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  • ElaydeElayde
    Aerdiya said:
    Oh, I love Pride and Prejudice and everything based on it (I still have Pride and Prejudice and Zombies on my shelf...need to read it when I have time). And Ancient Greek is lovely as well :)
    I read Pride and Prejudice at least once every two months. My copy is so worn out! It's absolutely my favorite novel for that time period.

    However, I tend to the fantasy side more.
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  • AerdiyaAerdiya
    Hehe, same here. Mine looks a bit fringed, but that's just because I've taken it to so many places (scout camps etc.) and spent some time travelling with it.

    Oh, and regarding fantasy books, I can recommend the Otherland series by Tad Williams. Though it's probably more sci-fi than fantasy.
  • XeriaXeria

    then I'm currently reading/listening to the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. if you're into sarcarsm. You'll like Bartimaeus of Uruk!

    I'm hunting for a good classic book, that does not feature lords or ladies or and english manor or traditional like that. Any recommendations? 

    For fantasy...I recommend

    Seraphina by rachel hartman
    The Painted Man series by Peter V Brett ( a diff. take on demons) 
    "In the name of the wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. that's my top recommendation to anyone!


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  • IsuneIsune
    Xeria said:

    then I'm currently reading/listening to the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. if you're into sarcarsm. You'll like Bartimaeus of Uruk!


    Did he ever finish that? I enjoyed the first two books. :o
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  • AerdiyaAerdiya
    I think that there are three of them plus one prequel. But I am not sure since it's been a while since I read them. The humor was great. I should put them on my re-read list. 
  • TacitaTacita <3s Xynthin 4eva!!!11
    For those looking for sci-fi recommendations: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie is an amazing book about being a spaceship.

    If that hasn't sold you already, I don't know what would.
  • ElaydeElayde
    Tacita said:
    For those looking for sci-fi recommendations: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie is an amazing book about being a spaceship.

    If that hasn't sold you already, I don't know what would.
    The Brainship series by Anne McCaffrey is also a pretty awesome one when it comes to being a spaceship. (I <3 Anne McCaffrey. Her series are pretty awesome, sadly, she died, but her son has been continuing some of them.)
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  • AllyrianneAllyrianne
    Tacita said:
    For those looking for sci-fi recommendations: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie is an amazing book about being a spaceship.

    If that hasn't sold you already, I don't know what would.
    I really really enjoyed that book.

    And no one I know seems to have heard of it or want to read it.
  • ParuaParua
    Elayde said:
    Tacita said:
    For those looking for sci-fi recommendations: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie is an amazing book about being a spaceship.

    If that hasn't sold you already, I don't know what would.
    The Brainship series by Anne McCaffrey is also a pretty awesome one when it comes to being a spaceship. (I <3 Anne McCaffrey. Her series are pretty awesome, sadly, she died, but her son has been continuing some of them.)
    Oh no! I had no idea she died! She and Mercedes Lackey were my first introduction to scifi and fantasy. Now I'm all sad.
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  • ElaydeElayde
    Parua said:
    Elayde said:
    Tacita said:
    For those looking for sci-fi recommendations: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie is an amazing book about being a spaceship.

    If that hasn't sold you already, I don't know what would.
    The Brainship series by Anne McCaffrey is also a pretty awesome one when it comes to being a spaceship. (I <3 Anne McCaffrey. Her series are pretty awesome, sadly, she died, but her son has been continuing some of them.)
    Oh no! I had no idea she died! She and Mercedes Lackey were my first introduction to scifi and fantasy. Now I'm all sad.
    She had a stroke and died in 2011. :( She was my first real introduction as well, with the Pern novels. I'm just thankful I have read her books and thankful to her as an author for them, you know?

    Do any of you happen to have a Goodreads account? If so, let me know, either PM or reply here. We can show each other our book lists. :D
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  • AlaryAlary
    Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey and Robin Hobb were my introductions, and I'm still sad McCaffrey died D:
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  • ElaydeElayde
    Ender's Game was amazing and honestly, really rather mind-trippy towards the end of the first book.
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  • SiamSiam Whispered Voice
    I knoooow. I just got sucked into the whole Ender's Saga.
    ;;)
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  • KarlachKarlach God of Kittens.
    I know a few people disliked the movie but I honestly think, considering the amount in the book they did it justice. It encouraged me to pick up the saga after watching.

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  • AnitaAnita
    Due to the fact the last Raymond E Feist book came out a little while ago, I decided to re-read from the beginning. I don't want to read the last one, and I do want to. I'm putting it off!! Currently I'm on Silverthorn.
  • KontonKonton
    I'm "reading" a few things.I'm currently reading  A. Lee Martinez's books, Monster more focusedly. Catherynne M. Valente's works with Deathless as the one currently reading. I'm taking a pause in reading the Incarnations of Immortality series, and need to start reading The Black Unicorn of the Landover series.
  • EstarraEstarra
    Right now, I'm reading the Green Rider series by Kristen Britain. They are very addictive, one of those can't-put-it-down series! (Currently on the last book, Mirror Sight.)
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  • ElaydeElayde
    Estarra said:
    Right now, I'm reading the Green Rider series by Kristen Britain. They are very addictive, one of those can't-put-it-down series! (Currently on the last book, Mirror Sight.)
    Oh! I read the first one, but I haven't read the rest of them. I'm jealous! I'll have to buy them later and read them!
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  • NihmrielNihmriel
    I just finished reading The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold. I did so with some regret, because it was the last of her fantasy books I hadn't read, and who knows when/if there will be more? I loved it, though (of course).

    Now I am reading Belgarath the Sorcerer. This is pure nostalgia. I loved those books when I was about 14, and haven't read them since.
  • ElaydeElayde
    Nihmriel said:
    I just finished reading The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold. I did so with some regret, because it was the last of her fantasy books I hadn't read, and who knows when/if there will be more? I loved it, though (of course).

    Now I am reading Belgarath the Sorcerer. This is pure nostalgia. I loved those books when I was about 14, and haven't read them since.
    Hmm! A new series to add to my list. :D
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  • DiniahDiniah
    At this moment, I re-read the Horus Heresy from the beginning, as I recently gained the 26th!!! book. Tis a horridly long series, but so fascinating to learn their world, an how it is so similar/different to our own.
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  • MarcellaMarcella
    WHY ARE ALL THE 40k FANS GLOMDORING
  • ChadeChade
    edited May 2014
    Red Gold of Africa by Eugenia Herbert - It's all about the use of copper in sub-Saharan Africa. I don't recommend it unless you're an archaeology/ancient metals geek like me but it is very good.

    On the fiction front, I've been listening to James Marsters read the Dresden Files books on my drives between London and Newcastle and that's been fun. Going to start book four, the Summer Knight, on my return journey on Tuesday. Don't have time to read fiction atm :( But I am taking notes on what to read next from this thread so keep em coming.
  • ElaydeElayde
    Mkay, so I have commitment problems to my reading plans. I've ended up reading The Greatest Knight and The Scarlet Lion by Elizabeth Chadwick lately. They're actually delicious historical fiction books about William Marshall.
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  • TridemonTridemon
    I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that the next book in the Dresden Files, Skin Game, comes out in approximately 1 week. Whee.
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  • MaellioMaellio
    edited May 2014
    Marcella said:
    WHY ARE ALL THE 40k FANS GLOMDORING


    AVE DEUS MACHANICUS! AVE OMNISSIAH!

    Of course, I -was- Glom... 

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  • KarlachKarlach God of Kittens.
    edited May 2014
    Marcella said:
    WHY ARE ALL THE 40k FANS GLOMDORING


    We really buy into the "For the greater good"




    ...thing the Tau have going.


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    You see Estarra the Eternal shout, "Morkarion is no more! Mourn the mortal! But welcome True Ascendant Karlach, of the Realm of Death!


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  • RialormRialorm
    The Circle by Dave Eggers. I am having serious trouble putting this book down. I don't remember how this ended on my reading list as nobody I know has read it, but I will now recommend it to all of you who like the idea of some big social media company which could be Google or Facebook, and the protagonist who goes to work there, and all the interesting moral questions and dilemmas this brings with it.
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