[worry]

Finished The Girl With All the Gifts. Realized M.R. Carey is a pen name of Mike Carey, who's written for X-Men, Lucifer, and Hellblazer. Not that I know his work in comics, just thought it might interest others.

Anyway, he knows his way around a story. This book doesn't break the mold on post-apocalypse or zombie fiction, but there's very good writing throughout (some very sharp turns of phrase), it's a pretty tight page-turner (only 400 pages), and -- vitally -- it sticks the landing. It's a bit reminiscent of The Last of Us and 28 Weeks Later, but holds its own.

I'm feeling a bit adrift without WoT to anchor my TRP -- not sure what series to tackle -- but I think next I'll go for that Abercrombie/First Law short story collection.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

death rattle, on 09 January 2017 - 10:49 AM, said:

I'm feeling a bit adrift without WoT to anchor my TRP -- not sure what series to tackle -- but I think next I'll go for that Abercrombie/First Law short story collection.

Have you heard of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series? It's worth a try.

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 09 January 2017 - 12:50 PM

[QuickTidal]

death rattle, on 09 January 2017 - 10:49 AM, said:

Finished The Girl With All the Gifts. Realized M.R. Carey is a pen name of Mike Carey, who's written for X-Men, Lucifer, and Hellblazer. Not that I know his work in comics, just thought it might interest others.

Anyway, he knows his way around a story. This book doesn't break the mold on post-apocalypse or zombie fiction, but there's very good writing throughout (some very sharp turns of phrase), it's a pretty tight page-turner (only 400 pages), and -- vitally -- it sticks the landing. It's a bit reminiscent of The Last of Us and 28 Weeks Later, but holds its own.

I'm feeling a bit adrift without WoT to anchor my TRP -- not sure what series to tackle -- but I think next I'll go for that Abercrombie/First Law short story collection.

He is also the author of the Felix Castor Urban Fantasy/horror series. He's a damned fine writer.

[Macros]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 09 January 2017 - 12:49 PM, said:

death rattle, on 09 January 2017 - 10:49 AM, said:

I'm feeling a bit adrift without WoT to anchor my TRP -- not sure what series to tackle -- but I think next I'll go for that Abercrombie/First Law short story collection.

Have you heard of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series? It's worth a try.

if you liked the first law you'll like Sharp ends, a lot of good little stories in there. My favourite is the Glokta one

[worry]

Ah that's good to know. Tbh I get a lot of the urban fantasy peeps you guys talk about confused, but now that I know how good a writer this guy is I might give the Castor books a shot. Especially if they bend towards horror.

Edit: And yah I liked all the First Law books -- I remember the details of the standalone three more than the first trilogy though, but Glokta was the original standout.

This post has been edited by death rattle: 09 January 2017 - 08:27 PM

[Macros]

don't you you peeps me. Do I look like one of slavering dresden crack addicts to you??


- Macros, has yet to read and Dresdencrack or Katamine, or whatever the other series is.

[amphibian]

death rattle, on 09 January 2017 - 08:24 PM, said:

Ah that's good to know. Tbh I get a lot of the urban fantasy peeps you guys talk about confused, but now that I know how good a writer this guy is I might give the Castor books a shot. Especially if they bend towards horror.

Edit: And yah I liked all the First Law books -- I remember the details of the standalone three more than the first trilogy though, but Glokta was the original standout.

Did you read Carey's Lucifer comic series? At multiple intervals, it's better than Gaiman's Sandman (in my estimation).

The Castor novels do tend to run darker than most urban fantasy and are very well written. We are all waiting for the sixth (and final) novel as Carey has discovered that he can make a very good living doing other stuff (more books) while slowly working on the denouement to that.

[worry]

Nah, I haven't read Lucifer -- I haven't read Sandman either though.

Re: Castor, the fact that it's an urban fantasy with a finale -- yet to be written aside -- is a good selling point in itself.

[worry]

Maybe, I do have all of them and they don't look like juggernauts lengthwise. Actually I might do Book of the New Sun though, which I keep forgetting to do in-between other things.

[polishgenius]

Book of the New Sun (and the whole Solar Cycle really), is a worthy anchor.

However, the most obvious answer is staring you right in the face:

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I haven't read Sandman

[Tiste Simeon]

Yeah Sandman is amazing. I have them all of you want to pop over and pick them up...

[worry]

Lol thanks Tiste, you're a peach! Price is definitely the main factor in not ever picking them up. The box set is like $127 on Amazon. And I know that's not overpriced -- 10 top notch graphic novels for <$13 each -- but still a pretty big single purchase, and outside my budget. Maybe if I win the lottery. I should start playing the lottery, huh?

[Mentalist]

Finished "Alloy of Law" re-read.

Moving on to "Shadows of self" in commute read.

At home, steady progress with "Seveneves". I gotta admit, I'm not super-grabbed, but it's a fun "what if" scenario so far.

[QuickTidal]

death rattle, on 10 January 2017 - 12:08 AM, said:

Lol thanks Tiste, you're a peach! Price is definitely the main factor in not ever picking them up. The box set is like $127 on Amazon. And I know that's not overpriced -- 10 top notch graphic novels for <$13 each -- but still a pretty big single purchase, and outside my budget. Maybe if I win the lottery. I should start playing the lottery, huh?

Ever heard of a library?

[worry]

QuickTidal, on 10 January 2017 - 01:04 AM, said:

Ever heard of a library?

You big city boys have it all! My town's library is a tree w/ four buckets hanging from it. One bucket is full of Bibles, one is full of the Book of Mormon, one has Sidney Sheldon/Danielle Steele novels, and the last is Nelson Demille/Nora Roberts. They were thinking of getting a bucket for King/Koontz/Patterson but that was getting way too liberal for the town council.

I think I'm going to invest $10 a month for the next 12.7 months into buying lottery tickets, and maybe by the end I'll win enough to afford it.
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[Salt-Man Z]

In honor of Richard Adams's recent passing I picked up Shardik (my favorite book of all time) on Kindle and am currently reading it for the 12th time.

[Gabriele]

death rattle, on 10 January 2017 - 01:41 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 10 January 2017 - 01:04 AM, said:

Ever heard of a library?

You big city boys have it all! My town's library is a tree w/ four buckets hanging from it. One bucket is full of Bibles, one is full of the Book of Mormon, one has Sidney Sheldon/Danielle Steele novels, and the last is Nelson Demille/Nora Roberts. They were thinking of getting a bucket for King/Koontz/Patterson but that was getting way too liberal for the town council.

Aren't people in the backwoods supposed to OWN the Bible and the Book of Mormon? Naughty wee heathens will end up in hell if they get those from the library.

[Slow Ben]

Macros, on 09 January 2017 - 08:26 PM, said:

- Macros, has yet to read and Dresdencrack

I have never felt more sympathy for another human being.

[Andorion]

Finished Ships of Merior, onto Warhost of Vastmark. That was a pretty spectacular ending.

Also into the last part of Gone With the WInd

[Andorion]

Cheesewiz, on 10 January 2017 - 05:24 AM, said:

Finished White Sand. I'm not sure why we got the same story in comic and then txt. I enjoyed the text a lot. You can def see the beginning of the Push and Pull Mistborn powers but with Sand instead. Hope those 3 bks will come one day cause Taladin sounds really cool. Onto Silence now.

I really needed this break from Safehold 6 to recharge.

BK how intricately is Secret History is connected to the other Mistborn books? I am not rereading Mistborn just to make sense of one novella