That baby is already on my "to read" shelf! Good to hear a recommendation though as I just randomly bought it off Amazon when I was browsing around without knowing anything about it.davidmc1158 said:May I suggest Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta as a follow-up? She gives an excellent description of how the war came about from the Japanese perspective. While she is sympathetic to the various people in the Japanese government (and does point out some gaffes on the American side of the diplomatic coin), she outright states that Japan's leadership fell victim to shortsightedness and stubbornness which really what made the war inevitable.
I'm assuming that this means you're in the later books rather than the first three? If not, you're in for an unpleasant surprise as the most recent two books introduce a bunch of new characters, of which maybe half are interesting. They're necessary for where the overall plot seems to be going, but it makes me wish that he had simply gone with his original plan to do a time jump. Apparently, he will not be introducing any more POV characters in the remaining books (apart from maybe prologue and epilogue characters) and will actually be trimming down the amount there currently are.TheYellowCellPhone said:Still working my way through A Song of Ice and Fire series. It's a good series, no doubt, but when there are anywhere from ten to twenty different storylines going on simultaneously and you're only interested in two, and you realize you're going to have to slog through another one hundred pages before you hit the perspective you enjoy the most... it gets a little hard to read.
Hey, I just read that a few weeks ago. Awesome book. As you said, lots of fun.Queen Michael said:I'm reading Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson. It's about a hacker called Hiro Protagonist who used to work as a pizza delivery guy for the mafia, and spends lots of time on the VR internet called the Metaverse. Great fun, and probably the best cyberpunk I've ever encountered.
I used to do that, especially when I was in school and taking more than one comp. lit course at a time. I tend to get pretty OCD about reading and doing my very best to immerse myself in a book, so I can't do it anymore. As I get older, even spending too much time away from a book and reading too much bullshit on the internet can serve to fracture the reading experience, leading me to backtrack, reread, etc...wasabinewt said:Well, I'm currently reading Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. That and Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. I'm one of those weird people who likes to read several books at a time.
I start about 50 at once and take to whatever sticks depending on my current mood....thats the good thing about e-readerswasabinewt said:Well, I'm currently reading Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. That and Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. I'm one of those weird people who likes to read several books at a time.
I own all of the main series, still need to buy the spin-off series and the two stand-alones set in the universe. I've yet to read them, but they're next after The First Law series. What I've read though is great. The guy knows how to make one hell of a setting.dragonswarrior said:You have read The Malazan Book of the Fallen right?Elfgore said:The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie. One of the better fantasy series I've read. I'm only about half-way through book one, but I'm having a total blast. It's a total of six books in the series, so it should take quite a while to finish.
I really need to read Glen Cook's newest novel. I just have it sitting there in my bookshelf, tempting me.
Because if you're a Cook and Abercrombie fan, and you have not read that series than... Well. It's criminal it is.