[King Bear]

Finished ASOS recently. No sign of tCG, so I'm contenting myself with The Towers of Midnight and enjoying it.

***SPOILER????****




Up to Rand's great apple harvest. All hail Rand - now we have apples for every meal for months on end. Yay.

[King Bear]

Briar King, on 27 February 2011 - 03:36 AM, said:

Bombur, on 27 February 2011 - 03:28 AM, said:

Finished ASOS recently. No sign of tCG, so I'm contenting myself with The Towers of Midnight and enjoying it.

***SPOILER????****




Up to Rand's great apple harvest. All hail Rand - now we have apples for every meal for months on end. Yay.

Why didnt you go straight on to AFFC after ASOS? ToM is the shit though.

I've heard AFFC is only 'half-a-book', and that not much happens in it. Will read it when ADWD is released, assuming it ever is.

[Mentalist]

I'm sure they'll release it BEFORE HBO starts filming Season 4 of AGOT

[End of Disc One]

Bombur, on 27 February 2011 - 04:22 AM, said:

Briar King, on 27 February 2011 - 03:36 AM, said:

Bombur, on 27 February 2011 - 03:28 AM, said:

Finished ASOS recently. No sign of tCG, so I'm contenting myself with The Towers of Midnight and enjoying it.

***SPOILER????****




Up to Rand's great apple harvest. All hail Rand - now we have apples for every meal for months on end. Yay.

Why didnt you go straight on to AFFC after ASOS? ToM is the shit though.

I've heard AFFC is only 'half-a-book', and that not much happens in it. Will read it when ADWD is released, assuming it ever is.

Good idea. ToM is much better than AFfC.

[QuickTidal]

Bombur, on 27 February 2011 - 03:28 AM, said:

Finished ASOS recently. No sign of tCG, so I'm contenting myself with The Towers of Midnight and enjoying it.

***SPOILER????****




Up to Rand's great apple harvest. All hail Rand - now we have apples for every meal for months on end. Yay.

This is what I chose to do as well funnily enough. TCG should have come on Friday but didn't....so ToM it was and I am also enjoying it.

Yeah, that apple bit was awesome. Also really liking super calm Rand.

[Tapper]

Shadow's Edge, by Brent Weeks.
Le sigh. I liked the first volume, despite the generic farmboy (wharfrat) becomes master swordsman/sorceror (assas- pardon me, wet boy) plot. So, why do second volumes in a trilogy always start with at least a 100 page long crisis of faith before the ass-kicking re-commences?

[GaesReturns]

Sepulchre, by Kate Mosse.

I enjoyed Labyrinth immensely, finding it somewhat difficult to get into this one.

[End of Disc One]

Tapper, on 27 February 2011 - 04:14 PM, said:

Shadow's Edge, by Brent Weeks.
Le sigh. I liked the first volume, despite the generic farmboy (wharfrat) becomes master swordsman/sorceror (assas- pardon me, wet boy) plot. So, why do second volumes in a trilogy always start with at least a 100 page long crisis of faith before the ass-kicking re-commences?

While I enjoyed Shadow's Edge the whole way through, it felt like a more niche story than the first. Until the end, which was awesome.

[QuickTidal]

End of Disc One, on 27 February 2011 - 04:27 PM, said:

Tapper, on 27 February 2011 - 04:14 PM, said:

Shadow's Edge, by Brent Weeks.
Le sigh. I liked the first volume, despite the generic farmboy (wharfrat) becomes master swordsman/sorceror (assas- pardon me, wet boy) plot. So, why do second volumes in a trilogy always start with at least a 100 page long crisis of faith before the ass-kicking re-commences?

While I enjoyed Shadow's Edge the whole way through, it felt like a more niche story than the first. Until the end, which was awesome.

Yeah, Shadow's Edge has a REALLY boring opening section, but the second half picks up exponentially...and the third volume suffers from no such slow-down of pace. Keep going, no worries.

[King Bear]

Briar King, on 27 February 2011 - 05:40 AM, said:

Good idea. Atleast you have the short wait. Ive been waiting on the other half for 6yrs. lol

Yeah, whether or not hating on Martin for taking so long is at all justified, the wait is frustrating, no doubt. I do wonder if ASOI&F will ever be finished. It's a shame if it won't, since it has the potential to be one of the greatest fantasy series ever. Even if it does get finished, the end could still be ANOTHER ten years away...

I feel for the fans who've been with it from the start, perhaps posting and speculating on boards like these. To pour so much of yourself into a series that just comes to a halt, to have release dates postponed again and again. Makes one feel lucky to be a Malazan fan, with a new book every year or two, plus novellas and ICE's novels.

I guess the best way to deal with the frustration is to try to put ASOI&F in perspective - it's just some books, might be very good books, but there is more going on in life and more to be enjoyed. Lots of other great fantasy serieses to be enjoyed too - like Malazan.

This post has been edited by Bombur: 28 February 2011 - 01:39 PM

[QuickTidal]

Bombur, on 28 February 2011 - 01:30 PM, said:

Briar King, on 27 February 2011 - 05:40 AM, said:

Good idea. Atleast you have the short wait. Ive been waiting on the other half for 6yrs. lol

Yeah, whether or not hating on Martin for taking so long is at all justified, the wait is frustrating, no doubt. I do wonder if ASOI&F will ever be finished. It's a shame if it won't, since it has the potential to be one of the greatest fantasy series ever. Even if it does get finished, the end could still be ANOTHER ten years away...

I've become one of those people who just dropped it off my radar entirely now. I did the wait between ASOS and AFFC (which didn't end up being worth it), and I'm just done waiting on baited breath.

When it comes out, it comes out. I'm no longer holding my breath. There are oodles of books to read in the meantime.

I'd expand on your thought by saying this. It took THIS long to get the "second half" of a whole book he'd already "mostly written" (and then chucked I think)....imagine the wait that will be for him to write THE WINDS OF WINTER, a whole book, let alone A DREAM OF SPRING. I'm not even going to gamble one ten years till it is done...I'm gonna say 20 years.

[King Bear]

QuickTidal, on 28 February 2011 - 01:36 PM, said:

Bombur, on 28 February 2011 - 01:30 PM, said:

Briar King, on 27 February 2011 - 05:40 AM, said:

Good idea. Atleast you have the short wait. Ive been waiting on the other half for 6yrs. lol

Yeah, whether or not hating on Martin for taking so long is at all justified, the wait is frustrating, no doubt. I do wonder if ASOI&F will ever be finished. It's a shame if it won't, since it has the potential to be one of the greatest fantasy series ever. Even if it does get finished, the end could still be ANOTHER ten years away...

I've become one of those people who just dropped it off my radar entirely now. I did the wait between ASOS and AFFC (which didn't end up being worth it), and I'm just done waiting on baited breath.

When it comes out, it comes out. I'm no longer holding my breath. There are oodles of books to read in the meantime.

I'd expand on your thought by saying this. It took THIS long to get the "second half" of a whole book he'd already "mostly written" (and then chucked I think)....imagine the wait that will be for him to write THE WINDS OF WINTER, a whole book, let alone A DREAM OF SPRING. I'm not even going to gamble one ten years till it is done...I'm gonna say 20 years.

I'm pretty certain if I'd been waiting for ADWD since AFFC came out the series would have fallen off my radar too.

Yeah, 20 years is very possible at this rate. A ridiculously lengthy amount of time to wait. though maybe he'll surprise us all and get back into the series and focus again - somehting I bet people have been saying for the past several years.

[caladanbrood]

I really want to read One of Our Thursdays is Missing, but I'm going to have to content myself with Shades of Grey instead, now I've finished tCG.

[T77]

Finished Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson, this was my first book by him. I thought it was very meh, it just didn't do it for me. Everything about it was just very average and I was not that impressed with his writing. Normally I would stop reading a book that doesn't draw me in by the halfway point, but seeing all the praise for this guy I trudged on. Unless I hear it gets much better from here I don't think I will be continuing with th series.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 21 February 2011 - 06:50 PM, said:

Ignoring all you F***ckers that not only have TCG but have finished it and are pondering a re-read...oh f*** you all! ...

Seconded.

WITH HATE!!!

Mentalist, on 27 February 2011 - 05:52 AM, said:

I'm sure they'll release it BEFORE HBO starts filming Season 4 of AGOT

You're entirely too optimistic.
I expect the tv show to overtake the books and then reverse things so the books are adapted from the tv series from then on.

(hey it worked for DEXTER)

QuickTidal, on 27 February 2011 - 09:13 PM, said:

End of Disc One, on 27 February 2011 - 04:27 PM, said:

Tapper, on 27 February 2011 - 04:14 PM, said:

Shadow's Edge, by Brent Weeks.
Le sigh....

...Until the end, which was awesome.

...the second half picks up exponentially...and the third volume suffers from no such slow-down of pace. Keep going, no worries.

Agreed. Slow start, solid end, third book mostly rocks.

Bombur, on 28 February 2011 - 01:50 PM, said:

I've become one of those people who just dropped it off my radar entirely now. I did the wait between ASOS and AFFC (which didn't end up being worth it), and I'm just done waiting on baited breath. ...maybe he'll surprise us all and get back into the series and focus again - somehting I bet people have been saying for the past several years.

I've basically resigned SIF to a low level of expectation/anticipation. I enjoy it, i'll even shell for the hardbacks, but unlike Malaz, i'm out there preaching the gospel to get others to read it.

Part ('part') of the reason TCG is SO utterly the bestest thing ever is the fact that we've more or less had a book per year leading to this. SIF isn't even close, altho its sales are astronomically higher than Malaz even so. I almost wonder if the drawn out timing has worked for Martin, notwithstanding what a hundred or so overloud internet posters like to preach.

[King Bear]

T77, on 28 February 2011 - 03:10 PM, said:

Finished Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson, this was my first book by him. I thought it was very meh, it just didn't do it for me. Everything about it was just very average and I was not that impressed with his writing. Normally I would stop reading a book that doesn't draw me in by the halfway point, but seeing all the praise for this guy I trudged on. Unless I hear it gets much better from here I don't think I will be continuing with th series.

Since you thought Mistborn was meh, my advice is DO NOT read book two!

I wasn't that impressed by the mistborn series. I sort of enjoyed the first book, decent overall and good in parts but not spectacular. But the second book was pretty bad. Nothing much happens for hundreds of pages... a bunch of armies sitting around looking at each-other, wondering (along with the reader) when the action will begin. Only the last 100 or so pages are interesting. The third book is better, not quite as good as the first, but decent. Still, I wish I hadn't bothered with the series. There are better things to read. My only consolation is I got a boxed-set of all three volumes for $20NZ - and each is sold separately for around $25NZ.

I didn't really care for Sanderson's writing style in mistborn either. Though I thought the blend between his style and Jordan's in The Gathering Storm was an improvement over both and quite good. I'd say that Jordan is the better writer, so trying to emulate him improved Sanderson, and Sanderson's faster paced story-telling improved Jordan.

Mistborn has the dubious distinction of being the only fantasy I've read over the past couple of years that I couldn't lose myself in. I think this might be because Sanderson info dumps a lot and explains his character's thoughts on what they're doing in too much detail. I found that a bit jarring, like I kept being plucked out of the story so Sanderson could make it absolutely abdundantly clear what was happening.

Though considering that over this same two year period I've mainly been reading classics like the book of the new sun, lyonesse, and the chronicles of amber, plus malazan and ASOI&F with a sprinkling of gemmel and pratchett, it's probably not surprising mistborn came out the worst. Oh scratch that - I just remembered I read Dragonlance a few months ago - that was fucking awful. Mistborn beats it by miles.

This post has been edited by Bombur: 28 February 2011 - 04:04 PM

[Use Of Weapons]

Currently reading Cast In Silence by Michelle Sagara [West]. Rothfuss's The Wise Man's Fear is winging its way to me from Amazon as we speak, so that'll be up next.

[QuickTidal]

Still reading TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT because.....hey guess what....THE CRIPPLEd GOD...STILL NOT HERE!!!!

Mother*%&#@^*@*$

Arg!! Scott smash!!

ToM is pretty damn good though.

[King Bear]

QuickTidal, on 01 March 2011 - 01:07 PM, said:

Still reading TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT because.....hey guess what....THE CRIPPLEd GOD...STILL NOT HERE!!!!

Mother*%&#@^*@*$

Arg!! Scott smash!!

ToM is pretty damn good though.

I just finished TOM and am impressed, though I expected to be again after tGS. Looking forward to a Memory of Light. This final 'trilogy' is shaping up to end WOT on a high note. Roll on the last battle...

Also tCG... STILL NOT HERE... EITHER!!!

Not sure what to read next...

[End of Disc One]

Bombur, on 01 March 2011 - 01:23 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 01 March 2011 - 01:07 PM, said:

Still reading TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT because.....hey guess what....THE CRIPPLEd GOD...STILL NOT HERE!!!!

Mother*%&#@^*@*$

Arg!! Scott smash!!

ToM is pretty damn good though.

I just finished TOM and am impressed, though I expected to be again after tGS. Looking forward to a Memory of Light. This final 'trilogy' is shaping up to end WOT on a high note. Roll on the last battle...

Also tCG... STILL NOT HERE... EITHER!!!

Not sure what to read next...

You read way too fast.