No, I meant mind bottling.

Its a long running joke from another forum I post at.

 

Name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

 

I would recommend The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It is quite possibly the most engaging novel I've read in a long time.

 

Received The Black Company by Glen Cook for Christmas and it was a very interesting read; a fantasy/action series about a mercenary company. Now to chase up the rest of the series.

 

Reading the 2 posts above yours ftw.
Yeah and for those too lazy to search for it, here's the thread if you want to discuss that particular book : http://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=12397&highlight=name+of+the+wind

OT : I'm currently reading Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things, a compilation of short stories. It's an excellent way to make your underground rides bearable.

 

He at least added why he would recommend it. I've read a bit of that book and couldn't get into it.

 

I also recommend Smoke and Mirrors if only for the incredibly awesome story "Snow, Glass, Apples". It's a retelling of Snow White from the Stepmother's point of view. And the other story "We Can Get Them to You Wholesale". It's about a guy that hires assassins that were listed in the phone book.

 

Seconded. Book three, The White Rose, is probably the best in the series. The rest of the series is pretty awesome, but White Rose is best of the ten of them.

So that makes it alright for me to smash you're fingers with a hammer twice so long as I explain why I did it the second time? >_>

 

Irrelevant.

 

I am enjoying "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson. It is one of the few crime novels I have enjoyed for the past several years. I have also heard the sequels are good as well.

 

Incorrect. Its relevance comes from being a specific example of redundance. Regardless of expansion of a previous statement, redundant statements are still pointless.

Considering he also only added one sentence, I feel your comment was irrelevant.

Ergo; Blow a Mexican donkey high on angeldust.

Ill second this rec. Girl with the Dragon Tat is definitely worth reading. And if you like that, I suggest you pick up Dave Zeltserman's Pariah as well.

Its the second in a very loose trilogy, following Small Crimes. Two completely different stories, so Small Crimes isn't really necessary. Fuckall annoying as I find Nerd of Noir to be, he's spot fucking on with this.

Might also browse around at his other reviews. His excessive use of the word fuck pisses me off to the point of wanting to murder the faggot, but he's got decent taste.

Jeff Vandermeer's City of Saints and Madmen and Shriek: An Afterword are also pretty awesome. Haven't read Finch yet, but I plan too.

 

Will third the rec for the Girl w/Dragon Tattoo series. Its one of the few books that I'd recommend you to pirate. The author died and his will was not properly notarized etc, all the proceeds are going to his estranged family. His live-in girlfriend of 30 years has gotten nothing.

 

Just finished this. Awesome book. I'm not a huge fan of autobiographical books, but I couldn't put this one down. Adelstein's writing is very fluid and personable. And the way he just talks about the crazy things he's done with such a nonchalant tone is just awesome.

Spoiler

There's one scene where a source takes him to see the red light district of Tokyo, and buys him a happy ending (he's married). He goes home to his wife after and feels guilty so he tells her. His wife then says she understood, tells him to try not to do it again and if he does don't tell her, and bangs him

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I'm a big fan of the Japanese culture, but even if I weren't I would still read this book. It has a sense of the old crime noir genre, with a detective trying to solve a murder, and following up leads while mingling with shady people. Great book.

 

Any good mystery recs? I have yet to find a solid one that had a believable main character.

And I also don't get any of the Felix Castor love on this site. I brought the first book and ended up putting it down halfway through because I was bored out of my mind.

 

Well, Sherlock Holmes is always fun. If you haven't read it before, I'd highly advise buying the collected volumes at your local bookstore.

edit: Also, if you like historical mysteries, check out The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco and An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears.

 

I have the total collection at home. And thanks for the recs. I'll totally check them out.

 

I just finished reading the Night Watch, the first book of the Worlds of Watches tetralogy, by Sergei Lukyanenko. Have to say, MUCH better than the shitty movie. Going way more in depth and progressing much further into the storyline, not to mention making more sense.

I'd recommend it as a good urban fantasy read, with the occasional bit of strange writing due to being translated from Russian.

Now on to the second book. Hopefully the change of point of view won't be too bad and I can stick around till book three to get back to Anton's story.