Malazan Empire: Reading at t'moment? - Malazan Empire

Jump to content

  • 1483 Pages +
  • « First
  • 1374
  • 1375
  • 1376
  • 1377
  • 1378
  • Last »
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

Reading at t'moment?

#27501 User is offline   polishgenius 

  • Heart of Courage
  • Group: LHTEC
  • Posts: 5,243
  • Joined: 16-June 05

Posted 23 July 2021 - 06:51 AM

 QuickTidal, on 22 July 2021 - 11:16 PM, said:


Then why tell me it’s shipped to their warehouse and would soon be on its way to me?





Yeah that's definitely unprofessional. I'd guess because the person writing the email got a notice saying the books were on the way and not told how many, and panicked, but still, idiotic thing to do.
I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
0

#27502 User is offline   QuickTidal 

  • Frog
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 21,339
  • Joined: 05-November 05
  • Location:Nowhere Specific
  • Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 23 July 2021 - 10:44 AM

 polishgenius, on 23 July 2021 - 06:51 AM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 22 July 2021 - 11:16 PM, said:


Then why tell me it’s shipped to their warehouse and would soon be on its way to me?





Yeah that's definitely unprofessional. I'd guess because the person writing the email got a notice saying the books were on the way and not told how many, and panicked, but still, idiotic thing to do.


Indeed, I’m just cranky about it.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon
0

#27503 User is offline   Macros 

  • D'ivers Fuckwits
  • Group: High House Mafia
  • Posts: 8,964
  • Joined: 28-January 08
  • Location:Ulster, disputed zone, British Empire.

Posted 23 July 2021 - 11:46 AM

They need to get off your damned lawn
2012
"Imperial Gothos, Imperial"
0

#27504 User is offline   QuickTidal 

  • Frog
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 21,339
  • Joined: 05-November 05
  • Location:Nowhere Specific
  • Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 23 July 2021 - 12:52 PM

 Macros, on 23 July 2021 - 11:46 AM, said:

They need to get off your damned lawn


They absolutely do!
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon
0

#27505 User is offline   worry 

  • Master of the Deck
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 14,689
  • Joined: 24-February 10
  • Location:the buried west

Posted 24 July 2021 - 04:08 AM

I'm reading Harrow the Ninth. 100 pages in and I haven't understood a dang word of it, but I'm sure it will cohere (or congeal, as the case may be) sooner or later.
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
0

#27506 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

  • Faith, Heavy Metal & Bacon
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 12,104
  • Joined: 08-October 04
  • Location:T'North

Posted 24 July 2021 - 12:39 PM

Finally finished listening to the Scrubs podcast so I'm back to Audiobook goodness. Starting with The End of the Day by Claire North, being one of the two of hers I haven't read yet. I also have William Abbey waiting in the wings...
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
1

#27507 User is offline   Salt-Man Z 

  • My pen halts, though I do not
  • View gallery
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 4,166
  • Joined: 07-February 08
  • Location:Apple Valley, MN

Posted 24 July 2021 - 09:48 PM

 worry, on 24 July 2021 - 04:08 AM, said:

I'm reading Harrow the Ninth. 100 pages in and I haven't understood a dang word of it, but I'm sure it will cohere (or congeal, as the case may be) sooner or later.

Lol, I felt pretty much the same, having completely forgotten the ending of GIDEON. It was still a ton of fun. I figure I'll read them both back-to-back when Book 3 comes out and it'll make much more sense then.
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
0

#27508 User is offline   QuickTidal 

  • Frog
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 21,339
  • Joined: 05-November 05
  • Location:Nowhere Specific
  • Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 28 July 2021 - 01:07 AM

THE GOD IS NOT WILLING has finally arrived the day before we head out for a week at the cottage, so that’s perfect timing!
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon
0

#27509 User is offline   Macros 

  • D'ivers Fuckwits
  • Group: High House Mafia
  • Posts: 8,964
  • Joined: 28-January 08
  • Location:Ulster, disputed zone, British Empire.

Posted 28 July 2021 - 06:37 AM

Well I've already finished it. Just saying :p

Starting Franz Kafka's The Trial, because why not?
2012
"Imperial Gothos, Imperial"
0

#27510 User is offline   polishgenius 

  • Heart of Courage
  • Group: LHTEC
  • Posts: 5,243
  • Joined: 16-June 05

Posted 28 July 2021 - 10:35 AM

One for QT and other fans of Michelle West's books. TL;DR: she's been dropped by her publisher, which is obviously bad, but is starting a patreon to see if she can generate the money to keep writing the series full-time and give herself the freedom to write to her own specs too.
I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
0

#27511 User is offline   QuickTidal 

  • Frog
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 21,339
  • Joined: 05-November 05
  • Location:Nowhere Specific
  • Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 28 July 2021 - 03:48 PM

 polishgenius, on 28 July 2021 - 10:35 AM, said:

One for QT and other fans of Michelle West's books. TL;DR: she's been dropped by her publisher, which is obviously bad, but is starting a patreon to see if she can generate the money to keep writing the series full-time and give herself the freedom to write to her own specs too.


Yep, I hadn’t had a chance to post about it yet. Signed up for her patreon immediately.

Thanks for posting the link PG.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon
0

#27512 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

  • Faith, Heavy Metal & Bacon
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 12,104
  • Joined: 08-October 04
  • Location:T'North

Posted 30 July 2021 - 08:11 PM

Finished TGINW and loved it so freaking much. Like, ridiculously so.

Have downloaded a free sample of Infinite Jest on Kindle. Always been intrigued but this way I can check it out without paying for it and see if I like it enough to get the full thing.
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
0

#27513 User is offline   Maark Abbott 

  • Part Time Catgirl
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 4,265
  • Joined: 11-November 14
  • Location:Lether, apparently...
  • Interests:Redacted

Posted 02 August 2021 - 07:47 AM

Progress slow on Karsa is Cross for the moment, not much time to read.

I'm starting to find the relative sparseness of threads a little jarring. Maybe I'm too used to Erikson weaving storylines like Tomas Haake weaves different time signatures together. A few others I know said they had this until around 50% in and then something changed so nowt to do but forge onwards, I suppose.



Debut novel 'Incarnate' now available on Kindle
0

#27514 User is offline   Whisperzzzzzzz 

  • Reaper's Fail
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 2,451
  • Joined: 10-May 10
  • Location:Westchester, NY

Posted 02 August 2021 - 02:09 PM

Just started The God Is Not Willing!
0

#27515 User is offline   Mentalist 

  • Martyr of High House Mafia
  • Group: High House Mafia
  • Posts: 9,617
  • Joined: 06-June 07
  • Location:'sauga/GTA, City of the Lion
  • Interests:Soccer, Chess, swimming, books, misc
  • Junior Mafia Mod

Posted 02 August 2021 - 07:49 PM

Wrapped up "Mother London". Very " life of the city"-type novel, jumping all over the timeline from the Blitz to Thatcher's times. Following a cast of people who are either mental patients, or can hear London's ghosts and read minds. Pretty engrossing, though I'm sure I'm not getting nearly as much as an English person would have out of it, since I'm unfamiliar with the various bits of London's geography.

Probably gonna move on to "King of the City" next.
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard
THE CONTESTtm WINNER--чемпіон самоконтролю

View PostJump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.
0

#27516 User is offline   champ 

  • Omnipotent Overseer of the Universe
  • Group: Team Quick Ben
  • Posts: 2,506
  • Joined: 21-October 09
  • Location:Newcastle, UK

Posted 04 August 2021 - 02:06 PM

About to start 'Project Hail Mary,' I loved 'The Martian,' but never read his second book. This has had my attention for a while now though so going to give it a shot...

Tehol said:

'Yet my heart breaks for a naked hen.'
0

#27517 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

  • Faith, Heavy Metal & Bacon
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 12,104
  • Joined: 08-October 04
  • Location:T'North

Posted 06 August 2021 - 08:22 PM

 Tiste Simeon, on 30 July 2021 - 08:11 PM, said:

Finished TGINW and loved it so freaking much. Like, ridiculously so.

Have downloaded a free sample of Infinite Jest on Kindle. Always been intrigued but this way I can check it out without paying for it and see if I like it enough to get the full thing.

I was bored by this and definitely not interested enough to want to read over 1000 pages of it so instead I am reading Sword of Kings, the penultimate novel in Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories series. I have the final one lined up after too.

Been reading about Uhtred for years now, what an adventure it has been. Almost sad to finish it!

Wyrd bið ful aræd
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
0

#27518 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

  • Faith, Heavy Metal & Bacon
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 12,104
  • Joined: 08-October 04
  • Location:T'North

Posted 07 August 2021 - 07:31 PM

And I finished Sword of Kings and have moved onto War Lord - man the past couple of books have been some of the best of the series.
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
0

#27519 User is offline   worry 

  • Master of the Deck
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 14,689
  • Joined: 24-February 10
  • Location:the buried west

Posted 08 August 2021 - 10:19 AM

Finished Harrow the Ninth. Muir knows how to deliver a finale! Had some great twists as well. Like even when you figure out the ‘what’ before it’s revealed, often the ‘why’ is still a fascinating surprise.
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
0

#27520 User is offline   Chance 

  • Mortal Sword
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 1,065
  • Joined: 28-October 05
  • Location:Gothenburg, Sweden

Posted 08 August 2021 - 02:53 PM

At last got my hands on The God is Not Willing but it will be a slow read 50 or so pages a day will have to do.

Also starting Ten Arrows of Iron on the earbook front now that work starts tomorrow which will likely go a lot quicker.
0

Share this topic:


  • 1483 Pages +
  • « First
  • 1374
  • 1375
  • 1376
  • 1377
  • 1378
  • Last »
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

57 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 57 guests, 0 anonymous users