[Ukjent]

Hm.. fuck it, I'm off Agincourt and Cornwell as well.

[QuickTidal]

Graablick, on 29 August 2013 - 02:01 PM, said:

Hm.. fuck it, I'm off Agincourt and Cornwell as well.

If AGINCOURT is the only thing you've read by Cornwell, please don't assume his other work is like that. It's not. The Saxon series and Arthur series are both WELL worth your time...

[Serenity]

Stalker, on 29 August 2013 - 04:19 AM, said:

Now onto Jack McDevitt's The Engines of God, as I have heard it has a lot to do with archaeology and that exactly what I am in the mood to read.

I read that last year and quite enjoyed it. It's quite tense in places, too.

Overactive Imagination, on 29 August 2013 - 06:12 AM, said:

Just finished the Prince of Nothing trilogy. Super good! Looking forward to moving on to Bakker's next one, but might wait a while for that.

Ditto. I read PoN trilogy a few weeks back and enjoyed it a lot, but I'm going to wait for the next trilogy to be finished before moving on.

QuickTidal, on 29 August 2013 - 02:10 PM, said:

If AGINCOURT is the only thing you've read by Cornwell, please don't assume his other work is like that. It's not. The Saxon series and Arthur series are both WELL worth your time...

Seconded!



I'm still reading The Count of Monte Cristo. I'm about 750 pages into it now, so only another 600 to go . . .

[QuickTidal]

Puffin Books and the BBC have been releasing eBook DOCTOR WHO short stories all year, 1 Doctor per month a year...and I picked up August's Eighth Doctor story SPORE by Alex Scarrow...and it was a quick 40 pages and a wonderful little tale. What's nice is the fact that Scarrow pretty much nails Paul McGann's speech patterns and that made it come alive for me.

I'll be picking up the rest of them I think. They are $2.50 each so not too bad really. Worth a look, over at Amazon.

[McLovin]

QuickTidal, on 30 August 2013 - 12:43 PM, said:

Puffin Books and the BBC have been releasing eBook DOCTOR WHO short stories all year, 1 Doctor per month a year...and I picked up August's Eighth Doctor story SPORE by Alex Scarrow...and it was a quick 40 pages and a wonderful little tale. What's nice is the fact that Scarrow pretty much nails Paul McGann's speech patterns and that made it come alive for me.

I'll be picking up the rest of them I think. They are $2.50 each so not too bad really. Worth a look, over at Amazon.

Huh. Are they supposed to be lead-ins/prequels/somehow related to the upcoming special?

[Abyss]

Serenity, on 29 August 2013 - 02:28 PM, said:

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Overactive Imagination, on 29 August 2013 - 06:12 AM, said:

Just finished the Prince of Nothing trilogy. Super good! Looking forward to moving on to Bakker's next one, but might wait a while for that.

Ditto. I read PoN trilogy a few weeks back and enjoyed it a lot, but I'm going to wait for the next trilogy to be finished before moving on.
...

I hope you're patient. Apparently poor sales of the second trilo bks 1 and 2 have left Bakker focusing on his academin career. he's still writing, but it's a sideline so bk 3 may take years.


- Abyss, bummed about that.

[QuickTidal]

McLovin, on 30 August 2013 - 01:46 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 30 August 2013 - 12:43 PM, said:

Puffin Books and the BBC have been releasing eBook DOCTOR WHO short stories all year, 1 Doctor per month a year...and I picked up August's Eighth Doctor story SPORE by Alex Scarrow...and it was a quick 40 pages and a wonderful little tale. What's nice is the fact that Scarrow pretty much nails Paul McGann's speech patterns and that made it come alive for me.

I'll be picking up the rest of them I think. They are $2.50 each so not too bad really. Worth a look, over at Amazon.

Huh. Are they supposed to be lead-ins/prequels/somehow related to the upcoming special?

Not lead-ins...just brand new short tales with current writers featuring past Doctor's that occur during their time as the character.

[dietl]

Abyss, on 30 August 2013 - 02:00 PM, said:

Serenity, on 29 August 2013 - 02:28 PM, said:

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Overactive Imagination, on 29 August 2013 - 06:12 AM, said:

Just finished the Prince of Nothing trilogy. Super good! Looking forward to moving on to Bakker's next one, but might wait a while for that.

Ditto. I read PoN trilogy a few weeks back and enjoyed it a lot, but I'm going to wait for the next trilogy to be finished before moving on.
...

I hope you're patient. Apparently poor sales of the second trilo bks 1 and 2 have left Bakker focusing on his academin career. he's still writing, but it's a sideline so bk 3 may take years.


- Abyss, bummed about that.

Well according to a comment he made on his blog a while ago he has finished the first draft of TUC.

Finished reading the first three books of Hiob's Spiel by the german author Tobias O. Meißner, which were fantastic. Reading Blade of Tyshalle now

[Overactive Imagination]

Nearing the end of The Devil Delivered by Erikson and it's fantastic. Looking forward to reading his other non-Malazan stuff.

[Salt-Man Z]

Overactive Imagination, on 30 August 2013 - 08:04 PM, said:

Nearing the end of The Devil Delivered by Erikson and it's fantastic.

I know, right? The other two stories in that collection were just okay (though well-written, to be sure) but TDD blew me away.

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 30 August 2013 - 11:09 PM

[worry]

TDD is probably the best there, but I dunno, I thought there was something wonderfully Studio Ghibli-ish about the Grandma Matchie story. Somewhere between Ponyo and one of Miyazaki's witches, weird and whimsical but pretty great.

[Salt-Man Z]

It definitely had its charm, but went on too long for what it was (IMO).

[Overactive Imagination]

I also just bought a used copy of When She's Gone. I read the first bit of that a few months ago and what I read was also super good

Interested to read Grandma Matchie after worrywort comparing it to Miyazaki lol

And lets not forget This River Awakens!!

Going on an awesome Erikson binge this month

This post has been edited by Overactive Imagination: 31 August 2013 - 12:16 AM

[Serenity]

Abyss, on 30 August 2013 - 02:00 PM, said:

Serenity, on 29 August 2013 - 02:28 PM, said:

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Overactive Imagination, on 29 August 2013 - 06:12 AM, said:

Just finished the Prince of Nothing trilogy. Super good! Looking forward to moving on to Bakker's next one, but might wait a while for that.

Ditto. I read PoN trilogy a few weeks back and enjoyed it a lot, but I'm going to wait for the next trilogy to be finished before moving on.
...

I hope you're patient. Apparently poor sales of the second trilo bks 1 and 2 have left Bakker focusing on his academin career. he's still writing, but it's a sideline so bk 3 may take years.


- Abyss, bummed about that.

I can wait - so much other stuff to read

Mind you, at the rate I'm progressing, I'll probably still be reading The Count of Monte Cristo by the time Bakker's done

[polishgenius]

Serenity, on 31 August 2013 - 11:40 AM, said:

Abyss, on 30 August 2013 - 02:00 PM, said:

I hope you're patient. Apparently poor sales of the second trilo bks 1 and 2 have left Bakker focusing on his academin career. he's still writing, but it's a sideline so bk 3 may take years.


- Abyss, bummed about that.

I can wait - so much other stuff to read

Mind you, at the rate I'm progressing, I'll probably still be reading The Count of Monte Cristo by the time Bakker's done

I think the thing to bear in mind that when you're waiting like that... it's your fault.


The two books so far in the second trilo are way better than the first. Stunning stuff.

[Tiste Simeon]

Blood Rites! Via Vignettes (Side Jobs)!

[D'iversify]

Just finished the first two books of The Book of the New Sun - spectacular, an almost hallucinogenic serenity in the language, at once a tribute to classic mid-20th century science fantasy and simultaneously something very contemporary. I feel Wolfe could write slightly less flimsy female characters, but that's a very minor complaint.

[Morgoth]

D, on 31 August 2013 - 08:06 PM, said:

Just finished the first two books of The Book of the New Sun - spectacular, an almost hallucinogenic serenity in the language, at once a tribute to classic mid-20th century science fantasy and simultaneously something very contemporary. I feel Wolfe could write slightly less flimsy female characters, but that's a very minor complaint.

He can, but Severian is not a reliable narrator and it shines through in particular when he's talking about women.

[D'iversify]

Morgoth, on 01 September 2013 - 12:49 PM, said:

D, on 31 August 2013 - 08:06 PM, said:

Just finished the first two books of The Book of the New Sun - spectacular, an almost hallucinogenic serenity in the language, at once a tribute to classic mid-20th century science fantasy and simultaneously something very contemporary. I feel Wolfe could write slightly less flimsy female characters, but that's a very minor complaint.

He can, but Severian is not a reliable narrator and it shines through in particular when he's talking about women.

I've heard a lot about his unreliability - is there anything I should have spotted to point me towards this in the first two books? I'm not saying I've taken everything he's said as exactly what happened in the metastory, but the level of distortion in his account isn't especially overt in my reading of it. Am I too trusting?

This post has been edited by D'iversify: 01 September 2013 - 01:10 PM

[Salt-Man Z]

I think Severian's unreliability is less important than a lot of people make it out to be. There's a certain lie of omission regarding Thecla that makes you do a double take at one point, and his thing with Jolenta on the lake can be taken a couple of ways depending on how trustworthy you think he is, but certainly there's nothing integral to the plot, I don't think.

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 01 September 2013 - 02:01 PM