What are we reading?

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

What a great title:

History's Most Insane Rulers: Lunatics, Eccentrics, and Megalomaniacs From Emperor Caligula to Kim Jong Il

[mirth]

Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy

[Gusington]

Just started Japan 1941 by Eri Hotta.

[GDS_Starfury]

Superstorm: Nine Days Inside My Girlfriend Sandy

ftfy

[BanzaiCat]

Superstorm: Nine Days Inside My Girlfriend Sandy

ftfy

Was that her name, Star? Sandy?  ^-^

[Martok]

Lions of al-Rassan finally arrived at my library (about freakin' time! grr...).  It will have to wait, however, as I'd already started World War Z yesterday.  I'll admit to enjoying it so far. 

[Gusington]

^I did too.

Is the lady in question named Sandy Vagina? Is she irritating?

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Really rubs you raw?

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction Paperback – May 25 2015


I had pre-ordered this, it arrived a couple days ago. I recommend it to Starfury and anybody else interested in the history of our built world.

[Emeraldlis]

Maybe these books have been mentioned , so I apologize if I'm repeating what's been said  :-\

Last year I read the coolest four books ever . The author is Brandon Sanderson and the series is called mistborn .
Book one - final empire , mistborn
Book two - the well of ascension
Book three-the hero of ages
Book four -the alloy of law : mistborn

I promise they are not girly books !!  They are set in a fantasy world and some of the people there have developed special skills called "coin shots" , they basically swallow different metals and burn them , and each metal gives them a special power , like seeing a situation in slow motion makes them able to fight there way out of trouble . It deals with the collapse of one over all ruler like a dictatorship , to a more conventional government with a king .
I started reading them on holiday , and spent most of my time "trying" to turn my kindle on my iPad off to get on with my holiday , and mostly failing !!   :)

[MetalDog]

Sanderson had the odious task of finishing that most repetitive and vile series The Eye of the World.  I felt sorry for him.  I heard he did well though.

[Emeraldlis]

Sanderson had the odious task of finishing that most repetitive and vile series The Eye of the World.  I felt sorry for him.  I heard he did well though.

Haha , I've only so far read those four Sanderson books , so I'm not clued up on "the eye of the world"

He's a good writer though , so I'm gonna take your word for it that the guy did good 

Did you attempt to read that series and it put you off him as an author ?

[MetalDog]

Robert Jordan wrote most of the Eye of the World stuff and died before he finished it.  Sanderson came in and finished it from Jordan's outlines and story ideas.  I just found that Jordan must have felt like he was getting paid by the word.  If he could describe something in 20 words, he would use 19 chapters to do it.  It got tedious QUICK!

[Emeraldlis]

Understood !! Say no more . I don't think realistically that's ever going to work drafting in another writer to finish off what was ultimately in the other guys head . It's kind of like "CGI" gone wrong , imagine if after Heath ledger died they tried to "CGI"  in a completely different actor ....we'd be like huh ?

Like you say MD , I hate books that don't keep the narrative flowing ...tedium is natures way of telling you something's cr*p and you need to move on !  ;D

Sounds like the publishing company just wanted to get the cash in anyway possible ...go figure ! I'm shocked and dismayed an author I like put his name to it 

[MetalDog]

Well, there are a couple of fellows here who happen to think that Eye of the World is pretty good.  They acknowledge that there are some slow bits, but, overall, it was good and Sanderson did an admirable job filling in.  I don't subscribe to that theory.  So there's that.