[End of Disc One]

Abyss, on 28 June 2011 - 07:16 PM, said:

Am also leary about mixing Butcher series at the same time.

That's what I'm doing. I'm only up through White Night but I'm also in the middle of Furies of Calderon. Aside from both being very readable, the feel is extremely different. It feels more like early Wheel of Time but less dense.

[QuickTidal]

End of Disc One, on 28 June 2011 - 07:41 PM, said:

Abyss, on 28 June 2011 - 07:16 PM, said:

Am also leary about mixing Butcher series at the same time.

That's what I'm doing. I'm only up through White Night but I'm also in the middle of Furies of Calderon. Aside from both being very readable, the feel is extremely different. It feels more like early Wheel of Time but less dense.

^^This.

It's actually very interesting that Butcher has established such different narrative voices. His Dresden POV voice is very different from his 3rd person Alera voice. If someone had me read ALERA without telling me who wrote it I'd never have guessed Butcher, and that's not a bad thing, merely a nod to his skill as a writer and his attention to his craft.

But you don't have to take MY word for it...Just take a look, it's in a book...

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 28 June 2011 - 07:50 PM

[Mentalist]

Finished "the Jennifer Morgue". this one had a lot less comp-sci techno-speak, which made it far more enjoyable. really good pacing, I finshed the book in one evening and one morning. it was hard to put down.

next, gonna try "the Madness of Angels" by Kate griffin.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Mentalist, on 28 June 2011 - 08:11 PM, said:

next, gonna try "the Madness of Angels" by Kate griffin.

I quite enjoyed that.

Not enough to pick up the sequel (yet... maybe if its in a 3 for 2 or something)

Reading Black Halo by Sam Sykes.

[QuickTidal]

Cocoreturns, on 28 June 2011 - 08:16 PM, said:

Reading Black Halo by Sam Sykes.

I got this one from the publisher, let me know how it is compared to the first one.

[Coco with marshmallows]

QuickTidal, on 28 June 2011 - 08:19 PM, said:

Cocoreturns, on 28 June 2011 - 08:16 PM, said:

Reading Black Halo by Sam Sykes.

I got this one from the publisher, let me know how it is compared to the first one.

i'm a couple hundred pages in. For me, so far its got the same strengths (characterisation and inventive insults) and weaknesses (lack of clarity regarding who's speaking at times....especially when Lenk is having two conversations at once) as the first.

[Gust Hubb]

Still reading RotCG. You know, Shiara and I were commiserating on chat the other day. Does this book get better. I have arrived about where she was at pg. 250 and I feel like I'm getting airsick from the speed of the scene switching.

[Serenity]

Finished re-reading A Storm of Swords - still my favourite of the series.

Have now started Neil Gaiman's American Gods.

[Mentalist]

Cocoreturns, on 28 June 2011 - 08:16 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 28 June 2011 - 08:11 PM, said:

next, gonna try "the Madness of Angels" by Kate griffin.

I quite enjoyed that.

Not enough to pick up the sequel (yet... maybe if its in a 3 for 2 or something)

Read this in a day. the idea behind the magic system is pretty neat, but the story was okay-ish.

At this point I feel i've had too much London-themed fiction for a while though.
for a change of pace, I think I may re-read "the Braided Path" omnibus by Chris Wooding.

[Salt-Man Z]

Holy crap, Gene Wolfe is amazing. I think I say that every time I read one of his short story collections, and yet I always hestitate to start in on a new one. Screw that, I've owned all of them for a while now; I've half a mind to just tear straight through them, never mind what I was planning to read next.

[amphibian]

I think part of the dissatisfaction I'm having with Wolfe rests with the unfinished Latro series and that I read Old Man's War before reading Home Fires. Scalzi wrote the pants off that book and made his story work better than Wolfe did with Home Fires.

It also doesn't help that An Evil Guest stinks and The Sorcerer's House is a half a book.

[Rhand]

Rhand, on 08 June 2011 - 07:19 AM, said:

Finished Toll the Hounds yesterday, started in Dust of Dreams.

Finally finished DoD, started in The Crippled God earlier this evening while visiting the loo.

[QuickTidal]

Rhand, on 29 June 2011 - 08:06 PM, said:

Rhand, on 08 June 2011 - 07:19 AM, said:

Finished Toll the Hounds yesterday, started in Dust of Dreams.

Finally finished DoD, started in The Crippled God earlier this evening while visiting the loo.

You took a copy of TCG into the bathroom? Awww man...that stuff is sacred!

LOL

stanky books are no ones fave.

[Rhand]

QuickTidal, on 29 June 2011 - 08:11 PM, said:

Rhand, on 29 June 2011 - 08:06 PM, said:

Rhand, on 08 June 2011 - 07:19 AM, said:

Finished Toll the Hounds yesterday, started in Dust of Dreams.

Finally finished DoD, started in The Crippled God earlier this evening while visiting the loo.

You took a copy of TCG into the bathroom? Awww man...that stuff is sacred!

LOL

stanky books are no ones fave.

Guilty as charged, I love to read on the loo I'm afraid. Sometimes it's hard to resist the urge to flush a bad book with the rest of the crap though.

[LadyMTL]

Now that I'm thinking about it, I've never actually taken a book into the bathroom...not ever. I think the idea of having a book near water makes me nervous, hahaha. I don't even bring books to the beach, only magazines.

That said, I'm reading two books at the moment: Patrick Rothfuss' "Wise Man's Fear" (on the Kindle) and a nice light piece called "The Arabs: a history" by Eugene Rogan.

This post has been edited by Maia Irraz: 29 June 2011 - 09:31 PM

[QuickTidal]

Finished LEVIATHAN WAKES, aside from some pacing issues a very fun read and a decent start to the trilogy.

Will be starting BLOOD OATH by Farnsworth today.

[Salt-Man Z]

amphibian, on 29 June 2011 - 07:54 PM, said:

I think part of the dissatisfaction I'm having with Wolfe rests with the unfinished Latro series and that I read Old Man's War before reading Home Fires. Scalzi wrote the pants off that book and made his story work better than Wolfe did with Home Fires.

It also doesn't help that An Evil Guest stinks and The Sorcerer's House is a half a book.

The thing I'm loving about his short stories is that they're just like his novels: rich and dense and confusing, and when I reach the end I feel like I missed something (or everything), but there's magic there all the same. And where I might feel cheated after coming out of a 300-page novel like that, a 10 or 20-page story isn't hard to take.

[QuickTidal]

Reading mutha-fuzuckin-BLOOD OATH. Why do I picture Jessie Eisenberg as the Zack character...and Sam Witwer's vampire character from BEING HUMAN US as Cade?

[King Bear]

The Monarchies of God. I found it a bit difficult to get into for the first 100 pages, but that may have simply been because I'd just finished The Sarantine Mosaic that day. My mind was still with Crispin et al, and attuned to (and wanting) more of GGK's writing style. I've hit page 200 now and I'm loving it, and very happy that I have four and a half books of it still to enjoy.

[Slow Ben]

Jumping back into Lonesome Dove for a break between a few Garrett books. And of course changed my avatar accordingly.

I find i enjoy long series like Dresden and Garrett more if a take some breaks and dont read them continuous through.