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Age:: 24 years old
Birthday:: October 13, 1994
Location:: Halifax, Nova Scotia
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12 July 2019 - 06:12 PM

BfuckinK, on 12 July 2019 - 04:52 PM, said:
You totally need to stop it. If some of the absolute best books of the series aren't sitting well then it's your own fault when you get to the crap fest that is bks 8&10.

Just move on.

Ed I just read this. Seems assholish but I don't intend that.

Thanks - I needed somebody to tell me that (no assholishness taken!).
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12 July 2019 - 04:29 PM

Finally finished my next Wheel of Time book, THE SHADOW RISING... that was a really painful read. The gender dynamics, relationship drama, endless repetition, glacial pace, and the villains being one-dimensional caricatures of evil, ugh. I'm about 5 hours into THE FIRES OF HEAVEN and it's getting even worse. I really wanted to get through this series but I don't know if I'm going to make it.
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21 June 2019 - 08:40 PM

Finished up THE STONE SKY. I still think Book #1 was way better than the next two. This one was a little underwhelming. Still, enjoyed the series as a whole. Now I'm on to TITUS GROAN / GORMENGHAST. Not sure if I want to listen to it as an audiobook, or switch up Wheel of Time to audiobook and read it instead. It might be a bit too cerebral for my distracted audiobook-listening. Be curious to hear what people think.

Speaking of Wheel of Time ... I'm on to THE SHADOW RISING. Man, the first 350 pages were terrible. Just hanging around and complaining about whoever each character's love interest is. It's picking up a bit now though, but it worries me a bit about the "mid-series-dip" that everyone talks about.
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15 June 2019 - 09:27 PM

pat5150, on 12 June 2019 - 11:21 PM, said:
Go get yourself The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky, which are both even better reads!

Just finished OBELISK GATE. I powered through it. I didn't think it was as strong as the first, but I'm still hooked and looking forward to Book 3. Here's what I posted on goodreads:

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I didn't quite like #2 as much as #1, but it's still a strong book. I think my main complaint is the focus on all the metaphysics of how Orogeny works. All this node building, network assembling, parallel scaling, gate unlocking, it's interesting I guess, and intricate, but something about it feels too descriptive and not really focused on the narrative. Like "I made this cool system and it fits together," rather than "let's talk about people and their conflicts." I guess I'm just not a fan of overt, 'hard' magic systems.

That's not to say all the answers were bad. Getting a glimpse into Stone Eaters, Guardians, Father Earth, all that jazz, that was fun. And for the most part, Jemisin avoided large info dumps, instead tying the slow reveal to the story a little bit more elegantly.

The narrow focus on Castrima was effective, the tighter geographic circle kind of mirrored the idea that these characters are stuck by circumstances and the Season. And the factions inside the besieged city were well-done. But I liked the larger focus of Book 1, and the "flashbacks" per se were some of the more compelling stories.

There were a few moments that I felt I should have been more affected by. Like Nassun killing her dad, and Essun losing it and inadvertently hastening Alabaster's death. That last one especially is one of those inevitable tragic moments that I should love so much. And while I admired it, and appreciated the plotting that went it to making it possible, I didn't really feel it. Maybe I just can't connect with audiobooks as well as normal books, or maybe the plot itself downplayed the moment, or maybe I'm just dead inside. Whatever the reason, I'm excited for the finale.
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12 June 2019 - 11:06 PM

Picked up & finished the FIFTH SEASON after hearing good things from this thread. I enjoyed it a lot, finished it in a week which is pretty speedy for me. Some assorted thoughts:

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I really wasn't expecting to like this as much as I did. After disliking Sanderson's Mistborn and Abercrombie's First Law, I was pretty much resigned to not enjoying most mainstream, highly-praised Fantasy. And I've heard nothing but praise for Jemisin's Fifth Season. In this case it was deserved.
I'm glad that right off the bat Jemisin decides not to treat the reader like an idiot. There's no hint of Robert Jordan here - i.e. explain everything remotely mysterious a few times until we get it. It takes pretty much the whole book to puzzle out Guardians & Obelisks & Stone Eaters, and there's still a lot more to learn at the end of the book. Orogeny less so, but I realize I'm an outlier on the bell curve for preference on how much explanation is required in Fantasy.
Lots of other good parts. The three of them being the same person was obvious from the get-go, but there were some other genuine surprises down the line like Binof making a come-back, too. I think one of my favourite themes to explore in Fantasy is the vilification of Others - whatever that Other may be. Farseer does it great with The Wit, and Jemisin does it equally well with orogeny. I'm equally a fan of (post)apocalyptic literature, when it's done right. From the Epic of Gilgamesh & the biblical flood to La Fin Du monde & modern day zombie stories, I think this book adds positively to that pile of literature. And I'm always a fan of giving characters the world and then taking it away from them. There's an Erikson quote out there about the worst fate for humans is starting a breath with love and ending it with sorrow and I'm a strong believer that that makes the most compelling Fantasy, and by extension, literature, out there.
I still don't know how I feel about a few things. Some of the language choices, especially the exclamations were a bit clunky. Rusting and Earth and the like. They're appropriate given the universe, but they always feel a little bit awkward. I've yet to decide if those choices are ever good or bad. Even with Erikson, his made-up exclamation are a bit of a stretch sometimes. But they're at least tempered by humour, like Togg's Teats. Then there was a graphic sex scene or two. Which on principle I'm usually not a fan of. Not that sex is bad, or because I'm a prude, but because they rarely ever add anything important. Here I don't think that's the case. At least some of them were important to describing the clinical, matter-of-fact nature of the relationship between Syenite & Alabaster. They still felt a bit gratuitious, but I'm willing to let it slide.
By and large the writing was good. Beyond a few phrases that gave me distinct young adult post-apocalyptic Hunger Games/Maze Runner/Whatever the new flavour vibes. I particularly liked the bit where Damaya was trying to trap her fellow students to get back at them for their bullying, it felt like the style went intentionally young-adulty, with gossip and secret plans and scheming and (pre?)-teenagers being teenagers. But then there was a jolt back to reality as these things led to very real, very adult consequences.

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Loki
22 Apr 2015 - 07:56
My father was born in Wales and a few years back I decided to take a welsh language course. Can't remember much but the alphabet. Ever since I automatically read things as though they are in welsh. So, D is d, dd is th, f is v, ff is f, ll is...actually, not sure how to write that one, schl maybe?
Loki
22 Apr 2015 - 04:45
I didn't write that well. I was meant to be asking if the dd is pronounced as dd (bedding) or th (as in bydd).
You're right though, Dadding does sound like something fathers would do. Term for tell awful dad jokes, perhaps?
Loki
22 Apr 2015 - 03:50
So, is it DaTHing or DADding? :)

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