What book are you reading at the moment ?

[Crusader]

Do the prices on Google Play Books already include VAT? If so they look like becoming the cheaper ebook store compared to Kobo.

Oh, and for those interested in eReaders the Kobo Glo should also be a much cheaper alternative to Kindles. The Bargain Books stores still stock them apparently and last I saw they were like R999.

 

[faniebraai]

Do the prices on Google Play Books already include VAT? If so they look like becoming the cheaper ebook store compared to Kobo.

The prices are what you see.

 

[Crusader]

The prices are what you see.

Nice! Kobo's prices exclude VAT until checkout. Guess I have a new place to feed my Glo.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Fantasy 'one shots'

Fantasy. It’s our genre: we love it! But… trilogies… quartets… quintets… septologies… decalogies… and all those other ‘ets’ and ‘gies’, they take so much time to read, don’t they? Well, our good friends over at Reddit recently held a discussion on the best fantasy ‘one-shots’ – that is fantasy novels without any kind of sequel / spin-off / etc at the time of posting. The kind of book you can pick up this busy holiday season, read in its entirety, enjoy and call it a day. That goes against the usual habits of geeks, such as ourselves, who like to know more and more about a world, its various systems, its characters and the other adventures that could be had there… but sometimes it’s just what we need.

Anyway, the topic brought up so many fantastic titles that we at Fantasy-Faction thought we’d do our own list of ‘One-Shot’ titles

 

[Creag]

I ain't a reader's elbow. My daughter who wasn't either is presently reading a minimum of new book cover to cover every other day. We have given up buying her books to read, as they don't last long enough to make it worthwhile. The library has become a really good option. And it all started with the Divergent series.

 

[saor]

My daughter who wasn't either is presently reading a minimum of new book cover to cover every other day.
We have given up buying her books to read,

Get her a damn kindle already!
There's also quite a lot of classics and also some newer books available for free on Amazon and other stores.

 

[oldhat]

Pyro Protram by Peter Wilhelm(a short story from Jean Marquard's "A Century of South African Short Stories") - Brilliant!

 

[saor]

Syncing Forward.
Lacks a bit of depth but it's a cool idea.

 

[faniebraai]

Finished Dan Simmons - The Rise of Endymion ::> What a journey this series have been. Absolute fantastic stuff.


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Books read this year in order of awesome (reading order in [n]):
[04] Brandon Sanderson - Words of Radiance
[32] Dan Simmons - The Rise of Endymion
[28] Joe Abercrombie - The First Law, #3 - Last Argument of Kings
[27] Joe Abercrombie - The First Law, #2 - Before They Are Hanged
[26] Joe Abercrombie - The First Law, #1 - The Blade Itself
[31] Brent Weeks - Night Angel, #1 - The Way of Shadows
[29] Dan Simmons - Endymion
[20] Isaac Asimov - Foundation, #1 - Foundation
[03] Stephen King - 11/22/63
[11] Stephen King - Dark Tower, #2 - The Drawing of the Three
[12] Stephen King - Dark Tower, #3 - The Waste Lands
[01] Brandon Sanderson - They Way of Kings
[09] Peter F Hamilton - Night's Dawn, #1 - The Reality Dysfunction
[10] Stephen King - Dark Tower, #1 - The Gunslinger
[22] Isaac Asimov - Foundation, #2 - Foundation and Empire
[02] Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
[24] Stephen King - Dark Tower, #5 - The Wolves of the Calla
[08] Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn, #6 - The Bands of Mourning
[07] Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn, #5 - Shadows of Self
[06] Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn, #4 - The Alloy of Law
[17] Frederik Pohl - Heechee, #1 - Gateway
[19] Frederik Pohl - Heechee, #2 - Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
[15] Richard K. Morgan - Takeshi Kovacs, #1 - Altered Carbon
[21] Frederik Pohl - Heechee, #3 - Heechee Rendezvous
[30] V.E. Schwab - Shades of Magic, #1 - A Darker Shade of Magic
[25] Joe Haldeman - The Forever War, #1 - The Forever War
[13] Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas
[23] Iain M Banks - Culture, #1 - Consider Phlebas
[18] Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, #1 - Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
[14] Stephen King - Dark Tower, #4 - Wizard and Glass
[05] Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear
[16] John Scalzi - Old Man's War, #4 - Zoe's Tale
32

 

[faniebraai]

I'm still judging you for not reading Rise... btw.

Thank god I'm out from this black cloud

 

[copacetic]

Finished Dan Simmons - The Rise of Endymion ::> What a journey this series have been. Absolute fantastic stuff.

Yup, amazing.

*

I've just finished Farseer #2, don't have #3 on hand, so am about to embark on The Dark Tower series.

 

[WaxLyrical]

Busy with The Far Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer on audio. Soon to be movie by the guy who made Ex Machina.
Very heavy feminist undertones in the first book and seems to be influenced by The Hunger Games.

Dont think ill continue.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Finished Dan Simmons - The Rise of Endymion ::> What a journey this series have been. Absolute fantastic stuff.

Thank god I'm out from this black cloud

 

[faniebraai]

Anyone read Wheel of Time? Or should I just do LOTR.

 

[faniebraai]

I'm just so lus for another epic. That other book that's apparently like firefly is crap

 

[faniebraai]

Anyone read Wheel of Time? Or should I just do LOTR.

Or sword of truth

 

[saor]

Anyone read Wheel of Time? Or should I just do LOTR.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552274.The_Last_Legends_of_Earth

 

[Neoprod]

^ I see you liked the Joe Abercrombie "Law" books...tried the "Half" series?

 

[Neoprod]

Or sword of truth

Save that for after the lobotomy.

 

[copacetic]

Save that for after the lobotomy.

Indeed.

*edit*

Wheel of Time is very good, although full disclosure: I've read up to book 9 twice now, and haven't yet had the wherewithal to get through to the end.