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I know I sound gay but I am reading breaking dawn of the twilight saga at first I thought they were going to be super lame books but after reading the first book I had to finish all of them Stephenie Meyer is a very good author

 

Stephanie Meyer is an offense to all written prose ever. Stephen King said "the real difference [between J. K. Rowling and Meyer] is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer, and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good" and he is a master writer.

 

I've just finished the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson, these books are possibly the best books I have ever read, even though they are translated from swedish they are the most flowing prose I have ever read.

 

The have a fantastically intricate narrative with deeply complex characters while never being to difficult to follow.

 

Currently im reading Moby Dick, which while it is a literary classic, it is a difficult read :(

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I'm just about to start Tickling the English by Dara O'Briain, and The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, which both seem like they will be great books.

yeah the Zombie Survival Guide is awesome :D

and you should check The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks its comic by same writer :D

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Stephanie Meyer is an offense to all written prose ever. Stephen King said "the real difference [between J. K. Rowling and Meyer] is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer, and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good" and he is a master writer.

 

I've just finished the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson, these books are possibly the best books I have ever read, even though they are translated from swedish they are the most flowing prose I have ever read.

 

The have a fantastically intricate narrative with deeply complex characters while never being to difficult to follow.

 

Currently im reading Moby Dick, which while it is a literary classic, it is a difficult read :(

 

Meyer is fucking terrible and she can't take criticism. I had no problem with the whole Harry Potter craze because the books were actually really good. This Twilight shit is just making me lose hope for humanity all over again.

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I'm always reading multiple books at once (which is a really terrible habit) and here are the current batch: 2666 and The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano; Travels With Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski; Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz; and Flaubert's L'Education sentimentale (i'm working on a translation of it)

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The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

Brilliant fantasy novels :D

 

I'm juggling that series and Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series.

Currently re-reading Lord of Chaos for WoT, and re-reading Toll the Hounds for MBotF (in preparation for reading the next one, and then the final book when it comes out).

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I'm juggling that series and Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series.

Currently re-reading Lord of Chaos for WoT, and re-reading Toll the Hounds for MBotF (in preparation for reading the next one, and then the final book when it comes out).

Cool, I recently finished The Fires of Heaven.. loved it!! :applause::dance:

Gotta find the next one so I can get reading!

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