I was pretty sure you had a daughter, but then I questioned myself.

Okay wow so I just finished "It"...... wow uhhh

Christian @ 23/3/2017 16:36

Ole' Vern @ 23/3/2017 16:13 Any recommendations? JPod by Douglas Coupland It's fun. Check it out.

Almost done with this book and I really hate it......

Been going through a sci-fi phase lately (particularly with movies), but have an entire collection of sci-fi novels I have yet to read on my book shelf. Here are the 4 primary ones I'm thinking of:

Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
James S. A. Corey - Leviathan Wakes
Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End
Andy Weir - The Martian

3 that I have on the side I'm thinking about:

Stephen Baxter & Terry Pratchett - The Long Earth
Ian McDonald - New Moon
Frank Herbert - Dune

But taking the 4 primary ones into consideration - which ones would you guys do?

Childhood's End is one of my favorites and it is a pretty quick read.

I couldn't even watch the TV adaptation because my wife kept going "Wait- that isn't in the book at all!" so we turned it off.

CJ Box - Joe Pickett novels are a good read

Just finished "The Way of Kings" by Brandon Sanderson

Really great fantasy book. Lot of small breadcrumbs in different chapters that hint toward the bigger picture and make you think.

Quenches that thirst when you are still waiting for Game of Thrones....

He seems to publish every 3 years or so, with the third book coming this November. So maybe he will finish the series!

Heard that that is an amazing series! I plan to pick it up soon! I always see it lying around in book stores, but for some reason, knowing the amount of books I still have lying around it's always daunting to get such a huge novel knowing you might not get to it soon. So I stupidly get a couple smaller novels instead. (:

I heard it's apparently going to be a 10-book series, so the fact he releases them every 3 years, it's reassuring that I'll for sure have enough time to get in the mix of everything before the series comes to an end. Heard it is indeed a great thirst quencher for the wait of 'The Winds of Winter', haha.

Recently bought Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss which is apparently the first book in a supposed trilogy, apparently he takes just as long as GRRM to write his novels, the final book of the trilogy is more than 6 years in the making at this point, but yeah, I should really start that one soon if I want any of the gratification to be part of the fan community before the final book gets released.

I also have some other sci-fi/fantasy series on my shelf that I'm hoping I'll be getting to soon, including; 'The Expanse' (9 book series; 6 books out so far), 'The Long Earth' (5 book series, complete), 'Luna' (so far 2-books, probably more to come), 'The First Law' (a complete trilogy), 'Seraphim' (2 books released, supposedly from a 4 book series), 'Dune' (an original 5 book series, but an expanded upon universe - countless novels now)

So yeah, that's not even counting the stand-alone novels I still have that include 'The Martian', 'American Gods', 'The Stand', 'It', 'Cloud Atlas', etc. Haha. I even plan on immediately rereading the A Song of Ice and Fire series as soon as The Winds of Winter is out - so I still have a lot of reading to do. :p

btw to make matters worse, just barely got back from Barnes and Noble and bought:

Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed (science fiction)
George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London (coming of age)
Haruki Murakami - Hear the Wind Sing (coming of age)
Haruki Murakami - Pinball, 1973 (coming of age)

yay more books!?

Currently working on getting all the works from:

Arthur C. Clarke
Haruki Murakami
George Orwell
Ursula K. Le Guin
Stephen King
Neil Gaiman
David Mitchell

before 2030, haha. Actually want to have read every single Arthur book before 2025. Already have 4 down (the entire space odyssey series), and am busy with the fifth (Childhood's End). Many, many more to go, but considering I read a bunch of books inbetween my goals (from other authors), I feel like it's going pretty well so far at a reasonable pace. :)

Finished Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to those that Create It - Charlamagne the gods life story. It was pretty interesting and had a lot of radio industry tidbits


Currently reading Trevor Noah's book right now

Miko-

The First Law is an interesting series. Abercrombie is great for visualizing a battle, with the plots being fairly decent.

If you want me to add to your "should read" books, there is the Gene Wolfe "New Sun" stuff (which is followed by the Long Sun and Short Sun miniseries). This is one series I could genuinely say I had no idea how the next book would go as I read them.

Miko @ 27/6/2017 23:41

Currently working on getting all the works from: Arthur C. Clarke Haruki Murakami George Orwell Ursula K. Le Guin Stephen King Neil Gaiman David Mitchell before 2030, haha. Actually want to have read every single Arthur book before 2025. Already have 4 down (the entire space odyssey series), and am busy with the fifth (Childhood's End). Many, many more to go, but considering I read a bunch of books inbetween my goals (from other authors), I feel like it's going pretty well so far at a reasonable pace. :)

Also- You might as well run through Clarke's "Rama" stuff. It will be a fairly quick read.

Rama is probably going to be next up!! The Clarke novel I'm probably most excited for is probably 'The Fountains of Paradise', have heard only good things about that novel, and there is this sci-fi compilation of every single Clarke short-story ever written all compiled into one big book at my local B&N. Have been eyeing that for a while - will probably get it next time I am there. That will help my collection of his work be sped up big time!

His overall collection is huge though, it will be pretty daunting to try and get every novel but I'm dead-set on trying to complete it!

A couple chapters away from being done with Childhood's End. Enjoying it a lot as expected! Not as much as 2001 or 2061, so it may be a bit lower than those 2 in my overall ranking. But we'll see as I haven't even gotten to the climax yet.

Decided to read The Martian by Andy Weir next (will do Rama soon though). Am going through a space exploration/colonization phase, haha.

Also - Andy Weir recently revealed what his next book is going to be about and I'm so incredibly excited!

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/8/15582342/the-martian-author-andy-weir-artemis-book

The end of Childhood's End really makes it.