Discworld is awesome.
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Discworld is awesome.
I started reading it a month or so ago. Got ~30-40 pages into it and stopped. Nothing really drew me in and the profanity was out of control.
In other disappointing books, I read Joe Haldeman's "Camoflauge". Won the Nebula Award but I have no idea how. First half was interesting but the book overall was probably the worst book I've read in 10 years (partly because I usually stop reading if it's that bad). 2 out of 5 stars.
I know the OP wasn't necessarily restricted to fantasy, but that's what a lot of discussion has been. So I'll put this out there--my favorite current fantasy writer by far is Brandon Sanderson. I've read all his adult books and liked them all A LOT (except for Elantris, which I liked a little less than the others). But the Mistborn trilogy is truly outstanding, probably just below Lord of the Rings for my favorite fantasy work of all time.
Only read two Haldeman book, and both were utter ****.
Do you read hard sci-fi? If so, check out Dragon's Egg by Robert Forward. It is marvelous.
Your books are not at my library as of yet. I'll keep an eye out. I'm too old-fashioned for Kindle and I'm not buying books at the moment as I have nowhere to keep them (too many already).
I spent the summer of 1996 reading the first seven books and loved them. Kept reading through book 10, where for some reason I stopped. I want to finish, but obviously it has been a long time and I'd need to start over. Just haven't figured out how to make that kind of time now (there's sooo many books I want to read).
I agree with the 2/3 comment.
For anyone interested in books about race - I've just started listening to Trevor Noah's "Born a Crime." He's the successor to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show if you are not familiar with him. He grew up in South Africa at a time when it was illegal for a white person and a black person to have "relations," much less a child. It is fascinating! It helps that he is a comedian which brings some fun into such a serious topic.
Sure. Actually, I just checked out the Wikipedia page for the book and it sounds familiar. I think I probably read it when I was in high school (late 80's). But I'll consider re-reading it.
Book 11 was also slow moving (basically books 8-11 all were), but the Sanderson books (12-14) were all really good. Frankly I didn't have high hopes even though I had read and liked some other Sanderson books by then. Just seemed like it was doomed to fail, to have on author finish another author's series. But it worked. And book 14 in particular, the finale, was simply amazing. In fact, that reminds me that I should re-read it sometime before too long.
RandyForRubio
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Yes, but you're a guy who likes the good guys to be good, the bad guys to be bad, and not much middle ground. I think that's the WOT series. I prefer a bit more ambiguity. Make me think, evaluate my life kind of stuff.
I skipped the last couple of mistborn. His Stormlight archive so far is amazing and at the top of my list.
