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Anyone read any good novels?
Topic Started: 20th February 2007 - 08:42 PM (1,541 Views)
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Vermintide is a good read if you're a skaven fan, though I did find Skavenslayer to be a more enjoyable read.
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Wow. In one day, two months after the topic was made, the thread doubled in length :wacko:

I have started reading the latest Malus Darkblade novel (the name temporarily eludes me... Warpsword (good old Google).

If you had read the first three novels in the series and thought they were repetitive, this book will be of great joy. It is written differently, but it still has the interesting writing style they have maintained in the series.

After this I plan to read the Discworld series. Who knows what I'll be reading in two years when i finish what is currently written :P
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Well, Discworld is fun and all, but the brains would start leaking from my ears if I tried to read them all at once. I find Pratchet's funniest in small to moderate doses.
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I'm not reading any novels at the time, but i have just begun reading 'Foucault's Pendulum' by Umberto Eco, because i always wanted to read a book from Eco, to see how well he wrote. I must say it quite heavy shiznit :P but very fun to read.
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I realize that this is extreme threadomancy but... I have read a couple books that I have a feeling the members of the UE would absolutely love.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott-Card
Slaughter House-Five by Kurt Vonnecut

They are both fantastic reads (and fairly short, both being around 200-250 pages) and give you many different looks on every day life.

I have started to read The Colors of Magic by Terry Pratchett, and I am rather confused... I read the prologue when half asleep so I think I'll have to re-read that. I am not a fan of how the 'chapters' are like 100 pages, since I typically go by the 'read a minimum of 1 chapter per night' style.

Anyone else have any good reads in the past couple months?
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Paulo Coelho's the Alchemist is pretty good one, try that. Dunno if it's a novel but it's short (about 125-150 pages I think)

Also I read a pair nice short stories about Grunnson's Marauders in the Tales of the Old World-book, they were a lot of fun :)

Pratchett's books don't usually have any chapters so I would suggest that you read about 25-50 pages at time
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hmm, might like to try, michal ondaatje's "In the skin of a lion" its pretty good, more of a litreture book tho...

not sure if anyone said it and I just missed it but also, "Song of Ice and Fire" is AMAZING, I loved those books, series isnt finished yet tho:(

rift war saga is also a fun read...

anther good litreture book would be "the fiftith gate" its a realy uniqe way of exploring the holocost, through memorey and history... tru story as well... so yah u might like that

hope that helps at all
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Time to break out of this western hemisphere straightjacket! ;)

Try Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa.

I'm currently rereading it for the umpteenth time, and it totally sucks you through a vortex back to early C17 Japan. My version is the translation by Charles Terry, and it is a huuuuuuge book. The pages are close typed & twice the size of your usual novel, and it still runs to 970 pages. Yet, when you finish the novel it leaves you with a burning desire for more, and is just a fabulously constructed and executed tale of a great man on an amazing quest to find himself.

You don't have to know much at all about the Samurai era of Japan, but you will by the time you finish this. And forget Shogun (by James Michener) - Musashi makes that look utterly superficial and insipid. Musashi is the very cornerstone of my passion for Samurai era history, art & philosophy.

I like a lot of the works mentioned so far in this thread, and love some that haven't been (such as The Three Musketeers by Dumas), but Musashi is easily my vote for the greatest novel that I have ever read.

(I am also reading The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett - aloud - to my son every night when he goes to bed, and I'd rate that as my fave of the Discworlds ....... just ahead of Small Gods.)
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I'm reading this long book... The Pillars of the Earth
Its medival, and theres rape... What else does a book need?

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