[yuna_anomander25]

 worrywort, on 07 June 2012 - 01:13 AM, said:

I have a similar complaint about THG:

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She just describes some interesting people in the initial prep period, in fair detail, and then we hear very little about them again...it's kind of like a Chekhov's gun situation. For instance, in that first book there is quite distinctly a semi-crippled boy who walks with a limp, who is mentioned several times during training. He even manages to survive the initial cornucopia rush somehow...and then nothing from him ever again. Why let him survive the cornucopia, and then not follow up on that...even at the end when the Capital is replaying scenes from the match, it could have been revealed how he died. Anyway, yah, that was one of my nitpicks, and the first person POV wasn't a good excuse for stuff like that.

But glad you liked it overall.

Haven't read Rothfuss yet, but since that Black Company collection has three books, you could stagger it back and forth nicely with the Hunger Games books.

yah, many interesting stuff she puts there but then she just waylaid them to the sidelines, and i'm like, huh? what happened?

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as i'm interested in Thresh and how he made impact for me, and then .. what?

maybe i'm a little spoiled by SE, as the best bits of Malazan is those dramatic deaths/tragic deaths,

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that i thought the best part of the book was Rue's fate,

about the Black Co. the only thing is, its a little pricey, but nothing is impossible, if there is a will, there is a way, hehe,

fixed, sorry about that, it's okay, i pass my time now between my re-read of Deadhouse Gates and the DC new 52 comics, i'll be putting up budget for stuff that i hope to acquire before this end of the month,

This post has been edited by yuna_anomander25: 07 June 2012 - 02:19 AM

[worry]

Don't forget to hide your spoilers.

And I assumed you already had the Black Company, since you mentioned it, sorry.

[QuickTidal]

Wow, I'm about 450 pages into David Gemmell's TROY: LORD OF THE SILVER BOW and consider me VERY impressed so far. The story and characters are all utterly engaging and I find myself devouring it at a pretty quick pace. The cast of characters is actually much larger than I assumed it would be, and yet Gemmell handles everyone equally.

If all Gemmell's later work is like this, then I will be pleased to read a lot more!

[polishgenius]

 worrywort, on 07 June 2012 - 01:13 AM, said:

I have a similar complaint about THG:

Spoiler

She just describes some interesting people in the initial prep period, in fair detail, and then we hear very little about them again...it's kind of like a Chekhov's gun situation. For instance, in that first book there is quite distinctly a semi-crippled boy who walks with a limp, who is mentioned several times during training. He even manages to survive the initial cornucopia rush somehow...and then nothing from him ever again. Why let him survive the cornucopia, and then not follow up on that...even at the end when the Capital is replaying scenes from the match, it could have been revealed how he died. Anyway, yah, that was one of my nitpicks, and the first person POV wasn't a good excuse for stuff like that.

Wasn't that

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the lad who worked with the Careers, rigged up their stash with explosives?

[QuickTidal]

 polishgenius, on 07 June 2012 - 01:11 PM, said:

 worrywort, on 07 June 2012 - 01:13 AM, said:

I have a similar complaint about THG:

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She just describes some interesting people in the initial prep period, in fair detail, and then we hear very little about them again...it's kind of like a Chekhov's gun situation. For instance, in that first book there is quite distinctly a semi-crippled boy who walks with a limp, who is mentioned several times during training. He even manages to survive the initial cornucopia rush somehow...and then nothing from him ever again. Why let him survive the cornucopia, and then not follow up on that...even at the end when the Capital is replaying scenes from the match, it could have been revealed how he died. Anyway, yah, that was one of my nitpicks, and the first person POV wasn't a good excuse for stuff like that.

Wasn't that

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the lad who worked with the Careers, rigged up their stash with explosives?

@PG: Yeah, that's who that was.

@WW: Meh,

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BATTLE ROYALE didn't concentrate on every kid who died in the class either. It never bothered me. Same thing in THG, if they weren't integral to the main story, why show their deaths? Seems like that would be pointless sensationalism to me.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 07 June 2012 - 01:28 PM

[Abyss]

Was about to start ICE LAKE by John Farrow but Mieville's RAILSEA arrived so that's up next. Ten pages in and damn i do so enjoy this man's writing.

[QuickTidal]

 Abyss, on 07 June 2012 - 03:18 PM, said:

Was about to start ICE LAKE by John Farrow but Mieville's RAILSEA arrived so that's up next. Ten pages in and damn i do so enjoy this man's writing.

I'm waiting for paperback, but I will read that one!

[McLovin]

LORD FOUL'S BANE by Stephen R. Donaldson

I'm appreciating this a lot more than when I previously attempted it.

[tiam]

While I rarely venture from Malaz or history books a guy at work does that 'World Book Night' thing and gave me Good Omens by Pratchet and Gaiman. Ive only ever read Sourcery and didnt like it that much and have never read any Gaiman (need to read American Gods tbh) but im really quite enjoying this book. Very funny turns of phrase are making me laugh on the bus

[worry]

THG stuff:

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Actually he's not the kid who teams with the Careers. He's just a limping/injured foot kid who somehow survives the initial bloodbath (both successfully gathering supplies AND fleeing), survives for days afterward, and then he's dead. I don't care about explaining everyone's death, but Katniss/Collins goes out of her way to mention him several times throughout the training period and into the actual games...so it's a Chekhov's gun situation to me, not just a matter of exploitation. She does the same thing in Book 2 with little miss naked lady, and I think it's a separate issue from the deaths of the less sketched out background characters.

[QuickTidal]

Finished Gemmell's TROY: LORD OF THE SILVER BOW tonight, fantastic book with an amazingly well written final battle with a few tear-inducing last stands of soldiers. EPIC, and I'm fully in for the trilogy now! Will pick up the next book soon.

Now onto Kristen Britain's GREEN RIDER.

[worry]

Dang man, maybe you should start one of those 100 books a year threads too.

[QuickTidal]

 worrywort, on 08 June 2012 - 12:42 AM, said:

Dang man, maybe you should start one of those 100 books a year threads too.

LOL, I'm not actually sure what number I'm at...going to count...I'm only at around 20 so far this year. It's been slow.

[yuna_anomander25]

 QuickTidal, on 07 June 2012 - 01:27 PM, said:

@WW: Meh,

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BATTLE ROYALE didn't concentrate on every kid who died in the class either. It never bothered me. Same thing in THG, if they weren't integral to the main story, why show their deaths? Seems like that would be pointless sensationalism to me.

IIRC, in BR movie, it did, in a way, they showed the kids, how they died, though not really detailed, atleast it was shown,

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there are the love struck couple who jumped in the river, 3 kids died by mitsuko's, some by that warfreak, can't recall his name, just some that i remember

my most favorite part in BR is:

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The Lighthouse scene, where they kept Nanahara Shuya, and this cute girl who has a crush/was scared of him, and how the girls didn't trust each other and killed each other

 worrywort, on 07 June 2012 - 09:14 PM, said:

THG stuff:

Spoiler

Actually he's not the kid who teams with the Careers. He's just a limping/injured foot kid who somehow survives the initial bloodbath (both successfully gathering supplies AND fleeing), survives for days afterward, and then he's dead. I don't care about explaining everyone's death, but Katniss/Collins goes out of her way to mention him several times throughout the training period and into the actual games...so it's a Chekhov's gun situation to me, not just a matter of exploitation. She does the same thing in Book 2 with little miss naked lady, and I think it's a separate issue from the deaths of the less sketched out background characters.

yeah, i know it wasn't him, that one was just skinny, atleast she could have just stated how they died, like in a recap or something, doesn't need to be detailed, just in a general sort of way, like death by gunshot or choke, or any other way,

[QuickTidal]

There are something like 32 kids in the BR class, they maybe showed half those deaths, cause in the end it was about Shuya anyways.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

It's been a while, and in that time I've polished off Anansi Boys and a re-read of Midnight Tides. Today I picked up "The Picture of Dorian Grey", reckon I'll take a swing at it.

[Tiste Simeon]

Reading The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell - light bit of historical fiction, and fairly enjoyable.

[Nocturnal]

Reading The Case of a Missing Servant, along with The Steel Remains.

[Otataral Toblakai]

Acts of Caine. On the 2nd book.

[LadyMTL]

I finished Ender's Game and started On a Pale Horse a few days ago. So far Pale Horse is...okay. I'm about halfway through and I don't hate it but it hasn't quite grabbed me either.