What Are You Reading, Part 2

[AngelEy3 he/him]

4 hours ago, Briar King said:

Rust dude you read fast. I'm still on bk 5 in the 100's. I'm really focusing on finishing Safehold 9 with Harvey though. Time to finish that series, it's taken well over a year of my time. Almost done...

whats next? SLA reread?

I get the extreme luxury of roughly 5 hours a night of paid reading time at work. 

I really enjoyed Midnight Tides. The Edur story was very well done. 

I'm starting Lies of Locke Lamora tonight. I've worked out SA to needing to start by October 7th to be done in time for Oathbringer. 

[Leiasqz she/her]

5 hours ago, AngelEy3 said:

I'm starting Lies of Locke Lamora tonight.

In for a treat, you are!

[AngelEy3 he/him]

26 minutes ago, Leiasqz said:

In for a treat, you are!

Indeed. About 20% into it right now. I like how it goes back and forth with the interludes. I've found young Locke's story to be the more interesting at this point. 

[Hood he/him]

5 hours ago, AngelEy3 said:

I'm starting Lies of Locke Lamora tonight. I've worked out SA to needing to start by October 7th to be done in time for Oathbringer. 

I started practising detachment with imaginary characters after reading this book. The shock it gave me was too much !

Btw, the interludes are the best parts of the book. This is one of the books where the audiobook narration is to be preferred. Do consider it. It is on a Michael Kramer level (perhaps even higher).

[AngelEy3 he/him]

@Hood

I may give that a try someday. I keep telling people that it doesn't work out for me to listen to them, but I haven't REALLY given it a fair turn at all. Plus this specific book keeps getting lots of audio praise. 

Does your name, by chance, reference Malazan? 

[Hood he/him]

Ah! Yes indeed. 

[AngelEy3 he/him]

@Hood

Cool!  I finished book 10 last week. Best finished book series I've ever read, or my personal favorite at least. 

[Briar King]

Lies is one of the best debut novels I have read. It's amazing.

i have finally finished my year and change long trip of Safehold today. Big sigh of relief for me. I am now going to try and focus on Tigana for most of my day reading time(200 pgs left) and do Malazan 5 at night.

i will read anything else that is set in Safehold but the odds of me ever reading anything else of Weber is extremely slim! He just needs an editor that will tell him to cut the bloating info dumps... he can certainly tell a fun story and boy can he write navy/army engagements but my goodness there are so so SO many needless 20+ pg long sections of boring drones it can be a challenge to finish the series for sure.

[Aciilnt Stormblessed she/her]

I've just started reading The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh. A lot of you seem to be talking about large fantasy series so I'm just going to warn you this isn't anything like that, it's a YA retelling of 1001 Arabian nights and is quite good so far. However, it annoys me how quickly the main character starts to fall in love with the Caliph. I knew she was going to eventually but I just don't understand her falling in love so quickly with this guy who killed tons of people,including her best friend,(though there's probably some "understandable" reason why he's doing this to be revealed later she doesn't know it yet.)and who she planned to kill.  

[Steeldancer he/him]

My gosh I just finished the dark knight returns and the dark knight strikes again (by Frank Miller). 

Holy cow that was amazing. Freaking amazing. Dark, gritty, and TOTALLY awesome. 

[Sunbird she/her]

I just finished reading The Dire King by William Ritter today. (4th and final book in the Jackaby series)

[Julio]

I'm reading the Liveship Traders series, by Robin Hobb. I've read 2/3 of Farseer, and 2/3 of Soldier Son... I really like Hobb. 

[Stampede he/him]

In the middle of Lesser Evils from the Brimstone Angels Forgotten Realms series. Also Les Mis, we'll see how long that one takes. I just finished the second of the Dresden Files, not sure if I'll get the 3rd yet.

[Briar King]

Finished Tigana yesterday. That book was so stellar imo. I'm glad I decided to read that as my 1st GGK due to its controversy. If I liked it that much I ought to love his other books.

picked up WoK but I think I'm going to set it back down or just skim 1&2. I doubt I can tackle those 2K pgs in the 72 days before OB hits. Plus I'm now free to continue Malazan reread without other books hindering my time.

i did also dig out Dresden 1.

sigh

[StrikerEZ he/him]

On 9/1/2017 at 8:21 PM, Sunbird said:

I just finished reading The Dire King by William Ritter today. (4th and final book in the Jackaby series)

Oh my gosh, it's out already?!?!

AHHHHHHHH

I need it, but I've be been stupid lately and returned so many books late and now have lots of fines and can't check out books because of it. 

This is a travesty.

[Briar King]

Put WoK down. To big a commitment and my memory is still good of 1&2 anyway.

[Sunbird she/her]

@StrikerEZ That IS a travesty! Does your library have ebooks available for checkout through Overdrive? That's how I borrowed the copy I read.

[Dunkum he/him]

finished WoR reread last night.  will probably reread Edgedancer this afternoon, though I probably don't need a substantial refresher on that one before Oathbringer comes out.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

1 hour ago, Sunbird said:

@StrikerEZ That IS a travesty! Does your library have ebooks available for checkout through Overdrive? That's how I borrowed the copy I read.

Hmm...I'm not sure if they do I think through that app, but I know they do ebooks. I wouldn't be able to check those out either because of the fines. I'll just use some of my leftover birthday money to pay the fines next time I can go to the library...which will be a while. 

[AngelEy3 he/him]

Finished Lies of Locke Lamora tonight, and I would recommend it all around. Round 2 starts tonight. 

[Draginon he/him]

Almost done with WOA, just 8 chapters and the epilogue left. My mom is making me go to this boring edcamp thing tomorrow so if I don't finish tonight I'll definitely finish tomorrow and probably start on HOA.

[Scyora she/her]

I'm 16% into Elantris right now.

[Hood he/him]

After a lot of reading, re-reading, I can say, I finally finished The Name of The Rose. Properly. This time I had some idea what the book is about (except the story, which is obvious). Those Latin passages and lines add some depth and meaning. Overall, I'll say it is a difficult but rewarding book. One of my favourites.

Now, I'm reading two at a time.

Non-fiction -> "Beyond Good and Evil" by Nietzsche

Fiction -> Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 

I'll read fantasy only when Oathbringer comes out.

[Ammanas]

1 minute ago, Hood said:

After a lot of reading, re-reading, I can say, I finally finished The Name of The Rose. 

I have not read it, but have heard that the author makes the beginning of the book really boring to simulate the reader traveling up the mountain to get to the monastery before the story begins properly. Is that true and would you agree?

[Hood he/him]

@Ammanas Yes indeed. The author himself acknowledges that. His defence is basically that the novel is set in an abbey, and like an initiate entering the abbey, I want to reader to have the same difficulty. It is a way of filtering the readers I suppose.

Anyway, the first 200 pages are really really boring. He describes the architecture of the abbey in excruciating detail. One of the most notorious incident is when he describes a particular door in several pages. Several pages. For one door. The library is the king here. One whole chapter is used to describe it, tho it is not as painful as the door case. 

Another thing which makes it difficult is the knowledge of that era. A common person does not know much about medieval kingdoms, much less particular theologians (like Micheal of Cesana, Ubertino etc.). It was more difficult for me, because, I'm not a christian, so I really didn't know much about the Papacy and its conflicts with the Holy Roman Empire. 

But, as I say, the difficulty is only in the beginning. After the library chapter, the pace gets quicker, and we get interesting plots.