What book are you reading now?

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Omega Vision Face Flowed Into Her Eyes

Louisiana Power and Light by John Dufresne (my professor, lol).

XvampbenjiiX666 Commander Cadaver

"Ravenor Omnibus" by Dan Abnett.

Amanda234 Junior Member

'I am Malala' - a first person account by Malala Yousafzai

Newjak I am Beyond Power

'The Codex Alera' series by Jim Butcher

Omega Vision Face Flowed Into Her Eyes

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

And Newjack, which one are you on?

Newjak I am Beyond Power

Originally posted by Omega Vision
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

And Newjack, which one are you on?

Just finished the 3rd one this past weekend. Planning on getting started with the fourth this weekend.

Have you read them all?

Newjak I am Beyond Power

Just finished the last Codex Alera book.

NemeBro Senior Member

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

Tzeentch #gottem

That's a fun one.

Robtard Senor Member

Is the book substantially better than the movie? Cos that kind of sucked ass.

I have it on my to-read, but I keep pushing it off since I watched the film.

Tzeentch #gottem

Honestly, I don't even remember if the book was good.

I do remember it being entertaining as hell, though. The child-on-child violence is much more graphic in the book.

Omega Vision Face Flowed Into Her Eyes

Originally posted by Newjak
Just finished the 3rd one this past weekend. Planning on getting started with the fourth this weekend.

Have you read them all?


Read them a few years back. Pretty good in terms of action, but the descriptions get kind of repetitive for a lot of things (it became tiresome constantly hearing about how someone experiences a 'silver lance' of pain--WTF does that even mean?) and there was next to no character development for all but a few characters (Tavi, Aquitanus (in the last two), the vord queen (lol)) for the entire series. By the end of the series, the vast majority of the characters may have gained new abilities and forged new relationships, but at their core they're unchanged and continue to behave and act in the same way. Not to say its always a bad thing-I like Bernard for instance and wouldn't have wanted to see him change too much.

Newjak I am Beyond Power

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Read them a few years back. Pretty good in terms of action, but the descriptions get kind of repetitive for a lot of things (it became tiresome constantly hearing about how someone experiences a 'silver lance' of pain--WTF does that even mean?) and there was next to no character development for all but a few characters (Tavi, Aquitanus (in the last two), the vord queen (lol)) for the entire series. By the end of the series, the vast majority of the characters may have gained new abilities and forged new relationships, but at their core they're unchanged and continue to behave and act in the same way. Not to say its always a bad thing-I like Bernard for instance and wouldn't have wanted to see him change too much.
Cool I just finished reading them and I was okay with other characters not getting too much advancement as I liked so many of them from start to finish.

I would say Fidilas got probably the next best character development.

Bernard was one of my favorites as was Doroga.

Omega Vision Face Flowed Into Her Eyes

Yeah, I forgot Fidelias. He's a pretty good character.

Newjak I am Beyond Power

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Yeah, I forgot Fidelias. He's a pretty good character.
Yeah when we first met I did not think his story arc was going to end up the way it did.

Storm Black belt BJJ

'I am Pilgrim' by Terry Hayes.

Newjak I am Beyond Power

Originally posted by Storm
'I am Pilgrim' by Terry Hayes.
What is it about?

Martian_mind telepathy+debates+=Pwned

'Reaper Man' by Terry Pratchett.

Chris 1986 Member

I am getting a book related to Tim Burton's new film Big Eyes. They will call me at B&N when it comes in.

All this time, I thought I was following for Miss Pereguine and the Peculiar Children.

NemeBro Senior Member

The Iliad again.