What are you reading right now?
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NUance
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Just finished "The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics" by Hindson and Caner. Not sure I agree with every argument they made. But it was a great overview of several hundred Christian topics.
Next up: "Undress me in the Temple of Heaven" by Susan Gilman. It's about a recently graduated, but quite naive, Ivy League coed who travels into recently opened China in 1986.
Red Dead Redemption
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I don't have to read it, Dottie... I lived it.I guess this is going to be required reading for work:
Anyone read it?
Enhance
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Just finished reading this.
I picked it up because I was looking for a really good fantasy title, and this one had very favorable reviews on Good Reads. It was tabbed as this generation's "Lord of the Rings."
Admittedly, however, I didn't enjoy it that much. I personally wouldn't recommend.
Mierin
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I thought it was decent but wasn't interested enough to get the sequel.
Just finished reading this.
I picked it up because I was looking for a really good fantasy title, and this one had very favorable reviews on Good Reads. It was tabbed as this generation's "Lord of the Rings."
Admittedly, however, I didn't enjoy it that much. I personally wouldn't recommend.
Have you read the Wheel of Time series?
Enhance
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I think my problem with The Name of the Wind was that there wasn't much of a lure pulling me through the book. In many ways it felt like a slow biography, and I never really felt the urge to keep turning the pages. I described it to a buddy of mine as if someone was writing my life's story but included days I went to get an oil change or binge-watched Netflix. They certainly describe my person, but they don't make for great reading.I thought it was decent but wasn't interested enough to get the sequel.
Just finished reading this.
I picked it up because I was looking for a really good fantasy title, and this one had very favorable reviews on Good Reads. It was tabbed as this generation's "Lord of the Rings."
Admittedly, however, I didn't enjoy it that much. I personally wouldn't recommend.
Have you read the Wheel of Time series?
And I have not heard of the Wheel of Time series. I'm always looking for a good fantasy series though, particularly something that's really immersive. Would you recommend it?
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Mierin
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I think my problem with The Name of the Wind was that there wasn't much of a lure pulling me through the book. In many ways it felt like a slow biography, and I never really felt the urge to keep turning the pages. I described it to a buddy of mine as if someone was writing my life's story but included days I went to get an oil change or binge-watched Netflix. They certainly describe my person, but they don't make for great reading.I thought it was decent but wasn't interested enough to get the sequel.
Just finished reading this.
I picked it up because I was looking for a really good fantasy title, and this one had very favorable reviews on Good Reads. It was tabbed as this generation's "Lord of the Rings."
Admittedly, however, I didn't enjoy it that much. I personally wouldn't recommend.
Have you read the Wheel of Time series?
And I have not heard of the Wheel of Time series. I'm always looking for a good fantasy series though, particularly something that's really immersive. Would you recommend it?
Yes. ("Moiraine" is a character in WoT). It's a 14 book series. The first 4 books are better than anything else I've ever read. I liked the whole series but some people did not like books 7-10. It picks up again after that. It took me about 100 pages into the first book to get hooked and then I read the rest that were out at the time in about 2 weeks.
http://www.amazon.com/Eye-World-Wheel-Time-Book/dp/0812511816/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462293687&sr=8-1&keywords=eye+of+the+world
I think the only reason the first book has 4 stars instead of 5 out of 5 is because of what I mentioned with the later books. There are a lot of "this book is great, but..." reviews. Books 2-4 are all 4.5/5. (Book 4 is my favorite).
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knapplc
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Yep. Took maybe an hour to read, cover to cover. It's quick and painless and reasonably interesting. It's been a while so I don't remember whatever life lessons they were trying to teach me, but it was a decent book.I guess this is going to be required reading for work:
Anyone read it?
GSG
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I've read a lot of terrible reviews on it. Mostly that it's corporate brainwash material saying "Don't question changes, just adapt or you're fired"Yep. Took maybe an hour to read, cover to cover. It's quick and painless and reasonably interesting. It's been a while so I don't remember whatever life lessons they were trying to teach me, but it was a decent book.I guess this is going to be required reading for work:
Anyone read it?
Red Dead Redemption
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Been meaning to read this book for a long time. Now I finally have the motivation. If you've read it, don't spoil the ending for me. If I were to guess how it ends, I'd say probably with a semicolon.
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Enhance
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Not currently reading - read it last year. But, wanted to pass it along. I thought it was an incredible book (it's written by a Holocaust survivor and is about how his experience helped him develop his theory on the meaning of one's life).
I read it in a few days - it's a fairly quick read.