Reading List Thread

On David Eddings... too samey, too high fantasy without the grandeur, too impressed with his own cleverness, but nevertheless highly enjoyable.

on Guy Gavriel Kay... Very tolkien influenced, but much more human than the LotR, and it gets very, VERY depressing
 
Originally posted by Qsilver
I'm reading The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gabriel Kay. I hadn't heard anything about this fantasy serie before few days ago when I opened the first book but now after reading ~100 pages I kind of think I like it.

I read those a couple of years ago, on a whim, and was quite impressed. The merging of world in a serious way is cool, and some of the personal storylines that develop and character development is excellent.
 
Heard a lot about Thomas Mann before, but never read more than a few sentences in school. One of my teachers always said I'm writting like him - she didn't like this, but I've always been writting this " Thomas Mann sentences" as she called it, so why stop just because of her?
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By the way - Hans Christian Andersen hasn't been mentioned yet,has he? O.k. fairytailes are for kids most people believe , but I love his ones and he's wrote some for grown ups.
 
if you are looking for something that will blow your mind,exhaust your brain and amaze you with every page then Proust is a must!
my recommendation goes to number 2(of 7 for those who don't know) À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs
 
I'm a huge John Irving fan. He wrote The Cedar House Rules and The World According to Garp. They are mostly character driven stories set in the eastern U.S. Also, everyone needs to read "Lord of the Barnyard" by Tristan Egolf. A garbage man and his misadventures in a small town... The guy is a master!!!!
 
I just finished Strata today, from Terry Pratchett...
it's not his best book by far (probably one of the weakest) but well, still I recomend it to anybody who has gotten hooked on the Discworld series...

next to match....Life, The Universe And Everythin, by the master Douglas Adams :)

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Strata is indeed weak,especially due to the lack of Pratchettian humour...
(apart from the famous quote "Death was Nature's way of telling you to slow down." and a couple of other little things there is nothing worth of being kept in memory).
Anyway,it is pleasant to read.First of all because it is somehow the beginning to the discoworld,but also because it may be interesting to see how an author's way of writting has evolved.
All in all,it is an okey story,pleasant to read,but nothing special.
Some day,i'd like to read "the dark side of the sun"

As for what i' readiing now,i'm reading Pratchett's "small gods",but in quite slow pace,since i read it in spanish,which is not a language i'm an expert in......I'm really amazed......it is great,i enjoy every single line of it...

Yesterday i also started reading another book... in german this one :p the original title is "se deg ikke tillbake" and it is by the norwegian author Karin Fossum...the book rules so far,it's a about a strange murder taking place in a little norwegian village....the plot so far is amazing.I've really gotten hooked on it,i;m already in page 80....I wish i had no projects and could lock myself in the house for the whole weekend and rrrrrrrrrread!!!!!! Karin Fossum rules :worship:
 
"talon" by charles romalotti. actually, "rash" first and then "talon", it being a followup to the first. sick horror in a punk/skinhead setting. wow.

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since the beginning of the year i started reading Pratchett. in english.
so far i read Truckers, Diggers, Wings and The Carpet People (which i already read in italian some years ago).
i am now beginning the Discworld novels with The Colour of Magic. :hotjump:
just to let you know. :)

Miolo
 
i've started reading tom wolfe's the electric kool-aid acid test. doesn't look like a great book so far, i hope it gets better.
 
The dying animal by Philip Roth
I tought it was gonna be a bad book but it turned out to be quite a good book
it's got some excellent quotes on it,I would post them but I read it in spanish and I am too lazy to translate
 
i'm still stuck with the cryptonomicon... kinda long-winded at first, but now it really gets interesting.
actually the first book where i could't restrain a loud laughter when this japanes guy tries to figure out what I.N.R.I. means :lol:
"initiate nail removal immediately!"
 
Originally posted by Miolo
since the beginning of the year i started reading Pratchett. in english.
so far i read Truckers, Diggers, Wings and The Carpet People (which i already read in italian some years ago).
i am now beginning the Discworld novels with The Colour of Magic. :hotjump:
just to let you know. :)

Miolo

miolo!!! you started the wrong way :p

you should stop (drop and roll) and start reading Good Omens, then life will be nice enough to reading about 15000 mile long turtles diving peacefully in space without have the subsequent normal feeling of "whaaaaaat???" ;)