I just Started Reading The Dwarves By Marcus Heitz.
I'm about 150 pages in. It's dwarf-tastic. It's so packed full of dwarf that I can feel my beard getting longer just reading it. If you're looking for a high fantasy with some serious dwarfage this is the tome for you.
I'm also slogging through the prince of nothing series after seeing how popular it is on here. At what point in the story did everybody decide they like these? I'm a fair ways in and I'm not really thrilled yet. Either I haven't gotten to the good part yet or it's just not to my taste.
I liked Prince of Nothing from... Chapter 1. Them Dunyain and their labyrinth.
Its enjoyable but not something that is easy to read. The book is good but its not exactly as easy to pick up as a Pratchett, you have to think when reading.
It's possible that i'm just not paying enough attention. I picked up the series on audio books and have been listening while painting and dry-walling. I'll pick up some paper copies and see if it reads any better than it listens.
It will only pull you in if you care about the philosophy. The book must come before you!
I just Started Reading The Dwarves By Marcus Heitz.
I'm about 150 pages in. It's dwarf-tastic. It's so packed full of dwarf that I can feel my beard getting longer just reading it. If you're looking for a high fantasy with some serious dwarfage this is the tome for you.
I'm also slogging through the prince of nothing series after seeing how popular it is on here. At what point in the story did everybody decide they like these? I'm a fair ways in and I'm not really thrilled yet. Either I haven't gotten to the good part yet or it's just not to my taste.
I liked Prince of Nothing from... Chapter 1. Them Dunyain and their labyrinth.
Its enjoyable but not something that is easy to read. The book is good but its not exactly as easy to pick up as a Pratchett, you have to think when reading.
It's possible that i'm just not paying enough attention. I picked up the series on audio books and have been listening while painting and dry-walling. I'll pick up some paper copies and see if it reads any better than it listens.
Its defiantly better as a read. You will find yourself going back and rereading and checking parts.
I tried re-reading the Prince of Nothing recently. I got to the 2nd chapter I think before I started getting really busy with my latest nerd hobby obsession. I really like it so far, the writing kinda feels like... hard to explain... like its so philosophical you're high or something. So yeah, I definitely have to be in a specific state of mind and pay attention to details to enjoy it. Lately I've been so busy though my mind can't concentrate enough to read it before bed like I usually do. I've been reading Sailor Moon mangas instead. >_>
From PoN to Sailor Moon. That's some transition. :P
It's ok Lyddi. I stopped at PoN. I had the 2nd book for a while, but never got to read it. My book/comic/manga pile is growing because I'd rather craft, so don't feel bad!
Some books work great as audiobooks and others don't at all. For example, my girlfriend started listening to Dune as an audiobook, and I told her to stop. I had it as an audiobook only because I've read it 4 or 5 times before, and an audiobook is just a fun way to catch up on a favourite.
I think Prince of Nothing is certainly a read-first, listen-later book.
I finished reading "The Game" by Ken Dryden recently. You don't have to like hockey. You don't even really have to like sports in general. But this book is excellent in its own right.
Now I'm back to Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, and after that I'll probably start on Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw.
I read about half of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail before our election, and then decided to finally read 1Q84. Almost done with that, so I think I'll pick up H.S. Thompson again. Oh, and I've started reading Characteristics of Games. It's pretty damn good.
1Q84 was enjoyable in a laconic and confusing sort of way. If you were to be embroiled in a magical fantasy scenario it would probably feel a lot like this; surrounded by strange events and people, brushing up against unseen conspiracies, only grasping the significance of your experiences long after the fact (if at all).
What's more, your every day life keeps chugging along, with the tedium and the tragedy and the uncertainty.
80% of this book seems to take place during the moments that other fantastical genre fiction skips over and in this lies its strength; a story that taps into the human experience, including a human experience derived from fantastical proper nouns, can be affecting even if the fantastical proper nouns are left to twist in the wind, ununderstood and unresolved.
I'm probably going to drop "Legacy of Ashes" due to school stuff. I'll pick it back up over Christmas break, but right now my two English classes are simply too demanding.
I don't know why I'm still reading Dune but I'm almost done with it. I've probably read 4-5 books between starting it and finishing. It gets cool, then boring, then cool, then boring.
There are things that are downright bullshit in that book. Such as the expository text that is added through random shit Bene Gesserit can do. Yeah I get that she's good at reading people but I don't need her inner monologue to explain the tension instead of just having better writing.
But that's the genius of Dune. You get huge conferences where you're inside the head of everyone at the table. There isn't any secrets in the book except some inside Paul after he becomes the messiah, after the water ceremony. Only when he becomes unreadable by the universe can we not read him too.
I greatly disagree with a lot of the inner monologue. It's not so much about secrets as it is about just giving me info that I already had. I get annoyed when books just tell me what is going on. So when she's like "He needs to be careful the way he says what he's going to say, everyone is on edge" or some such thing it just feels like either unnecessary or a cheap cop out in times when I cann (or should) infer what is happening through the text. Sometimes it is well used but the book is over saturated with such things.
The Baron's isn't bad but his actually make more sense than the others.
I have absolutely no idea if the Dresden Files is liked by any of you, but the latest book came out recently. Finished it, loved it, and waiting eagerly for the next one.
I have absolutely no idea if the Dresden Files is liked by any of you, but the latest book came out recently. Finished it, loved it, and waiting eagerly for the next one.
I read the first 5? I liked them. I was using them as palette cleansers between more meaty books
I have absolutely no idea if the Dresden Files is liked by any of you, but the latest book came out recently. Finished it, loved it, and waiting eagerly for the next one.
Ditto that. Butcher gets 5 points for the Firefly reference and about 500 points for making Santa kick ass.
Oh yeah, that's the one where Harry is now the Winter Knight as is doing training with Mab, right? I read the previews, I should go buy that if it's available.
I have absolutely no idea if the Dresden Files is liked by any of you, but the latest book came out recently. Finished it, loved it, and waiting eagerly for the next one.
I have absolutely no idea if the Dresden Files is liked by any of you, but the latest book came out recently. Finished it, loved it, and waiting eagerly for the next one.
Ditto that. Butcher gets 5 points for the Firefly reference and about 500 points for making Santa kick ass.
He gets all the points for Demonreach and Rashid.
Churba, you can either buy it, or download the epub version off piratebay.
Been getting back on the reading bus again lately. I spent my school years reading 80% crap, so there are many authors which I've never had any exposure to.
Started off reading my first William Gibson novel. Of course, instead of going for her best work, I started with Mona Lisa Overdrive b/c I picked it up for free from the NerdNYC Recess swap table. It was good, but definitely gets off to a very slow start. It jumps POV chapter to chapter, and those early chapters don't give you much character to work with, so it can be a challenge to remember what the hell is going on until the action picks up.
Now I'm reading my first Vonnegut, starting with The Sirens of Titan which has been awesome since page 1. Halfway in and loving this book.
Finished Double Eagle, man that was a good book. Dan Abnett actually makes the Warhammer 40K universe likeable. Also read Ghosts of Onyx and starting on Glasslands, both are enjoyable and Karen Traviss captures a lot of cool elements.
Finished Double Eagle, man that was a good book. Dan Abnett actually makes the Warhammer 40K universe likeable. Also read Ghosts of Onyx and starting on Glasslands, both are enjoyable and Karen Traviss captures a lot of cool elements.
Read the Ian Watson novels Space Marine and the Inquisitor War Trilogy. They were written back when Space Marines still ate brains and spat acid and Genestealer Cults were still a thing and they are awesome (not great, but awesome)!
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I would never listen to an audiobook of anything good unless I directed my full, undivided attention to it.
It's ok Lyddi. I stopped at PoN. I had the 2nd book for a while, but never got to read it. My book/comic/manga pile is growing because I'd rather craft, so don't feel bad!
I think Prince of Nothing is certainly a read-first, listen-later book.
In fact, I'm moving straight on to Wise Mans Fear.
Alas, no publication date for book 3.
Why is it common that each successive book in a series take longer and longer to write?
Don't they know the story by now? Lamora? GoT? BLoody Wheel of Time (OK, well, the dude is dead, I can forgive THAT...) But fuck it.
Plenty more books to fill in the time I suppose.
Now I'm back to Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, and after that I'll probably start on Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw.
What's more, your every day life keeps chugging along, with the tedium and the tragedy and the uncertainty.
80% of this book seems to take place during the moments that other fantastical genre fiction skips over and in this lies its strength; a story that taps into the human experience, including a human experience derived from fantastical proper nouns, can be affecting even if the fantastical proper nouns are left to twist in the wind, ununderstood and unresolved.
The Baron's isn't bad but his actually make more sense than the others.
Thread 2.
I only watched the short lived series and listened the one of the audiobooks. I intend to listen to the others, but other things are taking priority.
Churba, you can either buy it, or download the epub version off piratebay.
Started off reading my first William Gibson novel. Of course, instead of going for her best work, I started with Mona Lisa Overdrive b/c I picked it up for free from the NerdNYC Recess swap table. It was good, but definitely gets off to a very slow start. It jumps POV chapter to chapter, and those early chapters don't give you much character to work with, so it can be a challenge to remember what the hell is going on until the action picks up.
Now I'm reading my first Vonnegut, starting with The Sirens of Titan which has been awesome since page 1. Halfway in and loving this book.