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ASOIF books are very detailed & very long.. Also the content is very dense imo.. No wonder it takes GRRM so long to finish 1 book.. These books are gigantic!

Try The Wheel of Time books if you are looking for gigantic

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Read The Martian. Its really fantastic. Its an easy read so you can burn through it in a couple of days. And you probably will, its really difficult to put it down.

 

Kinda glad I picked this for the next read. Been reading a lot of "heavy" WW1 stuff so this was a nice fun, light change of pace. Definitely recommended.

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Read The Martian. Its really fantastic. Its an easy read so you can burn through it in a couple of days. And you probably will, its really difficult to put it down.

 

Kinda glad I picked this for the next read. Been reading a lot of "heavy" WW1 stuff so this was a nice fun, light change of pace. Definitely recommended.

 

I was actually about to buy it a few days back but decided to get Mogworld instead :P.

Will pick it up once I'm done with Mogworld.

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Also, anyone into military novels or military history books?

 

Need some Great recommendations

What do you want to know?

 

Pick up Antony Beevor for books on the Second World War.

 

C.J. Chivers for a book called The Gun if you want to understand the evolution of modern warfare.

 

You'll have to be far more specific about what you want to read up about.

 

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Reading Bloodlands Europe between Stalin and Hitler. Pretty solid so far, although I am only two chapters in.

 

Reading " gates of fire" a fictional book on thermopylae.

Good till now...... Any idea how the compete book is?

 

Its pretty decent.

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Reading Ars Amatoria by Ovid

Some great insight on the opposite sex by the original playa B)

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Mid way through Meditations by Marcus Aerilus

Highly recommend if you guys want to take a look into Stoic Philosophy

 

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Now need to finish Enchridion by Epictus to have all the main four Stoicism books in my collection :notangel:

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Started reading lies of Locke lamora. At first glance the premise and setting looked a bit generic but soon it shaped up into something unique with interesting and believable characters, as well as witty story telling. Felt like this can be made into an amazing movie, kind of like pirates of caribbean.

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^ You will understand the game setting a lot better and actually see where the design choices come in.

 

Both the books you have short-listed are pretty much what you said they are, a collection of short side-stories.

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^ You will understand the game setting a lot better and actually see where the design choices come in.

 

Both the books you have short-listed are pretty much what you said they are, a collection of short side-stories.

Thanks. Will read them also. Is it better to read in order or just finish saga first and go for short stories later?

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