[Abyss]

Maark Abbott, on 13 August 2018 - 07:32 AM, said:

Abyss, on 12 August 2018 - 04:25 AM, said:

Alternative Goose, on 11 August 2018 - 09:09 AM, said:

Toll the Hounds was a boring book and you should feel bored for having read it. Except the last 100 pages. They were dope.

Macros, on 11 August 2018 - 10:51 AM, said:

Alternative Goose, on 11 August 2018 - 09:09 AM, said:

Toll the Hounds was a boring book and you should feel bored for having read it.

Fixed that for you

The Way of Kings is awesome.

I agree. Just bought an autographed leather-bound numbered fully illustrated foil wrapped limited tabletop edition. It was worth the kidney.

Cool!

[Tiste Simeon]

Abyss, on 13 August 2018 - 05:07 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 13 August 2018 - 07:32 AM, said:

Abyss, on 12 August 2018 - 04:25 AM, said:

Alternative Goose, on 11 August 2018 - 09:09 AM, said:

Toll the Hounds was a boring book and you should feel bored for having read it. Except the last 100 pages. They were dope.

Macros, on 11 August 2018 - 10:51 AM, said:

Alternative Goose, on 11 August 2018 - 09:09 AM, said:

Toll the Hounds was a boring book and you should feel bored for having read it.

Fixed that for you

The Way of Kings is awesome.

I agree. Just bought an autographed leather-bound numbered fully illustrated foil wrapped limited tabletop edition. It was worth the kidney.

Cool! In fact, as a Mod I can make your name something that declares your love of Way of Kings and keep it that way!

I mean I'm usually against Mod abuses of power but this seems fine.

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 13 August 2018 - 05:40 PM, said:

Abyss, on 13 August 2018 - 05:07 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 13 August 2018 - 07:32 AM, said:

Abyss, on 12 August 2018 - 04:25 AM, said:

Alternative Goose, on 11 August 2018 - 09:09 AM, said:

Toll the Hounds was a boring book and you should feel bored for having read it. Except the last 100 pages. They were dope.

Macros, on 11 August 2018 - 10:51 AM, said:

Alternative Goose, on 11 August 2018 - 09:09 AM, said:

Toll the Hounds was a boring book and you should feel bored for having read it.

Fixed that for you

The Way of Kings is awesome.

I agree. Just bought an autographed leather-bound numbered fully illustrated foil wrapped limited tabletop edition. It was worth the kidney.

Cool! In fact, as a Mod I can make your name something that declares your love of Way of Kings and keep it that way!

I mean I'm usually against Mod abuses of power but this seems fine.

Agreed.

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On topic, I’ve started Sigma book 12, THE SEVENTH PLAGUE!

[worry]

Wow, that's ~1.8 books per plague!

[Maark Abbott]

Willingly spending money on Stormlight is why Trump is in power.

[End of Disc One]

Finished The Scar and I can see why it's so highly regarded. Excellent book though I had mixed feelings on the ending. Better ending than PSS, but I'd still rank PSS higher overall. Regarding The Scar's ending

Spoiler

Could they not have just parked the avanc and sent forward an expedition the rest of the way to the Scar? I guess not since we never heard back from the female Lover so she probably died anyway. I also have a hard time believing that the original Hedrigall would have jetted off.
Did he just disappear? I thought I remembered mention of various items disappearing or showing up in different places as they got closer to the Scar.

Also continuing on in The Emperor's Blades and really enjoying it. Standard plot but Brian Staveley is a great writer. There are chapters where I'll groan at seeing that it's going to be about another brutal training session, but I find myself absorbed as I'm reading on. I know people had issues with this trilogy, but I can see Staveley becoming one of the bigger names in fantasy as he releases more books.

[Andorion]

End of Disc One, on 14 August 2018 - 01:48 PM, said:

Finished The Scar and I can see why it's so highly regarded. Excellent book though I had mixed feelings on the ending. Better ending than PSS, but I'd still rank PSS higher overall. Regarding The Scar's ending

Spoiler

Could they not have just parked the avanc and sent forward an expedition the rest of the way to the Scar? I guess not since we never heard back from the female Lover so she probably died anyway. I also have a hard time believing that the original Hedrigall would have jetted off.
Did he just disappear? I thought I remembered mention of various items disappearing or showing up in different places as they got closer to the Scar.

Also continuing on in The Emperor's Blades and really enjoying it. Standard plot but Brian Staveley is a great writer. There are chapters where I'll groan at seeing that it's going to be about another brutal training session, but I find myself absorbed as I'm reading on. I know people had issues with this trilogy, but I can see Staveley becoming one of the bigger names in fantasy as he releases more books.

Regarding the Scar I always thought that

Spoiler

the Lovers were a bit too reckless in their approach. They could have stopped to investigate. Though, now that I think of it, was it actually possible to stop the Avanc? I got the impression that it was basically doing its own thing

[Mentalist]

Haven't had a whole lot of reading time, but when I do get some time "The Lord of the Silent Kingdom" is hugely entertaining.

[Abyss]

Maark Abbott, on 14 August 2018 - 07:31 AM, said:

When people don’t read The Stormlight Archive the terrorists win.

Also, Tigana sucks, Otherland was a great trilogy, and Goodkind makes my eyes bleed.

Exactly.

[Macros]

Just finished up Use of Weapons, the third culture novel.

It was just ok, I definitely prefer the first two vastly over it.

I didn't really like or feel drawn to any of the characters. Solid ending though. The novels structure probably contributed to my dislikes on this one quite a bit.

So, there novels in and they have all been very different. If I continue which style do I expect to see more of?

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Tad Williams' collected paperback for To Green Angel Tower. Now this is a howling brick of a doorstopper at paperback size, 1000+ pages, and set in approximately 10pt type.

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 14 August 2018 - 11:48 PM

[Andorion]

Anybody here read Tad Williams' Bobby Dollar books? I am exploring urban fantasy and I was considering tackling it after Felix Castor

[Maark Abbott]

Nearly done with Reborn as a Vending Machine... It's trash. But it's also fun. I get a sense that the author is aware that the premise is stupid and that it's overall quite daft (the worldbuilding is very bare-bones and the characters are all stereotypes) but it has fun with it and that makes it enjoyable in itself.

After this I'll probably dally with a few more light novels. I need a break from full lengths. Trying to slog through Kings of the Wyld has really killed my desire to read at the moment. I should really just avoid any novel with "Kings" in the title, shouldn't I?

[Serenity]

I'm a couple of hundred pages into Tchaikovsky's The Bear and the Serpent. It's just as much fun as the first book so far.

[acesn8s]

PARADISE is here bitches, on 15 August 2018 - 03:03 AM, said:

Andorion, on 15 August 2018 - 02:57 AM, said:

Anybody here read Tad Williams' Bobby Dollar books? I am exploring urban fantasy and I was considering tackling it after Felix Castor

Read bk 1 and I enjoyed it.

I have. I thought they were a lot of fun.

[T77]

acesn8s, on 15 August 2018 - 11:58 AM, said:

PARADISE is here bitches, on 15 August 2018 - 03:03 AM, said:

Andorion, on 15 August 2018 - 02:57 AM, said:

Anybody here read Tad Williams' Bobby Dollar books? I am exploring urban fantasy and I was considering tackling it after Felix Castor

Read bk 1 and I enjoyed it.

I have. I thought they were a lot of fun.

Read them all and really liked them.

[Andorion]

T77, on 15 August 2018 - 01:12 PM, said:

acesn8s, on 15 August 2018 - 11:58 AM, said:

PARADISE is here bitches, on 15 August 2018 - 03:03 AM, said:

Andorion, on 15 August 2018 - 02:57 AM, said:

Anybody here read Tad Williams' Bobby Dollar books? I am exploring urban fantasy and I was considering tackling it after Felix Castor

Read bk 1 and I enjoyed it.

I have. I thought they were a lot of fun.

Read them all and really liked them.

Excellent. Will read them

[Chance]

Currently reading Marque and Reprisal the second Vatta's war book by Elizabeth Moon have been on a space opera binge recently and this fits right in it is very close to Honor Harrington and the Vorkosigan saga in style and type of novels so far.

Macros, on 14 August 2018 - 10:14 PM, said:

Just finished up Use of Weapons, the third culture novel.

It was just ok, I definitely prefer the first two vastly over it.

I didn't really like or feel drawn to any of the characters. Solid ending though. The novels structure probably contributed to my dislikes on this one quite a bit.

So, there novels in and they have all been very different. If I continue which style do I expect to see more of?

The style will continue to vary wildly each is pretty different from the others within the same setting. The general pattern of special circumstances involved in a crisis is pretty much the only repeat and is there for one of the narratives in pretty much every book. Also the next one is very good don't stop where you are Use of Weapons isn't to everyones taste.

This post has been edited by Chance: 15 August 2018 - 01:52 PM

[Macros]

Next one, is that State of the Art (listed some places a s short story collection) or Excession?

[QuickTidal]

Stalled out into a book slump...nothing is piquing my interest right now...ugh, I hate this feeling.