Topic: What is ES reading?

[ober]

Currently reading The Hunger Games series.  I started the first book Friday night and I'm almost finished with it.  EXCELLENT writing and great storyline.  They're just starting to make the first movie and I can't wait!  My wife just finished the 3rd book in the series and can't wait for me to catch up so we can talk about it.  It's so awesome to find a good book!

[ober]

Oh, and I stopped reading Gargoyle to read this series.  It's a good book but I find myself getting bored with it.  It's very weird but not a mega page turner.

[Govtcheez]

I read the first one in Hunger Games last week, too - it was really entertaining.  I bought the second two, but haven't started yet since I want to finish Game of Thrones.

[ober]

How is GOT compared to the Hunger Games?

[Govtcheez]

Completely different except that they're both fiction?  I dunno, that's a weird question.  I like both books but they're not comparable

[Steve]

Suffer the Child was a really, really good book.

[KnuckleBuckett]

I have been reading (audiobook) the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell (AKA: John G. Hemry).

I am on the next to the last of the available books and can't get enough of them.

Great sci-fi based naval action written by a former naval officer.  The reader (Cristian Rummel) is an exceptional voice actor.

Synopsis...

The Lost Fleet Series

The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century - and losing badly.  Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory.  Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he had been heroically idealized beyond belief .  Captain John "Black Jack" Geary's legendary exploits are known to every schoolchild.  Revered for his heroic "last stand" in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead.  But a century later, Geary miraculously returns from survival hibernation and reluctantly takes command of the Alliance fleet as it faces annihilation by the Syndics.  Appalled by the hero-worship around him, Geary is nevertheless a man who will do his duty.  And he knows that bringing the stolen Syndic hypernet key safely home is the Alliance's one chance to win the war.  But to do that, Geary will have to live up to the impossibly heroic "Black Jack" legend.

First Book
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0441014186?ie=UTF8&tag=jaccamjohghem-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0441014186

[ober]

Completely different except that they're both fiction?  I dunno, that's a weird question.  I like both books but they're not comparable

I wasn't talking in terms of the storyline.  I'm talking intensity, entertainment value, etc.

[Govtcheez]

It's a lot less action and a lot more intrigue and things like that.  I really can't compare them at all

[ober]

Finished the first book in the Hunger Games trilogy last night.  I'm getting the second one back tomorrow from my mother-in-law.  Can't wait!

[Govtcheez]

I did a lot of reading this week on vacation and I'm 2/3 of the way through the third book in Song of Ice and Fire.  It should be called "Everybody Dies".

edit: Subtitle: "Everybody Fucks"

[Govtcheez]

Finished the 4th books in ASOIAF the other day.  I can't wait for Dance with Dragons to come out.  In the meantime I'm going to try and finish the Hunger Games trilogy, which I'm finding less and less appealing

[ober]

Stick with it, it has some interesting twists at the end.

EDIT: I should mention that I finished the Trilogy.  Good series overall.  Very interesting characters and a very rich world weaved by the author in very few words.  I can't wait for the movies!

I started reading The Green Mile.  I'm over half way through it. 

[Govtcheez]

It's just that it's clearly written for teenagers and the style is kind of bugging me.

[ober]

Well, it's a 'Young Adult' series.  What did you expect?