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Came out yesterday. I can finally finish this series that I started reading in 3rd grade. Personally I think the scope and detail of the universe comes close to rivaling tolkien and surpasses ASoIF in epic fantasy. Certainly one of my top 5 fiction series ever.
Oh. My. F*ck. I thought this didn't come out until March for some reason. I need to get on this ASAP.
They pushed the release date back so many times that I forgot about it until last week when my wife decided to pick the series back up (she's on book 4). Looked it up and and was like oh shiz I've got 6 days to catch up and remember what all happend.
Post by Dave Maynar on Jan 10, 2013 7:55:20 GMT -5
Yeah, I had put the series down for a while after reading through The Gathering Storm. I actually didn't read Towers of Midnight until this past Spring. Well, I actually reread Gathering Storm then read Towers of Midnight because, after three chapters of Towers of Midnight, I realized I had no idea what the f*ck was going on, so I needed to go back one book. Even with reading them in the somewhat recent past, I will probably read an online summary of Towers of Midnight when I get this one.
Frankly disappointing. I've been a big Sedaris fan but lately it's not working for me.
Highly recommended. I originally got the first part of this as a Kindle freebie (part 1 is still free) and was disappointed with how it ended. I later found out the story continued and was collected later. Not my usual genre, sci fi/fantasy. A story of survival in silos where talk of the outside world is forbidden. Those who dream are treated as infectious.
Most recently finished: Christmas gift, breezed through it in two days recently.
Technically still reading: Misplaced it sometime after the Dem convention, was my in-flight reading.
Next up: My favorite college professor's doctoral dissertation turned textbook, studying the failure of prohibition in the US, Russia & Sweden. He's only about ten years older than me, used to work in a D.C. record store while attending Georgetown & sprinkled his PowerPoints with tons of music references. His Devo-themed one, when our night class prevented him from going to their show in Green Bay, was one of the most entertaining lectures I sat through all of college. I heard so much about this in his classes while it was a work in progress I just had to ask Santa for it.
Post by chicojuarz on Jan 11, 2013 11:42:56 GMT -5
I'm LOVING this book. Sometimes I feel like period pieces drag a little but this one is moving briskly. It's funny and gross which I didnt expect. It's made me make noises on the bus and get stared at.
I just finished "The Fault In Our Stars" by John Green. Definitely a tear-jerker, but more importantly, an in depth exploration of the plights of surviving both adolescence and cancer.
Since I've had The Plague, I've read three books. Didn't love any of them though. All three were listed on the Best Books of 2012 on NPRs website. I think I'm getting harder to please with books?
Post by hakunaMATTata on Jan 16, 2013 16:15:26 GMT -5
So I finally started Infinite Jest. I know many of you have read it(actually just noticed Banshee's post a little ways up about finishing t). Any tips how to approach it? I'm not normally a very close reader first time around, do I have to be?
So I finally started Infinite Jest. I know many of you have read it(actually just noticed Banshee's post a little ways up about finishing t). Any tips how to approach it? I'm not normally a very close reader first time around, do I have to be?
One page at a time.
And I don't mean that to be flip. Don't worry about how dense it is or how many pages, or how difficult your friends said it is to finish. It gets in your head - I know, been having the same problem with Cryptonomicon for years. Read this first:
So I finally started Infinite Jest. I know many of you have read it(actually just noticed Banshee's post a little ways up about finishing t). Any tips how to approach it? I'm not normally a very close reader first time around, do I have to be?
One page at a time.
And I don't mean that to be flip. Don't worry about how dense it is or how many pages, or how difficult your friends said it is to finish. It gets in your head - I know, been having the same problem with Cryptonomicon for years. Read this first:
The thing about the endnotes is a must. Good luck.
Thanks Tom!
Edit: That was just the kind of article I'd been looking for, I'd only been able to find a dumbed down version of it. Getting an idea of page numbers to dredge through and when stuff starts go get going and such. Thanks again!
My sister met him recently. She goes to school down in Florida, found out he still teaches Sunday school once a month up in Georgia, and attended and got a picture. So jealous.
Atlas Shrugged? Mostly want to see what the fuss was all about and I didn't think $3 was unreasonable.
Post by Vw'ndeadchick on Feb 5, 2013 7:05:05 GMT -5
Last week I read gone girl by Gillian Flynn and hopeless by Colleen Hosseini... Both were kind of simple mindless reads. Would agree with kat about gone girl.
Started mink river today (I'm a chapter in but so far it's an odd run on sentence with little direction) and fingerprints of the gods - the evidence of earths lost civilization. Both were recommended by coworkers
