What are you reading? Book discussions and reviews

[OG Butch]

If anyone wants a good Sci-fi series that has some great laughs in it check out Craig Alanson's Expeditionary Force series. I have only finished the first two books but they were great! I can't wait to start the third in the series. The audiobooks are very entertaining.

https://www.audible.com/series/ref=a_search_c4_1_2_1srSrs_sa?asin=B01N9CUGHG

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Thanks, I am enjoying it very much.

Cool.

I just started reading...

 

[Chakor]

I've read the original Dracula at least twice already, but I've starting reading it for a third time.

 

[OG Butch]

Cool.

I just started reading...

How is it?

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I started doing audiobooks

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Odd question, but does anybody know of a place selling Playaway audiobooks?

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

The Eyes of the Dragon

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Skeleton Crew Collections

 

[Pork Chop Express]

Switching off between The Price of the Ticket - Baldwin & History of M.E. Vol. 2 - Tolkien.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Almost done with Bag of Bones

 

[The Ween]

Odd question, but does anybody know of a place selling Playaway audiobooks?

Amazon does.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Amazon does.

Not the one I want though

 

[GasparZizou]

Finally managed to get my hands on the Arthur C. Clarke's Time Odyssey, It was very disappointing, I still liked it but it's a lot of reading only to find out it ends in a ****ing huge cliffhanger

And the 4th book may never happen.

And also finished re-reading all of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, I ****ing love them, I have no interest in visiting the comics, I've read a bunch of them and they just don't fully translate how REH describes the world, narrative and even Conan's panther-like movements, plus, anything less than Frazetta's or Brom's art makes them barely tolerable in comic book form.

 

[OG Butch]

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - Bobverse book 1

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I did buy the Playaways of Firestarter and The Long Walk, I want to find IT and The Stand too

 

[Pork Chop Express]

Finally managed to get my hands on the Arthur C. Clarke's Time Odyssey, It was very disappointing, I still liked it but it's a lot of reading only to find out it ends in a ****ing huge cliffhanger

And the 4th book may never happen.

Love Clarke but never read that. Thank's for the honest opinion.

And also finished re-reading all of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, I ****ing love them, I have no interest in visiting the comics, I've read a bunch of them and they just don't fully translate how REH describes the world, narrative and even Conan's panther-like movements, plus, anything less than Frazetta's or Brom's art makes them barely tolerable in comic book form.

Agreed 100%, though I do have the collected dark horse volumes and I still like them. Conan is just pure escapist entertainment, Tarzan too for me.

 

[GasparZizou]

Love Clarke but never read that. Thank's for the honest opinion..

It's not as mind-bending as most of his stuff is, this one is more character driven, there are still juicy implications with the ancient alien civilization that appears in this series though, I'd say give it a go if you already went through Clarke's best.

Space Odyssey series and Childhood's end are still my favorites.

I got it in audiobook form, it's nicely narrated and it's easier for me to listen to at all times.

Agreed 100%, though I do have the collected dark horse volumes and I still like them. Conan is just pure escapist entertainment, Tarzan too for me.

Escapism describes it well, I rarely drift away and get completely immersed in fiction anymore, but Robert E. Howard hits the spot.

Maybe I haven't read the good comics, I've read a bunch of Marvel 70's Conan and some Dark Horse ones but they don't stick with me, for starters 70's style campy comics just don't go with Conan.

Maybe I'll like Conan comics better when not adapting REH's stories.

 

[Solidus]

The Sandman has some really incredible dialog. I just finished the first book, and this bit stuck to me:

The Sandman: I thank you. The kings of hell are honorable. I will remember this.
Lucifer: Honorable? You joke, surely. Look around you, Morpheus. The million Lords of hell stand arrayed about you. Tell us, why we should let you leave? Helmet or no, you have no power here -- what power have dreams in hell?
The Sandman: You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But, you say dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar...
Ask yourselves, all of you... What power would hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?

Silently, they move aside, unable to meet my gaze. And walking steadily, my helm by my side, I take my leave of Hell. My hopes fulfilled.

 

[evenflow]

Finished Dark Disciple and loved it. Thought it was a great Star Wars book and one of the better new cannon stories I have read.

 

[Snake Plissken]

New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Endless Waltz: The Glory of Losers

It's a re-imagining of the old Anime/Manga with new designs for the five mobile suits by Hajime Katoki.