[acesn8s]

Finished Tower Lord by Anthony Ryan. Have to figure out what to read next.

[QuickTidal]

acesn8s, on 08 June 2015 - 12:22 PM, said:

Finished Tower Lord by Anthony Ryan. Have to figure out what to read next.

Have you read Sebastien De Castell's Greatcoats series? 2 books out so far. Great Musketeer-ish fantasy.

[acesn8s]

QuickTidal, on 08 June 2015 - 01:29 PM, said:

acesn8s, on 08 June 2015 - 12:22 PM, said:

Finished Tower Lord by Anthony Ryan. Have to figure out what to read next.

Have you read Sebastien De Castell's Greatcoats series? 2 books out so far. Great Musketeer-ish fantasy.

That sounds right up my alley! The Powder Mage series was looking pretty enticing too.

[acesn8s]

I started listening to the God Emperor of Dune while cutting the lawn this weekend. Moon Reader Pro has a text to speech feature. So, not the greatest experience, but for 3 hours I got to chip away at book 4. Not a huge fan of the Leto II character, so I've been shying away from finishing Frank's original series.

[QuickTidal]

acesn8s, on 08 June 2015 - 02:50 PM, said:

I started listening to the God Emperor of Dune while cutting the lawn this weekend. Moon Reader Pro has a text to speech feature. So, not the greatest experience, but for 3 hours I got to chip away at book 4. Not a huge fan of the Leto II character, so I've been shying away from finishing Frank's original series.

Holy crow, how big is your lawn?

[acesn8s]

1.25 acres. The lawn tractor is 12 years old. I'm hoping to replace it at the end of the season.

[QuickTidal]

Crazy! Thank god for audiobooks then!

[Primateus]

Maark, on 02 June 2015 - 10:25 AM, said:

Elenium:

Spoiler

Oh so I never, EVER thought that Flute would turn out to be Aphrael, that wasn't even slightly predictable, nope.

It actually came as a shock to me, but then again, I wasn't that old and quite naive when I read it. Had I read it today I'd have seen that a mile away.

[acesn8s]

Briar King, on 08 June 2015 - 06:01 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 08 June 2015 - 03:55 PM, said:

acesn8s, on 08 June 2015 - 02:50 PM, said:

I started listening to the God Emperor of Dune while cutting the lawn this weekend. Moon Reader Pro has a text to speech feature. So, not the greatest experience, but for 3 hours I got to chip away at book 4. Not a huge fan of the Leto II character, so I've been shying away from finishing Frank's original series.

Holy crow, how big is your lawn?

What's more important is how's your eardrums? I'm sure you got to have it cranked 100%.

What?



I do have to have it pretty loud, but my IEMs do a good job of blocking out the noise of the mower and trimmer.

So I decided to try out Promise of Blood (Powder Mage 1) by Brian McClellan. Traitor's Blade is added to my queue.

[Nicodimas]

QuickTidal, on 08 June 2015 - 01:29 PM, said:

acesn8s, on 08 June 2015 - 12:22 PM, said:

Finished Tower Lord by Anthony Ryan. Have to figure out what to read next.

Have you read Sebastien De Castell's Greatcoats series? 2 books out so far. Great Musketeer-ish fantasy.

Thanks for the reminder, didn't realize book 2 was out. +1 on this..and my usual Red Rising push

[Andorion]

PIcked up reading again. Finished The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Incredible. It blew Touch out of the water

[Serenity]

Just starting Julian May's The Many-Coloured Land, first book in her 'Saga of the Exiles'.

[QuickTidal]

Started Andy Weir's THE MARTIAN (after viewing the trailer for the movie), and I'm already sucked right into the narrative. This is a page turning science geek adventure so far.

[Abyss]

Finally finally started Buchanan's THE BLACK DREAM and was sucked right back into that world. Dude can write. So good to see Ash again, such a great character.

In earbook, 50%ish of the way through Sanderson's MISTBORN 2: ELECTRIC MISTAROO .... i'm having some problems with this book. The simplistic motivations, the schoolkid level emo subplots, the dumbing down of the socio political plotlines... there's what to like with this series, but so many of the things that bugged me in ELANTRIS (and were thankfully absent or downplayed in THE FINAL EMPIRE) are coming to the fore here.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Almost finished with James Cambias' A Darkling Sea. It's a very quick read - I started it only yesterday. But it's a fun one, with two alien species that are pretty alien yet still relatable. The human characters are boring, but the author doesn't drag on with them.

I'm not sure if this is a standalone novel, but I'd definitely read more in the same universe.

EDIT: Just read this article about dolphins http://ngm.nationalg...gence/foer-text after finishing Darkling Sea, and thought these passages from the article were interesting in light of what happens in Darkling:

Spoiler

That piece of machinery is a shoebox-size cube of aluminum and clear plastic known as CHAT (cetacean hearing and telemetry), which Herzing wears underwater strapped to her chest. The 20-pound box has a small speaker and keyboard on its face and two hydrophones that look like eyes sticking out below. Inside, amid a tangle of wires and circuit boards sealed off from the corrosive effects of seawater, is a computer that can broadcast dolphins’ prerecorded signature whistles as well as dolphin-like whistles into the ocean at the push of a button and record any sounds that dolphins whistle back. If a dolphin repeats one of the dolphin-like whistles, the computer can convert the sound into words and then play them through a headset in Herzing’s ear.

Dolphins are notoriously talented mimics and quick students. Herzing’s goal is to get a handful of juvenile females she has known since birth to associate each of three whistle sounds broadcast by the CHAT box with a specific object: a scarf, a rope, and a piece of sargassum, a brown seaweed that wild dolphins use as a toy. Those three “words,” she hopes, will form the rudiments of a growing vocabulary of whistles shared by her and her dolphins—the beginnings of an artificial language in which she and they might someday be able to communicate.

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 10 June 2015 - 12:06 AM

[Tiste Simeon]

Finished The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. Wow. I'm still processing it but if you liked Cloud Atlas you'll like this one. Stunning book and his writing is just amazing!

[Baco Xtath]

4 hrs into Liar's Key; so fun being back with Jal. Also starting Poseidon's Wake; really pumped for this one.

[Mentalist]

Puckstein, on 05 June 2015 - 12:55 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 04 June 2015 - 01:30 PM, said:

Surveying my "to read pile", there's one thing I've been putting off getting to for a while - "Obsidian and Blood" omnibus by Aliette de Bodard. Making that my new commute reading.

One of my favourite urban fantasy series (well, trilogy, whatever). But I like the setting, so I'm probably biased. May not be everyone's cup of tea, but I hope you enjoy it!


In another attempt to get out of my reading comfort zone I'm now ~100 pages into The Orenda by Joseph Boyden. And the thought that keeps going through my head is 'Why do I do this to myself?' But for now I am determined to bull through.

Finished part 1 of this. I wouldn't call it "urrban fantasy" per se, itss much more of a fantasy mystery novel, until the stakes get too high and Acatl has to save the world.
Loving the setting, though.

[polishgenius]

My previous post got eaten in the board purge (though it ended up being a triple post due to me misunderstanding the nature of the technical issues, so maybe we needed the board purge. Short version:

Abyss, on 09 June 2015 - 03:51 PM, said:

In earbook, 50%ish of the way through Sanderson's MISTBORN 2: ELECTRIC MISTAROO .... i'm having some problems with this book. The simplistic motivations, the schoolkid level emo subplots, the dumbing down of the socio political plotlines... there's what to like with this series, but so many of the things that bugged me in ELANTRIS (and were thankfully absent or downplayed in THE FINAL EMPIRE) are coming to the fore here.

The first Mistborn was quite good, because it was tightly plotted and Kessler carried the narrative well. In the second and third books, the pacing goes south, all the non-Kessler characters are rubbish, and the dialogue is stilted so I found them a slog. It's like David Eddings with more imagination but less wit.

Hope they make a film though.




My own reads: finished the Jacob's Ladder trilogy by Elizabeth Bear- why are all of you not reading her yet, people - and also Martha Wells' the Element of Fire; my third book by her and she's become an author I highly recommend for when you just want good, solid, good-at-everything entertainment to decompress between heavier reads.

[JPK]

I finished The Gathering Storm on audiobook today. The end of this trek is so damn close I can almost taste it at this point. I suspect I'm going to end up listening to 13 & 14 back to back.

Before that happens though, I promised BK I wouldn't wait too long before jumping into Heretics of Dune, so that's up next.