[ansible]

My Malazan reread is complete, including The Crippled God. I've since started C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, which I am loving. The first book in particular really captivated me...some of his prose was unbelievable. So, Out of the Silent Planet down, halfway through Perelandra.

[miriya]

Currently reading ... Haynes' Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 93-98. /cough

I got both TCG and Wise Man's Fear in the same box on the 2nd. Finished TCG days ago, was almost as excited for WMF as TCG, and yet ... I keep looking for reasons to delay starting it. Like, renewed my WoW account level of delays. Now reading Stonewielder in the meantime. I --

I think I'm just not quite ready to let go of the Malazan empire, yet. WTF, me.

Debating between another full Malazan re-read, and an ASOIAF re-read after finishing WMF. Kinda stopped halfway through Game of Thrones when I quit smoking, and haven't quite worked myself back into picking it back up again.

[QuickTidal]

Nearly 200 pages into TCG (enjoying!) so far, and next up will be review copies I received of both WISE MAN'S FEAR and RIVER MARKED (the new Mercy novel) by Patricia Briggs.

After that...I do believe I will read my first book on my brand spankety new Kindle. It's either going to be a WH40K book or Mieville's KRAKEN, haven't decided yet.

[Abyss]

So with TCG down i need to catch my breath before jumping back to TtH to resume the re-read...

Abercrombie's THE HEROES is on deck, and then, finally, Butcher's CODEX ALARA i think...

[Astra]

Only 20 pages left of The Girl Who Played with Fire........



Then... then... something I have been waiting for years.

The Malazan Book of the Fallen first time...

[Bauchelain the Evil]

Read The Heroes by Abercrobie. Enjoyable but I think I was a bit disappointed after all the praise it got here.

Finished The Crippled God. I'm sad

[pat5150]

Just finished Joe Abercrombie's The Heroes. Though not as good as Best Served Cold, it was a doozy!

Also recently finished L. E. Modesitt, jr.'s Imager's Challenge. It's another solid effort by one of the most underappreciated SFF writers of his era.

Check the blog for both reviews.

Patrick

[ansible]

Finshed Perelandra, which I thought couldn't be as good as the first book but definitely was, just in a different way. Taking a break to read The Tempest.

[QuickTidal]

I was reading TCG and started to get annoyed by the big cumbersome-ness of it. It was fucking unwieldy, and everytime I laid down and propped it on my chest (most comfortable reading position for huge books) the thickness made my hand hurt and I started to get annoyed...and therefore started skimming cause I was grumbly.

This is not good.

So, the answer to this issue was pretty easy. For $9 I re-bought TCG for my Kindle, went back to page 200 (which was where I started skimming) and started fresh from there on my Kindle....and oh man what a difference! Seriously, I am reading every word now, picking up bits I missed the first go, like

Spoiler

Yedan preferring men and therefore negating a royal line of children from him

and enjoying the book as I should.

If someone had said to me before I had my Kindle that the size and ability to wield a book would weigh on my enjoyment of it I'd have said they were nuts. I know better now.

Thank you Kindle!

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QuickTidal, on 14 March 2011 - 12:04 PM, said:

I was reading TCG and started to get annoyed by the big cumbersome-ness of it. It was fucking unwieldy, and everytime I laid down and propped it on my chest (most comfortable reading position for huge books) the thickness made my hand hurt and I started to get annoyed...and therefore started skimming cause I was grumbly.

This is not good.

So, the answer to this issue was pretty easy. For $9 I re-bought TCG for my Kindle, went back to page 200 (which was where I started skimming) and started fresh from there on my Kindle....and oh man what a difference! Seriously, I am reading every word now, picking up bits I missed the first go, like

Spoiler

Yedan preferring men and therefore negating a royal line of children from him

and enjoying the book as I should.

If someone had said to me before I had my Kindle that the size and ability to wield a book would weigh on my enjoyment of it I'd have said they were nuts. I know better now.

Thank you Kindle!

I also have both versions but now I am mainly using the Kindle. Another reason I'm using it though is that with Malazan books, I have a tendnency to look ahead and see when the POV shift is, and I often accidentally see names that I don't want spoiled. I find I don't do this much with the Kindle.

[QuickTidal]

End of Disc One, on 14 March 2011 - 12:28 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 14 March 2011 - 12:04 PM, said:

I was reading TCG and started to get annoyed by the big cumbersome-ness of it. It was fucking unwieldy, and everytime I laid down and propped it on my chest (most comfortable reading position for huge books) the thickness made my hand hurt and I started to get annoyed...and therefore started skimming cause I was grumbly.

This is not good.

So, the answer to this issue was pretty easy. For $9 I re-bought TCG for my Kindle, went back to page 200 (which was where I started skimming) and started fresh from there on my Kindle....and oh man what a difference! Seriously, I am reading every word now, picking up bits I missed the first go, like

Spoiler

Yedan preferring men and therefore negating a royal line of children from him

and enjoying the book as I should.

If someone had said to me before I had my Kindle that the size and ability to wield a book would weigh on my enjoyment of it I'd have said they were nuts. I know better now.

Thank you Kindle!

I also have both versions but now I am mainly using the Kindle. Another reason I'm using it though is that with Malazan books, I have a tendnency to look ahead and see when the POV shift is, and I often accidentally see names that I don't want spoiled. I find I don't do this much with the Kindle.

Indeed. I am also quite guilty of getting halfway through a huge ass book and looking at how much is left and skim a little in the middle to get to bigger third acts...and with the Kindle I can't do that, so my reading experience is that much fuller.

[Abyss]

Astra, on 10 March 2011 - 07:03 PM, said:

...... something I have been waiting for years.

The Malazan Book of the Fallen first time...

Who are you and how have you been on this forum this long without us catching on and having you flogged until you started reading MBF?

Bauchelain the Evil, on 11 March 2011 - 07:30 PM, said:

...Finished The Crippled God. I'm sad

I feel your pain. I keep procrastinating the reread and i waffle between jumping right back to page 1 or going back to TtH and working my way back. I'm a quivering heap of emotion here!

Bauchelain the Evil, on 11 March 2011 - 07:30 PM, said:

Read The Heroes by Abercrobie. Enjoyable but I think I was a bit disappointed after all the praise it got here.
...

pat5150, on 12 March 2011 - 04:41 PM, said:

Just finished Joe Abercrombie's The Heroes. Though not as good as Best Served Cold, it was a doozy!
...

Psyched. It arrived with TCG and sits at the top of the TRP.

QuickTidal, on 14 March 2011 - 12:35 PM, said:

... I am also quite guilty of getting halfway through a huge ass book and looking at how much is left and skim a little in the middle to get to bigger third acts...and with the Kindle I can't do that, so my reading experience is that much fuller.

This is a funny uptick of e-readers i hadn't considered. Hmmm...

- Abyss, ...re-considers his luddite-ism...

[King Bear]

The Time Machine and the first chronicles of thomas covenant... because tCG is still not here.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 14 March 2011 - 02:13 PM, said:

This is a funny uptick of e-readers i hadn't considered. Hmmm...
- Abyss, ...re-considers his luddite-ism...

Yeah, I wholly hadn't considered this until two days ago and it presented itself and I couldn't ignore its value. Strange, but welcome actually.

[Salt-Man Z]

A third of the way through The Wise Man's Fear and enjoying it, but, man, haven't we already covered all of this in the previous book? Worry about tuition. Work in the Fishery. Pine over Denna. Fight with Ambrose. Time for this book to ditch the University setting, and the sooner the better.

[Fist Gamet]

I meant to say, I recently finished Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge. I enjoyed it, mostly, and appreciated the inventiveness and originality. Not what I expected and I rarely enjoy any 'child' perspectives (this was no different, the kids were a pain in the arse, imho) but overall a worthy, if rather uneventful read.

[McLovin]

My son just randomly handed me A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle when we were at the library looking for children's books. I initially went to put it back, since he's too young for it, then thought "screw it" and checked it out for myself. Been nearly 30 years since I read it. I am getting effing old. As is this book, but it least it has the virtue of being a classic. Fun to check back in with it, see what I had forgotten.

[T77]

Just finished Midnight Tides and I thought it was incredible! Erikson gets better with each book IMO, although I think it was about on par with HoC, both being my favorites in the series thus far. I'm continuing with the Malazan series, next up is Night of Knives. I hope ICE is somewhere near the level of Erikson. Erikson has set the bar high though.

[Isa]

Salt-Man Z, on 14 March 2011 - 04:13 PM, said:

A third of the way through The Wise Man's Fear and enjoying it, but, man, haven't we already covered all of this in the previous book? Worry about tuition. Work in the Fishery. Pine over Denna. Fight with Ambrose. Time for this book to ditch the University setting, and the sooner the better.

I had a rant about the very same thing yesterday. Now I'm two thirds in and am pleased to say things have actually started to happen. Unfortunately some old pains have a way of reappearing...

[QuickTidal]

Last 20% of TCG now, nearing the finish, I can feel it. Probably about 300 pages to go....

So far...

Spoiler

Did Gruntle die, just like that? WTF?! Tehol....how do you own a chapter you aren't even properly IN! Man this book is made of win. My latest oh holy sweet fuck moment....QB and Minala going to get Kalam....joining Paran and the Host under siege by the FA (HOLY SHIT! AWESOME!), and then QB masking Kalam as he opens warren holes so Kalam can take out Assail commanders with his effing long knives....oh sweet fuck that was made of the most awesome! Jesus I don't want to finish this book.....then I will have nothing but re-reads....that said....LOVING this.