[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 11 August 2017 - 02:22 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 11 August 2017 - 11:51 AM, said:

....

Started HEX-RATED by Jason Ridler this morning though, and I'm already 15% into it and it's a complete blast so far! Dresden fans will probably like this....though it's not (that I can tell) a full-on supernatural world...it has magic...but it's the detective POV and the setting (1970's Hollywood) that sell the thing. James Brimstone is a wonderfully wry character to be in the head of (it's first person POV) and I'm thoroughly enjoying it!

I can't even give you a hard time over this because i was already going to buy the book.
Still, the straining pixels in my eTRP send their collective hatred your way.

Pixel eHatred is the BEST kind of hatred!

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 11 August 2017 - 03:17 PM, said:

Abyss, on 11 August 2017 - 02:22 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 11 August 2017 - 11:51 AM, said:

....

Started HEX-RATED by Jason Ridler this morning though, and I'm already 15% into it and it's a complete blast so far! Dresden fans will probably like this....though it's not (that I can tell) a full-on supernatural world...it has magic...but it's the detective POV and the setting (1970's Hollywood) that sell the thing. James Brimstone is a wonderfully wry character to be in the head of (it's first person POV) and I'm thoroughly enjoying it!

I can't even give you a hard time over this because i was already going to buy the book.
Still, the straining pixels in my eTRP send their collective hatred your way.

Pixel eHatred is the BEST kind of hatred!

True.
No earbook, sadly, so it may be a while before i get to this.

[Gabriele]

Andorion, on 11 August 2017 - 12:24 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 11 August 2017 - 11:51 AM, said:

Finished AGE OF SWORDS by Michael J. Sullivan...2nd in the First Empire series.

Um.

It was not good. [...]

Interestingly QT, there can be advanced civilizations who did not have the wheel - the Mesoamerican cultures like the Mayans for example.

So that is not too outlandish. What is outlandish is that one person invented the wheel and writing so fast.

BTW I have not read the book.

The Mesoamerican civilizations had to cope with either jungle or very high, steep sloped mountains. Not the sort of terrain where a wheel would be of much use. But if the characters in the book invent the wheel to make travel easier, the landscape will allow for the use of wheels, and it makes indeed no sense it has not yet found its way to the place via cultural transfer. Never underestimate how far and fast goods and ideas traveled back in the Bronze Age, or even earlier. The copper of Ötzi's ax is today assumed to have come from Tuscany, some 500 miles south of where he was found; the Amesbury archer probably came from the Alpine region, judging by his tooth enamel; Baltic amber has been found in Egyptian and Mycenian burials and Egyptian gold jewelry in a dig near Munich in Bavaria ....

The wheel sorta pops up all over the place from the Indus Valley to Mesopotamia and the Funnelbeaker culture in Europe in the late 4th millenium BC. Someone's really backward in that novel.

[Mentalist]

Finished "The Unholy Consult". and the 140-odd page encyclopedia.

Liked it. Epic to the max. more thoughts in the ded thread.

[worry]

Finished Dragon Haven. Another book not heavy on action, but still lush with environment and character. And RH just includes so much (events, characters, perspectives) that other fantasy authors (men in particular) just don't think to include. Suffice to say I'm really happy with this series so far.

Now gonna read The Troupe by Robert J. Bennett.

[Lisheo]

Rereading Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds. It and Last Days of New Paris have been my favourite published material in the last while, though unlike Last Days, I feel Slow Bullet suffers from the novella format.

[Edmund Sackbauer]

250 pages into Shadowmarch and really enjoying it. Seems to be a good traditional Fantasy series with great writing.

[Puck]

Finished The Unholy Consult. Too much repetition (especially on the perma-sranc and nonmen-wank front) und I saw that ending coming, BUT still liked it. Just didn't love it 'cause my criticism of the entire Aspect-Emperor series applies here as well.

[End of Disc One]

Halfway through The Library at Mount Char. Erwin is the most badass motherfucker of all time. He puts most Malazan badasses to shame...not in power level but in badass motherfuckery.

[QuickTidal]

HEX-RATED is damned, damned good! That is all.

[polishgenius]

Started reading Blackwing by Ed McDonald. Enjoying it a lot so far. It's got kind of a Robert Jackson Bennet feel with a dollop of China Mieville's twistedness. Magic as WMD is a theme if that's your thing. Another solid debut from July just past, which seemed to be a good month for them.

[Slow Ben]

Finished up HoC. On to The Bonehunters!

[worry]

Slow Ben, on 16 August 2017 - 12:37 AM, said:

Finished up HoC. On to The Bonehunters!

Are you suuuuuuure?

[Slow Ben]

Changing it up for re-read number 4

DG
HoC
BH
GotM
MOI
TTH
MT
RG
DoD
CG

[worry]

[Mentalist]

Got back into Perumov with "Godsdoom-2". Finished the re-read of the first book, "Memory of the Flame" in 2 days. Too much set-up, to be honest. Hedin and co are trying to figure out what's happening with the 3 "wellsprings" of magic, while someone (feels like The Distant Ones, given all the green imagery) is trying to sic a vampire onto Klare and her family of dragons. The "Interludes" in the end introduce a whole bunch of characters from "Chronicles of the Rift" that can be thrown in the mix, but there's next to nothing that's been meaningfully explained so far. From the Prologue it sure feels like Orlangur's brother, the Eagle decided to give the universe a shake-up this time around, but the whys are unclear (well, I have some hints, b/c the "Thousand Years of Hroft" drops some info about how he operates and what he needs).

Onto Book 2 re-read tomorrow, and then I have 4 more that I never read before....

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

I'm up to the Etarra section in Curse of the Mistwraith. As Ando promised, it's already a lot more eventful. I'm enjoying it more, and am hoping it gets even better.

I also received my forgotten pre-order for Jemisin's The Stone Sky paperback, and really want to read it. I think I'm going to wait a few weeks until I have less stress. I want to savor it.

[JPK]

Down South, on 16 August 2017 - 04:04 PM, said:

Started ch 15 of Tigana. 222pgs left till end. This has been a good book. The build up over the last 70ish pages has been super and I'm now getting into the beginning of the end game.

I remain strong so far in telling myself that I will not start Lions right after unless I'm done with my other reads.

Still looking at Dresden reread for ending Tigana or Safehold.

I look foward to the day I no longer have to type the words Safehold or Weber since I've been typing Safehold or Weber for all over a year now. It's past time I put Weber's, Safehold series to bed.

Safehold,Weber,Weber, Weber, Safehold, Weber's Safehold.
*wink

What I'm taking from this, is that you're going to focus and bust out those last pages over the next 3 days to put us ALL out of your Safehold misery?

[JPK]

Down South, on 16 August 2017 - 04:31 PM, said:

Never hurts to dream. Those 300+ pgs I have left of it will prob take me into Sept.

You could hold the last 200 pages of Tigana hostage upon good behavior. Aka finishing Safehold. Lol.

I have started The Stone Sky. Damn it's good to be back in this story.

[Andorion]

Down South, on 16 August 2017 - 04:04 PM, said:

Started ch 15 of Tigana. 222pgs left till end. This has been a good book. The build up over the last 70ish pages has been super and I'm now getting into the beginning of the end game.

I remain strong so far in telling myself that I will not start Lions right after unless I'm done with my other reads.

Still looking at Dresden reread for ending Tigana or Safehold.

I look foward to the day I no longer have to type the words Safehold or Weber since I've been typing Safehold or Weber for all over a year now. It's past time I put Weber's, Safehold series to bed.

Safehold,Weber,Weber, Weber, Safehold, Weber's Safehold.
*wink

JPK, on 16 August 2017 - 04:12 PM, said:

Down South, on 16 August 2017 - 04:04 PM, said:

Started ch 15 of Tigana. 222pgs left till end. This has been a good book. The build up over the last 70ish pages has been super and I'm now getting into the beginning of the end game.

I remain strong so far in telling myself that I will not start Lions right after unless I'm done with my other reads.

Still looking at Dresden reread for ending Tigana or Safehold.

I look foward to the day I no longer have to type the words Safehold or Weber since I've been typing Safehold or Weber for all over a year now. It's past time I put Weber's, Safehold series to bed.

Safehold,Weber,Weber, Weber, Safehold, Weber's Safehold.
*wink

What I'm taking from this, is that you're going to focus and bust out those last pages over the next 3 days to put us ALL out of your Safehold misery?

Down South, on 16 August 2017 - 04:31 PM, said:

Never hurts to dream. Those 300+ pgs I have left of it will prob take me into Sept.

JPK, on 16 August 2017 - 04:48 PM, said:

Down South, on 16 August 2017 - 04:31 PM, said:

Never hurts to dream. Those 300+ pgs I have left of it will prob take me into Sept.

You could hold the last 200 pages of Tigana hostage upon good behavior. Aka finishing Safehold. Lol.

I have started The Stone Sky. Damn it's good to be back in this story.

Just do it BK. Finish Safehold. Pull an all-nighter. You can do it!