What Are You Reading, Part 2

[Pegumin]

Worked my way through Oathbringer in a marathon session; I can safely say that it was worth it. 

Past that, I recently read Railsea, by China Mieville. An interesting read, definitely, with a unique world that leaves more questions behind than it answers. Worth noting, though, the prose is pretty out of the ordinary, and takes some getting used to. 

Also recently, The Name of the Wind for about the billionth time. 

[Briar King]

Wall is enjoyable at 40+pgs in but the structure of the book so far is pretty normal to any other book compared to the very short sections of Grace.

[Kered he/him]

Just finished up the Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. I've read a few of King's books. IT, Shinning, Dark Tower, The Mist, and my favorites the Green Mile and the Stand. Besides Dark tower which is fantasy'ish, Eyes of the Dragon is his first full on fantasy book. And it is awesome. I highly recommend it, and it's smaller compared to his book, only about 450 pages. 

Finally finished the Demon Cycle as well. The Core was a great ending to the series. I have a few issues with it, but overall it was great from start to finish. 

[AngelEy3 he/him]

27 minutes ago, Kered said:

Just finished up the Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. I've read a few of King's books. IT, Shinning, Dark Tower, The Mist, and my favorites the Green Mile and the Stand. Besides Dark tower which is fantasy'ish, Eyes of the Dragon is his first full on fantasy book. And it is awesome. I highly recommend it, and it's smaller compared to his book, only about 450 pages. 

Finally finished the Demon Cycle as well. The Core was a great ending to the series. I have a few issues with it, but overall it was great from start to finish. 

Eyes of the Dragon is my favorite Stephen King book. 

[Kered he/him]

3 minutes ago, AngelEy3 said:

Eyes of the Dragon is my favorite Stephen King book. 

Thomas and Peter are probably my favorite King characters. 

[Scyora she/her]

New year, new book.

I'm reading Words of Radiance at the moment. Just finished Part One.

[Kestrel she/her]

Oathbringer :> I'm doing my best

[StormingTexan he/him]

Finished my re-read of The Shadow of What Was Lost. Even better the second time. Not perfect but a pretty dang good debut Fantasy novel. I get the comparisons to WoT and see Sanderson's influence but it still had enough original elements to keep me interested. I'd highly recommend checking it out if you havent read it.  Really excited about starting the second book! 

[Ammanas]

1 hour ago, StormingTexan said:

Finished my re-read of The Shadow of What Was Lost. Even better the second time. Not perfect but a pretty dang good debut Fantasy novel. I get the comparisons to WoT and see Sanderson's influence but it still had enough original elements to keep me interested. I'd highly recommend checking it out if you havent read it.  Really excited about starting the second book! 

I am going to give this another shot; only got a third of the way through the first one before giving up. I keep on hearing people rave about it so I am currently hold number 6 on two copies at my library. I have been known to vastly change my opinion on a book so we will see!

[StormingTexan he/him]

37 minutes ago, Ammanas said:

I am going to give this another shot; only got a third of the way through the first one before giving up. I keep on hearing people rave about it so I am currently hold number 6 on two copies at my library. I have been known to vastly change my opinion on a book so we will see!

I'll admit if you are a WoT and/or Sanderson fan (which most of us are) it will feel pretty familiar. That may be good or bad depending on your own opinion. It is also a debut book so there are some things that are not perfect. 

[Ammanas]

@StormingTexan It is a very real possibility that I came in with too high expectations. I discovered this series by reading a review where they say, "And based on this book, Islington deserves those comparisons to genre stalwarts. Love The Wheel of Time? This is about to become your new favorite series."

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/shadow-lost-introduces-fresh-fantasy-voice/

[StormingTexan he/him]

Yeah that’s a little bit of a heavy handed review. I actually feel bad for new authors that get compared to the apex authors of thier genere. It’s easy to then compare them to those when you read the book and they will almost never live up to those expectations. I actually had zero expectations for the book. In fact I got the audio book first soley because Michael Kramer was the narrator and didn’t know anything about it. It’s a tough one to follow completely in the audio format so I  read it this time. Hopefully you will like it more the second time. I do that sometimes too. I duck as I say this but I didn’t like tWoK the first time I read it. 

 

Edited January 5, 2018 by StormingTexan

[Ammanas]

Hah I was about to give up on The Way of Kings, but switching to the audiobook really helped for me. I have gone back and read sections of it so it wouldn't be a problem if I wanted to read the entire thing; but why would I? Krammer and Reading are such a delight!

[StormingTexan he/him]

1 hour ago, Ammanas said:

Hah I was about to give up on The Way of Kings, but switching to the audiobook really helped for me. I have gone back and read sections of it so it wouldn't be a problem if I wanted to read the entire thing; but why would I? Krammer and Reading are such a delight!

Man they have a way of making the books come alive.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

 B-but they're books, not radio dramas! 

[Ammanas]

Currently reading The Land:Founding by Aleron Kong. This book is a new type of writing (or at least new to me) called literary RPG. It is pure cotton candy, but fun so far.

[Guest]

On 12/27/2017 at 3:05 PM, Briar King said:

Finished Grace just past midnight. Excellent and completely epic book.

started Wall of Storms.

Do you recommend it? I read the synopsis and it does sound interesting.

[Ammanas]

48 minutes ago, maxal said:

Do you recommend it? I read the synopsis and it does sound interesting.

I know your question was put to BK, but I was one of the ones who convinced him to read it. The writing style doesn't jive with some people, but I love it and Grace of Kings is one of my favorite books. The author weaves his tale by switching back and force between macro and micro, past and present. It is never confusing and the payoff is in my opinion a majestic book. This book isn't for everyone, but one should definitely give it a try!

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Ammanas said:

I know your question was put to BK, but I was one of the ones who convinced him to read it. The writing style doesn't jive with some people, but I love it and Grace of Kings is one of my favorite books. The author weaves his tale by switching back and force between macro and micro, past and present. It is never confusing and the payoff is in my opinion a majestic book. This book isn't for everyone, but one should definitely give it a try!

What's wrong with the writing style which doesn't work with some readers?

[Ammanas]

15 minutes ago, maxal said:

What's wrong with the writing style which doesn't work with some readers?

I think, from what I understand, they don't like it when he switches to what I call the "macro" mode of telling the story. He tells of events kind of like reading a historical account. One thing that I love about this method is that it really moves the plot along. I have always been more of a plot guy.

Some readers prefer getting into characters heads and hearing about every thought, emotion etc. and the author doesn't write the story like that. 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Ammanas said:

I think, from what I understand, they don't like it when he switches to what I call the "macro" mode of telling the story. He tells of events kind of like reading a historical account. One thing that I love about this method is that it really moves the plot along. I have always been more of a plot guy.

Some readers prefer getting into characters heads and hearing about every thought, emotion etc. and the author doesn't write the story like that. 

Ah. I am more of the second type of readers. Hard to say if I will enjoy it though.

[Briar King]

4 hours ago, maxal said:

Do you recommend it? I read the synopsis and it does sound interesting.

Yes try it. It has a wonderfully strange writing style where so much happens with as little words as possible is my best way of describing the way it’s written. Bk 2 has been a treat as well 115+ pgs in.

reading Grace and Slogbringer at the same time really highlighted how cool the style was.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

Got Grace of Kings for Christmas, so will be starting it soon! 

[Who Sharded?]

I got Grace of Kings the Christmas before and it was sooo good.

[StormingTexan he/him]

Finished An Echo of Things to Come last night and my head is still spinning from the ending. I cant stop thinking about it! I'll say I think I liked the first book in the Licanius series a little more but this one was REALY good as well. I feel like the Author improved his writing some on his second book but one thing he still needs to work on is character descriptions. I feel like  barely know what anyone looks like. Other than that small gripe I liked pretty much everything else.