[JPK]

QuickTidal, on 15 September 2020 - 09:13 PM, said:

Tsundoku, on 15 September 2020 - 10:07 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 14 September 2020 - 01:08 PM, said:

I'm about 25% into THE CURSE OF THE MISTWRAITH by Janny Wurts...and I feel like you all have been holding out a big secret from me.

This book is stunning. Like the characters, the prose, the setting, the world building, the slow burn nature of the story all great...It feels like this is one of those big Fantasy authors I should have already read at this point.

I was so impressed that I've gone ALL IN. I found MOST of the rest existing series on used-book sites and ordered every one of them.

Ando, hopefully I'll catch up to your read-through at some point and I can join in the thread you started.

So yeah, really impressed.

Ahem:

YOUR OWN THREAD

https://forum.malaza...__1#entry846405

2011?!

Holy crapsnacks. Turns out, I never tried the sample chapters at the time when I said I was gonna. I have absolutely no memory of every creating a thread when I first heard of the series all those years ago. Should have searched I guess...

Well, I take back the 'you've been holding out on me part'...still, really enjoying.

If you wanted to res that old thread (I think someone already has) to post thoughts as you go skiing, I'd be super interested in following your read-through thread.

[Zeto Demerzel]

Just finished the Rai-Kirah trilogy and enjoyed it. The denouement was a bit unsatisfactory for my liking but I found it a relatively original, interesting read overall.

Reading Revelation Space 3 - Redemption Ark and enjoying that one too. Didn't fancy book 2 (Chasm City) at all but looks like the series is back to form with book 3.

Also started book 1 of The Emberverse. Fairly ambivalent about this one at this point.

[Macros]

Emberverse picks up fairly well, I've read the first trilogy, solid enough

[Chance]

Zeto Demerzel, on 16 September 2020 - 05:18 AM, said:

Also started book 1 of The Emberverse. Fairly ambivalent about this one at this point.

It takes a while to get going. Personally I think the first three are rather good with the second one slightly less so. After that its very much up and down with some of the best books coming closer to the end, by that point the series isn't much of what it started as however.

[QuickTidal]

JPK, on 16 September 2020 - 03:48 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 15 September 2020 - 09:13 PM, said:

Tsundoku, on 15 September 2020 - 10:07 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 14 September 2020 - 01:08 PM, said:

I'm about 25% into THE CURSE OF THE MISTWRAITH by Janny Wurts...and I feel like you all have been holding out a big secret from me.

This book is stunning. Like the characters, the prose, the setting, the world building, the slow burn nature of the story all great...It feels like this is one of those big Fantasy authors I should have already read at this point.

I was so impressed that I've gone ALL IN. I found MOST of the rest existing series on used-book sites and ordered every one of them.

Ando, hopefully I'll catch up to your read-through at some point and I can join in the thread you started.

So yeah, really impressed.

Ahem:

YOUR OWN THREAD

https://forum.malaza...__1#entry846405

2011?!

Holy crapsnacks. Turns out, I never tried the sample chapters at the time when I said I was gonna. I have absolutely no memory of every creating a thread when I first heard of the series all those years ago. Should have searched I guess...

Well, I take back the 'you've been holding out on me part'...still, really enjoying.

If you wanted to res that old thread (I think someone already has) to post thoughts as you go skiing, I'd be super interested in following your read-through thread.

Either that or Ando has a thread about the series as well. I'll deirnitely chime in with how I'm doing after this first book.

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 06 September 2020 - 02:46 AM, said:

Xpost from the comics thread...

Abyss, on 06 September 2020 - 02:45 AM, said:

People.

THE SANDMAN audible full cast audio adaptation earbook... it's absofuckinglutely amazeballs.

Seriously. You know how you read something great and wish you could read it again for the first time?

It's that, for the comics. Three chapters in and I am blown.
the fuck.
away.

If you read and loved those comics, you need to listen to this.
If you have not read and loved those comics, I am judging you. Harshly.
And you need to listen to this, but maybe read the comics first.

Just Finished.

Holy. Dreamfuck.

That was... that was like reading a really great comic you've read a dozen times only the story is different even tho the everything is almost the same. James MacEnvoy NAILS Morpheus' voice, Gaiman is his usual glorious narrator, the rest of the cast are brilliant.
They cover, more or less, the first two tpbs, from Morpheus being imprisoned through Midsummer Night's Dream. Some things they expand, some they condense, but it's all there... his escape and recovery, Lucifer, the other Sandman, the OTHER other Sandman, Death, Hob, the dream vortex, Desire and Despair fucking about, the Cereal convention (the CORINTHIAN!), the cats, Will Shakespeare.... all of it, and it's SO SO GOOD.
I'd be interested in knowing how someone who didn't read the comics enjoyed this, but moi.... *chef's kiss* ... this was fucking earbook perfection for the most part. Some of the fx heavy parts aren't as clear as one might hope, but that's a limit on the medium and they make it work.

I need to relisten to a few parts. I probably need to reread the comics too just because.

[Macros]

Finally actually started Fall of Gondolin there this evening

[Cyphon]

Finished stonewielder which hasn't improved with time and started Grass by Sheri Topper, as part of the SF Masterworks series.

Still listening to Harrow the Ninth when opportunity allows too which I'm enjoying. Does feel like the book is trying to be clever, guess I'll find out whether it is by the end.

[Tsundoku]

Briar King, on 18 September 2020 - 12:02 AM, said:

Ok you sexy nerd dorks I once again call on y’all to list me a good 40K intro Omni. I’m gonna order some while I’m here in Houston but my head is spinning at the sheer number of books and i is a lost motherfucker looking through them.

HELP ME MY FELLOW GEEKSQUAD!

Anything by Dan Abnett.

I'd suggest the Marneus Calgar stuff Paul Kearney is doing but he has only done the first two at the moment.

[QuickTidal]

Tsundoku, on 18 September 2020 - 04:00 AM, said:

Briar King, on 18 September 2020 - 12:02 AM, said:

Ok you sexy nerd dorks I once again call on y’all to list me a good 40K intro Omni. I’m gonna order some while I’m here in Houston but my head is spinning at the sheer number of books and i is a lost motherfucker looking through them.

HELP ME MY FELLOW GEEKSQUAD!

Anything by Dan Abnett.

More specifically these omnibuses:

Gaunts Ghosts

THE FOUNDING by Dan Abnett
THE SAINT by Dan Abnett
THE LOST by Dan Abnett
THE VICTORY P1 and P2 by Dan Abnett

The the Inquisitorius books

EISENHORN by Dan Abnett
RAVENOR by Dan Abnett
BEQUIN by Dan Abnett
THE MAGOS by Dan Abnett

Don't get into HORUS until you have a solid grounding in the WH40k world.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 18 September 2020 - 11:18 AM

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 19 September 2020 - 01:22 AM, said:

Is The Victory pt 2 even out yet? I can’t find it on Amazon.

Not yet. Soon I think.

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

Just finished a Dread Empire reread and then Peace Talks. Decided to revisit some Malazan books, starting with Knight of Knives.

[Macros]

What QTnsaid.

All of the gaunt ghosts

[T77]

Currently reading the 3rd Gaunt's Ghost book Necropolis, it's so good. I need to purchase the omibusis' I don't have.

[Tsundoku]

Surely you can return it and ask for it to be replaced?

[Tiste Simeon]

So I've been reading what you're all saying and I found something called THE FOUNDING on Kindle for 1.99 which appears to be all the Gaunt's Ghosts books in one omnibus.

I know you'll say that's worth it but is there anything else I'd need to read first?

[Tiste Simeon]

Finished Turn Coat! Onto Changes!

[Abyss]

THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR
So far so good. I really like the narrative style.

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 20 September 2020 - 09:24 PM, said:

So I've been reading what you're all saying and I found something called THE FOUNDING on Kindle for 1.99 which appears to be all the Gaunt's Ghosts books in one omnibus.

I know you'll say that's worth it but is there anything else I'd need to read first?

Briar King, on 20 September 2020 - 09:35 PM, said:

QT and Mac said to start there if your a newbie.

Yep, if you've not done any WH40K books, that's the bess place to start. For my money, they are also the best books I've read in the WH universe...and yeah 2pounds for the first three books (which is what's in THE FOUNDING) is a damned good price. Grab it.

[Macros]

That's a bargain for the founding, BL books have a habit of being nastily expensive