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What book are you reading? & Book Recommendations

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What book are you reading? & Book Recommendations

What book are you reading?

What books have you read lately?

Do you have any book recommendations?

I love to read but because I read so much I have read a lot of books and struggle to find new ones to pick up. The last book I read was Gareth Brown: The Book of Doors – I found it to be one of those ”I can’t put this down” books and finished the near 500 page book within 3 days.

I normally stick to a routine of going to bed at 10:30pm but because of this book I wasn’t getting to sleep until about 2:00am. Worth it though it was such a great book!

Adding this to my recommendations for other avid readers.

Now I’m reading Nerd Do Well – Simon Peggs autobiography. I’m a big Simon Pegg fan, I love his films and when I saw he’d released a biography, I went out and bought it straight away!

Looking forward to hearing what you have read and checking any recommendations you may have.

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  • I just finished two book series from Robin Hobb (fantasy based) - the "Fitz and the Fool" and the "Rain Wild Chronicles".

    These are chunky books (well over 1,000 pages per series) but are all stories set in the same world, at around the same time and have some character overlap / plot device interactions that bring it together.

    For me the writing style is quite engrossing so I can find myself reading away for hours at a time and not noticing the passing of time - it pulls you in and makes you feel something for the characters and the hardships they are enduring.

    I'm now reading the Dragon Stone Trilogy (actually 6 books) by Kristian Alva which is high fantasy and is well written although I feel the writer fails to develop a lot of the plot mechanisms well enough. The battle scenes in particular feel hurredly written as though the author is not a fan of them and some important characters meet a very hurried death which is unusual.

    Next up will be some vintage sci-fi - I have the Helliconia trilogy from Brian Aldiss and the Amtrak Wars hexalogy by Brian Tilley to work through.

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  • I just finished two book series from Robin Hobb (fantasy based) - the "Fitz and the Fool" and the "Rain Wild Chronicles".

    These are chunky books (well over 1,000 pages per series) but are all stories set in the same world, at around the same time and have some character overlap / plot device interactions that bring it together.

    For me the writing style is quite engrossing so I can find myself reading away for hours at a time and not noticing the passing of time - it pulls you in and makes you feel something for the characters and the hardships they are enduring.

    I'm now reading the Dragon Stone Trilogy (actually 6 books) by Kristian Alva which is high fantasy and is well written although I feel the writer fails to develop a lot of the plot mechanisms well enough. The battle scenes in particular feel hurredly written as though the author is not a fan of them and some important characters meet a very hurried death which is unusual.

    Next up will be some vintage sci-fi - I have the Helliconia trilogy from Brian Aldiss and the Amtrak Wars hexalogy by Brian Tilley to work through.

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  • in reply to Iain

    i vaguely recall trying to read the first book in the original series but found it a bit slow, so gave up. Sounds like you would recommend it Iain? Does it get better or is is it quite a slowish pace? I’m a big fantasy fsn usually epic type stuff but also on the darker side of fantasy too. I read all the game of thrones stuff before it got popular