What Are You Reading, Part 2

[Briar King]

It’s a fun story. Really excited to go back to after he finishes Prism 5.

[Dunkum]

13 hours ago, maxal said:

I guess everyone's tastes are just different. If we all liked the same books, then all books would be the same and that'd be boring  I loved the book, I thought it was a fun ride: it wasn't perfect, but it got me hooked from page one to the last. All the tip bits about the 80s really got me going: I loved this. It's OK if others didn't like it, I didn't really mean it when I said everyone would love this book: there is no such thing as a universally loved book.

That's sort of what I was trying to get at.  it just sort of amused me that while you have a hard time understanding why people wouldn't like it, I have the same trouble understanding how anyone could love it.

[Orlion Blight]

18 minutes ago, Dunkum said:

That's sort of what I was trying to get at.  it just sort of amused me that while you have a hard time understanding why people wouldn't like it, I have the same trouble understanding how anyone could love it.

And I have a hard time understanding why anyone would like it!

 

[maxal]

21 hours ago, Briar King said:

It’s a fun story. Really excited to go back to after he finishes Prism 5.

I think it is great so far, I can't believe how much of it I read today  I am really, really liking it better than Lightbringer. 

[Briar King]

Forced myself to read about 30 pgs of Wall. Want done with this section so bad. 

[Ammanas]

7 hours ago, Briar King said:

Forced myself to read about 30 pgs of Wall. Want done with this section so bad. 

You arn't going to start calling it Slog of Storms are you?  Seriously though if you want to skip to part three, where the action picks up, you probably wont be missing much. I read it on release date, but from what I remember you just need to know:

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That the two friends, that are con artists, end of loosing the "Mirror War". I think at least one of them dies. Lots of set up and references to a unkown land beyond Daru (the islands on which they live).

 

[Briar King]

School of Storms more like at present.

[Briar King]

Finally got to a good part of Zomi(even though I want out of this Examination Room already) speaking with Kuni in debate.

 

ugh this is just a long “intro”. On pg 233. Been in her past or stuck in this room for a good portion of that.

 

picking up some steam now! On pg 260

Edited February 7, 2018 by Briar King

[Sunbird]

Started reading Ready Player One. I've only gotten through the prologue, but already I am very pleased with all the references to video games and pop culture.

[maxal]

17 hours ago, Sunbird said:

Started reading Ready Player One. I've only gotten through the prologue, but already I am very pleased with all the references to video games and pop culture.

And so it begins  I told a colleague of mine, born into the late sixties, about the book: he read it in less than a week. Considering it took him two years to read the Hunger Games 3 book I lent him, this was amazingly quick. He loved it. He actually played a lot of the games the book mentioned.

[Briar King]

Finished part 1 of Wall of Storms. Phew. That was very tough to get through! Spent 42 days on it... Hopefully my pace will increase cause I just want to be done with it and on to something else already. Soooo much more left to that beast still.

[Totally_Not_A_Worldhopper]

I'm reading Dividing Eden again. And The Fault in Our Stars, and The Facefaker's Game. And Gone Too Far. And Cuckoo's Calling.

And Ready Player One. Just got to the Jade Key discovery... (that's not a spoiler, right?)

Edited February 9, 2018 by Totally_Not_A_Worldhopper

[Ammanas]

14 minutes ago, Totally_Not_A_Worldhopper said:

and The Facefaker's Game. 

I read The Facefaker's Game! I though it was a really good book! Unfortunately it did not sell well and the author said he probably will not be able to write a sequel and started writing a different series.

*ahem stands on soapbox*

It is situations like this that drive me crazy when a person says Martin has ruined them and they only read series that are completed. Its important to support authors, who publish quality work, or publishers will dump them.

*steps down from soapbox*

[Sunbird]

On 2/7/2018 at 5:28 PM, maxal said:

And so it begins  I told a colleague of mine, born into the late sixties, about the book: he read it in less than a week. Considering it took him two years to read the Hunger Games 3 book I lent him, this was amazingly quick. He loved it. He actually played a lot of the games the book mentioned.

Hahahaha. I had so much fun with this book that I stayed up past midnight to finish it last night. Almost every page had me going like this:

And I laughed SO MUCH. Now I'm hyped for the movie!

[maxal]

On 2/9/2018 at 2:11 AM, Sunbird said:

Hahahaha. I had so much fun with this book that I stayed up past midnight to finish it last night. Almost every page had me going like this:

And I laughed SO MUCH. Now I'm hyped for the movie!

Glad you are enjoying yourself 

For my part, I finished Night Angel #1 and I am currently reading Night Angel #2. I am really enjoying this series, so much more than Ligthbringer, but there is one thing I need to say....

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STOP HARMING LOGAN  And PLEASE someone get him out of this awful place? Kylar, PLEASE? Haven't you noticed the dead head on the pike is NOT Logan? I hope this won't last needlessly too long as with Gavin Guile being first made a slave, then lock into the egg prison 

 

[StormingTexan]

Half way through The Emperor's Blades and liking it so far.  I've had this book for a while bought it on sale and forgot about.  A little darker than what I usually read but it is keeping me interested. 

[maxal]

9 hours ago, StormingTexan said:

Half way through The Emperor's Blades and liking it so far.  I've had this book for a while bought it on sale and forgot about.  A little darker than what I usually read but it is keeping me interested. 

I will be curious to hear your thoughts on this trilogy. I personally rather liked the first book, despite minor aggravating issues. I also liked most of book 2, but I'll admit book 3, despite having one superb story arc for one of the characters, seriously got on my nerves. I would say: good idea, good world, decent writing, bad characterization not in the sense there is none, but in the sense it is awfully grating.

[StormingTexan]

3 hours ago, maxal said:

I will be curious to hear your thoughts on this trilogy. I personally rather liked the first book, despite minor aggravating issues. I also liked most of book 2, but I'll admit book 3, despite having one superb story arc for one of the characters, seriously got on my nerves. I would say: good idea, good world, decent writing, bad characterization not in the sense there is none, but in the sense it is awfully grating.

I’ll for sure let you know what I think! If the first book is good I’ll be hooked that’s how I am with trilogies I’ll keep reading no matter what if the first book is good.

So far I’m liking Valyn’s story line the best. 

 

[AngelEy3]

1 hour ago, StormingTexan said:

I’ll for sure let you know what I think! If the first book is good I’ll be hooked that’s how I am with trilogies I’ll keep reading no matter what if the first book is good.

So far I’m liking Valyn’s story line the best. 

 

I liked Valyn's storyline the best too. Anything involving the Kestrel was what I liked best. 

[GiveMeASpren(I'mCrazy)]

I also loved the first book of the Blades, and liked the prequel a certain amount too, but hated the second and third books because of the

Spoiler

character arcs - they grew the whole first book, and had so much potential. I thought that I could see where it was going, and loved it... but no. They regressed instead. Plus, reviving an antagonist? Really? There were so many other possibilities, and it would have been one thing if it used his character... but no. I was very disappointed.

 

I just finished the coldfire trilogy and Tom Holt, and am trying to decide what to read now. Is Melanie Rawn a good idea?

[Draginon]

I have officially finished Way of Kings!!!

It was a fantastic read, but because I have the 1200 page paperback it was hard towards the end to not break the book. I liked all the different characters, though Nan Balat creeped me with his psychopath tendencies, but I was surprised that Szeth was light skinned since the chapter icon, and the color version I've seen, make him look more dark skinned like Sazed. I was also surprised when the opening chapters said Kaladin was 19! I thought based off what I had read about him beforehand and from the synopsis that he'd be in his late 20's or in his 30's, not almost a decade younger than me. It was really cute seeing Shallan and Kabsal 'dating' until the moment in the hospital. I also really liked Jasnah since she was smart and took no crem about what people thought of her while also being sweet when she's close to someone.

Can't wait to read Words of Radiance, aka The Book of Endless Pages, but before that I'll be reading The Shattered Lens and the WOK Annotations.

[Dunkum]

52 minutes ago, Draginon said:

 I was also surprised when the opening chapters said Kaladin was 19! I thought based off what I had read about him beforehand and from the synopsis that he'd be in his late 20's or in his 30's, not almost a decade younger than me.

Well bear in mind the rosharan year is longer than ours.  19 on roshar is closer to early or mid twenties on earth.  conversion factor is about 1.1, so he is more like 22 in earth years.

[maxal]

23 hours ago, StormingTexan said:

I’ll for sure let you know what I think! If the first book is good I’ll be hooked that’s how I am with trilogies I’ll keep reading no matter what if the first book is good.

So far I’m liking Valyn’s story line the best. 

 

Yeah, Valyn's great in the first book... I will be curious to hear how you feel on the various characters trajectory. 

15 minutes ago, Dunkum said:

Well bear in mind the rosharan year is longer than ours.  19 on roshar is closer to early or mid twenties on earth.  conversion factor is about 1.1, so he is more like 22 in earth years.

Hate the conversions. I picture the character as per their book age: it fits better within the narrative than converting them. Kaladin works well as a 19 years old, yeah he's young and it shows at times.

[Draginon]

@Dunkum I thought it was a 1=1 when converting a Rosharan year to an Earth year? Anyway the stuff I knew about Kaladin beforehand was that he was trained to be a surgeon and then became a successful military leader, and when thinking on the military part I assumed it'd be much longer than the actual 4 years and I also didn't take into account that apprenticeship was being done like in the olden days of being trained as a child so you can imagine how surprised I was at him being 19 and thinking 'how is all that supposed to happen in such a short amount of time???' I was close for the ages of the other characters, I pegged Shallan as being between 18-22 because of her being a ward so I was close, I pegged Dalinar somewhere in the 40-60 range because of him being a father and depending on how old Adolin was and how old he himself was when Adolin was born and Szeth I kind of pegged as being somewhere in his 30's (he is in that age range in the first book right?). The only other character I was kind of off on was Jasnah who I guessed was in the late 20's-early 30's range so I was happy when she was just slightly older than I was thinking.

 

@maxal Yeah, it makes sense with his whole deal with blaming himself for others dying and his hatred of lighteyes. However when he has his 'adult' moments he's kind of like Nyneave, it makes them both seem a decade or two older than they actually are so that's something that really throws one for a loop when they remember how old the character is supposed to be.

[StormingTexan]

Maybe this will help clear up the Earh/Roshar calander conversion. 

 

Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

Speaking of Rosharan calendar-- So seventeen year old Kaladin, is he the equivalent of a seventeen year old Earthling?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

It's 1.1, I think is what is it. Right, they're 10% older than their accounting system. So no.

Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

So Adolin is 27, true?

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

Yeah.

Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

So then a year is obviously a lot more than 1.1 but--

Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]

Well no. The years are 500 days, but they're 20 hour days. Keep that in mind. So when you run the calculations kinda together, you end up with around 1.1.