[acesn8s]

Overactive Imagination, on 11 December 2012 - 07:07 AM, said:

End of Disc One, on 10 December 2012 - 02:22 PM, said:

Overactive Imagination, on 10 December 2012 - 06:24 AM, said:

Half way through the blade itself, and it's really not all that great so far. Half of the chapters are good and half are pretty boring imo. Hoping it gets better...

It absolutely gets better. I didn't enjoy TBI that much and thought Abercrombie was massively overrated at the time. I have loved the three subsequent books.

You were right. The last couple hundred pages were really good. Fuckin like 40 straight pages of fighting.

I wonder if Abercrombie has ever heard of a fellow who goes by the name of ''Icarium?''

I almost gave up on The First Law series. I wasn't too impressed with book 1 until the end. Then Joe hooked me with the 9. Been loving his books ever since.

[D'rek]

Done Crack'd Pot Trail, now onto Forge of Darkness (yeah I know, I'm a little late on these)

[Salt-Man Z]

D, on 11 December 2012 - 06:13 PM, said:

now onto Forge of Darkness

You are not prepared

[Overactive Imagination]

I just started Stonewielder. Figured I should probably read it before DoD/TCG.

The plan right now is Stonewielder, Crack'd pot Trail, Before they are hanged, and then DoD/CG. lol

[Ukjent]

Its nice to have neighbors who read when you are all out of books, so now its time for a reread of Tower of Midnight. The only problem is that I have to get done by Monday, and I still have a exam to go.

[heretics fork]

Is there seriously about to be 10,000 posts on this thread?

[worry]

Yup. Kinda puts a tear in your eye, don't it?

[worry]

Nope, you made it one post further away.

[Overactive Imagination]

200 pages into Stonewielder and I'm fuckin stoked!! This book is way better than Return of the Crimson Guard imo. Esslemont's writing has improved a lot.

The only thing I'm not liking is the paperback binding (Bantam).. it's really hard to open far enough to see the words closest to the binding. I'm a bit worried about reading DoD and TCG which seem to be the same and are significantly thicker.. fuck.

[Salt-Man Z]

Overactive Imagination, on 12 December 2012 - 08:42 PM, said:

The only thing I'm not liking is the paperback binding (Bantam).. it's really hard to open far enough to see the words closest to the binding. I'm a bit worried about reading DoD and TCG which seem to be the same and are significantly thicker.. fuck.

Yeah, I've stopped importing the Bantam editions because the covers and spine are just way too stiff. The front covers on both my TPB of SW and MMPB of RotCG have started cracking just from reading them once. I'm waiting for the Tor version of Blood and Bone so I don't have to worry about that; the Tor versions feel flimsier, but ironically enough, it makes them seem more durable than the too-brittle Bantam ones. (I have the same complaint about Gollancz paperbacks.)

[QuickTidal]

With no more graphic trades to read I went back to proper books...but I find with Christmas around the corner it's hard to get into anything in the ToRead Pile when there is so much likely incoming to the same pile...

I know, makes no sense.

Anyways, so I've been alternating between SANDMAN SLIM (which is holding my interest, but that's all I can say for it really), and a re-read of Dickens A CHRISTMAS CAROL & OTHER CHRISTMAS STORIES....which is always good.

[kcf]

Well, for me A Memory of Light is my most anticipated book for quite a while, and likely ever. So, when my copy showed up yesterday, it's no surprise that put other books on hold and am reading it now. I wish my schedule would allow me to read straight through, but that won't work out. It'll probably take me a week - it's not a short book.

[Ukjent]

Now I'm jelly. Feels like I'm been waiting for it for ages.

[Abyss]

Finished Eisler's RAIN FALL, first in his series about Tokyo assassin John Rain.
It was... fine. The detail on Rain's actual assassinations is cool, especially since he specializes in making his kills look like accidents. Unfortunately there was only one in the book. He does write Tokyo really well, i've never been there but he nicely captures the images i've seen in text form.
On the down side, I like my thrillers with more action and less talking and this went the other way. There was also entirely too much info-dump disguised as flashback and probably the upteenth 'soldier feels guilty about a village massacre in viet nam' subplot that was already tired back in the 90s. Another isssue is that the author's personal tastes... judo, single malt scotch, jazz, are transposed onto the narrator/protag in a fairly non-subtle way that can throw the reader out of the story... nothing is just 'great' music... it gets three pages.

I wanted to love this book and devour the series... but as it stands I have the second book, HARD RAIN in the TRP but am going to leave it there for at least a while.

Have a whole lotta goodness in the TRP now... not certain what i want to hit next... am tempted to dig into one of the complete fantasy series i have but with MoL, RED COUNTRY and GUN MACHINE all arriving in Jan i think i'll stick to standalones for the next few weeks.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 13 December 2012 - 05:45 PM, said:

Another isssue is that the author's personal tastes... judo, single malt scotch, jazz, are transposed onto the narrator/protag in a fairly non-subtle way that can throw the reader out of the story... nothing is just 'great' music... it gets three pages.

Strangely enough this is my exact problem with Richard Kadrey's SANDMAN SLIM...the guy is a tattoo bearing, leather jacket wearing, smoking, beer drinking cool guy from California....and that's exactly who his protag is to a "T"....and it's kind of to the point where it brings me out of the story and makes it harder to get into.

Oh and the proclivity for the protag to think someone looks like an actor (Brad Pitt), and have the protag refer to them that way (in this case, Pitt) the rest of the time they mention it. It's not clever (like when Dresden calls someone after a pop culture reference), and instead feels like pandering for an eventual movie in which they could get Pitt to play that bad guy...it's kind of lazy I guess...


I dunno.

I didn't like the book the first time I tried it....and began enjoying it the second try (now), and yet it still feels like I'm forcing it....

Bah!

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 13 December 2012 - 06:41 PM, said:

kcf, on 13 December 2012 - 05:10 PM, said:

Well, for me A Memory of Light is my most anticipated book for quite a while, and likely ever. So, when my copy showed up yesterday, it's no surprise that put other books on hold and am reading it now. I wish my schedule would allow me to read straight through, but that won't work out. It'll probably take me a week - it's not a short book.

You have AMOL? How and from where? Release isn't listed till 1/8/13.

KFC is a blogger, and likely got an early review copy.

[Salt-Man Z]

QuickTidal, on 13 December 2012 - 06:43 PM, said:

KFC is a blogger, and likely got an early review copy.

LOL.

kcf is a blogger.

KFC is finger-lickin' good.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 13 December 2012 - 06:40 PM, said:

Abyss, on 13 December 2012 - 05:45 PM, said:

Another isssue is that the author's personal tastes... judo, single malt scotch, jazz, are transposed onto the narrator/protag in a fairly non-subtle way that can throw the reader out of the story... nothing is just 'great' music... it gets three pages.

Strangely enough this is my exact problem with Richard Kadrey's SANDMAN SLIM...the guy is a tattoo bearing, leather jacket wearing, smoking, beer drinking cool guy from California....and that's exactly who his protag is to a "T"....and it's kind of to the point where it brings me out of the story and makes it harder to get into.

Oh and the proclivity for the protag to think someone looks like an actor (Brad Pitt), and have the protag refer to them that way (in this case, Pitt) the rest of the time they mention it. It's not clever (like when Dresden calls someone after a pop culture reference), and instead feels like pandering for an eventual movie in which they could get Pitt to play that bad guy...it's kind of lazy I guess...


I dunno.

I didn't like the book the first time I tried it....and began enjoying it the second try (now), and yet it still feels like I'm forcing it....

Bah!

i have mixed feelings about Kadrey... his METROPHAGE is brilliant cyberpunky dark futurist goodness, to me everything most of Will Gibson's later work should have been and failed to be, but his BUTCHER BIRD 'urban heroes take on hell' thing was weak, hence why SLIM has been gathering dust in the TRP for ages now...

And 'feel like i'm forcing it' was at times how i felt about RAIN, and i think i've reached a point in life and TRP mass where i have too much other stuff to read to spend time on an author i have to 'try' to enjoy.

[Primateus]

I'm reading the...ahhh....I do believe you folks call it the "Dresdencrack"

Stormfront.

[QuickTidal]

Salt-Man Z, on 13 December 2012 - 07:05 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 December 2012 - 06:43 PM, said:

KFC is a blogger, and likely got an early review copy.

LOL.

kcf is a blogger.

KFC is finger-lickin' good.

What's the food version of Freudian? That's defo what my brain was doing there...LOL