[trystan830]

the Castle books are fun!

and i loved Nathan in Firefly. heck, i love Nathan in anything he's in. XD

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I used to insist on finishing every book that I picked up. I don't do that anymore. Better things to do than read crummy books.

[trystan830]

for the most part, if i start reading it, i'll finish it. there's only been a few i haven't finished.

[Kaderin Triste]

There are only a few books that I haven't finished. But I have plans to read them eventually. And actually, all of them were in high school. I just couldn't justify renewing them when I hadn't managed to even reach 50-100 pages in.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Most of my unfinished stuff is leftover University reading. If I didn't finish it then, I had to lay it aside to get to the new stuff in the curriculum. Except for Game of Thrones. I flat out jumped ship on that one.

[Kaderin Triste]

Haha...it took me a little bit, and two attempts to get into Game of Thrones. I enjoyed it quite a book and would like to read the rest of the series (just atarting the second book now), but I can see how some people might not like it.

[trystan830]

i read the all the books in A Song of Ice and Fire in 2011 - that was the year A Dance With Dragons came out, which i read about a week after it was published. i'd had A Game of Thrones in paperback, that i'd picked up at a library booksale many years before. i suspect it's the first edition paperback, but i'd have to check the copywrite date.

now i'm waiting for Winds of Winter, and i really rememeber the plot line of only one character from A Dance With Dragons... XD

[Kaderin Triste]

Oh. That would be really awesome if it was a first edition! I only have the first 4 books so far. I bought Game of Thrones at full price when the show came out because my sister claimed that she had read the book and started watching the show and yhat they were both really good. And the others I picked up used.
I have honestly never seen the show. Maybe after I catch up on my giant list of other shows that I can only watch once a week at work...
But I generally prefer books to their tv and movie adaptations.
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[trystan830]

here's what i got: i bought books 2, 3, 4 at Borders when i worked there. 5 i got at B&N when it came out in 2012 - they're all in paperback.

here's my cover for 1:


which a google search does tell me that it's the cover of the original paperback. whether or not mine's a first printing or nth printing with that cover will have to wait until i get home to look inside the book.

but, i'm glad my random 'this looks interesting' book sale purchase turned out to be a good one. =D

i enjoy the series, even if i need three bookmarks in the book while i'm reading it! XD

[Kaderin Triste]

O.O
Three bookmarks? Why three?

[Alatariel]

I'm too late to the party for this year (and probably too lazy to read much haha, let's be honest xD)
But I wanna participate next year!

I did read The Others Series by Anne Bishop a month ago.. all 5 books..

[Kaderin Triste]

Haha...you could always set a small goal for the last half of the year?

[Moonshadow]

Originally Posted by Alatariel

I'm too late to the party for this year (and probably too lazy to read much haha, let's be honest xD)
But I wanna participate next year!

I did read The Others Series by Anne Bishop a month ago.. all 5 books..

You can totally join us this year, just let me know if you decide and then I can add you to our list on members. :)

This is my next project. I picked up this beautiful edition for 50 cents!

Right now I'm reading The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins.

[trystan830]

Confirmed: I have a first printing of the paperback of A Game of Thrones - it says September 1997 in the front!

Kaderin - yep, three: one for my place in the story, one at the front of the book for the maps, and one at the end of the book for the cast of characters!

And hi there, Alatariel!

[Kaderin Triste]

Yay! Awesome book find!
And ah, that makes sense. I don't usually reference those while I read, but I can see how it would be good to keep those marked.

[trystan830]

Yep yep!

Yeah, I like to know who's in it and where places are