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Dungeon Crawler Carl by Dinniman (very funny and the audio is well done) The Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold The Land by Aleron Kong The Dune series Monster Hunter International Black Tide Rising Paladin of Shadows by John Ringo
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Hey guys, I just noticed I have 3 Audible credits I kninda need to spend before I turn off the subscription. Any good tipps on audio (or just generally) books to spend them on? Usually I listen to scifi or fantasy stuff. Some of my all time favorites are: The Expanse books The Hyperion Cantos/Endymion The Wheel of Time series LotR (obviously) The Foundation books Wouldn't mind if it's a long running series. Any suggestions are welcome. If you like Wheel of Time, I highly recommend Brandon Sanderson (he did finish the WoT series, after all) Mistborn trilogy is a good starting point for his books. They tend to be rather massive, so if you like him you'll definitely get your money's worth from the credits. For science fiction, I have been working my way from the Destroyermen books by Taylor Anderson. A WWII destroyer ends up in a parallel Earth where humans never evolved, and get caught up in the war between two OTHER sentient peoples who did. Fifteen book series, that is complete, and a spinoff series has begun as well. Let's see, there's also Saga of the Seven Suns by Kevin J Anderson if you're into the Exapnse. More space-opera-y though. Less philosophical than Hyperion too. Seven book series, plus a sequel trilogy. All complete.
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Hey guys, I just noticed I have 3 Audible credits I kninda need to spend before I turn off the subscription. Any good tipps on audio (or just generally) books to spend them on? Usually I listen to scifi or fantasy stuff. Some of my all time favorites are: The Expanse books The Hyperion Cantos/Endymion The Wheel of Time series LotR (obviously) The Foundation books Wouldn't mind if it's a long running series. Any suggestions are welcome. Fantasy wise the first thing that came to mind for me was The Harry Dresden Files which Iakus recommended to me, 17 books though.
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Hey guys, I just noticed I have 3 Audible credits I kninda need to spend before I turn off the subscription. Any good tipps on audio (or just generally) books to spend them on? Usually I listen to scifi or fantasy stuff. Some of my all time favorites are: The Expanse books The Hyperion Cantos/Endymion The Wheel of Time series LotR (obviously) The Foundation books Wouldn't mind if it's a long running series. Any suggestions are welcome. Fantasy wise the first thing that came to mind for me was The Harry Dresden Files which Iakus recommended to me, 17 books though. New novella comes out Tuesday as well (read by Jim Butcher himself): smile.amazon.com/Law-Dresden-Files-Novella-Book/dp/B09Y26JXWM/ref=sr_1_1It is urban fantasy, rather than epic fantasy though (of course, after 17 books, a bunch of short stories, and several comics, it's gotten pretty epic too)
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Hey guys, I just noticed I have 3 Audible credits I kninda need to spend before I turn off the subscription. Any good tipps on audio (or just generally) books to spend them on? Usually I listen to scifi or fantasy stuff. Some of my all time favorites are: The Expanse books The Hyperion Cantos/Endymion The Wheel of Time series LotR (obviously) The Foundation books Wouldn't mind if it's a long running series. Any suggestions are welcome. Fantasy wise the first thing that came to mind for me was The Harry Dresden Files which Iakus recommended to me, 17 books though. My money is on Brent Weeks for especially his "Night Angel Trilogy" or even his "Lightbringer" series (which is 5 books). You could also look into Glen Cooke (most famous for "The Black Sails"), Robin Hobb (The Farseer Trilogy), Patrick Rothfuss (The Name Of The Wind), R.A. Salvatore.
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Post by mousestalker on Jul 4, 2022 20:25:19 GMT
You might also want to check out the 'Black Company' series by Glen Cook. They seem like they might be to your taste.
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Weeks and Cook are good if you like dark fantasy.
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Post by fylimar on Jul 5, 2022 8:53:49 GMT
I just started reading A Matter of Malice by Thomas King - a Canadian crime novel. The former police man Thumps DreadfulWater is asked to help with a reality tv show, that investigates true crime. Thumbs has to look into a death of a young girl a few years back, which was ruled an accident. Of course, it wouldn't be a crime story, if it indeed were an accident. Thumbs is the typical anti hero with personal problems and agendas. It seems, my last books were all about desillusioned detectives/investigators
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Post by Liadan on Jul 5, 2022 20:29:17 GMT
I`m currently rereading another one of my favorite books, "Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton. I think i read this book almost 30 years ago, after i saw the movie in the movie theater, and Maker i`m feeling old .
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Post by AnDromedary on Jul 6, 2022 14:38:55 GMT
Thanks heaps everyone! Lot's of great suggestions! I went ahead and spent my remaining credits on Iakus suggestion of the Saga of the Seven Suns for now. The text blurb sounded pretty cool (a bit Mass Effect-y) so I spent my last 3 credits on the first 3 books of the series. It'll be a while before I get around to it. I am still going through other books at the moment and mainly just needed to use those last credits before canceling my membership for a while. But I'll let you know what I think when I get around to it. Thanks again!
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Post by Beerfish on Jul 6, 2022 23:38:08 GMT
Just finished this book. Another spy novel, the author is more known for cold war england vs russia/european block stories but this one is more current (iraq war) and is about arms dealing. Exceptional book imo. And I see it was made into a mini series with Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddlestone as the two leads. I will seek that out for sure.
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Post by q5tyhj on Jul 8, 2022 20:53:18 GMT
... "Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton. I think i read this book almost 30 years ago Same here. I remember really liking it at the time, though I was pretty young (maybe 12 or 13?). Did you enjoy it as much this time around? In my experience re-reading childhood (or young adulthood at least) favorites can go one of two ways, either its really enjoyable and nostalgic or its really bad and sort of poisons your good memories in retrospect...
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Post by Liadan on Jul 9, 2022 14:19:14 GMT
... "Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton. I think i read this book almost 30 years ago Same here. I remember really liking it at the time, though I was pretty young (maybe 12 or 13?). Did you enjoy it as much this time around? In my experience re-reading childhood (or young adulthood at least) favorites can go one of two ways, either its really enjoyable and nostalgic or its really bad and sort of poisons your good memories in retrospect... I think i was 11 when i read it and i absolutely loved it at the time and although the feeling was a bit different this time, it still was a very enjoyable read. The only thing that i disliked this time was one of the characters, and i don`t remember having any problem with her when i was a kid, but while i was rereading the book i found the young girl Lex completely annoying and useless (i think she`s great in the movie though). Overall i think it was a positive experience, and thankfully it didn`t poison the good memories i had of this book, in fact i still consider it a great book.
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Post by Iakus on Jul 11, 2022 18:32:03 GMT
I've spent the last year rewatching Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, and have recently discovered there are books about the further adventures of the characters after the shows ended. Past imperfect
Stranded in Ancient Egypt at the end of the STARGATE SG-1 episode Moebius, Jack O’Neill, Sam Carter, Teal’c and Daniel Jackson are enjoying the simple lives they’ve forged in the years since Ra was driven from Earth.
But life never stays simple for long…
Back in the twenty-first century, trouble strikes the SGC. With one of their own people snatched by renegade Tok’ra, Colonel Cameron Mitchell leads the new SG-1 on a chase through time to rescue their friend — and to protect their future.
But for Carter, Daniel and Teal’c, the greatest challenge is encountering themselves — and coming to terms with the consequences of their own choices.Despite having the "present" being set about a week after the events of the "Continuum" film, it deals with the consequences of the 8th season finale "Moebius" Plus goes into the history of the Tok'Ra, and I've always liked that faction on the show.
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Post by docsteely on Jul 11, 2022 23:47:29 GMT
Speaking of reading M. Crichton, I just discovered (and bought) the continuation of the first book I read by him (I was 12 though ): Very curious to see how he deals with the subject especially in the actual context...
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Post by Liadan on Jul 12, 2022 22:10:37 GMT
I finished reading "Violeta" by Isabel Allende. "Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling. . . . She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, times of both poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life will be shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and, ultimately, not one but two pandemics. Told through the eyes of a woman whose unforgettable passion, determination, and sense of humor will carry her through a lifetime of upheaval, Isabel Allende once more brings us an epic that is both fiercely inspiring and deeply emotional."
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Post by Beerfish on Jul 15, 2022 22:31:12 GMT
Just finished this book. Quite slow moving at the start but picked up about half way through. Decently written but the whole topic of the book and the outcome was totally depressing. Time for a genre change back to sci for or 19th century lit for a bit. I'll have to trundle off to the kindle store this evening.
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Post by Liadan on Jul 16, 2022 17:03:56 GMT
Just finished reading "Sea of Tranquility" by Emily St. John Mandel. "A novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal--an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's bestselling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe."
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Post by Liadan on Jul 19, 2022 18:13:38 GMT
I`m currently reading "A Song of Flight" (the 3rd book of the Warrior Bards) by Juliet Marillier.
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Post by dazk on Jul 24, 2022 22:51:20 GMT
Okay so I finally finished The First Law trilogy, the three short stories and the The Age of Madness trilogy by Joe Abercrombie which I believe I started back in early April at the suggestion of q5tyhj Firstly thanks to q5tyhj overall they were a very good read. The first trilogy was excellent, good story and great characters, the short stories were great for background an extra detail for some characters but the first was good, the second okay and the third was very good. The last trilogy was good to very good in parts along the way. The main characters failed to grab me as much and hold my interest in their stories and outcome except for a couple if I am TBH until the end of the third book where things were coming to a conclusion and certain things were revealed. I am guessing that there will be another book at least if not another trilogy, I suspect Abercrombie will do the keep some old characters and skip to the next generation again but I hope somehow the older characters remain because they are by far the most interesting and it was sad in this trilogy some were dropped or played bit parts. Spoilers q5tyhj some thoughts questions I hated that Rikke betrayed Orso to Leo it felt too contrived like the author wanted a GoT moment.
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I loved Caul Shivers, Rikke and Isern's characters and look forward to what becomes of Hilde.
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Post by Iakus on Jul 25, 2022 4:30:27 GMT
Listening to "Glory Road" by Robert Heinlein
I had no idea Heinlein wrote Isekai...
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Post by q5tyhj on Jul 27, 2022 20:49:12 GMT
Okay so I finally finished The First Law trilogy, the three short stories and the The Age of Madness trilogy by Joe Abercrombie which I believe I started back in early April at the suggestion of q5tyhj Firstly thanks to q5tyhj overall they were a very good read. The first trilogy was excellent, good story and great characters, the short stories were great for background an extra detail for some characters but the first was good, the second okay and the third was very good. The last trilogy was good to very good in parts along the way. The main characters failed to grab me as much and hold my interest in their stories and outcome except for a couple if I am TBH until the end of the third book where things were coming to a conclusion and certain things were revealed. I am guessing that there will be another book at least if not another trilogy, I suspect Abercrombie will do the keep some old characters and skip to the next generation again but I hope somehow the older characters remain because they are by far the most interesting and it was sad in this trilogy some were dropped or played bit parts. Spoilers q5tyhj some thoughts questions I hated that Rikke betrayed Orso to Leo it felt too contrived like the author wanted a GoT moment.
Clover/Steepfield was he the one from the battle of Osrung that hid in the cupboard?
Did I miss/forget what happened to Lamb/The Bloody Nine or was his walk off at the end of I think it was Red Country his last appearance? Was Judge in the final trilogy the Judge from Red Country? I really had hoped Victorine Dan Teufel was going to take up the ring but boy did the author make it so obvious re Tallow , I think that was the boys name. Was glad "Old Sticks" re appeared assumed it was him pulling the strings.
I loved Caul Shivers, Rikke and Isern's characters and look forward to what becomes of Hilde. Glad you liked it, and I agree with pretty much everything you say here- the 2nd trilogy (Age of Madness), while quite good, isn't as great as the first one (First Law). So many awesome characters in that first trilogy. And I remember reading that Abercrombie had stated his intention to do another series of standalones and/or short stories leading up to a 3rd trilogy, which will presumably jump ahead in time again like the 2nd one did. But its been a while since I read Age of Madness and the standalones (I need to do a re-read) so I'm having trouble remembering details here: - I hated it too, but mostly because I liked Orso and he definitely got the short end of the stick. I don't remember being overly bothered with it as a plot contrivance, but I may see it differently reading it a 2nd time - I vaguely remember the bit about the kid hiding in the cupboard, but I don't remember any connection between them and any later character. It may well have been the same person, I just don't remember making that connection - no you got it right; Logen walked off/rode off into the sunset at the end of Red Country. I expect that's the last we'll see of the Bloody-Nine, and I was sooo stoked when he was revealed to be Lamb because I was pretty unsatisfied with where his story had been left at the end of the First Law trilogy. Was also happy to see Glokta turn out to be behind everything at the end of Age of Madness, I freaking loved Glokta. And I can't wait to see what sort of revenge Bayaz is cooking up. - same here
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Post by dazk on Jul 28, 2022 1:02:57 GMT
So finished book 10 of a series I had been reading "Drop Zone" (Drop Trooper Book 10) by Rick Partlow This one was a bit too short and resolved very little in the overarching story and used a story scenario he had used before just with different location and some added complexities due to more characters and advanced story from the previous books. I was excitedly looking forward to this book as it had gotten to an interesting point but this was more a like a stop at McDonalds on a road trip. The worst part was the author killed off a character that had been there from book 1, who played a major part in the books and who was integral to the main characters part in the books and the plot. It was almost whimsical and completely out of character how she died and not sure I can forgive it TBH. I think I see where the author is going with "why" he did it though. The lead character hints at knowing or having some suspicions about major plot points but doesn't share them. I have thoughts about them too and it would be nice to have some confirmed but I get why it's not happening. Last night started "The Sins of Our Fathers: An Expanse Novella" (The Expanse) A short story post the ending of The Expanse novels by James S.A. Corey SPOILERS It has started focused on Filip Inaros/Nagata and it has been a bit underwhelming so far, think I am 40% through.
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