[Andorion]

QuickTidal, on 09 December 2014 - 02:02 PM, said:

100 pages into MAGIC BLEEDS and I have a query (likely for Andorion)

Spoiler

Kate does the spell on the undead mages headparts and sees herself reflected back...and it seems to me that she wouldn't eff up the spell...so my theory is that Kate has a twin (or similar looking) sister...who WAS raised by Roland...not sure if I'm right, but that seems as good a reason as any why the spell wouldn't APPEAR to work.

Oh she didn't mess up the spell. You are on the right track, just slightly off.

Spoiler

Hint: Its a lot more terrifying than a twin sister raised by Roland

[QuickTidal]

Andorion, on 09 December 2014 - 02:17 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 09 December 2014 - 02:02 PM, said:

100 pages into MAGIC BLEEDS and I have a query (likely for Andorion)

Spoiler

Kate does the spell on the undead mages headparts and sees herself reflected back...and it seems to me that she wouldn't eff up the spell...so my theory is that Kate has a twin (or similar looking) sister...who WAS raised by Roland...not sure if I'm right, but that seems as good a reason as any why the spell wouldn't APPEAR to work.

Oh she didn't mess up the spell. You are on the right track, just slightly off.

Spoiler

Hint: Its a lot more terrifying than a twin sister raised by Roland

Ha! Fair enough. Thanks for letting me know.

[Salt-Man Z]

It's December, so I'm reading Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer for the sixth time in six years. (Nothing like a Book of the New Sun reread to get me out of the reading doldrums.)

This post has been edited by Salt-Man Z: 09 December 2014 - 04:09 PM

[Nicodimas]

Annihilation by Vandermeer.

What a fing ride..going to book 2 now.

I felt like book 1 is describing a great old one. /shudder

[EmperorMagus]

Nicodimas, on 11 December 2014 - 06:55 AM, said:

Annihilation by Vandermeer.

What a fing ride..going to book 2 now.

I felt like book 1 is describing a great old one. /shudder

The book was just awesome. It is the only book I remember reading that actually scared me. "Shudder" is the best word to describe the feeling.

[Macros]

Brothers in Blood.
Latest in the Eagle series by Simon Scarrow, its popcorn fun, Sharpe set in the roman empire, which I thoroughly enjoy

[McLovin]

Finished SABBAT MARTYR. That was an amazing finish to the Saint arc. Abnett's ability to write chaotic, multi-POV battles is amazing.

Forcing myself to take a break from the gauntcrack with dresdencrack: COLD DAYS.

[Macros]

Reading Conn Igguldens war of the roses book, just finished stormbird and have started trinity.
Great stuff so far

[worry]

Briar King, on 13 December 2014 - 08:32 PM, said:

The DP is insane to take in.

Quoted for posterity.

[Nicodimas]

worry, on 13 December 2014 - 09:50 PM, said:

Briar King, on 13 December 2014 - 08:32 PM, said:

The DP is insane to take in.

Quoted for posterity.

bahahaha

[Gabriele]

Macros, on 11 December 2014 - 09:34 AM, said:

Brothers in Blood.
Latest in the Eagle series by Simon Scarrow, its popcorn fun, Sharpe set in the roman empire, which I thoroughly enjoy

If you like that stuff, you should also give Douglas Jackson's Hero of Rome series a try. There's another Roman one by Harry Sidebottom about Ballista (beginning with Warrior of Rome and finished with 6 books), but he is a professor for history and it shows sometimes. I didn't mind, but little history lessons (usually no more than a paragraph or so) are not for everyone. His new series about Maximinus Thrax is even more history-focussed. Ben Kane writes Roman stuff, too (Hannibal and Spartacus) but he's not up to par stylistically, imho.

Cornwell's Uhtred books are fun, too. They're making a TV series of the first, The Last Kingdom.

[JPK]

I finished listening to The Lord of Castle Black by Steven Brust. I think the best thing about the romances are the Dzur. Pure gold.

Starting Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds.

[Baco Xtath]

About 30% in Traitor's Blade by Sebastian De Castell; this is shaping up to be my favorite read of 2014. I've never read the Three Musketeers but I've heard this book compared to it and from what i know about it, they are definitely similar. Also about 30% in Six-Gun Tarot. It's pretty good but, compared to Traitor's Blade, it's writing seems amateurish - though, I'm sure a lot of that has to do with the Western Slang used in Tarot.

Also listening to The Subtle Knife. Not as good as its predecessor but good nonetheless.
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[QuickTidal]

Baco Xtath, on 16 December 2014 - 12:18 PM, said:

About 30% in Traitor's Blade by Sebastian De Castell; this is shaping up to be my favorite read of 2014.

It was easily mine as well. In fact I voted for it in the Good Reads Best of 2014. Loved it.

As for me, I'm about 100 pages into STONE OF FAREWELL by Tad Williams. Man, there is just something about how this guy sets every scene that fully immerses me. Loving it.

[Tiste Simeon]

First book of Night Angel done! Ace stuff especially that last quarter!

[Mentalist]

Still working through "The Nomad of time" (2/3s through). This series is awesome history-hopping, alternative history epic warmongering fun. Best Moorcock stuff I've read.

Also made a bit of progress in Simon Morden's "Arcanum" nothing special so far, but only a short way into a fairly thick book.

[polishgenius]

This week I've read The Sword of the North, the second book in Luke Scull's highly enjoyable epic fantasy series (a step up on the first book), and The Shotgun Arcana, the second of RS Belcher's Golgotha books, which is a mythology-melting-pot fantasy western sequence that I think the denizens of this board could well love and therefore highly recommend to y'all.



I'm currently scurrying through my e-reader picking through my backlog, so picked back up on Ilario by Mary Gentle which I put down for a pause a while ago. But the glowing praise for Traitor's Blade above might see me pick it up tomorrow.

[Traveller]

I've just finished Deadhouse Gates.

I can't remember when I last read it.. it's been a while since my last full reread.

Having read a lot of other stuff since, I wondered if I'd enjoy it as much. Also actually knowing what is going on in scenes that used to be more ambiguous makes it a different read, which I thought might make it less enjoyable than I remember.

And.. I shouldn't have worried. The book is still amazing. Duiker's entire story arc. Felisin's journey. Mappo and Icarium.. Coltaine... fuck, it's just epic.

On to MoI. (My paperback of this is now almost in bits though so kindle version this time round.)

[Tiste Simeon]

Traveller, on 17 December 2014 - 08:45 PM, said:

I've just finished Deadhouse Gates.

I can't remember when I last read it.. it's been a while since my last full reread.

Having read a lot of other stuff since, I wondered if I'd enjoy it as much. Also actually knowing what is going on in scenes that used to be more ambiguous makes it a different read, which I thought might make it less enjoyable than I remember.

And.. I shouldn't have worried. The book is still amazing. Duiker's entire story arc. Felisin's journey. Mappo and Icarium.. Coltaine... fuck, it's just epic.

On to MoI. (My paperback of this is now almost in bits though so kindle version this time round.)

I find that reread only enhance the books! May have to do another one before too long.

[Nicodimas]

Re-reading foundation after y'all were talking about it somewhere. I totally was trying to respond and really couldn't remember the details..probably been 10 years! ...how did that happen.