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Days of Atonement by Walter John Williams.

That's a good one. I also liked At the Mountains of Madness.

Agreed. The Shadow Over Innsmouth was amazing too.

-The Bridge of the Assassins By Arturo Perez Reverte (Part of Captain Alatriste's saga)
-A dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin

Like other books of Alatriste's saga, the ambient is really dark, all the characters are anti-villains at best, with terrible customs like duelling to death with others for little more than looking them in the eyes more than a couple of seconds (to give a clear example, at the beginning of the book Alatriste almost attacks one messenger with no real reason other than fearing some trap. The poor guy was puzzled by his behaviour, especially since he was sent by a friend)

But the historical ambient is superb, the author takes great lengths to show Europe in the 17th century (this time Italy) and all the battles are always epic.

The previous book I read was the fourth part of Song of Ice and Fire, and while I didn't found it as awesome as the third book, it did a good work expanding the saga's lore and universe

New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird. Who can resist a new Cthulhu anthology?

New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird. Who can resist a new Cthulhu anthology?

As a matter of fact, I'm reading a collection of Lovecraft's novels.

It's not bad, but you can totally tell it's some old writing. There is something about his style that makes me lose focus while I'm reading. My favorite has been what it translates, I think, to "The color that came from space". That was intense. But as for other stories, like Nyarlathotep, there's almost nothing happening.

All in all, I wouldn't recommend Lovecraft. It's good to read for curiosity, but there's definitely much better around.

Salem's Lot by Stephen King, it's very good if you like Stephen King it's a classic next to IT (which is his best novel in my honest opinion)

Licia Troisi. I don't know if her books have been translated to English, but I highly suggest them.Expecially Dragon Girl and Wars of the Risen Lands.

Finished the Bridge of assassins

Have you ever wondered how it's possible in medieval settings for illiterate characters who should only have a tenuous grasp of their own language, let alone more than one? Well, Reverte had one easy solution to this. (leaving aside that some characters were actually bilingual)

All Spaniards in this novel talk spanish, and all Venetians talk italian, what is fine if you happen to understand both languages, since the author WON'T translate what the Venetians say, and while the important characters will talk in Spanish, any minor character will talk in Italian, and good luck understanding what they say.

The plot itself it's a bit of a filler arc, like the previous book, but the author had the good sense of having more important characters from others books, and one of the main villains, and the final arc is about to start, for the hints given in the book.

A bit on the short side, the historical ambient is superb, and as always, the author took great deals of work in ensuring the realism of his work.

Feudalism in Japan by Peter Duus.

Defending Jacob by William Landay.

Just a heads up.
I chose to read this because I thought it was something akin to a murder mystery.
(My favourite genre is murder mystery.)
However, the reality is not so.
At heart, this novel is a love story. (FML)

As a matter of fact, I'm reading a collection of Lovecraft's novels.

It's not bad, but you can totally tell it's some old writing. There is something about his style that makes me lose focus while I'm reading. My favorite has been what it translates, I think, to "The color that came from space". That was intense. But as for other stories, like Nyarlathotep, there's almost nothing happening.

All in all, I wouldn't recommend Lovecraft. It's good to read for curiosity, but there's definitely much better around.

Lovecraft is awesome for the ideas he gave us. His actual stories needed some work. The things people have done with similar characters since have been great.l

Agatha Christie's book is very interesting

I just finished reading Edgar Allen Poe. I love that man. Last things of his I read were "Murder in the Rue Morgue" and "The Raven".

I remember reading him while I had a night guard job. I thought that together with the atmosphere it would make me scared, instead it just depressed me.

I'm currently reading the Game of Thrones books. Enjoying them, and I'm impressed how they barely skipped anything in the TV show

just finished reading "El medico del tiempo"

don't know how to translate it properly, so I'll leave the spanish name

it was... Ok. I guess.

Just finished Ghosts/Aliens on the behest of a friend. It seemed like it had a really unique narrative, and I somewhat got into it, but it was just to psuedo-cool for me to tolerate. It was like an author discovered what 'irony for irony's sake' was and started spanking it on a piece of paper.

Mona Lisa Overdrive

Fascinated with this

"The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens" by Theodore Beale.
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I read it at the insistence of a "friend."
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Needless to say, I wished I never wasted my time on this garbage.
Seriously, the burden of proof is on the people claiming that the christian god exists.
And even if there is a God, they would still have to prove that god is christian.
(How do they even know that god is not Hindu, Shinto, etc.?)
To prove to other people that their god is real, they just need to get their god to appear before other people and that god just need to say something along the lines of that their bible is god's words.
(although, if that god said the sutra, or the scroll is god's words, then the bible believers are screwed.)
In conclusion, if they can insert the idea of god without evidence, I can dismiss that idea the very same way.
(Unfortunately, I don't know if my friend really understand, or my poor friend is just too brain-washed to question, and the attempt at conversion is just misguided and not out of malice)

Along Came a Spider by James Patterson. Pretty legit author.

Phantoms by Dean Koontz and The Shining by Stephen King, both very good books. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Finished Bernard Cornwell's Death of Kings. I like the series but it seems to be getting a little stale.

Also, something I've noticed in many historical fiction novels set in the Middle Ages, the protagonists generally tend to be pretty damned progressive for their time period. That is not to say I want a main character who goes around raping and killing everything in site, and Uhtred isn't the worse, but some of these people have attitudes on sex and religion which would have been revolutionary even in the 1920s.