Welease Woger Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 The Darknes that Comes Before -- R. Scott Bakker. Suggestion of the forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolivar Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Wow, seems a lot of us took the suggestion and started the Prince of Nothing. Currently about 2/3 through The Warrior Prophet :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
End of Disc One Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 I read the first Prince of Nothing book a year ago and loved it. I really need to get back to the series because it is truly something special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welease Woger Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 I'm at the very beginning, but I'm enjoying it so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maester Hodor Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Just finished The Ritual by Adam Nevill. It's a very entertaining book about a group of friends that take a "shortcut" through the woods and find themselves being hunted by something that they can't quite comprehend. I'd recommend it if you like dark horror stories. Now I think I'll go back to the Discworld and read Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ductastic Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 I'm currently reading Abercrombie's The Heroes and I just love this book, the guy knows how to write battles and characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinevere Seaworth Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Just finished Red Seas Under Red Skies. I think I liked the book more after the re-read, but I still feel that The Lies of Locke Lamora a better novel.Will start Republic of Thieves tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewingedwolf Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 WW, Look at this thread. It gave me a ton of ideas: http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/52645-fantasy-and-sf-recommendations-series/ Malaazan Book of the Fallen- Steve Erikson -sounds very promising! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 I finished The Devil You Know by Mike Carey on Monday. Great book. Very Dresden-esque, although I definitely think this was written on a high technical level, but it still had plenty of cheese. My favorite bits of cheese being when Fix tells us he had two options, details those options, and then says, "So, I went with option C." and when he's showing off his observational skills by identifying a character as right-handed because he saw him holding a phone with his right hand. Yeah, I'm right-handed and I literally cannot remember the last time I held a phone with my right hand; I like to have my right hand free so that I can actually do other stuff when I'm on the phone too. But overall I really enjoyed it and will definitely be reading more because it was hella fun and appears to be setting up a very interesting mythology. I've started (and am about 1/3 through) Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot. I'm loving this book. It reminds me a lot of Ray Bradbury's works, both in its nostalgic feel and how it skips around a large cast of quirky small town characters. The language isn't as ornate as Bradbury (really it's much more vulgar), but I don't mind because it works really well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plessiez Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 (Still successfully putting off my plan to reread/finish Wolfe's Book of the Short Sun...)I finished Guy Gavriel Kay's Under Heaven earlier this week. I think this is the first Kay I've tried since the (rather underwhelming) The Last Light of the Sun came out. Which was ... what, a decade ago now? I was surprised how much I enjoyed it, really. Kay has a definite tendency towards melodrama and his prose is sometimes a bit too consciously clever for my taste (although, that said, I do have a soft spot for The Lions of Al-Rassan; can only blame that on reading it at an impressionable age). Both these habits seemed to be toned down quite a bit in this book though. And the device of repeatedly jumping to the POV of very minor characters seemed to work a lot better this time around then it did in tLLotS. Possibly helped that I'm really not at all familiar with the period of Chinese history on which the story is based, so the plot didn't have quite the air of inevitability it might have had otherwise.I understand that River of Stars is set in the same continuity? Tempted to try that soon as well.Currently rereading Iain M. Banks' Against A Dark Background. This is probably the best of his non-Culture SF, I think.Just finished Red Seas Under Red Skies. I think I liked the book more after the re-read, but I still feel that The Lies of Locke Lamora a better novel.I definitely liked that book a lot more on rereading (although I still don't think the flash-forward prologue really works).. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 I'm going to start Drakenfeld (Lucan Drakenfeld #1) by Mark Charan Newton later tonight. This is supposed to be a locked-room mystery set in a secondary Low-fantasy world based on ancient Rome/Byzantium.Looking forward to reading this . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rashid Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Waiting for: A world of ice and fire releasing 29 of october! =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolivar Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 I can feel it! October will def be the month of release! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 I'm reading too much, according to my wife. Not enough according to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodbye World Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Waiting for: A world of ice and fire releasing 29 of october! =) It's not going to be released this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 I understand that River of Stars is set in the same continuity? Tempted to try that soon as well. Rivers of Stars is in the same setting a few centuries later. There's not much in the way of direct connections but there are a lot of references made back to that era, the characters seem to regard it as having been a Golden Age and the political situation is a reaction to the events at the end of Under Heaven. I think it's a good book - I probably prefer Under Heaven but I think River of Stars does have a stronger ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leofric Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Finished Firebird by Jack McDevitt, another good Alex Benedict story. Then read The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook. Finally got around to it after reading and rereading the Black Company and Garrett P.I. for years. Liked it a lot. Just started Master of the World by Jules Verne. Wasn't aware of this one before, though I have read many of his other books, 20,000 leagues Under the Sea, the Mysterious Island, 5 weeks in a Balloon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Looks like this one basically him doing it again, seeing the future, this time dealing with airplanes and air power. Next up is The Breeds of Man by F.M. Busby, and I need to pick up a copy of The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Waiting for: A world of ice and fire releasing 29 of october! =) Oh you poor fl00b you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peadar Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 I managed to sneak in Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. Very much to my taste it was too. I love the use of linguistics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cato.the.Elder Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Reading the last volume of the "Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe", de Chateaubriand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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