JamesRobot | 5,800 Events Team · Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 On 3/4/2020 at 1:22 PM, Tabonga said: Heh - now that you are hooked the price goes up. Probably at least three times. Damn you pushers! Just finished Derai and it's got my interest piqued enough to continue the series. I think I might just grab an ebook collection. We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br81zad | 629 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 I've been reading through the Ian Flemming Bond series. I'm just past midway of Thunderball currently. Thus far, I think Moonraker might be my favorite. Live and Let Die being my least favorite. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabonga | 2,317 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 57 minutes ago, JamesRobot said: Damn you pushers! Just finished Derai and it's got my interest piqued enough to continue the series. I think I might just grab an ebook collection. We'll see. I have a copy of Mayenne bouncing around - that occurs later in the series though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,777 Administrator · Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Br81zad said: I've been reading through the Ian Flemming Bond series. I'm just past midway of Thunderball currently. Thus far, I think Moonraker might be my favorite. Live and Let Die being my least favorite. Moonraker is my favorite, personally. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VegHead | 127 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 I'm reading Doctor Who: Star Tales, a collection of 6 short stories. I'm halfway through, and two of the three I've read so far have been really good. I almost didn't keep on with it, though, because I found the writing in the very first story to be a bit off-putting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,691 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. So far it's pretty interesting, if a bit slow. I've heard the show is great, so I'll hopefully have time to check it out after I finish the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themisfit138 | 523 Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themisfit138 | 523 Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 With all this downtime. I decided to read my old comic collection. Starting off with Todd McFarlane’s run on Spider-man 1-15. 1-7 were all top notch story and art. Then the are became average with only a few good pages. The Hobgoblin books were especially good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,525 Editorials Team · Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 Finished up The Blinding Knife and The Obelisk Gate. Both were good, but I preferred the first book in each respective series. Burned through this in the last week Great story. Turns out the Vincent Price adaptation (The Last Man on Earth) was the most faithful. This collection also has the story that the Zuni Fetish Doll segment of Trilogy of Terror was adapted from, which was a nice surprise. Currently reading this 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabonga | 2,317 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Reed Rothchild said: Finished up The Blinding Knife and The Obelisk Gate. Both were good, but I preferred the first book in each respective series. Burned through this in the last week Great story. Turns out the Vincent Price adaptation (The Last Man on Earth) was the most faithful. It has always kind of amazed me how that ultra low budget version is the best of the three versions in a lot of ways. I think it is because it played out as more of a zombie movie rather than a vampire one - and it was able to ride along with the success of Night of the Living Dead a few years later, And it had that great (but prosaic) station wagon (a 1958 Ford Country Sedan) to keep it grounded in reality in a way that the glitziness of the two later remakes couldn't duplicate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangoin | 11 Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 I read this in fifth grade, my wife was kind of enough to get the series for me for Christmas. I'm on book three at the moment. I'm not a reader but I've been plowing through this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,525 Editorials Team · Posted April 12, 2020 Author Share Posted April 12, 2020 Continuing all of the different series I'm in the middle of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandalf1 | 26 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Star Wars: Aftermath, the direct (new canon) sequel to Return of the Jedi. I picked this up when it originally came out, but haven't had time to read it. Well, guess what? I have time now. I finished Anthony Daniels' I am C-3PO autobiography in one day yesterday, and it was delightful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,800 Events Team · Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Another one from @Tabonga. It's pretty rough for Heinlein. He came a long way, baby. Definitely interested in that Tunnel in the Sky. I've come across it a couple times but always chose other books over that ine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabonga | 2,317 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, JamesRobot said: Another one from @Tabonga. It's pretty rough for Heinlein. He came at long way, baby. Definitely interested in that Tunnel in the Sky. I've come across it a couple times but always chose other books over that ine. If things ever approach normal again I have another batch of books for you. And I miss Woody's pizza! (Unfortunately a lot of his stuff really hasn't aged well - part of the problem is that a lot of his stuff was aimed at what we could now call YA. And his writing style is not as smooth as many of the current authors. Plus the technology had veered in ways that he could not have predicted.) Another few books that you might like are The Secret of the Martian Moons, The Secret of the Ninth Planet, and the Secret of Saturn's Rings by Donald Wolheim. Also Raiders of the Rings by Alan Nourse is worth a look see. All aimed at a younger audience but fun reads anyway. Edited April 14, 2020 by Tabonga 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,525 Editorials Team · Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 On 4/11/2020 at 9:24 PM, Reed Rothchild said: Man, this Ancillary trilogy might be the slowest thing I've ever read in my life. The cover and description and praise make you think of typical sci fi space battles and whatnot. There is none of that. Instead it is lots and lots and lots of this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astor Reinhardt | 199 Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Bloodfire Quest by Terry Brooks Just one of a long series of fantasy novels that take place in the future after a "great war". It's an interesting concept since it takes all that fantasy stuff...magic, demons, elves...and puts it in our world...in our future after we've destroyed the world...instead of it taking place way, way back in the past. I recommend the series if you like fantasy and you love long series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,811 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Happy World Book Day! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portabello | 99 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Watchmen. It’s awesome so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrobins | 1,725 Moderator · Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 The Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, Volume 25. I’ve reached the 70s and it’s...definitely still going on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabonga | 2,317 Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 I am currently reading this series of 12 books (one has yet to be published), It is a light fantasy (no elves, dwarfs etc.) set in world that I would say is later medieval but pre-gunpowder and magic exists in it - but only a fraction of the population is born with the ability to manipulate that magic. It is somewhat unusual in that it is 4 trilogies set in the same world - but each trilogy has a new set of characters (I assume that characters from each trilogy could appear (likely as cameos) in the others - but I am only halfway through the second book of the first trilogy,) https://www.goodreads.com/series/146658-maradaine-sequence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,525 Editorials Team · Posted May 6, 2020 Author Share Posted May 6, 2020 Finished Ancillary 2 (really testing my patience, but it ended with some excitement at least) and Shattered Seas 2 (loved it) Read this real fast since it was super short. Pretty good. Burning through this right now It's interesting that there is absolutely no mention of the words "Star Wars" anywhere. Since back then that was the name of a movie, not a franchise... Also interesting that this storyline was the backup for The Empire Strikes Back, in case Star Wars was a bomb and they needed a low-budget sequel alternative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkchylde28 | 1,546 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Finished reading the last of the Dune books a little while back (Chapterhouse: Dune, in case I never updated here) and liked it ok. I thought it drug on longer than it needed to, but was altogether a decent book and part of a decent series. From there, I moved on to start reading "Tai Pan" by James Clavell. I was always a fan of the Noble House miniseries from the 80s based on his novel of the same name and had started looking into reading it when I found out that he had a whole series of books based in Asia that were supposed to be interrelated. I could have started with Shogun but figured that while he might have loosely tied it to the others, I'd prefer to start with something that actually directly links to the book (and miniseries) that I was originally interested in. Good book so far, at roughly 80% through. It's not a bad or long novel, but at this point I can't wait to be done simply because a buddy hooked me up with a copy of the movie they made of it about 30 years ago which I refuse to watch until I'm done reading the book lest it spoil something. Fingers crossed the movie turns out to be half as good as the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabonga | 2,317 Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 I finished the last Daniel Faust book and started on this last night: I only got into it a short ways before turning out the lights - looks like it going to be as good as World War Z was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 3,983 Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Finished a few books recently. A farewell to arms- Hemingway I really enjoyed this book, I’ve always had Hemingway on my list of authors to read and finally got around to it. The writing style at the time must have blown people away with how minimalist it is. Assassin’s Apprentice- Robin Hobb I’ve had many people recommend this book over the years and finally gave it a go. The first third of the book felt very slow to me but I pushed on and it just got better and better. Fantasy books can become predictable but this one had me on edge all the way. Even down to the epilogue. I look forward to continuing the series. Magician- Raymond E Feist I’ve wanted to read this book since I was a kid but always put it off. A great fantasy book and I can see why it is well regarded. I’ve started book 1 of the Murderbot Diaries and am enjoying it so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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