Books You've Already Purchase from the Connect Store

[Alexander Turcic]

Originally Posted by Michele

So now I've officially used up my $50 credit with my recent purchase, all written by Robin Hobb:

Assassin's Apprentice
Royal Assassin
Assassin's Quest
and...
The Tawny Man Bundle

These are great fantasy books, Michele! Once you are done reading them, check out Hobb's The Liveship Traders, which is, I think, her best series so far.

[Laurens]

Getting Things Done by David Allen. Great book, but the poor compression of the diagrams ruin it somewhat. Caveat emptor.

The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman. Bit of a disappointment. This whole "flattening" of the world is kind of obvious and self-evident. Not sure why it was necessary to write a whole book to get such an obvious point across.

[slayda]

Originally Posted by NatCh

Dragon's Fire -- Anne & Todd McCaffrey
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
The Restauraunt at the End of the Universe -- Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything -- Douglas Adams
The Speed of Dark -- Elizabeth Moon
Combo Book: Remnant Population & Trading in Danger -- Elizabeth Moon

Nathan,
Don't know all of these but IMHO "The Speed of Dark" is good but somewhat depressing. I identified strongly with the main character though so that may have been why.

Also Moon is a great writer but "Remnant Population" was one I just couldn't get into.

[Michele]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

These are great fantasy books, Michele! Once you are done reading them, check out Hobb's The Liveship Traders, which is, I think, her best series so far.

Thanks! I've put this trilogy of trilogies off for a long time. While many love Farseer and Tawny Man, it seems that they either love or hate Liveship Traders. While I do have it in paperback, I couldn't bring myself to buy it in ebook quite yet.

[ultim8fury]

Tawny man bundle is set after the liveship stories so I would highly recommend reading in order.

Robin Hobb has become on of my favourite authors. Her new series is also shaping up quite well although the first book is a little slow, I found the second book to be a real page turner. I'm waiting patiently on her conclusion to the Soldier Son trilogy.

[NatCh]

Originally Posted by slayda

Nathan,
Don't know all of these but IMHO "The Speed of Dark" is good but somewhat depressing. I identified strongly with the main character though so that may have been why.

Also Moon is a great writer but "Remnant Population" was one I just couldn't get into.

I more or less expected Speed of Dark to be a bit (don't pardon the pun) dark and dreary, and I've turned away from Remnant Population a couple of times in the past. My wife is doing PhD work at the same university that Moon went to (Rice University, that is) and they spotlighted her in the last Alumni magazine. The synopsese of those books sparked my interest, and, hey, I had 50 free dollars to spend.

I really liked Moon's Familias Regnant series (that was before I started reading Weber's Honor Harrington series, they seem a bit flat by comparison), and The Deed of Paksenarrion was most excellent to me. I thought I'd branch out a bit more in her works. I'm not sure about the Trading in Danger series, it doesn't look terribly interesting to me, but I'll give it a go, perhaps I'll love it and have to have the rest of them.

[Michele]

Originally Posted by ultim8fury

Tawny man bundle is set after the liveship stories so I would highly recommend reading in order.

Yes, that is my intention.

[valkyriesound]

My first books from the store gotta be Garth Nix's The Abhorsen Trilogy

Check it out...very good.