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T77, on 04 February 2020 - 06:49 PM, said:

... Luckily Audible just offered me 3 credits for $30.

that's better than usual - how did you get that offer?

[JPK]

Oh, I didn't realize Ray Porter narrates Clines' works. I loved him on the Bobiverse books. I've been meaning to get around to The Fold forever. I think I'll start it when I finish The Burning White.

You know what, scratch that. I'll reread 14 first. I haven't read it since right after launch and I loved that book.

Between this, The Great Malaz Reread, and a reread of Wolfe's New Sun books this is really getting up to be the year of the reread for me.

This post has been edited by JPK: 04 February 2020 - 10:44 PM

[Maark Abbott]

For full novels, I am halfway through Arbonne and enjoying it very much. It's criminal to have taken so long to get to this.

For light novels, I am halfway through Realist Hero 1. It's certainly a change of pace.

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JPK, on 04 February 2020 - 10:27 PM, said:

Oh, I didn't realize Ray Porter narrates Clines' works. ...

Pay Porter could read the ingredients list for powdered milk and make it sound epic.

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Maark Abbott, on 05 February 2020 - 08:22 AM, said:

For full novels, I am halfway through Arbonne and enjoying it very much. It's criminal to have taken so long to get to this.

...

I have always thought ARBONNE underrated among GGK's work. I expected to like LIONS and SARANTIUM because of word of mouth, but i knew nothing of ARBONNE going in and it blew me away.


Unlike, oh, i dunno... TIGANA.

[T77]

Abyss, on 04 February 2020 - 08:11 PM, said:

T77, on 04 February 2020 - 06:49 PM, said:

... Luckily Audible just offered me 3 credits for $30.

that's better than usual - how did you get that offer?

I don't know. I bought a year sub in July. I had 7 or so credits and they just had the promo to redeem credits and get cash. I redeemed 6 and the offer was at the top of the page. I haven't done it yet, I've been out of control lately buying books. I did jump on Gideon yesterday.

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T77, on 05 February 2020 - 03:27 PM, said:

Abyss, on 04 February 2020 - 08:11 PM, said:

T77, on 04 February 2020 - 06:49 PM, said:

... Luckily Audible just offered me 3 credits for $30.

that's better than usual - how did you get that offer?

I don't know. I bought a year sub in July. I had 7 or so credits and they just had the promo to redeem credits and get cash. I redeemed 6 and the offer was at the top of the page. I haven't done it yet, I've been out of control lately buying books. I did jump on Gideon yesterday.

They gave you your money back for unused credits then lured you to buy more?
Evil genii, these people.

FYI, you can get a 'silver' membership which is one credit every second month, and you still get the two free originals every month.

But $10/credit is utterly worthwhile since it's usually $15/credit/month, or $13/credit to buy three more.

[Tiste Simeon]

In the UK 3 credits is £18 which is an excellent deal. My family got me 12 credits last year for my birthday and that was about £65 I think.

[Maark Abbott]

Abyss, on 05 February 2020 - 02:41 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 05 February 2020 - 08:22 AM, said:

For full novels, I am halfway through Arbonne and enjoying it very much. It's criminal to have taken so long to get to this.

...

I have always thought ARBONNE underrated among GGK's work. I expected to like LIONS and SARANTIUM because of word of mouth, but i knew nothing of ARBONNE going in and it blew me away.


Unlike, oh, i dunno... TIGANA.

The twists and turns catch me off guard every time. I genuinely have no idea where it's going.

For my next book I am gonna choose four off of my TRP and then roll a D4 for it.

[T77]

Abyss, on 05 February 2020 - 04:27 PM, said:

T77, on 05 February 2020 - 03:27 PM, said:

Abyss, on 04 February 2020 - 08:11 PM, said:

T77, on 04 February 2020 - 06:49 PM, said:

... Luckily Audible just offered me 3 credits for $30.

that's better than usual - how did you get that offer?

I don't know. I bought a year sub in July. I had 7 or so credits and they just had the promo to redeem credits and get cash. I redeemed 6 and the offer was at the top of the page. I haven't done it yet, I've been out of control lately buying books. I did jump on Gideon yesterday.

They gave you your money back for unused credits then lured you to buy more?
Evil genii, these people.

FYI, you can get a 'silver' membership which is one credit every second month, and you still get the two free originals every month.

But $10/credit is utterly worthwhile since it's usually $15/credit/month, or $13/credit to buy three more.

Yeah, it's a good deal. I re-subbed in July with a Prime deal for about $8 a credit for a year.

Didn't know about the silver membership. I usually do the platinum, 2 credits a month for 22.50. But, they hide it now, you have to ask support for it.

What I don't like is that credits now expire after a year.

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T77, on 06 February 2020 - 01:45 PM, said:

...

Yeah, it's a good deal. I re-subbed in July with a Prime deal for about $8 a credit for a year.

Didn't know about the silver membership. I usually do the platinum, 2 credits a month for 22.50. But, they hide it now, you have to ask support for it.

What I don't like is that credits now expire after a year.

Saw that prime deal but since i was already in couldn't take it.
They hide Silver too. I find the 1 year expiration better than the cap on how many you could carry month to month.
But then, i'm looking at six credits, you're looking at 24.

[Andorion]

I am going through one of my history phases and reading very detailed naval history books I found at the library.

I did finish Children of Earth and Sky by GGK. Meh book for me. Too many plotlines, nothing much happened. And after

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the portrait stuff was done, GGK just wrapped up the rest.

[Salt-Man Z]

Catching up on my 2020 so far:

C. S. E. Cooney's Desdemona and the Deep was pretty good. It's set in a kind of industrial-era alternate Earth (we first meet upper-class Desdemona at a benefit for girls deformed by phosphorus exposure while working at the candle factory) and the stuff in that setting is great. Then Desdemona goes on a quest to the underworld(s) and it loses me for a bit there. (I've never really been a fan of stuff set in Fae lands; even the parts of Dresden that deal with Faeries bore me.) It does stick the landing, however, and is a pretty short and sweet read. (Cooney was also a devotee and close friend of Gene Wolfe, and her Bone Swans collection is excellent.)

Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones & The Six was absolutely fantastic, and I read it over two nights that each lasted until 2AM. It's presented as a series of interviews telling an oral history of a hugely popular 70s rock band (fictional of course.) I could not put it down. Interestingly, at the end it pulls a little bit of a

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HIMYM

Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow was also great. A young girl in early 20th-century Mexico accidentally releases an imprisoned Mayan god, and must help him reclaim his throne. I need to track more of Moreno-Garcia's stuff, since I've loved everything of hers I've read.

Currently reading Samantha Shannon's Priory of the Orange Tree which I went into knowing nothing about. It looks to be a secondary-world fantasy about... dragonriders? I would not have guessed that to be the case, but there it is.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Finished GotM (r3). Starting DG.

[Macros]

@SMZ

We did gods of jade and Shadow for the December book club, there's a ded thread in the bookclub forum!

[Tiste Simeon]

I FINALLY finished MST. And I feel... Meh. It was finally beginning to feel exciting and then TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER PART 2 happened and it was just sooooo boring!

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I actually didn't mind the very end. It tied off quite nicely and I don't think there was any major plot points that weren't finished, which was a concern. I especially liked the reunion of Rachel and Simon. But it felt rushed in comparison to the hours of drudgery that it took to get there. Was it worth it? Don't think it was tbh. Kind of feel like I've wasted 120+hours of listening times... I really want to start OTHERLAND again now as I always loved that - I want to see if would hate that story now (and if so would I have enjoyed MST at the time?)

Anyways I'm glad it is done. I have started the audiobook of RED RISING. I already like the setting of the mines on Mars. Compared to MST it feels very quick paced haha.

[QuickTidal]

Sorry you didn't end up digging MS&T Tiste. I admit those last two books are very sloggy.

On my side, I finished ANARCH in about 3 days. Hell that was a great read! Just non-stop till the end.

And I'm excited that it's not QUITE the end of the Ghosts, and the dangling plot threads are interesting...

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The Eagle Stones being something that even the archenemy and the warp don't think should be used, and are "alien" [wtf are they?!]....plus, the Ghosts need to get their New Tanith. And MKoll needs to make it to the very end. I was SO glad he didn't bite it in this book as he's a fave character (along with Baskevyl, Rawne, and Hark...and Gaunt of course). Dalin and Yoncy though? All the way since they were introduced? Fuuuuuuuucking hell Dan Abnett....you sly bastard!

[End of Disc One]

Tiste Simeon, on 07 February 2020 - 09:07 AM, said:

I FINALLY finished MST. And I feel... Meh. It was finally beginning to feel exciting and then TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER PART 2 happened and it was just sooooo boring!

Spoiler

I actually didn't mind the very end. It tied off quite nicely and I don't think there was any major plot points that weren't finished, which was a concern. I especially liked the reunion of Rachel and Simon. But it felt rushed in comparison to the hours of drudgery that it took to get there. Was it worth it? Don't think it was tbh. Kind of feel like I've wasted 120+hours of listening times... I really want to start OTHERLAND again now as I always loved that - I want to see if would hate that story now (and if so would I have enjoyed MST at the time?)

Anyways I'm glad it is done. I have started the audiobook of RED RISING. I already like the setting of the mines on Mars. Compared to MST it feels very quick paced haha.

Lol from MST to Red Rising, that must be quite the whiplash. Hope you enjoy!

[Abyss]

End of Disc One, on 07 February 2020 - 03:22 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 07 February 2020 - 09:07 AM, said:

I FINALLY finished MST. And I feel... Meh. It was finally beginning to feel exciting and then TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER PART 2 happened and it was just sooooo boring!

Spoiler

I actually didn't mind the very end. It tied off quite nicely and I don't think there was any major plot points that weren't finished, which was a concern. I especially liked the reunion of Rachel and Simon. But it felt rushed in comparison to the hours of drudgery that it took to get there. Was it worth it? Don't think it was tbh. Kind of feel like I've wasted 120+hours of listening times... I really want to start OTHERLAND again now as I always loved that - I want to see if would hate that story now (and if so would I have enjoyed MST at the time?)

Anyways I'm glad it is done. I have started the audiobook of RED RISING. I already like the setting of the mines on Mars. Compared to MST it feels very quick paced haha.

Lol from MST to Red Rising, that must be quite the whiplash. Hope you enjoy!

Compared to MST, sloth naps feel very quick paced.

[Salt-Man Z]

Macros, on 07 February 2020 - 07:57 AM, said:

We did gods of jade and Shadow for the December book club, there's a ded thread in the bookclub forum!

Oh yeah, that's right! I didn't have the book then, but then I nabbed it on sale mid-January. I'll have to check out the ded thread, thanks!