[MWKarsa]

Just finished Fool Moon, AKA Dresdencrack #2, and must admit throughly enjoyed it and am severely tempted to go straight to #3 but lots of stuff are vying for the same spot. Might go back to Fate of the Jedi series for book 5, thinking about giving The First Law trilogy a go, starting the Black Company series, Revelation Space or Malcolm X: a Life of Reinvention among others. Really torn right now.

I won't read this soon but has anyone read The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and have any opinion on it- yea or nay?

Thanks

This post has been edited by MWKarsa: 04 May 2011 - 11:04 PM

[amphibian]

MWKarsa, on 04 May 2011 - 11:03 PM, said:

Just finished Fool Moon, AKA Dresdencrack #2, and must admit throughly enjoyed it and am severely tempted to go straight to #3 but lots of stuff are vying for the same spot. Might go back to Fate of the Jedi series for book 5, thinking about giving The First Law trilogy a go, starting the Black Company series, Revelation Space or Malcolm X: a Life of Reinvention among others. Really torn right now.

I won't read this soon but has anyone read The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and have any opinion on it- yea or nay?

Thanks

No matter what book on your list you choose, you'll be fine. Although I quit Star Wars completely after the awful prequel movies came out, I can see why people would enjoy it or stay with it.

Draw strips from a hat. You can't go wrong with that list.

[pat5150]

End of Disc One, on 04 May 2011 - 08:29 PM, said:

Abyss, on 04 May 2011 - 08:23 PM, said:

Briar King, on 04 May 2011 - 07:51 PM, said:

Fixing to start Summer Knight, Dresden 4.
...

and by the end, you're officially yet another victim of the dresdencrack. just wait.

That reminds me, Pat finished Summer Knight not too long ago. I wonder if he's feeling the shakes from not starting Death Masks yet.

Summer Knight was the first one I really loved, and my favorite until I read Dead Beat.

Feeling it, but got too many things on the backburner to keep on reading Butcher. But I want to try to read at least two more Dresden books before the end of the summer...

Patrick

[Adjutant Stormy~]

MWKarsa, on 04 May 2011 - 11:03 PM, said:

Just finished Fool Moon, AKA Dresdencrack #2, and must admit throughly enjoyed it and am severely tempted to go straight to #3 but lots of stuff are vying for the same spot. Might go back to Fate of the Jedi series for book 5, thinking about giving The First Law trilogy a go, starting the Black Company series, Revelation Space or Malcolm X: a Life of Reinvention among others. Really torn right now.

I won't read this soon but has anyone read The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and have any opinion on it- yea or nay?

Thanks

The Forever War is a great book.

Also, the Black Company series is AMAZING.

Right now, I'm reading through the Honor Harrington series, however in digital form, because they're really not good enough to warrant paying for - and the first N books are free online, where N < 4.

[Abyss]

pat5150, on 05 May 2011 - 03:19 AM, said:

...Feeling it, but got too many things on the backburner to keep on reading Butcher. But I want to try to read at least two more Dresden books before the end of the summer...

Patrick

Just wait... that takes you through DEATH MASKS and then... and theeeeeen....

the dresdencrack, it OWNS you.

[MWKarsa]

Well I chose wrongly and went with the fifth book of the Fate of the Jedi series and even though I'm a glutton for punishment and call SW reading my male version of Danielle Steele style of reading due to the general piss poor writing this one has been brutal so far. I'm a little over 100 pages from finishing and if this wasn't a series I had been interested in prior I would have quit it as the plot and writing in this book is freaking god-awful. Just brutal. Oh well I will finish it and move on to bigger and better things.

[JPK]

Started Wise Man's Fear tonight. Been looking forward to this one for awhile.

[Rhand]

Finished House of Chains last night, reading Midnight Tides at the moment.

[Salt-Man Z]

Finished China Mieville's Embassytown last night, and it was amazing. Good, solid, thinky sci-fi with weird aliens. Now moving onto Chris Wooding's Retribution Falls.

[Abyss]

library just alerted me that WHITE LUCK WARRIOR is waiting. Cool.

I'll shelve the MEG series for now. Mega-Sharks vs Dinosaurs can only entertain me for so long.

[QuickTidal]

On the latter half of A CLASH OF KINGS (man I forgot how much awesome stuff happens in this one). I'd be further along but I got a cold last week and it's still running me ragged...finding the energy to read when sick is something I have trouble with.

Um....so far..best thing I forgot about..Asha Greyjoy's first appearance in Theon's first chapter is still damned PRICELESS!!

Haven't figure out what to read in between this re-read and ASOS, but I know I'll be taking a ASOIAF break before re-reading the best one...

It's likely to be ODD & THE FROST GIANTS by Neil Gaiman, ALLIES by Christie Golden, PANDORA'S STAR by Hamilton, or maybe BLACK HALO by Sykes....so many to choose from!

[MWKarsa]

Briar King, on 10 May 2011 - 03:34 AM, said:

MWKarsa, on 09 May 2011 - 03:43 AM, said:

Well I chose wrongly and went with the fifth book of the Fate of the Jedi series and even though I'm a glutton for punishment and call SW reading my male version of Danielle Steele style of reading due to the general piss poor writing this one has been brutal so far. I'm a little over 100 pages from finishing and if this wasn't a series I had been interested in prior I would have quit it as the plot and writing in this book is freaking god-awful. Just brutal. Oh well I will finish it and move on to bigger and better things.

Sorry you didnt like it. I thought 5 & 6 where I big improvement from the earlier books in the series. 6 has some interesting things and Im looking foward to 7 later this month.
Karsa are you by any change a memeber of Theforce.net? If so my user name is JEDI-SOLO there.

The end of the book was better but there was about 3 or 4 moments in the book when I honestly cringed that I was reading what I just did. Some of the plotlines and writing was tough to read but I will still read the rest of the series with fingers crossed that it will pick back up as I was really enjoying it before this last one. I was a member on TFN a long time ago but just reset my membership with the user name of ChewieFett20. Honestly I probably won't post much there but I will check in to read through threads.

This post has been edited by MWKarsa: 11 May 2011 - 03:07 AM

[Hocknose]

Finished the Warrior-Prophet last night, man that was so much better than the Darkness that Comes Before. Just had a quick persue of The Thousandfold Thought and I see it has a mini encylopedia at the back...now that is gonna come in handy cause this guy has almost as many characters, places and history as SE!!!

Just a quick question for those of you that have read it...will the encylopedia spoil parts of the story if I refer to it while reading TTT?

[QuickTidal]

MWKarsa, on 11 May 2011 - 03:05 AM, said:

Briar King, on 10 May 2011 - 03:34 AM, said:

MWKarsa, on 09 May 2011 - 03:43 AM, said:

Well I chose wrongly and went with the fifth book of the Fate of the Jedi series and even though I'm a glutton for punishment and call SW reading my male version of Danielle Steele style of reading due to the general piss poor writing this one has been brutal so far. I'm a little over 100 pages from finishing and if this wasn't a series I had been interested in prior I would have quit it as the plot and writing in this book is freaking god-awful. Just brutal. Oh well I will finish it and move on to bigger and better things.

Sorry you didnt like it. I thought 5 & 6 where I big improvement from the earlier books in the series. 6 has some interesting things and Im looking foward to 7 later this month.
Karsa are you by any change a memeber of Theforce.net? If so my user name is JEDI-SOLO there.

The end of the book was better but there was about 3 or 4 moments in the book when I honestly cringed that I was reading what I just did. Some of the plotlines and writing was tough to read but I will still read the rest of the series with fingers crossed that it will pick back up as I was really enjoying it before this last one. I was a member on TFN a long time ago but just reset my membership with the user name of ChewieFett20. Honestly I probably won't post much there but I will check in to read through threads.

1, 2 and 3 in the series are great IMHO, but even though I liked parts of the 4th Backlash, most of it felt like going through the motions....and ALLIES (book 5) is another Golden book, so I have my hopes set low anyways. That said, the middle of these nine book series are traditionally filler to get us to the end, and I hear tell that book 6 VORTEX brings the series back up to awesome...but I haven't read it so I can't speculate.

I will go on record as saying that I loathe the Sith sentient Ship thing. That was something this series could have totally done without, and they carried it forward from the last series...even though it was one of the elements that folk complained about with LOTF. I'm glad it doesn't have QUITE as much of an influence beyond moving the stranded lost Sith from their hidden world though, but I wish they'd done without it.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 11 May 2011 - 12:23 PM

[MWKarsa]

QuickTidal, on 11 May 2011 - 12:21 PM, said:

MWKarsa, on 11 May 2011 - 03:05 AM, said:

Briar King, on 10 May 2011 - 03:34 AM, said:

MWKarsa, on 09 May 2011 - 03:43 AM, said:

Well I chose wrongly and went with the fifth book of the Fate of the Jedi series and even though I'm a glutton for punishment and call SW reading my male version of Danielle Steele style of reading due to the general piss poor writing this one has been brutal so far. I'm a little over 100 pages from finishing and if this wasn't a series I had been interested in prior I would have quit it as the plot and writing in this book is freaking god-awful. Just brutal. Oh well I will finish it and move on to bigger and better things.

Sorry you didnt like it. I thought 5 & 6 where I big improvement from the earlier books in the series. 6 has some interesting things and Im looking foward to 7 later this month.
Karsa are you by any change a memeber of Theforce.net? If so my user name is JEDI-SOLO there.

The end of the book was better but there was about 3 or 4 moments in the book when I honestly cringed that I was reading what I just did. Some of the plotlines and writing was tough to read but I will still read the rest of the series with fingers crossed that it will pick back up as I was really enjoying it before this last one. I was a member on TFN a long time ago but just reset my membership with the user name of ChewieFett20. Honestly I probably won't post much there but I will check in to read through threads.

1, 2 and 3 in the series are great IMHO, but even though I liked parts of the 4th Backlash, most of it felt like going through the motions....and ALLIES (book 5) is another Golden book, so I have my hopes set low anyways. That said, the middle of these nine book series are traditionally filler to get us to the end, and I hear tell that book 6 VORTEX brings the series back up to awesome...but I haven't read it so I can't speculate.

I will go on record as saying that I loathe the Sith sentient Ship thing. That was something this series could have totally done without, and they carried it forward from the last series...even though it was one of the elements that folk complained about with LOTF. I'm glad it doesn't have QUITE as much of an influence beyond moving the stranded lost Sith from their hidden world though, but I wish they'd done without it.

Yeah it's why Allies ticked me off so much because I was really enjoying the series and, in all honesty, reading it was like stepping in a huge pile of dog shit. There are just too many "Are you freaking kidding me??? This is beyond stupid." moments where I stopped reading and just had to put the book down. Just a real downer for a promising series. I tend to downplay any anticpation when reading SW books becuase the writing can be brutal depending on the author but this one was pretty bad. I have Vortex and will give it a go a little bit later.

Currently reading The Blade Itself by Abercrombie and so far so good about 130 pages in- not fast or slow paced so far but pretty easy to go into.

This post has been edited by MWKarsa: 11 May 2011 - 11:21 PM

[Baco Xpuch]

Just finished Abercrombie's the Heroes last night; he's now one of my favorite authors. The First Law trilogy is great, as is BSC, and the Heroes shows he's only improving. Now, I've picked back up the Yiddish Policemen's Union (2nd time I've picked it back up). I just put Terminal World on hold at the Library so I'll try and finish YPU before it's ready. Decided against reading The Judging Eye; I'm going to wait till he's done with the series before I move on.

And then:
The Long Price Quartet, Daniel Abraham
Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny
House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Etched City, K.J. Bishop
City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer
Embassytown, China Mieville
After Dark, Murakami
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami
The Warlord of the Air, Michael Moorcock
Infernal Devices, K.W. Jeter

If any of these choices aren't worth my time please chime in (I made my "to read" list from suggestions from this forum).

This post has been edited by Baco Xpuch: 11 May 2011 - 11:42 PM

[amphibian]

Baco Xpuch, on 11 May 2011 - 11:41 PM, said:

Post

Will go through your books one by one with my succinct thoughts in italics.

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Yiddish Policemen's Union. Very good. Chabon doesn't write bad books.

Terminal World Freakin' good. It's a non-Revelation Space novel by Reynolds that's heads and shoulders above any he's done before. Very Mieville-like.

The Judging Eye Very good. The Slog is a storyline to behold for sure. Jeez. Out-Tolkiened Tolkien's Moria arc without even really trying.

And then:
The Long Price Quartet, Daniel Abraham Haven't read. Probably will.

Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny SF classic series for all the right reasons. Excellent. Wish I knew how it would have finished up as Zelazny intended.

House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds Reynolds books are always decent, and this is one of his better non-Revelation Space works, but it's not up to Terminal World's level.

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi Freakin' good. I definitely want to see where Rajaniemi takes this next.

Blindsight by Peter Watts Freakin' good. Read it for free online (available on author's website) and then bought it. That good.

Anathem by Neal Stephenson Better than people give it credit for. Great development. Ending is strange, but still a hell of an ending - awesome and headscratching simultaneously.

The Terror by Dan Simmons Freakin' good. Slow burn kind of book. Reads like a travelogue and then things go bonkers in a horror movie way.

The Etched City, K.J. Bishop Haven't read. Will do.

City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer Haven't read.

Embassytown, China Mieville Read the sample chapter. Those were very good. Kraken was freakin' good.

After Dark, Murakami Haven't read. Will do.

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haven't read. Will do.

The Warlord of the Air, Michael Moorcock Haven't read. Probably won't.

Infernal Devices, K.W. Jeter Haven't read. Never heard of it.

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If any of these choices aren't worth my time please chime in (I made my "to read" list from suggestions from this forum).

You have what appears to be a very, very good reading list ahead of you. Full spead ahead and damn the torpedoes, Bacon.

Edit: Add in some Richard Morgan books if you haven't gotten to him yet. Altered Carbon is the place to start. Woken Furies had me in tears.

This post has been edited by amphibian: 12 May 2011 - 06:48 AM

[Tapper]

Currently reading Caine Black Knife after finishing Blade of Tyshalle last night. Blade was great, but exhausting. I liked parts, other bits felt contrived, and I might have missed this, but how the fuck

Spoiler

did Labourer Kollberg suddenly end up commanding the BOG?

Also, is there a discrepancy between Blade and Black Knife in that he mentioned that he met his wife during the lead-up to the Boedecken saga where all the participating Actors sat around a table? In Caine Black Knife, all those Actors don't know/ aren't supposed to know about one another that they're Actors, that happens only when he is alone with Marade, and his wife is nowhere in sight (unless Shallan is Tizarre).
Not sure I like the very fast emergance of fire arms in Home, as well.

[acesn8s]

Tapper, on 12 May 2011 - 10:59 AM, said:

Currently reading Caine Black Knife after finishing Blade of Tyshalle last night. Blade was great, but exhausting. I liked parts, other bits felt contrived, and I might have missed this, but how the fuck

Spoiler

did Labourer Kollberg suddenly end up commanding the BOG?

My take is:

Spoiler

Kolberg became the avatar for the God of Dust and Ashes. The BOG is controlled by the God.

[QuickTidal]

amphibian, on 12 May 2011 - 06:46 AM, said:

Edit: Add in some Richard Morgan books if you haven't gotten to him yet. Altered Carbon is the place to start. Woken Furies had me in tears.

This.

Definitely. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs books are incredible. Though I've not yet read the third.