What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech
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@Kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scotth said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
I'm currently on book 10 of 10 -- The Crippled God -- of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson.
Fantasy / Military
It's actually quite good.
I started reading Willful Child by him, and it seemed really bad. Is this better?
I'm not sure how to answer because I've never read Willful Child.
This series has been a little tough for me because he jumps around entire books to connect groups and scenes in the story, ie. books 1 & 3 are connected, books 2 & 4 are connected and wanders from there.
The characters are really hard to follow in each new scene because he completely throws you into each situation as if already developed but soon catches you up.
Many times, I grew tired and was going to read something lighter, but I kept going back and stuck it out.
There are lots of under / barely developed characters. I guess you could say it's in the flavor of Game of Thrones.
Overall, I'd give the series 4 - 4.5. If I ever do a re-read, I'll give it plenty of time.
There's a kind of 'Cliff Notes' on Tor.com -- http://www.tor.com/2010/07/07/the-malazan-re-read-of-the-fallen-gardens-of-the-moon-part-1/
These reviewers to a summary by chapter through the series. This I haven't checked out more than tagging the site.
Enjoy
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@scotth said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
There are lots of under / barely developed characters. I guess you could say it's in the flavor of Game of Thrones.
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New Charles Stross Delirium Brief. This one is back to a Bob view point which we haven't had for a while.
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Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
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Lights Out - Ted Koppel
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Legacy Fleet Trilogy by Nick Webb
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@ndc said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
New Charles Stross Delirium Brief. This one is back to a Bob view point which we haven't had for a while.
Oh... that's good to know that that came out. I need topick itup and read it. Love The Laundry Files.
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Finally found my Kindle. Time to get back to some reading.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
For pleasure reading, I am about to start the final book of the Wheel of Time series, "A Memory of Light"
I LOVE the Wheel of Time. Great series.
edit: Sorry just realized that my page didn't load to the bottom and that was an ancient post.
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What is this "reading?"
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
What is this "reading?"
It's walls of text on your favored computing device.
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Just got 1 2 3 Magic today. My wife and I are going to read it together every night.
Hoping for some positive changes.
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I only have time for audio books lately... Listened to most of Restaurant at the end of the Universe while traveling to/from mangocon, and next up in the queue is Origins by Neil Degrasse Tyson.
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Currently listening to WOW Small Business w/ Bryan Orr
https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifco5lvdjsbfvsds5g4ho32ihka?t=Business_Owners_Manifesto
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Reading The Magic Treehouse with the six year old.
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Chalk by Paul Cornell.
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@tim_g How is this working out for you? I've got a feisty 3 year old who's recently started really pushing the boundaries. Banning Paw Patrol is not having the desired effect!
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Been reading the Magic Treehouse books to the kids over the last few weeks. So far, we are through the first five books in the series.
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I just started reading "Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone" to the kids. It is their first long form novel of this nature that we are going to make it all of the way through. We are over halfway as it is now, and they are really enjoying it. Read for almost three hours last night! I've not read this book in print (rather than the Book on CD) since Dominica and I were first dating around 2002.
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Finished reading "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" to the kids tonight. Just in time for me to go out of town. We will be starting the next book in the series when I get back.
