[Digital_Viking]

Current reading list:

RSA's Guide To Cryptography
The Codebreakers
Schneier On Security
Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security In An Uncertain World
Practical Cryptography

You are a fun guy

Like I say - Anonymous is good for business 

[Mystic]

All of my core SR books in prep for Origins. But when I cant lug them to work, I bring along and have been picking through George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones. May even watch the show sometime.

[Stahlseele]

Call me Ishmael

[savaze]

I just finished Consider Phlebas and am most of the way through Hard Magic. I think I'm gonna read Acacia next...

[Prime Mover]

Got a look at Laundry Files rpg and now reading novels.

[FastJack]

Just finished The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card.

[savaze]

Just finished The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card.

What did you think of The Lost Gate? I saw it and didn't investigate it much, thinking it might be the next Ender's series...

[FastJack]

Just finished The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card.

What did you think of The Lost Gate? I saw it and didn't investigate it much, thinking it might be the next Ender's series...

It's not Ender's. It's his take on the "Old Gods" and a powerful gate mage that's 13 years old. It's not a bad read, but it's also not his best work. And it's the first part of a series.

[Warwolf]

I just finished The Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfus. Amazing books.

Working on the A Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin) series to find out what I've been missing.

[Critias]

I just finished The Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfus. Amazing books.

Working on the A Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin) series to find out what I've been missing.

I read the two fairly close together like that, too (albeit in reverse order), and it just made me appreciate both story more.  Going from a sprawling, political, cross-continental, story of intrigue that's told to us from over a dozen point-of-view characters (but never from the POV of the kings making the big, tragic, epic, decisions)...to the amazingly private, personal, story of a young man's coming of age and life of adventure, told in his own words, sharing his thoughts and emotions?  It was pretty cool, and made me like 'em for how different they were.

I still need to pick up Wise Man's Fear, though. 

[CanRay]

I just pulled "The Fifth Elephant" off my shelves again.  I also just bought the Homefront-based novel, which is about the guy that becomes "The Voice Of Freedom" that speaks during the loading screens.

[savaze]

Just finished The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card.

What did you think of The Lost Gate? I saw it and didn't investigate it much, thinking it might be the next Ender's series...

It's not Ender's. It's his take on the "Old Gods" and a powerful gate mage that's 13 years old. It's not a bad read, but it's also not his best work. And it's the first part of a series.

Is it worth the buy or should I wait for a library edition?

[FastJack]

Honestly, it all depends on how big of an OSC fan you are. I liked Ender's but never could get into his other stuff (or the sequels). This had a feeling of him jumping onto the "teen magic" bandwagon (he actually kinda references it even). If you can get it cheap, or wait for the paperback, it'd be more worth it.

[CanRay]

Oh, and Jim Butcher is a bastard.

I can't wait until "Ghost Story" comes out, and will be forced to buy it in hardcover.

[savaze]

Honestly, it all depends on how big of an OSC fan you are. I liked Ender's but never could get into his other stuff (or the sequels). This had a feeling of him jumping onto the "teen magic" bandwagon (he actually kinda references it even). If you can get it cheap, or wait for the paperback, it'd be more worth it.

Much appreciated! I bought almost all of his works, at the time, at an estate sale for $5 about ten years ago. I devour books and I thought 'sweet I got some reading to do'... But I just couldn't stay interested in it all. I read 3 Ender's and a couple of starts to other series and then I sold or gave away all the books.