[JPK]

So I'm rounding page 200 of Kraken by Mieville. You guys were right, I'm loving everything about this book. In a lot of ways it's reminding me of the absolute balls to the wall sheer craziness of Crooked Little Vein (with less sex).

This post has been edited by The Incredible Kitsu: 02 March 2014 - 08:57 PM

[Baco Xtath]

Finished Sandman Slim; it was alright. Not blown away or anything but a lot of that could be due to the fact that I disliked the narrator. Audiobooks can make a good book bad if the narrator doesn't fit the story's voice. Almost finished with Lamentation by Ken Scholes and I have to say that I'm really surprised I haven't heard more recommendations for this book/series. It's great stuff.

Next up, Words of Radiance. Hell yeah.

Haven't actually read anything in about a week. Damn Sopranos. Damn alcohol.

[D'iversify]

Around 55% through FOD, really enjoying after a slightly sluggish start. Erikson's plotting seems to have become even more skilled and dense. The dialogue's a bit overbearing at times but for the most part thoughtful.

[Baco Xtath]

Briar King, on 03 March 2014 - 03:07 AM, said:

You have Words of Rad already? I'm gonna go to Walmart and hope it's out early!

No. I don't have it yet but it comes out tomorrow and I've still got a couple hours left in Lamentation. So, Tuesday morning I'll download it and listen to it for the next couple of weeks.

[QuickTidal]

I needed something short to kill time till WoR comes out Tuesday, so I grabbed two volumes of B.P.R.D. trades at the used book store for $8 each. Should keep me well tided over till new Sanderson.

[Serenity]

Finished Le Guin's The Dispossessed. Wasn't overly enamoured with it, tbh - I couldn't warm to the characters, it was too much tell and not enough show for me.

I've now started re-reading Revelation Space. When I first read it 10+ years ago I found it quite heavygoing, so I've been putting off reading the rest of the series ever since. Liking Chasm City, House of Suns and Terminal World as much as I did, though, I've been meaning to get back to RS for ages, and I'm really enjoying it. Maybe reading Malazan in the intervening years has improved my reading skills

[Abyss]

Finished Meluch's TOUR OF THE MERRIMACK bk 5 THE NINTH CIRCLE.
Not as sheer awesome as the previous four, and far more SF than milSF. Very much a set-up novel for the new status quo/storyline after the overarching plots of the first four concluded.
Having read the first four and enjoyed them, the characters carried this for me more than the actual story. If you read those and enjoyed them you'll like this.
If you didn't love them, i don't think i would bother until there are a few more books in the series... i think she's going somewhere cool with this, but it's not there yet. There were a few moments of fist-raising greatness, a few laughs, but i thought that only one character got a moment that outshone anything she did in the previous books. Everyone else was par for the course. One new charcter was interesting, but i didn't think Meluch gave us quite enough to invest in him just yet, tho he ends the book in a place ripe with potential.

Three and a half planetary bombardments out of five, vs the previous four books which were solid four/four and a half right thru.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

It's worth it because I hate reading hardbacks. (There must be other people who do too. Someone should make a Hardbacks vs Paperbacks thread...)

[Gabriele]

Currently reading: Words of Radiance. You could use that bad boy for muscle training.

[Abyss]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 03 March 2014 - 05:31 PM, said:

It's worth it because I hate reading hardbacks. (There must be other people who do too. Someone should make a Hardbacks vs Paperbacks thread...)

I'm all about the ebook now.

[Gabriele]

I don't have an e-reader, but in case of WoR it might prove useful. I got a dent in my right thigh already from leaning the book on it.

[Abyss]

Gabriele, on 03 March 2014 - 08:43 PM, said:

I don't have an e-reader, but in case of WoR it might prove useful. I got a dent in my right thigh already from leaning the book on it.

I can (and do!) carry the entire MBF and ME series', in a single device smaller than a graphic novel. The health care savings alone justify the expense!

[Gabriele]

Well, I have some non fiction books to match WoR, and those don't come as e-books. It's not that common in Germany to begin with, and non fiction often isn't avaliable in electronic from even in English. So I'm used to some heavy lifting. The worst I ever hauled around was the 3 volume catalogue of the Varus Exhibition 2009 which weighted 6 kg. Usually I have monsters like that delivered by Amazon, but in this case the catalogue was 30% (some 25 €) off at the exhibition and so I bought it there, carried it to the hotel and the next day to the train station.

[amphibian]

The days of heavy books aren't quite behind us yet, which I view as mostly a good thing. (Publishers having more patience with long form writers is mostly what I mean)

Anyways, I'm reading Ash by Mary Gentle. I'm about three quarters of the way through and it's very good. Very good indeed.

I'm of the opinion that Wolfe does the actual writing of the found narration (autobiography translated for us readers) better, but Gentle makes the people finding the narration interesting, which is an additional and pleasant layer to the story.

[D'rek]

Abyss, on 03 March 2014 - 05:22 PM, said:

Finished Meluch's TOUR OF THE MERRIMACK bk 5 THE NINTH CIRCLE.
Not as sheer awesome as the previous four, and far more SF than milSF. Very much a set-up novel for the new status quo/storyline after the overarching plots of the first four concluded.
Having read the first four and enjoyed them, the characters carried this for me more than the actual story. If you read those and enjoyed them you'll like this.
If you didn't love them, i don't think i would bother until there are a few more books in the series... i think she's going somewhere cool with this, but it's not there yet. There were a few moments of fist-raising greatness, a few laughs, but i thought that only one character got a moment that outshone anything she did in the previous books. Everyone else was par for the course. One new charcter was interesting, but i didn't think Meluch gave us quite enough to invest in him just yet, tho he ends the book in a place ripe with potential.

Three and a half planetary bombardments out of five, vs the previous four books which were solid four/four and a half right thru.

But you would recommend that people read the first four now, right? But hold off on the fifth for now?

[Abyss]

D, on 04 March 2014 - 01:04 AM, said:

Abyss, on 03 March 2014 - 05:22 PM, said:

Finished Meluch's TOUR OF THE MERRIMACK bk 5 THE NINTH CIRCLE.
Not as sheer awesome as the previous four, and far more SF than milSF. Very much a set-up novel for the new status quo/storyline after the overarching plots of the first four concluded. ...

But you would recommend that people read the first four now, right? But hold off on the fifth for now?

Yes, i absolutely do. 1-4 read very nicely back to back, tell a complete story, and were a helluvalot of fun to read.

[QuickTidal]

I had started B.P.R.D. trades (Plague of Frogs arc), and it's AMAZEBALLS! The perfect Hellboy spinoff. The only reason I'm stopping at trade #4 is that I've got WoR on deck and I'll plough through that first, but I will probably immediately get back to B.P.R.D after. the Used Bookstores are STOCKED with them for like $8 each.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 04 March 2014 - 01:49 PM, said:

I had started B.P.R.D. trades (Plague of Frogs arc), and it's AMAZEBALLS! The perfect Hellboy spinoff. The only reason I'm stopping at trade #4 is that I've got WoR on deck and I'll plough through that first, but I will probably immediately get back to B.P.R.D after. the Used Bookstores are STOCKED with them for like $8 each.

I now have a titanic stack of Hellboy and BPRD hardcover collections sitting in a corner intimidating my eyeballz... i really look fwd to them but feel like i have to take a week off, send the Ladybyss on vacation, stock up on Mountain Dex and pizza pockets and become a hermit to really give the monster its due...

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 04 March 2014 - 03:10 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 04 March 2014 - 01:49 PM, said:

I had started B.P.R.D. trades (Plague of Frogs arc), and it's AMAZEBALLS! The perfect Hellboy spinoff. The only reason I'm stopping at trade #4 is that I've got WoR on deck and I'll plough through that first, but I will probably immediately get back to B.P.R.D after. the Used Bookstores are STOCKED with them for like $8 each.

I now have a titanic stack of Hellboy and BPRD hardcover collections sitting in a corner intimidating my eyeballz... i really look fwd to them but feel like i have to take a week off, send the Ladybyss on vacation, stock up on Mountain Dex and pizza pockets and become a hermit to really give the monster its due...

That sounds like what I did with SANDMAN ABSOLUTE volumes. I sat down one weekend and churned through thousands of pages. That was an experience. You should totally do it that way Abyss.

[Ukjent]

Hm.. the last days I have read all the Iron Druids book and are currently doing a reread of the Blinding Knife. Just for the record, Butchers owns the modern world fantasy thing.