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i'm in the bloody middle of captain's fury and i just ... feh. i really want to know how the rest ends and stuff. i mean obviously tavi becomes the first lord based entirely on the titles of the other books (but come on, who didn't know that from the first book?) and stuff but like.. i want to read it and find out and be amazed because of how good it's gotten. but some how i just can't seem to bring myself to finish it. i'm like i don't want to be in the canim war anymore. i don't want to read about the bitch and fidelias etc.. so i've stopped reading again. but i totally want to read. i need something TOTALLY different. halp?
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I'm enjoying that Iron Druid Chronicles series and I enjoy it. Has quite a bit of humor that actually makes me laugh out loud, which with a book rarely happens. Should throw you back into reading, imo.
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Also, you made another post like a month ago that you were out of this 'funk' and flying through the Codex Alera...
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well she flew threw the second book anyway. and i'm not sure another fantasy title is going to help since she wants something different. unless its just the style of fantasy shes burned out on.
if you want to try a different genre entirely try reading one of the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child. they're fast paced and fun to read. another idea is if your mostly into fantasy but the classic fantasy isn't doing it you could do some urban fantasy for a bit. just some various ideas here but theres the Kitty Norville series, the Cal Leandros series, the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, and i could come up with some other decent ones if you've already done those.
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Iron Druid is First Person urban fantasy...
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captain's fury is the 4th book. i read 2, 3 and half of 4 in like 5 days then stopped for no reason. lolol fibro depression.  (meaning it's 100% chemical and is not triggered by anything normal. fking the weather can change too fast and i will be stuck in bed for 3 days going WTF IS THIS ISHT?!) anyway that was weeks ago and i don't think i want any fantasy atm. i'm staring at a huge ass list of books i have and have zero desire to read any of them. all of them are fantasy/urban fantasy though. i don't know how to look at not fantasy books and go "that might be interesting." i guess i could go through movies people have loved that were based on books.
i also find that while i'm interested in scifi, i'm not interested in scifi. i think this stems from reading bad scifi books and glaring at the demon prince series by jack vance and going WHY ARE YOU NOT AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FORM YET?! JESUS CHRIST IT'S BEEN YEARS! 
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Go read the first book of the Kitty Norville series Grim suggested.
Those books are very quick and satisfying.
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if for no other reason, covers like this http://www.amazon.com/Kitty-Midnight-Hour-Norville-Book/dp/0446616419 are why i love ereaders so damn much. why no i'm not reading something that would be horribly embarrassing to hold in public!
edit: oooh the darth bane books are out in ebook form now. i might snag the first one. i hated his mass effect books but i do admit he's a good writer when it comes to games and everyone seems to love the bane series.
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Iron Druid is First Person urban fantasy...
my bad. i think i confused it with another series, i thought it was classic fantasy.
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I used to feel so ridiculous at the book store buying urban fantasy novels, the covers are very embarrassing.
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i got over that long ago. i think i surprise alot of women looking for paranormal or urban fantasy when i talk to them about it and make suggestions because i actually know about some of the series their reading. i think the worst ones if your a guy is if your reading any of J.R. Wards books...every title is Lover this or Lover that. they don't even hold a candle to the crazy crap LK Hamilton does in her later Anita Blake books though so i'd call the titles somewhat deceptive. speaking of Anita Blake books...the latest one, Hit List, was halfway decent. she cut way back on all the porn shes been writing and actually wrote something that tried to be more like the earlier books. unfortunately she seems to have run out of inspiration because while the lack of sex was an improvement it felt like alot of the rest of it was regurgitated stuff from previous novels with a fresh coat of paint over it to make it look new. still...it was a slight improvement over whats become her norm.
lately i've been on a biography kick. i just keep picking up random biographies to read. guess i've burned out a bit on fiction.
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I have mixed emotions about Hit List. You more or less summed them up, it was nice to draw back from the sex but it felt like she had nowhere to really go with it. I felt like she finally wrote a book with a plot and it was a crap plot.
Regurgitating the stuff with the big serial killer guy is getting old book after book and I hated how the plot was so poorly developed; she basically ignored the story and had the characters screwing around then in the end the bad guys progressed the plot, thus making everything the protagonists did meaningless. It was like Anita was sitting around the entire book waiting for the bad guys to force the action. Though it was nice to finally be rid of that villain.
Really, that is a hallmark of her writing, plots that Anita is completely uninvolved in. She sets up the conflict then Anita has sex until somebody else forces the action and things resolve. I think this is my biggest problem with her and it was very apparent in a book like this where she actually tried to write a story.
Also, when I was reading those J.R. Ward books I was too embarrassed to even tell people what I was reading when they asked. Like, I know my aunt loves the series but I don't have it in me to discuss them with her. Now that I think about it, my aunt knowing would be even worse because she knows exactly what I read.
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If you haven't already, read Heinleins "Orphans of the sky" 
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If you haven't already, read Heinlein's [any book he wrote]
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i've not read anything by heinlein. i'll buy one of his books after i read this kitty norville thing today. i also grabbed the first asimov foundation book and the first assassin book by robin hobb since i've seen TONS of people say they love both and i've not read either.
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Orphans of the sky is a 2-3hr read, and it will be some of the best hours you've spent reading
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ok well. i do not like books staring a female werewolf in a pack of werewolves where the alpha werewolf is basically an abusive husband.
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Her liberation from that situation is a plot arc.
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in the first book? i'm a little over half way through it. i might like it with out that aspect. it might also be that the bitch alpha has my name and that irritates me to no end.
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she makes progress through at least two of the books with her original packs issues. my advice is stick with it, the whole abusive family/pack thing is basically the authors tool to build the character and let her grow. you'll appreciate the resolution to the pack issues when you get to it although the final resolution isn't part of the first book, but she does make progress.
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i can't even judge how long this book is. my nook is telling me 185 pages. that has to be 185 pages at microscopic font because even at the smallest font setting, the page number only changes with every 3 pages i read. which means that either the publisher is goddamn retarded or the mmp font is so small and jammed together that i'd need a magnifying glass to read the physical edition. i'm going to guess that the publisher is just retarded. so i'm on some part of page 159. right after the rogue incident. reading this makes me want to brush my teeth and shower.
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ok well. i didn't realize pages 80+ were a preview for the next book. so yeah that was short. fast light reading yes. not sure i want to continue with the series. it's like a war going on in my head. unfinished story. must finish story. didn't like story that much though. omfg though must finish story. i'm going to turn into yoss.
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Being me isn't all bad.
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so apparently i ordered the second book last night while not exactly sober. good going me! well if i like this one at least mildly more than the last i'll probably just get them all.
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It sounds like your taste in books improves with your loss of inhibition.
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It sounds like your taste in books improves with your loss of inhibition.
Hah.
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ha ha. i started reading iron druid today. i love irish mythology but i've never come across anything that uses it to make a story. 
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ha ha. i started reading iron druid today. i love irish mythology but i've never come across anything that uses it to make a story.
I've read both that are out right now. I'm not going to say they are some marvel of fantasy, because they're not. but they are quick reads, with a lot of humor (I love Oberon) that will actually make you laugh out loud, while using a Mythology not commonly used in books today in a unique way. Overall, I love the series.
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ha ha. i started reading iron druid today. i love irish mythology but i've never come across anything that uses it to make a story.
I've read several. Some YA some regular fantasy. I could throw together a list for you.
*edit* The only caveat is that almost all fantasy based on irish mythology is depressing and/or bittersweet.
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I have read a lot of series that focus on the fae and Irish mythology tends to rub in on the periphery but not many that put their Gods in the forefront, especially as primary characters.
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One that I'm thinking of deals with some pretty deep Irish/Celtic mythology, another is in another fantasy world but the mythology there is pretty heavily based upon Celtic mythology (goes so far as to imply that our modern world got it's Celtic mythology from this worlds reality). First one is a young adult classic series called The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, the other is the Fionvar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay.
*edit* The movie, The Seeker: Dark is Rising, was based on Cooper's series. If you seen it, disregard it. The movie ruined it.
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well next up for iron druid is norse gods and norse mythology so that should be fun.
thanks juro i'll definitely check those out. i might have seen the seeker but if i have, i can't remember it so it was either really goddamn horrible or just plain forgettable.
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