[Book Chat] "What's Everyone Reading" Thread

[Triangle Man]

I don't know what inspired that fanart (possibly the book just being discussed), but it was so awesome I saved it onto my compy.

I don't know why I felt the need to announce that...

[Dmatix]

I just finished The Way of Kings, and damn, that book had everything: Action, drama, mystery and magic. Even a little comedy. I can't wait until the next books in the series come out. If you like fantasy even a little, this is a must read (as I'm sure kA would agree). Now I need to get my hands on The Alloy of Law, Elantris and Warbreaker.

[kaoticAntagonist]

Alloy of Law has magic cowboys.

Elantris has magic zombies

Warbreaker has a magic economy.

And magic zombies.

[Dmatix]

Alloy of Law has magic cowboys.

Elantris has magic zombies

Warbreaker has a magic economy.

And magic zombies.

All the more reason to read them, though I'll probably wait for the paperback for AoL.

As for WoK, I think it's the characters that really made the book work. Shallan was okey, but Kaladin and Dalinar were the real joy. So heroic, yet so complex and imperfect.

I also read that the next Mistborn trilogy would take place in a 20th century level technology world. That should be interesting.

[Bohandas]

I'm rereading Carpe Jugulum now.

[Triangle Man]

I'm rereading Carpe Jugulum now.

Roughly translating to 'go for the throat'.

I really liked that book, you know?

[CryCold]

I broke my rule to only read foreign things for the next year and have since started to devour An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis. It's a cool AIDS-themed queer-revisionist version of Sophocle's Philoctetes set in a Trojan War with modern technology, values, and classical gods.

[Dmatix]

I broke my rule to only read foreign things for the next year and have since started to devour An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis. It's a cool AIDS-themed queer-revisionist version of Sophocle's Philoctetes set in a Trojan War with modern technology, values, and classical gods.

If you like that sort of thing, you should try Dan Simmons' Ilium. It's set in the Trojan War recreated by futuristic gods with advance science. It's pretty cool.

[CryCold]

If you like that sort of thing, you should try Dan Simmons' Ilium. It's set in the Trojan War recreated by futuristic gods with advance science. It's pretty cool.

Read it. Thanks though.

[ilikeoctopus]

Just read Eric, and I feel that it was a bit too short for my liking. Typically, Pratchett writes with a lot of complexity, so I was slightly put off by the rather more limited scope of the novel.

[orngjce223]

If you like the time-traveling mind-bending puzzle-story aspect of Homestuck, you may also like Fine Structure (Sam Hughes) and/or After Life (Simon Funk). I will quite happily vouch for both.

[Triangle Man]

Thanks for the recommendations!

I finished Mort recently. It was a great novel as usual and we got to see Death be badass in a fight!

Now it's on to World War Z, and there is just something captivating about this novel. I tried writing a story in a similar format once, and this novel has really helped me see how it's done, you know?

So its one of the better Zombie stories out there is what I'm saying here.

[Dmatix]

Thanks for the recommendations!

I finished Mort recently. It was a great novel as usual and we got to see Death be badass in a fight!

Now it's on to World War Z, and there is just something captivating about this novel. I tried writing a story in a similar format once, and this novel has really helped me see how it's done, you know?

So its one of the better Zombie stories out there is what I'm saying here.

Sure is. I really like it, and I don't even read most zombie fiction. I think the part I like most is showing how each individual country deals with the threat (it helps the book portryies my own country extremely well ).

[Bohandas]

I'm rereading Carpe Jugulum now.

I just came across a very MSPA-esque line in carpe Jugulum: "Perdita merely hated him, which is the opposite pole to love ad just as attractive"

[CryCold]

Just finished Wide Sargasso Sea which is a revionist postcolonial postmodern prequel to Jane Eyre.

It's basically if two people who were in were forced into a marriage.

[Triangle Man]

Sure is. I really like it, and I don't even read most zombie fiction. I think the part I like most is showing how each individual country deals with the threat (it helps the book portryies my own country extremely well ).

Ah...

...Which country is your home country, out of curiosity (if you haven't mentioned it already, that is...)

I just came across a very MSPA-esque line in carpe Jugulum: "Perdita merely hated him, which is the opposite pole to love ad just as attractive"

Prachett was doing Blackrom before Hussie even invented the term! Huzzah!

[Dmatix]

I might have mentioned it. Possibly not. Anyway, I'm from Israel.

[Namboto]

I read two books recently (by recently, I mean yesterday, as in read them from start to finish yesterday). The first was Things Fall Apart, which I read for my modern lit class. It was really quite interesting, if not quite the thing I'd read for fun. I learned a bit about how constant human nature is though (in other words, it's not really all that different across races or cultures).

The other was Warm Bodies and it was a zombie book. Told from the perspective of a zombie. It was also kind of a romance thing? It's not nearly as bad as twilight though, and it was really quite interesting what the author did with the zombies

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as it turns out, the plague, while originally one of (living) death, mutates into a "life" plague? I think?

I'd recommend it actually.

[ilikeoctopus]

In a moment of weakness, I just bought a really nice hardcover copy of American Gods and Anansi Boys (and was tempted to buy Isaac Asimov's trilogy, but I don't have that much money). I'm going to start reading them after finishing Good Omens, I think.

[Dmatix]

In a moment of weakness, I just bought a really nice hardcover copy of American Gods and Anansi Boys (and was tempted to buy Isaac Asimov's trilogy, but I don't have that much money). I'm going to start reading them after finishing Good Omens, I think.

Nothing weak about that, brother. You wouldn't find worthier books.

[ilikeoctopus]

I really need to start carrying more money around when I stop at bookstores.

[TheBertRam]

I really need to start carrying more money around when I stop at bookstores.

I know that feeling, I found a small local one and was expecting them to take credit cards yet instead I was screwed because I only had two dollars, I felt like a total dingus.

[Triangle Man]

I might have mentioned it. Possibly not. Anyway, I'm from Israel.

Oh, right!

...Yeah, I figure that Israel's reaction to the plague in that novel was fairly 'true-to-life' and also the one with the most foresight!

And I think America was depicted as 'dropping the ball/going for image over substance' or something like that. Canada hasn't received much mention just yet, however.

Yeah, the human element of that novel is a huge strong point for it. Reading it, I get the feeling that the Zombies are more akin to a natural disaster and that most of the problems (and obviously solutions) come from people's responses to them. This is way more captivating than any 'monster movie' style zombie story in my view...

[Tren]

Aw man, you guys are getting me to read World War Z again.
Right after I finish Fear.

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HOLY SHIT EDILIO IS GAY?
That was an excellent plot twist.

[kaoticAntagonist]

Aw man, you guys are getting me to read World War Z again.
Right after I finish Fear.

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HOLY SHIT EDILIO IS GAY?
That was an excellent plot twist.

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not sure if it qualifies as a plot twist since it doesn't really affect the plot one way or another.

but... I sure didn't see it coming.

Who's your favourite characters anyway? I am partial to Quinn, Albert, and Dekka. Orc too.

I like Duck but then he died. And I was sad...