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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 5:56 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: parusski
I am currently reading this.
Warspite1
I read this a couple of years ago. It's not as good as the sequel that. What do people prefer? this or that?
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:36 am
by rhondabrwn
Working my way through George Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, currently about to finish "A Feast for Crows" and will then finish off with "A Dance With Dragons".
Hoping things will pick up in the next volume as "A Feast for Crows" has dragged... a lot
I raced through the other books in the series.
Oops... just read Amazon reviews of "Dragons"... guess it's not the end of the series after all... the story drags on with pretty poor reviews it seems.
This is turning out like "The Wheel of Time" that started out smashingly and then descended into boring drudgery... waiting on the last of those novels to be published and will then try and get back into the story to finish it out.
Crap... I found "Destroyermen" series to be more exciting... not to mention "The Lost Fleet" series. Waiting to finish off both of them too.
Since I got my Kindle Fire, I've bought way too many books LOL
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:56 am
by Hertston
Peter Hamilton's The Reality Disfunction. Don't read much fiction these days, but fancied some good ol' space opera.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:53 am
by Jevhaddah_Slitherine
I really felt the need for a good laugh, MY girls are home from Uni and it'..... well...... nevermind, they go back soon [;)]
Cheers
Jev
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:41 am
by z1812
I am reading;
From Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
War and Peace
Of the 3, I am enjoying War and Peace the most.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:16 am
by LarryP
ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn
Since I got my Kindle Fire, I've bought way too many books LOL
Same here. I must have close to a hundred samples too.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:18 am
by hbrsvl
Hi-I'm reading "Roosevelt-Commander-in-Chief" and "The Second World War" by Antony Beevor.
FDR is about him and his lieutenants-Marshall, King, Arnold, etc. I find this good for sketches of the men and what they did in WW II.
The Second..., I like to read new histories. Sometimes some interesting facts come to light.
Hugh Browne
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 8:02 pm
by parusski
ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn
Working my way through George Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, currently about to finish "A Feast for Crows" and will then finish off with "A Dance With Dragons".
Hoping things will pick up in the next volume as "A Feast for Crows" has dragged... a lot
I raced through the other books in the series.
Oops... just read Amazon reviews of "Dragons"... guess it's not the end of the series after all... the story drags on with pretty poor reviews it seems.
This is turning out like "The Wheel of Time" that started out smashingly and then descended into boring drudgery... waiting on the last of those novels to be published and will then try and get back into the story to finish it out.
Crap... I found "Destroyermen" series to be more exciting... not to mention "The Lost Fleet" series. Waiting to finish off both of them too.
Since I got my Kindle Fire, I've bought way too many books LOL
It does drag on a bit, but things get better so don't give up. It is still a fantastic series, yes?
Wheel of Time and Goodkinds Sword of Truth series ended up just sucking with the last few books.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 5:26 am
by Anonymous
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:55 am
by parusski
ORIGINAL: tohapply
Ken Follett - Fall of Giants
One great novel, not quiet as fantastic as Pillars of the Earth, but damned close. The sequel is
Winter of the World about to be released. Can't wait.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:51 am
by warspite1
Wrong Thread [&:][8|]
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:56 am
by Toby42
Right now it's "The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War", by David Halberstam.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:15 pm
by Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Treale
Right now it's "The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War", by David Halberstam.
Treale,
I've been wanting a book on the American experience in the Korean War, as several of my family members were involved. Is "The Coldest Winter" just a focus on Chosin per se, or is it a general treatment of the entire war?
Thanks,
Chickenboy
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:40 pm
by Toby42
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Treale
Right now it's "The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War", by David Halberstam.
Treale,
I've been wanting a book on the American experience in the Korean War, as several of my family members were involved. Is "The Coldest Winter" just a focus on Chosin per se, or is it a general treatment of the entire war?
Thanks,
Chickenboy
It's a pretty in depth narrative of the political and military issues of the whole war. It gives a lot of biographical material on all of the players involved! Sometimes it gets bogged down into the minutae of the situation. A lot like playing a "Grigsby" game!!
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 5:24 pm
by cpdeyoung
Peter Hamilton's The Reality Disfunction. Don't read much fiction these days, but fancied some good ol' space opera.
I have enjoyed all his works. The first book of this series was based on a chilling premiss and gave me worries. It is good to the end, but changes a great deal over the length of the series.
Chuck
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 12:07 am
by parusski
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Wrong Thread [&:][8|]
That statement will take a LOT of explanation.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:37 am
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: parusski
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Wrong Thread [&:][8|]
That statement will take a LOT of explanation.
warspite1
A LOT of explanation? Erm...... Well I posted something here that should have been in the film/documentary thread, so I deleted the post, put it where it should have been in the first place and wrote Wrong Thread in this one.
I could write more on this if you want me to but.......,,
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:51 am
by rhondabrwn
ORIGINAL: parusski
ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn
Working my way through George Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, currently about to finish "A Feast for Crows" and will then finish off with "A Dance With Dragons".
Hoping things will pick up in the next volume as "A Feast for Crows" has dragged... a lot
I raced through the other books in the series.
Oops... just read Amazon reviews of "Dragons"... guess it's not the end of the series after all... the story drags on with pretty poor reviews it seems.
This is turning out like "The Wheel of Time" that started out smashingly and then descended into boring drudgery... waiting on the last of those novels to be published and will then try and get back into the story to finish it out.
Crap... I found "Destroyermen" series to be more exciting... not to mention "The Lost Fleet" series. Waiting to finish off both of them too.
Since I got my Kindle Fire, I've bought way too many books LOL
It does drag on a bit, but things get better so don't give up. It is still a fantastic series, yes?
Wheel of Time and Goodkinds Sword of Truth series ended up just sucking with the last few books.
Oh yes, I have a couple of unread Goodkind's series left unread... just ran out of interest. Still planning on doing the entire Wheel of Time again once all books are published (and available for Kindle). I'm going to be hopelessly lost if I don't go back and reread the whole damn thing LOL
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 11:48 am
by parusski
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: parusski
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Wrong Thread [&:][8|]
That statement will take a LOT of explanation.
warspite1
A LOT of explanation? Erm...... Well I posted something here that should have been in the film/documentary thread, so I deleted the post, put it where it should have been in the first place and wrote Wrong Thread in this one.
I could write more on this if you want me to but.......,,
OH. I thought you meant I posted in the wrong place. But I would not might one of your brilliant essays on what Ambrose thought about posting on the wrong thread.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 11:49 am
by parusski
"hopelessly lost" indeed.