Books!

[Mélusine]

I know I might be a slow on the draw here, but are you intending to read the other books in the Ender's Game series?
They're..... interesting.

My reader friends are to date all telling me to stop there because it's "bad" after. I don't know. I might try someday. Do you recommend them ?

[Mentha_spicata]

My reader friends are to date all telling me to stop there because it's "bad" after. I don't know. I might try someday. Do you recommend them ?

Sorry for speaking when not asked, but coincidentally last month I decided to give Xenocide amd The Children of the Mind a try, after hugely enjoying the first two books and re-reading them for many times. I have been warned that it gets "curiouser and curiouser", but no warnings could prepare me for what a drag it turned out to be. I liked certain things, like The World of Path, or Jane's character development, but it was all around exhausting. The two main problems I saw were a) the weird, weird plot twists and b) Card's philosophical worldview starts showing through in quite irritating manner. It's no even that I disagree with him (though yes, I do many times), but the charm of the writing style must have somehow worn off by book 3.
I'd still strongly recommend trying Speaker of the Dead, I found it a very touching and engaging read.

I'm currently experiencing a reading equivalent of violent mood swings, going all the way from polish satire from the 60., through some pretty bad crime novels, all the way to Yeates or memoirs of concentration camp survivors.
The "pretty bad crime novels" in question are by a Slovakian author Dominik Dan, and I believe they haven't been translated into English. They are supposedly based on the author's experiences as a real-life detective, but well. The most known of the many, many books he's published includes the Conspiracy of the Templars. Also, the dialogues sound forced and overwitted, and the plots are concerned mostly with the scandalous lifes of the Slovakian upper-class, or Catholic priests.
And still, still, I've read four of the books already, it's so bad you are unable to stop. I desperately need to set my eyes on something actually enjoyable.

[Mélusine]

Sorry for speaking when not asked

Feel free to do it It's a forum, and having opinions of other persons is always interesting.

[GunmanRex]

My reader friends are to date all telling me to stop there because it's "bad" after. I don't know. I might try someday. Do you recommend them ?

Mentha_spicata captured it very well. They have their moments, but they aren't as good as Ender's Game.

[SecludedMan]

Recently started reading a few China Mieville books, started with the City and the City and quickly found myself halfway through his most recent book, This Census Taker. Something so bewilderingly strange but also haunting about both of them, wondering whether it's worth the plunge into the rest of his works.

[Abprallen]

Recently started reading a few China Mieville books, started with the City and the City and quickly found myself halfway through his most recent book, This Census Taker. Something so bewilderingly strange but also haunting about both of them, wondering whether it's worth the plunge into the rest of his works.

Definitely is! I really enjoyed UnLunDun in particular.

[Iceea]

I've finally got around to reading The Great Escape and it's absolutely enthralling. I've seen the movie (of course) and am familiar with the basic historical facts, but the determination and ingenuity of the prisoners was just amazing! It's also very funny in parts with the way that they continually outfox the guards.

The only downside is knowing how it all ends.

Wyrm, if you liked that one be sure to check out "The Colditz Story", another tale of WWII allied prisoners and their escape efforts. There was a movie made of it and a couple of years ago PBS's NOVA did a show about a planned aerial escape. Talk about ingenuity, these folks had it. They never got as many out but they never suffered the terrible loss that occurred as part of the The Great Escape. I only found reference to the 1 Colditz book but my teenage memory says there was more than one. Enjoy!
Ha, a little more searching brings up "Men of Colditz" and A newer edition combing both books and other material, "Colditz: The Full Story". As a teenager these were just great.

[Auxivele]

Recently started reading a few China Mieville books, started with the City and the City and quickly found myself halfway through his most recent book, This Census Taker. Something so bewilderingly strange but also haunting about both of them, wondering whether it's worth the plunge into the rest of his works.

Definitely is! I really enjoyed UnLunDun in particular.

I have no idea who y'all are talking about but now I'm really curious. Those books sound really interesting.

[urbicande]

Recently started reading a few China Mieville books, started with the City and the City and quickly found myself halfway through his most recent book, This Census Taker. Something so bewilderingly strange but also haunting about both of them, wondering whether it's worth the plunge into the rest of his works.

I thought Perdido Street Station and The Scar were brilliant.  I was less taken with Iron Council.  I also really liked Emassytown.

[viola]

I just recently finished The Three Body Problem and the other two books in the trilogy: The Dark Forest and Death's End by Liu Cixin. They are sooooooo gooooooooooooood. It's hard scifi with psychology and quantum physics and sociology and outer space and really really interesting ethical situations. I highly recommend to anyone who likes a good scifi series.

[Athena]

I finished reading Dune Messiah a little while ago, and it lived up to my expectations, it was about as good as the original Dune.

[GunmanRex]

I finished reading Dune Messiah a little while ago, and it lived up to my expectations, it was about as good as the original Dune.

The first three in the Dune series are nice, then they just get weird.
Bonus points if you were able to pick out pieces that Warhammer borrows from the Dune series.

[Athena]

The first three in the Dune series are nice, then they just get weird.
Bonus points if you were able to pick out pieces that Warhammer borrows from the Dune series.

They’re already pretty weird already, I’m interested what it will turn into in that case. I don’t know anything about Warhammer so I doubt I will, but ok.

And I just finished Dune Messiah the other day, it was good indeed.

Also, The Ocean At The End Of The Lane (Neil Gaiman) just came in the mail! (I ordered it from a used book store online, “thriftbooks.com”, they’re great.) and I started it and it is good so far. (And weird. Weird is what Gaiman does best)

[Iceea]

Also, The Ocean At The End Of The Lane (Neil Gaiman) just came in the mail! (I ordered it from a used book store online, “thriftbooks.com”, they’re great.) and I started it and it is good so far. (And weird. Weird is what Gaiman does best)

Oh yea! You're in for quite a ride, do enjoy. I can recommend another Neil Gaiman, "Sandman: The Dream Hunters". Not part of his main Sandman series despite the title. It's a take on the fox spirit - human interaction from Japanese tales. In this case the fox is the female and the human, a monk, is male. Illustrated by Yoshi-taka Amano. I had to split the first name to get it past auto 4 letter word sensor

[Lazy8]

In honor of the season, I've decided it's time to finally read Dracula!

(I've actually heard the story of what the real Vlad the Impaler was like... we'll see how well this goes over...)