What book did you just buy?

[Turzem]

Just bought Revelation Space.

[Burf]

Originally Posted by Sharmai

I am seriously wondering if I should just go back through the last 50 years or so and find all the movies which were adapted from novels that I liked and go read the books.

Just make sure you skip Interview with the Vampire

[Regime]

Originally Posted by Sharmai

I am wondering if LOTR and the whole series is worth reading on book. Course I straying from fantasy atm..

Good god yes

Start reading it now!

[Sharmai]

Originally Posted by Burf

Just make sure you skip Interview with the Vampire

I just got that but haven't listend to it yet. Is it that bad as the book version? I did enjoy the movie.

[Nescio]

Originally Posted by Malice

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, I forget how much it was.

I loved Oryx and Crake, is The Blind Assassin worth picking up?

[Burf]

Originally Posted by Sharmai

I just got that but haven't listend to it yet. Is it that bad as the book version? I did enjoy the movie.

I'm not sure how it is on audio book...it might be ok listening to it, but reading it was tedious to the extreme. Too much description of how every little thing looked/smelled/felt/sounded, blah blah blah

Anyway....just finished Simple Genius by David Baldacci. Entertaining author.

[Goltana_R-Zek]

Just picked up and started reading the Drow series w/Drizzt by R.A. Salvatore. Finished the first book.. almost done with the second, Exile. Have the next two already, enjoying it so far.

[Kez]

All the mentions of Iain Banks' Culture series got me to pick up Consider Phlebas today. Not sure if I'll dive in to that right away, or continue the Bonehunters. Just started that, but not too far in.

[Tallyn]

Originally Posted by Goltana_R-Zek

Just picked up and started reading the Drow series w/Drizzt by R.A. Salvatore. Finished the first book.. almost done with the second, Exile. Have the next two already, enjoying it so far.

Stop after the third. The rest after that are rehashed crap.

[Sharmai]

Originally Posted by Goltana_R-Zek

Just picked up and started reading the Drow series w/Drizzt by R.A. Salvatore. Finished the first book.. almost done with the second, Exile. Have the next two already, enjoying it so far.

I wish there were more books about the Drow and their culture. Not neccessairly Drizzit or any specfic hero's but the culture. I'd love for some short stories A la world war Z style.

[Turzem]

Originally Posted by Kez

All the mentions of Iain Banks' Culture series got me to pick up Consider Phlebas today. Not sure if I'll dive in to that right away, or continue the Bonehunters. Just started that, but not too far in.

Word of warning: after reading Banks, going back to Erickson can be a difficult transition. The Culture books are very light, popcorn style reading. I took a break and read the entire set of Culture books in the time it woudl have taken me to read the latest Malazan book.

[Burkex]

The other day I bought the The Appeal by John Grisham. I read it in 2 days and I really enjoyed it. So today I just bought A Darkness More Than Night, Lost Light and City of Bones all by Michael Connley. I read and enjoyed the first 6 books with Harry Bosch and these 3 are the next 3 books in the series so I can't wait to dive into them.

[DoctorSpooge]

Originally Posted by Turzem

Word of warning: after reading Banks, going back to Erickson can be a difficult transition. The Culture books are very light, popcorn style reading. I took a break and read the entire set of Culture books in the time it woudl have taken me to read the latest Malazan book.

Erikson exemplifies popcorn reading.

I just bought Blood Meridian. 20 pages in...already quite intense.

[Turzem]

Originally Posted by DoctorSpooge

Erikson exemplifies popcorn reading.

I just bought Blood Meridian. 20 pages in...already quite intense.

The way Erikson weaves his stories together aren't really popcorn reading. You have to be more attentive or you'll miss too much for things to be coherent. His style is also much more wordy and descriptive, by that virtue making it a more difficult read. It's like reading a typical comic book, then reading The Brothers Karamazov.

[Burf]

Originally Posted by Sharmai

I wish there were more books about the Drow and their culture. Not neccessairly Drizzit or any specfic hero's but the culture. I'd love for some short stories A la world war Z style.

The War of the Spider Queen series doesn't involve Drizzt, and it gives a bit of insight into Drow culture. The focus is on a group of Drow that "band together" (I use that term loosely) to find out what happened to Lloth, who mysteriously vanished.

It's a 6 book series, and it's pretty good...does fall apart a bit at the end, and I thought book 5 was written somewhat oddly (each book is by a different author), but it was entertaining nonetheless. All are available on paperback by now.