[Slow Ben]

Yeah, I told her I was going back to my Malazan reread and apparently I "have to read read the next 2, I just have too". So apparently I'm going ahead with the next 2.

[HoosierDaddy]

End of Disc One, on 12 March 2012 - 02:26 PM, said:

Just started Dragonfly Falling. I enjoyed the first book but this one looks like it has the potential to be much better.

So far it seems better than EiBaG. But, EiBaG had such a brilliant start it didn't have to go far to start faltering.

The real question is whether or not I can give Che's storyline a chance if it starts being the prime-mover.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 14 March 2012 - 01:20 PM, said:

Also, nosing back into BLADE Of fucking TYSHALL...Stover simply does not disappoint!

Told ya so.

Mentalist, on 15 March 2012 - 01:42 AM, said:

...

Next on the reading pile is probably Asher's "Voyage of Sable Keech", but not until I get reasonably caught up in all my coursework.

Not quite as good as SKINNER but still solid alien vs super-pirate goodness.

[Mentalist]

H.D., on 15 March 2012 - 03:43 AM, said:

End of Disc One, on 12 March 2012 - 02:26 PM, said:

Just started Dragonfly Falling. I enjoyed the first book but this one looks like it has the potential to be much better.

So far it seems better than EiBaG. But, EiBaG had such a brilliant start it didn't have to go far to start faltering.

The real question is whether or not I can give Che's storyline a chance if it starts being the prime-mover.

Che is the worst part of the story. Though in book 3 her arc takes us to the best setting in the series so far(where she thankfully fades into the background for a while, letting cool stuff happen). That being said, I had troubles gettign through Dragonfy. What helped was the fact that i was in Cuba, with nothing but Dragonfly and "Blood of the Mantis" to read for about a week.

The series is good. But it takes its sweet time to get there.

[Studlock]

About half way through the Dragon Path's and had to gush about it somewhere. I wasn't sure I'd like it. First Daniel Abraham so I wasn't really sure what to except, but it must be said I wasn't disapointed. I really enjoy the characters so far and the prolouge is, I think, one my favourite beginnings in a book ever. Back to the characters, I wouldn't say they're all super original but I will say I don't think I've read about a bank ward traveling in a caravan guarded by mercnaries who are really an acting troupe in a fantasy book before. I really don't know what to except from the story, it's kind of like a slice-of-life book so far but I am sure there will a uber-plot that will carry on for five books. Actually I'm sure I already know it. One a side not, I really wish to punch Dawson in his classist face. Love it so far.

[Tapper]

Started Leviathan Wakes and Olympos.
About to wrap up Keegan's The Second World War.

[Serenity]

Slow Ben, on 15 March 2012 - 01:53 AM, said:

Finally caved and read "The Hunger Games" on the ole ladys suggestion.

Its about what you'd expect. Very simple writing, but a decent story. I enjoyed it, but it wont ever get a re-read and i dont know if i'll read the next or not.

I read it all in 2 flights from New Orleans to Spokane, plus a layover, so its a damn quick read too.

That's pretty much how I felt about it, too. Read it, thought it was okay, have had no inclination to read the others.

Abyss, on 15 March 2012 - 03:50 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 15 March 2012 - 01:42 AM, said:

...

Next on the reading pile is probably Asher's "Voyage of Sable Keech", but not until I get reasonably caught up in all my coursework.

Not quite as good as SKINNER but still solid alien vs super-pirate goodness.

Plus it leads into Orbus, which I absolutely loved and is probably my favourite of the three.

Prador Moon is great fun, too.

[Use Of Weapons]

Abyss, on 15 March 2012 - 03:50 AM, said:

Mentalist, on 15 March 2012 - 01:42 AM, said:

...

Next on the reading pile is probably Asher's "Voyage of Sable Keech", but not until I get reasonably caught up in all my coursework.

Not quite as good as SKINNER but still solid alien vs super-pirate goodness.

You forgot the giant alien cannibal space-crabs. I know, they're easy to miss.

[Fist Gamet]

Across the Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn. You know, I am really enjoying this. In some ways, the style reminds me very much of GGK's Under Heaven but it has the right kind of simple edge and pacing to it. Sure, young man growing up in isolation has world suddenly turned upside down and is taken on by old, mysterious mentor has been done to death - yet, it is well done and the protagonist is humble and likeable. Looking good so far.

[ansible]

D, on 24 January 2012 - 04:33 AM, said:

I have honestly not been enjoying Book of the New Sun at all so far, and Side Jobs just arrived, so putting down BotNS and starting Side Jobs tonight with Aftermath. We'll see how far I can get with Side Jobs before OST shows up and demands precedence.

Also re-read BF and am re-reading tLoLE and will re-read tHD soon. Am practicing taking notes on events and time references in preparation for my MBotF/NotME re-read where I plan to {a} read them all in chronological order and {b} record notes/quotes for any and all references to times and events for the purpose of timeline clarification

D'rek, have you started the massive reread and note-taking yet? I'm pretty sure I promised a year ago that I would have this Malazan Quotation Database website and uh, well, real life hit me pretty hard so it is not fully finished yet, but if you are going to do this and make notes and/or type things up, this would be the perfect inspiration for me to get a workable version of the site up so that all of your references could be permanently stored and cross-referenced later.... anyway. Let me know what's going on there.

[ansible]

Salt-Man Z, on 19 February 2012 - 07:57 PM, said:

MWKarsa, on 19 February 2012 - 03:44 PM, said:

Finished Ender's Game and it was a nice light story and one I wish I had read as a kid. Since that was my first Card book I'll need to give him another shot- I believe I have Empire and Hidden Empire hiding in a pile of books somewhere.

If you're just getting into Card, I would recommend not starting into anything written after 2000 or so. Stick with books from the 70s and 80s if you want the really good stuff. Speaker for the Dead is the first sequel to Ender's Game and might just be his best work (and one of the best first contact stories in print) but also very good are Wyrms, Treason, Hart's Hope, and The Worthing Saga, to name a few.

Couldn't agree more.

[ansible]

I've been so busy with work and other things that I've barely read anything in the past few months. I'm actually embarrassed at myself. I got a Kindle by accident and bought King's Cell and still haven't finished it. I have, however, introduced at least one and possibly two people to MBotF, which in my mind is one of my greatest literary achievements of the last year or two.

I look at my TRP and my shelves and I am overwhelmed. And I just bought my first house and I'm moving in a few weeks. Alas, made weak by time and fate...

[Morgoth]

The Chronicles of Amber. God knows why I've not done so before.

[Serenity]

Morgoth, on 19 March 2012 - 09:40 AM, said:

The Chronicles of Amber. God knows why I've not done so before.

I recently bought that - looking forward to it.

Over the weekend I finished Rory Clements' Revenger, which was excellent, and am nearly half way through David Gemmell's Knights of Dark Renown.

[Use Of Weapons]

Over the weekend I reread Guy Gavriel Kay's _Tigana_ for the first time since I was blown away by it as a teenager, probably 15-20 years ago. I was apprehensive that it might not live up to my memories, but I needn't have worried. I actually think I appreciated it more fully this time around, and I was in floods of tears in all the right places. I actually don't think I've cried so much at a book since MOI.

Must now check out _A Song For Arbonne_ again, as that one didn't affect me nearly so much first time around. Maybe it will have improved with age.

[Morgoth]

UseOfWeapons, on 19 March 2012 - 11:11 AM, said:

Over the weekend I reread Guy Gavriel Kay's _Tigana_ for the first time since I was blown away by it as a teenager, probably 15-20 years ago. I was apprehensive that it might not live up to my memories, but I needn't have worried. I actually think I appreciated it more fully this time around, and I was in floods of tears in all the right places. I actually don't think I've cried so much at a book since MOI.

Must now check out _A Song For Arbonne_ again, as that one didn't affect me nearly so much first time around. Maybe it will have improved with age.

I wouldn't be surprised. Both affected me quite profoundly.

[Morgoth]

Serenity, on 19 March 2012 - 10:08 AM, said:

Morgoth, on 19 March 2012 - 09:40 AM, said:

The Chronicles of Amber. God knows why I've not done so before.

I recently bought that - looking forward to it.

Over the weekend I finished Rory Clements' Revenger, which was excellent, and am nearly half way through David Gemmell's Knights of Dark Renown.

It's a good read so far. Especially as you start to wonder just how unreliable a narrator Corwin really is.

[Tapper]

Morgoth, on 19 March 2012 - 12:14 PM, said:

Serenity, on 19 March 2012 - 10:08 AM, said:

Morgoth, on 19 March 2012 - 09:40 AM, said:

The Chronicles of Amber. God knows why I've not done so before.

I recently bought that - looking forward to it.

Over the weekend I finished Rory Clements' Revenger, which was excellent, and am nearly half way through David Gemmell's Knights of Dark Renown.

It's a good read so far. Especially as you start to wonder just how unreliable a narrator Corwin really is.

Amber is magnificent.
The one thing I really noticed is how the earth-based parts have aged badly (and Merlin's Ghostwheel has been practically surpassed by your average smartphone).

[QuickTidal]

About 50 pages into SHARPE'S TRIUMPH by Cornwell. There is just something about the SHARPE books that makes them great comfort reads.

Oh, and next up will be the final FATE OF THE JEDI book APOCALYPSE by Troy Denning, which though shipping late (it was meant to be in-store last week and isn't), ought to be at the store tomorrow. See more thoughts in ded thread.

[Abyss]

Halfway thru Watts' BEHEMOTH.
If there was a prize for writing ambiguous characters Watts earned it - virtually everyone in the book is at more or less equal turns hero, villain, victim, sympathetic and outright psychopath. Amazing.

Finished BONE - THE COMPLETE STORY. Possibly the Bestest collected comic GN e-v-e-r.