[acesn8s]

Salt-Man Z, on 19 January 2018 - 07:33 PM, said:

acesn8s, on 19 January 2018 - 06:56 PM, said:

Looking forward to seeing how far it goes.

It goes all the way to the end!

Better than Rothfuss and Martin then!

[Mentalist]

Hmmm.

30 something chapters into Black Prism and Weeks dropped a plot twist.

I was considering dropping this book, but now I'm actually quite intrigued. Well-done, Mr. Weeks.

[Aptorian]

Finished Charles Sross' The Delirium Brief a few weeks ago. After my complaining many pages back, I feel like I should report back and say that Stross completely turned the book around for me in the second half. While I still think the premise was far fetched, there is a definite pay off in the end. The book went from most disappointing to perhaps the most satisfying and definitely surprising in the Laundry series. I love how bad Stross allows things to get in the last few books.

For the past week or more I've been making my way through Maark's "Incarnate" book. Fun to see a forum member actually publishing his own work. I won't lie, it's not quite my cup of tea, the pacing is too slow and the setting too safe in terms of crafting a fantasy world but Maark can write. I'm around 40% in now and the book is picking up steam. The stakes are rising.

I've also begun to read Richard Kadrey's "Sandman Slim" on a whim. I saw the second book in what I presume (with out researching anything) is a running series of books and loved the blurb on the back. It's urban fantasy about some thug bad boy magician who got double crossed by his friends and sent to hell. 11 years later he's back and looking for revenge, cue lots of baddassery, magic, demons, guns, etc.

This book hits the ground running. I cracked the book open and suddenly I'd read 50 pages. It's written from the first person perspective and Kadrey's writing reminds me of Butcher's Harry Dresden, if Dresden was more of a thug and a lot more durable.

This post has been edited by Alternative Goose: 21 January 2018 - 07:15 PM

[stone monkey]

Done with The Stone Sky. A solid end to the series, but not as much of a shock to the system as the first one was (which may be down to familiarity with the premise).

Reading Altered Carbon again now, and it's actually holding up surprisingly well for a book that's 16 years old. I find myself rather surprised to note that I actually have a signed (and dated! - 06/02/2002) first print, that's still in fairly good nick - I've never met Richard, so I presume he signed a job lot back then. I suspect it's worth more than a few pennies these days, but I shan't be parting with it.

I'm also reading Andy Weir's Artemis which tbh is not particularly good. They do say that everyone has one book in them, and it appears so far that, unfortunately, The Martian might have been his.

This post has been edited by stone monkey: 21 January 2018 - 11:47 PM

[acesn8s]

Finished Dancer's Lament. Really good. Makes me want to reread RotCG, but before I do that...Deadhouse Landing.

[Mentalist]

Finished the re-read of Pandora's Star Things got pretty epic towards the end.

Will commence Judas Unchained tomorrow.

[Mentalist]

Briar King, on 23 January 2018 - 02:55 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 23 January 2018 - 02:33 AM, said:

Finished the re-read of Pandora's Star Things got pretty epic towards the end.

Will commence Judas Unchained tomorrow.

Did you truly reread or skim a bit? It exploded after page 600 something I mentioned earlier in thread.

Definitely a slow burn.

Full re-read (that's why it took me 11 days), though I was severely tempted to skim the Ozzie & Orion bits.

[QuickTidal]

Finished Cook & Thompson's Elven Exile Dragonlance opener SANCTUARY. Great stuff actually, and has a bit of a different feel from the older Dragonlance fare. It pushes the world open more. I liked it. The other two volumes are in my To Read pile, so I'll get to them this year at some point.

Started Abercrombie's HALF A KING. Only about 10% into it...but damn this is fun!

Also, I LOVE that map of the Shattered Sea.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 23 January 2018 - 02:07 PM, said:

...Started Abercrombie's HALF A KING. Only about 10% into it...but damn this is fun!

Also, I LOVE that map of the Shattered Sea.

I really enjoyed that trilo. Its a really solid story with solid Abercrombie fight action and fun twists. Read back-to-back-to-back you can really appreciate the character arcs.



Still reading/listening to OATHBRINGER. At the end of part 3. Shit just got ugly for the good guys.

With that going on both eyes and ears, not much else on the go.

[Tiste Simeon]

Mentalist, on 23 January 2018 - 06:35 AM, said:

Briar King, on 23 January 2018 - 02:55 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 23 January 2018 - 02:33 AM, said:

Finished the re-read of Pandora's Star Things got pretty epic towards the end.

Will commence Judas Unchained tomorrow.

Did you truly reread or skim a bit? It exploded after page 600 something I mentioned earlier in thread.

Definitely a slow burn.

Full re-read (that's why it took me 11 days), though I was severely tempted to skim the Ozzie & Orion bits.

The best parts of those books was all the scenes in the alt universe following the story of that lad who becomes really powerful - the "fantasy" side of the story. I'd love to read a whole series set in that world tbh.

[Mentalist]

Tiste Simeon, on 23 January 2018 - 07:29 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 23 January 2018 - 06:35 AM, said:

Briar King, on 23 January 2018 - 02:55 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 23 January 2018 - 02:33 AM, said:

Finished the re-read of Pandora's Star Things got pretty epic towards the end.

Will commence Judas Unchained tomorrow.

Did you truly reread or skim a bit? It exploded after page 600 something I mentioned earlier in thread.

Definitely a slow burn.

Full re-read (that's why it took me 11 days), though I was severely tempted to skim the Ozzie & Orion bits.

The best parts of those books was all the scenes in the alt universe following the story of that lad who becomes really powerful - the "fantasy" side of the story. I'd love to read a whole series set in that world tbh.

That's the "Void" books... they're a sequel to the original duology that's set I think like a century earlier.

I also started Commonwealth by reading the first Void book, but there were too many references to the Starflyer, so I had to go back and read the first 2 first.

[Maark Abbott]

Still on Deadhouse Landing. Finding it a bit of a slog. It's just... something is missing.

[Tiste Simeon]

Mentalist, on 23 January 2018 - 07:52 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 23 January 2018 - 07:29 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 23 January 2018 - 06:35 AM, said:

Briar King, on 23 January 2018 - 02:55 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 23 January 2018 - 02:33 AM, said:

Finished the re-read of Pandora's Star Things got pretty epic towards the end.

Will commence Judas Unchained tomorrow.

Did you truly reread or skim a bit? It exploded after page 600 something I mentioned earlier in thread.

Definitely a slow burn.

Full re-read (that's why it took me 11 days), though I was severely tempted to skim the Ozzie & Orion bits.

The best parts of those books was all the scenes in the alt universe following the story of that lad who becomes really powerful - the "fantasy" side of the story. I'd love to read a whole series set in that world tbh.

That's the "Void" books... they're a sequel to the original duology that's set I think like a century earlier.

I also started Commonwealth by reading the first Void book, but there were too many references to the Starflyer, so I had to go back and read the first 2 first.

Oh yeah I forgot which books were in which series. But the void books all had the wood void in the title haha... My bad!

[Abyss]

Maark Abbott, on 23 January 2018 - 08:29 PM, said:

Still on Deadhouse Landing. Finding it a bit of a slog. It's just... something is missing.

Your soul, perhaps?

[JPK]

I just finished Persepolis Rising. Holy. Fuck. Book 8 can't possibly come soon enough.

[Chance]

Reading The Infernal Battalion and its getting very entertaining after a bit of a slow start, but it really is rather simple.

[Maark Abbott]

Abyss, on 24 January 2018 - 04:48 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 23 January 2018 - 08:29 PM, said:

Still on Deadhouse Landing. Finding it a bit of a slog. It's just... something is missing.

Your soul, perhaps?

One who is able to enjoy Oatsbinger is in no position to comment on missing souls.

[Abyss]

Maark Abbott, on 24 January 2018 - 08:40 AM, said:

Abyss, on 24 January 2018 - 04:48 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 23 January 2018 - 08:29 PM, said:

Still on Deadhouse Landing. Finding it a bit of a slog. It's just... something is missing.

Your soul, perhaps?

One who is able to enjoy Oatsbinger is in no position to comment on missing souls.

Don't you have someone getting anally fucked to death with his own frozen, dismembered dick to go write about?

[End of Disc One]

I hope Maark makes it big one day, and his comments on Sanderson are exposed and he has to awkwardly explain them to the fans.

[JPK]

I suspect Maark's fans may not overlap with Sanderson's much. It's a hunch.