What Are You Reading, Part 2

[Hood he/him]

After this trilogy, I'll be reading Calamity, BoM, Morning Star by Pierce Brown, and then Tigana by GGK, if you want to do any of those.

BoM (Bands of Mourning ??) , and Tigana should be fun. Notify me, when you start it. I haven't started the Reckoners trilogy, nor the one by Pierce Brown one.

[Mailliw73 he/him]

BoM (Bands of Mourning ??) , and Tigana should be fun. Notify me, when you start it. I haven't started the Reckoners trilogy, nor the one by Pierce Brown one.

Alright, I'll try to remember. If anyone else wants in, let me know.

[Zathoth]

I can join Bands of Mourning, unless I get it too early and read it in a day again.

[DSC01 he/him]

It looks like it's going to be really good. Unfortunately, I got sidetracked by Worm because I forgot the book at home one day (I have downtime at work when I can read), so I turned to something I can read online. I have to say, I am really liking Worm a lot.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

Reading a lot of books now. The idea is, come the new year, I can finish them all rather quickly and have a nice head start on my book-a-week goal! Hoo-rah!

 

1) The Trial - Franz Kafka

2) The Judging Eye - R. Scott Bakker

3) Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? - James Shapiro

4) Rights From Wrongs - Andy Bershowitz

5) We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre 1939-1975

6) The Spanish Civil War- Hugh Thomas (I don't expect finishing this for a while yet)

[Hood he/him]

Here's the books I've ordered as part of my New Years gift to myself

 

1. The Dialogues of Plato (Euthyphro, Phaedo, Crito, Apology, and others)

2. The Republic of Plato (This time, I own it)

3. The Selfish Gene

[skaa he/him]

I'm now reading The Blinding Knife, book 2 of the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks. The Black Prism was okay, but I hope it gets better.

[ChickenPlague he/him]

I am reading the Alcatraz series. Just finished book 4.

[Argent he/him]

Right. So, I finished Terry Pratchett's The Truth since my last update, which was alright - not amazing, but pretty good; better once you realize how much Vimes is in it.

 

Realizing that I might fail my 52 books in 2015 reading challenge, I decided to cheat a little bit and read Mary Robinette Kowal's The Lady Astronaut of Mars, which I had been eyeing for a long time. To be fair, the story bummed me out a little. I don't like reading about the frailty of people, and this had a lot of that. Good story, but not my cup of tea.

 

And finally, to wrap up my reading challenge, I went through Neil Gaiman's Coraline. It felt like both a children's book, in the way everything felt like an adventure, and a horror story. Two hours after I finished it, I saw the movie - which, if you were curious, emphasizes the adventure aspect much more than the horror one. And whose finale I didn't like at all. Some of the deviations from the book I could accept, but I felt like the book finale worked much better. 

[Left he/him]

I'm listening to Temeraire book four on audio, and please fly surprised to have the same narrator that did Dune.

I put down Malazan for about a week, but I'm coming back to GoM.

I quite enjoyed a nonfiction collection by Malcolm Gladwell.

I have the first book in the Black Prism and Django Wexler's trilgies on my shelf. I don't know much about them other than I've seen their names on the forums quite a bit. What kind of content levels should I expect from them?

[Argent he/him]

I have the first book in the Black Prism and Django Wexler's trilgies on my shelf. I don't know much about them other than I've seen their names on the forums quite a bit. What kind of content levels should I expect from them?

 

Both of them are a tiny bit more explicit than Brandon. No gore, cursing in both if I recall correctly, no explicit sex.

[skaa he/him]

So, on a whim I bought the ebook version of The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes. I've been fascinated by the mitochondrial DNA ever since high school, and Sykes' idea of giving mitochondrial haplogroups female names (Jasmine, Helena, etc.) is very intriguing to me because it helps people realize that these haplogroups originate from actual individual women who lived thousands of years ago and who passed down their mtDNA to their children, to their daughters' children, to their daughters' daughters' children, etc., in a long unbroken matrilineal descent all the way to the present.

 

But now I'm having trouble deciding which book (The Seven Daughters of Eve or The Blinding Knife) I should try to finish before the year ends.

Edited December 30, 2015 by skaa

[Briar King]

I'm now reading The Blinding Knife, book 2 of the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks. The Black Prism was okay, but I hope it gets better.

I lov these books

[DSC01 he/him]

I'm now reading The Blinding Knife, book 2 of the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks. The Black Prism was okay, but I hope it gets better.

It does. I really like that series a lot. I'm anxiously awaiting the last volume, while simultaneously fearing that it might end up like Night Angel, with at least two extra volumes' worth of material jammed in to the last book to wrap things up.

[StormingTexan he/him]

I started to read A Crown of Swords got through the prologue then decided I need a little more of a break.

With extra time off for the holidays I've gone through a Military Sci-Fi series by Paul Hosinger called the Man of War series. It was pretty good if you like this genre. The ending was really open ended though.

I think I'm going to read a lcouple more easy reads then jump back on WoT.

[DSC01 he/him]

Crown of Swords is where the slowdown starts. I strongly disagree with those who contend that nothing happens until Knife of Dreams, but with every main character off doing their own thing, it takes a long time for anything to be resolved. Just a warning, in hopes that you don't get disillusioned when you start back in on WoT.

[Kestrel she/her]

Finally got into Lord of Chaos on the trip. I think taking four weeks of no reading helped. I'm about two thirds of the way through (counting down until Perrin, heh)

[StormingTexan he/him]

Finally got into Lord of Chaos on the trip. I think taking four weeks of no reading helped. I'm about two thirds of the way through (counting down until Perrin, heh)

It took me until the last third to get in to it seemed really slow before that but the ending is pretty awesome.

[Hood he/him]

It took me until the last third to get in to it seemed really slow before that but the ending is pretty awesome.

 

Well, I felt the slowdown starting in book 5. I'll try again now. I get quite impatient at times.

[AerionBFII he/him]

OMG!!! The Blinders Knife!?!?! 

Hahaha i loved that series, it is amazing!!

Try Night Angel when you finished the series!!

If your a fan of the Audiobooks try Graphic Audio or Simon Vance.. although Black Prism Narrator sounds like a surfer... 

Edited January 3, 2016 by WEZ313

[Hood he/him]

I had heard Elantris from Graphic Audio. It was amazing.

 

As for normal audiobooks, Michael Kramer is my favourite narrator.

[AerionBFII he/him]

I had heard Elantris from Graphic Audio. It was amazing.

 

As for normal audiobooks, Michael Kramer is my favourite narrator.

Have an Upvote for that!

I'd rather have Michael Kramer narrate my life than Morgan Freeman haha. I also love Simon Vance, Steven Brand Luke Daniels and Nick Podehl.

 

Reading Night Angel + Lightbringer on Graphic audio was probably the best decision i ever made regarding reading haha

[StormingTexan he/him]

It's funny I see people here (and rightly so) say Brandon gets better with every book but so does Michael Kramer. I love his narration. I listen to a lot of Audio books and the narrator can make or break it. I think I can listen to Kramer read just about anything.

Also Nick Podehl he's the guy that reads The Kingkiller Chronicle right? He's pretty good too.

[sanderfuss he/him]

Rupert Degas reads the kingkiller chronicles and is excellent. My favourite infact. The way he seems to be able to imitate actual actors is great for creating the scene in your mind. Saying that I would listen to pretty much anything narrated by Kramer and Kate Reading. I first listened to Kramer with 'the final empire' and took a little while to get used to that deep dark voice when he's not reading lines of character but the guy is quality. It pleases me that he continues to read BS's books and I think he should do more. It also pleases me that he narrates WoT with Kate. It's made getting through book 7-9 a bit easier. Although with the amount that's going on in them with characters all over the place I'm not surprised they going so slow.

[StormingTexan he/him]

Huh that's weird I thought his name sounded familiar so I checked and the Audible version of Kingkiller is read by Nick Podehl. What version is read by Degas? I'd like to check it out.

Edited January 3, 2016 by StormingTexan