[Tiste Simeon]

 Macros, on 14 May 2025 - 09:44 AM, said:

Unrelenting whining and pining

So WoT 2.0?

[Tsundoku]

Tiste Simeon, on 14 May 2025 - 10:44 AM, said:

Macros, on 14 May 2025 - 09:44 AM, said:

Unrelenting whining and pining

So WoT 2.0?

Leaving out all the sniffing, braid-tugging and skirt-smoothing deprives the reader of so much context.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 14 May 2025 - 11:10 AM

[worry]

Nooooooooooo, I seriously haaaaaaaaaaaate whining in books! Can authors staaahhppppp with those kinds of characters pleeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaase? Uuuuugggghhhhhh!!!

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Tsundoku, on 14 May 2025 - 11:09 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 14 May 2025 - 10:44 AM, said:

Macros, on 14 May 2025 - 09:44 AM, said:

Unrelenting whining and pining

So WoT 2.0?

Leaving out all the sniffing, braid-tugging and skirt-smoothing deprives the reader of so much context.

I'm out - what's the point if there's no braid tugging?

[Abyss]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 14 May 2025 - 01:33 PM, said:

Tsundoku, on 14 May 2025 - 11:09 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 14 May 2025 - 10:44 AM, said:

Macros, on 14 May 2025 - 09:44 AM, said:

Unrelenting whining and pining

So WoT 2.0?

Leaving out all the sniffing, braid-tugging and skirt-smoothing deprives the reader of so much context.

I'm out - what's the point if there's no braid tugging?

It leaves space for all the angst, emotional angst, existential angst, teenage angst, elderly angst, survivor angst, and many many MANY manymanymany other flavours of angst, along with (what i thought read like) various pop culture based takes on depression, manic-depression, multiple-personalities, PTSD, childhood trauma, and some of the silliest therapy ever depicted in modern literature.

....to be clear i really do like and enjoy STA, i think the worldbuilding is brilliant and the action glorious and the characters engaging and it remains an automatic pre-order for when the series resumes, i just found this element to be overdone and repetitious.

[Tiste Simeon]

Just found out there's a new Rivers of London novel coming out and not only that but it's coming out in July of this year? Woohoo! Anyone want to catch me up as to what happened in the previous 9 books? 😂

That's going to be a day one Audible purchase methinks.

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 15 May 2025 - 03:55 PM, said:

Just found out there's a new Rivers of London novel coming out and not only that but it's coming out in July of this year? Woohoo! Anyone want to catch me up as to what happened in the previous 9 books? 😂

Oooo, me too me too. Catch me up!

[JPK]

Just finished CARL'S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO and now I'm breaking my "no consecutive books by an author" rule and going straight into THE DUNGEON ANARCHIST'S COOKBOOK. You were all very right about these.

I don't remember if I've seen you mention starting these yet, Abyss. If you haven't, you really need to. These are definitely right up your alley.

[Tiste Simeon]

So I've got through 9 books of the Cradle series by Will Wight and honestly I'm having a blast. This series keeps getting better and I'm now only 3 books from the end. Taking a break to read the non fiction book Jesus and John Wayne, which is a look at the white evangelical movement in the US and how it's gone against everything they claim to represent. Expecting to be fascinated and angered in equal measure.

After that I'll make a run to the end of Cradle with all 3 books in a row.

[HoosierDaddy]

JPK, on 17 May 2025 - 02:00 AM, said:

Just finished CARL'S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO and now I'm breaking my "no consecutive books by an author" rule and going straight into THE DUNGEON ANARCHIST'S COOKBOOK. You were all very right about these.

I don't remember if I've seen you mention starting these yet, Abyss. If you haven't, you really need to. These are definitely right up your alley.

Now it starts getting good……

[JPK]

HoosierDaddy, on 17 May 2025 - 08:25 PM, said:

JPK, on 17 May 2025 - 02:00 AM, said:

Just finished CARL'S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO and now I'm breaking my "no consecutive books by an author" rule and going straight into THE DUNGEON ANARCHIST'S COOKBOOK. You were all very right about these.

I don't remember if I've seen you mention starting these yet, Abyss. If you haven't, you really need to. These are definitely right up your alley.

Now it starts getting good……

I'm watching this one really closely because if it's as good as the first two (and several sources state it to be even better) I'm thinking this series may deserve hardcover space.

[worry]

While the softcovers (or ebooks, as I get) for the Carl books are very pulpy and decidedly goofy, the hardcovers are actually pretty sweet looking. Stylized in a very standout way that is, dare I say, tasteful.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

worry, on 18 May 2025 - 04:04 AM, said:

While the softcovers (or ebooks, as I get) for the Carl books are very pulpy and decidedly goofy, the hardcovers are actually pretty sweet looking. Stylized in a very standout way that is, dare I say, tasteful.

Oh good, holograms? Or popout cover of tongues coming out of eyeballs and other orifices?

Last month of Audible Plus... finished Riyria Revelations. Book two was better than book one, and book three was pretty good (helped along by the terrible "dramatic adaptation" not being available---the audiobook performer is okay, which was a huge step up). Was skeptical of the Riyria Chronicles prequel series---especially the first book, since it's about events described many times in Riyria Revelations---but finished book one, and it's decent, more engaging than I was expecting, and included some surprises and quasi-surprises (i.e.

Spoiler

I suspected that the two guards who injured Hadrian and Royce, as mentioned in the main series, were those magical creatures created by the Patriarch

). Book two's okay but a bit corny and uninteresting... though the pacing just got a bit more engaging. Thinking I might bail for book one of Murderbot (only three hours iirc) then review my options for what remains of the final month (... until they offer me another three months for $1 / month less than one month later yet again?...).

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: Today, 11:57 AM

[amphibian]

I ripped through Medline Miller's The Song of Achilles while traveling.

Miller clearly picks and chooses which elements of the Iliad and the various Achilles myths she works with. The biggest is transforming Achilles from someone who understandably rages in the Iliad to someone who kinda just gets ticked off inexplicably due to all the prior character work being of someone who generally doesn't rage. The next big transformation is with Patroclus, moving him from an extremely deadly warrior to another role that fits a love story better.

So the story is not one that hews super close to the mythology, yet it is one that focuses heavily on the bromance. I liked it, yet I think there was a way to make Achilles more Achilles rather than an easy going guy who only insists about Patroclus's presence otherwise.

I do love the portrayal of Odysseus in this book - much more dangerous, much less heroic - and how Briseis is realized as a character - with a full personality and arc.