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In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
22 July 2025 - 05:43 PM
Slow Ben, on 19 July 2025 - 02:48 AM, said:
Finally digging into the Powder Mage trilogy, which has been in my trp for about a decade now. About 1/4 through the first book.
They just dump your ass right in the middle of a conflict and just go go go from there huh? You just pick up the lore and magic and characters on the go, but it doesnt feel forced or difficult, digging it so far
Sometimes it's funny to me how often people on this board end up reading the same thing at almost the same time without planning it. I'm currently working on THE AUTUMN REPUBLIC (book 3) in audio.
I'm curious to see what you think at the end of the first book. I have thoughts about some of the stuff the author plays with but it's best left alone until the end of book 1. -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
18 July 2025 - 02:04 AM
Apparently they just launched a DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL webcomic up on webtoons. I just finished the first episode and am pretty much guaranteed to binge everything available immediately. If you've been on the fence about trying this series this is a great opportunity to dip your toes in.
Just in case it wasn't clear, that means you Abyss. -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
17 July 2025 - 09:00 PM
HoosierDaddy, on 17 July 2025 - 07:20 PM, said:Tiste Simeon, on 16 July 2025 - 09:24 PM, said:I tried to read Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson and I just couldn't really get into it. I'm not sure why. It just didn't really interest me - I got about 150 pages in so it's not as though I didn't give it a good go.
I may come back to it if I feel inclined but I have so many books to read I just want to read something that actually interests me.
So I'm going to read The Mortal Word, book 5 in Genevieve Cogman's Invisible Library series.
Donaldson is slow burning. Covenant is... quite the character. I get tempted to reread from time to time, and then immediately realize why it is a slow-burner. I read this during my first year of law school and it was actually quite enjoyable as an escape from case briefs.
Still haven't finished the last series but overall it has some wonderful concepts. It's magic the old school way and not the Sanderson way where it's more science than art.
It's such an interesting series and it can be hard to read with the levels of bleakness and despair that it drops to. The highs of that series are so damn high though. I think a lot of the philosophy and themes of Malazan were laid out for me through the Covenant books and set the stage for me to be much more appreciative of Malazan when I got there later. My love for Foamfollower set the stage for my love of Itkovian, for example. -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
14 July 2025 - 02:59 PM
I finished up the earbook for EYES OF THE VOID by Tchaikovsky over the weekend. It's the second book in his THE FINAL ARCHITECTURE trilogy. I've read a good bit of his work now, and it's amazing to me how he can continue to surprise me with his genre shifts. This one leans outside the hard sci-fi and firmly into space opera with a dash of science fantasy and a strong amount of found family.
I keep thinking of what spot it's filling for me and while it's not perfect I think I've finally settled on THE EXPANSE. It has a heavy focus on characterization (as found family tends to) for the crew of a smaller spacecraft while they're investing rumors of the return of a threat that wipes out civilizations. Meanwhile several human and human adjacent groups are engaging in brink-of-war politics in the backdrop. This has more aliens though, and as per Tchaikovsky the aliens are truly alien and some very intriguing.
Sorry I'm not more coherent, this one has been playing in my brain space. -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
07 July 2025 - 08:08 PM
Abyss, on 07 July 2025 - 04:44 PM, said:JPK, on 07 July 2025 - 03:28 PM, said:Tiste Simeon, on 07 July 2025 - 03:08 PM, said:JPK, on 07 July 2025 - 03:06 PM, said:Next up I'm starting NECESSARY EVIL (Milkweed Tryptich #3). I can't wait to see how this one goes sideways after the explosive ending of book 2.
Hmm a lot of you have mentioned this one and I see the whole trilogy is a tenner on Kindle in the UK right now. So my trip grows again...
If you weren't already sold let me put it this way: Nazi X-Men vs Allied Eldritch Warlocks and the spy agency that has no fucking idea what it's playing with.
...also, great books.
They are so much better than they really have any right to be.
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