[T77]

Briar King, on 22 January 2013 - 11:11 PM, said:

T read as many WoT bks back to back as you can take so its all in your mind. There are way to many characters to lose track of and plot points to forget.

Thanks, I'll try, I tend to burn out on authors, even my favorites, if I read them back to back. Encyclopedia WoT helps a lot. I'm about 20% into TEotW and i'm very surprised at how much more I like it on a reread. And I really liked it the first time.

[Salt-Man Z]

A couple nights ago, I finished Gail Z. Martin's new Ice Forged a couple of nights ago, and it was exactly what I was hoping for when I requested the ARC: an enjoyable, competently-written fantasy adventure by an established author. She did a couple of different things in this book that were new to me, and so I found them rather intriguing: The first was the inclusion of vampires in a fantasy world; normally (to me) vampires are fantastical additions to real-world settings, so this was interesting. Apparently she uses them in her other series, but this was a first for me. I wasn't planning on liking them, but I couldn't help myself. Secondly (and this is the thing that drew me to the book in the first place) was the idea of the classic end-of-the-world Armageddon scenario, but in a fantasy world; a kind of magical mutually-assured-destruction thing.

Last night I started in on Blood and Bone; liking it so far after the prologue. It's showing promise, which is par for the course with an ICE book. Interesting that it seems to take place during or shortly prior to Stonewielder.

[worry]

Mentalist, on 23 January 2013 - 02:38 PM, said:

worrywort, on 23 January 2013 - 05:36 AM, said:

Do me a favor and translate all these awesome Russian books you've been reading.

Everyone who loves SE needs to try Godsdoom. it's on Kindle for like 7 bucks.

I want to, but it's the only Perumov book that seems to be in English translation, and that's from 2009. I'm afraid I'm gonna read it, love it, and then be unable for all eternity to read his other stuff.

[QuickTidal]

worrywort, on 23 January 2013 - 08:27 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 23 January 2013 - 02:38 PM, said:

worrywort, on 23 January 2013 - 05:36 AM, said:

Do me a favor and translate all these awesome Russian books you've been reading.

Everyone who loves SE needs to try Godsdoom. it's on Kindle for like 7 bucks.

I want to, but it's the only Perumov book that seems to be in English translation, and that's from 2009. I'm afraid I'm gonna read it, love it, and then be unable for all eternity to read his other stuff.

You could always stop being lazy and just learn another language already.

[Mentalist]

worrywort, on 23 January 2013 - 08:27 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 23 January 2013 - 02:38 PM, said:

worrywort, on 23 January 2013 - 05:36 AM, said:

Do me a favor and translate all these awesome Russian books you've been reading.

Everyone who loves SE needs to try Godsdoom. it's on Kindle for like 7 bucks.

I want to, but it's the only Perumov book that seems to be in English translation, and that's from 2009. I'm afraid I'm gonna read it, love it, and then be unable for all eternity to read his other stuff.

Thing about it, it's a standalone, being a great intro into the Consistent multiverse. Yes, most of the following books link back to it (except the very next book, Warrior of Great Darkness which is actually a prequel. sorta. but not really, because it takes place earlier in the chronology, but isn't REALLY related to the stuff in Godsdoom)

Also, the only way to convince Baen to translate and publish more is to buy what's already out there.

[worry]

Okay okay I did it.

[Kruppe's snacky cakes]

Salt-Man Z, on 23 January 2013 - 04:12 PM, said:

A couple nights ago, I finished Gail Z. Martin's new Ice Forged a couple of nights ago

Does this take place in the same world as her prior stuff? I had both The Summoner and The Sworn on my Christmas list, thinking they were two completely separate series. Got them both, and now I feel like I need to read the other three Chronicles of the Necromancer books before I can start The Fallen Kings Cycle. I hate it when I do that.

Anyway...

21. The Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts: This is supposedly a good book if you read it very carefully. But I didn't, and it wasn't. Still scratching my head about the review I read that compared it to Malazan.

22. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge: I enjoyed the storyline that concerned the Tines, a wolf-pack-like race of sentient aliens. (Although I had trouble picturing them doing stuff that would normally require opposable thumbs...surgery, writing, etc.) The other POVs confused me. Additionally, I was expecting a lot more explanation of the "zones of thought." But the whole concept seemed to be mostly just a plot device, unless that was just part of the book that was over my head. I will probably continue the series and make an effort to read more carefully.

23. The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold: I wanted to like this one, but it just didn't interest me. The second book in the series, Paladin of Souls, sounds almost Malazan-like ("a land threatened by treacherous war and beset by demons -- as a royal dowager, released from the curse of madness and manipulated by an untrustworthy god, is plunged into a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm"), so I may read that one anyway...

[Salt-Man Z]

Kruppe, on 23 January 2013 - 09:57 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 23 January 2013 - 04:12 PM, said:

A couple nights ago, I finished Gail Z. Martin's new Ice Forged a couple of nights ago

Does this take place in the same world as her prior stuff?

Nope. Brand new world.

[amphibian]

worrywort, on 23 January 2013 - 08:46 PM, said:

Okay okay I did it.

Let me know how it goes. I'm interested.

[yuna_anomander25]

so many of you read so fast, must be from practised reading and most of you have been reading way back before, as I have only just now finished Heroes Die by Matthew F@(k!n6 Stover, this would just be the 3rd book i finished this start of new year, i want to read stover back-to-back with Morgan but I still don't have my copy of Altered Carbon, may go with either Robin Hobb's or finally Scott Lynch's.

I read in the author interview with Stover that Donaldson is one of his inspirations, togerther with Zelazny and Lieber (may look up their books someday), which put on a smile for me, as I'm reading Lord Foul's Bane, though I'm just reading 1 chapter of it per day.

[Coco with marshmallows]

powering into The Skybound Sea, 3rd book in The Aeon's Gate by Sam Sykes.

Just polished off the first two (re-reads) last week, and read Gun Machine on Monday/Tuesday.

[amphibian]

yuna_anomander25, on 23 January 2013 - 11:50 PM, said:

so many of you read so fast, must be from practised reading and most of you have been reading way back before, as I have only just now finished Heroes Die by Matthew F@(k!n6 Stover, this would just be the 3rd book i finished this start of new year, i want to read stover back-to-back with Morgan but I still don't have my copy of Altered Carbon, may go with either Robin Hobb's or finally Scott Lynch's.

I read in the author interview with Stover that Donaldson is one of his inspirations, togerther with Zelazny and Lieber (may look up their books someday), which put on a smile for me, as I'm reading Lord Foul's Bane, though I'm just reading 1 chapter of it per day.

Don't worry. Everybody has their own pace for reading. You've got a mighty To Read Pile, so you're going to be just fine for quite a while. Go as you like and enjoy the time spent.

[Abyss]

Finished AMoL and needed a rqdical switch so cruised thru Bear Grylls' autobio MUD SWEAT AND TEARS. Not bad. Choppy and repetitious at times but his story is interesting.

The finished Ringo's VORPAL BLADE at long last. Too much sci. Not enuf mil fic, but ok. Will read book three in that series eventually.

Now halfway thru Tom King's comicbook-deconstruction semi meta sf ONCE CROWDED SKY... I havent decided if i like or love this book but either way I'm enjoying it. I think the clincher will be how satisfying the ending is.

[Serenity]

Finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter, which I really enjoyed (although I probably shouldn't have . . .). Now reading Ready Player One.

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 24 January 2013 - 11:08 PM, said:

...
Now halfway thru Tom King's comicbook-deconstruction semi meta sf ONCE CROWDED SKY... I havent decided if i like or love this book but either way I'm enjoying it. I think the clincher will be how satisfying the ending is.

Okay it's love... Every single one of you who has ever, EVER, been a comic book fan desperately must needs get their hands on this book right the dragonfucknuts now. You need a very basic grounding in comics 101 to truly appreciate this book and.... Yknow how i was right about the dresdencrack and the coCaine and the PCBreach....? Well it's like that.

[polishgenius]

Abyss, on 25 January 2013 - 05:05 PM, said:

Yknow how i was right about the dresdencrack and the coCaine and the PCBreach....?

Yes, yes, no?


But I'll look out for it anyway.




Just reading Lions of Al-Rassan. I love me some GGK.

This post has been edited by polishgenius: 25 January 2013 - 05:20 PM

[Abyss]

polishgenius, on 25 January 2013 - 05:19 PM, said:

Abyss, on 25 January 2013 - 05:05 PM, said:

Yknow how i was right about the dresdencrack and the coCaine and the PCBreach....?

Yes, yes, no?
...

No you didn’t like Patrick Lee's BREACH trilo, or no you haven't read it?

If the latter you should and if the former die communist swinedog die.

[Salt-Man Z]

I'm sure it's the latter; he said he'll watch out for it.

I wasn't excited to start in on Blood and Bone, mostly due to OST being so disappointing, but darn if it isn't enjoyable so far. The one annoying thing of course is that ICE is trying to play needlessly coy; we all know who the "Warleader" really is, so just go ahead and name him, already! Geez.

Gotta say it's weird reading BaB at the same time we're doing the Tor.com reread of RotCG. "Wait, Shimmer misses Blues? Didn't I just read that? Oh yeah, different book."

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 25 January 2013 - 07:36 PM

[Baco Xtath]

Salt-Man Z, on 25 January 2013 - 05:42 PM, said:

I'm sure it's the latter; he said he'll watch out for it.

No. He read it a couple months back and didn't care for it. I remember cause I'd read it shortly before and was baffled that he didn't like it.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Just to chime in on Breach - I read it after seeing the hype on here, but didn't think it was amazing.

It was good, don't get me wrong, but its not something i'm ever likely to bother re-reading.

By comparison, i re-read the whole of Dresden every 2 years or so.