[Coco with marshmallows]

Abyss, on 04 April 2019 - 07:29 PM, said:

Aptorian, on 04 April 2019 - 06:46 PM, said:

Hmm, I don't think I'm old enough to read your fan fiction yet, QT.

Start with his Dora the Explorer vs Predator series. It's fairly tame.

I dunno, that scene where Swiper gets swiped is a little grisly....

[Tiste Simeon]

QuickTidal, on 04 April 2019 - 06:43 PM, said:

Aptorian, on 04 April 2019 - 06:11 PM, said:

This Harry August, are you referring to the first fifteen lives of Harry August?

No, it's Harry August & The Dildo of Peril

Man I hate it when they do unnecessary sequels...

[worry]

I dunno, I kinda wanna know what's so perilous about this dildo now.

[Mentalist]

"Pattern recognition" starts off nigh-on incomprehensible (fashion, brands and minute clothing details I can't even begin to imagine, much less care about). Honestly thought I was gonna have to put the book away.

Thankfully, it eventually transitions into subconscious manipulation via marketing and psychological influencing, and I understand stuff again.

[Abyss]

Coco with marshmallows, on 04 April 2019 - 07:41 PM, said:

Abyss, on 04 April 2019 - 07:29 PM, said:

Aptorian, on 04 April 2019 - 06:46 PM, said:

Hmm, I don't think I'm old enough to read your fan fiction yet, QT.

Start with his Dora the Explorer vs Predator series. It's fairly tame.

I dunno, that scene where Swiper gets swiped is a little grisly....

He stopped short of narrating the bit where the Predator rips his skull and spine out.And honestly the scene where Dora calls in an air strike and directs it with Map was damn cool.

[Tsundoku]

Briar King, on 05 April 2019 - 12:47 AM, said:

Woot woot! It’s only taken 35 days but I have finally managed to make it from pg 185 to pg 186 of Dust of Dreams!

I think I got there in 2009 and haven't moved further since ...

[Zetubal]

Salt-Man Z, on 04 April 2019 - 03:21 PM, said:

Zetubal, on 04 April 2019 - 10:26 AM, said:

Now, though I hear good things about "The Silver Spike"

Lol, where did you hear that? Seriously, though, I'm surprised you hadn't read this one yet, since it ties up the loose ends from the original trilogy (and as such is probably best read immediately thereafter.)

Um...people, I guess. I think back when I started reading the series, I wasn't entirely sure where books like The Silver Spike or Port of Shadows fit in, so I skipped them for the time being.

Salt-Man Z, on 04 April 2019 - 03:21 PM, said:

Zetubal, on 04 April 2019 - 10:26 AM, said:

Harry August or Library at Mount Char.

You can't go wrong with either of those, though the initial absurdity of Char might make it slightly harder to get into.

Glad to hear that. Oh, and I don't mind absurdity.

Tiste Simeon, on 04 April 2019 - 03:52 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 04 April 2019 - 03:21 PM, said:

Zetubal, on 04 April 2019 - 10:26 AM, said:

Harry August or Library at Mount Char.

You can't go wrong with either of those, though the initial absurdity of Char might make it slightly harder to get into.

Agreed both are excellent. Char is utterly bonkers though so like SMZ said it might be more difficult to initially get into. Well worth it though.

Harry August is one of my favourite books of the past few years it is just amazing.

As said above, this sounds promising enough

Aptorian, on 04 April 2019 - 06:11 PM, said:

This Harry August, are you referring to the first fifteen lives of Harry August?

Yup, that's the one.

[Abyss]

Tsundoku, on 05 April 2019 - 12:06 PM, said:

Briar King, on 05 April 2019 - 12:47 AM, said:

Woot woot! It's only taken 35 days but I have finally managed to make it from pg 185 to pg 186 of Dust of Dreams!

I think I got there in 2009 and haven't moved further since ...

Heretics.

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 02 April 2019 - 09:25 PM, said:

polishgenius, on 02 April 2019 - 08:41 PM, said:

Briar King, on 02 April 2019 - 06:07 PM, said:

I want to read something epic. Malazan and Inheritance just ain’t doing it for me right now. Only reading to complete at this point.

Considering picking up Shogun, Solar Cycle, Tigana, Shadow March, Shadows of the Apt, Dragonbone Chair or Briar King.

Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle is what you want. Trust a man.

I really wanted to love that book, I just... Couldn't... I got quite far in too!

I've tried it twice, and could not make it through.

Mary Gentle is not for me.

[polishgenius]

Man, double stamps are haaaaaaaaaaaard.

[QuickTidal]

Lol! They are.

I finished THE BOOK OF DUST and it was wonderful throughout!

And now...HOLY. SISTER. booya!

[amphibian]

QuickTidal, on 05 April 2019 - 04:52 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 02 April 2019 - 09:25 PM, said:

polishgenius, on 02 April 2019 - 08:41 PM, said:

Briar King, on 02 April 2019 - 06:07 PM, said:

I want to read something epic. Malazan and Inheritance just ain’t doing it for me right now. Only reading to complete at this point.

Considering picking up Shogun, Solar Cycle, Tigana, Shadow March, Shadows of the Apt, Dragonbone Chair or Briar King.

Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle is what you want. Trust a man.

I really wanted to love that book, I just... Couldn't... I got quite far in too!

I've tried it twice, and could not make it through.

Mary Gentle is not for me.

She takes so much painstaking care to set scenes with her extremely deep technical knowledge of medieval customs, technology, and so on. I'm halfway through Ilario right now, which goes deep into book copying, scribing, painting, sculpture etc.

The backdrop is the crazy freaky stuff like the eternal darkness over Carthage, the animate golems etc. Hopefully Ilario is like Ash in that the crazy gets really really crazy and the work is worth it.

Ash broke my brain for a bit. It's that good for me, but I realize MG isn't for everyone.

[Tiste Simeon]

QuickTidal, on 05 April 2019 - 08:37 PM, said:

Lol! They are.

QT and I agree on a surprising amount. Like how boring Bakker is. And how The Last Jedi is the jewel of the Star Wars crown

[polishgenius]

amphibian, on 05 April 2019 - 09:00 PM, said:

She takes so much painstaking care to set scenes with her extremely deep technical knowledge of medieval customs, technology, and so on.

She got a Masters in War Studies specifically for Ash (she already had one in 17th century studies but I dunno if that was for anything specific).


I did like Ash more than Ilario, but I think that was mostly because I like Ash herself more than Ilario (which isn't to say that I didn't like Ilario, but Ash is one of my favourite characters ever). Very different books though ultimately- Ilario is more like a really dense Guy Gavriel Kay novel, and is more heavily character rather than plot focused.

Tiste Simeon, on 05 April 2019 - 09:21 PM, said:

QT and I agree on a surprising amount. Like how boring Bakker is. And how The Last Jedi is the jewel of the Star Wars crown

QT and I agree on very little and that's why the double stamp is the highest possible honour a book can get (it seems to happen a little more for movies, though we still disagree plenty ). Hugo awards eat your heart out.

This post has been edited by polishgenius: 05 April 2019 - 10:03 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

I'm currently reading 84K by Claire North. Had anyone read this? Sheesh it's bleak. Not necessarily the plot, but more the world she describes in it, a hyper-capitalist Britain whereby everything is privatised including the government and everything can be audited and priced, including crime and if you're rich you can just pay the fee and you're considered as done, and the more you're seen to be able to contribute to society the more you're worth in these things, and if you're poor good luck getting an ambulance or police or fire or even a bus, and those who aren't considered good contributors to society live outside of it and flipping heck it's a Tory wet dream and we're already halfway there.

It's good though.

[Mentalist]

Finished "Pattern Recognition" . Once the fashion-speak died down, it's a decent thriller-type techno-punk thingy.

Next week in commute I'll got for Erikson's "Willful Child: the Wrath of Betty" .

I've been curious about "Ash" but unable to locate in dead tree, and reading a book over 1k pages on my phone just feels like masochism.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 08 April 2019 - 12:59 AM

[polishgenius]

After flying through re-reads of Good Omens (still great) and Raising Steam (in some ways better than I remembered but in others weirdly almost nasty in a way that just doesn't befit Discworld at all, and still suffers from the fact that what you've got is half a book of steam engine and train proselytising and then half a book of plot) I've dived into Adrian Tchaikovsky's latest, Cage of Souls.

So far, it's a sort of dying Earth prison novel. Tell you what, apart from the variety of his imagination and the sheer mindblowing volume he puts out (this is 400+ pages! He's got another full-length book coming out in May, a novella shortly after that, and he published four books last year! The man is insane!) the thing that stands out is how well he's able to change his authorial voice. Nothing super fancy or complicated, but the tone of each book/series is different, and sometimes it's narrated and sometimes it's not and when it is you get a sense of the completely different natures between, say, the lead in this book and the dog in Dogs of War.

This post has been edited by polishgenius: 07 April 2019 - 11:31 PM

[Abyss]

Mentalist, on 07 April 2019 - 10:58 PM, said:

...

I've been curious about "Ash" but unable to locate in dead tree, and reading a book over 1k pages on my phone just feels like masochism.

You want mine?

[Mentalist]

Abyss, on 08 April 2019 - 03:39 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 07 April 2019 - 10:58 PM, said:

...

I've been curious about "Ash" but unable to locate in dead tree, and reading a book over 1k pages on my phone just feels like masochism.

You want mine?

If you're giving it away, sure, lol

[Aptorian]

It's free but shipping will be 500 dollars.