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#25401 Abyss

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Posted 25 October 2019 - 02:19 PM

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Currently still in Alex Verus 6 HIDDEN,....

Hey, this series really does get better as it proceeds. Wrapped 5 (not 6) HIDDEN, straight into 6, VEILED. All good.

...And i do so love the trope where the reader meets a crew of hardass warriors and you know, you just know, most of them are dead meat and the only question is how they go. The action in this book so far has been exceptionally entertaining so i'm looking fwd to the slaughter...

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#25402 Whisperzzzzzzz

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Posted 25 October 2019 - 02:41 PM

QuickTidal, on 25 October 2019 - 02:14 PM, said:

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 25 October 2019 - 01:45 PM, said:

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 23 October 2019 - 01:08 AM, said:

Islington's The Shadow Of What Was Lost while I wait for Red Queen's War book 2 to arrive.

EDIT: I can't pinpoint exactly why, but I'm getting real WoT vibes from this (only 15 pages in). Good vibes (though I haven't read any WoT in like 15+ years).

This is so good! Constant "oh wow!"s and "no way!"s.

Oh boy, if you like the first book, you're going to LOVE the second. Such a great series. Very WOT-like but without the extra fluff. Ilsington does a great job at subverting expectations and replacing them with even more complex and interesting revelations.

Good to know! The pacing of book 1 is great so far — definitely no fluff.

#25403 End of Disc One

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Posted 25 October 2019 - 04:36 PM

I want to start An Echo of Things to Come soon, but the new Lightbringer book just came out and I don't have time...maybe I'll add both into my rotation.

#25404 QuickTidal

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Posted 25 October 2019 - 05:07 PM

End of Disc One, on 25 October 2019 - 04:36 PM, said:

I want to start An Echo of Things to Come soon, but the new Lightbringer book just came out and I don't have time...maybe I'll add both into my rotation.

If it helps, ECHO ends on a kind of cliffhanger or two...so if you wait till after Xmas, then THE LIGHT OF ALL THAT FALLS will be out (Dec. 10th I believe), and you can crash through books 2 and 3 together.

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#25405 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 25 October 2019 - 09:45 PM

Just finished reading a book called "Cloud of Sparrows" by Takashi Matsuoka. Pretty great story of American missionaries in Japan towards the end of the samurai era when guns were becoming more widely used. Fascinating plot with likeable characters. And ninjas.

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#25406 Whisperzzzzzzz

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Posted 26 October 2019 - 02:21 AM

End of Disc One, on 25 October 2019 - 04:36 PM, said:

I want to start An Echo of Things to Come soon, but the new Lightbringer book just came out and I don't have time...maybe I'll add both into my rotation.

Starting Islington's An Echo Of Things To Come.

#25407 Dadding

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Posted 27 October 2019 - 03:27 PM

Finished up Jack Vance's DYING EARTH series last week, very creative and great world-building, but I couldn't help but wish for something a little longer, more connected, and more novel-like to sink my teeth into. So I started Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN and finished up Book 1 pretty quickly. I love it. Getting some Malazan-vibes in terms of no hand-holding and treating the reader like an adult.

A nice breath of fresh air from WHEEL OF TIME - I'm on book 7, it's still mediocre.

#25408 Whisperzzzzzzz

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Posted 27 October 2019 - 04:20 PM

BfuckinK, on 26 October 2019 - 03:28 AM, said:

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 26 October 2019 - 02:21 AM, said:

End of Disc One, on 25 October 2019 - 04:36 PM, said:

I want to start An Echo of Things to Come soon, but the new Lightbringer book just came out and I don't have time...maybe I'll add both into my rotation.

Starting Islington's An Echo Of Things To Come.

Hey let me know how those white covers stand up to finger smudges/oil/dirt.

I'll be wearing latex gloves as I read this. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

#25409 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 28 October 2019 - 03:57 PM

For my Halloween read, I've started Caitlín R. Kiernan's Silk, which I finally found a couple of weeks ago after picking up its sequel on the clearance rack 6 years ago. About 80 pages in and still waiting for the plot to show up, but Kiernan's writing is so good I'm not bothered.

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―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch

#25410 Maark Abbott

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Posted 29 October 2019 - 08:51 AM

Hol the fuck up

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Debut novel 'Incarnate' now available on Kindle

#25411 acesn8s

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Posted 29 October 2019 - 12:04 PM

Finished The Ember Blade last night. It has the making of a solid fantasy series.

Starting Warriors of the Altaii by the late Robert Jordan. It has the feel of proto-Randland mixed with Conan so far.

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#25412 T77

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Posted 29 October 2019 - 12:46 PM

acesn8s, on 29 October 2019 - 12:04 PM, said:

Finished Warrior of the Altaii and thought it was good.

#25413 QuickTidal

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Posted 29 October 2019 - 01:14 PM

Maark Abbott, on 29 October 2019 - 08:51 AM, said:

Hol the fuck up

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MODGOD NOTICE OF NO DON'T TELL HIM, DON'T TELL HIM LET HIM FIND OUT....

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....WHUP, AH WELL, CARRY ON.

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#25414 Abyss

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Posted 29 October 2019 - 02:02 PM

Maark Abbott, on 29 October 2019 - 08:51 AM, said:

Hol the fuck up

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RAFO.

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#25415 Abyss

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Posted 29 October 2019 - 02:03 PM

BfuckinK, on 29 October 2019 - 04:58 AM, said:

Finished Gideon finally. That took much longer then I wanted.

twss.

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#25416 Abyss

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Posted 29 October 2019 - 02:04 PM

T77, on 29 October 2019 - 12:46 PM, said:

acesn8s, on 29 October 2019 - 12:04 PM, said:

Finished Warrior of the Altaii and thought it was good.

Ok, okaayyyyyy, i think i need to know more.

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#25417 QuickTidal

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Posted 29 October 2019 - 02:19 PM

QuickTidal, on 29 October 2019 - 01:14 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 29 October 2019 - 08:51 AM, said:

Hol the fuck up

Spoiler

MODGOD NOTICE OF NO DON'T TELL HIM, DON'T TELL HIM LET HIM FIND OUT....

Spoiler

....WHUP, AH WELL, CARRY ON.

TBF, it sounds like he's discovered this on his own and just wants confirmation?

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#25418 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 29 October 2019 - 02:24 PM

Started reading SENLIN ASCENDS for the reading group. Seems quite fun so far even if the protagonist seems rubbish (I feel like that's the point and half the story is going to be his redemption/ascendancy

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#25419 acesn8s

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Posted 29 October 2019 - 07:26 PM

Abyss, on 29 October 2019 - 02:04 PM, said:

T77, on 29 October 2019 - 12:46 PM, said:

acesn8s, on 29 October 2019 - 12:04 PM, said:

Finished Warrior of the Altaii and thought it was good.

Ok, okaayyyyyy, i think i need to know more.

Mix in a little John Norman's Gor series as well.

Background on the book from the intro:
Jordan wrote Warriors of the Altaii before his Conan and Wheel of Time books. It was picked up by 2 separate publishers but never released. They dusted it off finally and published it earlier this month. It's about 350 pages. Written in the first person, it is about a Barbarian named Wulfgar.

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#25420 amphibian

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Posted 29 October 2019 - 07:35 PM

Tiste Simeon, on 29 October 2019 - 02:24 PM, said:

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He gets... very not rubbish, but it takes the Tower and its inhabitants to push him into doing it.

I quite love the series for its almost steampunk Douglas Adams with a better through story nature.

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