[T77]

Abyss, on 25 January 2011 - 09:26 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 25 January 2011 - 09:11 PM, said:

T77, on 25 January 2011 - 02:56 PM, said:

Finished River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams the second of four books in the Otherland series. I thought it was just okay, the first one was better.

I should really get around to buying the other 2 books to finish that series at some point....

Briar King, on 25 January 2011 - 04:13 PM, said:

I didnt like Otherland all that much. I do like most of Williams work though, ex: Shadowmarch, Dragonbone Chair.

I totally enjoyed the first book. The rest of the series was at least one, possibly two entire books longer than it needed to be and could have done with some merciless culling of entire plot lines. It has a satisfying end that excuses some (not all) of the filler in the middle. The pay-off is solid enough to merit finishing the series.

I did not like MEMORY SORROW AND THORN although i did finish it, but i totally enjoyed WAR OF THE FLOWERS.

I was very meh on The Dragonbone Chair and War of the Flowers. I like Williams, I wouldn't put him in my list of top authors though. I do plan on reading all of his works eventually.

[Dutch]

Finished the first three books of Feist his Serpentwar Saga ("Shadow of a Dark Queen", "Rise of a Merchant Prince" and "Rage of a Demon King" ) last week and I must say that I really liked them and they kept me reading through the night once or more a week in the past three weeks.

Yesterday I've finished Tongues of Serpents (The 6th book of the Temeraire series) by Naomi Novik, although I won't say that is was brilliant but still it was quite nice to read about my favorite dragon again.

Started "Emissary" (Percheron Book Two) by Fiona McIntosh this morning, but I'm gonna put it away for now because my order of Feist books just have arrived: "Shards of a Broken Crown" (the 4th and last book of the Serpentwar Saga) and the Empire trilogy "Daughter of the Empire", "Servant of the Empire" and "Mistress of the Empire"

Think that before I'm gonna start with "Emissary again that I'll reread "Odalisque" (Percheron Book One) since it's about three years ago since I've read it and the reason why I didn't pick up the following books back then was that I totally forgot about it because I read Gardens of the Moon the week after and I totally got hooked to the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

[caladanbrood]

QuickTidal, on 26 January 2011 - 02:16 PM, said:

What's that Amazon.co.uk? You say my order of Joe Abercrombie's THE HEROES has shipped? Oh my, and a whole two months before release here in Canada. Amazon.co.uk & Royal Mail FTW!

I was trying to persuade the Waterstones I ordered from to let me have the book today, even though it's embargoed until tomorrow, and I'll go back tomorrow so they can put it through the till (I paid in advance anyway, don't see the problem) but they're too scared of getting a massive fine

[QuickTidal]

caladanbrood, on 26 January 2011 - 03:45 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 January 2011 - 02:16 PM, said:

What's that Amazon.co.uk? You say my order of Joe Abercrombie's THE HEROES has shipped? Oh my, and a whole two months before release here in Canada. Amazon.co.uk & Royal Mail FTW!

I was trying to persuade the Waterstones I ordered from to let me have the book today, even though it's embargoed until tomorrow, and I'll go back tomorrow so they can put it through the till (I paid in advance anyway, don't see the problem) but they're too scared of getting a massive fine

On the bright side: You'll have it tomorrow!

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 26 January 2011 - 02:16 PM, said:

What's that Amazon.co.uk? You say my order of Joe Abercrombie's THE HEROES has shipped? Oh my, and a whole two months before release here in Canada. Amazon.co.uk & Royal Mail FTW!
...

.uk has a rediculous sale on this book now, like six of those curious british pound thingies.

Dutch, on 26 January 2011 - 03:38 PM, said:

..."Shards of a Broken Crown" (the 4th and last book of the Serpentwar Saga) and the Empire trilogy "Daughter of the Empire", "Servant of the Empire" and "Mistress of the Empire"
...

Shards felt somewhat tacked onto that series, but the Empire trilo is brilliant.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 26 January 2011 - 05:36 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 January 2011 - 02:16 PM, said:

What's that Amazon.co.uk? You say my order of Joe Abercrombie's THE HEROES has shipped? Oh my, and a whole two months before release here in Canada. Amazon.co.uk & Royal Mail FTW!
...

.uk has a rediculous sale on this book now, like six of those curious british pound thingies.

Yup, I bought it for those 6 pound thingies. Which I fink is about 6 of our toonie thingies, or thereabouts.

Yessir, twelve dollars for a hardcover...this I believe needs to go into the Holy Sh*t WTF Awesome category.

...and I owe you yet again Abyss for convincing me to try .uk i the first place.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 26 January 2011 - 05:43 PM

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 26 January 2011 - 05:41 PM, said:

Abyss, on 26 January 2011 - 05:36 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 26 January 2011 - 02:16 PM, said:

What's that Amazon.co.uk? You say my order of Joe Abercrombie's THE HEROES has shipped? Oh my, and a whole two months before release here in Canada. Amazon.co.uk & Royal Mail FTW!
...

.uk has a rediculous sale on this book now, like six of those curious british pound thingies.

Yup, I bought it for those 6 pound thingies. Which I fink is about 6 of our toonie thingies, or thereabouts.

Yessir, twelve dollars for a hardcover...this I believe needs to go into the Holy Sh*t WTF Awesome category.

...and I owe you yet again Abyss for convincing me to try .uk i the first place.

I did the math - it was $10 cdn. Ten dollars canadian for an Abercrombie hb. That's OBSCENE.

I just added it to my .uk TCG pre-order, since i was paying the shipping anyways.

(tho .ca continues to taunt me with its purported Feb 21 release date for TCG...)

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 26 January 2011 - 06:04 PM, said:

(tho .ca continues to taunt me with its purported Feb 21 release date for TCG...)

You and I both know it is only a taunt....and then there is the yabos who work at Chapters/Indigo who EAT every copy they receive.

We are bloodthirsty Canadian after all.

[caladanbrood]

It is a nice cheap book - even full price it's only 15 quid, and most of the shops are doing half price pre-orders.
Waterstones are doing half price for tCG too, though amazon aren't being quite as generous.

[Mentalist]

Reading "Line of Polity" by Neal Asher. loving it. Ordered the next book today.

[JPK]

Just finished The Way of Kings. Though after the workout of carrying it around in hardcover, I'm wondering if they're going to have to split it for paperback. Onto Best Served Cold.

[polishgenius]

silvenquesti, on 29 January 2011 - 08:16 AM, said:

Just finished The Way of Kings. Though after the workout of carrying it around in hardcover, I'm wondering if they're going to have to split it for paperback. Onto Best Served Cold.

They are in the UK apparently.



Alongside my ongoing read of Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes, which is brilliant, I've just finished Kate Griffin's Urban Magic and will probably start Abercrombie's The Heroes next. I wasn't going to buy the latter till paperback but the half-price deal at Waterstones lured me in.

[Mentalist]

Finished "The Line of Polity". pretty amazing book.

gonna start "best served Cold" next.

[QuickTidal]

My reading interest i starting to stagnate....THE HEROES and THE CRIPPLED GOD can't get here soon enough.

[Mentalist]

Finished "Best Served Cold"... I need to re-read the First Law, I think.
Abercrombie is in his element, though I wouldn't go as far as to compare this with "Count of Monte Christo" the way the blurb suggested. But than again, that could be b/c that happens to be one of m favourite books.

Next up, "The Many deaths of the Black Company"

[Gothos]

I've finally finished The Hero of Ages, and I must say... it was awesome.
I was a bit worried after Well of Ascension, but the 3rd book delivered. An incredibly epic ending, revelations abound, and the incredible pacing returned.

Awaiting the Alloy of Law now.

This post has been edited by Gothos: 31 January 2011 - 09:34 AM

[QuickTidal]

Gothos, on 31 January 2011 - 09:32 AM, said:

I've finally finished The Hero of Ages, and I must say... it was awesome.
I was a bit worried after Well of Ascension, but the 3rd book delivered. An incredibly epic ending, revelations abound, and the incredible pacing returned.

Awaiting the Alloy of Law now.

Totally the same with me, due to my reaction to thne second book I held off the third, but now that I finished it I was wholly satisfied.

[Gothos]

Also, shieeeet.
Gilneas from WoW IS Luthadel in small-scale.

[Stalker]

Just started on Paul Kearney's Century of the Soldier, the second omnibus in his monarchies of god series. Great stuff from the first three books in the series so far.

Another great recommendation from the forums.

[Mentalist]

Stalker, on 01 February 2011 - 03:34 AM, said:

Just started on Paul Kearney's Century of the Soldier, the second omnibus in his monarchies of god series. Great stuff from the first three books in the series so far.

Another great recommendation from the forums.

Aye, it is a most excellent series. made it up there to be among my favorite "must reads", actually.

And i've only read it recently.