The Book Lair - all book talk ITT

[eddyak]

Yeah, the Otori series just gets flipped on its head after the trilogy ends.

[Historia]

Been reading the new canon Star Wars novels.

Currently I'm on Lost Stars. Hopefully I don't burn through it in less than a day like the last one.

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Apparently it's considered the best of the canon novels thus far. We'll see.

[BookHolic]

Okay, I recently came across an Icelandic detective series. It's pretty good. I'm a few chapters in and loving it so far, it's called Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason. I definitely recommend it.

[Sesto]

Read "Never Let Me Go". I liked it. I do think it could have done without the explanation at the end, though.

[LJ3]

Oh yeah, he won the Prize

[Akyuu]

Night on the Galactic Railroad was pretty fun. Miyazawa Kenji's writing style is charming, in an innocent child-like manner.

[aldeayeah]

Just finished reading the first Mistborn trilogy. I quite liked the third book, it would make a terrific anime.

By the way, for the last few weeks, Sanderson has been uploading three chapters of Oathbringer to tor.com a week, and will do so until the Nov 14th release.

https://www.tor.com/author/brandon-sanderson/

[castor212]

Just finished reading the first Mistborn trilogy. I quite liked the third book, it would make a terrific anime.

By the way, for the last few weeks, Sanderson has been uploading three chapters of Oathbringer to tor.com a week, and will do so until the Nov 14th release.

https://www.tor.com/author/brandon-sanderson/

*hyperventiating*

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On another note, i read Ship of the Dead.

Typical Rick Riordan. Its actually getting stale.

[Akyuu]

On another note, i read Ship of the Dead.

Typical Rick Riordan. Its actually getting stale.

he still writes things? last thing i read was the last olympian when i was a wee lil kid

[castor212]

He viking now

[SpoonyViking]

Nah, he's still writing about the Greek gods, too.

[castor212]

He viking and apollo now

[SpoonyViking]

Better. :-P
Also, I agree with you: he's basically just writing more of the same.

[SleepMode]

Better. :-P
Also, I agree with you: he's basically just writing more of the same.

A one-trick pony, so to speak.

Which is sad, as I used to enjoy the guy's works. Now, I kind of just dropped the series due to the problem mentioned above.

[RoydGolden]

Hey, I just started reading Ship Of The Dead a few days ago. Hasn't gotten stale to me yet (then again I'm only on like the 4rth chapter).

[SleepMode]

Been reading through some of Joseph Campbell's Power of Myth.

So far, I found how one's life can be like the Hero's Journey is interesting in of itself, as some parts of life can be interpreted this way. Although the whole "Follow Your Bliss" is a more of a "Follow your truest passion," which is kind of... overused, so to speak.

Nonetheless, the concepts in the book was a good conversation topic with my family.

[castor212]

Actually, now that i think about it, even the characterization on the Magnus books are even so much less than during Percy times.

[GundamFSN]

I only read the Lightning Thief and my impression was pretty average.

[SeiKeo]

Well, you were right.

[Trubo]

Just finished reading the first Mistborn trilogy. I quite liked the third book, it would make a terrific anime.

By the way, for the last few weeks, Sanderson has been uploading three chapters of Oathbringer to tor.com a week, and will do so until the Nov 14th release.

https://www.tor.com/author/brandon-sanderson/

Oh, his new book is coming out? Looks like I have a gift I can get my dad then.