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Ready Player One: Halfway through. Although it isn't as groundbreaking as the media touted it to be, the 80s trivia does bring a smile on your face depending on what you know. Simple, casual read.

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Read the book Avatar ripped off!

 

Avatar may be the highest grossing movie of all time, and you probably have heard how the storytelling wasn’t that original, but now you can really find out how unoriginal it was. Just as Cameron’s “dream” of a Terminator rising out of the fire actually turned out to be a couple of Outer Limits episodes written by Harlan Ellison, Avatar is startlingly similar to a 1972 Ben Bova novel titled “The Winds of Altair”

The classic SciFi novel tells the story of humans trying to terraform the planet of Altair IV, where they cannot breath the air. The natives of this planet are a cat-like race (hmm, the Na’vi in Avatar look a little like cats) and Humans are able to transfer their minds into these cats in order to explore the planet safely. Throughout the course of the novel, the main character inhabits the body of one of these cats (just like in Avatar) and grows to side with the natives against the Military in the story.

Due to the success of Avatar, this science fiction classic is now back in print. You can find it at any bookstore (saw a copy at Barnes & Noble the other day), or grab it off Amazon in either print of Kindle form.

http://furiousfanboys.com/2010/08/read-the-book-avatar-ripped-off/

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I recently read Mistborn trilogy and Kingkiller 1 and 2 (Patrick Rothfuss), loved them both.

 

You should try Brandon Sanderson's other books - The Way of Kings and Warbreaker

 

I tried reading Wheel of Time series since Brandon was completing those, but gave up after the first book itself.

 

Other good options are Riyria trilogy (Michael J Sullivan), recommended in this thread earlier and obviously Game of Thrones.

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LOL. FWIW WoT kinda gets better after the first couple of books. Really picks up pace in the middle and then just completely loses its way towards the end. Havent read what Sandersons doing to the series though. I gave up around book 12.

 

Black Company is worth looking into. Good read.

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