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Post by CHRrOME on Feb 9, 2020 13:56:22 GMT
Sebastian Fitzek is really popular here in Germany, I think one of the most popular writers. I had that book in my hand s a few times in the bookstore, but always did put it back. You can recommend it? maybe I'll give it a try.
I finished 'Reign of Terror', the source and adventurebook about the French Revolution for Call of Cthulhu. The adventure in there is really gruesome and very good. I hope, to gm it with my group soon.
And I'm still in the scecond Witcher book. I like it, athough I really don't care for Yennefer and teh story 'A shard of Ice' was therefore really hard to read. I like it, when Geralt and Dandelion are adventuring together, the tone is a bit lighter and it is often fun.
I'm contemplating to take a break and read a crime novel between the Witcher stories
Well, I would personally, especially for the between the lines information as I've said. But at the end of the day it depends on what's your taste for reading. You can have the most popular writer ever, but if it's not your taste or genre, it simply isn't. I know my mother would probably not read it, yet my grandfather certainly will as he tends to like all the books I do.
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Post by fylimar on Feb 9, 2020 14:16:52 GMT
Sebastian Fitzek is really popular here in Germany, I think one of the most popular writers. I had that book in my hand s a few times in the bookstore, but always did put it back. You can recommend it? maybe I'll give it a try.
I finished 'Reign of Terror', the source and adventurebook about the French Revolution for Call of Cthulhu. The adventure in there is really gruesome and very good. I hope, to gm it with my group soon.
And I'm still in the scecond Witcher book. I like it, athough I really don't care for Yennefer and teh story 'A shard of Ice' was therefore really hard to read. I like it, when Geralt and Dandelion are adventuring together, the tone is a bit lighter and it is often fun.
I'm contemplating to take a break and read a crime novel between the Witcher stories
Well, I would personally, especially for the between the lines information as I've said. But at the end of the day it depends on what's your taste for reading. You can have the most popular writer ever, but if it's not your taste or genre, it simply isn't. I know my mother would probably not read it, yet my grandfather certainly will as he tends to like all the books I do. I'm ok with most genres, except for romance, and I do really love crime and mystery, so I might give it a try.
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Post by CHRrOME on Feb 9, 2020 14:25:46 GMT
I'm ok with most genres, except for romance, and I do really love crime and mystery, so I might give it a try. Yeah romance puts me asleep real fast, lol. It's a thriller, there's definitely some sort of mystery and crime, action too. It's cool because the protag doesn't even know who he is, he has amnesia, and you figure things along the road.
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Post by fylimar on Feb 9, 2020 14:27:11 GMT
I'm ok with most genres, except for romance, and I do really love crime and mystery, so I might give it a try. Yeah romance puts me asleep real fast, lol. It's a thriller, there's definitely some sort of mystery and crime, action too. It's cool because the protag doesn't even know who he is, he has amnesia, and you figure things along the road. Thanks, that sounds great.
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Post by dazk on Feb 9, 2020 23:14:28 GMT
So finished Planetsider and it's a hard book to rate TBH. I really enjoyed it is probably the best thing to say and the end made me cry for a variety of reasons. The writing at times is a bit stilted, the story sometimes doesn't flow well and there are parts where over a three book story that the action can sometimes get repetitive. This is in terms of combat in particular BUT it also shows the grind of the characters lives. The author also is not afraid to kill off characters to realistically advance the story which of course keeps you wondering which of the characters you have grown to love, like or who are just interesting are going to die next. The story premise overall is not original but the premise is a bit different and the characters are great in there realism and their often dysfunctional relationships. There are also very few pull a miracle out of a hat solutions and the few there are, aren't unrealistic I guess is the best way to put it just maybe a bit far fetched. A very subjective 8 out of 10, it wont be everyone's sort of book but is a very enjoyable read that kept me reading every chance I got to see the ending.
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Post by Blast Processor on Feb 11, 2020 5:15:42 GMT
Reading The Witcher books, now onto Lady of the Lake. Very minor spoilers relating to the White Frost below. Gotta say I was kinda hoping the White Frost would be more magic based somehow, Nimue's description of the White Frost is basically just Milankovitch cycles. Though I guess she could be wrong. Anyway, the people in The Witcher better soon start pumping a lot more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere then. Haha. Global warming to the rescue!
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I am currently reading this book:
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Post by Blast Processor on Feb 15, 2020 3:33:11 GMT
Finished The Lady of the Lake. When Yen rips into Triss at the end I immediately thought of fylimar . LOL. If you didn't like Yen before, this is going to cement that belief. Haha. Speaking of Geralt's waifu's, I'd probably roll with Team Fringilla if forced to choose. Really wish she was a love interest in the TW3, who doesn't like more LI options? Also, when Ciri was leaping between worlds I was starting to have a bad feeling that there would be a consequence, and turned one page. And thought, "Oh.... Well that's bad." And then burst out laughing. Sapkowski doesn't play around. LOL.
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Post by Obadiah on Feb 16, 2020 21:16:17 GMT
Thrawn: Alliances - Timothy Zhan The book contains two stories told in alternating chapters - one of Thrawn's encounter with the Jedi General Anakin Skywalker during the Clone Wars, and another of Thrawn's much later mission as the Imperial Grand Admiral teamed with the Emperor's enforcer Lord Vader. I was excited to see where Thrawn's story would lead from the previous novel, and though the story had some interesting twists and revelations (Thrawn and Vader walk into a bar on a planet in the Unknown Regions, and no one recognized Vader ), I was ultimately underwhelmed. For some reason Thrawn's renowned intelligence came across more as a cheap trick by the author, rather than a genius deductive tactician that we previously encountered. The story of Thrawn's first encounter with Anakin Skywalker takes place when Anakin goes on a mission against the Separatists in the Unknown Regions. The story has much of the same feel as the first 2 Star Wars prequel films - an adventure story full of close calls, hijinks, and plucky heroes. I often like the Republic and Clone Wars novels because they flesh out the Star Wars universe far more than the movies ever did. This story continued in that tradition, as we see the unfortunate effects that powerful competing factions have on locals just trying to make a living at the borders of the Republic. I'm not sure what I expected from Separatist battle droids, but they were essentially written as dumb humans in armor. I could accept the lack of intelligence and creativity, but their lack of awareness is what I found difficult to accept. The droids didn't run facial recognition algorithms, they don't have spy cameras or extra sensors giving them further situational awareness, they barely seem to be running in a network to coordinate their actions. They're basically missing everything you'd expect a modern automated drone to have, and it makes their whole story arc seem ridiculous.
The story of Thrawn and Vader was more interesting, and definitely had much more of a sense of foreboding. Here, Vader and Thrawn are two powerful characters with very different leadership styles, and the two are frequently at odds with each other. I suppose the stakes are higher for Thrawn as he is walking the very fine line of commanding his Star Destroyer to assist Vader, while proving himself so as not to be summarily executed, as Vader is wont to do. I've never read a story from Vader's point of view, and... what a bitter and resentful personality he turned out to be. To him everyone's stupid and incompetent, and he's always trying to undermine his subordinate's authority with his relentless and overbearing criticism and lack of patience. He's just ridiculous and sad, but I suppose this is the proper personality of an embodiment of an evil and cruel supervisor. Of more interest were his Storm Trooper's of the First Legion - elite soldiers of Vader that were surprisingly territorial of their missions. No longer merely a collection of faceless enemies to be defeated, I started hoping for their success as they attempt to carry out their orders from Vader, with sometimes competing commands from Thrawn. As the new fleshed out characters in this story, theirs at least held a semblance of suspense, since, unlike Thrawn and Vader, there was no guarantee of their survival. The most annoying part of Thrawn's behavior was his continual hinting to Vader that Thrawn knew Vader was Anakin, in front of the Chimera's crew no less, giving Vader every reason to simply snap his neck for knowing such information. What exactly was Thrawn's point in this? To attempt to turn himself into a major liability to Vader? To force Vader to trust him? It just didn't seem to make any sense!
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Post by Beerfish on Feb 18, 2020 18:10:27 GMT
Well I finished 'The Evil Genius'. I must say this was a rare book where at the end of the book I disliked every single major character in the book except 'the evil genius' who was a mother/mother in law, the one character the reader is supposed to dislike. I'm sure the author would have been aghast at this and he is one of my fav authors (Wilkie Collins). The evil genius was the only one in the book that was logical and consistent in her behaviour through the whole book and if she bent the truth and interfered often it was due to her concern for her daughter and grand child. Four main male characters, two main female characters and one child, all totally unlikable from my point of view. There was the obligatory happy ending which none of them deserved.
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Post by Alfonsedode on Feb 18, 2020 19:16:35 GMT
Well I finished 'The Evil Genius'. I must say this was a rare book where at the end of the book I disliked every single major character in the book except 'the evil genius' who was a mother/mother in law, the one character the reader is supposed to dislike. Four main male characters, two main female characters and one child, all totally unlikable from my point of view. i think it s not the first time u trash Collins chars ... Maybe most of the times ? ?
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Post by Blast Processor on Feb 18, 2020 19:33:28 GMT
Finish Season of Storms, the last Witcher book (a prequel). The plot was all over the place, I really think it would've worked much better as a short story collection. Though according to Sapkowski nobody buys short stories. I did really like the epilogue though, and I'm always down for more Geralt and Dandelion.
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Post by Beerfish on Feb 18, 2020 19:44:02 GMT
Well I finished 'The Evil Genius'. I must say this was a rare book where at the end of the book I disliked every single major character in the book except 'the evil genius' who was a mother/mother in law, the one character the reader is supposed to dislike. Four main male characters, two main female characters and one child, all totally unlikable from my point of view. i think it s not the first time u trash Collins chars ... Maybe most of the times ? ? I trash 19th century literary characters. Mostly for being stupid. These were not so much stupid as selfish.
A lot of it is my fault for just being out of touch with the times those books were written.
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Post by AnDromedary on Feb 18, 2020 20:14:51 GMT
I just finished the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. First, a very short (IMO) non-spoiler intro to the first book, to give you an idea of what it is all about: In the 29th century, mankind has spread out across the stars and colonized hundreds of planets. On one of these planets, called Hyperion mysterious structures, named the time tombs can be found, guarded by a the enigmatic and deadly Shrike entity. With war brewing between the colonial Hegemony of Men and the space dwelling Ousters, seven pilgrims are chosen by the Hegemony leadership and the church of the Shrike cult to travel to Hyperion in order to hopefully lift the secrets surrounding the time tombs and prevent an interstellar war... Dare I say this is now among my absolute favorites in the realm of science fiction. Those four books are a wonder of story telling and even though they have been written 30 years ago, they have lost nothing in their believability or immersion of the universe he creates nor in any of the technical or philosophical terms. This is actually quite an achievement if you think about what happened in the past 30 years technologically IRL. The combination of old school philosophy, theology, classic art and literature with a high tech far future the technology of which touches on a lot of very sophisticated real life concepts on technology and cosmology today makes for a unique, very deep and thoroughly enjoyable setting. The plot itself (or rather, the two connected but fairly distinct plot lines that are separated by a few centuries with each taking up two books) is fantastic IMO. Really interesting characters, plenty of revelations, twists and turns and plenty of action are set up in a very logical framework in which I couldn't really find any major plot holes at all. Plus, each of the plots lead to very satisfying endings that do not disappoint (which is not easy). While I liked it, some people might not be too thrilled about how the first book is written mostly in the format of each main character telling their individual background story. Personally, I thought it gave the book a unique structure and exposed us gradually to ever new aspects of this universe, which was great. But it may not be everyone's cup of tea and I have seen the understandable criticism that despite the fact that different characters are supposed to tell their own stories, the writing style of the author doesn't really change much to reflect them. But that's pretty nitpicky if you ask me. If I had to give one criticism of my own it would be that the characters sometimes refer a little too much to references in our IRL past, rather than mentioning events in the years between now and their own time period in the 29th century or later. There is actually an explanation as to why this is the case in the books eventually but it was something that did annoy me a little for the longest time. Just keep in mind that it will all make sense eventually. If you are into rather heady scifi at all and if you don't shy away from a lot of exposure to classic philosophy, theology and literature, I cannot recommend these books enough. Story telling at its finest. A solid 10/10 cruciforms. P.S.: On a side note, I read the books in the wrong order. First I read Hyperion (book 1) than Edymion and the Rise of Edymion (books 3 and 4) and last I read The Fall of Hyperion (book 2). I will say that - while not planned (I simply didn't know any better), this was not the worst way of doing it. The world changes a lot between Hyperion and Endymion (there are two centuries between them after all) and so when I started with Endymion I kinda discovered a whole new world all over again with lot's of questions as to how it got there from the end of the first book. In the end, reading the second book last then answered all of my questions, kinda like a prequel would. I just reached the end of The Fall of Hyperion and everything just clicked perfectly into place. Fantastic. I wouldn't exactly recommend reading them in this order (the first book does end in a cliffhanger) but it worked well for me.
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Post by melbella on Feb 19, 2020 2:12:00 GMT
I read the books in the wrong order. First I read Hyperion (book 1) than Edymion and the Rise of Edymion (books 3 and 4) and last I read The Fall of Hyperion (book 2). I have not yet read the Endymion books but really enjoyed the first two, in a set called Hyperion Cantos, when I read them years ago. I would put The Fall of Hyperion up there with Second Foundation as the best sci fi books I've ever read.
Speaking of Asimov, I finished Robots and Empire over the weekend. Now I kind of wanna scrounge up the rest of the Foundation books to see how they link back to these. I'm not sure I like that 'psychohistory' was first posited as an idea by a robot rather than Hari Seldon, as written in the Foundation trilogy, but the development of the two main robot characters is interesting, to say the least.
dazk To answer your earlier question, yes I would recommend them. The first three of the group are technically murder mysteries but of course there are larger things at stake than simple murder. They are more whydunits than whodunits.
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Post by AnDromedary on Feb 19, 2020 2:22:43 GMT
I read the books in the wrong order. First I read Hyperion (book 1) than Edymion and the Rise of Edymion (books 3 and 4) and last I read The Fall of Hyperion (book 2). I have not yet read the Endymion books but really enjoyed the first two, in a set called Hyperion Cantos, when I read them years ago. I would put The Fall of Hyperion up there with Second Foundation as the best sci fi books I've ever read.
Speaking of Asimov, I finished Robots and Empire over the weekend. Now I kind of wanna scrounge up the rest of the Foundation books to see how they link back to these. I'm not sure I like that 'psychohistory' was first posited as an idea by a robot rather than Hari Seldon, as written in the Foundation trilogy, but the development of the two main robot characters is interesting, to say the least.
dazk To answer your earlier question, yes I would recommend them. The first three of the group are technically murder mysteries but of course there are larger things at stake than simple murder. They are more whydunits than whodunits.
If you liked the first two, I strongly recommend the Endymion books as well. They are just as good IMO and you may find that the Hyperion universe developed in ... a different way than you might have expected after the end of the second book.
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Post by dazk on Feb 19, 2020 3:43:19 GMT
I read the books in the wrong order. First I read Hyperion (book 1) than Edymion and the Rise of Edymion (books 3 and 4) and last I read The Fall of Hyperion (book 2). I have not yet read the Endymion books but really enjoyed the first two, in a set called Hyperion Cantos, when I read them years ago. I would put The Fall of Hyperion up there with Second Foundation as the best sci fi books I've ever read.
Speaking of Asimov, I finished Robots and Empire over the weekend. Now I kind of wanna scrounge up the rest of the Foundation books to see how they link back to these. I'm not sure I like that 'psychohistory' was first posited as an idea by a robot rather than Hari Seldon, as written in the Foundation trilogy, but the development of the two main robot characters is interesting, to say the least.
dazk To answer your earlier question, yes I would recommend them. The first three of the group are technically murder mysteries but of course there are larger things at stake than simple murder. They are more whydunits than whodunits.
Thanks melbella
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Post by dazk on Feb 19, 2020 3:43:57 GMT
I have not yet read the Endymion books but really enjoyed the first two, in a set called Hyperion Cantos, when I read them years ago. I would put The Fall of Hyperion up there with Second Foundation as the best sci fi books I've ever read.
Speaking of Asimov, I finished Robots and Empire over the weekend. Now I kind of wanna scrounge up the rest of the Foundation books to see how they link back to these. I'm not sure I like that 'psychohistory' was first posited as an idea by a robot rather than Hari Seldon, as written in the Foundation trilogy, but the development of the two main robot characters is interesting, to say the least.
dazk To answer your earlier question, yes I would recommend them. The first three of the group are technically murder mysteries but of course there are larger things at stake than simple murder. They are more whydunits than whodunits.
If you liked the first two, I strongly recommend the Endymion books as well. They are just as good IMO and you may find that the Hyperion universe developed in ... a different way than you might have expected after the end of the second book. Thanks have made a note of them.
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Post by dmc1001 on Feb 19, 2020 5:52:45 GMT
Reading the book "Fascism: A Warning" by Madeline Albright. She seems to point a finger at Trump while giving examples that apply to the other side. That's all I'll say to avoid banned political talk.
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Thrawn: Alliances - Timothy Zhan I read the original EU books with Thrawn in them. They were great. I'm not surprised that a remake produced an inferior product.
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Post by mousestalker on Feb 19, 2020 11:30:34 GMT
I'm five chapters in. For a book with such dark events, it reads as fairly light-hearted. So far the characterization is spot on and the plot moveth on at a goodly pace.
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Post by dazk on Feb 19, 2020 23:50:09 GMT
So just finished a trilogy called New Frontiers by jasper T Scott. It's starting point is a married couple of humans and humans are at a point where they genetic engineering has extended life for the majority of people to basically forever unless you die by injury or in war. It starts out as a political drama West v East on as Ideology basis where the East genetically engineer their population as communist almost insect hive mentality to always put the common good ahead of Individual needs. A war happens and one side wins and then the story progresses to survival of nuclear war and the advent of AI BLAH BLAH BLAH and then on to Alien Intervention...……. Sorry fell asleep for a bit there. In essence it's too scatter shot and the story arcs are not clear enough and it seems like the author wrote it without a plan. So it's either brilliant and I didn't appreciate the writers skill or it's pretty ordinary and whilst it was an OK read it was just OTT and ridiculous at times and a bit of a dog's breakfast. It's ratings online a 3.8 to 4.4, I'd give it a 3.5. As I said I enjoyed it and was invested in the two main characters but the plot devices and the way the author stretched story out using those devices was just confusing at times and a bit far fetched. I have downloaded the follow up trilogy, both were free because the last chapter was interesting enough for me to want to see where the author goes with the idea.
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Post by dazk on Feb 20, 2020 1:04:07 GMT
I have not yet read the Endymion books but really enjoyed the first two, in a set called Hyperion Cantos, when I read them years ago. I would put The Fall of Hyperion up there with Second Foundation as the best sci fi books I've ever read.
Speaking of Asimov, I finished Robots and Empire over the weekend. Now I kind of wanna scrounge up the rest of the Foundation books to see how they link back to these. I'm not sure I like that 'psychohistory' was first posited as an idea by a robot rather than Hari Seldon, as written in the Foundation trilogy, but the development of the two main robot characters is interesting, to say the least.
dazk To answer your earlier question, yes I would recommend them. The first three of the group are technically murder mysteries but of course there are larger things at stake than simple murder. They are more whydunits than whodunits.
If you liked the first two, I strongly recommend the Endymion books as well. They are just as good IMO and you may find that the Hyperion universe developed in ... a different way than you might have expected after the end of the second book. Hey AnDromedary did you read the paperbacks or read them on Kindle? On Amazon on the Australian site book 3 isn't available and the four book set is in Spanish????? Been trying to look on the US site but it always diverts me back to the Australian site.
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Post by AnDromedary on Feb 21, 2020 17:47:16 GMT
If you liked the first two, I strongly recommend the Endymion books as well. They are just as good IMO and you may find that the Hyperion universe developed in ... a different way than you might have expected after the end of the second book. Hey AnDromedary did you read the paperbacks or read them on Kindle? On Amazon on the Australian site book 3 isn't available and the four book set is in Spanish????? Been trying to look on the US site but it always diverts me back to the Australian site. I got the paperbacks from a friend. They seem to be hard to come buy (EDIT typo, that I am going to leave as a pun ) these days. Even on the us site of amazon, they are only available as "used", I just checked. EDIT: Wait, I looked again and there seems to be "mass marked paperback" version that is in stock: Hope that link works for you.
Not sure if you are into that sort of thing but Audible seems to have really nice audio book versions of the entire Hyperion saga as well. I checked out the first few minutes of Endymion and the narrator is really great.
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