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#6301 Abyss

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Posted 16 March 2011 - 09:04 PM

QuickTidal, on 16 March 2011 - 08:17 PM, said:

Last 20% of TCG now, nearing the finish, I can feel it. Probably about 300 pages to go....

So far...

Spoiler

Yeah, have you gotten to the part where Hellian turns out to be Spite in disguise yet? I totally did NOT see that coming! Poor Skulldeath, having his manparts scorched like that...

- Abyss, ...might be kidding...

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#6302 Aptorian

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Posted 16 March 2011 - 09:19 PM

Drunk horny Spite would be a scary creature to find in your bedroll.

#6303 Primateus

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Posted 18 March 2011 - 12:11 PM

Finished Reaper's Gale not 2 minutes ago, now I'm going to pick up Return of the Crimson Guard

Screw you all, and have a nice day!

#6304 Jahdu

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Posted 18 March 2011 - 12:47 PM

Just finished The Lies of Locke Lamora... what a great read that was

Next on the hit list is The Darkness That Comes Before.

#6305 MWKarsa

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Posted 19 March 2011 - 02:40 AM

Man still trying to digest finally finishing TCG and I need some time to react to it and read through some threads to hopefully get some greater insight on some things. Totally conflicted on the first read as to how I feel about the ending of the series so a re-read will be in order. But will move to the 3rd book of the Fate of the Jedi: Abyss. After that The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge as it came out in paperback and I've been looking forward to reading it for awhile.

#6306 caladanbrood

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Posted 19 March 2011 - 04:16 PM

Slowly going through Empire of Black and Gold... does it improve? Bit meh so far, a few chapters in.

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#6307 QuickTidal

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Posted 19 March 2011 - 04:24 PM

The malazan shaped hole in me after finishing TCG leaves me wondering what can I read next...

Either WMF, RIVER MARKED by Patricia Briggs, or maybe the 5th Fate Of The Jedi book ALLIES for my kindle. Dunno.

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#6308 Grace

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Posted 19 March 2011 - 05:39 PM

Same here... After TCG I don't feel like reading anything else, even though I've got Tigana waiting. Don't feel like rereading MBotF either. So I went for something totally different: Quantum Physics for Poets by Leon Lederman and Christopher Hill. Interesting enough so far.

#6309 Primateus

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Posted 19 March 2011 - 05:46 PM

You guys should go read Peter Brett's The Painted Man. And when you've done that you should tell me whether it's good or not.

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#6310 QuickTidal

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Posted 19 March 2011 - 07:04 PM

Primateus, on 19 March 2011 - 05:46 PM, said:

You guys should go read Peter Brett's The Painted Man. And when you've done that you should tell me whether it's good or not.

Read it already...didn't much care for it.

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#6311 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 19 March 2011 - 10:47 PM

Recently finished The Wise Man's Fear and The Way of Kings.

The Way of Kings started slowly, and was at times a bit scattershot. That being said, by by the last third of the book I was completely engrossed. The Stormlight Archive has the possibility of being truly and thoroughly epic.

The Wise Man's Fear was excellent, but a bit strange. It dwells in places it shouldn't and breezes through where I would have appreciated more writing. I'm coming to loathe Denna and lose some empathy for Kvothe because of his absolute fucking retardedry when it comes to her, and it impacts my overall feel for the book. That being said, it was still fantastic, but not quite on the level of The Name of the Wind. I eagerly await the third book.

Edit: Haven't read The Painted Man, but did read The Desert Spear, which is a bit weird as I'm usually a stickler for reading series in order. I quite enjoyed The Desert Spear until it got to those characters involved in The Painted Man. Lol, don't know what that says about TPM, but there you have it.

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#6312 Astra

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Posted 19 March 2011 - 11:23 PM

I have finished The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura and Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman.

I am going to start reading Gardens of the Moon in a few minutes.

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#6313 amphibian

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Posted 19 March 2011 - 11:50 PM

HoosierDaddy, on 19 March 2011 - 10:47 PM, said:

The Wise Man's Fear was excellent, but a bit strange. It dwells in places it shouldn't and breezes through where I would have appreciated more writing. I'm coming to loathe Denna and lose some empathy for Kvothe because of his absolute fucking retardedry when it comes to her, and it impacts my overall feel for the book. That being said, it was still fantastic, but not quite on the level of The Name of the Wind. I eagerly await the third book.

I think some of that loathsome Sammi-Ronnie drama between Kvothe and Denna is entirely purposeful. Kvothe is still a teenager. He's still almost completely retarded romance-wise and we're seeing that. I haven't read the book yet, but it seems that Rothfuss/Kvothe are playing up the quick tempo of adventure and totally wallowing in how retarded Kvothe acted with Denna in the past. That relationship probably occupied more of Kvothe's mind than anything else and probably led him to pack everything up and go run a bar in the boonies.

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Posted 19 March 2011 - 11:54 PM

amphibian, on 19 March 2011 - 11:50 PM, said:

HoosierDaddy, on 19 March 2011 - 10:47 PM, said:

Well, I'll leave you to read it to make up your mind on the situation. I have no doubt that it is purposeful, and that love blinds even the most intelligent of us. Despite that, it is stilI jarring.

#6315 heretics fork

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Posted 20 March 2011 - 01:56 AM

About halfway through GATEWAY by Fred Pohl. One I always meant to get to and I should have gotten to it earlier.

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Posted 20 March 2011 - 07:15 AM

About 10% of the way through a re-read of book Jim Butcher's Proven Guilty. Good stuff, just like it was the last time through.

#6317 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 20 March 2011 - 06:51 PM

I also just finished The Wise Man's Fear last night. Excellent, if not quite at the level of the first book. My main complaint would still be that the first third is just too much more of the same University goings-on as TNotW. Once he moved away from that, I really got into it.

Bast is really turning out to be one of the most intriguing characters in the series.

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#6318 pat5150

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Posted 21 March 2011 - 01:30 AM

Just finished Paul Kearney's Corvus.

It's another brutal and uncompromising tale of warfare and survival written by one of the most underrated talents in the fantasy genre.

Check out the blog for the full review.

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Posted 21 March 2011 - 10:35 AM

Back into Dickens's Great Expectations for my classic novel resolution. Shocked at recent turn of events!

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#6320 QuickTidal

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Posted 21 March 2011 - 01:42 PM

WISE MAN'S FEAR is successfully quenching my weird after-TCG non-reading slump.

that was a rough two days...

LOL

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