[Ukjent]

Done with "Working God's Mischief" And i have to say I'm pleased, just to bad there's a wait for the next one now.

[QuickTidal]

Finished up BROKEN HOMES by Aaronovitch in short order. Man that was another solid outing. That ending! Was not expecting that.

Needed somehting short to tide me over for a few days until I'm doing SKIN GAME on my kindle, so on a whim (I'd gone to the book store to get LORD OF EMPERORS by GGK, but the stock the store said was there, wasn't...) I grabbed THE BLUE BLAZES by Chuck Wendig. So far, it's a pretty brutally entertaining Lovecraftian UrbanFantasy starring a huge criminal underworld thug in a dirty tank top, with a meat cleaver, and a wayward daughter who wants him to pay. EDIT: At the 100 page mark I've given up. It's unrelentingly bleak and grim and grim and grim some more. This has dampened what I would deem as "entertainment"...I don't read to get depressed. #DNF

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 25 May 2014 - 02:50 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

Oh we're talking TRPenis lengths are we? Well when I got my Kindle someone gave me a memory stick with about 1000 books on and once I had got rid of any that I clearly was never EVER going to read, my TRP is about 600 books.

[worry]

This is kinda in the white whine category, but it seems so elementary to me: it sucks that you can't mark a book as read on the Kindle (Fire, at least, which is what I have). Like even just a check mark or something.

[Defiance]

You could always make a folder (or collection, as I believe Kindle calls it) for all of the books you've read. I think there's also the option to archive your books.

[Baco Xtath]

Finished Nine Princes in Amber today. I thought it was a great first book, though maybe a little rushed. I'll read the rest of the chronicles cause I don't feel like paying $14 for each audio (too short for the money) and I already own the omnibus. Also, read the Thousandth Night last night. It's a prequel to House of Suns and overall I thought it was a fun little novella.

Not sure what to listen to next being as how Skin Game comes out in two days. Probably hop back into Shadow of the Torturer.

[Abyss]

D, on 24 May 2014 - 08:16 PM, said:

Finished Hyperion last night - wow, very good stuff, though bit of a bother that I don't have a copy of Fall yet given that the first book is basically 'part 1' and ends on a cliffhanger.

Go get FALL. go now. GO.
YOU WILL NOT BE SORRY.

[McLovin]

QuickTidal, on 23 May 2014 - 01:02 PM, said:

That's not a TRP man, that's a couple of book in waiting. Thy need to replenish is high. My TRP is still sitting at about 20 books. Your TRP should daunt you when you stare at it.

I found a copy of REDEMPTION ARK buried in my nightstand. So that like increased my TRP by 50% right there! Yeah.

[Abyss]

McLovin, on 26 May 2014 - 11:47 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 23 May 2014 - 01:02 PM, said:

That's not a TRP man, that's a couple of book in waiting. Thy need to replenish is high. My TRP is still sitting at about 20 books. Your TRP should daunt you when you stare at it.

I found a copy of REDEMPTION ARK buried in my nightstand. So that like increased my TRP by 50% right there! Yeah.

Oh please, that's not a trp, that's an afterthought. My recycling box has a more impressive reading list!

[Tiste Simeon]

Finished Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. Excellent book, really enjoyed the narration. Interesting to see that a lot of you non-Brits like it as it was in many ways very British. I feel like there will be bits that we get more out of for being British than you guys will... And possibly those who live in London would find it even more interesting or readable.

Oh well I finished it perfectly in time for Skin Game tomorrow huzzah! And I got there without reading any preview chapters (in your FACE Abyss!)

[Abyss]

Tisteon Simeonus, on 26 May 2014 - 09:49 PM, said:

...

Oh well I finished it perfectly in time for Skin Game tomorrow huzzah! And I got there without reading any preview chapters (in your FACE Abyss!)

It saddens me to watch you punish yourself so.

Why the self-hate Tiste, why?

[polishgenius]

Can all of you hurry up and get and read Skin Game so I can talk about it? Please.


Slowcoaches. Sample chapters, pfffffft.

This post has been edited by polishgenius: 26 May 2014 - 10:19 PM

[Serenity]

Tisteon Simeonus, on 26 May 2014 - 09:49 PM, said:

And possibly those who live in London would find it even more interesting or readable.

That was something I definitely got out of it - he obviously knows London very well. There was a chase scene in it that went right past where I work, and it all fitted together and looked right when I visualised it. Unlike an episode of 24: Live Another Day that I watched the other night, which had a Northern Line train terminating at Neasden. Er, nope!!


I finished Stephen R. Lawhead's Byzantium, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Kind of like a Bernard Cornwell novel, but all self-contained without the need to read a multi-book series.

Jumped straight into another doorstopper and am now reading the first of Colleen McCullough's 'Masters of Rome' series, The First Man in Rome. I was quite daunted by it at first, but I'm about 380 pages into it now (that's just 7% on the Kindle collection ) and I'm finding it a flowing, immersive read. The characters are fantastic, very amusing in places, and I'm loving all the political manoeuvring. It's not one for lovers of action, but for me it's completely absorbing, fascinated by the period as I am. After my initial dauntedness I am very pleasantly surprised.

[polishgenius]

London-based urban fantasy (that I've read) in order of 'London-ness':

Kate Griffin's Urban Magic/Matthew Swift series - this is just dripping in it. The author clearly spends an awful lot of time out and about in the city while writing her books... to the point where I imagine that someone not familiar with it, it's a bit like reading about New Crobuzon.

Peter Grant - loses a few marks by being a bit too beholden to major landmark-itis, at least in the early books. Gains them for actually trying to show the communities of London, real and imagined, as well as the buildings.

Benedict Jacka's Alex Verus series - not bad, definitely London, but it feels a bit touristy.

Mike Carey's Felix Castor- could have set it anywhere, to be honest.

[QuickTidal]

polishgenius, on 27 May 2014 - 09:06 AM, said:

Kate Griffin's Urban Magic/Matthew Swift series - this is just dripping in it. The author clearly spends an awful lot of time out and about in the city while writing her books... to the point where I imagine that someone not familiar with it, it's a bit like reading about New Crobuzon.

This is 100% accurate, as my sister-in-law read it and found it a very difficult read as a result of this.

Meanhwile, what am I reading? Pffft. Please. I'm OBVIOUSLY beginning SKIN GAME today.

[Abyss]

polishgenius, on 27 May 2014 - 09:06 AM, said:

London-based urban fantasy (that I've read) in order of 'London-ness':

Kate Griffin's Urban Magic/Matthew Swift series - this is just dripping in it. The author clearly spends an awful lot of time out and about in the city while writing her books... to the point where I imagine that someone not familiar with it, it's a bit like reading about New Crobuzon.

Peter Grant - loses a few marks by being a bit too beholden to major landmark-itis, at least in the early books. Gains them for actually trying to show the communities of London, real and imagined, as well as the buildings.

Benedict Jacka's Alex Verus series - not bad, definitely London, but it feels a bit touristy.

Mike Carey's Felix Castor- could have set it anywhere, to be honest.

Serenity, on 27 May 2014 - 08:48 AM, said:

Tisteon Simeonus, on 26 May 2014 - 09:49 PM, said:

And possibly those who live in London would find it even more interesting or readable.

That was something I definitely got out of it - he obviously knows London very well. There was a chase scene in it that went right past where I work, and it all fitted together and looked right when I visualised it. Unlike an episode of 24: ...

While far from being a native, i've spent chunks of time in London and tried to get away from the better known parts, so for me the Peter Grant series is a treat because while it goes touristy yes, it also ranges afield and goes the extra distance to describe the rivers, the suburbs, etc.

Jacka doesn't go deep into London i find. Change a few names and it could as easily be NYC, Toronto or Paris.

Carey... i'd say the later Castor books get a bit more London into them.

QuickTidal, on 27 May 2014 - 10:05 AM, said:

...
Meanhwile, what am I reading? Pffft. Please. I'm OBVIOUSLY beginning SKIN GAME today.

8 chapters in and my skin is already less pasty.

polishgenius, on 26 May 2014 - 10:18 PM, said:

Can all of you hurry up and get and read Skin Game so I can talk about it? Please.
...

In progress. Some of us have stupid fucking jobs we have to stupid fucking show up for and can't read while stupid fucking working like to enjoy the experience.

[McLovin]

Set aside ERIC BRIGHTEYES because the archaic style is just failing to hold my interest.

Decided to dip my toe into the Warhammer 40K universe with FIRST AND ONLY by Dan Abnett.

[T77]

Graablick, on 25 May 2014 - 11:45 AM, said:

Done with "Working God's Mischief" And i have to say I'm pleased, just to bad there's a wait for the next one now.

I think the word is that this is the last one due to poor sales. I hope with the rising popularity of ebooks that this manages to sell well and we see more as I think he planned a few more books in the series. I'm about 50% done with it and it's great so far.

[QuickTidal]

McLovin, on 27 May 2014 - 12:53 PM, said:

Set aside ERIC BRIGHTEYES because the archaic style is just failing to hold my interest.

Decided to dip my toe into the Warhammer 40K universe with FIRST AND ONLY by Dan Abnett.

Prepare yourself.

I just finished Book 11 in that series and it only gets better.

[Salt-Man Z]

Defiance, on 25 May 2014 - 08:00 PM, said:

You could always make a folder (or collection, as I believe Kindle calls it) for all of the books you've read.

That's what I do. I named it "_Read" so it always shows up at the top.