What books are you reading now?

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:48 am

You would need to copy it from Sandersons HP and convert it for the nook.
Not exactly hard since (the nook can read txt or pdf files right?), just saying.

The best argument for an ebook reader is IMHO for hard cases like me: I dont need the huge space for physical books...

Wyzzard · Post by **Wyzzard** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:21 pm

Korwin wrote:The best argument for an ebook reader is IMHO for hard cases like me: I dont need the huge space for physical books...

B-but it makes you look smart! Chicks dig guys with huge racks!

Anyway, I just had a long holliday, which gave me time for some good, old fashioned book reading.

I read Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk, and I've gotta say: Holy fuck! There I was, trying to get accustumed to the crazy-ass engrish the book's written in, and then the main character suddenly paints an american flag with rape then wipes his dick in the bible.
I don't think I've ever been physically stunned by a book before, but after reading that I had to sit still for a couple of minutes while giant fucking anvils crashlanded around me.

I also read the Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan, and I was impressed. I quite liked the story, and it's nice to read some genuinely progressive fantasy fiction every now and then.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:01 pm

Wyzzard wrote:I also read the Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan, and I was impressed. I quite liked the story, and it's nice to read some genuinely progressive fantasy fiction every now and then.

That... is not exactly what I would call progressive at all.

EDIT: Also, people are stupid in that book for plot reasons, and it pisses me off.

Wyzzard · Post by **Wyzzard** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:23 pm

Kaelik wrote:That... is not exactly what I would call progressive at all.

Well, maybe it's just me then. I don't read a whole lot of fantasy, so I'm pleasantly surprised when what I do read doesn't turn out crazy like Sword of Truth or LoTR. Or Harry Potter for that matter.

What specifically pissed you off?

Kaelik wrote:EDIT: Also, people are stupid in that book for plot reasons, and it pisses me off.

Yeah, I won't argue with the plot-induced stupidity, but I don't mind any more. Again, my base for comparison probably sucks.

Calibron · Post by **Calibron** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:37 pm

I finished The Road recently and I'm reading Ekhart Tolle's The Power of Now on and off; I'm doing so because I hit the first real step in "enlightenment" recently and it explains most of the things that have been happening as a result. On a related note I'm more of an atheist or agnostic, what ever you call it when you completely cease to care about life after death, than a Christian now.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 5:44 pm

Korwin wrote:You would need to copy it from Sandersons HP and convert it for the nook.
Not exactly hard since (the nook can read txt or pdf files right?), just saying.

The best argument for an ebook reader is IMHO for hard cases like me: I dont need the huge space for physical books...

Yes, the nook can read txt and pdf. ...what format is it in now?

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:05 pm

Posted in plain text on his Blog (Link See above post).
So copy and paste into an txt file and Sync. to your reader...

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:20 pm

eesh. Yeah, that'd work. I thought maybe he'd sent people a pdf or something.

magnuskn · Post by **magnuskn** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:19 am

At the moment I'm reading A Storm of Swords from George R.R. Martin, the third book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, in my fourth or fifth read-through. I'm having this probably vain hope that he will have his fifth book ready soon, since the filming of the first season of the TV adaption on HBO seems to have given him a motivation boost to finally finish book five.

Man, one wonders what exactly happened to make him slow down to such a crawl. I heard the first three books came out pretty fast?

Sir Neil · Post by **Sir Neil** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:22 am

At the USO I picked up some Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovitch. I read her first when I still worked at the bookstore, and they're still good.

I also picked up some lousy book about a drug addicted ghostbusting witch and another about a werewolf detective.

The novelization of Infinite Crisis had it's moments, like Animal Man's lunch and Power Girl's doorknobs.

angelfromanotherpin · Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:31 pm

magnuskn wrote:Man, one wonders what exactly happened to make him slow down to such a crawl. I heard the first three books came out pretty fast?

Yeah, book 2 came out two years after book 1, and book 3 came out two years after that. Then there was a 5 year wait for book 4, and it's been almost five years again since.

There are a lot of theories about why he slowed to a crawl. Some think his other activities picked up and ate into his time. Some think he's written himself into a corner and is tying himself in knots to get out. If you asked me, I'd say that he reached the level of success where his publishers can't enforce deadlines and, without that pressure to produce, the momentum died.

magnuskn · Post by **magnuskn** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 2:09 pm

angelfromanotherpin wrote:
magnuskn wrote:Man, one wonders what exactly happened to make him slow down to such a crawl. I heard the first three books came out pretty fast?
Yeah, book 2 came out two years after book 1, and book 3 came out two years after that. Then there was a 5 year wait for book 4, and it's been almost five years again since.

There are a lot of theories about why he slowed to a crawl. Some think his other activities picked up and ate into his time. Some think he's written himself into a corner and is tying himself in knots to get out. If you asked me, I'd say that he reached the level of success where his publishers can't enforce deadlines and, without that pressure to produce, the momentum died.

Well, things I heard were along the lines that he decided to not do a time-skip between books three and four, which forced him to toss much of what he had written until then. Why he couldn't do the time-skip is a bit beyond me, apparently he thought that there was a female viewpoint which "had to be written". I certainly hope it ain't Brienne, because her part was the most pointless of AFFC. Also not doing the time-skip puts the kibosh on doing romances for many of the characters, because you can not really do that with ten year olds ( one would hope ).

Also he alludes to some "Mereenese Knot" he has to unravel, which goes in your direction of him having written himself into a corner somewhere in the book. And there are his side activities, including the other fiction he writes, etc.

Well, I can only hope that the prospect of the TV series catching up to his books will give him the impetus to work forward.

Calibron · Post by **Calibron** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 4:50 pm

Hmm, yes I've been waiting for the next Game of Thrones novel for so long that I don't know if I'll even care when it comes out. Then again fiction hasn't been doing it for me in the last couple months.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:15 pm

He's got tons already written. It's just not 'the next book' so he's had to go back and rewrite.

Basically, if you want any more of it, you hafta sit in on a reading...

-Crissa

PoliteNewb · Post by **PoliteNewb** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:23 pm

I just bought "Sh*t My Dad Says", by Justin Halpern...while his dad is undeniably kind of an asshole, the book is filled with hilarious stuff.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:00 pm

PoliteNewb wrote:I just bought "Sh*t My Dad Says", by Justin Halpern...while his dad is undeniably kind of an asshole, the book is filled with hilarious stuff.

Supposedly a sit-com is in the works. William Shatner is playing the dad.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:04 pm

I don't think that would be as funny.

-Crissa

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:45 pm

Of course it wouldn't. But network tv isn't concerned with funny, they're concerned with money. As long as they make more off of this than they spend, it'll stick around a while

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:34 pm

I deal with 11-year-olds all day

When did Texas lower the drinking age?

But on-topic, I just finished reading Mockingjay, the just-released finale of The Hunger Games trilogy.

Surprisingly deep for young-adult lit, and I consider it a sort of spiritual successor to John Christopher's Tripods trilogy which I read as a young tween.

Calibron · Post by **Calibron** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:59 pm

I just noticed yesterday that my roommate has a Tripods book, would you say it's worth a look, Josh?

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:00 pm

It's a bit ubermench and harsh, but sure.

-Crissa

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:03 pm

Calibron wrote:I just noticed yesterday that my roommate has a Tripods book, would you say it's worth a look, Josh?

I voraciously read the Tripods books when I was in 5th grade.

-Username17

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:07 pm

I think I read it in third or fourth... 50's editions of stuff at grandparent's house.

-Crissa

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 3:09 am

I voraciously read the Tripods books when I was in 5th grade.

Plus or minus two grade levels, this is true for most of my generation.

I suspect I would be disappointed were I to reread them now, but they were great "young adult" fiction, at least before I discovered Barsoom and Dangerous Visions.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 3:32 am

We read Barsoom in class. I really didn't find the attraction.

-Crissa