[Abyss]

Andorion, on 27 September 2019 - 08:25 AM, said:

Macros, on 27 September 2019 - 08:01 AM, said:

BfuckinK, on 27 September 2019 - 12:00 AM, said:

amphibian, on 26 September 2019 - 11:49 PM, said:

What is the series that many of you like that sorta starts young adult, but turns into a lot a lot going on in a fun way?

I think it's by Pierce Brown. Idk the series name.

Something something red mars?

Red rising?

Red Rising it is.

[Abyss]

Andorion, on 27 September 2019 - 06:25 AM, said:

I surrender.

I have started Gideon.

I WIN AGAIN!


....and wow if this book doesn't stick the landing i am going to feel like SUCH an asshole....

Maark Abbott, on 27 September 2019 - 07:32 AM, said:

Abyss, on 26 September 2019 - 02:52 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 26 September 2019 - 07:46 AM, said:

Also re Gideon I will take some opinions from my reading group. From what you guys say it all sounds dandy but I'm not getting burned by a hype train for a third time.

It's funny isn't it...? ....those times when a chunk of this Forum gets all buzzy about a book and some little part of your brain just wants.... very water-cooler'esque.

Mostly my brain doesn't want to jump on a hype train that face slams me into a reading brick wall again, given that I've only just started reading again after the last one I was assured was brilliant (and wasn't).

I will watch like a cautious sneaky rogue and consider.

I get it. I totally get it. I am wholly resistant to reading almost anything that 'everyone is raving about'.

It just happened that two of my favorite authors and a third who i just recently found and very much enjoyed were all willing to stick their names on the thing.

Maark Abbott, on 27 September 2019 - 12:47 PM, said:

T77, on 27 September 2019 - 12:46 PM, said:

It doesn't hurt to download the Kindle sample.

Bold of you to assume I am one of the digital proletariat

Dude, you're posting. On a forum. On the internet.

[Imperial Historian]

BfuckinK, on 27 September 2019 - 03:47 PM, said:

Putting this here so people see it. Warning about Gideon: they ain’t all blacked out so unless your personally buying it in store you maybe risking getting a normal copy shipped to you.

Completely sold out in the shops here and not even officially released until the 1st. Hoping amazon send me the cool version!

[polishgenius]

I'ma have to wait a little before I get Gideon but man this year has been good for outlandish space stuff, glad to see more.

Just from the madness of the premise it sounds like a maybe more focussed M Suddain. Though I'm not sure anyone else has actually read M. Suddain to confirm that thought.

[JPK]

You fuckers got to me too. Starting Gideon on audio today.

[Nicodimas]

Are people here FINALLY reading red rising ?..?

[Nicodimas]

Mainly been reading AG riddle love me some dystopian sci fi..saw this felt relevant for his solar series

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[Nicodimas]

I picked up this Gideon book...the third book for AG riddle doesn’t come out until next month...thought I was reading a complete run for some reason damn it.

[worry]

Okay I bought the version of Gideon with the black pages. Now how do I have sex with it?

[Nicodimas]

worry, on 29 September 2019 - 01:58 AM, said:

Okay I bought the version of Gideon with the black pages. Now how do I have sex with it?

Lucky

[Andorion]

Nicodimas, on 28 September 2019 - 08:57 PM, said:

Mainly been reading AG riddle love me some dystopian sci fi..saw this felt relevant for his solar series

hey Nico, since you are interested in this stuff, look up Geoffrey Parker's The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. Its a huge book that looks at the fluctuations of the entire world during that cooling period

[Tsundoku]

worry, on 29 September 2019 - 01:58 AM, said:

Okay I bought the version of Gideon with the black pages. Now how do I have sex with it?

Carefully. As a paper-pusher by profession ( ) I can tell you paper cuts can sting like the ... dickens. You don't want them on your worrywarts.

BfuckinK, on 29 September 2019 - 03:26 AM, said:

Sombra, Gideon?

Maybe later, if I can get a clear consensus from our own little Goodreads franchise. I must admit having read the blurb I'm ... not sold. I'm not really into zombie/undead stuff etc. That's generally more Abyss' thang.
And besides, by the sounds of it most copies pages will be stuck together.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 29 September 2019 - 04:56 AM

[Tsundoku]

BfuckinK, on 29 September 2019 - 05:24 AM, said:

Well Ando finished it 15 secs after starting it and said he loved it.

Sounds like most honeymoons. Or truck "drives".

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 29 September 2019 - 05:39 AM

[Mentalist]

Finished Tyrant's Law. Quite a few developments there. Too bad I won't be able to grab the last 2 volumes for a few weeks (same with Traitor Son- my local Indigo doesn't have neither volumes 4 nor 5. Gonna need to take a detour after work to Eatons one day to grab those- probably with whatever birthday money I get).


Moving onto "Brief Cases" which I picked up today. Then gonna switch to my e-books probably and read the last 2 Godsdoom 2 volumes.

[Traveller]

Racing through Golden Son, which I started immediately following Red Rising. RR did start out a bit YA-ish but soon ramped up.

Darrow reminds me a lot of Jorg, without the real crazy element. Enjoying it a lot.

[Maark Abbott]

Abyss, on 27 September 2019 - 06:05 PM, said:

Andorion, on 27 September 2019 - 06:25 AM, said:

I surrender.

I have started Gideon.

I WIN AGAIN!


....and wow if this book doesn't stick the landing i am going to feel like SUCH an asshole....

Maark Abbott, on 27 September 2019 - 07:32 AM, said:

Abyss, on 26 September 2019 - 02:52 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 26 September 2019 - 07:46 AM, said:

Also re Gideon I will take some opinions from my reading group. From what you guys say it all sounds dandy but I'm not getting burned by a hype train for a third time.

It's funny isn't it...? ....those times when a chunk of this Forum gets all buzzy about a book and some little part of your brain just wants.... very water-cooler'esque.

Mostly my brain doesn't want to jump on a hype train that face slams me into a reading brick wall again, given that I've only just started reading again after the last one I was assured was brilliant (and wasn't).

I will watch like a cautious sneaky rogue and consider.

I get it. I totally get it. I am wholly resistant to reading almost anything that 'everyone is raving about'.

It just happened that two of my favorite authors and a third who i just recently found and very much enjoyed were all willing to stick their names on the thing.

Maark Abbott, on 27 September 2019 - 12:47 PM, said:

T77, on 27 September 2019 - 12:46 PM, said:

It doesn't hurt to download the Kindle sample.

Bold of you to assume I am one of the digital proletariat

Dude, you're posting. On a forum. On the internet.

Obviously I mean in terms of how I read, you damn trolloc lover.

[QuickTidal]

So while you've all been reading Gideon, I've dived fully and non-regretfully into my first Melanie Rawn novel, EXILE: THE RUINS OF AMBRAI, and I must say that it is absolutely engrossing as hell. It's giving me Kate Elliot/Crown Of Stars vibes as far as the world and the politicking. What's REALLY interesting is that Lenfell is (as a result of a disastrous war in its ancient history) matriarchal...and I mean to the nth degree. Men wear coifs, and are basically treated much like women are usually treated in a medieval fantasy setting....like I just read a chapter where you learn that brothels (Bowers) are run by women and populated by young men for noble women to pay for. Man, it's so interesting because that's such a different POV than I'm used to reading in this sort of book. It's also wonderfully written from a prose angle. Rawn is adept at setting the table...I mean hell, I had a prologue about a young male (50-60 pages), then another 50-60 with the first of the three lead sister characters, then another 50-60 with the second sister, and am about to embark on another 50-60 revolving around the youngest sister...BEFORE the narrative really takes off at around page 200+.

Anyways, really enjoying.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 30 September 2019 - 01:32 PM

[Chance]

Finished the latest Alex Verus novel Fallen today and found it pretty nice, still not the best Urban Fantasy around but certainly nice enough and it has a few really good moments towards the end.

Also finished up Gideon the Ninth a couple of days ago, my take on it is clever dialogue and some nice scenes but it is too limited in scope to be really good. Basically a lot of fun but not too memorable.

This post has been edited by Chance: 30 September 2019 - 01:37 PM

[polishgenius]

I decided to restart and finally continue three series that I'd begun and not finished despite being good books by three of my favourite authors - The Expanse, Pratchett and Baxter's Long Earth, and Elizabeth Bear's Jenny Casey trilogy.
Doing all three at the same time has been a bit strange because all three share enough concepts and ideas (Casey in particular sitting in between the other two but there is some overlap between Long Earth and Expanse in terms of theme) that I'm starting to get a big foggy sometimes on which detail was in which book.

[amphibian]

Chance, on 30 September 2019 - 01:34 PM, said:

Finished the latest Alex Verus novel Fallen today and found it pretty nice, still not the best Urban Fantasy around but certainly nice enough and it has a few really good moments towards the end.

A ton of payoffs in relation to what had gone before. I still feel like Jacka isn't able to conjure truly brain melting fantasy for sustained bursts. It's all little pieces and a return to the world we live in.

Still worth it though.