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Andorion, on 29 January 2017 - 06:03 AM, said:
Mentalist, on 29 January 2017 - 06:00 AM, said:
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Mentalist, on 28 January 2017 - 09:44 PM, said:
Wrapped up "Liar's Key". fun book, good laughs, strong pacing, decent plot in a settign that continues to be interesting, and characters that don't annoy me like Jorg did. Will be reading the last book once it hits mmpb.
next for the commute I'll read "Foul Tide's Turning", the second Far-Called book by Stephen Hunt.
At home, about a third into "Mirror Empire", already hunting round the City for an available copy of the sequel.
next for the commute I'll read "Foul Tide's Turning", the second Far-Called book by Stephen Hunt.
At home, about a third into "Mirror Empire", already hunting round the City for an available copy of the sequel.
How is Stephen Hunt? I have been interested in his books for some time.
Finished Alastair Reynolds' Poseidon's Children trilogy.
This is a very interesting series. The scope and epciness expands with each book. The first book is quite small-scale for Reynolds, though it has a few of his markers. The last book is filled iwth classic Reynolds tropes.
Reading wise I quite liked book 1 even though it was slow. Book 2 was excellent. Book 3 has a slow middle but a pretty epic ending.
I am reading Ilona Andrews latest Innkeeper book and then I will go back to Janny Wurts.
On the Classics front, only 110 pages into Charles Dickens' Bleak House. Its all sunshine and laughter, which makes me profoundly uneasy.
The first novel had a VERY sloooow and trope-filled start. But once it got going, there's really neat character arcs, and plot developments. Basically, once one of the main characters stops dropping hints about his dark and troubled past and says who he was and starts acting. Unfortunately, up to that point (and it takes 100-odd pages), the pacing was slow and the whole thing seemed quite generic in the "idyllic village is raided by mutant airship pirates"-type of way. As always in such cases, I hesitate to recommend, since people's tolerance for slow, annoying set-up beginnings tends to vary.
Once you get through that, there's some really neat stuff. Nothing earth-shattering and super-epic, but a fun adventure tale.
I am quite used to slow starts by now - Curse of the Mistwraith, Dragonbone Chair, Ironship - so I don't think that will be a problem. Putting this on this years list then
BTW have you read anything by KJ Parker?
Tried the Engineer books. I think I finished one, don't think I ever managed volume 2. It did not work for me. I have a problem when a person spends a large portion of book or series talking a bout a genius plan that involves everyone doing what they expect based on their weaknesses, and nothing goes wrong. That, the pacing, and something else didn't work for me. I'm pretty sure those were some of the books I donated to my library this past summer.
I'd be interested in giving the author another shot, maybe, as I heard the Fencer books are supposed to be better, but I'm not in any hurry to do so.
