Mustang posted:

I just finished Revelation Space and Chasm City in about 4 days and I'm about to start on Redemption Ark. This series is much better than I thought it would be and I can't believe I hadn't heard about them until the past year. Are the rest of the books as good as the first 2? Which one comes in second to Chasm City? I keep hearing that it's the best one in the series.

Earwicker posted:

These look really good!

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. . . a night or day when the person talking talked as if there were no future beyond that night or that day and as if their loose tongue would die with them, not knowing that there is always more to come, that there is always a little more, one minute, the spear, one second, fever, another second, sleep and dreams–speak, fever, my pain, words, sleep and dreams–and then, of course, there is interminable time that does not even pause or slow its pace after our final end, but continues to make additions and to speak, to murmur, to ask questions and to tell tales, even though we can no longer hear and have fallen silent.

Ballsworthy posted:

I'm about 100 pages into The Girl Who Played With Fire and I'm already sick of the phrase "sex mafia". I enjoyed the first one and I expect I'll enjoy this one, but the author really does go on about irrelevant details sometimes. Hooray, a list of all the things the protagonist purchased to furnish her new apartment, the brand of dining room table she chose will certainly be important later in the book.

Syrinxx posted:

Admit it, you're just nostalgic for the first book's two page description of her new Mac laptop

Mustang posted:

I'd say stick with it, it's an awesome series. Are you any good at skimming? If I wasn't a good skimmer there's no way I would have ever gotten through the first book. Especially with his 2 page descriptions of the streets of London. I'd say at least read up to The King of the Vagabonds and see if you want to keep reading it. Jack Shaftoes parts are always awesome. Daniel Waterhouse's story will eventually get pretty interesting especially towards the middle and end.

Decius posted:

As Mustang said, stick with it at least until the Jack Shaftoe parts. Daniel Waterhouse's story makes much more sense and is much more enjoyable once you've finished Quicksilver, which makes it a very odd choice to put at the start of the series.

meche posted:

On a Japanese fiction binge - just finished 'Spring Snow' by Yukio Mishima, and in the middle of 'The Makioka Sisters' by Junichiro Tanizaki. I'm really enjoying 'Sisters'; at the least it's a light break from the wonderful but extremely dark and tragic Spring Snow.

I think 'I am a Cat' by Soseki Natsume is next - unless anyone has any good suggestions?

Facial Fracture posted:

I bought Ian McEwan's Amsterdam today because it was $3 at a used bookstore and I'm trying to read more modern novels, which at this point mostly means I buy stuff that says "Booker Prize Winner" on it.

I won't get to it for a while but I flipped through the first few pages and McEwan seems like a drabber, less word-enamored Martin Amis.

Hedrigall posted:

Bought the Chronicles of Narnia online. I'm going to do a completely secular reading of it. Aslan? Just a magic lion

juliuspringle posted:

Today I picked up The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

VoodooSchmoodoo posted:

Good luck with that because I don't think its possible. I couldn't make it past The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe because such rampant religious zeal doesn't do it for me.


After that you have to read On The Road, if you haven't already.

Myself, I've just started the second Zelazny Amber Chronicles book. I was just reading about how he influenced Neil Gaiman, as if it wasn't obvious, except Zelazny shits all over Gaiman. It's a shame he seems to be kind of forgotten about.

Teddybear posted:

I won a Kindle in my university's library quality survey incentive raffle, and I loves it, loves it so. Books I'm getting into:

Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow, all about randomness and how it affects our lives.
Harry Potter series because it's been far too long since I've read them, and they make me get warm fuzzies for my youth.
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, about snap decisions.
Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy on recommendation of my father. I linked my Kindle to my dad's account, and as a result I have access to all of his purchased books. He thought I might like this, and for a technothriller, it's not bad.
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane, which I know absolutely nothing about but was another raving recommendation from my father, who said it was one of the best books he's ever read.
The Stranger by Albert Camus, a perennial favorite of mine.
Game Change by Mark Halperin because I am a tremendous politics nerd.

Hm. I may go post to the recommendation thread to get some new ideas; so many books, so little time!

Hedrigall posted:

Gasp Liam, you read Harry Potter? You get cuter by the day

A Clever Pun posted:

I've just started reading Dune. I know. I'm pretty much a failed nerd.

robomechatronsaurus posted:

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. This book has now been recommended to me by 3 people.

drat interesting so far, nice writing style. I'm having to re-evaluate all the neuroscience I never knew. I'd recommend it already to anyone interested in any facet of cognitive science.

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Facial Fracture posted:

I'm still reading the same thing I was last time I posted here but I just took an Intro to Ancient Greek out from the library. I thought it would take weeks until I could read words in the old alphabet but it took like 20 minutes. I'm sure it's all just going to be hell from here though.

Hedrigall posted:

Ancient Greek has like 12 different tenses. Enjoy!