[acesn8s]

Finished Sandman Slim. It was a nice bit of brain candy. I'll probably get book 2 at some point, but I have enough in my queue as it is. I started Sullivan's Age of Myth. I swear these $1.99 ebook sales will keep me busy for a very long time.

[Abyss]

Salt-Man Z, on 11 April 2017 - 06:31 PM, said:

Abyss, on 11 April 2017 - 05:41 PM, said:

JOHN DIES AT THE END. Fuck me, this is a funny book.

Yes, yes it is.

Must add that listening to this book while undergoing dental surgery is a huge massively bad bad bad idea and no one should ever do it.

Ow.

Ow.

Fucking ow.

[Tiste Simeon]

amphibian, on 11 April 2017 - 05:13 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 09 April 2017 - 10:43 PM, said:

Finished Lightbringer 2. Am pausing before 3, though it was a highly entertaining book, better than the first. It's it worth continuing considering I don't have the 4th and there's no word on the 5th?

It's definitely worth continuing. Weeks does a terrific job with Blood Mirror, the fourth book that came out late last October (2016). Weeks has been good about getting his books out every couple years. So we should get the fifth some time in late 2018 or early 2019 if the pattern holds up.

I have started 3! I don't have 4 like I said so I'll be moving on to other books after this but it is entertaining!

[worry]

What page are you on?

[End of Disc One]

4, 8, 15

[Salt-Man Z]

1, 2, 3, 4





Get yo booty on the floor

[QuickTidal]

Finished THE FORGETTING MOON by Durfee. I have some quibbles, but overall really enjoyed it. It's probably about 1/3 too long. Durfee is a descriptive guy, but his debut suffers from bloat, especially after the midway point. You could easily cut about 300 pages from this and have a clean, pacy debut...but he goes on a bit, so it weighs down some of the POV chapters. There is always enough to keep you reading mind you...but this guy needs an editor with a stronger hand. There are some weird narrative choices, and some strange character foibles...and the villains are mustache-twirling, cartoonishly evil...but overall, it's still a lot of fun. The next book neeeds to be shorter I feel. But the world building is cool and I'm on board for the next book!

Probably onto OUTLANDER 5 next, or I'll crack into RED SISTER by Lawrence.

[HoosierDaddy]

Salt-Man Z, on 12 April 2017 - 09:25 PM, said:

1, 2, 3, 4





Get yo booty on the floor

Everybody walk your dinosaur?

[Andorion]

I never did get to update this.

I finished Shogun. An astounding read that kept me guessing till the last. Thanks to BK for the recommendation.

I also finished Sorceror to the Crown. The book has certain plot problems.

[Baco Xtath]

The Myriad (and the first three Merrimack books) are finally on audible so I just re-read/listened to it. Such good stuff.

[acesn8s]

Salt-Man Z, on 12 April 2017 - 09:25 PM, said:

"We've done four already but now we're steady, and then they went 1, 2, 3, 4

Sorry, had to...

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 13 April 2017 - 12:18 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 12 April 2017 - 11:12 PM, said:

Probably onto OUTLANDER 5 next, or I'll crack into RED SISTER by Lawrence.

You know which one I'd tell you to do but I know that it would be an undertaking. I still have a great feeling about it with all the reviews it's gotten much like bk1.

Actually, from what I can tell Book 5 is where people (even die hard fans) stumble with OUTLANDER....and for me half of Book 4 suffered from that....so I'm Not looking fwd to reading it.

----

I decided against either book, and started LORDS AND LADIES by Pratchett instead. Needed a fun, little palette cleanser book. This is serving me well...but when wouldn't it with a book that have both Granny Weatherwax AND Death in it.

[Abyss]

Baco Xtath, on 13 April 2017 - 11:15 AM, said:

The Myriad (and the first three Merrimack books) are finally on audible so I just re-read/listened to it. Such good stuff.

WOOHOO!
Damn, that may be my first earbook/reread.

[Mentalist]

Cyphon, on 09 April 2017 - 09:35 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 08 April 2017 - 06:21 PM, said:

finished "Bitter Seeds" re-read. Tossing "Coldest War" in my bag as next commute read.

At home, I'm a few chapters into the third book in the Inheritance trilogy omnibus, and.... i dunno. I like the concepts, and its a pretty creative setup, but for some reason it doesn't leave a lasting impression that means I have to keep reading.

I just finished reading Bitter Seeds for the first time this morning. I thought it was a bit uneven. I'd be curious to hear what you think of the later books as I'm not ensnared enough to put the rest of the trilogy on my to buy list. Mind you there's about 180 books on there so what's one more...

Yeah, I wasn't blown away by it when I read it either. Which is part of the reason it took me so long to get to Bk2.

So far it seems to continue to over-rely on a trope which I pretty much hate

Spoiler

"everything is pre-destined" , and Gretel knows everything and she's doing everything for reasons.

I swear, if she turns out to be an early manifestation of the Eidolons who are trying to get to us... I will cringe.

Spoilered. Below my thoughts only for those who already read the bk:

Spoiler

Also, I'm seeing Marsh inheriting command of Milkweed once Pembroke is killed, because he's the senior-most officer.

So far, in some ways it's an even darker book than the first (characters in the peacetime get even more emotionally wrecked than during the war), but the overall plot is kinda hanging there, with the abovementioned trope I don't like supposedly dovetailing everything together.

Mind, I'm only about halfway through, so things may change.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 13 April 2017 - 02:46 PM

[amphibian]

In regards to the Tregillis books: Oh, things will change.

[QuickTidal]

Mentalist, on 13 April 2017 - 02:43 PM, said:

Cyphon, on 09 April 2017 - 09:35 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 08 April 2017 - 06:21 PM, said:

finished "Bitter Seeds" re-read. Tossing "Coldest War" in my bag as next commute read.

At home, I'm a few chapters into the third book in the Inheritance trilogy omnibus, and.... i dunno. I like the concepts, and its a pretty creative setup, but for some reason it doesn't leave a lasting impression that means I have to keep reading.

I just finished reading Bitter Seeds for the first time this morning. I thought it was a bit uneven. I'd be curious to hear what you think of the later books as I'm not ensnared enough to put the rest of the trilogy on my to buy list. Mind you there's about 180 books on there so what's one more...

Yeah, I wasn't blown away by it when I read it either. Which is part of the reason it took me so long to get to Bk2.

So far it seems to continue to over-rely on a trope which I pretty much hate

Spoiler

"everything is pre-destined" , and Gretel knows everything and she's doing everything for reasons.

I swear, if she turns out to be an early manifestation of the Eidolons who are trying to get to us... I will cringe.

Spoilered. Below my thoughts only for those who already read the bk:

Spoiler

Also, I'm seeing Marsh inheriting command of Milkweed once Pembroke is killed, because he's the senior-most officer.

So far, in some ways it's an even darker book than the first (characters in the peacetime get even more emotionally wrecked than during the war), but the overall plot is kinda hanging there, with the abovementioned trope I don't like supposedly dovetailing everything together.

Mind, I'm only about halfway through, so things may change.

amphibian, on 13 April 2017 - 03:06 PM, said:

In regards to the Tregillis books: Oh, things will change.

^^This.

100% this.

You may THINK you know what's going to go down, but you don't. You really don't.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 13 April 2017 - 03:09 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 13 April 2017 - 02:43 PM, said:

Cyphon, on 09 April 2017 - 09:35 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 08 April 2017 - 06:21 PM, said:

finished "Bitter Seeds" re-read. Tossing "Coldest War" in my bag as next commute read.

At home, I'm a few chapters into the third book in the Inheritance trilogy omnibus, and.... i dunno. I like the concepts, and its a pretty creative setup, but for some reason it doesn't leave a lasting impression that means I have to keep reading.

I just finished reading Bitter Seeds for the first time this morning. I thought it was a bit uneven. I'd be curious to hear what you think of the later books as I'm not ensnared enough to put the rest of the trilogy on my to buy list. Mind you there's about 180 books on there so what's one more...

Yeah, I wasn't blown away by it when I read it either. Which is part of the reason it took me so long to get to Bk2.

So far it seems to continue to over-rely on a trope which I pretty much hate

Spoiler

"everything is pre-destined" , and Gretel knows everything and she's doing everything for reasons.

I swear, if she turns out to be an early manifestation of the Eidolons who are trying to get to us... I will cringe.

Spoilered. Below my thoughts only for those who already read the bk:

Spoiler

Also, I'm seeing Marsh inheriting command of Milkweed once Pembroke is killed, because he's the senior-most officer.

So far, in some ways it's an even darker book than the first (characters in the peacetime get even more emotionally wrecked than during the war), but the overall plot is kinda hanging there, with the abovementioned trope I don't like supposedly dovetailing everything together.

Mind, I'm only about halfway through, so things may change.

amphibian, on 13 April 2017 - 03:06 PM, said:

In regards to the Tregillis books: Oh, things will change.

^^This.

100% this.

You may THINK you know what's going to go down, but you don't. You really don't.

Thirded.
Great trilo.

[worry]

Finished Sword of the Lictor and I really enjoyed it, moreso than the first two for sure. Even though it's the most episodic of the books so far, it also felt like it had the most purpose to it as well. Plus it happened to be laugh out loud funny very often.

Spoiler

There were a lot of neat details, not that I can remember them all, or can decipher even the ones I noticed. But there's like Severian meeting Typhon, the two headed tyrant. And then later when he gets to Baldanders, Dr. Talos, & the aliens they discuss the ancient symbol of the two-headed snake, the live head eating the dead head, representing destruction and building respectively. Anyway, doubly symbolic stuff like that kept coming up in this one (maybe I just didn't catch it in the others). Two of the funniest moments: the salamander catching up to Severian at last in a cliffside hut only to burn through the floor and fall to its apparent death. And one of the later chapters ending with the momentous revelation: homunculus! That word is already inherently funny, but building up to it makes it funnier. Also I like to imagine that one day Gene Wolfe was reading an article and misread the word Badlanders, and that's how Baldanders was created.

Anyway, now I'm gonna read The Magician's Land because I realized I forgot to read it when it came out.

[Salt-Man Z]

worry, on 13 April 2017 - 07:24 PM, said:

Also I like to imagine that one day Gene Wolfe was reading an article and misread the word Badlanders, and that's how Baldanders was created.

Alas: https://en.wikipedia...wiki/Baldanders


Looking forward to your thoughts on Citadel of the Autarch. (You planning on doing the coda, Urth of the New Sun?)

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 13 April 2017 - 08:47 PM

[Macros]

reading red sister.

expect to power through it tomorrow and sat as I should have plenty of time.

then will study my TRP.


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