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It's definitely worth the read even if Soldiers of Halla was a let down. There are so many amazing moments in that series. The Raven Rise climax was just... holy crap. Definitely worth it.

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My goal ended on my birthday, I'll give you guys the lowdown on that one later.

Right now, though, I have four days to finish the last Harry Potter book before I go see it on Friday morning. I finished the sixth one a few hours ago and am three chapters into Deathly Hallows.

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Just finished reading Patrick Rothfus The name of the Wind. Wow. That book was very good to say the least.

I finished The Name of the Wind a couple of days ago. Went straight on to The Wise Man's Fear, which I finished in one day. Safe to say I enjoyed it quite a bit :).

Right now I'm getting ready to start GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire for the first time.

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I read The Warded Man by Peter V Brett. It was an intersting read. Finished it within 4 days and started Wiseman's fear. Enjoying WF so far, drastically slower for sure.

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I read The Warded Man by Peter V Brett. It was an intersting read. Finished it within 4 days and started Wiseman's fear. Enjoying WF so far, drastically slower for sure.

ooooh. Warded Man was sooo good, when I read it. Do you have Desert Spear?

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started reading Shadow of the Hegemon last night, trying to get ready for Shadows in Flight by rereading Enders Game, Ender in Exile, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Enders Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon after that I am going to read Children of the Mind, Shadow Puppets and Shadow of the Giant considering I never got around to reading them.

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I was impressed by Peter Brett for shorter books. I just finished all of the Alcatraz novels and realized that I had bought Warbreaker but never read the book. I have on my list to try Louis Bjold after I'm done.

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Finished A Dance With Dragons on the 16th and just finished Ghost Story. Both very good reads but you need to have read the preceding books to get the story.

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Started to read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone the other day, it's fun to see the differences in the 2 versions

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7 books into Malazan, enjoying it immensely. And I convinced my mum to try Rothfuss, she's enjoying it so far, just started WMF :D

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Besides the Sanderson books I've been reading:

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi

Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

MetaTropolis by various (edited by John Scalzi)

Leviathan by Scott Westerfield

Behemoth by Scott Westerfield

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

John Dies at the End by David Wong

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I picked up Silverheart by Micheal Moorcock from the library, because I read it a few years ago and remember enjoying it immensely. It's pretty good so far. A little infodumpy in places, but really good. I can't help but think of Allomancy A LOT while reading this, though. :P

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Finished Wise Mans Fear. It was good, kind of what I expected. It was longer than needed probably but Rothfuss is amazing at his ability to tell a story beautifully. Now reading Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett. Then trying to decide what I should read next. It will either be the Night Angel Trilogy, re-reading Mistborn or White Sand. Any thoughts?

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Finished Wise Mans Fear. It was good, kind of what I expected. It was longer than needed probably but Rothfuss is amazing at his ability to tell a story beautifully. Now reading Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett. Then trying to decide what I should read next. It will either be the Night Angel Trilogy, re-reading Mistborn or White Sand. Any thoughts?

Yeah, it was longer than it needed to be to tell the story, but to my mind it's embodying one of its not-so-subtle themes. It does suffer from a bit of what Robert Jordan came down with in the later books of WoT - letting beautiful storytelling get in the way of the story - but, can a novel ever really suffer for that? It depends what you're looking to get out of a book, I suppose.

I definitely struggled with my interest to continue into the Wheel of Time around Winter's Heart, but Wise Man's Fear kept an uncomfortably firm grip on me all the way through. Maybe it's to do with the length of the series? From the beginning of Wise Man's Fear, you can see the end, even if it's a thousand or so pages distant. But with the Wheel of Time - at the time I was reading - I had no idea if how long the series would go on, and if I had another ten steadily-plodding books to look forward to.

Sorry, rambling. Both series are fabulous. I will be getting my hands on Towers of Midnight very soon now - haven't been able to keep to my decision to wait until closer to AMoL one bit :P

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Now reading Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett. Then trying to decide what I should read next.

If you're trying to read the complete series there are two short stories as well.

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Ghost Story, by Jim Butcher. I loved this book.

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