What are you reading right now (II)?

[Bodhisattva]

Tom Clancy's Terminal Velocity by M. P. Woodward.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Vince Flynn's Denied Access by Don Bentley

 

[Bodhisattva]

Gauntlgrym by R.A. Salvatore

Book 1 of 4 of the Neverwinter Saga

 

[Padreruf]

https://a.co/d/4jvG4vk

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America

Sam Tanenhaus' magnum opus on William F. Buckley...Just finished...very long and almost too detailed. He was a son of privilege as his dad was a con man and the apple stayed close to the tree. Very bright but also self-serving...I started the book liking him but would up on the other end of the spectrum.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Mountains of Fire by Jason Cordova

Set in John Ringo's Black Tide Rising universe

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Hannibal Third book in the series. it is way weirder than the movie

 

[BamaNation]

I've been reading the Brandon Sanderson Stormlight Archive series. I'm on the 4th book - Rhythm of War - right now. All part of his Cosmere universe.

I've really enjoyed reading them. My daughter read the first couple in the series and then got me to read them. They're long, incredibly detailed, well-developed, and different from anything else I've read. Epic in the storytelling and length.

Science fiction genre ... IMHO sort of Wheel of Time (for which he wrote the final 3 books after Robert Jordan died) also crossed with Lord of the Rings crossed with Game of Thrones.

The main problem I have is each book is like 1000+ pages and filled with all sorts of minutiae and I generally have time to read when I go to bed - and read one page before falling asleep! It takes a while to my daughter's chagrin

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[Bodhisattva]

I've been reading the Brandon Sanderson Stormlight Archive series. I'm on the 4th book - Rhythm of War - right now. All part of his Cosmere universe.

I've really enjoyed reading them. My daughter read the first couple in the series and then got me to read them. They're long, incredibly detailed, well-developed, and different from anything else I've read. Epic in the storytelling and length.

Science fiction genre ... IMHO sort of Wheel of Time (for which he wrote the final 3 books after Robert Jordan died) also crossed with Lord of the Rings crossed with Game of Thrones.

The main problem I have is each book is like 1000+ pages and filled with all sorts of minutiae and I generally have time to read when I go to bed - and read one page before falling asleep! It takes a while to my daughter's chagrin

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Agree on all counts! I've read almost all his Cosmere works. (Haven't read the Secret Projects books yet.) The first series I read was Mistborn, and I got hooked The books in the The Stormlight Archive series are so verbose that it takes a while to get through them. I'm in the middle of Wind and Truth (book 5), but I have other books that I'm reading at the same time. So, it will take me another week or two to get through this one. And besides the entertaining reading, the artwork in the books is awesome!

 

[BamaNation]

Agree on all counts! I've read almost all his Cosmere works. (Haven't read the Secret Projects books yet.) The first series I read was Mistborn, and I got hooked The books in the The Stormlight Archive series are so verbose that it takes a while to get through them. I'm in the middle of Wind and Truth (book 5), but I have other books that I'm reading at the same time. So, it will take me another week or two to get through this one. And besides the entertaining reading, the artwork in the books is awesome!

Exactly! He lives not that far from me and does a ton of stuff that's cool engaging his fans and the community. One of my neighbors is the genius behind FanX here (similar to ComiCon in the ATL) and Sanderson gets his own sold-out section every year. I'm not a fanboi of anybody or much anything - other than Bama ... but I do want to go see him there sometime because how prolific he is just amazes me.)

One thing I appreciate about these books is the lack of swearing. Very refreshing to read an epic without it. I loved GOT but had to mentally wash my brain with soap after every reading

I'm going to get one of the special autographed leather editions for my daughter. They're incredible.

for you, what is "a while"? 3 days?

 

[Bodhisattva]

Exactly! He lives not that far from me and does a ton of stuff that's cool engaging his fans and the community. One of my neighbors is the genius behind FanX here (similar to ComiCon in the ATL) and Sanderson gets his own sold-out section every year. I'm not a fanboi of anybody or much anything - other than Bama ... but I do want to go see him there sometime because how prolific he is just amazes me.)

One thing I appreciate about these books is the lack of swearing. Very refreshing to read an epic without it. I loved GOT but had to mentally wash my brain with soap after every reading

I'm going to get one of the special autographed leather editions for my daughter. They're incredible.

That's awesome! I had a chance to go to a fair amount of book signings when I lived in the DC area. Time only allowed for a brief conversation, but it satisfied the nerd-impluse in me. Never been to a convention. That sounds like an awesome time. I'm jealous!

for you, what is "a while"? 3 days?

 

[arthurdawg]

That's awesome! I had a chance to go to a fair amount of book signings when I lived in the DC area. Time only allowed for a brief conversation, but it satisfied the nerd-impluse in me. Never been to a convention. That sounds like an awesome time. I'm jealous!

My wife and her besty head to Dragon Con every other year... Fascinating, but you need a preplanned spreadsheet as it is humongous!

I am reading The Outlaw Ocean... The seas are a scary place!

 

[Bodhisattva]

Neverwinter by R.A. Salvatore

Book 2 of 4 the Neverwinter Saga

 

[arthurdawg]

Neverwinter by R.A. Salvatore

Book 2 of 4 the Neverwinter Saga

I read his first books when they came out in the 80s... Has been a long time since I've read a Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms novel... I did read the later Weis and Hickman books.

I actually met Weis at a smaller con in the early 90s. She was a super nice lady, talked to me and some other gangly and very nerdy teens for a solid hour!

 

[Bodhisattva]

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

Book 5 of the Stormlight Archive series

1300+ pages. I'm confident that Sanderson is paid by the word.

I've read that the first five books of the Stormlight Archive make up one story arc, and the forthcoming last five will make up a second. Sanderson is turning his attention back to the Mistborn and Elantris series, and the next planned Stormlight Archive release won't be for five or six years.

 

[arthurdawg]

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

Book 5 of the Stormlight Archive series

1300+ pages. I'm confident that Sanderson is paid by the word.

I've read that the first five books of the Stormlight Archive make up one story arc, and the forthcoming last five will make up a second. Sanderson is turning his attention back to the Mistborn and Elantris series, and the next planned Stormlight Archive release won't be for five or six years.

I was already reading much less fantasy by then... But having Robert Jordan pass and leave the series that ate the world to be finished by Sanderson really made even less apt to read long series.

That being said... I just reread Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn, and have the Last King of Osten Ard on the shelves...

 

[Bodhisattva]

Charon's Claw by R. A. Salvatore

Book 3 of 4 of the Neverwinter Saga