[worry]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, oops I'm actually reading The Heroes. I'm on a Kindle and have all three so I got confused cuz I opened them all to see which one was first, and now I think I skipped BSC.

[worry]

I think I might be dumb.

[worry]

Yah I am doing just that. And when I finally finish Red Country down the line I will commit Seppuku in shame.

[amphibian]

Tower Lord was a step forwards for Anthony Ryan. Not sure where he's taking the series after this, but I'll follow along.

Not the absolute bees knees, but well done and definitely a better set of characters this time around.

[JPK]

I finally finished The Fires of Heaven on audiobook. I liked it, but I wish I'd read Jordan when I was younger.

Next I'm going to try to get through Wizard and Glass on audiobook. I've wanted to finish this story several times over the years and always end up giving up part way through so I think I'll see if I have the same success that I had with WoT in switching to audio.

[Abyss]

Briar King, on 18 July 2014 - 01:24 AM, said:

I'll offer my service to stand behind you with a katana if you so choose. Abyss can pay for us all to go to Japan so it ll be a lawful death and QT can put the whole thing on his website.

You can use my basement. Less jet lag. I even have Japanese whiskey for the after party.

[worry]

Just promise my entrails will be used for only the darkest of magics.

[Tiste Simeon]

Briar King, on 18 July 2014 - 06:02 AM, said:

Are you shitting me Hamilton??!! You say who is Starflyer Agent in the DP of bk 2. Umm thanks dude...

I remember feeling the same way!
Incidentally I would be very interested if you ever decided to read Hamiltons Nights Dawn Trilogy. That was the first Hamilton I read and I consider it vastly superior to the Commonwealth Saga. It is massive though so it might take you a while to get there...

[Abyss]

upworthywort, on 18 July 2014 - 04:03 AM, said:

Just promise my entrails will be used for only the darkest of magics.

Does sausage filler count?

[Goaswerfraiejen]

I'm finishing up Abercrombie's The Blade Itself (kinda crappy writing, but it fills a void!) and Card's Speaker for the Dead (decent and interesting, if nowhere near as good as Ender's Game--it also has more moments of questionable ideology behind it). I've also started John Lindow's Trolls: An Unnatural History (fascinating stuff!) and need to finish reading Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel sometime in the near future (3/4 of the way through).

[amphibian]

The entirety of Orson Scott Card's writing and speech is filled with questionable to downright bigoted ideology.

Guns, Germs and Steel is also questionable too.

[Abyss]

Finished Stross' RHESUS CHART. Solid entry in the Laundry series, comments in the ded'thread.

CAUSAL ANGEL up next but will probably read something with pretty pictures and spandex first.

[worry]

Evil sausages, sure.

[Goaswerfraiejen]

amphibian, on 18 July 2014 - 07:18 PM, said:

The entirety of Orson Scott Card's writing and speech is filled with questionable to downright bigoted ideology.

Yeah, I see it, although it seems fairly low-key at the moment--I'm not far in, after all. Questionable moments aside, I do think Ender's Game was brilliant, on the whole.

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Guns, Germs and Steel is also questionable too.

I've got a pretty good sense of why Card's work is questionable, but I'm not as clear on GGS. Are you referring to the empirical claims Diamond makes, or to something else? The only review of GGS I've read (I usually only read reviews after reading a work; I happened upon this one recently) is Correia's review of Diamond's The World Until Yesterday (which spends as much--if not more!--time on GGS), but I didn't think much of it. Not only do I think the charge of environmental determinism (in GGS) is a straw argument, Correia doesn't appear to understand the difference between environmental determinism and causal determinism, and regularly conflates the two. And then he says some other garbage.

[Baco Xtath]

Finished Causal Angel a few days ago. I didn't enjoy it at all but because the narrator and not the story which was hard to follow cause I was constantly jarred out of it but the terrible fucking narration. If I was Hannu I'd be pissed. Also finished Half a King by Abercrombie; it was pretty good. Nowhere near as good as his other stuff but I attribute it to this one being YA which I generally am not a fan of. Now I'm on to a re-listen of motherfucking Caine's Law. Fuck yeah.

[Chance]

Baco Xtath, on 19 July 2014 - 05:18 PM, said:

Finished Causal Angel a few days ago. I didn't enjoy it at all but because the narrator and not the story which was hard to follow cause I was constantly jarred out of it but the terrible fucking narration. If I was Hannu I'd be pissed.

That is shit was hoping to listen to the audiobook as a re-read the narrator of the previous ones was really damn good.

[Baco Xtath]

Chance, on 19 July 2014 - 06:47 PM, said:

Baco Xtath, on 19 July 2014 - 05:18 PM, said:

Finished Causal Angel a few days ago. I didn't enjoy it at all but because the narrator and not the story which was hard to follow cause I was constantly jarred out of it but the terrible fucking narration. If I was Hannu I'd be pissed.

That is shit was hoping to listen to the audiobook as a re-read the narrator of the previous ones was really damn good.

New narrator pronounces damn near everything different. If you want to enjoy it, read it; audio version sucks.

[McLovin]

Started ALTERED CARBON. Good stuff so far.

[Baco Xtath]

Stover has some fan-fucking-tastic swearing but "well shit down the back of my neck" has to be near the top, sit'n next to "well fuck me like a chicken pot pie." Fuck, this shit's good.

[Studlock]

I feel like I should pick this Stover guy up. Swearing's one my favourite past times.