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mannye said:
Ha! I hate opining knowing how much effort and emotion goes into creating a story (just think of someone making a face and saying "Ewwwww!" after tasting your mead) BUT if 4 is worse than 2, which I had to slog through I'm hoping 5 is worth the effort.

I haven't seen any of the TV series, which I understand is redeemed by showing lots and lots of beautiful nudity, which I endorse!
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4 and 5 get a bad rap because the characters are split. So any charterers in 4 won't be in 5 and vice versa. So which one you like more will likely depend on which characters are your favorites (but 5 is a way better chunk story by the end of it).

none of them are actually "bad" by any means, however all 5 I feel have issues getting going, but snag you up and don't let go by page 300-400. By book 5 I was just used to it and trudged through the set up, knowing that juicy story was waiting in the back.
 
Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann. Far and away my favorite book and one anybody that likes aviation should read. Even those that don't would probably like it. Story by a pilot that flew commercial aviation pre-WWII and ended up flying DC-3's all over the world, almost hitting the Taj Mahal once.
 
" La bascula en el colmenar " - Antonio Gorostidi e Ymaz .

A book from a "nuestro hermano" (as we portuguese, call spanish folks = our brother), written in 1941, about the use of a weigh scale in evaluating the progress of the hives and predicting splits and swarming.
 
Marshmallow Blue said:
4 and 5 get a bad rap because the characters are split. So any charterers in 4 won't be in 5 and vice versa. So which one you like more will likely depend on which characters are your favorites (but 5 is a way better chunk story by the end of it).

none of them are actually "bad" by any means, however all 5 I feel have issues getting going, but snag you up and don't let go by page 300-400. By book 5 I was just used to it and trudged through the set up, knowing that juicy story was waiting in the back.
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totally unfamiliar with a lot of the characters in book 4...it's taking me some time to get through it...but you're right. I know there's gold in them thar hills so I keep dredging.
 
Can we still get our hands on this book about mead by one of our own members?
http://www.gotmead.com/forum/showthread.php/7785-St-Winston-s-Metheglin-a-meadly-tale

I've tried contacting Vicky (the site owner) but haven't gotten a reply yet. Should I wait more?
Anyway, anybody know if this is a good read for someone relatively new to the site? On a separate thread they commented on the inside jokes and I'm afraid I'd be hard pressed catching them 9 years later. A book about mead just sounds too good to pass up, given that its a good read :)
 
Being the dragon but that I am, I think I have read most of the books with dragons and dragon shifters that are avalable digital and a good few that where paper back. I so far my favorite series are (dragon kin, and dragon knights ) by G.A. Aiken and Bianca D'arc respectively. ( be warned these series do contain adult content )
 
Hobby guy said:
Being the dragon but that I am, I think I have read most of the books with dragons and dragon shifters that are avalable digital and a good few that where paper back. I so far my favorite series are (dragon kin, and dragon knights ) by G.A. Aiken and Bianca D'arc respectively. ( be warned these series do contain adult content )
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Sounds like you like Game of Thrones as well. They "almost" filmed on my land, but alas not so no claim to fame there. It's a great series though I was more interested in the cash :))
 
Just finished a marathon of all 40 Terry Pratchett Discworld Novels, read about one a day. Previous to that, Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures series, All 40 of Piers Anthony's Xanth series, Anne Rice's Vampire Series, All of Douglas Adams, Neal Stephenson and William Gibson.

I just started Piers Anthony's "Adept" series, I've read a lot of his work, but none of the "Adept" books. I'll probably end up reading the Dune series next... because I'm not sure if I actually read ALL of them. I know that I've read at least the first three.

Basically, now that I have 500+ books on my Paperwhite Kindle and several thousand more in the wings... I've been plowing through a lot of Series that I only had partial collections of previously. I've been going through almost a book a day for the last six months. Unfortunately there are still a lot of books not available in mobi format, and a number that have been converted have serious formatting problems. The worst is those authors who switched publishing companies numerous times during the life of a series, some books are ebooks, some are mobi, some are pdf files, some not available at all (not even as a used paperback)... frustrating. There was one MYTH book that was pdf, wouldn't convert properly to mobi, so I had to read it in pdf on my kindle... you can't change the type size with a pdf file on the kindle, and the type size was probably only 4 or 5 pt... small enough that the type only appeared light grey instead of black, I was seriously considering buying a magnifying glass... luckily it only took an hour and a half to read after I got used to the extra small type.

Cheers,
Wrathwilde
 
I listen to techno-Jeff Mills, am just starting to listen to Ken Ishii now, Robert Hood, etc-Hardcore, Trance, Rock, Rap/HipHop, Jazz.
Am reading The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov now too. Also have books by Robert Heinlein that I will soon read once foundation is done. All in all great fuckin book. Its about a futuristic galactic civilization of humans on the brink of a economic and societal collapse. The great Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian, creates a group called the foundation, a scientific endeavor to preserve humanities scientific achievements in a single book. But later we find out that the foundation was actually made to minimize the societal collapse by a huge percentage, transforming the predicted 30,000 year dark ages to come to only 1000 years, after the peak of the collapse. The foundation is the future of humankind as we know it.
and thats what I'm reading now
 
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