version of the book doesn't exist yet.

Don't know if you've checked the previous link but, to confirm this, between all books there is one in hungarian (called Tűzkeresztség) which has no other editions. maybe he got mistakenly "fused" with the real Michael Mansfield..

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just started reading 1984.

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Neal Stephenson – Seveneves

I don't think I will ever finish it, given it has almost 900 pages (never finished Cryptonomicon either </3) I got it yesterday and read like 40... but so far it's enjoyable.

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Murk! I really loved Snowcrash and The Diamond Age, but haven't finished the Baroque Cycle myself. I need to, someday.

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Haven't read those. Well, I'm still in a third of the Seveneves, it's great, but I don't feel like reading lately. :|

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I'm so bad at reading, still stuck with Seveneves, read nothing aside of school related stuff and one short story. I read in bursts, and after the last one I'm 63% in. With this pace it will take me only 1-5 more months!

(Consider this a bump, whoever happen to read this message)

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Well, i just (a week ago) finished Flatland
also called "A Romance of Many Dimensions"
a book about geometry written in 1884. a very interesting read, and very easy to follow (math wise i mean)

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I'm half way trough last book of The Broken Empire Trilogy. It's ok as timekiller in subway ^^

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I'm reading "The Martian" by Andy Weir. It's quite entertaining, although I think the narrator's tone is too light-hearted for the reader to really believe anything bad is gonna happen to him. :P

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Steinbeck.

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All of it? That should take a while...

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Needed to start somewhere. :)

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Haruki Murakami - His kitchen table books

Murakami is just so f...g good!

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i agree

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The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

:O :D

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Ooh, neat, the only book I've read of hers is Written on the Body. I liked it, though.

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I found my old Kindle since I'm gonna be in the public transit a lot, so now I'm reading stuff by Lovecraft.
Also sometimes I switch it and work on re-reading the Witcher books.

The backlog is horrible, I've got so many book in here I want to read, but at the same time I've got even more books I wish to read again... it's inescapable :-P

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while i can watch movies repeatedly (Shrek is a good example). the number of books is limited, Lord of Light was one.

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I'm into double digits with certain books, haha.

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what is the book you've read most times?
i think mine is The hobbit and maybe LoTR. but Lord of Light was much more fun. one of the few books i finished and reopened a day after

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Lord of the Rings, probably. I haven't read it in over ten years now but I was seriously obsessed with it as a teenager.

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The Praise of Folly by Erasmus

thank you for this nice topc

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Crown of Swords, Book 7, of The Wheel of Time.
Bit slow for a couple of books now, will pick up pace later.

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"Guardians of the Loist. Volume Two of the Sovereign Stone Trilogy"

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