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[Mark Carver]

[DuffMan]

I'm halfway through. It's great.

About a third of the way through Grant myself  and I've enjoyed it so far as well.

[Mackus]

http://www.tor.com/2...mlight-archive/

 

Cover art for Oathbringer!

 

About to dive into this...you read it yet?  A buddy of mine who also reads the series began it a while back, but he's making slow progress like I'll make.  This book will probably take me 6 months to read.

[DuffMan]

About to dive into this...you read it yet?  A buddy of mine who also reads the series began it a while back, but he's making slow progress like I'll make.  This book will probably take me 6 months to read.

Not yet.  Working on finishing Grant first then moving onto Oathbringer, hopefully in another couple of weeks.  I imagine it will take a little while for me to get back into the series as well.  The first two were great but I only read them once each so it may take me a while to get back up to speed.  I don't think I'll reread the first two but I may look out for some chapter summaries or something to help refresh my memory.

[Mark Carver]

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[Mark Carver]

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[DuffMan]

About a hundred pages to go in Grant.  The first half of the book (covering the War) was more interesting, but his time as president is not bad either.  The following may come across as a no duh to some, but I never realized how awful reconstruction was on the freed slaves, and if it wasn't for Grant it could have been even worse. 

[DuffMan]

About to dive into this...you read it yet?  A buddy of mine who also reads the series began it a while back, but he's making slow progress like I'll make.  This book will probably take me 6 months to read.

 

 

Not yet.  Working on finishing Grant first then moving onto Oathbringer, hopefully in another couple of weeks.  I imagine it will take a little while for me to get back into the series as well.  The first two were great but I only read them once each so it may take me a while to get back up to speed.  I don't think I'll reread the first two but I may look out for some chapter summaries or something to help refresh my memory.

 

Finished Grant last night,  I'll be starting Oathbringer in the next couple of days.

[Mark Carver]

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[DuffMan]

Finished Grant last night,  I'll be starting Oathbringer in the next couple of days.

About 3/4 through Oathbringer.   It's been on par with the first two books in the series.  It certainly would have helped me to reread the first two books before diving into this one.  Having said that the further into the book I got the more that I remembered from the prior books.  Looking forward to seeing how this one wraps up.  The Dhalinar flashbacks in this one have been really good.

[Mackus]

About 3/4 through Oathbringer.   It's been on par with the first two books in the series.  It certainly would have helped me to reread the first two books before diving into this one.  Having said that the further into the book I got the more that I remembered from the prior books.  Looking forward to seeing how this one wraps up.  The Dhalinar flashbacks in this one have been really good.

 

I'm just a few pages ahead of you.  Agreed that it's very good.  A lot of payoff for things that seemed confusing or unrelated in the earlier books.  Which I think makes me more aware of him setting up other confusing and seemingly unrelated things that I think will payoff in later books.

[DuffMan]

I'm just a few pages ahead of you.  Agreed that it's very good.  A lot of payoff for things that seemed confusing or unrelated in the earlier books.  Which I think makes me more aware of him setting up other confusing and seemingly unrelated things that I think will payoff in later books.

Sanderson seems to be a really organized guy.  I definitely agree that plenty of this book is setting up future books while still giving information about what's already and currently happened.

 

He's not a major character, but I really love "Wit".  I think because he's sparsely used so when he shows up you know that it's really important. I kind of want to check out some other Cosmere books because his character shows up in a few other series too, that's pretty cool

[DuffMan]

Finished Oathbringer on Saturday.  I thought Part 3 was my favorite of this book, and then I got to part 5.  Damn, that was great!

[Mackus]

Finished Oathbringer on Saturday.  I thought Part 3 was my favorite of this book, and then I got to part 5.  Damn, that was great!

 

I also finished this recently, loved it.  My favorite of the three books so far.  The main story was so good that I'd get pretty disappointed whenever I made it to an interlude. 

[Dupin]

Started reading Leviathan Wakes.  I can't put it down.

[DuffMan]

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This looks pretty cool,  I plan on voting in this.

 

Here's the list...http://www.pbs.org/t...n-read/books/#/

 

I've read many on this list, but there are many more I've never picked up.  I might try and read some of these if I can.

[RShack]

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This looks pretty cool,  I plan on voting in this.

 

Here's the list...http://www.pbs.org/t...n-read/books/#/

 

I've read many on this list, but there are many more I've never picked up.  I might try and read some of these if I can.

 

My late daughter inhaled books.... (so does my bride... costs a dang fortune).... one of her all-time favorites was "A Prayer for Owen Meany"... which is also my favorite book by John Irving...

 

"Catch-22" is the only one that made me laugh out loud...

 

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is one of the very, very, very few examples of a perfect book that was made into a perfect movie...

 

IHMO, "A Lonesome Dove" is the Great American Novel...

 

 

ps: Since I've never read it, I have no opinion about "The Shack"   

[BSLChrisStoner]

Esquire: 30 Best Books of 2018 So Far

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[Mackus]

Who the hell has time to read 30 books in half a year?

[NewMarketSean]

DJ has probably read them all. He could even be the author of the article.