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I picked up a tattered copy of The Sword of Shannara at the beach house and have made it about half way through.

Fat have you read Cook's Black Company series?

I read the first one when I was a kid way back in the 80s. Would be willing to give it a go. This Terry Brooks novel is the first fantasy I've read in ages and just happened because it was at hand. It was popular when I was younger and read more in this vein, but I had never been attracted to it. Mostly I read nonfiction or at most historical fiction now days.

Same with Cook and reading preferences. But I re-read last year and it is really really good.

Erikson's Malazan is derivative of Cook but the first few books in the series are excellent as well.

Also, Joe Abercrombie.

nafod wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:05 pm Just finished The Fifth Season By NK Jemisin, which was excellent. Fantasy sci-fI with unusual premise story. Rolling into the sequel, The Obelisk Gate, and its off and running on page one. There’s a third book too. I’m already wistful about being done with them when I’m done with them.

Ordered this after tapping out on The Eye Of the World.

I'll put in a recommendation here for Njal's Saga. It's incredibly cool and good. Iceland just before the mass conversion to Christianity. Lots of murder and revenge and fighting and heroes and legal maneuvering. Well a ton of legal maneuvering. A little magic. Great great stuff.

I went to Robert Jordans alma mater and we are both autistic engineers, but I can't bring myself to enjoy his work.

I am reading Junger's Storm of Steel, which is so far on par with Lucy's Devil in the Drum (WW1 accounts).

I'll absolutely second Junger.

You might like Fraser's Quatered Safe Out Here too.

Bennyonesix1 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:38 pm I'll absolutely second Junger.

You might like Fraser's Quatered Safe Out Here too.

Interesting, my granddad was in Burma and never spoke about it. I actually don't know anything about that campaign.

Dude you will dig. Great writer great book great subject.

Fiction: The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

Non-Fiction: Ships in the Sky by John Toland

Bennyonesix1 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:38 pm Fraser's Quatered Safe Out Here too.

Quartered Safe Out Here is an excellent read.

Croatoa wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 8:20 pm

nafod wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:05 pm Just finished The Fifth Season By NK Jemisin, which was excellent. Fantasy sci-fI with unusual premise story. Rolling into the sequel, The Obelisk Gate, and its off and running on page one. There’s a third book too. I’m already wistful about being done with them when I’m done with them.

Ordered this after tapping out on The Eye Of the World.

Just finished the third book. Excellent series.

Next up is A Canticle for Liebowitz

nafod wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:04 am Next up is A Canticle for Liebowitz

That's a really great book, I think you will enjoy it.

Reading "The Man from the Train," based on someone's recommendation here on IG. This is about an early 1900's serial killer. What's so fascinating is not the serial killer story, which is rather dreary, but the picture painted of the early 20th century United States. We have come so far, in standard of living/prosperity AND in crime investigation.
I wish those who today feel so hopeless & oppressed could appreciate what life was not so long ago.

Started "Trouble with the peace" by Joe Abercrombie.
Waited for this almost year :)

nafod wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:04 am
Just finished the third book. Excellent series.

Next up is A Canticle for Liebowitz

Just finished the first book yesterday. I ordered the 2nd and 3rd from amazon. Cant wait to get into the second book today.

Kent Anderson's SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

MUST READ VIETNAM BOOK

Incredible.

I haven't been this effected by a book in a long long time.

Wild Bill wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 4:57 pm Started "Trouble with the peace" by Joe Abercrombie.
Waited for this almost year :)

Bill have you read Pehov's stuff?

It's good.

Is this new Abercrombie as good as the old?

I heard he bails on the magic etc etc

Bennyonesix1 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 12:12 am

Wild Bill wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 4:57 pm Started "Trouble with the peace" by Joe Abercrombie.
Waited for this almost year :)

Bill have you read Pehov's stuff?

It's good.

Is this new Abercrombie as good as the old?

I heard he bails on the magic etc etc

Of course i have read Pehov!
He is must be the best in Russian fantasy.

Abercrombie is good as always.
There practicaly no any magic, but tough heroes, good fight descriptions, etc.

Wild Bill wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:44 am

Bennyonesix1 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 12:12 am

Wild Bill wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 4:57 pm Started "Trouble with the peace" by Joe Abercrombie.
Waited for this almost year :)

Bill have you read Pehov's stuff?

It's good.

Is this new Abercrombie as good as the old?

I heard he bails on the magic etc etc

Of course i have read Pehov!
He is must be the best in Russian fantasy.

Pehov is really fun even in the (or so I have heard) not great english translation.

Fat Cat wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:54 am

nafod wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:04 am Next up is A Canticle for Liebowitz

That's a really great book, I think you will enjoy it.

Third of the way through, you're right. One of the greats.

Being set in the Southwest, your thread on tripping around those parts made me think of it.

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The Black Prince 2: Diary of a Bodybuilder by Robbie Robinson
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The Sea Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
Train Like an Action Hero Hero by Dolph Lundgren
Tex-Mex Cookbook: Traditions, Innovations, and Comfort Foods from Both Sides of the Border by Ford Fry

FC, I'm worried about you. The lockdown-induced IR porn binge has taken you in a bad direction.