[Tiste Simeon]

acesn8s, on 09 October 2014 - 08:30 PM, said:

Abyss, on 09 October 2014 - 06:39 PM, said:

WAR OF THE FLOWERS.
Wholly worth your dollars and eyetime.

Ack! Thank you!

The queue, it grows....

Yeah that books is superb. Seriously, I need to get some Williams back in my life!

Think I will get the Farseer trilogy done and see where that leaves me. I'm in the mood for some light fantasy and I think Hobb might just meet that need.

EDIT: Haaaaving said all that, it turns out I have all the Farseer, all the Liveship and all the Tawny Man already on my Kindle. I call that a win! Ooh and only two of the Rain Wilds Chronicles for some reason. This might be my reading for a while unless a gap in between trilogies might be useful? Have put MST (which I did read about 15 years ago) on my Wish List. It's not on Kindle alas.

This post has been edited by Tiste Simeon: 09 October 2014 - 09:16 PM

[polishgenius]

Tiste Simeon, on 09 October 2014 - 08:58 PM, said:

Think I will get the Farseer trilogy done and see where that leaves me. I'm in the mood for some light fantasy and I think Hobb might just meet that need.

Yeah, about that...

[Coco with marshmallows]

STILL Sluggying.

Just hit the 13th anniversary (August 2010) so 13 down, 4 and a little bit to go.

Forgot just how much of it Pete hinted at in advance. His foreshadowing (over years) is astonishing, if only for his consistency.

[Tiste Simeon]

polishgenius, on 09 October 2014 - 09:09 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 09 October 2014 - 08:58 PM, said:

Think I will get the Farseer trilogy done and see where that leaves me. I'm in the mood for some light fantasy and I think Hobb might just meet that need.

Yeah, about that...

Què?

I read Farseer like 10 years ago or something & I don't remember it being that challenging...

[Salt-Man Z]

Tiste Simeon, on 09 October 2014 - 10:16 PM, said:

Què?

I read Farseer like 10 years ago or something & I don't remember it being that challenging...

I've only read the Liveship books, but they were anything but light.

[Imperial Historian]

I'd summarise the Farseer trilogy as Hobb creating a character who you quite like in Fitz... and then proceeding to do as many horrible things as she can think of to him, I certainly wouldn't describe them as light.

[worry]

While it's not exactly experimental fiction, she writes long dense multi-part series that are generally very deliberately paced and unusually dour, on top of which Hobb is among the most comic relief-averse authors in all of fantasy. It's not light fantasy.

[Serenity]

I got a bit bored with Into the Storm (Detroyermen Book 1) so put it aside and have now started on Gemmell's Lion of Macedon. I was originally intending to save this for a while, but I read the first couple of pages and that was it, I was hooked.

[Tiste Simeon]

I... see... Thanks chaps. Gonna read them anyway as I feel like it.

[Chance]

Gone through The Dark Defile and while I enjoyed everything but the ending immensly, the ending was too open ended and far too few major plots where resolved. Not unexpected but underwhelming and unless whatever he writes next ties in (not unlikely I'd guess since most of his work so far seem to) with the series really leaves a bit much hanging while taking great care (and nr of pages) to reslove reasonably minor plots or go off on tangental plot lines.

This post has been edited by Chance: 12 October 2014 - 04:34 PM

[Coco with marshmallows]

Finally caught up on Sluggy.

And Lo!

It is Nifty.


Decided i'm in the mood to binge read something else, moved onto Schlock Mercenary.

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 12 October 2014 - 10:31 PM, said:

OMG these last 60 or so pages of The Temporal Void got insane! Crazynuts

So did you understand the nature of the Void, Makkathran, and the main problem with the Void? Those last 60 pages actually reveal a lot you know........

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 13 October 2014 - 01:34 AM, said:

I haven't quite finished bk 2 up yet but I'm in the area of Edeards life just being completely turned on his head and it's pretty batshit insane! I have about 40 pgs left.

Oh good keep on reading and embrace the insanity! You are so lucky, you can just move onto book 3 from here. I had to wait 2 years for book 3. I hate waiting for books to come out.

[Mentalist]

I have finished the first book of my Michael Moorcock gigantinc read, "Von Bek", which is one of the first recommended starting points in the Eternal Champion sequence.

I think I will start a thread in the review subforum for these, as I now have a lot of them to read.

As a super-brief summary, I'd give the first volume containing "Warhound and the World's Pain" and "The City in Autumn Stars a 3.5/ 5.

Next I'll probably read the next voulume, which is "The Eternal Champion"

[Tiste Simeon]

Briar King, on 13 October 2014 - 04:47 PM, said:

Finished Void 2. Took me almost 2 mths thanks to Destiny. That was rather fucked up on Edeards part.

Onto Void 3 and I'm sure it's gonna take awhile also cause Destiny is addicting me.

Are they better than the Commonwealth Saga? I loved Hamiltons Night's Dawn trilogy and I thought TCS wasn't as good but still ON. Haven't read the Void trilogy yet so I'm hoping when I do it will stand up to the might of Night's Dawn.

[Salt-Man Z]

Mentalist, on 13 October 2014 - 03:34 AM, said:

Next I'll probably read the next voulume, which is "The Eternal Champion"

This is the first in the White Wolf editions (with a slightly different lineup than the UK versions. Multiverse.org is a great resource for sorting out the differences.) I fell in love with Erekose, and thought the titular story was amazing.

[Andorion]

Tiste Simeon, on 13 October 2014 - 05:17 PM, said:

Briar King, on 13 October 2014 - 04:47 PM, said:

Finished Void 2. Took me almost 2 mths thanks to Destiny. That was rather fucked up on Edeards part.

Onto Void 3 and I'm sure it's gonna take awhile also cause Destiny is addicting me.

Are they better than the Commonwealth Saga? I loved Hamiltons Night's Dawn trilogy and I thought TCS wasn't as good but still ON. Haven't read the Void trilogy yet so I'm hoping when I do it will stand up to the might of Night's Dawn.

Briar King, on 13 October 2014 - 08:12 PM, said:

Hard to say at present Tiste. I really like Commonwealth but I still have 1 void left before I can pick. So far it's been 2 stories in 1. The SciFi bit and a Fantasy bit which is my fav of the 2. There is a 1200 yr gap between CW & Void so it was a bit jarring at 1st. It's been fun though.

The first two books of the Void are really good. I found the third book a bit iffy though. As for the Commonwealth, I disagree with a majority opinion of the forum and say they are better than the Night's Dawn trilogy.

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 14 October 2014 - 03:35 AM, said:

We will see.

Note there is another Commonwealth bk later this yr out. I haven't read the desc on it to stay spoiler free.

I doubt you will be spoiled. Its the first part of a new series.

[Serenity]

Briar King, on 14 October 2014 - 03:35 AM, said:

We will see.

Note there is another Commonwealth bk later this yr out. I haven't read the desc on it to stay spoiler free.

It came out last week, or at least it did in the UK I won't be going anywhere near it yet, though, as I still haven't got around to reading the Void trilogy.



I've got about 80 pages left to go in Gemmell's Lion of Macedon. Brilliant book.

[Tiste Simeon]

I too feel like I should read the Void trilogy. Have read near enough everything else by him.