[Andorion]

Briar King, on 28 May 2016 - 02:06 AM, said:

As I figured finished Safehold 1 a few mins ago. A very simple story that is completely predictable from one pg to the next but is oh so fun to read! I considered just finishing up Hyperion last 60 pgs but bk 2 is a far more compelling bk atm.

Seriously go pick up Safehold 1 if you want a massive popcorn fantasy to read.

Popcorn is a very good description BK but I would finish Hyperion. Book 2 leads straight into Book 3 and so on.

[Salt-Man Z]

So I must be about a third of the way through Seveneves and it's very good, but man is it hitting me hard for whatever reason. I read the section last night where (nothing the back-of-the-book blurb doesn't basically spell out)

Spoiler

the Earth is basically sterilized by the "Hard Rain" of falling fragments of the shattered moon*

*(and just now it suddenly occurs to me that maybe the Malazan world is in a bit of trouble...)

which has been hard enough for me to read up to, let alone see unfold on the page--and it literally gave me nightmares. No other book I've read, be it horror or another end-of-the-world scenario, has affected me like this, and it's freaking me out a little. Looking forward to where things go from here, though.

[amphibian]

It gets Neal Stephenson weird, Salt-Man Z. Great book.

[Puck]

Speaking of Neal Stephenson, I'm currently reading Snow Crash. Not far enough to have an opinion yet, especially since it's my first Neal Stephenson book.

[Chance]

Currently reading A Blade of Black Steel and its very nice and rather unpredictable so far. After a Crown for Cold Silver I've perhaps got unresonable expectations but it seems to deliver.

Coonass, on 31 May 2016 - 04:43 AM, said:

Safehold 2 pgs 87-103 are so fucking boring! I hate having to read the Group of 4 shit.

Even that gets pretty good eventually, but it takes a few books.

[End of Disc One]

About 100 pages into Peter Clines' "14", and damn I can't believe I'm already that far. Like his Ex-Heroes books, this is one easy read. I'm looking forward to getting back into it, though I'm still waiting for the first big surprise or a creepy moment. So far it's a lot of little weird moments, and I hope they all come together later on.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Currently reading The Builders by Daniel Polansky. I'm still in the first third, but it seems like Redwall if it had been written by Joe Abercrombie.

[QuickTidal]

Lawrence's THE WHEEL OF OSHEIM is very good...but the format is a little odd. It doesn't exactly pick up where things left off, and those events are told VIA a kind of flashback.

Still really enjoying it, and I'm sure Lawrence has a reason to have structured it this way, but it kind of threw me...and I'm almost at the midway point.

[Abyss]

End of Disc One, on 01 June 2016 - 02:07 PM, said:

About 100 pages into Peter Clines' "14", ... I'm still waiting for the first big surprise or a creepy moment. So far it's a lot of little weird moments, and I hope they all come together later on.

You are in for SUCH a treat.

[Nicodimas]

Salt-Man Z, on 31 May 2016 - 08:27 PM, said:

So I must be about a third of the way through Seveneves and it's very good, but man is it hitting me hard for whatever reason. I read the section last night where (nothing the back-of-the-book blurb doesn't basically spell out)

Spoiler

the Earth is basically sterilized by the "Hard Rain" of falling fragments of the shattered moon*

*(and just now it suddenly occurs to me that maybe the Malazan world is in a bit of trouble...)

which has been hard enough for me to read up to, let alone see unfold on the page--and it literally gave me nightmares. No other book I've read, be it horror or another end-of-the-world scenario, has affected me like this, and it's freaking me out a little. Looking forward to where things go from here, though.

Oh yeah this book is right up my ally, picked it up last night based off this quick description...now just past day 700+...it will be interesting to see how they keep it together.

This post has been edited by Nicodimas: 01 June 2016 - 06:34 PM

[West33]

Struggling to get into FoL. I'm enjoying it, but it's heavy going. At the rate I'm reading, I should finish sometime in 2020. But I knew it was going to be like this.

[Macros]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 01 June 2016 - 03:27 PM, said:

Currently reading The Builders by Daniel Polansky. I'm still in the first third, but it seems like Redwall if it had been written by Joe Abercrombie.

Anything like Lowtown? I love lowtown
But

I really struggled to get into Those Above, its still only about 40% read after over a month?

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Macros, on 01 June 2016 - 09:34 PM, said:

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 01 June 2016 - 03:27 PM, said:

Currently reading The Builders by Daniel Polansky. I'm still in the first third, but it seems like Redwall if it had been written by Joe Abercrombie.

Anything like Lowtown? I love lowtown
But

I really struggled to get into Those Above, its still only about 40% read after over a month?

I haven't read Low Town, so I can't talk about how it compares. However, I have finished The Builders (it's a short novella that you can likely read in an afternoon, Macros, so there's not much commitment required) and it was all it was hyped up to be — a tightly wrought bite that follows the Captain and his crew, dripping with blood and bitterness, as they seek revenge on those who wronged them.



Now I'm starting Faerie Tale.

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 01 June 2016 - 11:56 PM

[Mentalist]

Chance, on 01 June 2016 - 03:20 AM, said:

Currently reading A Blade of Black Steel and its very nice and rather unpredictable so far. After a Crown for Cold Silver I've perhaps got unresonable expectations but it seems to deliver.

Coonass, on 31 May 2016 - 04:43 AM, said:

Safehold 2 pgs 87-103 are so fucking boring! I hate having to read the Group of 4 shit.

Even that gets pretty good eventually, but it takes a few books.

Glad to hear ABoBS is good. I'll proabably wait for the TPB release though.

[Salt-Man Z]

Coonass, on 02 June 2016 - 03:20 AM, said:

I keep reading that FoL is a struggle. I'm honestly not even interested in this trilogy after reading FoD. I was frustrated as hell reading it and having things different from 1-10. My Malazan reading has been 0 these past few yrs since I never even finished RotCG. I need to finish it and all other ICE.

Now would be the perfect time to pick up Dancer's Lament and see if that gets you interested in RotCG again.

[Macros]

Its the earliest timelinewise excepting fod and fol afaik

[Maark Abbott]

FoL was a bit gristly at the start but past page 150-200 or so it became a much easier read. I piddy the foo who does it a struggle

[QuickTidal]

Finished THE WHEEL OF OSHEIM today. Thoughts on ded-thread...but holy crow what an ending! Simply phenomenal.

[Mentalist]

Just like "Resd seas under Red Skies", "Iron Angel" really benefits from being re-read back-to-back with "Scar night". It doesn't completely alleviate the main problems with the book-the loss of focus and trying to cram too many ideas together, losing characterization and kinda dropping the pacing- but reading it immediately after "scar night" gave me the benefit of total context, which helps somewhat.

Gonna start "God of Clocks" now, 0 expectations. Frankly, the antagonists right now are more interesting than the main cast, and Campbell went a bit overboard in his mythology, imho in that "every god-thing is a nasty jerk" so my interest in how this all ends is really purely academic.

[worry]

Finished Purge of Ashes. Liked it, wrote a little bit about it in the ded-thread.

Now I'm moving back to Wheel of Time. I'm on book 7, A Crown of Dongs, and I sure hope it lives up to its title!