What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech
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Always have 3 books in the works - one professional, one bedtime and one audio. Right now I'm going through the Cassandra definitive guide, midway through the Wheel of Time series and The Prince of Thorns trilogy on audio. Plenty of books queued up, on all 3 queues
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I love the wheel of time series. I've just about collected all the audio books again to binge listen to the series in one go.
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@Donahue That's what I did the first time. Well, the binge didn't happen then because the last 4 books weren't written yet, but still. This time I decided to actually read, it's a very different experience
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@dyasny said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@Donahue That's what I did the first time. Will, the binge didn't happen then because the last 4 books weren't written yet, but still. This time I decided to actually read, it's a very different experience
I've read the series before, it was right as the last book was coming out. Because of it, I really got into Brandon Sanderson, he's probably in my top 3. Try the mistborn series if you're not familiar.
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@Donahue exactly how I got into Sanderson myself. Read pretty much all of his stuff already
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@dyasny said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@Donahue exactly how I got into Sanderson myself. Read pretty much all of his stuff already
I generally stay more in the Sci-fi arena, but there is something about the way those series did magic that I just really liked.
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@Donahue said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
I generally stay more in the Sci-fi arena, but there is something about the way those series did magic that I just really liked.
Sanderson is generally good exactly at that - inventing brand new and original systems of magic or superpowers, and really building a world around those. We are all tired of the usual spaceships and elven archers, Sanderson is unlike anyone else because he doesn't dabble in those tiresome stereotypes.
BTW, if you want another amazing and very original author - try Adrian Tchaikovsky (Empire in Black and Gold etc).
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@dyasny said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@Donahue said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
I generally stay more in the Sci-fi arena, but there is something about the way those series did magic that I just really liked.
Sanderson is generally good exactly at that - inventing brand new and original systems of magic or superpowers, and really building a world around those. We are all tired of the usual spaceships and elven archers, Sanderson is unlike anyone else because he doesn't dabble in those tiresome stereotypes.
BTW, if you want another amazing and very original author - try Adrian Tchaikovsky (Empire in Black and Gold etc).
I haven't heard of that one, I will definitely check in out. I will recommend the safehold series by David Weber if you like historical/sci-fi
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@Donahue said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
David Weber
I've got Weber in my queue, might get there in a few months
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The Three Body Problem. Haven't gotten too far into it but so far it's pretty good.
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@dyasny said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@Donahue said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
David Weber
I've got Weber in my queue, might get there in a few months
He’s also in my top 3. I’ve read most of his stuff.
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@coliver said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
The Three Body Problem. Haven't gotten too far into it but so far it's pretty good.
Love it, the series is great. Don't think I've read anything else that approaches the Fermi Paradox from the angle that this one does.
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Luciana and I are reading Squirrel Girl
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Just finished reading The Magician's Nephew.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Just finished reading The Magician's Nephew.
that's one of my favorites. I love the imagery of Aslan singing the world into existence.
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@Donahue said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Just finished reading The Magician's Nephew.
that's one of my favorites. I love the imagery of Aslan singing the world into existence.
I love the tie ins with the later books. The lampost, the apple becoming the wardrove, the little boy becoming the old man.
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Just discover comixology by Amazon so got a few freebies downloaded to have a look
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
The Magician's Nephew
We've read the series over and over and over in our house.
Our home school board offers an online literature class on the series with our two oldest having taken the course with nary an argument about reading the series again.
I don't know how many times I've read them but it's quite a few both for myself and some of them to the kids.
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For all the big Narnia fans, what's your favourite book?
