For the Bookworms out there

[Brewhaha]

Anyone else use LibraryThing at www.librarything.com?

I just discovered it and am pretty excited out it.

[Deathcricket]

Enter 200 books for free, as many as you like for $10 (year) or $25 (life).

Only 200 for free? Man are they stingy!
:roflol:

Seriously though, this looks really cool. I'm always looking for new books to read and this will fit the bill.

Woot!

[AFI]

Looks cool - I have been using http://www.shelfari.com/

[Mtnman1830]

Hmm, pretty interesting.

[Deathcricket]

Whoa, I take it back 200 isn't a lot of entries. This is actually going to be quite difficult to do :(

I wish there was a way to say "hey I read that whole series" instead of having to go in and manually add each book in the series. For instance if I type in "R.A. Salvatore" as my favorite book. I have to manually go in each one which sucks. So it would be nice if I could go through his series.

* 2.1.1 The Icewind Dale Trilogy
* 2.1.2 The Dark Elf Trilogy
* 2.1.3 Legacy of the Drow
* 2.1.4 Paths of Darkness
* 2.1.5 The Cleric Quintet
* 2.1.6 The Hunter's Blades Trilogy
* 2.1.7 The Sellswords
* 2.1.8 Transitions
* 2.1.9 War of the Spider Queen

But instead I have to manually do a search each time and add each book separately.....

* The Crystal Shard (1988) (Between 1351DR and 1356DR)
* Streams of Silver (1989) (1356DR)
* The Halfling's Gem (1990) (Between 1356DR and 1357DR)

[edit] The Dark Elf Trilogy

* Homeland (1990) (Between 1297DR and 1328DR)
* Exile (1990) (Between 1338DR and 1340DR)
* Sojourn (1991) (Between 1340DR and 1347DR)

[edit] Legacy of the Drow

* The Legacy (1992) (1357DR)
* Starless Night (1993) (1357DR)
* Siege of Darkness (1994) (1358DR)
* Passage to Dawn (1996) (1364DR)

[edit] Paths of Darkness

* The Silent Blade (1998) (1364DR)
* The Spine of the World (1999) (Between 1365DR and 1369DR)
* Servant of the Shard (2000) (1366DR) - Now in The Sellswords Trilogy
* Sea of Swords (2001) (Between 1369DR and 1370DR)

[edit] The Cleric Quintet

* Canticle (1991) (1361DR)
* In Sylvan Shadows (1992) (1361DR)
* Night Masks (1992) (1361DR)
* The Fallen Fortress (1993) (Between 1361DR and 1362DR)
* The Chaos Curse (1994) (1362DR)

[edit] The Hunter's Blades Trilogy

* The Thousand Orcs (2002) (1370DR)
* The Lone Drow (2003) (1370DR)
* The Two Swords (2004) (Between 1370DR and 1371DR)

[edit] The Sellswords

* Servant of the Shard (2000) (1366DR)
* The Promise of the Witch King (2005) (1370DR)
* Road of the Patriarch (2006) (Between 1370DR and 1371DR)

[edit] Transitions

* The Orc King (September 2007) (1371DR and 1471DR-prologue and epilogue)
* The Pirate King (October 2008)
* The Ghost King (October 2009)

[edit] War of the Spider Queen

* Dissolution (written by Richard Lee Byers) (2002) (1372DR)
* Insurrection (written by Thomas M. Reid) (2002) (1372DR)
* Condemnation (written by Richard Baker) (2003) (1372DR)
* Extinction (written by Lisa Smedman) (2004) (1372DR)
* Annihilation (written by Philip Athans) (2004) (1372DR)
* Resurrection (written by Paul S. Kemp) (2005) (1372DR)

[edit] The Spearwielder's Tales

* The Woods Out Back (1993)
* The Dragon's Dagger (1994)
* Dragonslayer's Return (1995)

Then there are multiples listed. Different editions, so I cross those off my lists. Then I notice it suggests I read the trilogies? Why would I want to read the trilogy if I've already read each book in the trilogy? LOL!

So basically just using one writer like R.A. Salvatore it uses almost 60 of my slots through variations and collectors edition and trilogies... So really 200 is not that many slots :(

I retract my earlier statement that 200 is a huge number. It's really not that much sadly since it counts variations as new books. So cool website I just wish it wasnt so tedious.... I'm gonna be here all night clicking off books I already read, LOL. I'd like to pull up a list, let me check off each book I've read by the author and move on.

Now if it will only give me some good suggestions it will be worth it! Woohoo!

[Brewhaha]

Hey, it looks like you read alot of the same books that I do. Cool.

Those are some good suggestions, DC. The ability to search by author and series and the ability to use radio-buttons to add multiple books all at once would be fantastic.

I might take a look at shelfari and see what it is like. I wouldn't mind paying $25 bucks for a lifetime membership to LibraryThing if I can see that they are constantly making the site better.

I really like the groups and discussions found in LT.

[Deathcricket]

Nice! I figured we had similar tastes since your'e always posting stuff that I think is cool.
:2thumbs:

Anyways, if you haven't read R.A. Salvatore, I HIGHLY recommend him. He's my favorite author and anything he does is awesome IMO. If you're looking for a good book to read, I would suggest the "dark elf" trilogy (starting with homeland). It starts off a little complicated, similar to "lord of the rings" with backstories and this huge history lesson. But it's needed so you can understand how dark elf society functions. But then about 90 pages in, the book takes off and is impossible to put down. Then 15 books later it's still amazing, haha.

Just be warned it's a little depressing and a lot dark. They main char has a f*&^% up life, but seriously amazing. The sellswords trilogy is also awesome but I don't recommend that first since it uses a lot of chars from the main books, namely Jaraxle. Might be a little confusing.

So ya got any recommendations for me? Always looking for new books to read.

[Brewhaha]

If you want complicated, Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series, is right up there. I am still trying do decide if it is brilliant or horrible.

If you haven't tried George R.R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice I would definitely recommend it.

I've been reading alot of SciFi Short Stories lately. I've also been exploring short story podcasts. Have you ever listened to www.escapepod.org. It's a very cool scifi podcast. It has a sister podcast www.pseudopod.org which features horror stories. And, starting April 1 another sister podcast, www.podcastle.com, will feature fantasy short stories. Lots of fun.

I'm going to see if I can locate book 1 of the Dark Elf series tomorrow - I need some light reading.

[Deathcricket]

Excellent recommendations. Fire and Ice I have read and thoroughly enjoyed, but the rest of the stuff you mentioned I have not.

I have a couple days left on my current book, but will get the "book of the fallen" hopefully this weekend. Thanks man!

[stefan]

good to see folks who enjoy reading :2thumbs:

[abirken]

I know we all have a TON of free time to read, right? Well I do have an inner book worm and I admit that I have multi-tasked many times before. Book in one hand late at night and Bogley on my laptop. Best of both worlds!! :) So anyone have any current reads that are awesome?

I'm working on Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett right now. Another good read was The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I could NOT put that one down. :2thumbs:

[Cirrus2000]

Going back to brewhaha's recommendation of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series: I tried it, got about 3/4 of the way through the first book. Hokey dinah. Way too complicated for me! Fire and Ice: excellent!

I don't generally read a lot of sci-fi, but some fantasy (Fire and Ice, Wheel of Time, and everything ever written by the late, great David Gemmell. Light and fluffy, but delicious. Easily devoured. Food analogy finished.)

Speaking of multi-tasking, books go with me everywhere. At work, I am often ribbed for reading while making lunch, eating lunch, riding in the elevator, climbing the stairs, even "using the facilities" (hey, it only takes one hand). :thumb: