[Mentalist]

Speaking of Asian-themed stuff..

picked up "The Dragon Republic", the second volume of Poppy War trilo by R.F. Kuang.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 23 November 2021 - 01:01 AM

[Maark Abbott]

Got an absolute haul from mum's local charity shop.

The following for £2:

The entire Younger Ones series from Eddings
Stone of Farewell
Shadowmarch
Three of the Krondor books that set up Jimmy the Hand
And then ADWD part 1 for mumsy as she doesn't have it yet

Also picked up Church of the Squash Makers in Waterstones.

[Imperial Historian]

Do yourself a favour and throw away the younger ones books. Eddings got steadily worse throughout his career but the younger ones was by far the worst thing he's written. Unreadable.

[Tiste Simeon]

Imperial Historian, on 23 November 2021 - 09:02 AM, said:

Do yourself a favour and throw away the younger ones books. Eddings got steadily worse throughout his career but the younger ones was by far the worst thing he's written. Unreadable.

I was going to suggest this I think I read the first one and never picked it up again.

Also there's the whole "being arrested for child abuse" thing makes me never want to touch his books again...

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Tiste Simeon, on 23 November 2021 - 10:25 AM, said:

Also there's the whole "being arrested for child abuse" thing makes me never want to touch his books again...

I managed to miss this completely. Having now Googled..... ick.

[Morgoth]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 23 November 2021 - 11:12 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 23 November 2021 - 10:25 AM, said:

Also there's the whole "being arrested for child abuse" thing makes me never want to touch his books again...

I managed to miss this completely. Having now Googled..... ick.

my recommendation for anyone coming into this little chain is to not google that at all. Live happily in ignorant bliss I say.

[Maark Abbott]

Wait what

[Maark Abbott]

Mmmm... well... poop.

[Abyss]

Morgoth, on 23 November 2021 - 11:42 AM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 23 November 2021 - 11:12 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 23 November 2021 - 10:25 AM, said:

Also there's the whole "being arrested for child abuse" thing makes me never want to touch his books again...

I managed to miss this completely. Having now Googled..... ick.

my recommendation for anyone coming into this little chain is to not google that at all. Live happily in ignorant bliss I say.

Seconded. Hang on to your illusions.

Maark Abbott, on 23 November 2021 - 12:49 PM, said:

Wait what

DONT DO IT

Maark Abbott, on 23 November 2021 - 12:54 PM, said:

Mmmm... well... poop.

sorry, we tried to warn you.

[Maark Abbott]

I never even thought I'd see a resonance cascade... Let alone create one...

[Macros]

well I just had to google.

fuck me there are some shitty people in the world.

On a sidebar - the commect section below the wert blog I clicked into, some poor deluded fanboi - No No it was a DIFFERENT David Eddings that was arrested for it, nuh uh!

[Tiste Simeon]

Macros, on 24 November 2021 - 09:38 AM, said:

well I just had to google.

fuck me there are some shitty people in the world.

On a sidebar - the commect section below the wert blog I clicked into, some poor deluded fanboi - No No it was a DIFFERENT David Eddings that was arrested for it, nuh uh!

Yes I saw that haha

[Maark Abbott]

It rubs the orb across its skin or else it melts half its face off again.

[Abyss]

LEVIATHAN FALLS earbook is DL'd and ready to rock.





....as soon as i finish THE FALL OF BABEL.

[Gabriele]

QuickTidal, on 13 August 2021 - 11:55 AM, said:

Turns out I have a book cover / Completionsim fetish.

Not a few weeks after doing this with the new DUNE books, I have discovered that the Harper Collins (Canada and the UK) versions of Patrick O'Brian's 'Aubrey & Maturin' series (a series I'm only on book 2 of 21 so far), was last reprinted between 2002 and 2010. I have found it mildly inconvenient to find some of the volumes when I search. I like those covers, they are nice and kind of stoic, and feature the original Geoff Hunt naval art on them, just refit into the new style which I will post below. These covers lean into the Nautical theme in layout, with gold lettering on the author name, and a sort of misty but bright adaption of the older art.

My problem is in the fact that by the time I get around to reading all 21 volumes...these covers may become impossible to find, and if that finding difficulty is beginning now, who know where it will be Ain a few years. Add in that IF Disney+ does decide to make a TV show reboot of the series, they will inevitably get bad photo TV show covers.

So yeah, I like these and have 3 of them this way...but there may be an availability problem going fwd.

OBrian-1.jpg


In the States, however, these books are published by W. W. Norton. Norton decided that at the 50th Anniversary of MASTER & COMMANDER (in 2019), they would not only reissue the first book in a new edition, but they commissioned brand new art and a new cover design entirely for the series. The Design, by artist Matthew Benedict was done to actually move through the series as if it's a bunch of stills from the series, and has a way different flair. It almost looks like TinTin Adventures or Johnny Quest to me...and I love the fat lettering on the author name. They feel less nautical overall, but I think they look really nice (I actually like them better) like this. The series is slowly releasing this way (the first 3 books are already out like this, and the next 6 come in November with more to follow in Jan 2022. So these covers will be easy to collect and I like them a lot. So I've switched, and ordered the first three from Norton in the States (the shipping, conversions, and border fees still put them about $1-2 less than I would pay for the Harper versions here).

Anyways, here those are.

OBrian2.jpg

I like the first version better and got me a bunch of those recently, up to A Letter of Marque. May well buy the rest if I can free some shelf space, but I don't have anything I want to get rid of right now.

Last thing I threw out was the Sanderson stuff - four big hardcovers of Stormlight, the short story collection (as well as Mistborn, Elantris, Wax and Wayne as mass market paperbacks). I gave Mistborn two tries and never finished, first Wax and Wayne story was ok-ish but nothing to write home about; sort of liked Way of Kings, but the books got progressivle more boring (should not have bought the last one in hardcover, but I hoped to get into it - nope ) and read some of the short stories I'm lukewarm about at best. I should have realised he's not my sort of author sooner; it would have saved me some money.

[QuickTidal]

I hazard to post this....Macros is gonna be mad at me.

So I've only read the first few Simon Scarrow Macro & Cato books so far (on my kindle) but I've immensely enjoyed them....but the man himself posted that the below is a thing that now exists. And when I find it, any Christmas monies I get will be sent to purchase this absolutely gorgeous boxed set.

I mean just look at it! It's so incredible. I'm not sorry.

 ScarrowBox.JPG (400.38K)
Number of downloads: 0

EDIT: Fuck it, I ordered it. ALL IN BABY!

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 21 December 2021 - 03:06 PM

[Macros]

Oh you absolute bastard

[champ]

Just bought The Gates of Athens by Conn Iggulden but not too sure when I will find the time to read it.

[QuickTidal]

Macros, on 22 December 2021 - 09:32 AM, said:

Oh you absolute bastard

I'm only kind of sorry. LOL

It's been dispatched and everything already. I can't wait to dig in!

Nobody tell my wife.

[Macros]

Too late, just off the phone to her