If you can't help posting spoilers use the freaking spoiler tags at the very least.

currently reading the biography of reg date.

the dude was an absolute weapon from all reports. if this book is giving him an unexaggerated account of events (which i really don't see likely), he has to be the best player australia has ever had, and arguably one of the best ever players in the world. wish i was around to see him play tbh.

Finished the Inheritance cycle. Great finish to the series, sad but not surprised it ended in the way it did.

Reading that final book made me hate the people who made the first book into a film even more. I'd love to see a movie adaptation of it.

About a third of the way through Elantris - which is Brandon Sanderson's debut book (ie the guy that wrote the last few Wheel of Time books).

Anyone read the wheel of time series? I've book one and want some opinions on whether to start reading it as 13 books seems like it could possibly get lost and lose its quality.

I've read up to Book 10 I think. Then stopped as they were taking ages to come out.
The first..5..I think it was were really good. Then a lot started to happen, heaps of characters, heaps of plots because everyone was all over the place across the world. Politics etc.
The world is really detailed and some of the characters are really awesome.

Now that the final book is out, I can try and get back into it and jump in where I left off haha (I haven't read a WoT book in years though). I heard the later books aren't too bad since Sanderson wrote them (go figure).

Read the first book and see how you go. The first one is a typical fantasy journey adventure and a lot of the main characters are innocent and naive in regards to the outside world (you'll see some massive similarities with LOTR to start with). But the characterisation and character progression with the main characters is pretty damn impressive and on a large scale.

Have got tthis on my shelf.

Any good murder mystery/thriller type books people can recommend?

Don Winslow. So good.

Moreso crime fiction than thriller though.

Anything is great. Savages, Winter of Frankie Machine, Power of the Dog, all of it.

Cheers, will take a look :)

Re-reading the Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman. Still good books.

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the girl with the dragon Tattoo is great, just finished it and now on to the Girl who played with Fire.

the early James Patterson novels, Kiss the Girls, along came a spider are good but his work got real crazy and repetitive after a while.

don't underestemate the classics either, Agatha Cristies, and Sherlock Holmes are great.

I ws perusing my local Dymmocks this Saturday gone and came across the Novel of Battle Royal. it seems that it was a novel before a kick arse movie.

I'm gonig to check it out once my boo embargo is finished. only 10 or so to go before I can get some more.

Finally about to start The Fountainhead...has been sitting there waiting for a bit...
:)

Just finished H-H Hoppe's The God that Failed...was great until i got to the Conservatism and Libertarianism chapter...i think i qualify as one of his hated moral relativists! Guy has a thing for the hierarchy of the family, wife must have left him...and thinks homosexual "deviants" should stay closeted...issues...



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I hated The Fountainhead. I stopped reading about 300 pages in. I found the way Rand wrote characters like Keating and Toohey justifying their mediocrity pathetic. (Actually everything about the way she wrote Toohey was pathetic) Rand can shove her Objectivism as far up any orifice of her 30 year old corpse.

Just found a book I bought from the philippines again . It's called a long way home memoirs of a child soldier .powerful powerful read . Also read Sidney poorer's auto biography . And michael j fox book .

Wow now i'm even more keen....my impression of her other work is that she wasnt into justifying mediocrity ...i like her Objectivism otherwise despite having already swallowed a very negative second hand impression of her, previous to actually reading the stuff.

have to be careful here no spoilers lol!

I found with Atlas Shrugged i was still bored around page 300...there is a scene at Dagny's brothers wedding... i think its D'anconia's speech ...where it all sunk in. Probably more the 500pg mark

I seem to be an addict, I read an article the other day on Raymond E. Feist and it appears that the Rift War saga is about to finally end. Because of this I'm now rereading the Magician and have bought the following and still looking out for more (on the cheap)

Silverthorn
A Darkness at Sethanon
Prince of the blood
Shadow of a Dark Queen
Rise of a Merchant Prince
Rage of a Demon King
Shards of a broken Crown

I haven't read these books since my early 20's late teens and I gotta say, they're still as good as I remember.

Is anyone else up to date with A Song of Ice and Fire? Couldn't wait for the show, and heard it was best to read the books anyway, so I've pretty much devoured the 5 books over the past month.

George R.R Martin is a bastard, and will kill everyone you know and love. God damn.

I finished reading Picnic at Hanging Rock over the weekend, What a fantastic story! if you haven't read it go out get a copy and enjoy! riverting from begining to end! great story/concept and ending!

Anyone read the jack reacher series? I just bought Killing Floor (becasue it's the first and I'd like an idea of what the character is supposed to be like comparitive to the film and whether I should bother seeing it). Is he as awesome as Jack Ryan from Tom Clancy or more subtle?

Boy in the striped Pyjamas - cracking read

Life of Pi - not that fantastic

Currently reading Poer of One - so far, pretty darn good. but only 100 pages in.

Was trying to read Catch22 before but it was so damn impossible to follow or understand what was going on, so i stopped.

have been super lazy with reading lately. just gotten back into it - picked back up The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks. i have World War Z by the same guy for when i'm finished, and then i should be "qualified" to watch the new brad pitt film.

rocknerd - recommendations for more zombie books?

That's not your Mummy anymore- Matt Mugock Childrens book on learning to prepare for the zombie war

Zombie Autopsy- Dr somebody- great insight into Zombies from a medical angle.

Zombie Combat guide (see Zombies thread for website)

Max Brooks anything

So over the weekend bought the first book of A Game Of Thrones. Couldn't help myself, raced out and bought the first season on DVD whilst I was at it, too. :lol:. I'm going to wait until I've read the book however until I crack open the DVD. Great thing about picking up the DVD was I got the second book as a freebie from JB-HI FI. So now I've got that.

About 200 pages into the book and absoloutly loving it. Can't wait to see the DVD as well. Yeah, I'm hooked on GOT now. :lol:

Warning you, get hooked on the show and world as a whole, but don't ever get hooked on one character you will regret it :lol:

Had this hit me, on one in particular, so hard. Enough so that I'm running with the fact that said character is not 100% confirmed dead.

Fuck you George R.R. Martin.

I was lucky my Dad warned me before I started reading the books :lol:

Watch out for episode 9 this season... some seriously fucked up shit goes down

I seriously cannot wait for it. I'm not even watching the show, I'm just hanging out for the reactions afterwards. I hope they do it right.