Read a few STALKER books. Pretty good, maybe a bit too phylosophical for me.
Moved on to books on Slavic mythology. Got interested in it lately. Damn shame there is so little preserved, unlike on Greek mythology 
Great book
Fantasy fans, heed my call !
I’m looking for new authors. Do you have any recommendations ?
A sample of the stuff I read and enjoyed, to give a better view :
- Terry Pratchett (my favorite. I read approx. 30 of his books in 6 months. In the end I didn’t even say the author when I ordered a new batch at the local library :D).
- David Gemmell
- Joe Abercrombie : first law
- Andrzej Sapkowski : The Witcher
Currently I just finished the 1st tome of Steelhaven (Richard Ford). Good book, though it takes a while to start. The author introduces a lot of different characters in the first chapters, and they don’t have any connection between each other after several other chapters. Makes you feel like you read several stories at the same time.
I didn’t read lot of Warhammer. Not because it’s bad, but because it’s overpriced. 17-20 € for a pocket book ? Come on…
Cheers !
@Baron, nice to see a fellow Pratchett fan 
Hm, personally, I could recommend Jim Butcher’s books. The Dresden Files, urban fantasy, is my favorite series of his. Read a couple from his other series, Codex Alera, pretty good too, maybe a bit overstuffed though.
Hehe, hi to you, Partchett fan ! I could read and re-read the Discworld series all the time.
I’ll check your suggestions, thanks for them !
Heh, same here. Especially the ones with my all time favorite Rincewind and the Luggage
I’ll be starting on: Steve Berry - The Malta Exchange
Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels Trilogy and her other books as well.
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Mercedes Lackey - Heralds of Valdamar series, particularly the earlier ones.
If you don’t mind a bit of romance mixed in with your fantasy - J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
David Weber’s Oath of Swords, the War God’s Own and Wind Rider’s Oath books. If you like sci-fi too then his Honor Harrington series of books.
Judging purely from the covers, it makes me think a bit of the “Anonymous” books (Bourbon Kid and stuff). Is it a bit similar, or am I completely out of place ?
Very hard to choose which ones are my favorites. Maybe Feet of clay ?
Many suggestions, thanks for it !
- Anne Bishop : I’ll dig a bit, maybe I’ll find something for my taste :).
- Mercedes Lackey : I read By the Sword from her, and wasn’t really enthusiastic. It wasn’t bad, but it didn’t really make me dream either. Are the others similar ?
- Ward : hmm…Define romance
? It’s not my #1 serach criteria, but I don’t really mind it, as long as it’s not sunshine and lollypops everywhere. - David Weber : I kinda liked the Harrington books. Didn’t know he made fantasy too. They don’t seem to be in Pocket format, though :(.
Cheers !
You can do some digging here for Anne Bishop.
https://www.annebishop.com/index.html
I like her take on the worlds she creates.
Mercedes Lackey - some of hers are a bit hit and miss for me. I love the Heralds of Valdamar series, but they’ve fallen off over the last few years so I’ve stopped reading them. This is the first one in the series so maybe try that and see what you think.
http://www.mercedeslackey.com/books/arrow1.html
Her writing was fairly simplistic early on, but the series got more depth to it later. I also like her Elemental Masters series.
JR Ward - yeah romance. But it’s paranormal romance because it’s VAMPIRES! I tend to skip through the romantic bits to get to the action.
David Weber - no he doesn’t do much fantasy, but his War God series isn’t bad and has some humour to it. Not something I like too much of in my sci-fi/fantasy reading, but a little bit is nice.
http://www.davidweber.net/books
I’m working my way through his Safehold series atm.
I’m reading these at the moment.
Currently the Invisible Library Series by Genevieve Cogman.
Started Book 4 on Monday.
@Baron, after looking up this Bourbon kid on wikipedia… no, def not. The main character is Harry Dresden, a wizard and a private detective in Chicago. Openly states he is a wizard, though no one of the normal people believes it. He is a good guy who goes through a lot of sh*t but still tries to do good.
Imo, the books are very well written and have a ton of great characters.
Busted ankle + ebook reader = Nomnomnomnom
Really wish the kobo’s software kept a better track of what I’ve been reading though…
Ahem - anyhow, in no particular order, when I can remember them, with a bunch of older stuff:
Edit - checked the finished list in my Kobo, so it’s now a bit longer. So yes, I was totes wrong about the kobo not keeping track /derp
Shadow Captain - Alastair Reynolds - Not bad, series still feels weaker than his other novels, but it’s fun. It ties off the plot threads from Revenger, sets up it’s own and then sets up the plot for the 3rd book, while actually not feeling like the usual mid trilogy filler.
Tiamat’s Wrath - James S.A Corey - In which the sh*t truly hits the fan and the clock starts ticking, namely to do with the entities that killed the gate builders.
Cage of Souls - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Quite good deep future sci-fi set on earth in the distant post-human future, only H. sapiens is still kicking around being their usual idiots even when there’s only 1 city left on a broken and scorched earth.
Children of Ruin Adrian Tchaikovsky - Finishes of the story from Children of Time nicely, has uplifted sentient octopi and [spoiler], nothing brilliant, but quite fun.
Null States - Malka Older - Sequel to Infomacracy and I ashamed to say, took me a month and a half to finish what is actually a slow, but damn good book. Fleshes the world Older’s built out by showing sort of how states break up and enter the global microstate system, the problems they face and how states function outside of that system. Wrapping it up in the assassination of a local political leader in Darfur and the global plot the investigation slowly reveals. Really should read State Tectonics already…
The City in the Middle of the Night - Charlie Jane Anders - part road trip, part intense female-friend-ship, part slowly decaying colony sci-fi, part first contact and sociological/political. All in all, kinda fun.
The True Queen - Zen Cho - delicious fantasy fluff with solid story telling. I have noooo regrets
Ancestral Night - Elizabeth Bear - Solid sci-fi opera, filled with rich world building, fleshed out characters and Cats. In. Space. that are even more lazy than you’d expect. Also space pirates, hidden pasts and warcrimes you can get infested under your skin with.
The Warship - Rise of the Jain 2 - Neal Asher - unlike it’s title, the book is much more streamlined and flies through the plot like a greased whippet on speed culminating in the the biggest “oh f*ck” so far dropped on the Polity Universe Asher has created. As per usual for Asher, nice solid writing, multiple points of view with fleshed out characters along with plenty of madness.
Terminal Uprising - Jim C. Hines - once again the brave sanitation crew of the Pufferfish are deep in the poo-poo and cleaning it all fluffing up, one solidly humorous chapter after the other, only with one of the utterly xenophobic “big bad” insect aliens along for the ride, only he’s also a lawyer(?!?).
Angel Station - Walter John Williams - true fact, I bounced completely off the first novel of his Dread Empire’s Fall series and didn’t bother trying any of his other books. I am now regretting my younger self’s stupidity. Not bad at all and I’ll probably read some more of his stuff.
Light Brigade - Kameron Hurley - short story expanded out to a full novel and it mostly works. Slightly slogish to get through, but Hurley’s made the time travel stuff Dietz has to deal with from her “bad drops” work really well as a bread crump trail to hold the reader’s attention.
Edges - Linda Nagata - far future sci-fi that follows on from the universe she created in her earlier books, but self-contained enough that it stands on it’s own. Pretty damn good too. But my brain’s too blah to pull a plot summary out. Kind of like Reynold’s Revelation Space in terms of mode, only with better written characters and much more nanotech-implications focused.
Tech Heaven - Linda Nagata - prequel to her Nanotech Succession trilogy the story goes over one women’s life and struggles as she seeks to bring her husband back to life after he dies and is frozen in a world where some seek to snuff out the tech to pull that off. It’s a bit flat and the interludes from her husbands PoV are weeeeeird, but overall works quite well.
Currently reading Nagata’s book The Bohr Maker at present and one of the Twelve Tomorrow’s short story collections. Oh and average read time for me is 6-8hrs depending on how long the book is and how bad my urge to pick my skin gets in the way…
David Weber’s Safehold series. Currently reading “A Mighty Fortress” with the next 4 books after that lined up and ready to go. 
Just started on:
Peter James - Absolute Proof
hah, I also like to read a couple of books simultaneously
@malawiglenn, @Nery, continue our discussion what are your favorite genres?
I like suspense. Like some stephen king and Kafka 