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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #420 on: September 27, 2015, 06:32:22 am »
Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig

I enjoyed that book quite a bit and didn't even mind the present tense.  One of the later chapters made me chuckle, especially after reading Lost Stars.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #421 on: September 27, 2015, 09:05:11 am »
I still have to read Lost Stars or the other ones that came out on Force Friday, but have them on my Kindle though.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #422 on: September 27, 2015, 11:49:21 am »
I got Warriors and Dangerous Women, anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois and GRRM. Admittedly only because of the GRRM stories (accounts of the Dance of Dragons!), but the overall quality was actually pretty great for all the stories. With exceptions, but nothing terrible.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #423 on: October 01, 2015, 08:59:45 am »
Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy by Yanis Varoufakis.  Interesting writing style, easy to understand and worthwhile read in general. Broke some illusions I had about EU and is definitely an enlightening reading experience.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #424 on: October 01, 2015, 10:58:00 am »
going through the reign of Queen Seleney in chronological order right now.  Up to Arrows Fall.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #425 on: October 01, 2015, 04:04:42 pm »
The Haunting of Hill House.  60 pages into to a 180 page book, and i'm bored out of my mind.  I do hope it gets more interesting soon.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #426 on: October 01, 2015, 04:44:52 pm »
Finished Much Fall of Blood, reading the next book in the series, Burdens of the Dead.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #427 on: October 01, 2015, 04:52:34 pm »
Reading Godfather again.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #428 on: October 02, 2015, 11:56:45 am »
Reading Godfather again.

That's a good book, except for the weird aside about Lucy's vagina.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #429 on: October 04, 2015, 01:58:12 am »
Reading Godfather again.

Great read. I learned much from that one.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #430 on: October 07, 2015, 09:28:14 pm »
Was reading Closer to the Heart but...I finished it in one day.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #431 on: October 08, 2015, 01:39:31 pm »
i think i'm gonna go on an amazon bender to get all the ciaphas cain novels by sandy mitchells. reading the tvtropes page it seems like right up my alley. "a mix between warhammer 40k and blackadder", so says the page.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #432 on: October 13, 2015, 07:17:42 am »
It's been a while since I've sunk my teeth into a long running series, so I decided to give The Wheel of Time a try. I'm just over a third of the way through the prequel, and so far it's quite promising.

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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #433 on: October 13, 2015, 07:29:19 am »
Books 9-11 aren't as good. Especially Crossroads of Twilight. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
« Reply #434 on: October 13, 2015, 07:38:01 am »
Yeah, I've heard that the later books tend to drag on a bit. Still, it's hardly a deal breaker. Or maybe it is. It remains to be seen, I suppose.