[QuickTidal]

Gabriele, on 28 April 2017 - 01:22 PM, said:

I gave up after book 4. But she obviously got a big enough fanbase that will buy even book 20 in that series, so she's going on with it. Not that I blame her; I'd like to have her bank account. (Nor do I need to worry that I will ever produce 20 doorstoppers as long as my writing speed resembles that of GRRM )

For sure. I'm just convinced that she should have done a second trilogy after the Jacobite stuff, with direct involvement with the American Revolution (not 15 boring years leading up to it)....and then ended it. It would have made for a clean two trilogy series. This meandering nonsense is TEDIOUS. LOL

I think I'm going to steer clear of the 6th book and see if the TV series fixes some of my issues instead.

[Gabriele]

QuickTidal, on 28 April 2017 - 01:36 PM, said:

Gabriele, on 28 April 2017 - 01:22 PM, said:

I gave up after book 4. But she obviously got a big enough fanbase that will buy even book 20 in that series, so she's going on with it. Not that I blame her; I'd like to have her bank account. (Nor do I need to worry that I will ever produce 20 doorstoppers as long as my writing speed resembles that of GRRM )

For sure. I'm just convinced that she should have done a second trilogy after the Jacobite stuff, with direct involvement with the American Revolution (not 15 boring years leading up to it)....and then ended it. It would have made for a clean two trilogy series. This meandering nonsense is TEDIOUS. LOL

I think I'm going to steer clear of the 6th book and see if the TV series fixes some of my issues instead.

That's actually a good idea. Since she always has two or three time levels anyway, she could have snuck in enough of Brienne/Roger to fill the reader up on them without Drums of Autumn (where the decline of the books starts). That would maybe have made them more sympathetic, too.

[Tiste Simeon]

So... THE LIBRARY AT MOUNT CHAR arrived the other day, dead tree version. Hyped. Just need to finish Lightbringer 3 and I'm good to go!

[Tatterdemalion]

Just finished Laura Hughes's short story DANSE MACABRE. Very twisted and clever.

Going to start reading TIGANA for real now... but what will happen is I will have to fill the void on the eReader so I will 'pick a new eBook' and then I will have more eRading time than regular reading time and then I'll end up reading the eBook and that doesn't look good for the 5 amazing and beautiful paperbacks of Gaiman, Gwynne, Lawrence, Erikson *cough* and Django Wexler I have piled awaiting my attention.

Don't hate me because I haven't read Fall of Light. It's too epic for me life right now. I've come to terms with the fact I must wait until Book 3 and then read them all in one go.

[Abyss]

Tiste Simeon, on 28 April 2017 - 02:43 PM, said:

So... THE LIBRARY AT MOUNT CHAR arrived the other day, dead tree version. Hyped. Just need to finish Lightbringer 3 and I'm good to go!

Break out the tutus, we got another one!

[Chance]

Resuming my Malazan re-read where I left it off last year on Toll the Hounds after a couple of light reads.

Briar King, on 29 April 2017 - 03:23 AM, said:

Rereading Gardens has been so fun. I love picking up on stuff I already know but I have forgotten so much it's crazy as well. I wonder what I ll make of bk 8 if I manage to stick to a series read? That was my least favorite of the main. My top least liked Malazan is FoD. I don't plan to reread that and I have serious doubts I ll ever read FoL.

This is definitely fun though.

Toll the Hounds is a lot better on a re-read but all the pay off is in the last 25-33% of a thick book so its somewhat off a slog to get there, even if Eriksons language just gets better the further he goes. Personally I've never succeded with re-reading the last two books in the series where I've read every other one at least 4-5 times and the first few at least twice that.

This post has been edited by Chance: 29 April 2017 - 09:25 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

The last books hold up exceptionally well in a reread...

I just finished Lightbringer 3! What a final third that was! The best of the books so far. I am very glad I stuck with it, Kip became so much better.

Don't have the 4th so going to start on THE LIBRARY AT MOUNT CHAR tomorrow!

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

After a friend has browbeaten me about if for ages, I have finally begun the first volume of Wheel of Time. I'm only 300 pages in, so I'm on the fence ATM.

[worry]

Oh don't worry, it only gets the same from there.

[Baco Xtath]

Just finished Claire North's Gamehouse #2 and am starting #3. She's a phenomenal writer.

[Tiste Simeon]

Started THE LIBRARY AT MOUNT CHAR so far... It's weird! Intriguing though...

[Andorion]

About 300 pages into Seige, Part 1 of To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams.

The pace has really slowed down in this book. It took him 200+ pages to move one protagonist from the situation she had been in back in book 2!

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

worry, on 30 April 2017 - 09:48 PM, said:

Oh don't worry, it only gets the same from there.

Oh, that's encouraging...

Encouraged to quit before I get more behind that I already am.

I've already struggled through too many steaming piles of teenage angst.

[worry]

Aw I don't wanna knock you off your game. Actually it gets better (the first book -- imo -- kinda outright sucks). But most of what's bad about the first book doesn't go away for a long while, even if better stuff gets weaved in along the way. And the best/most impressive things about it don't ever really include RJ's storytelling ability (except the genuinely great stuff throughout Book 4, and a few scattered moments elsewhere).

[Cyphon]

Finished the reread of FoD. I think it's better on a second reading, I was able to see a bit more of story through the philosophising this time. I caught a lot more of the connections and foreshadowing.

Onto FoL for the first time now...

[QuickTidal]

Andorion, on 01 May 2017 - 01:00 AM, said:

About 300 pages into Seige, Part 1 of To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams.

The pace has really slowed down in this book. It took him 200+ pages to move one protagonist from the situation she had been in back in book 2!

Yeah, this is easily one of the biggest complaints about Williams stuff. That he has a great story for a trilogy, and instead blows it open late in the game to 4 books (though according to Tad, TGAT is mean to be one book and just was too many pages for conventional printing to handle without the spine breaking)…but yeah, TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER could/should have been one book of half the size. The pace suffers as a result. I still feel it finishes strongly (and if you drop right into THE HERART OF WHAT WAS LOST right after it, I think you’ll benefit) though, so hopefully you can push through the slower bits.

[Tiste Simeon]

Yeah OTHERLAND should have been a trilogy. Could have had loads trimmed off it...

This post has been edited by Tiste Simeon: 01 May 2017 - 08:09 PM

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

Briar King, on 01 May 2017 - 01:58 AM, said:

Kruppe of Darujhistan, on 30 April 2017 - 09:44 PM, said:

After a friend has browbeaten me about if for ages, I have finally begun the first volume of Wheel of Time. I'm only 300 pages in, so I'm on the fence ATM.

It's pretty much a fantasy readers rite of passage must read once in their life. As I tell anyone who starts this project read the short book prequel New Spring before starting the main books. If you read it after odds are you ll never ever finish it...

I was 35-years-old when the series started in 1990 and had been reading fantasy long before that. I can easily pass on the Rite of Passage.

[Abyss]

Tiste Simeon, on 01 May 2017 - 08:09 PM, said:

Yeah OTHERLAND should have been a trilogy. Could have had loads trimmed off it...

Loads. SO SO MUCH LOADS.

[Macros]

Had left shogun at home last week and with the weekend hadn't actually got much reading of it. Like 70pgs or so.
Knocked out about 200 yesterday evening, man the going is SLOW.
Does it pick up or is it methodically paced the whole 1100 pages?