A Simon Toyne trilogy bsed on a fictional city in Turkey called Ruin that has a secretive church enclave called The Citadel which supposedly houses a hidden "Sacrament".

If you like Dan Browne stuff, you should enjoy these, Sanctus, The Key and The Tower.

Series of movie type ads for the book :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrmMo9gollI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLeRux4DmKM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-3rwImGvlk

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scXWw9z9-ac

Still reading A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

and Deadhouse Gates

Finished reading this edition of Ficciones by Jorge Louis Borges. 5/5, one of the best books ever written from my standpoint. Everyone should read it once in a lifetime.

The book's highlight: The Library of Babel. This story has been haunting me (mostly in a good way) for more than 2 decades....

Hal Duncan: Ink.The Book of all Hours.

The feller attacks the Western Archetypes and Memes head one, and still wants some, hey.

"Give me hardcore myths, or give me death." :-D

I am reading the GoG forums!

Sorry.....

I tried to get the Witcher books from my library this week, but our library network does not have them.

So I borrowed Night Watch and Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko instead. I really enjoyed both films. The English translation is okay. The writing isn't very exciting, but I do like the story. I wonder how much better it'd be in the original Russian.

I'm currently reading "Total War Rome, Destroy Cathage" There honestly isn't enough good historical fiction books set during the rise of Roman...

But up next is Metro 2033... or 1984... I should probably finish that first I supose...

That's it. Could have sworn I said that already, but didn't see a post.

Anyway, finished it today, and it was excellent.

This seemed like a good place to mention the latest Humble Book Bundle including American Gods by Neil Gaiman and The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

Oh, I actually got a review copy of that book last year and would be curious to know your impressions.

This is part of my full review, this snippet was what I wrote on my goodreads page:

"It's evident that the author really knows his ancient military history and also fetishizes the Roman Empire as many antiquarian authors and historians do. Unfortunately that zeal didn't help him develop his characters in complex and interesting ways.Gibbins tends to use character dialogue to explain ideas and the implications for Rome. While I'm certain that many of the ruling class had conversations like that, I doubt they had them ad nausea.It reduces the characters to mere set-pieces.I wish rather than reading of the aftermath or having his characters discussing much of the battles and glossing over big parts, he would actually describe them.Though it's extremely difficult to do so given that there's hardly any documentation from the period, the man could use his imagination with his knowledge of these events like most historical novelists.
The final scenes and descriptions of the Battle of Carthage finally impressed upon me that this man could have written a much more exhilarating novel.

I'm of the opinion that reading nonfiction by archaelogist David Gibbins would be fascinating and insightful but this book has proven none of the former."

I almost completed fourth book now, but...okay, is very eay to read, but the plot just stopped. I mean, there are maybe two main events during the book, and then there are tons of useless chaters, or anyway chapters simply too long in which there's an event and then a lot of useless pages.

Harry Potter and the Deahtly hallows and to be honest it's really boring...(almost just as boring as the two final movies).

Half-blood prince was also boring but at least that one was interesting. Djeez Rowling new how she wanted to end it but i guess she didn't really know how to make two big books out of it...

In regards to Dune, I have thoroughly enjoyed Brian Herbert's and Kevin J. Anderson's work; they've done an excellent job. It was their work that first introduced me to the Dune universe. Great Stuff.

Right now I'm in the middle of both The Martian by Andy Weir and Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. The Martian is winning in the pure enjoyment category for me.