Wish I had the time (and ambition) to read that much now. I used to, in my heyday. One year I read 157 novels (about 1 every three days), but that was a couple decades ago. Now, most of my free time/relax time goes to gaming, although I still read pretty much every day for at least a short time (before I nod off to sleep).

Wow, I forgot about those! I bought and read them back when they came out but don't remember much about them.

REAMDE by Neal Stephenson. I love Stephenson's writing and this book is no exception. However, the plot is more than a little far-fetched, with events occurring that stretch the bounds of credibility. Despite that though, the book is a fun read, well paced, and kept me up later than I should have been on a number of nights. This would probably make a great action movie with some comedy elements. An overall good read, and recommended.

Full List.

The Lost Symbol, again. It's jam packed with cool stuff like ancient mysteries and hidden codes so I'm definitely fine with reading it twice. Plus I get attached to stuff and want to read nothing except Dan Brown thrillers.

* How To Neutralize Complex Profiles * by Marwan Mery

So, it's the follow-up book of the one I previously read. Here, instead of dealing with mainly B2B negociations, it's about dealing verbally with psychologically-ill profiles like paranoids, suicidals, addicts, narcisstics, violents and such. It's written and structured like a reference book as each profile has conversation examples, main traits, suggestions on dealing with them and what to avoid doing. It's naturally not a book for fun but it can be really handy when you're somehow forced to be around a bunch of different problematic people like if you were a social worker.
https://www.amazon.fr/Comment-neutraliser-profils-complexes-suicidaires/dp/2212563345/

Dead man walking - Simon R Green

Finished Glen Cook's magnum opus, The Black Company. The first book didn't really convinced me, though I liked the idea of rooting for the anti-heroes, but something in the writing felt raw. But it got progressively better and the final book was like a meteor, blew me away. A great fantasy series all in all without the classic tropes and pitfalls. Almost a match for the Malazan Book of the Fallen (actually I think Soldiers Live is better than The Crippled God, which is the final book of that saga, but I think Memories of Ice beats them all)

I finished The Gathering Storm, by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson, two days ago. Well, I have to admit: this one was really better than the previous two books. I felt like breeze to read through it, many awesome moments (I read the last 200 pages in one go). Two more to go, and I'm looking forward to it!

Books finished in 2016:
#1: Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan
#2: Dune, Frank Herbert
#3: Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
#4: Tower of the Swallow, Andrzej Sapkowski
#5: Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan
#6: The Long Earth, Terry Pratcher en Stephen Baxter
#7: The Gathering Storm, Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson

* China Contemporary * by ??? (edited by Nai Publishers)

It's a bilingual (Dutch-English) book about contemporary art in China in all its forms. It goes from architecture to pop culture and shows how big and important modern art developed in this part of the world.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/china-contemporary-nai-publishers/1122887488

The Ancient Engineers (L. Sprague deCamp)

This is a nonfiction book about engineers and invention, covering the period from the Stone Age to the 16th Century. The author has a way of writing which always keeps everything interesting and flowing smoothly from topic to topic. Although it's an older book (first published in the early 1960's), you can still easily get your hands on a copy today. Definitely recommended!

Cool, that's my kind of stuff. I just put it on my Amazon wishlist ;)

Well, might as well...

Weniaria

Was having a look around when I stumbled into [url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31575973/]this, a free first book in a series, originally in Dutch but translated to English by the author, and also connected to a game. And, well, let's just say I wasted my time, including by adding it on Goodreads, so you won't have to.
In short, it's absolutely full of mistakes of every kind and, while I don't know how the original version was written and it is possible that the author's grasp of English was far too poor to allow for any passable translation and he twisted things around and threw together whatever first came to mind, the story itself is so childish and simply worthless when judged according to any criteria used for anything which might in any way be published that even decent writing couldn't save it. All I got from it was the feeling of reading a schoolboy's writing assignment, stretched to about 100 pages yet still rushed through and poor enough that he was laughed at while reading it in class even though he probably still thinks it's cool. The fact that he says he was born in 1975 and therefore that couldn't actually be the case makes it even more embarrassing.

Rating: 1/5

And didn't post then, a few months ago

A Circle of Iron

This book was obviously meant as the first in a series that never continued, the sequel promised for 2012 never seeing the light of day, or at least not yet. However, this is no extended introduction, quite the contrary, as it definitely doesn't lack in action and does complete its part of the story satisfyingly enough. And I can't complain about the writing style or any lack of polish either.
Would have needed to be at the very least twice the size for any chance at a better rating though, and to have filled that space with more information about the world and characters, and in fact with more characters, places and events. As it is, it's a well-written but too short single adventure, taking place in a single location and involving one small group and one problem. It hints at epic fantasy and some interesting twists, but in fact offers only plain sword and sorcery and feels perhaps a bit rushed even for that.

Rating: 3/5

In between, spent 2 full months being the "alpha reader" for a friend's next book, holding her back too because I couldn't get myself moving much. May be titled Gorgeous Ruin but not entirely sure yet, she had a first part up for free under a different title but was taken down now while she'll be making changes before actually releasing it. Obviously can't provide a proper review at the moment since the things I was most bothered by (well, all but one) are getting changed. What I can say is that the overall quality and style of writing are as awesome as usual from her, but couldn't stand any of the characters, at all, and am probably not even on the same "continent" as the target audience, so sadly no way to have a good opinion.

As of a few weeks ago, I finished the five first Discworld books: The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, and Sourcery.

I have read about a dozen of them in Swedish earlier, although in no particular order as I haven't been able to find the ones I've been looking for (I like having the same edition of books in the same series so the spine designs and sizes match) so I've grabbed what I did find. But shortly after a short discussion around here with one of the forum's Danes, I went to Stockholm where I know of a bookstore specializing in sci-fi and fantasy, and grabbed the first five in English (couldn't justify putting more money into books at one time), and they luckily happened to match the last one which I already had.

As for the books, well, they're Discworld, it's Pratchett, nothing surprising really. I grew a bit bored by most of Mort, but that too picked up near the end.

* Vietnam Zippos * by Sherry Buchanan

Yeah, we're talking about Zippo, the famous lighter. The author collected many zippos left behind by US soldiers during the Vietnam war. The various engravings on the lighters tell indirectly about the thoughts of the soldiers and it's an intersting viewpoint of the war.