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ill said:
they are all very quick reads...but I kind of enjoy that about them. They don't need to be drawn out, just Murderbot doing Murderbot things with all his drones and protecting his humans

Also, Alexander Skarsgard playing Muderbot

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Trailer is finally out.

 
Got Golden Son from the library. Also, while I was there, I got the first in the "Gentlemen Bastards" series by Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora, because of course I can't just read one series at a time
 
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Hu War Yu said:
Got Golden Son from the library. Also, while I was there, I got the first in the "Gentlemen Bastards" series by Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora, because of course I can't just read one series at a time
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Never heard of the "Gentleman Bastard" series. I'm gonna give it a look see. Enjoy Golden Son. Epic.
 
Hu War Yu said:
Got Golden Son from the library. Also, while I was there, I got the first in the "Gentlemen Bastards" series by Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora, because of course I can't just read one series at a time
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Center Ice said:
Never heard of the "Gentleman Bastard" series. I'm gonna give it a look see. Enjoy Golden Son. Epic.
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Gentlemen Bastards is a fun series, you will like that one.

Scott Lynch has been going through some shit, similar to Rothfuss, so fans are rabid for the next book in the series.
 
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Gentlemen Bastards is a fun series, you will like that one.

Scott Lynch has been going through some shit, similar to Rothfuss, so fans are rabid for the next book in the series.
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I'm 150+ pages into Locke Lamora, pretty good so far. I like the way he is weaving back and forth between when Locke was a kid and the present day, it really keeps the book moving.

Finished Golden Son Monday, nice cliffhanger ending. I didn't expect him to reveal who "Ares" was so soon in the series, but I guess it's because it was originally only going to be a trilogy? Picking up book 3 tomorrow
 
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I'm 150+ pages into Locke Lamora, pretty good so far. I like the way he is weaving back and forth between when Locke was a kid and the present day, it really keeps the book moving.

Finished Golden Son Monday, nice cliffhanger ending. I didn't expect him to reveal who "Ares" was so soon in the series, but I guess it's because it was originally only going to be a trilogy? Picking up book 3 tomorrow
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I finished Wind and Truth last night.

Started Red Country by Joe Abercrombie. Will be nice to finish off that set if First Law books...not sure when I will get around to the second trilogy.

So right now I am into:
Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
Open by Andre Agassi

and an audiobook or 2...
 
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Hu War Yu said:
I'm 150+ pages into Locke Lamora, pretty good so far. I like the way he is weaving back and forth between when Locke was a kid and the present day, it really keeps the book moving.

Finished Golden Son Monday, nice cliffhanger ending. I didn't expect him to reveal who "Ares" was so soon in the series, but I guess it's because it was originally only going to be a trilogy? Picking up book 3 tomorrow
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Soon you will be like me, pining for the 7th and final book, Red God.

I started The Lies of Locke Lamora. Only 40 pages in and not hooked yet.
 
Center Ice said:
Soon you will be like me, pining for the 7th and final book, Red God.

I started The Lies of Locke Lamora. Only 40 pages in and not hooked yet.
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Just finished Morning Star, it was good but seemed a little too perfect at the end. Going to start the second Gentlemen Bastards now before getting into the next arc of Darrow
 
I started working through Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. I started the second book, The Drawing of the Three last week.

I tried reading this series when I was younger and it was over my head...and I couldn't get into King's writing...so trying again.
 
Finished Joe Abercrombie's Red Country....which is basically a Western in a fantasy world...but not much in terms of magic or anything. Final standalone book of the First Law universe. It was good. I like how he writes his characters.
 
Finishing the Agassi book today, finished the 2nd Stephen King Dark Tower book (The Drawing of the Three), and started the third Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobook (The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook).

I also have If Beale Street Could Talk for my late night reads.
 
ill said:
Finishing the Agassi book today, finished the 2nd Stephen King Dark Tower book (The Drawing of the Three), and started the third Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobook (The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook).

I also have If Beale Street Could Talk for my late night reads.
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Fuck yeah man, Dungeon Anarchists Cookbook is fantastic.
 
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started Mort by Terry Pratchett and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn over the weekend.

nice, easy, light reads.
 
Bought this at a resale shop a year ago. A Summer Up North: Henry Aaron and the Legend of Eau Claire Baseball. An interesting look at the low minors in 1952. It was Aaron's first gig outside Negro League baseball
 
ill said:
started Mort by Terry Pratchett and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn over the weekend.

nice, easy, light reads.
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Huck Finn is not a "nice easy light read"

it's not interesting at all
 
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Huck Finn is not a "nice easy light read"

it's not interesting at all
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Kburjr said:
Peasant.
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Still a great piece of American Lit. Too bad all the anti-reverse-woki-fascists tried to ban it because it used the N-word, even though it's clearly abolitionist. Maybe a little more dated now due to increasing urbanism in the country.

Way ahead of its time for the use of vernacular
 
Hu War Yu said:
Still a great piece of American Lit. Too bad all the anti-reverse-woki-fascists tried to ban it because it used the N-word, even though it's clearly abolitionist. Maybe a little more dated now due to increasing urbanism in the country.

Way ahead of its time for the use of vernacular
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I read James last year and really enjoyed it, so figured I should try to get through Huck Finn.

It's just a slow read, I suppose.
 
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I read James last year and really enjoyed it, so figured I should try to get through Huck Finn.

It's just a slow read, I suppose.
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Oh yeah, I've been wanting to read that...it was on a list of 100 best books of the new century.

When you get to the part with the "Dolphin," it picks up a lot
 
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