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#1 User is offline   QuickTidal 

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Posted 19 March 2011 - 08:43 PM

Is anyone else who has finished it feeling a huge gaping, sucking hole in their reading?

I have picked up 3 books today in attempts to read something, but my brain just can't get into anything after that ending..

I don't have a clue what to read now....sigh.


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Posted 19 March 2011 - 09:01 PM

I know what you mean I finished a few days ago but kind of feel like I've not really left it behind as such, kind of at a loss. I asked my mum if she ever felt a hollow place after finishing a book but she just looked at me like I'd lost it (not that this is out of the ordinary). Instead of reading a fantasy book I've changed tack completely in the hopes that it will help. So far I'm only about 100 pages on and its slow going but we'll see, I still feel restless.
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Posted 19 March 2011 - 09:08 PM

I'm going to read some Glen Cook. I've never read any of his stuff before, but he's highly recommended.
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Posted 19 March 2011 - 09:09 PM

Thankfully I had Joe Abercrombie's The Heroes waiting for me, though I still had to leave it a week or so after finishing TCG. Now I'm on a reread of the entire series so that should keep me going for a while, though I've already finished GotM.
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Posted 19 March 2011 - 10:18 PM

After finishing tCG, everything else feels...cartoonish. I read The Heroes, enjoyed it. Now I'm back re-reading Richard K. Morgan's Kovacs Tales. Read all of Cooks stuff, recently re-read GRRMs stuff. I need a new Fat Fantasy Fix.
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Posted 19 March 2011 - 10:20 PM

View PostForestbrain, on 19 March 2011 - 09:08 PM, said:

I'm going to read some Glen Cook. I've never read any of his stuff before, but he's highly recommended.


There is a Malazan feel to those books, very good filler if you need an SE fix. Have you read all of ICE's stuff?
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Posted 19 March 2011 - 10:38 PM

Yeah, I finished it yesterday and have picked up three or four books since in an attempt to find something worthy, nothing yet :/
That will pass in time no doubt, though.

But I do recommend The Black Company by Glen Cook, as it definitely inspired some of Steven Erikson's work. Also, his Insturmentalities of the Night series is amazing, a lot of history in it.

I did go through and read a lot of Sumerian myths after finishing the last book. T'iam was an all too familiar name for me, low and behold, Tiamat of Sumerian Mythology is a multi-headed chaos dragon that dwells in the underworld. Go figure o:
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Posted 19 March 2011 - 11:11 PM

re-reading the whole series something ipromised myself after finishing Toll the Hounds and after that got 4 or 5 Glen Cook books, might try The Heroes after that seems highly liked in these parts ;)
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Posted 19 March 2011 - 11:44 PM

I'm glad it's not just me.

I've never felt like this at all after finishing a book.
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Posted 20 March 2011 - 01:01 AM

I've gone back to Non-fiction. Seems only reasonable.

I've had all the books moved to my new place for a reread but too many non fiction stuff to start. Then it turns out my Dad has a copy of China Mieville which he's given me.

Still I throughly understand your position.
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Posted 20 March 2011 - 01:41 AM

I'm in the same boat, finished TCG over a week ago now but am still not really up to reading much else, not even a TCG or MBotF reread. Instead I too have resorted to reading some nonfiction and flipping open TCG to read some random, brief chunks. The book was definitely a draining experience, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Posted 20 March 2011 - 03:02 AM

I haven't read any books whatsoever since I finished TCG.
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Posted 20 March 2011 - 03:40 AM

I read some Butcher but even Dresden Crack couldn't get a hold of me. I saw a new Ian Banks culture book called Sudden Departure I might give that a try.

Really wasn't expecting for the end hit to be this hard. I haven't even been able to get myself to do a reread. I expect that I will do that in another month or so. It was just to good.
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Posted 20 March 2011 - 04:24 AM

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View PostForestbrain, on 19 March 2011 - 09:08 PM, said:

I'm going to read some Glen Cook. I've never read any of his stuff before, but he's highly recommended.


There is a Malazan feel to those books, very good filler if you need an SE fix. Have you read all of ICE's stuff?


Funny thing: I have "Night of Knives", but I haven't read it yet. I read a LOT of classics (Bronte sisters, Shakespeare, Doyle, etc.), so I'm always torn about what to read next. I know I should read ICE's stuff, but I'm rather tempted right now by Cook.

I was going to mention that immediately, the names leapt out at me! ;) But I always did like a writer who unabashedly gave a shout-out to his or her favorite authors. I wrote a novel and did that with a few authors and musicians, although they were rather obscure, but I digress. I like what Erikson did with that.
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Posted 20 March 2011 - 07:11 AM

I had that empty feeling too...

I went in to the local bookshop before tCG came out and there must of been 10-12 books that I wanted to read...

I finished tCG and went back to the bookshop to get sorted and I must of just stared at the shelves, there now wasn't any book grabbed my attention and I can just remember thinking... "meh" and I walked out with nothing...

Ended up not reading for a week then I discovered I had Jim Butchers Codex Alera series on my laptop - they've been devoured since, just started the 5th book!

Glad to be back to normal but I thought tCG had left me damaged!

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Posted 20 March 2011 - 04:40 PM

Yep, I know exactly the feeling. I finished three weeks ago, I have a copy of Wise Man's Fear and I haven't even been able to crack it open. I just ... can't; not ready to let the Malazan world go. Trying to get through Stonewielder and even that's not entirely working out for me (and I like ICE's books).

I'll have to try everything again after a Malazan re-read. Fortunately that shouldn't take me long, because my brother is going to lynch me if I don't start WMF soon. e__e
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Posted 20 March 2011 - 05:23 PM

I was finally able to start WISE MAN'S FEAR...I'm only on like page 10, but so far I am able to concentrate on it...we shall see.
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Posted 20 March 2011 - 06:05 PM

I read Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck right after. It's short and non-fiction, but I'd imagine lots of JS is a good non-fantasy antidote to SE since he's also a nothing-wasted and ground-level philosophical type of writer. East of Eden has its roots in history (though several hundred thousand years fewer I suppose); Of Mice and Men has its downtrodden heroes and innocents; and The Grapes of Wrath has its own Chain of Dogs, of sorts.
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Posted 21 March 2011 - 12:05 AM

I started Abyss- the 3rd book in the Fate of the Jedi series as SW writing is super simplistic and normally I can burn through them in a few days though I'm just on page 70 so far. Once I finish that I'm really looking forward to The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge as I want to switch gears and read a little history stuff as the Sci-Fi/Fantasy genre seems a little less to me ATM. Will either restart with the Dresden Files/Codex Alera/Glen Cook/George RR Martin/Abercrombie books I've piled up.
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Posted 21 March 2011 - 12:06 AM

I haven't been able to start anything else either.

If I hadn't already read Makers by Cory Doctorow, that would be the perfect follow-up. Excellent characters, well written and full of truth. Just like SE in those respects.

As it is, I think I will return to Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers. Crazy ride so far, we'll see how it goes picking it up again...
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