[acesn8s]

Only on chapter 3 of The Red Knight. I like what I have read, but I feel like I'm missing something, reminds me of MBotF.

[Andorion]

End of Disc One, on 10 November 2016 - 06:40 PM, said:

On Shadows of the Apt book 7. While I generally agree that the books get better as they go along, I'm finding this one to be a step down. I just don't care about what's going on in the Commonweal. Give me more Kanaphes stuff, please.

Heirs of the Blade? Yep its the slowest book in the series and the one I liked the least. But everything else after this is awesome!

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 11 November 2016 - 02:29 AM, said:

Andorion, on 11 November 2016 - 01:34 AM, said:

End of Disc One, on 10 November 2016 - 06:40 PM, said:

On Shadows of the Apt book 7. While I generally agree that the books get better as they go along, I'm finding this one to be a step down. I just don't care about what's going on in the Commonweal. Give me more Kanaphes stuff, please.

Heirs of the Blade? Yep its the slowest book in the series and the one I liked the least. But everything else after this is awesome!

The next bk The Air War will make you forget bk 7 I promise.

What's the title of that Safehold Ando?

The last one? At the Sign of Truimph

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 11 November 2016 - 03:05 AM, said:

I think they may have another? I was looking at map in the HC before that one and in the list of titles it listed * Out of the Darkness which I took as he was telling us what the last book was.

I think there will be more books, maybe more than one, but in a different series, possibly after a timelapse. There is one very serious plotline left hanging that needs to be addressed. Can't tell you more BK, it was only made apparent in Books 7-8.

But keep on reading. These books are pretty easy to speed read, as long as you don't get to hung up on the idiotic tendency to substitute y for vowels.

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 11 November 2016 - 03:55 AM, said:

I've got a theory that I think has to come at some point but I don't want to know if I'm right or wrong.

Spoiler

Merlin has to be met with a challenge at some point. He can't just steamroll through the entire series I'd think...so the power source under Zion has to contain atleast one PICA(Langhorne) or even better the other main order Archangels with the equalvialent of Nimues Cave at some point... or it's just going to be one sided till he wins and the race to space to confront the Gabba happens

looking forward to it. Going to take to well into 2017 to find out though.

Mmmm...I won't say anything about this yet. I have a good idea though

[MTS]

In a bit of a re-read mood lately.

Finished Sapkowski's Witcher books the other day, enjoyed them just as much as the first time. It might even have been better, as I just recently made my way through W3 again for Blood and Wine (and mods), and a lot of the familiar story elements clicked.

Going through Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicle at the moment, as I saw it on the bookshelf the other day and thought, 'why not?' Nearly done with The Wise Man's Fear and then onto The Slow Regard of Silent Things.

[Macros]

Finally turned the first few pages of Johnathan strange.

[Andorion]

Made some progress in Bakker's Darkness that Comes Before. I really like his prose and worldbuilding. Very solid epic feelings

[Tiste Simeon]

Macros, on 12 November 2016 - 10:31 AM, said:

Finally turned the first few pages of Johnathan strange.

Couldn't get into it. BBC adaptation was excellent though!

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 14 November 2016 - 06:21 PM, said:

Macros, on 12 November 2016 - 10:31 AM, said:

Finally turned the first few pages of Johnathan strange.

Couldn't get into it. BBC adaptation was excellent though!

I got to about the halfway mark of the book. It's very, very dry.


And yeah, the BBC adaptation was everything the book wasn't. Totally excellent. Worth watching Macros, if you happen to not be able to manage the book...as the story is very entertaining.

[polishgenius]

I looooooooove the book. Don't feel it's dry at all.

[worry]

I thought it was crisp more than dry.

[Puck]

Indeed. Loved both the book and the BBc series.

[amphibian]

I read the first two Books of Babel (Senlin Ascends and Arm of the Sphinx) by Josiah Bancroft.

They are stunning. New Weird steampunk works of comedy, friendship, drama, and satire/observation. Werthead absolutely does justice to the series in this paragraph from his review elsethread:

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Senlin Ascends is the first novel in a trilogy called The Books of Babel, followed by Arm of the Sphinx (out now) and The Hod King (working title, due next year). This is fantasy, but not quite as you may know it. It's a steampunk romance with airships and sky-pirates. It's a character-focused slice of the New Weird. It's a Biblical allegory (...maybe?). It's a science fiction novel set inside a Big Dumb Object created by peoples unknown for scientific purposes (...perhaps?). It's a black comedy of manners, a dashing adventure, and a devastating deconstruction of people, places and tropes. It's what you'd get if China Mieville and Christopher Priest collaborated on a novel and both brought their A-game, and it was then adapted for film by Studio Ghibli. It's quite possibly the most striking debut work of speculative fiction published in the last decade.

I stayed up absurdly late for two night straight to finish these books as soon as possible. Very excited to have found them and to read the third and planned end to the series some time next year.

I also hope Jim Butcher doesn't read these books and realize that Bancroft does "sky pirates" better than he has so far.

[MTS]

QuickTidal, on 14 November 2016 - 06:30 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 14 November 2016 - 06:21 PM, said:

Macros, on 12 November 2016 - 10:31 AM, said:

Finally turned the first few pages of Johnathan strange.

Couldn't get into it. BBC adaptation was excellent though!

I got to about the halfway mark of the book. It's very, very dry.

This was about me too.

Haven't seen the BBC adaptation though, so I might go check it out.

[worry]

It helps if you have a background in Crisp Lit Studies.

[Macros]

Havent really had a chance to read much of it.
but dry would cover it so far, not off puttingly so yet but I'd be surprised if I've past the 5% mark

[Mentalist]

It took me a while to get into that book.

It was alright in the end, nothing super-spectacular, imho.

[End of Disc One]

BK do you have problems finishing books? That happens to me when I get to the end of a video game, but it's never happened with a book.

[Andorion]

Macros, on 15 November 2016 - 08:51 PM, said:

Havent really had a chance to read much of it.
but dry would cover it so far, not off puttingly so yet but I'd be surprised if I've past the 5% mark

Mentalist, on 15 November 2016 - 09:36 PM, said:

It took me a while to get into that book.

It was alright in the end, nothing super-spectacular, imho.

Regarding Jonathan Strange, my main issue with the book was that there was too little payoff in relation to the effort you have to put in. Also there is a lot of fluff