What are you reading?

SnowRooster said:
I stumbled across this series, which turned out to be fun and interesting.
Cliff notes version, Ready Player One meets World of Warcraft / Dungeons, & Dragons

This kid with a medical condition has to go into a medical pod that’s connected to the biggest virtual reality game in the world for a prolonged amount of time. While he’s there, he has a bunch of adventures it’s a 10 book series fantasy stuff it’s not generally what I like but the first book was free for me and I got hooked.

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I'm going to give this a shot. I like all of those kinds of things. Never really got into WoW though.
For anyone interested in the fantasy, DnD, tolkien type of fantasy this author and world are great. I'm on the last book of the second series in that world.
If you don't like clicking on links its Riyria Revelations by Michael J Sullivan
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rufrdr said:
I've read this, a classic tale.
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Dante's epic has always intrigued me due to the way it was originally written.

The Divine Comedy is divided into three canticles: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each canticle consists of thirty-three cantos, except the first which has thirty-four, thus the entire poem is made up of one-hundred cantos.

The epic poem is composed of 14,233 lines of eleven syllables each and is written in terza rima verse form in iambic tercets (three-line groupings). The rhyme scheme for this form of poetry is "aba bcb cdc, etc." The second line of each tercet sets the rhyme for the following tercet, and thus supplying the verse with a common thread, a way to link the stanzas. Dante chose to end each canto of the The Divine Comedy with a single line that completes the rhyme scheme with the end-word of the second line of the preceding tercet.
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John the Balladeer is finally out on kindle.

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In John the Balladeer, Manly Wade Wellman created one of the great characters in all of horror and fantasy literature. Armed with his silver-stringed guitar and an endless trove of folk songs, John travels the backwoods of Appalachia, battling supernatural evil with his own brand of down-home charm and endless resourcefulness. In these tales, John wanders the Southern mountains, encountering hoodoo men and witch women, strange supernatural beasts, malevolent spirits, and even George Washington's ghost.

Edited by horror legend Karl Edward Wagner, this volume contains the complete John the Balladeer stories in their original, unaltered form, as they first appeared in magazines and anthologies between 1951 and 1987. Also featured are a foreword by Wellman's friend and literary executor David Drake and an introduction by Wagner.

"Just as J. R. R. Tolkien brilliantly created a modern British myth cycle, so did Manly Wade Wellman give to us an imaginary world of purely American fact, fantasy and song." - Karl Edward Wagner

"This is the real thing-a book of haunting fantasies with their roots going down deep into the American folk tradition." - Robert Silverberg
 
SnowRooster said:
I stumbled across this series, which turned out to be fun and interesting.
Cliff notes version, Ready Player One meets World of Warcraft / Dungeons, & Dragons

This kid with a medical condition has to go into a medical pod that’s connected to the biggest virtual reality game in the world for a prolonged amount of time. While he’s there, he has a bunch of adventures it’s a 10 book series fantasy stuff it’s not generally what I like but the first book was free for me and I got hooked.

Amazon product ASIN B07Q24SRFQ
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Just started this.

Only thing that bothers me so far is the sudden point of view changes.

If I can get past that, I think I'll really like it.
 
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"Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place.

Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.

Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.

But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital.

It's up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyper-intelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.

In a dog-eat-dog world...be a cat."

John Scalzi is a favorite of mine. He is always a good read and his stories are witty and frequently amusing as is this one. I'm about a third of the way through and enjoying it.
 
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I just finished, The Yank. It's about a guy who was born in the US to Irish immigrants, brought back and raised in Ireland, came back the the US to join the U.S. Marines in the 1970's, becomes a Recon Marine, and the day he gets out of the USMC he goes back to Ireland to join the IRA. He gets involved with Whitey Bulger in Boston, gunrunning, goes to prison in Ireland, etc.

Seemed like an awesome premise, but there's very little actual IRA action, and LOTS of anti-English gov't/pro-Republic of Ireland rants. In my early teens I had a fascination with the history of The Troubles and IRA's fight to 'Get England Out of Ireland' (my paternal grandparents are from Ireland). In my later teens I joined the Marines, so I thought this would be an excellent book - it wasn't.

I also just finished The Woodstock Murders. Decent book, but mainly because the main character is a Homicide Detective from my home town and also because I own a house/property near where Woodstock took place* in 1969. The premise is that something happened at Woodstock in 1969 and 35 years later a person wants revenge. He's a former LRRP and mercenary, so his method of murders are quite interesting.

* I find that most people don't know that Woodstock '69 didn't take place in Woodstock, NY, but actually took place 60 miles away in Bethel, NY. (last-minute change of venue)
 
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turkeydance said:
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your ex might be in here.
have not finished it yet.
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If my ex is in there, it would be as an instructor to all the other women in the book.


Currently, I'm reading book 6 of the Nick Archer Slayer series, by Evan Ronan. Before that, I read M.D. Massey's Colin McCool Junkyard Druid series. Before that Erick Testerman's West of Prehistoric series. Before that, Jonathan Yanez' Hunters for Hire series.

I read a lot to keep me entertained and occupied.
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
If my ex is in there, it would be as an instructor to all the other women in the book.


Currently, I'm reading book 6 of the Nick Archer Slayer series, by Evan Ronan. Before that, I read M.D. Massey's Colin McCool Junkyard Druid series. Before that Erick Testerman's West of Prehistoric series. Before that, Jonathan Yanez' Hunters for Hire series.

I read a lot to keep me entertained and occupied.
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The Junkyard Druid is OK. Basically a discount Iron Druid. If you haven't read that you're really missing out.
 
J R Green said:
The Junkyard Druid is OK. Basically a discount Iron Druid. If you haven't read that you're really missing out.
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Iron Druid was AWESOME! I read the books and repeated them with the audio books a couple years later.

Oberon was my favorite character, and imagine my surprise at how accurate his voice in my mind was compared to the voice characterization when I later got the audiobooks!
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
Iron Druid was AWESOME! I read the books and repeated them with the audio books a couple years later.

Oberon was my favorite character, and imagine my surprise at how accurate his voice in my mind was compared to the voice characterization when I later got the audiobooks!
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I don't know if you are into Jim Butcher too but his son has made a great start as a writer. James J Butcher.
 
Just finished Time Before History by H. trawick Ward and R P Stephen Davis, Jr. It's a fairly comprehensive account of the archaeology of North Carolina from the Paleo-Indian period up to contact with Europeans.
 
I was supposed to have read this for a course a hundred years ago. Instead I BS’d my way through the class. The lectures always stuck with me, so when this popped up in my recommendations I went ahead.

REALLY wishing I’d have read it then and engaged in the discussion. This is like a manual for living. It can be read/listened to in 2-3 minute chunks and you’ll get a ton out of it.

I’ve started using Kindle’s whispersync tech to listen to a book while reading it at the same time. I think this dual mode approach really serves my mild dyslexia

Sample of the short passages you’ll find:

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”

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"The Burning of the World: the great Chicago fire and the war for the city's soul"
Scott W. Berg
Part way into it and enjoying it. Well written.
 
I just finished "With The Old Breed" by E.B. Sledge. Great book and evidently somewhat the basis for some of the show "Pacific." "Hidden Horrors" by Yuko Tanaka is about the Japanese war crimes in WWII and is not a good book to read just before you try to go to sleep. I doubt I will read those to my wife.

I read to my wife every night and started several years ago with a very fascinating book if you are from the Carolinas titled "The Tuscarora War" by David La Vere. Recently I have read to her several Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe books. I am presently reading a compilation of Cory Ford stories.
 
J R Green said:
I don't know if you are into Jim Butcher too but his son has made a great start as a writer. James J Butcher.
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I've listened to the audiobooks for every one of Jim Butcher's Dresden books. An outstanding series, in my opinion.

I'll have to take a gander at his son's works. Thanks!
 
Started Golden Son by Pierce Brown. Hard to put down.

Can't recall who mentioned them in here, but hot dang that is some of the best writing I've ever seen. HIGHLY recommend the 'Red Rising' series to everyone.
 

November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II​


"At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could still win the Second World War; at the end of that month, it was obviously just a matter of time before they would lose. In between were el-Alamein, Guadalcanal, the French North Africa landings, the Japanese retreat in New Guinea and the Soviet encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. It may have been the most important thirty days of the twentieth century. In this hugely innovative and riveting history, Peter Englund has reduced an epoch-making event to its basic component: the individual experience."
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I'm on #4 of the murderbot series. Very entertaining and quick reads (or listens) about a sentient human/machine security 'device' that develops a personality and slips out of its programming to become a machine on the run. I recommend the audio books available from your county library. Good fun.
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