Which book are you reading now? Volume XIV

[EnglishEdward]

Have you tried any of Holt's historical novels? I liked Olympiad and Alexander at the World's End although I thought they were getting a bit formulaic after that.

I have not read those. My spreadsheet lists.

Expecting Someone Taller
Falling Sideways
Flying Dutch
Grailblazers
Little People
My Hero
Nothing but Blue Skies
Only Human
Snow White and the Seven Samurai
Wrong Planet
Ye Gods
You Don't Have to be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps

 

[Synobun]

I go up-and-down with Sanderson. I thought Elantris was outstanding. I dove straight into The Way of Kings, but couldn't get into it. I just read Skyward the other week, which was pretty good, and The Reckoners series was alright, too. I'm kind of scared to reread Elantris, on the chance it isn't as good as I remember. I have the same problem with Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana and China Mieville's Perdido Street Station (which ought to be a tv series by now, I can't fathom why it hasn't been adapted yet). Anyway, I haven't read any of the Mistborn books yet. If these are your bag, I also recommend NK Jemisin's The Fifth Season and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett.

I've been reading Steelheart from The Reckoners and have been deeply unimpressed so far. I'm finding it really difficult to muster the motivation to keep reading but I'm only 20% through.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I've been reading Steelheart from The Reckoners and have been deeply unimpressed so far. I'm finding it really difficult to muster the motivation to keep reading but I'm only 20% through.

Don't bother. It doesn't get any better. Give Elantris a try, if you're on a Sanderson jag, or one of the others I mentioned.

 

[Josu]

Don't bother. It doesn't get any better. Give Elantris a try, if you're on a Sanderson jag, or one of the others I mentioned.

Elantris is palmary.
I enjoyed as well The Way of Kings. However I curse myself for starting another unfinished series. Words of Radiance and Oathbringer were OK as well IMHO

From this author I read as well the first four books Mistborn series, I liked the first three as a whole, but I had difficulties ending the fourth one.

 

[AmazonQueen]

I have not read those. My spreadsheet lists.

Expecting Someone Taller
Falling Sideways
Flying Dutch
Grailblazers
Little People
My Hero
Nothing but Blue Skies
Only Human
Snow White and the Seven Samurai
Wrong Planet
Ye Gods
You Don't Have to be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps

I've read some but not all of them. Who's Afraid of Beowulf? is decent too, I particularly liked the Norse interpretation of the London Underground map.

 

[carmen510]

I've set an 80 book reading goal for this year - previously managed my 50 and 75 book goals in the last two years.

Currently reading:
Humility is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age
Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

 

[Synobun]

I've set an 80 book reading goal for this year - previously managed my 50 and 75 book goals in the last two years.

Currently reading:
Humility is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age
Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

Six years gone and this is your returning post. Welcome back.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Yesterday I finished reading:

The King's Private Army

by

Andrew Stewart.

 

[Josu]

Just ended the third book of The Wheel of Time.
Starting Fatherland by Robert Harris

 

[EgonSpengler]

I just started reading War on Peace: The end of diplomacy and the decline of American influence by Ronan Farrow.

Starting Fatherland by Robert Harris

I loved that book. I haven't read it in many years, but I'd imagine it holds up pretty well, with Nazis still featuring in things like Hunters and Amazon's adaptation of The Man in the High Castle. I've also read Harris' Enigma and Archangel, but for the life of me, I can't remember a thing about them. I really liked Pompeii, though, and I think it's the only one of them that didn't get a film adaptation.

 

[Josu]

I just started reading War on Peace: The end of diplomacy and the decline of American influence by Ronan Farrow.


I loved that book. I haven't read it in many years, but I'd imagine it holds up pretty well, with Nazis still featuring in things like Hunters and Amazon's adaptation of The Man in the High Castle. I've also read Harris' Enigma and Archangel, but for the life of me, I can't remember a thing about them. I really liked Pompeii, though, and I think it's the only one of them that didn't get a film adaptation.

There is a creepy film called Pompeii with Kit Harington, does it count?

 

[Josu]

I just started reading War on Peace: The end of diplomacy and the decline of American influence by Ronan Farrow.


I loved that book. I haven't read it in many years, but I'd imagine it holds up pretty well, with Nazis still featuring in things like Hunters and Amazon's adaptation of The Man in the High Castle. I've also read Harris' Enigma and Archangel, but for the life of me, I can't remember a thing about them. I really liked Pompeii, though, and I think it's the only one of them that didn't get a film adaptation.

BTW Archangel was translated to Spanish as El hijo de Stalin, Stalin's son.

 

[EnglishEdward]

I have just finished reading

Overlord

by

Max Hastings.

His view is that most of the criticism of generals' decisions is of less relevance; that what happened
reflected more the relative resources applied and the experience and skills of the combat units themselves.

 

[EgonSpengler]

There is a creepy film called Pompeii with Kit Harington, does it count?

I haven't seen it, but... Paul W.S. Anderson? Okay, not everything he makes is a complete disaster. I thought Pandorum was okay, and the first Resident Evil has some bits I liked.

 

[Josu]

I haven't seen it, but... Paul W.S. Anderson? Okay, not everything he makes is a complete disaster. I thought Pandorum was okay, and the first Resident Evil has some bits I liked.

I liked DOA: Dead or Alive.
They were times where I liked any **** in which Sarah Carter was involved

 

[Takhisis]

I just started reading War on Peace: The end of diplomacy and the decline of American influence by Ronan Farrow.

Mia Farrow and/or Woody Allen's adoptive son? Or is that another Farrow?

 

[EgonSpengler]

Mia Farrow and/or Woody Allen's adoptive son? Or is that another Farrow?

That's the one. He's not one of the adopted kids, though.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

That's the one. He's not one of the adopted kids, though.

No he's Sinatra's kid

 

[EgonSpengler]

No he's Sinatra's kid

Yeah, it's hard to tell who he looks more like...

 

[Ajidica]

I just started reading War on Peace: The end of diplomacy and the decline of American influence by Ronan Farrow.

Let me know what you think of it. For some reason, I just don't trust Ronan Farrow. Probably how he went from working in the Obama administration on security issues and writing a book on it; to investigating sexual assault by celebrities. Not a lot of overlap in those skills.