[QuickTidal]

THE DRAWING OF THREE by Stephen King

This is...really good.

[T77]

QuickTidal, on 27 February 2025 - 01:16 PM, said:

THE DRAWING OF THREE by Stephen King

This is...really good.

Dark Tower is one of my favorite series. I almost didn't read it due to hearing the last three books are not good. I liked the last three books. I have been thinking of doing a reread for years now.

[HoosierDaddy]

QuickTidal, on 27 February 2025 - 01:16 PM, said:

THE DRAWING OF THREE by Stephen King

This is...really good.

Books 3 and 4 are probably the best, but I loved them all as well.

[QuickTidal]

T77, on 27 February 2025 - 01:57 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 27 February 2025 - 01:16 PM, said:

THE DRAWING OF THREE by Stephen King

This is...really good.

Dark Tower is one of my favorite series. I almost didn't read it due to hearing the last three books are not good. I liked the last three books. I have been thinking of doing a reread for years now.

HoosierDaddy, on 27 February 2025 - 01:59 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 27 February 2025 - 01:16 PM, said:

THE DRAWING OF THREE by Stephen King

This is...really good.

Books 3 and 4 are probably the best, but I loved them all as well.

My best friend is a diehard King and DT fan, and he's been harping on me for years to read them all, so I thought it might be time.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

QuickTidal, on 27 February 2025 - 01:16 PM, said:

THE DRAWING OF THREE by Stephen King

This is...really good.

Interesting! I liked the first two DT books and then Drawing of Three really switched me off.

I finished A Tale of Two Cities last night. Having been a classic "turned off Dickens by school" person I wasn't really sure what to expect, but I'd determined to give this one a go because it was my late grandma's favourite book.

What a beautiful book! I'm really pleased I read it.

Now on to Buried by Professor Alice Roberts.

[HoosierDaddy]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 27 February 2025 - 02:43 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 27 February 2025 - 01:16 PM, said:

THE DRAWING OF THREE by Stephen King

This is...really good.

Interesting! I liked the first two DT books and then Drawing of Three really switched me off.

I finished A Tale of Two Cities last night. Having been a classic "turned off Dickens by school" person I wasn't really sure what to expect, but I'd determined to give this one a go because it was my late grandma's favourite book.

What a beautiful book! I'm really pleased I read it.

Now on to Buried by Professor Alice Roberts.

Drawing of the Three is Book 2. Was it The Wastelands (Book3) that turned you off? That's where it started to get more... epic for me.

[Abyss]

HoosierDaddy, on 27 February 2025 - 02:51 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 27 February 2025 - 02:43 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 27 February 2025 - 01:16 PM, said:

THE DRAWING OF THREE by Stephen King

This is...really good.

Interesting! I liked the first two DT books and then Drawing of Three really switched me off.

...

Drawing of the Three is Book 2. Was it The Wastelands (Book3) that turned you off? That's where it started to get more... epic for me.

I have massive fondness for TDT, and own first editions of the first three books. That said, it takes a lot of weird turns and DRAWING in particular with its portals into the 'real world' is a far twist from classic fantasy or sf. I'm one of those people who read the 'right' King books by sheer luck while waiting years between books so I kind of fell in to the wider story by accident and just loved it for that. Kind quietly did almost by accident what Brandon Sanderson, Mark Lawrence and others are attempting.

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 24 February 2025 - 06:42 PM, said:

Interrupted Eli Monpress bk 2 ...

...and then Just Finished THE SPIRIT REBELLION. Great fun again, this time a heist goes terribly wrong and Eli and his friends are split up and face individual challenges to great effect. Again, it's not wildly original, party of characters split up, face their personal obstacles, reunite, but the individual stories/mysteries are so well laid out and integrated into the challenges that it carries the story very nicely. I am genuinely enjoying finding out what's going on w these characters. Solid bk 2, zero complaints.

Wanting something short but darker before moving on the bk 3, on a whim ear'd THE ARMORED SAINT, bk 1 in Myke Cole's SACRED THRONE trilo. It's short, 5hrs in earbook. Starts ok, fairly basic setting, gets VERY dark abruptly in a good way, the veers unfortunately into YA teen romance territory for far far too long for entirely to predictable effect... but then.... wow, when the twist comes it is VERY effective and changes EVERYTHING and the setup for bk 2 had me utterly hooked.

Am moving on the Eli Monpress bk 2 THE SPIRIT EATER but pretty sure i'll alternate with Sacred Throne again... both series' books are fairly short and the shift from heists/adventures to grimdark worked nicely for me.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 27 February 2025 - 03:10 PM, said:

HoosierDaddy, on 27 February 2025 - 02:51 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 27 February 2025 - 02:43 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 27 February 2025 - 01:16 PM, said:

THE DRAWING OF THREE by Stephen King

This is...really good.

Interesting! I liked the first two DT books and then Drawing of Three really switched me off.

...

Drawing of the Three is Book 2. Was it The Wastelands (Book3) that turned you off? That's where it started to get more... epic for me.

I have massive fondness for TDT, and own first editions of the first three books. That said, it takes a lot of weird turns and DRAWING in particular with its portals into the 'real world' is a far twist from classic fantasy or sf. I'm one of those people who read the 'right' King books by sheer luck while waiting years between books so I kind of fell in to the wider story by accident and just loved it for that. Kind quietly did almost by accident what Brandon Sanderson, Mark Lawrence and others are attempting.

I had someone sell it to me as the collapse of a multiverse....and that made the portal stuff make sense. And I'm a huge SUCKER for crossover shit, even mild or Easter eggs shit: Example DREAMCATCHER being about hunters on a trip in main in a snowstorm encountering parasitic aliens....is because there are tones of portals in that region of the country out of our universe and into others (Be they midworld or not) they aren't extraterrestrial, they are extra-dimensional...or the fact that Danny Torrance (The Shining, Doctor sleep)'s powers are the same powers that Jake Chambers has in the Gunslinger. Love that shit.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 27 February 2025 - 03:42 PM

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QuickTidal, on 27 February 2025 - 03:40 PM, said:

Abyss, on 27 February 2025 - 03:10 PM, said:

HoosierDaddy, on 27 February 2025 - 02:51 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 27 February 2025 - 02:43 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 27 February 2025 - 01:16 PM, said:

THE DRAWING OF THREE by Stephen King

This is...really good.

Interesting! I liked the first two DT books and then Drawing of Three really switched me off.

...

Drawing of the Three is Book 2. Was it The Wastelands (Book3) that turned you off? That's where it started to get more... epic for me.

I have massive fondness for TDT, and own first editions of the first three books. That said, it takes a lot of weird turns and DRAWING in particular with its portals into the 'real world' is a far twist from classic fantasy or sf. I'm one of those people who read the 'right' King books by sheer luck while waiting years between books so I kind of fell in to the wider story by accident and just loved it for that. Kind quietly did almost by accident what Brandon Sanderson, Mark Lawrence and others are attempting.

I had someone sell it to me as the collapse of a multiverse....and that made the portal stuff make sense. And I'm a huge SUCKER for crossover shit, even mild or Easter eggs shit: Example DREAMCATCHER being about hunters on a trip in main in a snowstorm encountering parasitic aliens....is because there are tones of portals in that region of the country out of our universe and into others (Be they midworld or not) they aren't extraterrestrial, they are extra-dimensional...or the fact that Danny Torrance (The Shining, Doctor sleep)'s powers are the same powers that Jake Chambers has in the Gunslinger. Love that shit.

Same. The

Spoiler

tram trip through various realities that happen to include The Stand, the beams that use the telepaths from Hearts in Atlantis, the Salem's Lot vampires, the so-fast-and-you'll-miss-them refs to It and Eyes of the Dragon....

pulled me right along becaus every little easter egg was another AH-HAH! moment. I still think that

Spoiler

the artist kid at the end

was a step too far, but regardless the sheer ambition and breadth of what King pulled off is amazeballs on every level.

I could see a new reader, looking at the TDT books and being told 'if you want the whole story you have to read 20 other doorstoppers and anthologies and some of them for barely one sentence in the series' being hugely thrown off (or yanked right in), but having it happen 'organically' was such a treat.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

HoosierDaddy, on 27 February 2025 - 02:51 PM, said:

Drawing of the Three is Book 2. Was it The Wastelands (Book3) that turned you off? That's where it started to get more... epic for me.

Yes you're right, I definitely read two of them and then gave up on the third.

[Chance]

Just finished up Queen of Redwinter, it is a nice ending to a nice little series. Nothing as spectacular as the Ravenscry series but the author does accomplish a lot in three short volumes. Something which stuck me is that the entire trilogy is shorter than Wind and Truth, just strange that three books with full story arcs can easily be crammed into less pages than one rather meandering tome.

Started Six of Crows on a chance that its something different from what I've read recently.

This post has been edited by Chance: 27 February 2025 - 05:25 PM

[Chance]

Finished up Six of Crows and Crocked Kingdom, more of one book in two parts. Entertaining but also in some ways Lies of Locke Lamora for adolescents. It would have made more sense adding a decade or two to the main characters age if the author wanted to make it more believable it was still fun and occasionally clever but the amount of tough situations the characters get out of gets a bit implausible at time.

Starting Never Send Roses the latest of Craig Schaefers sprawling universe of urban fantasy where I'm behind by a book or two.

[QuickTidal]

Chance, on 05 March 2025 - 01:13 PM, said:

Finished up Six of Crows and Crocked Kingdom, more of one book in two parts. Entertaining but also in some ways Lies of Locke Lamora for adolescents. It would have made more sense adding a decade or two to the main characters age if the author wanted to make it more believable it was still fun and occasionally clever but the amount of tough situations the characters get out of gets a bit implausible at time.

In book 1 where

Spoiler

they escaped the prison and their enemies and then on their way to the ship they are blocked by the army...you FEEL how dejected they all are at that moment....and then Nina takes that Grisha-power-enhancing-but-deeply-addictive-drug and is just fucking BODYING people to get Matthias and everyone else to safety at the ship. That was a top their superhero "Let's fucking DO THIS" moment for me, and from then on I was reading for Nina's story. And also why I LOVE the following duology (KING OF SCARS and RULE OF WOLVES) about Nikolai Lantsov cause she's a main character in that too. She's by far my fave character in the Grishaverse...but then I own all these books hardcover for a reason, LOL

[Macros]

Half way with QT here.
Spoilered part was probably the only real fuck yeah moment of six/crooked, I did find them a bit YA in places, but the folkow up duology is much more solid and a lot of that is due to aforementioned characters Arc

[QuickTidal]

Macros, on 05 March 2025 - 02:18 PM, said:

Half way with QT here.
Spoilered part was probably the only real fuck yeah moment of six/crooked, I did find them a bit YA in places, but the folkow up duology is much more solid and a lot of that is due to aforementioned characters Arc

Indeed. In fact you can actually feel Bardugo move from fully YA in the Grishaverse trilogy, to partially YA in the SOC duology, to fully adult in the KoS duology.

[Chance]

Yep that was a great moment and with some actual weight and consequence to it. Someone who didn't enjoy it would probably nitpick and say that well she gained super powers later from that sacrifice but I can certainly ignore that. There are other great moments usually not in the action sequences but more personal interactions between characters.

QuickTidal, on 05 March 2025 - 02:23 PM, said:

Macros, on 05 March 2025 - 02:18 PM, said:

Half way with QT here.
Spoilered part was probably the only real fuck yeah moment of six/crooked, I did find them a bit YA in places, but the folkow up duology is much more solid and a lot of that is due to aforementioned characters Arc

Indeed. In fact you can actually feel Bardugo move from fully YA in the Grishaverse trilogy, to partially YA in the SOC duology, to fully adult in the KoS duology.

That might actually make me buy the KoS duology I like the world and Bardugo can write no question about it, but how connected to the first series is it. Not sure I can get through three all out YA books in the original trilogy to read the KoS duology.

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[QuickTidal]

Chance, on 05 March 2025 - 03:15 PM, said:

Yep that was a great movement and with some actual weight and consequence to it. Someone who didn't enjoy it would probably nitpick and say that well she gained super powers later from that sacrifice but I can certainly ignore that. There are other great moments usually not in the action sequences but more personal interactions between characters.

QuickTidal, on 05 March 2025 - 02:23 PM, said:

Macros, on 05 March 2025 - 02:18 PM, said:

Half way with QT here.
Spoilered part was probably the only real fuck yeah moment of six/crooked, I did find them a bit YA in places, but the folkow up duology is much more solid and a lot of that is due to aforementioned characters Arc

Indeed. In fact you can actually feel Bardugo move from fully YA in the Grishaverse trilogy, to partially YA in the SOC duology, to fully adult in the KoS duology.

That might actually make me buy the KoS duology I like the world and Bardugo can write no question about it, but how connected to the first series is it. Not sure I can get through three all out YA books in the original trilogy to read the KoS duology.

It's connected enough to make a difference since Nikolai is introduced in the second book of the original trilogy and interacts with Alina (the protagonist of those books) quite a bit...but I don't think you would be remiss if you just wanted to Wiki the original trilogy to catch up to speed on it for KoS...that would serve your purposes well. Up to you.

[Macros]

I haven't read the trilogy for what it's worth.

[Chance]

Might just as well add it to the to read list