Orlion Blight Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 Or just read Watchmen, or Preacher. That's about my personal experience with western comics. I recommend both. Watchmen is good, but Moore's Swamp Thing is soooo much better!I've recently heard good things about Preacher (recently = yesterday) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndigoAjah Posted May 27, 2016 Report Share Posted May 27, 2016 Western comics - read Kingdom Come, Sandman (if only one, I'd say this) or Books of Magic 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted May 27, 2016 Report Share Posted May 27, 2016 (edited) Started reading The Inquisition, the sequel to Taran Matharu's The Novice. I'm about 2/3 through and have to say that the Gryphowl is my favorite demon EVER. Owl/cat hybrids are AWESOME. See spoiler if you don't believe me. (Most of the Internet knows these creatures as "meowls.") Still working on A Gathering of Shadows--90% done according to my Kindle's progress bar. Update: finished AGOS and ARGH CLIFFHANGER. Expected release date for book 3: 2017. Edited May 27, 2016 by Sunbird 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Elodin Posted May 28, 2016 Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 Started reading The Inquisition, the sequel to Taran Matharu's The Novice. I'm about 2/3 through and have to say that the Gryphowl is my favorite demon EVER. Owl/cat hybrids are AWESOME. See spoiler if you don't believe me. (Most of the Internet knows these creatures as "meowls.") Still working on A Gathering of Shadows--90% done according to my Kindle's progress bar. Update: finished AGOS and ARGH CLIFFHANGER. Expected release date for book 3: 2017. Oh yeah, I read that recently. I have to say, though, I prefer Ignatius to the Gryphowl. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted May 28, 2016 Report Share Posted May 28, 2016 Since I liked Clay and Susan Griffith's Vampire Empire trilogy and am still waiting on the library for the spinoff/sequel, I decided to try one of their other books, The Shadow Revolution. About halfway through at this point and I am liking it a lot. (I've especially enjoyed seeing Kate being a badchull and putting lecherous men in their places.) Still working on The Inquisition; now more than 80% done. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormingTexan Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 Finished The Lies of Locke Lamora. I liked it but cannot say I am compelled to continue the series. At least not right now maybe later. Started AlterWorld which I guess is a literary RPG and really like it so far. I actually gave up gaming a couple years ago it was taking over my life but find I really like books about gaming. This one is kind of like reading a persons experience from level one in a MMO. Sounds boring especially if you have never been in to MMORPG but there is a lot of nostalgia for me and it's the next best thing to gaming if you have given it up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 Finished The Inquisition. Another cliffhanger ending! (But thankfully not as agonizing as the one in Julie Kagawa's Soldier.) Also finished The Shadow Revolution. I've just barely started Ratha's Creature by Clare Bell. So far it feels a little reminiscent of Kenneth Oppel's Darkwing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 I finished My Name is Asher Lev, it was fantastic. I'm currently reading Tolstoy, A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSC01 Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 I'm reading Lord of Chaos. This is my fourth read of The Wheel of Time. I just recently got to what I consider one of the neatest little things in the series, which is when one of the very minor characters has a Foretelling that exactly lays out the end of the series. Keep in mind, LoC came out in 1994 and A Memory of light was released in 2013, so it serves as a nice rebuttal to the argument that long fantasy series are always bloated, meandering works that the author began with no idea how to finish. This is the quote (not a spoiler because you really have to know the ending first before you can really decipher it): "The lion sword, the dedicated spear, she who sees beyond. Three on the boat, and he who is dead yet lives. The great battle done, but the world not yet done with battle. The land divided by the return, and the guardians balance the servants. The future teeters on the edge of a blade." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zea mays Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 I've just listened to Cursed and Taken, respectively, book 2 and 3 of the Alex Verus series. I do not know if I will continue with this one. It's happened. I found a series that does not utterly suck, but can be put down. I don't know, I just haven't really gotten to care about any of the characters. I do not know what makes me care deeply about some characters (random sampling: Kaladin, Kvothe, Snape, Lawrence and Temeraire, Lirael, Lyra&Will) but not so much about others. Alex Verus is alright, but he's not nearly as fresh and crisp and snarky as Harry Dresden, and he really suffers in the comparison. It's not that Jim Butcher is a much better writer than Brandon Jacka - they seem basically on the same level. I do not know what it is. It sounds better in French: Je ne sais quoi. Meanwhile, (while waiting for League of Dragons) I'm listening to The History of the World in Six Glasses, which is delightful. So far I've learned how beer jump-started civilization, and Wine refined it. Eventually Coca-cola will lead to it's downfall, but that's several millennia away and I won't hear that part 'till tomorrow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 So I'm well into Tolstoy, and it's good. Not great, but good. I'm also reading Forrest Gump, although just a little bit every once in a while. It's reminding me a Lot of Of Mice and Men, and I didn't like that book. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneSpren Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 A Storm of Swords, by George RR Martin himself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 On recommendation from another Sharder, I read Claudia Gray's Star Wars tie-in novel, Lost Stars, today, and it was STORMING FANTASTIC. I really hope she writes a sequel at some point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 The Sandman by Neil Gaiman and Books Do Furnish a Room by Anthony Powell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 Started reading another of Clay and Susan Griffith's books, The Undying Legion. About 80% through according to the progress bar on my Kindle and I am enjoying it. I've highlighted several funny quotes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renoux Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 Just started reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis for the third time! One of my favorite books . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azninvasion99 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Watchmen is good, but Moore's Swamp Thing is soooo much better! Little late to this post but... Moore's Swamp Thing is incredible. #21 stands as one of my all time favorite issues, and Moore creates John Constantine in that run as well. Just fantastic. Also check out his Miracleman run, the last storyline is excellent. Finished the Sarantine Mosaic by GGK, I felt the story at times was a little thin but I could read interactions between Valerius and Alixana all day. Jumping back into 2nd Powder Mage book now! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Little late to this post but... Moore's Swamp Thing is incredible. #21 stands as one of my all time favorite issues, and Moore creates John Constantine in that run as well. Just fantastic. Also check out his Miracleman run, the last storyline is excellent. Finished the Sarantine Mosaic by GGK, I felt the story at times was a little thin but I could read interactions between Valerius and Alixana all day. Jumping back into 2nd Powder Mage book now! I'm kinda reading Sarantine Mosaic now and have to ask: why is GGK considered a "literary fantasy writer"? His prose is just merely functional and unengaging. I'm kinda feeling disappointed in it right now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathoth Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Reading The Weird A compendium of strange and dark stories (110 stories of dark weirdness, from Kafka, Lovecraft, Neil Gaiman and so on and so on), Songs of a dead dreamer/Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti (A fantastic collection of horror shorts), American Gods and The Furies of Calderon. Orlion you should look into the first two if you haven't already. Especially Ligotti. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 I finished Tolstoy, A Russian Life. It was pretty good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSC01 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 On to A Crown of Swords. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkum Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 I'm kinda reading Sarantine Mosaic now and have to ask: why is GGK considered a "literary fantasy writer"? His prose is just merely functional and unengaging. I'm kinda feeling disappointed in it right now. heh, I like him well enough, but yea, I don't really get it either. i'd add that he has a couple of quirks that kind of annoy me, like telling a series of events from one perspective, then cutting away at the end with a vague cliffhanger only to retell a part of them from a different perspective. there are at least 3 or 4 examples from the sarantine mosaic that I can think of offhand. it'd be fine if he only did it sparingly, but it happens so frequently it gets old. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briar King Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 On to A Crown of Swords. I really loved this one but I'm in a very huge minority with that feeling. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 A few days ago I picked up a Kindle book called Flash by Alex Hoagland after a girl I know from meeting her while she was dating my brother posted on Facebook that her own brother had written and self-published a book. (I know that's not really relevant, but I was amused by relating the convoluted trail of relationships that led to me reading this book.) I'm 56% done and it is reminding me a lot of the movie The Adjustment Bureau. Also finally got around to starting the final book in Tyler Whitesides's Janitors series. I'm maybe a quarter the way through that one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straw Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 Trying to get into wheel of time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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