BookwormOtaku Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 After reading the seventh volume in the My Little Pony comics I can say 7 was certainly not a lucky number for this series as of the two stories the first story was just okay but really slow and the second story just plain sucked. The plot was like an episode of Captain Planet but not as hilariously bad as that could get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexyvil Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I just ordered "The Martian" on Amazon. I heard good things about this novel and there's apparently a motion picture based on it that'll come out soon. It's a story of a Mars mission gone wrong where a survivor gets stranded on the planet due to a local storm. No one on Earth knows he's still alive and he lost the ability to contact home. On top of that, he only has enough supply to survive for as long as 31 days while knowing that preparing for a Mars mission, let alone any form of rescue mission, can take years. As a big fan of Sci-fi, I'm looking forward to immerse myself into the story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolverk Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Read The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Such a wonderful story. It's "originally" a children's story. But it can be read and enjoyed by all ages. It's short (about 100 pages) and easily read, I recommend anyone to read it really. It opens your mind to the different mindsets in the world. You get the position from more literal view, a view more from a child or a person from another planet. The story is somewhat satirical, it is very funny. But has very important messages to get from it. This might seem as a easy and obvious. But it's not. We too easily put them aside. It should be a lesson we never forget as we get older. It should always be forever in our hearts. Forever, in our hearts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ene Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Currently reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. This book has an interesting story and it's really well written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakajou Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 The Witcher series :3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenshin_sama Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Okay, Rooke, I have seriously got to thank you for the recommendation. I finally managed to get a trip to the library (god, why is this so hard), and I checked out The Wise Man's Fear. This is the most fun I've had with a book since I started Harry Potter in elementary school. The characters are have such great depth and enriched personality, and this can get pretty funny on occasion too. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find The Name of the Wind, so I'm kinda reading this out of order. There isn't anything that doesn't make sense to me so far, so I'll keep going with it for now and buy the first book when I'm able to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funyarinpa Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Reading Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard Of Earthsea. Such beautiful prose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenophilious Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Reading Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard Of Earthsea. Such beautiful prose! I read those books when I was a kid. I think I got to The Farthest Shore and stopped after I finished it. I really should go back and re-read them, since I doubt I really appreciated it for anything besides the story. Currently reading Baptism of Fire from the Witcher series. I still gotta get my hands on The Sword of Destiny and The Last Wish before I buy the sequels, though. I jumped into the series with Blood of Elves, and I was a little confused. Anyway...Sapkowski sure knows how to write witty dialogue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funyarinpa Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 I read those books when I was a kid. I think I got to The Farthest Shore and stopped after I finished it. I really should go back and re-read them, since I doubt I really appreciated it for anything besides the story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenophilious Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 The thing is I am not much a fan of fantasy, but Le Guin blew me away with The Dispossessed, which is the best book I have read all year so far, so I went in for Le Guin. And the prose, oh god the prose. It isn't about making the reader aware that they're reading masterful prose, but it's just that the events are narrated perfectly for a fantasy novel. You aren't bombarded with character upon character nor location upon location, and overall I like it. After I finish A Wizard Of Earthsea, I'll try to read Hyperion- I liked the prose of that too but I just couldn't focus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kawasumi Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Im going to buy Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami, he is one of my favorite authors and I stumbled apon it in a local bookstore in the nearest town. Its fairly small compaired to his other works but the setting is promising and I read a lot of VNs on the side so I dont need something really heavy atm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funyarinpa Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 You're giving me a Lord of the Rings flashback D: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronIsCrunchy Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho for school summer reading (still got a month to go in school though) How did you get on with this? I read Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho (after listening to the Saturnus album of the same name) and really liked it, so I'm curious whether the rest of his work is of a similar standard. I'm currently about 30 pages away from finishing Paper Towns by John Green, and then I'm reading Germinal by Emile Zola. I'm about 2 chapters into that already and it seems good, if really bleak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenophilious Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Reading The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski. Unfortunately, the other Witcher books aren't translated yet, so I'm in for a good, long wait. Between this series and A Song of Ice and Fire, I may just lose my mind waiting for them to come out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred the Barber Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Im going to buy Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami, he is one of my favorite authors and I stumbled apon it in a local bookstore in the nearest town. Its fairly small compaired to his other works but the setting is promising and I read a lot of VNs on the side so I dont need something really heavy atm. I enjoyed that one quite a bit, but I always find Murakami's work to be simultaneously easy-to-read, emotionally impactful, and thought-provoking. He's one of my favorite authors as well. Kawasumi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kawasumi Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Aaaaand look what came in the mail today <3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitoribocchi Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Aaaaand look what came in the mail today <3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funyarinpa Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Just finished Flowers For Algernon Whoever recommended that in this thread: Fuck you, and thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Just finished Flowers For Algernon Whoever recommended that in this thread: Fuck you, and thanks. Dunno if it was me but it's one of my favorite books. I think you get why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funyarinpa Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Dunno if it was me but it's one of my favorite books. I think you get why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorp Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Finished reading the first Witcher book "The Last Wish". Overall enjoyed it though the recurring parody of classic fairy tales started to get a bit annoying after the second time. Gotten the second book digitally so I'll read that soon enough. Am a bit curious though, since the book's stories keep mentioning how monsters seem to be noticeably dwindling so how come there are so many in the games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorp Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Comedy – Terry Pratchett Serious, gritty fantasy – George Martin Steven Erikson R Scott Bakker Best fantasy which doesn’t really fit into a category – Neil Gaiman Cerebral/intellectual fantasy – Neal Stephenson China Mielville Steampunk - Gail Carriger Scott Westerfield Cherie Priest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XReaper Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 hmm i pretty much enjoyed reading: - Robert Silverbergs "Lord of Darkness" - Noah Gordons "The Medicus" - Alexander Solschenizyn "Archipel Gulag" - Various dramas from Seneca the younger ...... ... .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyrt Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Reading The Last Wish (the Witcher book) and The Way of the Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funyarinpa Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 I like your tastes Can you suggest me something in SF genre (my favorite one is Tiger! Tiger! by Bester and Coils by Zelazny. Just no one ever heard about these books, when I ever ask about that ). So sort of that, I think, if possible. I'm not who was addressed but whatever, here goes. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy My favorite sci-fi book. The prose is fucking hilarious and yet the story itself is a masterpiece. 2001: A Space Odyssey The story of an expedition to a moon of Jupiter in order to follow a signal left by a mysterious monolith found in the Moon. That's the ones I can think of for now, I'll edit in more later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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