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#14961 Abyss

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Posted 27 February 2015 - 05:17 PM

Ketty Jay bk 2, BLACK LUNG CAPTAIN.... hell of a fun opening. ... farcical yet somehow awesome skyship chase will always hook me.

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Posted 27 February 2015 - 07:27 PM

I'm on a bit of a hot streak at the moment. After going through The Godless by Ben Peek, a strong addition (perhaps the strongest, though time will tell) to the new crop of epic fantasy in the last couple of years, I'm halfway into Station Eleven by Emily St. John, an apocalypse/post-apocalypse book that's managing to be frequently beautiful.

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Posted 27 February 2015 - 09:01 PM

Finished Name of the Wind. Not the most trangressive fantasy but works very well with old tropes and has some good fresh ideas in there too. Will definitely be picking up The Wise Man's Fear now.

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Posted 27 February 2015 - 09:50 PM

Finished my Dresden Files re-read. Stars and stones!!. Think I will jump to the ancillary series now..

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Posted 27 February 2015 - 09:53 PM

Heading on a ski vacation so will have a lot of reading in my future! I've got Leckie's Ancillary Justice, Tchaikovsky's Dragonfly Falling, and McClellan's The Crimson Campaign.

I've had Tchaikovsky's series in my TRP for a long time but finally read book one and jumped right into book two. Good stuff. Looking forward to the other ones too.

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Posted 27 February 2015 - 10:07 PM

Picked up The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams.

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 02:02 AM

Finished Warbreaker. Avery solid book, with interesting twists, and another aunique magic system. Wonder if Sanderson will write a sequel.

Then finished Autumn Republic. Nice ending to the trilogy, though it felt a bit rushed. Somethings were not explained. I would have liked to see a certain score settled, but oh well

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 05:39 AM

Briar King, on 28 February 2015 - 05:31 AM, said:

Good now start the massive SLA 1.

Umm.. I was thinking of waiting until I got SLA 2, which should be middle of next week. Est. reading time for SLA 1?

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 06:38 AM

Briar King, on 28 February 2015 - 06:13 AM, said:

I read it in about 2 weeks I think but you know I read much slower then you. Maybe you can slow down your pace and try to pick up on Cosmere details?

Yeah I suppose I could do that. I got a tiny Urban Fantasy book now, should be done by tomorrow. Might start after that. BTW what is Sixth of the Dusk?

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 06:56 AM

Briar King, on 28 February 2015 - 06:47 AM, said:

I'm stumped by that. Never heard of it till today but it looks like a Cosmere Novella according to 17th Shard

Since I am heavily into Sanderson now, should I get an account there?

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 01:21 PM

Andorion, on 28 February 2015 - 06:38 AM, said:

Briar King, on 28 February 2015 - 06:13 AM, said:

I read it in about 2 weeks I think but you know I read much slower then you. Maybe you can slow down your pace and try to pick up on Cosmere details?

Yeah I suppose I could do that. I got a tiny Urban Fantasy book now, should be done by tomorrow. Might start after that. BTW what is Sixth of the Dusk?

There are two Cosmere short stories, that and Shadows of Silence in the Forests of Hell. They take place on "minor Shard worlds." The're pretty good, I'd read them after the other books.

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 01:31 PM

I am just starting The Crippled God and I also just started the Book of Enoch the Prophet (R.H. Charles version, Mostly because Lon Milo Duquette did an introduction and he is delightful. )

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 01:35 PM

Stormcat, on 28 February 2015 - 01:31 PM, said:

I am just starting The Crippled God and I also just started the Book of Enoch the Prophet (R.H. Charles version, Mostly because Lon Milo Duquette did an introduction and he is delightful. )

Crippled God... some of my most favourite moments in fantasy are in that book.

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 04:31 PM

Andorion, 6th of the Dusk was a great read. Plus, it is even shorter than The Emperor's Soul. You could get away with cutting it in anytime at this point, as it is Cosmere related but not attached to any of the other Cosmere books as of yet. Also, he does have plans for a Warbreaker sequel but it is not slated for a few more years.

I just finished The Prefect on audiobook. Thank you guys for talking me into sticking with Reynolds after the first book. He has really reopened my love for scifi at this point. I know there are two other books involved with the Revelation Space universe (and i just ordered copies of both Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days and Galactic North) but is his other stuff as good?

As for my next listen, I've got The Path of Daggers downloading on Audible as i type this. I am looking forward to returning to the WoT, but i know not to expect much from the next few books. In fact, I'm considering just reading a summary of Crossroads of Twilight like i have seen suggested multiple times.

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 04:46 PM

The Incredible Kitsu, on 28 February 2015 - 04:31 PM, said:

Thanks for the info. I'll probably read it before or during SLA

As for Reynolds, Redemption Space is one of my alltime favourite sci-fi series. Reynolds can be a bit challenging because his books are a slowburn and it takes time to grasp the different PoVs But the climaxes are some of the most rewarding I have ever read. Plus the worldbuilding is pretty imaginative and intricate

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 05:22 PM

Andorion, on 28 February 2015 - 04:46 PM, said:

Reynolds can be a bit challenging because his books are a slowburn and it takes time to grasp the different PoVs But the climaxes are some of the most rewarding I have ever read. Plus the worldbuilding is pretty imaginative and intricate.

LOL you just described Steven Erikson.

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 06:16 PM

Hey Andorion, I know that you finished crossroads of Twilight not too long ago. Do you agree with what I've been reading that that book can be easily skipped and to just read a summary and move on to the next one?

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 06:19 PM

The Incredible Kitsu, on 28 February 2015 - 06:16 PM, said:

If you are in a hurry, and can't take it anymore, read a summary. The pity is that the last few chaptes were actually quite good. In fact if I were you I would at least read the last chapter

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 06:21 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 28 February 2015 - 05:22 PM, said:

Andorion, on 28 February 2015 - 04:46 PM, said:

LOL you just described Steven Erikson.

Except all the PoVs are in very different timelines, often decades, centuries apart. And yet they converge. You really have to understand time-dilation due to near light-speed travel. I was realy confused when I first read it.

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Posted 28 February 2015 - 06:22 PM

Briar King, on 28 February 2015 - 05:37 PM, said:

Andorion, on 28 February 2015 - 06:56 AM, said:

Briar King, on 28 February 2015 - 06:47 AM, said:

I'm stumped by that. Never heard of it till today but it looks like a Cosmere Novella according to 17th Shard

Since I am heavily into Sanderson now, should I get an account there?

After you get done with SLA2 yes of course. It is a VERY slow and heavily fucking kiddyfied board of directors though. It can get down right annoying with those people at times.

I tried to open an account, but for some reason they kept on rejecting the application. Server problems maybe.