I finished Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive book 4: Rhythm of War today. What a damn journey!j As they say - Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.
I also just finished this! Now I’ve read all the Stormlight books, all the Mistborn books and War Breaker, now I need more Brandon Sanderson fix
I also just finished this! Now I’ve read all the Stormlight books, all the Mistborn books and War Breaker, now I need more Brandon Sanderson fix
You might finish them quickly, but I highly recommend his short story collection. They are all excellent! I particularly love Sixth of the Dusk.
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Thanks! I'll check it out!
Mistborn: Secret History is going to be great if you've read all of Mistborn. Also I should mention that the White Sand Graphic Novels are pretty good and part of the Cosmere, and of course there's Sanderson's first published novel, Elantris. All is worthy. I hope you enjoy.
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Mistborn: Secret History is going to be great if you've read all of Mistborn. Also I should mention that the White Sand Graphic Novels are pretty good and part of the Cosmere, and of course there's Sanderson's first published novel, Elantris. All is worthy. I hope you enjoy.
Thanks man! LOL I just finished Mistbron a secret History a few minutes before responding, I have Elantris at my house, and I''ll def check out White Sand, I assume that has to do with the white sand that was in Rythm of War?
I'm waiting for my copies of Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, and Flowers for Algernon to arrive to start the yearly readings. But since I order directly from the editor's maybe I should start with the books I left from last year: Quincas Borba, Nausea, and The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Thanks man! LOL I just finished Mistbron a secret History a few minutes before responding, I have Elantris at my house, and I''ll def check out White Sand, I assume that has to do with the white sand that was in Rythm of War?
Yes, and there are some characters from White Sand who appear in Shadesmar as well.
I've recently finished Night Watch by, you guessed it, Terry Pratchett. This might my favourite from the Discworld books so far. From start to finish I couldn't name a moment I had any issues with. My emotional investment was through the roof the whole time.
! Of course it helped that it was basically a sort of "flashback" chapter in the series, and we basically revisited established characters through the lens of the past.
Vetinari's "introduction" was especially neat, and I couldn't help but smile when reading about young Nobby's shenanigans. Vimes having to confront his younger self was also an interesting take on the character and his development.
! Interestingly enough, this was the first Watch book with almost no Carrot in it. He was there, of course, but for a couple of pages. It was a Vimes-marathon all along and while I like Carrot, I do think Sam is more interesting.
Human Acts by Han Kang. Nothing better than a sweet little existential crisis before bed time.
I finished off James Clavell's Shogun the other week, fantastic book. I'm preparing to start up Tai-Pan. bitlife pc jiofi.local.html
I thought I could give a try to Don DeLillo. Maybe Underworld, but it seems a bit long to start with. So I don't know exactly…
I have to finish reading Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa first
Does anyone know if SkyWard by Brandon Sanderson is any good, I read almost all his Cosmere stuff (just got white sand and arcanum unbound left) and was wondering if this was as good? I know it’s not part of his Cosmere but is it worth reading?
Hey all you Brandon Sanderson fans look at this!
https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/mistborns-kelsier-springs-forth-in-fortnite
I have been reading "The Starless Sea" by Erin Morgenstern. I'm really enjoying it, I like that the main character is gay but it is treated as normal as a straight person. Though the story gets a bit abstract, so sometimes it is hard to follow, but otherwise it is pretty good. I think I'm currently in the climax of the book, but not sure.
The Girl Who Played with Fire (2nd in the Stieg Larsson series)
I have been reading the Miss Peregrine book series! I have really been enjoying them! Currently, I'm on the fourth book - Map of Days, which I'm close to finishing! :happy:
About halfway through Stephen King's 11/22/63.
This is a seriously great book. One of his best.
I like to read Tresuare Island
The Girl Who Played with Fire (2nd in the Stieg Larsson series)
The third books great. A little wacky but still good.
As for me, I've been following this guy on tiktok (thetalkingbook), and found myself totally entranced with ancient philosophy.
And so like any illogical tiktok junkie…. I decided to jump into the deep end and buy some of the literature he reads from (marcus aurelius - meditations).
At some point I'm going to fall into a Good Will hunting cliche, I just know it.
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Every nation gets the government it deserves.–-- Joseph de Maistre
Re-reading Ciaphas Cain series. It is essentially a comedy series... set in Warhammer 40k universe. Yeah.
Books are awesome though, if you like a mix of comedy and horror, so... definitely would recommend.
The Golden Enclaves, book 3 of the Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik.
I can't love this author enough. Like Harry Potter? Want something darker or more intense? Want a heroine who's half Indian? Feeling betrayed by J.K. Rowling and can't read HP anymore? This is your series.
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The Golden Enclaves, book 3 of the Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik.
I can't love this author enough. Like Harry Potter? Want something darker or more intense? Want a heroine who's half Indian? Feeling betrayed by J.K. Rowling and can't read HP anymore? This is your series.
Ugh, I'm dying to get to Golden Enclaves but I'm slowly getting through Tamsyn Muir's third Locked Tomb book, Nona the Ninth, first. It's...very clearly a book that slowly spun out of a small gap in a planned trilogy.
I'm continuing my October tradition with another Stephen King audiobook. This year, I'm listening to Thinner. It has plenty of the stock characters you'd expect from King, but that's kind of why I like him. I don't think it'll rank high on my list along with The Talisman or Rose Madder, though.
Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath"
Finished The Golden Enclaves. I think I liked it significantly less than The Deadly Education but slightly more than The Last Graduate. I liked that the ending established optimism and a potential change to the flawed world system while also highlighting that change was unwelcome to a majority of the enclaves. I also appreciated the reversal with Orion and El's roles. However, the frequent jetsetting felt excessive and not particularly organic, and El felt more in her own head than ever. I found myself occasionally pushing her to actually move forward rather than just thinking for pages and pages in the middle of action.
Additionally, Nona the Ninth has a strong ending that sets up a lot of questions but really takes its time getting there. A lot of the book felt like we were frustratingly locked into a perspective where not only would other characters know more than the audience but the protagonist herself would avoid acknowledging things to us. It's not bad, but it's easily my least favorite Locked Tomb book so far.
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@Jabberwok Ooh, I just had a few coworkers telling me the other day about how great the Locked Tomb series is! That's probably gonna be my post-Christmas Barnes and Noble purchase this year so I can gush about it with them. We'll definitely have to chat about it as well! 
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@BellisarioFaith I can't recommend them enough. My avatar is someone's fanart of the main character, Gideon. One of the most impressive feats the author Tamsyn Muir does is make each book function as an excellent locked-box mystery of one kind or another while still also maintaining a strong sense of continuity and cohesive overall worldbuilding, all while drastically switching tones and styles between books. I adore the first book but I think the second one is where Muir really gets to show off the depth of her talent. Also, memes.
Recently finished Fanon's Black Faces, White Masks and jumped in Bevins' The Jakarta Method. Still have to fit the time to finish Gogol's dead souls (some 100 pages left) and Fanon's The Wretched of Earth.
Been reading Splinter of the Mind's Eye, one of, if not the first, Star Wars expanded universe story. The plot isn't bad, but the dialogue is so hokey.
I finished reading the earth remembrance of earth's past trilogy, The 3-Body Problem, The Dark Forest and Death's End, so the science fiction books of Chin Liu, in case some of you don't know him, the series will get an adaptation by Netflix supposedly sometime this year.
First time reading science fiction out of China, I think it was part of the book recommendation of Kojima in his book, creative gene.
The general story of the books is the fight for survival for humankind against a highly intelligent alien civilization who looks for a new home planet, as its current planet has a harsh living environment.
The first book is written well,
Really enjoyed the theme of the books and the different main characters were all flawed, their actions were understandable.
