Book Recommendations?

Rykin wrote:

The very modern use of language felt a little out of place at points though, specifically some of Gideon's insults and stuff.

Yes, this was initially offputting but I just kinda went with it and ended up enjoying it, it does add a dose of humor to the first book if you can get on board with it.

SallyNasty wrote:

After Patrick Rothfuss and GRR Martin I just have a hard time starting series before they are finished.

Totes agree on this and I try to never start a series until the final book is due to be released. I mistakenly read the * The Ninth books because it looked like it was just a two book series. I have been reading Joel Shepherd's The Spiral Wars as they come out based on incorrect information that the last book was due out at the end of the year like 3 years ago. Luckily he is pretty on point with a new book in the series yearly.

I'm still only through 4 books of The Expanse but final book is due in November. Feels like that one is safe to start, although the show is awesome too.

What are the 3rd and 4th books in the Clines universe? I see 14 and The Fold as a duology…

Stele wrote:

I'm still only through 4 books of The Expanse but final book is due in November. Feels like that one is safe to start, although the show is awesome too.

I read those through book 7, but I kind of wish I had stopped reading after book 6 Babylon's Ashes. Book 6 felt like the logical end of the series. It didn't wrap up every possible loose thread, but it is a good place to take a break if you still have interest in reading them all by the time you get there. I was getting burned out around book 5.

karmajay wrote:

If anyone enjoyed Peter Clines 14 and The Fold I recently checked and there is a 3rd and 4th book in that universe to read.

Terminus is good and anyone enjoying the other 2 will like this one. Not read Dead Moon yet.

Robear wrote:

What are the 3rd and 4th books in the Clines universe? I see 14 and The Fold as a duology…

Apparently, they're calling it the Threshold Universe series. I wouldn't have thought Dead Moon was part of it by the description, but it's added to it.

Rykin wrote:
Stele wrote:

I'm still only through 4 books of The Expanse but final book is due in November. Feels like that one is safe to start, although the show is awesome too.

I read those through book 7, but I kind of wish I had stopped reading after book 6 Babylon's Ashes. Book 6 felt like the logical end of the series. It didn't wrap up every possible loose thread, but it is a good place to take a break if you still have interest in reading them all by the time you get there. I was getting burned out around book 5.

Well book 6 appears to be where the TV show will end so that makes sense.

So Terminus and Dead Moon?

Robear wrote:

So Terminus and Dead Moon?

Yes. I enjoyed Terminus and I'm halfway through Dead Moon. Terminus is more directly related to the 1st 2 stories.

Dead Moon came out before Terminus, but Terminus is a direct continuation of the first two books whereas Dead Moon has almost no relation to the series. The only real connections are more implied and/or thematic and it’s essentially a standalone story. I enjoyed it but I was a bit disappointed as I was expecting it to be an actual sequel since it’s labeled as such.
Terminus was probably my favorite book in the series, though.

I powered through books 2 and 3 of Ten Years Later. Things definitely picking up in The Man in the Iron Mask.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

I powered through books 2 and 3 of Ten Years Later. Things definitely picking up in The Man in the Iron Mask.

We are family audio-booking The Count of Monte Cristo. Which is fantastic and has an amazing bilingual narrator.

It's on my reading list.

FYI any who is a fan of Preston & Child's Agent Pendergast Series, Book 20 just released today.

The Man in the Iron Mask was a letdown. It was not the swashbuckling adventure I was hoping for.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

The Man in the Iron Mask was a letdown. It was not the swashbuckling adventure I was hoping for.

The silent movie with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. is bonkers fantastic.

ranalin wrote:

FYI any who is a fan of Preston & Child's Agent Pendergast Series, Book 20 just released today.

I started it last night and while I don’t remember having an issue with him in previous books, Agent Coldmoon is really being insufferably whiny in this one.

Just finished the book We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen. It's an interesting book, following inhabitants of Marstal, Denmark – where most of the men are sailors, along a few threads that weave from the 1840s through the end of World War II. It is mostly about the sailors, although several threads feature their wives and mothers.

I found the book really quite good (evidently it's all the rage in Denmark?...meaning it won Danish literary prizes). It manages to be really quite uplifting and charming while also covering a lot of loss and misery. I will say that ending the stories just after WWII was hard to take, as that was the toughest, most depressing section of the book.

Still, all in all I really enjoyed it. Jensen does a really nice job of connecting different stories through the decades into a single narrative of a town and its people, many of whom are flung all over the world.

I did enjoy Becky Chambers' new book A Psalm for the Wild Build.

karmajay wrote:

I did enjoy Becky Chambers' new book A Psalm for the Wild Build.

Oh interesting. I've added it to my queue. I'm finally getting to The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, the fourth book in the Wayfarers series.

Man, Amazon had sales on kindle books today that just hit me in the right place. I picked up Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky (it sounded interesting, and I liked his Children of Time), The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty (recommended here several times), and The Bone Ships by RJ Barker (...because it sounded interesting? No idea what to expect.)

None cost more than $3. Anytime a book is that cheap, I'm a sucker for taking a flyer on it (see We, the Drowned from my earlier post).

City of Brass was wonderful! I hope you enjoy as much as i did.

firesloth wrote:
karmajay wrote:

I did enjoy Becky Chambers' new book A Psalm for the Wild Build.

Oh interesting. I've added it to my queue. I'm finally getting to The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, the fourth book in the Wayfarers series.

Man, Amazon had sales on kindle books today that just hit me in the right place. I picked up Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky (it sounded interesting, and I liked his Children of Time), The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty (recommended here several times), and The Bone Ships by RJ Barker (...because it sounded interesting? No idea what to expect.)

None cost more than $3. Anytime a book is that cheap, I'm a sucker for taking a flyer on it (see We, the Drowned from my earlier post).

Multiple Wayfarer books are in that sale!

I finished the audiobook of Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Holy cats! That’s a great book. The audiobook was 25 hours long.

Now I’m listening to Grapes of Wrath. 21 hours. It’s even better than EoE. I’ve read GoW at least twice in the past, but it was a long time ago.

The readers for both of those audiobooks do a wonderful job. Different readers.

I think I mentioned here that I’d listened to Of Mice and Men recently. All three of these are great!

Where has Bekkilyn gotten to? I think she is a Steinbeck fan?

Robear wrote:

Where has Bekkilyn gotten to? I think she is a Steinbeck fan?

I hope we haven’t offended or alienated her.

I hope she’s okay…

SallyNasty wrote:

City of Brass was wonderful! I hope you enjoy as much as i did.

I read the descriptions, which mentioned Uprooted several times, so I started that one first and love it so far.

The Sandman is free on audible. No subscription or prime needed.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

The Sandman is free on audible. No subscription or prime needed.

Wow!! Do it!! If you’ve been even slightly interested in this you owe it to yourself to check it out!