+Wax Posted September 8, 2018 Report Share Posted September 8, 2018 Finished my other books today and started another. The standard gristle did remind me though that I had a stormlight archive shaped hole in my heart. Beginning the wait for the 2020-2021 release now. Can't say if I've read anything that's worth mentioning except Neil Fiore's The Now Habit. So good 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 8, 2018 Report Share Posted September 8, 2018 Alternating between book 3 of the Wheel of time series, and Book one of the Reckonners series. Need to get Legion, Have Skyward pre ordered. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draginon Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 Finished The Bands of Mourning. Here are my thoughts: Spoiler I love how much Steris has grown over the course of these books and comes along for the adventure this time. I was sad at how the wedding got flooded out by Wayne at the beginning and she finally got married to Wax in the end. I hope we see more of Marasi x Allik in the next book! How different is that statue of the Sovereign that Wax and Company didn't recognize it as the Survivor himself? The red eyed men... How does Harmony not realize there are a bunch of Kandra not under his control? I mean he knew instantly when Paalm went rogue. Are these ones created by Trell or something? Something just doesn't add up with them. Next read is Calamity. Can finally put Reckoners behind me! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goody153 Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 @Draginon Spoiler Regarding how Wax&co did not recognize Kelsier ? You know it is Kelsier because you are the reader. Nobody except Harmony, Marsh and maybe the other Kandra's knew about what Kelsier was doing. Quote The red eyed men... How does Harmony not realize there are a bunch of Kandra not under his control? How sure are you that those are actually Kandra ? And how sure are you that Harmony wasn't really aware of them ? Harmony doesn't stop everything detrimental that happening within his realm. Remember the noblewomen captured by Set for breeding ? Those haven't been found yet and we can assume their fate is doomed. Why doesn't he ? Either it has to do with future sight or he just allows it(idk why people forget he is literally Ruin as well .. half of him accepts death and destruction of people) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draginon Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 10 hours ago, goody153 said: @Draginon Hide contents Regarding how Wax&co did not recognize Kelsier ? You know it is Kelsier because you are the reader. Nobody except Harmony, Marsh and maybe the other Kandra's knew about what Kelsier was doing. How sure are you that those are actually Kandra ? And how sure are you that Harmony wasn't really aware of them ? Harmony doesn't stop everything detrimental that happening within his realm. Remember the noblewomen captured by Set for breeding ? Those haven't been found yet and we can assume their fate is doomed. Why doesn't he ? Either it has to do with future sight or he just allows it(idk why people forget he is literally Ruin as well .. half of him accepts death and destruction of people) Spoiler I kind of meant that they have statues and paintings of Kelsier and the rest of the gang, heck there was one such statue of him at the cemetery in New Seran, so unless the imagery is different from the actual depictions of him then they should've realized something was up like how Wax and Marasi realized something was up with the Bands. Another pointed that out on a different thread and it makes you wonder if Faceless Immortal would apply to other groups from the other planets and Scadrians would assume they're Kandra. On the Harmony thing, he immediately started having the Kandra hunt down Paalm when she went rogue until he had to get Wax involved because she was dangerous at that point. Human activity he chooses not to intervene in unless he absolutely has to, like with Wax, but where the Kandra are concerned it's a different story since if they start doing something that's bad, like the one that killed Suit saying they can now destroy the planet, Harmony would intervene so the only answer is they have Trellium spikes, blocking some of them but staying in Harmony's scope, or they are off-worlders. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormingTexan Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 Listening to a book for work called Never Split the Difference. It’s about negotiation tactics and the author is a 20 year FBI veteran that did hostage negotiations. It’s really kind of interesting but the funny part is the narrator is Michael Kramer. I keep waiting for the author to say he downed a vial of tin to listen to hostages or lashed a bad guy to a wall. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted September 13, 2018 Report Share Posted September 13, 2018 I will be starting The Obelisk Gate by N K Jemisin, the book that won the Hugo instead of Death's End. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urrutiap Posted September 14, 2018 Report Share Posted September 14, 2018 Ive been reading Aliens the novelization paperback. Im about done with the last 80 pages. After that I dunno what Ill read. probably start on reading Joe McKinney's Plague of the Undead books 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storming Radiant Posted September 16, 2018 Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 Just finished Winter's Heart and HOLLY PINEAPPLES THAT LAST CHAPTER CAME OUT OF NOWHERE!! It was amazing and just dripped with epicness!! Hopefully tomorrow I'll get my hands on the next book. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briar King Posted September 16, 2018 Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 I loved Winters Heart. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storming Radiant Posted September 16, 2018 Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 Me too, but my favorite so far was The Shadow Rising. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briar King Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 I think The Great Hunt is my favorite but Shadows and Crown of Swords kinda tie for 2nd for me. Lots of people hate Crown. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Wax Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 On 14/09/2018 at 8:08 AM, StormingTexan said: Listening to a book for work called Never Split the Difference. It’s about negotiation tactics and the author is a 20 year FBI veteran that did hostage negotiations. It’s really kind of interesting but the funny part is the narrator is Michael Kramer. I keep waiting for the author to say he downed a vial of tin to listen to hostages or lashed a bad guy to a wall. It's a good book as long as you bring practice... On 14/09/2018 at 8:17 AM, TheOrlionThatComesBefore said: I will be starting The Obelisk Gate by N K Jemisin, the book that won the Hugo instead of Death's End. How do you find Jemisin... I could never get into that series because that style of grammar\writing didn't work for me on audiobook 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 1 hour ago, Wax said: How do you find Jemisin... I could never get into that series because that style of grammar\writing didn't work for me on audiobook As I keep telling people lately, quit consuming all books in the audio format. It's a different medium and some books just will not translate into it. *Heavy breathing, hyperventilate into a paper bag to calm down* That said, I really liked Fifth Season. Since Jemisin is a trained psychologist, her characters tend to act way more realistically and the story is a fantastic, creative and insightful way to consider the themes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who Sharded? Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 I actually just finished my first N.K. Jemisin book, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. At first it reminded me a lot of a Brandon book with the worldbuilding and the plot hook. I couldn't put it down. But then it sort of went downhill with weird romance stuff. Still a good book overall and I will finish the trilogy, then read Broken Earth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkum Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 19 hours ago, Briar King said: I think The Great Hunt is my favorite but Shadows and Crown of Swords kinda tie for 2nd for me. Lots of people hate Crown. Eye of the World and The Great Hunt are my least favorites (yes even worse than Crossroads of Twilight - the mere presence of Mat goes a long long way), but Dragon Reborn is easily the best in the series. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Who Sharded? said: I actually just finished my first N.K. Jemisin book, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. At first it reminded me a lot of a Brandon book with the worldbuilding and the plot hook. I couldn't put it down. But then it sort of went downhill with weird romance stuff. Still a good book overall and I will finish the trilogy, then read Broken Earth. I don't think I'll read any of her other currently published books, I have plenty of series that I need to finish! But I feel I'll be perfectly happy with the Broken Earth Trilogy. Edited September 17, 2018 by TheOrlionThatComesBefore 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urrutiap Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 just the other day I started reading Joe McKinney's Plague of the Undead book 1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draginon Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 Finished Calamity. I think this was my favorite of the Reckoners trilogy. Don't really have much to say here. Spoiler Calamity dues ex machina to death is good. Loophole's death almost made me gag Now I'm going onto Alcatraz Versus The Dark Talent 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draginon Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 Just finished The Dark Talent. I'm just going to put all my thoughts in spoilers for those who haven't read the book yet. Spoiler I wasn't that shocked at Attica's death. He was an idiot and a fool for attempting to give everyone the Dark Talent itself. I was surprised that Dif was Biblioden though. I'm glad grandpa isn't dead (thanks Bastille!) How much crazier could all that glass get at this point? Loved that in the illustration of Shasta in the Tuki Tuki jail she's reading Mistborn. Same with Alcatraz referencing WOT in his death list. Draulin sure is a lovely woman in the illustrations. Hurry up already Bastille! We all need to see how this ends! Now onto the Cosmere collection itself 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draginon Posted September 26, 2018 Report Share Posted September 26, 2018 I'm going to do my review of Arcanum Unbounded a little differently from the other books by giving my thoughts by system. Selish System I'm pretty curious about what the third great domain of Sel is. Maybe something that could be saved for another short story? The Hope of Elantris It was a sweet story, even more because of the postscript The Emperor's Soul Spoiler How far can Forgery go? I mean Shai pretty much rebuilt the emperors soul as close as possible. I loved Gaotona and how he found Shai's Forgery beautiful in the end. I wonder if Shai comes back in the Elantris sequels if we'll see Zu or Weedfingers get back at her. Currently on the Scadrian System 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briar King Posted September 28, 2018 Report Share Posted September 28, 2018 Began Outlander 4. Gonna take it slow while also reading Stoneweilder as my main just enough to be ahead a few weeks of the S4 eps each week that starts in Nov. hell maybe I ll even finish it before then somehow. Doubt it but I never know. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted September 28, 2018 Report Share Posted September 28, 2018 A friend recommended the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde to me, so I've been slowly working my way through those. I just started book 5, First Among Sequels, yesterday. These books are storming hilarious. So many inside jokes for book lovers! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted September 28, 2018 Report Share Posted September 28, 2018 Read White Sand Vol 2! Now, no new Cosmere until maybe 2020! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draginon Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 On 9/28/2018 at 6:57 AM, TheOrlionThatComesBefore said: Read White Sand Vol 2! Now, no new Cosmere until maybe 2020! When he had said he's doing the entire Skyward trilogy I realized we were in for a two year drought unless he pulls a miracle out of his hands. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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