[Puck]

worry, on 24 November 2013 - 08:43 AM, said:

Finished This River Awakens. I took it slow, but read that last 100 pages in a sprint (which felt entirely familiar). It was dark and beautiful, as I expected, but it was those things and also brutish and ugly and haunting, all in ways I didn't expect. Like watching Kilmandaros punch a dragon to death. My guts feel churned and I think it will lodge in my brain for a long while. Even the title feels different after having read it (but that's true of all his novels).

May I add that it's like watching Kilmandaros punch a dragon to death one slow punch at a time? I personally love This River Awakens. There's little good happening in it but it's beautiful nonetheless. Also, pretty disturbing, both while reading it and when thinking about it later. I also agree that the title feels different afterwards.

I have a general question if there's someone here who's read both editions of This River Awakens. I've got the first version that was published with SE's real name on it, but whent he new version was published recently there was talk that it was the original version, while the first one had been changed slightly due to the first publisher's concerns or something.. Anyway, has anyone read both versions and can compare where the differences are?

This post has been edited by Puck: 25 November 2013 - 03:42 PM

[Abyss]

Crustaceous Apt, on 24 November 2013 - 10:35 PM, said:

I am 1/3 of the way through the last book in Jim Butcher's Codex Alera Series.

I really enjoy Butcher's writing and I love the character's in this series nearly as much as the Dresden Files but:...

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carry on.

[Serenity]

Finished del Toro's/Hogan's The Strain - strange book, quite scary in places but otherwise completely uninvolving.

Now about 300 pages into Cornwell's Lords of the North, which is great stuff as usual.

[JPK]

Abyss, on 24 November 2013 - 10:18 PM, said:

The Incredible Kitsu, on 23 November 2013 - 08:44 AM, said:

...I'm trying to convince myself that I want to read A Meeting in Corvallis to finish off the first Change trilogy by Stirling instead of the pretty little hardcover of Crooked Little Vein sitting on my coffee table. If I tell myself something enough times it becomes true, right? Right?

On the one hand you have the satisfaction of finishing a long running post-Apocalyptic series you have read and enjoyed and gone this far with, by a solid author. On the other hand you have Warren Ellis writing a detective story that involves Godzilla Bukkake.


Tough call.

I ended up sticking with my original plan to finish off the first Change trilogy. I just don't really want to drag this out any longer than I have to with these books. I CAN tell you that Godzilla Bukkake is defintely near the top of my trp now though. I'm thinking January.

[Abyss]

The Incredible Kitsu, on 26 November 2013 - 10:31 AM, said:

I ended up sticking with my original plan to finish off the first Change trilogy. I just don't really want to drag this out any longer than I have to with these books. I CAN tell you that Godzilla Bukkake is defintely near the top of my trp now though. I'm thinking January.

Fine. You resist Godzilla Bukkake for an entire month and see how empty and unfulfilling your life becomes.
Don't say i didn't warn you.

[QuickTidal]

Serenity, on 26 November 2013 - 09:09 AM, said:

Now about 300 pages into Cornwell's Lords of the North, which is great stuff as usual.

Probably my fave in the whole series that book. The third act is nothing short of glorious Cornwell genius. Enjoy!

[QuickTidal]

I'm about 120pgs into my fresh read of SALUTE THE DARK by Tchaikovsky. REALLY getting much more into it this time.

BTW, who said Solarno was a cool setting? I much prefer the Commonweal or the Wasp Empire for setting Solarno just seems like a city of steampunk hedonistic weirdos.

Also...

Spoiler

I hope I'm supposed to like Thalric at this point. Cause I think he's one of my fave characters now. I've always loved the bad guy who is forced to be good and who you are never fully sure of. Also, am I supposed to be 'shipping him with Che? Cause I am. The more time they spend together the more I like him with her over Acheos. That's IF he's properly good now. Bah, I dunno. All I know is I find Che and Acheos to be saccharine, and he feels like a childhood crush for her rather than a relationship...kind of what Tynisa and Salma were to each other circa-book 1.

Anyways, mucho enjoying now.

[JPK]

Abyss, on 26 November 2013 - 03:00 PM, said:

Fine. You resist Godzilla Bukkake for an entire month and see how empty and unfulfilling your life becomes.
Don't say i didn't warn you.

Alright alright! Swapping it out for The Last Guardian next then. I figure these Gemmell books have been on my trp long enough that waiting an extra month wont hurt them any. Plus this makes my reading plan for December freaking awesome! Crooked Little Vein, The Return of the King, Crack'd Pot Trail, The President's Vampire, and finish up with Embassytown. Abyss, I think you just persuaded me to make my December trp a little more awesome than it already was.

[Abyss]

The Incredible Kitsu, on 26 November 2013 - 08:59 PM, said:

Abyss, on 26 November 2013 - 03:00 PM, said:

Fine. You resist Godzilla Bukkake for an entire month and see how empty and unfulfilling your life becomes.
Don't say i didn't warn you.

Alright alright! Swapping it out for The Last Guardian next then. I figure these Gemmell books have been on my trp long enough that waiting an extra month wont hurt them any. Plus this makes my reading plan for December freaking awesome! Crooked Little Vein, The Return of the King, Crack'd Pot Trail, The President's Vampire, and finish up with Embassytown. Abyss, I think you just persuaded me to make my December trp a little more awesome than it already was.

You're welcome.


CLV is a pretty fast/short read so it's not like it seriously derails your timing or anything, unless of course you stop reading and start watching Godzilla movies but afaik that only really happened to Apt. And he stopped once the chaffing got to be too much.

Otherwise that's an awesome TRP lineup. Re Farnsworth's PRESIDENT'S VAMPIRE, you may want to have RED WHITE AND BLOOD standing by (i'm assuming you already read BLOOD OATH). PRESVAMP is pretty good, but i thought RWB was even better.

[JPK]

Abyss, on 26 November 2013 - 09:33 PM, said:

Re Farnsworth's PRESIDENT'S VAMPIRE, you may want to have RED WHITE AND BLOOD standing by (i'm assuming you already read BLOOD OATH). PRESVAMP is pretty good, but i thought RWB was even better.

Yup, read Blood Oath back in June and loved the sheer amount of "I know this sounds crazy, but I'm going to have fun with it anyways. So there." that the author seemed to write into it. I actually bought all three books back when RWB came out in paperback and had them sitting in the trp all this time.

[Abyss]

The Incredible Kitsu, on 26 November 2013 - 09:46 PM, said:

... loved the sheer amount of "I know this sounds crazy, but I'm going to have fun with it anyways. So there." that the author seemed to write into it. ...

Farnsworth is definitely good with the 'have fun with it'. His books read like action movies.

[Tiste Simeon]

Finished HoC! And now onto MT.

[Serenity]

QuickTidal, on 26 November 2013 - 03:09 PM, said:

Serenity, on 26 November 2013 - 09:09 AM, said:

Now about 300 pages into Cornwell's Lords of the North, which is great stuff as usual.

Probably my fave in the whole series that book. The third act is nothing short of glorious Cornwell genius. Enjoy!

Unleash the hounds!

[Baco Xtath]

Finished Finch last night and re-listened to the last twenty minutes this morning. Wow. That was a freak'n awesome book. One of my favorite of the year. I now need to go back and read City of Saints and Madmen as I only read Dradin in Love last go round.

[Serenity]

Serenity, on 27 November 2013 - 09:28 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 November 2013 - 03:09 PM, said:

Serenity, on 26 November 2013 - 09:09 AM, said:

Now about 300 pages into Cornwell's Lords of the North, which is great stuff as usual.

Probably my fave in the whole series that book. The third act is nothing short of glorious Cornwell genius. Enjoy!

Unleash the hounds!

Just finished it - as you say, QT, that last third is AWESOME

[QuickTidal]

Serenity, on 27 November 2013 - 03:16 PM, said:

Just finished it - as you say, QT, that last third is AWESOME

Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, it's one of the high water marks in the series. Partially because it closes off a bunch of storylines in epic ways.

[Morgoth]

Baco Xtath, on 27 November 2013 - 12:38 PM, said:

Finished Finch last night and re-listened to the last twenty minutes this morning. Wow. That was a freak'n awesome book. One of my favorite of the year. I now need to go back and read City of Saints and Madmen as I only read Dradin in Love last go round.

What.. What? You read the singularly amazing Dradin in Love and thought, well, there's no point reading the rest of a book in which the very first story was fantastic?

Did you also not read Shriek: An Afterword ? If you haven't you should read those two and then go for Finch again. It's brilliant.

[firvulag]

2/3 of the way through Cadian Blood, an Imperial Guard novel set in Warhammer 40k universe. With so many authors writing in that setting the quality can be variable, but the author (Aaron Dembski-Bowden) is regarded as one of the better ones, and I concur.

[stone monkey]

Currently reading The Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard. It's making me feel very old. I read "The Man Who Painted The Dragon Griaule" and "The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter" as a young adult, way back in the early 90s, and now they're considered to be Fantasy Masterworks

This post has been edited by stone monkey: 29 November 2013 - 09:00 PM

[Morgoth]

stone monkey, on 29 November 2013 - 08:59 PM, said:

Currently reading The Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard. It's making me feel very old. I read "The Man Who Painted The Dragon Griaule" and "The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter" as a young adult, way back in the early 90s, and now they're considered to be Fantasy Masterworks

The final sign of old age: When books you read on release have found their way into the Fantasy Masterworks series.