Recommended Posts

I started Never Look Away, by Linwood Barclay, on the 27th. I finished it on the 28th because I just sat and read for ages. It's a very good novel and it's my first experience with the work of Linwood Barclay. I'm extremely impressed with what I have read. Since then I bought The Setup, by Felix Riley. It was ?3.96 in Asda, and I was torn between it and Ken Bruen's Blitz. My idea is that I'll buy Bruen's book at some other time, as Felix Riley's book was longer. I'm assuming I'm going to get more for my money. I enjoy thriller novels, and from what I've heard I've bought a good thriller. I'll give some opinions on it once I have it finished.

Finally [after owning it for over a year] read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - I was more impressed than I thought I'd be. Definitely gonna check out the rest of the books in the series [and the films, before Finchers' remake is released]

I really like the whole trilogy, movies (imho) are bad, watched the first one and got halfway through the 2nd one and never came back, I really hope Finchers versions are going to be better.

Now that book I didn't know about it. I had also read the last Sanderson book you posted (along with his Wheel of Time contributions).

My kid has started reading Elantris.

The Way of Kings is almost as good as his Mistborn trilogy. I'm going to finish TWoK today, but having read all of Sanderon's work (sans the WoT books), it's definitely my second favorite. Better than Elantris and Warbreaker, which I also very much enjoyed. His Alcatraz series is really fun to read and even has a nice story to boot.

It's bittersweet, not having anymore Sanderson material to read until November, when standalone The Alloy of Law comes out.

I finished The Set-Up, and also finished Duncan Falconer's Mercenary. The Set-Up became really, really interesting quite early, and I definitely would highly rate it. Mercenary was quite a short novel, at 295 pages, but it was well paced to suit the number of pages. Points in the book felt a little weak but all in all, it was well paced and appealing. According to the Amazon reviews I could find, the book is not one of Falconer's best, but it's definitely worth a read at the same time. From that book I'm not sure if I'd put him at the same level as Andy McNab when it comes to writing that genre of book - he's definitely suitable for the role though.

Thanks to Amazon I've found another book I want to check out: Red Star Rising. I suppose that comes from the fact I've started into Alex Dryden's Red to Black. So far, it seems like an intriguing plot - I find the Soviet Union and the Third Reich as the two most interesting fields of recent history, so I'd happily read anything relating to either of the two. It seems that Red to Black could be quite confusing with how it's written (as I write this I'm on page 37), but I'm assuming it'll all be pulled together further into the plot.

The Way of Kings is almost as good as his Mistborn trilogy. I'm going to finish TWoK today, but having read all of Sanderon's work (sans the WoT books), it's definitely my second favorite. Better than Elantris and Warbreaker, which I also very much enjoyed. His Alcatraz series is really fun to read and even has a nice story to boot.

It's bittersweet, not having anymore Sanderson material to read until November, when standalone The Alloy of Law comes out.

Ah, I haven't read the Mistborn stuff either.

The good news is that my local library has them (I just did a quick online search).

Okay, I requested the first Mistborn book and hopefully that comes in around the same time that I finish my current Terry Pratchett books. I just finished Pyramids, I'm currently reading Men at Arms (which seems strangely familiar so I may have read it years ago) and then Soul Music.

Okay, I requested the first Mistborn book and hopefully that comes in around the same time that I finish my current Terry Pratchett books. I just finished Pyramids, I'm currently reading Men at Arms (which seems strangely familiar so I may have read it years ago) and then Soul Music.

You, my friend, are in for a grand treat!

Alamein, by Iain Gale. It hasn't got the best reviews over on Goodreads, because apparently it's exceedingly gory. So far I haven't noticed anything excessively brutal about it, and the battle it takes place in caught my eye. As the title would suggest it's to do with the battle for El Alamein in the African theater of World War II.

I'm juggling way too many books right now

Booky Wook 2 (Loved the first one, about 50 pages in and enjoying this one too)

A Visit From The Goon Squad (Hasn't really hooked me, but I'm going to keep going since everyone seems to love it)

For Whom The Bell Tolls (Re-reading, my favorite book)

Also have these waiting:

Blink

Pour Your Heart Into It (Have read probably 20 pages so far and it looks really interesting)

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Posts

    • Bluesky COO warns social media regulations could destroy competition from small startups by Paul Hill Fears that increasing government control of social media risks regulatory capture by the biggest social media firms were raised again recently. Bluesky’s chief operating officer said in an interview that social media bans for children and tighter regulations for social media firms risk creating a world where there are only a few social media platforms run by companies with the deepest pockets. Regulations on social media firms have been very lax since they appeared for mainstream users in the 2000’s. This gave Meta, Snapchat, and Google time to build up their user bases and get entrenched, with Meta being the most successful. Now that Meta has succeeded, it has been attempting regulatory capture. By pushing for more regulations of social media, Meta hopes to make it more difficult for rivals to challenge it. For its part, it doesn’t need to worry about the cost of regulation because it has a lot of money to spend, whereas startups do not. Speaking to CNBC, Rose Wang, Bluesky’s chief operating officer, said: “I support the protection and the safety of youth, the question that we have then is at what cost, because essentially what I’m scared of is in the long term, we’re headed to a world where there’s about three to five platforms, and extreme heavy regulation of those platforms, and basically the whole compliance teams of these platforms are 10 times the size of our entire team. So, basically, we’re living in a world where it’s almost impossible for smaller entrants to come in and build healthier spaces. These platforms have led to a place where the bottom line is the thing that drives what they do... so I understand why governments have to step in and regulate, because the platforms have done nothing right.” She said that while she is not against regulation, there needs to be more channels between the small to mid-sized players and regulators to help protect them. She says that big tech players, on the other hand, “who we know are circumventing regulation,” need to be regulated. Essentially, the Bluesky position is one of nuance, rather than absolutes. While Bluesky’s proposal may preserve competition in the social media space, it still doesn’t address the massive privacy implications these age verification measures introduce, such as handing over sensitive identity documents to access age-gated content. Source: CNBC
    • it dosnt support onprem exchange. it dosnt support mapi-calls. the views are all worse/limited. its slower. it cant see public folder calendars. we already have webmail. the list of other missing features is pretty huge but i only see it when customers call to say their email isnt working, and 9/10 times its cause they accidentality changed to outlooknew(new). Hold the line everyone!
    • yeah, this looks beautiful. Damn this winter's going to be great.
  • Recent Achievements

    • One Month Later
      DJC50PLUS earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Week One Done
      DJC50PLUS earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Proficient
      Eric Biran went up a rank
      Proficient
    • Dedicated
      Conjor earned a badge
      Dedicated
    • Week One Done
      Windows Guy earned a badge
      Week One Done
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      493
    2. 2
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      249
    3. 3
      Steven P.
      71
    4. 4
      +Edouard
      70
    5. 5
      ATLien_0
      69
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!