[Chance]

Finished up the latest pendergast series book Two Graves a decent read with a excellent begining and ending with a bit less interesting in the middle. Also a great change of pace after AMoL.

So either Leviathan Wakes, Night of the Swarm or re-read Deadhouse Gate next...

[Abyss]

Baco Xtath, on 10 January 2013 - 09:40 PM, said:

Abyss, on 10 January 2013 - 05:38 PM, said:

150 pages into AMOL. I think i may try to slow down and draw this out.

You really want to draw it out? Audiobook = 44 hrs (or so). Audible.com cost for the book: $7.49 (or so).

i said draw it out, not live it in real time.



Y'know what's stressing me...? Wtf am i going to read AFTER AMoL....

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 11 January 2013 - 06:54 PM, said:

Baco Xtath, on 10 January 2013 - 09:40 PM, said:

Abyss, on 10 January 2013 - 05:38 PM, said:

150 pages into AMOL. I think i may try to slow down and draw this out.

You really want to draw it out? Audiobook = 44 hrs (or so). Audible.com cost for the book: $7.49 (or so).

i said draw it out, not live it in real time.



Y'know what's stressing me...? Wtf am i going to read AFTER AMoL....

I've already lined up a sci-fi (Jack Campbell's first one DAUNTLESS), and then KRAMPUS by Brom. Both are different enough from epic fantasy that they should sit well.

[Abyss]

I have RED COUNTRY standing by but i think i'll need to go thriller or sf before going back to fantasy. I have a stack of Asher and Reynolds in the TRP, maybe that.

[Stalker]

I finished AMoL two days ago, I had planned to savor it more but once I hit the 193pg chapter, there was no stopping haha. I've been rereading some of the epic scenes in there since I wasn't feeling up to starting anything else. May go with Gemmel's Troy series for a lighter read

[QuickTidal]

Stalker, on 11 January 2013 - 08:24 PM, said:

I finished AMoL two days ago, I had planned to savor it more but once I hit the 193pg chapter, there was no stopping haha. I've been rereading some of the epic scenes in there since I wasn't feeling up to starting anything else. May go with Gemmel's Troy series for a lighter read

That's a GREAT read!

[Chance]

Abyss, on 11 January 2013 - 07:18 PM, said:

I have RED COUNTRY standing by but i think i'll need to go thriller or sf before going back to fantasy. I have a stack of Asher and Reynolds in the TRP, maybe that.

While Red Country is damn good a shorter thriller or sf is usually just the thing after a massive fantasy tome

[polishgenius]

Abyss, on 11 January 2013 - 07:18 PM, said:

I have RED COUNTRY standing by but i think i'll need to go thriller or sf before going back to fantasy. I have a stack of Asher and Reynolds in the TRP, maybe that.

Reynolds! Reynolds!

Or, if it's feasible, read the SFF book of last year, Faith. By John Love.

[Coco with marshmallows]

QuickTidal, on 11 January 2013 - 07:08 PM, said:

I've already lined up a sci-fi (Jack Campbell's first one DAUNTLESS), and then KRAMPUS by Brom. Both are different enough from epic fantasy that they should sit well.

Good luck with that.

Personally after reading Dauntless I burned through the rest of that series in a week or so - the joys of an hour on the train every day for commute

Not taxing reading by any means, just light and enjoyable.

like a nice sorbet.

[Pennywise]

Just got done with Blood Rites an hour ago. While reading I felt that the climax was a bit weaker than I have come to expect from the Dresden Files, but in retrospect, the EPIC in this novel came from revelations about Harry's family, his past, and his future.

Spoiler

Lasciel, Mavra (?), He Who Walks Behind, Hellfire?!

O_O

Good stuff!

As for the next book, I'm hovering between Galactic North (Read just the first two stories a year ago, in preparation for the Relevation Space trilogy), something by Stephen King (Most likely either Misery or Gerald's Game), The Ten Thousand by Kearney or Gates of Fire by Pressfield. Any advice?

This post has been edited by Pennywise: 12 January 2013 - 01:05 PM

[Coco with marshmallows]

Pennywise, on 12 January 2013 - 01:04 PM, said:

Just got done with Blood Rites an hour ago. While reading I felt that the climax was a bit weaker than I have come to expect from the Dresden Files, but in retrospect, the EPIC in this novel came from revelations about Harry's family, his past, and his future.

Spoiler

Lasciel, Mavra (?), He Who Walks Behind, Hellfire?!

O_O

Good stuff!

As for the next book, I'm hovering between Galactic North (Read just the first two stories a year ago, in preparation for the Relevation Space trilogy), something by Stephen King (Most likely either Misery or Gerald's Game), The Ten Thousand by Kearney or Gates of Fire by Pressfield. Any advice?

Dead Beat, by Jim Butcher. Seriously, you're stopping???

Failing that, Gates of Fire would be my recommendation.

[amphibian]

That is a terrific set of choices. You cannot really go wrong with any, but finishing off Galactic North would be nice in a completist view, allowing you to move on to another.

[worry]

Go with Gerald's Game and have your masturbation hand primed and ready to go, it's like 50 Shades of Grey for people who don't mind losing a few bones along the way.

[Captain Beardface]

Reading John Joseph Adam's anthology 'Epic' I felt the need to to read some shorter fiction as I keep getting bogged down in the longer books lately...

[Kruppe's snacky cakes]

8. Beholder's Eye by Julie E. Czerneda: Didn't care for this one. I cast my "aliens" net a little too wide. I think I'll focus on polishing off a few of the big names (Brin, Niven, Reynolds, Vinge, etc.) before I branch out to stuff I haven't heard of...

9. Bad Girls don't die by Katie Alender: A YA ghost story about a possessed girl...but not particularly scary. Too bad, because creepy little girls make the best horror villains.

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10. Finding Lost Season Three by Nikki Stafford: I started this one when I was doing the Lost rewatch on G4. I had to abandon the rewatch, because my DVR was filling up too quickly and it was stressing me out.

LOST Comic Strips - Run For The Border

[Pennywise]

worrywort, on 12 January 2013 - 07:39 PM, said:

Go with Gerald's Game and have your masturbation hand primed and ready to go, it's like 50 Shades of Grey for people who don't mind losing a few bones along the way.

That is... wow. Just wow.

The premise for this novel is ridiculously appealing to me, for some reason, because I love Stephen King as a storyteller and I cannot wait to see what he does with this setting.

[worry]

Haha I was half- (but indeed only half) joking. But uh, now that I think of it, you might describe Misery the same way, broadly speaking.

[Pennywise]

What with all the axes and ankle-chopping, right?

[Serenity]

Sheesh, so many of you are reading AMoL and I've only just finished The Eye of the World for the first time

Anyway, I wasn't sure about it at first but ended up enjoying it, so I shall move onto The Great Hunt fairly soon. At the moment, though, I'm about halfway through Robert Fagles' translation of The Iliad, which is pretty awesome.

[Defiance]

Just finished The Fires of Heaven. Taking a short detour from the main series to read New Spring.