The Glade 4.0

Hopefully you'll like the tower series, a lot of my friends that hate king really enjoyed that series.

I'd like to come out once again and STRONGLY (can't tell you how strongly) recommend the Old Man's War series

(Old Man's War, Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, Zoe's Tale)

John Scalzi is a relative newcomer, but as far as military science fiction goes, they're excellent. Its Starship Troopers + Ender's Game, but the dialogue is snappy and very well written. I'd love to see this series made into movies.

My GF and I are now working our way through the Tales of Alvin Maker (I've already read them, but I'm re-reading them to her) This is more stuff by Orson Scott Card --its very different than Ender's Game, but an intriguing fantasy/Folk Magic meets early American history.

Starting Moby Dick again, after a couple month break I haven't read much else other than my monthly Men's Health sub.

Agreed on the Scalzi series. Great premise for a story.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Irene Iddesleigh by Amanda McKittrick Ros

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Just finished Ghost Story by Jim Butcher, really liked it.

Reading the side novels to the Coyote series by Allen Steele now. They're pretty decent.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Well, I was reading the "book review" that Shelgeyr linked ...

Now I'm going to punch someone in the face.

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Child of Fire: A Twenty Palaces Novel by Harry Connolly
The Fall: Book Two of The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
The Devil You Know by Mike Carey

God only knows when I'll actually finish any of them.

Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology ed. by Bruce Sterling. I finally found a copy!

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Who do you want to punch, and why?

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Good question. It is a toss-up between the author, whose flowery prose gave me hayfever by the end of the first sentence; th reviewer, who will lose half her tongue if it is as firmly lodged in her cheek as I think it is; Shel, for presenting the review to this thread; or me, for this ridiculous run on sentence.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

To be fair, the book has loads of entertainment value. Perhaps not that which the author intended, but entertainment value nonetheless.

I originally learned of the book via the Cracked.com article: 5 People Who Failed Their Way to Fame And Fortune and was utterly hooked when I read about C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien holding "competitions to see who could read Ros' work for the longest length of time while keeping a straight face".

I want to try this with some of my local friends.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Every time I see the title of this thread, I always say "The Glade, duh?" in my inside voice :p~

I'm reading the 2nd book in The Hunger Games series. Decent series. It reminds me of some Heinlein book I read as a kid.

Just finished The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks...

Not bad. Not great mind you, but it wasn't horrible.

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Now re-reading the Foundation series.

11/22/63 by Stephen King

The Hacker Crackdown, by Bruce Stirling.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

A Critique of Pure Reason.

If my head explodes, you know why.

Just started Little Women.

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Hard Magic by Larry Correia. Urban fantasy pulp noir alternative history. Zombies and Tesla and ninjas and airships and wizard secret societies and guns and J Edgar Hoover, oh my. No Nazis, though...Hitler was executed in 1929. Pretty fun romp in an interesting world so far.

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Women are from Hoboken, men are from Trenton. ~ Jimmy Kimmel

*blinkblink*

I have just had a braingasm.

I read his "monster hunter" series a couple of weeks ago, it was pretty entertaining. When I get another weekend of watching systems update, I'll check these books out.

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In time, this too shall pass.

Nice, I read the Monster Hunter books just before this one. I liked them a lot, but I think I like his Grimnoir Chronicles (Hard Magic being the first in the series) better.

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Women are from Hoboken, men are from Trenton. ~ Jimmy Kimmel