Trying to refill my library

I've recently renewed my account with the Armali Literature Guild, since they just got their servers back online. It's been about a year since I've had the honest time to sit down and read a good story, so, CDN, do you have any recommendations?

For the record, no. I will not be reading war stories. Five different versions of "Then I had to shoot a husk" are popping up every half hour or so, and considering the fact that I can relive those times whenever I want, I'd rather not throw in another viewpoint. Anything new and good that I should consider, or any old favorites to pull up?

Try Swallows and Amazons. Favourite book as a kid. Over two hundred years old but It's great for the sense of adventure.

Apparently a few key figures from the high command of the war are writing their memoirs. I'd imagine General Corinthus or Admiral Krynas will have some very interesting stories to tell.

Yes, it's related to the war, but hardly a footslogger discussing how he survived Husk after Husk---though I'd personally argue that those tales have rather more merit to them. Soldiers win wars, after all. The brass just take the credit.

the galactic guide to getting it on


good stuff

i'm sure it will be new to a lot of the forumites here

(it really does have some good stuff like guides for diff species on checking for tumors etc along with the dirty dirty)

I'd recommend Dr. Leyna Sir'alis' Concise History of Citadel Philosophy if you need plenty of reading. It's roughly fifty volumes long and has an excellent overview of the evolution of Council space thought. It's a bit of a bore, but al lthe while it certainly makes a good time waster.


There's also another piece called Psalms of the Exiled which was written by I believe a group of Batarians who were removed from the Hegemony and it is a series of poetry speaking about loss, adjusting to new worlds, and in general good reading for our times. It's quite beautiful in diction, as well.

I'd also like to put forward my own book as well: Observations and Studies of the Cerilien species which effectively forms the bulk of what I managed to discover during my work in the Abyss several years ago. Ignore any charges of lies and falsehoods please. I did not fake any finds.

"A House of Ashes" By Toril Galluin is one book I would recommend if you're interested into getting an insight turian history. It's less a novel, more a collection of vignettes that deals with the fallout of the Unification War from a number of different perspectives, separatist and loyalist, soldiers and civilians, etc, and how these different perspectives are all connected. There's a remarkable sense of impartiality for both sides of the conflict, and it really does draw you into what it was like in the aftermath of that conflict.

This one is always pleased to encourage the light of understanding through the sacred medium of literature. It wonders if the other has ever read the works of Syacindil? "Broken Fragments of the Coral Shelf with the Passing of the Fifty-Year Tempest" brought great peace and contentment to this one, when waves of fear and confusion threatened to tear it from its moorings. This one holds the eloquent words of the Most Revered Syacindil in highest esteem, and considers it the perfect argument and answer to the new reality these ones face in the aftermath of the Darkening.

This one also likes "The Little Dancing Nokatok Provokes Most Inelegant Loss Of Face Among The Selfish Harvesters", but that's because it read it as a polyp.

Two war stories, two non stories, batarian poetry, sex manual, and 200 year story that probably isn't in ALG database.

How about Godsend? A test subject escapes from Cerberus captivity, horribly disfigured but with the ability to control anything with more processing power than a toaster. He ventures around the galaxy, hunting down those that did this to him.

Good thriller. Kept me busy for a week.

Quotations of Jharkul is one of the few surviving Pieces of Raloi Literature and contains the Teachings around which Najhil models Najhil's Life.

...for the most Part. >_>

Try [ERROR: DIRECT TRANSLATION IMPOSSIBLE] (my close approximation in Gal-Stan, for those not reading in High Thessian, would be 'The Whispering Shores') by Matriarch Venetia. I am perhaps a little biased towards this title, since I am rather distantly related to its esteemed author, but it is an incredibly interesting look at asari civilisation just as we first discovered mass effect technology. Original copies are, of course, nearly impossible to obtain, but digital versions (some edited to modernise the language a touch) are readily available.

Blackwater Lake by Paul Mackinnon

Not exactly a light read, follows five generations of a human family in a small Terminus colony built around the eponymous lake. It's... a bit of a rollercoaster.

And when I say not a light read I mean that describing the basic outline of the plot would probably be another book by itself.

And when I say a bit of a rollercoaster I mean it's a comedy/tragedy/romance/drama/psychological study/action/revenge-thriller/horror story.

But really, its a great book. Prose is detail oriented without being boring. Characters are so well fleshed out and lifelike that its hard not to get attached. The plot is convoluted but feels organic and does an excellent job of drawing you in.

In short: Mackinnon will fuck with your feelings and head for a solid thousand plus pages, and you thoroughly enjoy every second of it.