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idestroyedthetoilet said:
Pretty much only thing I read is fantasy and I find it hard to find good books.

Must read for me:

Lies of Locke Lamora. Not really fantasy at all but it's listed as it. Funny as hell book, the kind of book other authors like Patrick Rothfus recommend. Make it your next read and you won't be disappointed. @fishonjazz @TroutBum should read. I also recommend The Thicket by Joe R. Lansdale. It's a Western that's funny and good too.

A Discovery of Witches. A romance written by a historian who throws in some pretty solid science along with pseudo-history. Great trilogy.

Night shadow trilogy by Brent Weeks. I thought it was almost as good as Robin Hobbs 1-3 and 7-9.

The Hollows by Kim Harrison. Urban fantasy that incorporates every fantasy character outside of golems. I liked all 12 or 13 except one slow one in the middle, which was still pretty good.

The Host.
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Yeah, the Gentleman Bastard series (Lies of Locke Lamora) are like Rothfus lite.

Also, for fun, the Dresden Files books, as well as the Iron Druid. And, heck, the Laundry Files (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files).
 
am gonna read near 1,000 books this year. Figure thats about the pace I can do comfortably, I'm actualyl way ahead of that pace currently..... Trying to keep it more towards short stories and Novels 250-500 pages. I can speedreed but prefer to keep a jogging pace of near 350wpm, multiply that by my free time and u can read a ******** of books. Not really sleeping gives me a great advantage here, IDK how someone with a normal schedule could even remotely compete...

Just got done with a long one, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. I liked it quite a bit actually. Solid.


https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/books/review/whatever-happened-to-the-novel-of-ideas.html

This article from 2015 got me thinking, there might be something to it.. I decided I'm gonna go in for a closer look.



Oh the first Chinese Novel I read was just unreal, and comes HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommended/acclaimed.


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Oh I recently completed the works of Carlos Castaneda, no doubt in my mind that George Lucas used his Don Juan as inspiration for the force/obi-wan/yoda
 
Lord Bullingdon said:
I plan on tearing thru his short-stories, looks like there's quite a few. most likely before i get to the 2nd or 3rd book.
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Also, the dude who translated the 1st and 3rd books, Ken Liu (no relation), is a great writer in his own right. He basically invented the "silkpunk" genre with his Dandelion Dynasty series (The Grace of Kings and The Wall of Storms), and his story The Paper Menagerie is the first work to receive the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Simply gorgeous writing.
 
You have time to read 3 books per day? Amazing. I'm struggling to meet my goal of reading 2 books per week.
 
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Have I pimped this here? One of my favourite books, actually need to buy myself a new copy, lent mine to an bird and never saw it again.
 
Started the new Neal Stephenson novel, "Fall; or, Dodge In Hell" this weekend. As with much (most?) of his writing, it's amazingly on the money about how I feel about the current state of things.
 
gandalfe said:
Started the new Neal Stephenson novel, "Fall; or, Dodge In Hell" this weekend. As with much (most?) of his writing, it's amazingly on the money about how I feel about the current state of things.
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I haven't read anything by him, but I do have "Seveneves" on my to be read list (don't remember why). Which of his books would you recommend most?
 
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