[Tiste Simeon]

amphibian, on 29 October 2019 - 07:35 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 29 October 2019 - 02:24 PM, said:

Started reading SENLIN ASCENDS for the reading group. Seems quite fun so far even if the protagonist seems rubbish (I feel like that's the point and half the story is going to be his redemption/ascendancy )

He gets... very not rubbish, but it takes the Tower and its inhabitants to push him into doing it.

I quite love the series for its almost steampunk Douglas Adams with a better through story nature.

Yeah I got the impression that he's deliberately being introduced as such a wussy and timid way in order to develop him and really bring him into an excellent character. I'm intrigued.

[Andorion]

I finished 10000 Doors of January yesterday night. This is an author to watch IMO. Beautifully written story.

[worry]

Is it sad? Just that title alone makes me feel melancholy.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Lawrence's The Liar's Key

[Tiste Simeon]

I have finished the Audiobook of THE STONE OF FAREWELL the second Memory Sorrow Thorn novel. It is still so sloggy in parts. Like one of my least favourite tropes is the long arduous trek that takes up so much space with painful descriptions of how arduous it is. And so far thats about 90% of this series. I really want to like it and there have been some outstanding moments (for example when the Lector Ranessin does his speech to Pryrates I was loving it!) But man the in between bits go on! I'm in though. I'm going to see it through. Only about 60 hours left for the last 2 parts of the final novel.

However as a palate cleanser I'm going to listen to GIDEON THE NINTH so I can understand what you're all on about.

[Mentalist]

Finished the next volume of "Godsdoom-2". The epilogue is telling me that there will be one more that will end the cycle.

Suffice it to say, some really epic shit has hit the fan.

[Andorion]

worry, on 30 October 2019 - 02:18 AM, said:

Is it sad? Just that title alone makes me feel melancholy.

Its a lot of things
Its sad, and tragic, but also evocative and heroic, and hopeful. The protagonist does a lot of getting up and growing up.

I highly recommend this book tbh. Top 3 of what I have read this year, and best of the new releases I have read, and that includes books like Tiamat's Wrath

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 30 October 2019 - 09:12 PM, said:

I have finished the Audiobook of THE STONE OF FAREWELL the second Memory Sorrow Thorn novel. It is still so sloggy in parts. Like one of my least favourite tropes is the long arduous trek that takes up so much space with painful descriptions of how arduous it is. And so far thats about 90% of this series. I really want to like it and there have been some outstanding moments (for example when the Lector Ranessin does his speech to Pryrates I was loving it!) But man the in between bits go on! I'm in though. I'm going to see it through. Only about 60 hours left for the last 2 parts of the final novel.

However as a palate cleanser I'm going to listen to GIDEON THE NINTH so I can understand what you're all on about.

This one was my least favourite in the series (I think Worry enjoys this one because of all the underground parts)...and the sloggiest by far.

Fair warning that TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER is two parts, and needn't be. There is a stellar one volume finish in there....but it's stretched out over two long volumes instead. Still love the series, but it meanders and has flaws. Funnily enough, one of the best volumes in the series is the novella bridging novel to the next series THE HEART OF WHAT WAS LOST...probably because it's short and sweet with zero filler.



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On my front, 50% into AGE OF DEATH (Book 6 of the First Empire series) by Michael J. Sullivan, and something I thought I (and everyone else thought as far as I can read) knew for the last FIVE books may be entirely wrong in a SUPER interesting way. Sullivan with the late game surprises EVERY time!

[Chance]

Finished up the Burning White and as with the entire series I got some mixed feelings about it. In some ways I think Weeks cheat closer to tthe end and once he start cheating he continues to solve many problems the easy way. At the same time I liked the book even the cheating parts mostly and some characters get glorious scenes. I wonder if he is thinking of writing another set of books in the same world, there seems to be indications of it.

Think I'll give the Licanius Trilogy a test next.

This post has been edited by Chance: 31 October 2019 - 06:44 PM

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 25 October 2019 - 02:19 PM, said:

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Currently still in Alex Verus 6 HIDDEN,....

Hey, this series really does get better as it proceeds. Wrapped 5 (not 6) HIDDEN, straight into 6, VEILED. All good.


...And i do so love the trope where the reader meets a crew of hardass warriors and you know, you just know, most of them are dead meat and the only question is how they go. The action in this book so far has been exceptionally entertaining so i'm looking fwd to the slaughter...

Heh, not quite what i expected, good fun all the same.

And then on into bk 7, BURNED, which i Just Finished.

Solid, picked up some of the bits from veiled and escalated nicely. And i appreciate the status quo shift for so much of the cast.
On to bk 8, BOUND.

Verus is so fucked.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

QuickTidal, on 31 October 2019 - 12:51 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 30 October 2019 - 09:12 PM, said:

I have finished the Audiobook of THE STONE OF FAREWELL the second Memory Sorrow Thorn novel. It is still so sloggy in parts. Like one of my least favourite tropes is the long arduous trek that takes up so much space with painful descriptions of how arduous it is. And so far thats about 90% of this series. I really want to like it and there have been some outstanding moments (for example when the Lector Ranessin does his speech to Pryrates I was loving it!) But man the in between bits go on! I'm in though. I'm going to see it through. Only about 60 hours left for the last 2 parts of the final novel.

However as a palate cleanser I'm going to listen to GIDEON THE NINTH so I can understand what you're all on about.

This one was my least favourite in the series (I think Worry enjoys this one because of all the underground parts)...

Worry liked those parts before they were cool.

Chance, on 31 October 2019 - 06:44 PM, said:

Think I'll give the Licanius Trilogy a test next.

The final book comes out in a month, so you'll be on a good timeline for that.

I really enjoyed the first two — I'd compare it to like Wheel Of Time with no pacing issues X Alex Marshall's Crimson Empire X Mark Lawrence's world in Broken Empire X Jemisin's world in Broken Earth X something with time travel.

Basically, Crimson Wheel Of Broken Earth Empire: Back To The Future

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 31 October 2019 - 07:20 PM

[worry]

I did indeed like that one because of the underground parts, among other things. But then again, I am, in my own way, a slog.

I'm currently reading 2666 by Roberto Bolano. It's contemporary fiction and a doorstopper at that, but it's broken up into 5 sub-books so in between I'm slotting in volumes of the Queen & Country graphic novels (of which I'm on the first right now). I'm finding graphic novels to be a great way to take breaks from long books or series w/o being away too long.

For instance, I also read the Mister Miracle (by Tom King) collection before this. I'm only familiar with the Apokalips/New Gods stuff from the cartoons, but I think I had enough handle on it to understand what this series was doing with it. Really good stuff.

[Macros]

Starting Senlin Ascends tonight.

This month's book club book.

Go to the forum

Join our club

Do it

[Chance]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 31 October 2019 - 07:11 PM, said:

Chance, on 31 October 2019 - 06:44 PM, said:

Think I'll give the Licanius Trilogy a test next.

The final book comes out in a month, so you'll be on a good timeline for that.

I really enjoyed the first two — I'd compare it to like Wheel Of Time with no pacing issues X Alex Marshall's Crimson Empire X Mark Lawrence's world in Broken Empire X Jemisin's world in Broken Earth X something with time travel.

Basically, Crimson Wheel Of Broken Earth Empire: Back To The Future

Sounds like it is basically its own thing which is way better

The start up certainly have some Wheel of Time parallels but otherwise it seems to do its own thing.

This post has been edited by Chance: 01 November 2019 - 06:00 AM

[Morgoth]

Macros, on 31 October 2019 - 08:40 PM, said:

Starting Senlin Ascends tonight.

This month's book club book.

Go to the forum

Join our club

Do it

I would but I have read all the books you've chosen so far

[Aptorian]

READ THEM AGAIN

[Macros]

Well suggest a book for December then you Scandinavian fuck wit!

[acesn8s]

Finished Warriors of the Altaii. It was ok. He developed a lot as an author between finishing WotA and writing EotW. The Witcher trailers looked so good that I picked The Time of Contempt from my queue for the next read.

[Andorion]

acesn8s, on 01 November 2019 - 09:05 PM, said:

Finished Warriors of the Altaii. It was ok. He developed a lot as an author between finishing WotA and writing EotW. The Witcher trailers looked so good that I picked The Time of Contempt from my queue for the next read.

I have read that series. Please start with the 2 short story collections - Sword of Truth and Last Wish if you have not already read them. They set the stage and start the story

[Puck]

Andorion, on 02 November 2019 - 02:22 AM, said:

acesn8s, on 01 November 2019 - 09:05 PM, said:

Finished Warriors of the Altaii. It was ok. He developed a lot as an author between finishing WotA and writing EotW. The Witcher trailers looked so good that I picked The Time of Contempt from my queue for the next read.

I have read that series. Please start with the 2 short story collections - Sword of Destiny and Last Wish if you have not already read them. They set the stage and start the story

Edited for obvious reasons, Ando

But also this. Time of Contempt makes no sense without the short stories and it's still a mystery to me why they market it as book 1.