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[Mech#4]

"Raising Steam" by Terry Pratchett. Enjoying it so far; it has a lot of call backs to previous books and seems to be making a point to include a large amount of characters for small cameos.

I was also reading through "The Dark Elf Trilogy" by R.A. Salvatore, but I've read those so many times it's difficult to when you start remembering what's going to be happening every page.

[Arx]

"Raising Steam" by Terry Pratchett. Enjoying it so far; it has a lot of call backs to previous books and seems to be making a point to include a large amount of characters for small cameos.

Considering it might well be the last Discworld book...

[smjjames]

I'm currently reading this thread. Ha!

Okay I'm out of here.......

[Comrade Shamrock]

Oh a book discussion! What I'm reading at the moment.... well I got no novels in the reading stage at the moment. Last thing I read though was Way of Kings, loved it now I have to find the second book Words of Radiance I think and wait for the third. But I always pick a horrible time to get into a series, the beginning. I have to wait for goddamn ages to get to the end.

I attempted reading the Guardeans of Ga'hool series.
First book was amazing. (I purchased the first three out of (9?)). Got half way through reading the second one before I could taste the salt in my mouth and couldn't keep reading

Yay! I have read a few of those too. I think I got to the Shattering before I couldn't find them and forgot about ordering them.

Anyone read Joe Abercrombie recently?

[Zrk2]

Yay comics!

...I feel like I'm the only person on the forums who doesn't like WoT. I read the first couple of books and was bored/annoyed by them. :-/
I couldn't stand the Belagriad or however you spell it, either. ...All this talk of long fantasy series has got me wishing I had one to sink my teeth into, haha.

The ting with long fantasy series, is they all end up being really divisive, often because they're so long. I find any time someone brings them up the next comments is "Hurr durr so slow. Cut books 7-10," sometimes with a little complaining about the gender contrast, just about every time.

Anyone read Joe Abercrombie recently?

Yes. Love him. I just bought The Heroes, (I think) but I haven't read it yet.

[nenjin]

"Helmet for my pillow", a marine's account of the Pacific theater in WWII, from signing up after Pearl Harbor to almost the end of the war.

[Glowcat]

"On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City"

It was an ethnography about people suffering under the War on Drugs's police state in Philadelphia and how they negotiated their lives. Cops beating people up as matter of policy. A urine business for people to avoid breaking parole and ending up back in jail. Systems of how police intimidate intimate partners or family that include threats of physical violence, taking children away, charging the person for their partner's crimes, harassment, etc. combined with persuasion and the consequences of standing in the community for not providing support against the law. Pretty much about the society that builds itself around legal entanglement in their lives or the lives of their close relatives.

[Emma]

Well I just finished Knife of Dreams and am about halfway through The Gathering Storm at the moment and I just have to say.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Holy shit, Rand has his arm blown off and doesn't even give a crap?!

[Interus]

I might need to reread Wheel of Time now, and I must be the only person who liked the "slow" books.  From what I remember, they were very political instead of combative.

At this moment, I'm rereading Alloy of Law, because I've become a freaking Sanderson addict.  I just finished rereading Elantris because I wanted to check to see if there was anything I missed, and that is my least favorite Cosmere book.  Alloy of Law is fun though, I really like the mix of Old West, a sort of 1900's London, and magic.

[Comrade Shamrock]

Anyone read Joe Abercrombie recently?

Yes. Love him. I just bought The Heroes, (I think) but I haven't read it yet.

Well I loved it. Hope you do too. Are you reading the Shattered Sea series too?

[Dutrius]

I enjoyed the WoT books because of how detailed the world building was, and how the various plotlines diverged and were later brought back together.

[Arcvasti]

At this moment, I'm rereading Alloy of Law, because I've become a freaking Sanderson addict.

One of us! One of us!

In any case, I've moved on to reading Storm of Swords now. My god this thing is huge. Its the size of my cat. Or Words of Radiance.

[SupremeSandwich]

Reading the Necronomicon by H.P Lovecraft just finished Dagon.

Enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would (I thought pop culture had given me immunity against Lovecraft. NOPE)

[Emma]

So I continued read The Gathering Storm today and I swear I could tell when Brandon Sanderson took over. He just has a different style of writing and I found that showed up quite obviously, does anyone else feel the same.

[Bohandas]

I'm catching up on the webcomic MercWorks