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Re: What are you reading?

#81 Post by abgemacht » Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:13 pm

About 20% through the Stand. Unclear who is doing worse: King's characters or our current governments.
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Re: What are you reading?

#82 Post by MajorMitchell » Thu Apr 09, 2020 9:09 am

Just received, waiting to be read
Christopher Andrew "The Authorised History of MI5"
Nigel West "Double Cross in Cairo"
Max Hastings "The Secret War Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945"

I'm about a third of the way through a history of intelligence services. That started with ancient world history of spies etc.
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Re: What are you reading?

#83 Post by PRINCE WILLIAM » Sat Apr 11, 2020 4:06 pm

abgemacht wrote:
Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:13 pm
About 20% through the Stand. Unclear who is doing worse: King's characters or our current governments.
Υou see the similarities with the current pandemic?
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Re: What are you reading?

#84 Post by Durga » Sun Apr 12, 2020 4:51 pm

I'm getting through The Wheel of Time. Currently almost done The Shadow Rising but I think I'll need a break from the series soon.
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Re: What are you reading?

#85 Post by Octavious » Sun Apr 12, 2020 6:08 pm

Durga wrote:
Sun Apr 12, 2020 4:51 pm
I'm getting through The Wheel of Time. Currently almost done The Shadow Rising but I think I'll need a break from the series soon.
A break? You haven't even got to the stage where it properly slows down yet. In Lord of Chaos not a lot happens, but by the time you get to the Path of Daggers you will yearn for the relative excitement of book 5. Hundreds of pages go by where the most significant event is some adjusting their skirt or braid for the umpteenth thousand time.

I think it was designed to numb the reader's mind and stop them asking awkward questions like "what the hell was the point of that tree in the first book?

The end's good though :)
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Re: What are you reading?

#86 Post by Durga » Sun Apr 12, 2020 6:33 pm

Octavious wrote:
Sun Apr 12, 2020 6:08 pm
Durga wrote:
Sun Apr 12, 2020 4:51 pm
I'm getting through The Wheel of Time. Currently almost done The Shadow Rising but I think I'll need a break from the series soon.
A break? You haven't even got to the stage where it properly slows down yet. In Lord of Chaos not a lot happens, but by the time you get to the Path of Daggers you will yearn for the relative excitement of book 5. Hundreds of pages go by where the most significant event is some adjusting their skirt or braid for the umpteenth thousand time.

I think it was designed to numb the reader's mind and stop them asking awkward questions like "what the hell was the point of that tree in the first book?

The end's good though :)
i want a knife so i can cut nynaeve's braid right off her goddamn head!!! character development is making every character worse from book 1 other than mat. i think i'm just getting through the books too fast and reading other things in between might make me more excited for this journey. i think i genuinely enjoy a total of 3 characters right now
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Re: What are you reading?

#87 Post by Sunstriker » Sun Apr 12, 2020 8:50 pm

I’m currently re-reading “The Wheel of Time.” An old fashioned fantasy with a nice helping of “epic” put in.

I have a large stack of books to work through, but besides “Permanent Record” (Edward Snowden’s book) I don’t remember what else I have xD
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Re: What are you reading?

#88 Post by Rusty1428 » Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:17 pm

The Trisolaris Trilogy, its an incredibly in-depth sci-fi series about what might happen after first contact with an alien race. The thing I find most interesting about it (especially the first one) is how it seems ever so slightly different from all western sci-fi I’ve read but I can never put my finger on what exactly is does differently.
Basically it’s really, really good and well worth reading if you like sci-fi
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Re: What are you reading?

#89 Post by dargorygel » Tue Apr 21, 2020 7:29 pm

Rusty1428 wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:17 pm
The Trisolaris Trilogy, its an incredibly in-depth sci-fi series about what might happen after first contact with an alien race. The thing I find most interesting about it (especially the first one) is how it seems ever so slightly different from all western sci-fi I’ve read but I can never put my finger on what exactly is does differently.
Basically it’s really, really good and well worth reading if you like sci-fi
Do you know if it is available in English?
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Re: What are you reading?

#90 Post by dargorygel » Tue Apr 21, 2020 7:30 pm

dargorygel wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 7:29 pm
Rusty1428 wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 5:17 pm
The Trisolaris Trilogy, its an incredibly in-depth sci-fi series about what might happen after first contact with an alien race. The thing I find most interesting about it (especially the first one) is how it seems ever so slightly different from all western sci-fi I’ve read but I can never put my finger on what exactly is does differently.
Basically it’s really, really good and well worth reading if you like sci-fi
Do you know if it is available in English?
NVM... i had my settings incorrectly set.
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