[JPK]

death rattle, on 20 March 2017 - 07:54 PM, said:

Already started The Library at Mount Char.

One of us! One of us! Enjoy the crazy Worry!

I polished off Gaiman's American Gods on audio and Cook's She is the Darkness on ereader today. If you either haven't read American Gods or haven't read it in a few years, I really recommend the full-cast audio version. They really did a bang up job with the work. It also has the advantage of being Gaiman's preferred text. Turns out that when it was originally being published, he ended up having to cut a good amount of material that he wanted left in there and he was able to talk them into doing a revised version for the 10th anniversary release. Also, it's a good time to dig into it due to the series beginning on Stars at the end of April.

I really loved She is the Darkness. Now that I've polished that off, I'm both saddened and worried due to what I've seen a couple of you guys (Abyss) say about the last two books in Glittering Stone. Eh, I'll still likely jump into them eventually.

After seeing Whisperz get into the Revelation Space material, I remembered that I was still saving Galactic North for a rainy day, so I'm going into that for audio.

I also grabbed a digital copy of The Count of Monte Cristo so I can focus on catching up with the group read without having to lug that damn brick around.

[Andorion]

JPK, on 20 March 2017 - 08:26 PM, said:

death rattle, on 20 March 2017 - 07:54 PM, said:

Already started The Library at Mount Char.

One of us! One of us! Enjoy the crazy Worry!

I polished off Gaiman's American Gods on audio and Cook's She is the Darkness on ereader today. If you either haven't read American Gods or haven't read it in a few years, I really recommend the full-cast audio version. They really did a bang up job with the work. It also has the advantage of being Gaiman's preferred text. Turns out that when it was originally being published, he ended up having to cut a good amount of material that he wanted left in there and he was able to talk them into doing a revised version for the 10th anniversary release. Also, it's a good time to dig into it due to the series beginning on Stars at the end of April.

I really loved She is the Darkness. Now that I've polished that off, I'm both saddened and worried due to what I've seen a couple of you guys (Abyss) say about the last two books in Glittering Stone. Eh, I'll still likely jump into them eventually.

After seeing Whisperz get into the Revelation Space material, I remembered that I was still saving Galactic North for a rainy day, so I'm going into that for audio.

I also grabbed a digital copy of The Count of Monte Cristo so I can focus on catching up with the group read without having to lug that damn brick around.

Read Galactic North! Rev Space isn't really complete without it

[Abyss]

My issues with the last few books of BLACK COMPANY are pretty specific, but I still acknowledge it's an awesome work as a whole

[JPK]

@Ando - I am already through the first story - The Great Wall.

Spoiler

So that's how Clavain to the Conjoiners. I've wondered about that ever since he was introduced. I'm happy to see that the territory did end up getting covered.

I also listened far enough into the second story - Glacial - to realize that it's another Clavain story. I feel like a kid in a candy shop.

I'd been saving Galactic North since I knew it's the last of the Redemption Space material that I hadn't read yet. I just wasn't really ready to be done with it until now. I've rarely read sci-fi that sucks me in like this does.

@Abyss - Yeah, I've seen the last two books have mixed reviews both on here and elsewhere. I will read them since I've invested too much time in this series at this point to let it go unfinished. I just know that I'm not going to go into it expecting it to wow me the way that the first trilogy and the last two books have.

[Mentalist]

wow, "Jerusalem commands" got real disturbing. I'm actually thinking about putting the book down, i'm not sure i'm in a proper headspace to deal with stuff like that right now.

At home, Jemisin is going nowhere for about a week. Very limited home free time, and a lot of other things competing with reading for it.

My grandparents are leaving in a week, so might become free-er then and get back into it.

[Salt-Man Z]

Been working through The Weird anthology again lately. Last night I read (among others) Martin Simpson's "Last Rites and Resurrections". It starts off very odd, but man the ending just wrecked me. Wow.

[Tiste Simeon]

Am reading Lightbringer 2. Struggling to care about much in it but strangely still drawn into it. Kip is annoying but I'm liking his scenes at the Blackguard training the best right now.

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 19 March 2017 - 05:48 AM, said:

STAKED, the latest in the Iron Druid series, is not a very good book.
In my opinion.

Actually, I'm finding it's kind of outright bad at times. Choppy unrelated storylines, unnecessary tangents, mundane events basically killing time.

Also, the narrator of the earbook should probably avoid being alone with Jews, Canadians, Poles, or dog-owners for the rest of his life. Possibly Indians too.

...all that aside tho,

SPOILER


SPOILER

...someone just punched a troll's cock off, so all is forgiven and I have to keep reading/listening.

Just finished STAKED.
It did not get better until the finale, which was fun. Hearne does a really good job intersecting various mythologies and it's neat to read about Norse gods manipulating Irish Fae while Roman gods interfere, or Kabbalah commando Rabbis fighting Rosicrucian mystic assassins. Unfortunately the story still meandered needlessly, the characters waver from interesting to irritating, and the narrator added Germans and anyone with a speech impediment to the list of people who will likely hate his guts. if you love the Iron Druid series, sure, go for it. Otherwise, meh.

JPK, on 20 March 2017 - 08:26 PM, said:

death rattle, on 20 March 2017 - 07:54 PM, said:

Already started The Library at Mount Char.

One of us! One of us! Enjoy the crazy Worry!

...

Seriously. I think you'll enjoy this.

JPK, on 21 March 2017 - 02:52 AM, said:

...@Abyss - Yeah, I've seen the last two books have mixed reviews both on here and elsewhere. I will read them since I've invested too much time in this series at this point to let it go unfinished. I just know that I'm not going to go into it expecting it to wow me the way that the first trilogy and the last two books have.

I couldn't finish it. Some part of me wanted to but WATER SLEEPS was such a drag for me that i bailed.

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I'd been saving Galactic North since I knew it's the last of the Redemption Space material that I hadn't read yet. I just wasn't really ready to be done with it until now. I've rarely read sci-fi that sucks me in like this does.

May be feeling like some serious sf... thinking i may use some audible credits to get the RevSpace trilo and start from the beginning. I can't quite decide if i want/need to reread REVELATION or just jump to REDEMPTION.

Alternatives are WARBEAKER to complete my Sanderson Cosmere reading, and KINGS OF THE WYLD because some people here pimped it good.


Have Buchanan's FIERCE GODS going in ebook, but slowly simply due to limited eyetime. So far so good tho'.



In dead tree just did a massive massive purge. Fully half my bookshelf and a significant chunk of the TRP i was just never going to read in that format are now in boxes awaiting their fate.
Buh-bye WoT, TDT, Harry Potter and other stacks of doorstopper hardbacks i was never ever going to reread in dead tree.
Buh-bye Horus Heresies, M.Y.T.H adventures, Weather Warden, Conn Iggulden's Conqueror, and various other partial sets of series i was never going to read, or acquired in ebook and will read in that format if i ever get around to it.

...I do feel a little conflicted about my stack of Gemmell mmpbs tho', even if i was never going to reread them in that format.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Have you read Pushing Ice or House of Suns? While I'm enjoying the RevSpace stuff quite a lot, those two standalones packed more punch.

[QuickTidal]

Vote for WARBREAKER.

[Abyss]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 22 March 2017 - 06:12 PM, said:

Have you read Pushing Ice or House of Suns? While I'm enjoying the RevSpace stuff quite a lot, those two standalones packed more punch.

I feel like to appreciate Reynolds i have to finish the original trilo first.

QuickTidal, on 22 March 2017 - 06:13 PM, said:

Vote for WARBREAKER.

Noted. Tempted, especially after ARCANUM.

[polishgenius]

Kings of the Wyld is about fantasy heroes as rockstars, how can you turn that down?

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Abyss, on 22 March 2017 - 06:57 PM, said:

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 22 March 2017 - 06:12 PM, said:

Have you read Pushing Ice or House of Suns? While I'm enjoying the RevSpace stuff quite a lot, those two standalones packed more punch.

I feel like to appreciate Reynolds i have to finish the original trilo first.

QuickTidal, on 22 March 2017 - 06:13 PM, said:

Vote for WARBREAKER.

Noted. Tempted, especially after ARCANUM.

I started out with a short story collection set in RevSpace, then House of Suns and Pushing Ice before starting on RevSpace from the beginning. If you didn't feel compelled to continue RS after reading the first book, then you might enjoy his standalone stuff more.

[Abyss]

WARBREAKER it is. Just starting, good open, will be interesting to contrast this with Brandon's later work i've read the last few months.

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 23 March 2017 - 04:58 AM, said:

Finished Safehold 7! That ending! Holy shit! Started 8.

Took me 48 days to read 7.

ED: double holy shit! 8 is picking up right at the moment of 7's end which hasn't happened yet in these bks!

Remind me BK, which ending?

Also finally started reading Shogun.

[Lycaenion]

I'm currently reading through the Chronicles of Prydain. On book 2, The Black Cauldron, right now.

[worry]

Sweeeeeeeeeet. Fflewddur Fflam is a personal hero of mine.

[Abyss]

Lycaenion, on 23 March 2017 - 04:03 PM, said:

I'm currently reading through the Chronicles of Prydain. On book 2, The Black Cauldron, right now.

death rattle, on 23 March 2017 - 07:17 PM, said:

Sweeeeeeeeeet. Fflewddur Fflam is a personal hero of mine.

I had you pegged for more of a Gurgi fan.

I have fond memories of reading that series as a kid, tho i found the slog in CAULDRON just went on foreverrrrrrrr.

[worry]

I am a Gurgi, but Fflam is my aspiration.

[Lady Bliss]

Finally picked up the Codex Alera series (I know... ) and am regretting not starting them sooner! For some reason I had thought they'd suck.