What Are You Reading, Part 2

[Jondesu he/him]

Started reading the Derrick Storm novels "written by" Richard Castle. Clever tie in with the series. They're not bad so far.

jW

[Left he/him]

11 hours ago, Eki said:

Is there any book where the current story arch wraps up in a nice way?

In either case, I'm glad I read the book. As I said, the worldbuilding was great, and it's nice to finally get all the "walk without rhythm" references!

Dune itself is a fine place to stop, children of dune has a pretty wrapped up ending, and God Emperor is a good place to end. 

 

Also: started White Sand graphic novel. 

Edited September 16, 2016 by LeftVash

[Briar King]

Dune 6 is a great place to stop. Never read any Dune that's not written by Frank.

[Patar he/him]

Just finished Prince of Thorns. Very good, looking forward to picking up the next two.

Now I'm debating on either rereading Way of Kings or starting Blood of Elves. 

[Stick. she/her]

13 minutes ago, Patar said:

Just finished Prince of Thorns. Very good, looking forward to picking up the next two.

Now I'm debating on either rereading Way of Kings or starting Blood of Elves. 

Read both together  That's what I do when I get confused 

[Orlion Blight he/him]

On 9/16/2016 at 1:15 AM, Morzathoth said:

The only case of movie better than book I can think of is Coraline. And possibly The Shining. I havent actually read The Shining though, but considering my usual opinion of Stephen King...

Jaws. The book is so...dumb. The movie takes out the drug store romance parts out and presents the shark consistently. And no kittens die in the movie!

[Zathoth]

8 minutes ago, Orlion Determined said:

Jaws. The book is so...dumb. The movie takes out the drug store romance parts out and presents the shark consistently. And no kittens die in the movie!

I really should watch that XD

No kittens dying is always a plus.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

6 minutes ago, Morzathoth said:

I really should watch that XD

No kittens dying is always a plus.

Yeah, the sheriff's son is playing with a kitten in the front yard when some mob goons come over, break the kitten's neck, and tell the sheriff he better keep the beaches open, capiche?

 

[Oversleep]

1 hour ago, Patar said:

Now I'm debating on either rereading Way of Kings or starting Blood of Elves. 

Blood of Elves, huh? Did you by any chance read the Witcher short stories? They are good on their own (some say they are better than the Witcher pentalogy) and chronologically take place before the Witcher pentalogy. And they provide context and backstory.

I strongly recommend to read short stories first. First The Last Wish, then Sword Of Destiny, and then you can jump straight into Blood of Elves and subsequent books.

Edited September 17, 2016 by Oversleep

[Zathoth]

3 minutes ago, Orlion Determined said:

Yeah, the sheriff's son is playing with a kitten in the front yard when some mob goons come over, break the kitten's neck, and tell the sheriff he better keep the beaches open, capiche?

 

Yep, not reading that book, wasnt planning on it, now I really wont XD

[Briar King]

On September 17, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Orlion Determined said:

Yeah, the sheriff's son is playing with a kitten in the front yard when some mob goons come over, break the kitten's neck, and tell the sheriff he better keep the beaches open, capiche?

 

Way to spoil it there!

[StormingTexan he/him]

Finished Towers of Midnight. Was decent but not one my favorites so far. 

Started A Memory of Light man this one is pretty exciting right from the start. I'm both looking forward and dreading the ending because it will finally be over. 

[Quadrophenia]

Let's see... I've been on a horror reading list as of late. 

• A collection of Lovecraft's most famous stories.
• A collection of Edgar Allan Poe. 
• Nick Cutter's The Troop. 
• Shotgun v. Cthulhu = an anthology of short stories set in the Cthulhu Mythos, all vaguely centered around the theme of delivering storms of hot lead to a Shoggoth's face.
• Sword v. Cthulhu = Same as the above, but shorts feature everything from vikings to samurai. Supremely geeky indulgence, really.

[Zathoth]

6 minutes ago, Quadrophenia said:

Let's see... I've been on a horror reading list as of late. 

• A collection of Lovecraft's most famous stories.
• A collection of Edgar Allan Poe. 
• Nick Cutter's The Troop. 
• Shotgun v. Cthulhu = an anthology of short stories set in the Cthulhu Mythos, all vaguely centered around the theme of delivering storms of hot lead to a Shoggoth's face.
• Sword v. Cthulhu = Same as the above, but shorts feature everything from vikings to samurai. Supremely geeky indulgence, really.

Teatro Grotesco by Thomas Ligotti. If you cant find it Songs of a Dead Dreamer/Grimscribe will do as well, but Teatro Grotesco is better.

Clive Barkers Books of Blood are alright so far as well, with some really good stories and some kind of meh.

There is also a bunch of great horror for free on the internet.

... I got caught up in the moment... this always happens when I talk about horror...

Anyway there is a thing called The Weird: A Compendium of strange and Dark Stories which is a giant collection of... well, strange and dark stories.

 

... I'll shut up now...

[Quadrophenia]

5 minutes ago, Morzathoth said:

Teatro Grotesco by Thomas Ligotti. If you cant find it Songs of a Dead Dreamer/Grimscribe will do as well, but Teatro Grotesco is better.

Clive Barkers Books of Blood are alright so far as well, with some really good stories and some kind of meh.

There is also a bunch of great horror for free on the internet.

... I got caught up in the moment... this always happens when I talk about horror...

Anyway there is a thing called The Weird: A Compendium of strange and Dark Stories which is a giant collection of... well, strange and dark stories.

 

... I'll shut up now...

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S'all good, these are great suggestions!

[mattig89ch he/him]

I just finished the last Dragon Age novel.  Now I think I'm ready to beat 2, and import that save into Inquisition.

I started in on a novel I bought a while ago, that I never really got into before.  Battle Cruiser, by B. V. Larson. Its interesting, if a little different from my usual scifi preferences.  I was spoiled by the Lost fleet series, so any space based novel I read, almost always has to have space combat based off realistic fiction.  And I have to enjoy the world, besides.

I'm not really liking this world so far, but the scifi parts are interesting enough to keep me coming back.  But it really is, read for 20 minutes, put it down for a few days, pick it up and read for 20 minutes, then put it down for a few days.

If anyone has any good, modern detective stories to recommend, I'd love to hear them.  Especially any modern noir novels.

[StormingTexan he/him]

7 hours ago, mattig89ch said:

 

I started in on a novel I bought a while ago, that I never really got into before.  Battle Cruiser, by B. V. Larson. Its interesting, if a little different from my usual scifi preferences.  I was spoiled by the Lost fleet series, so any space based novel I read, almost always has to have space combat based off realistic fiction.  And I have to enjoy the world, besides.

 

I tried to read Dauntless but couldn't get in to it after a few chapters. I will have to try again. Have you read the Man of War series by Paul Honsinger? Or Black Fleet by Joshua Dalzelle? Both are pretty good if you like military sci-fi. 

[mattig89ch he/him]

I've never read the man-o-war novels.  But I know of them, and I might pick them up in the future.  Now I have read the first 2 Black Fleet novels.  The first one I really enjoyed.  The second, seemed like the author was jumping the shark, especially by the end of the second book, so I haven't picked up the third novel in the series.

[Quadrophenia]

Another thing I'm reading is the bleeeeeeeeak Second Apocalypse series by R. Scott Bakker. If his writing style is indicative of anything, that man is sort of like if Brandon Sanderson were raised by the Marquis de Sade and Friederich Nietzsche. 

[Orlion Blight he/him]

15 hours ago, Quadrophenia said:

Another thing I'm reading is the bleeeeeeeeak Second Apocalypse series by R. Scott Bakker. If his writing style is indicative of anything, that man is sort of like if Brandon Sanderson were raised by the Marquis de Sade and Friederich Nietzsche. 

Add a smidgen of Clive Barker's Hellraiser, stir well *tastes with spoon and shudders* that's one Second Apocalypse!

[Zathoth]

I really need to read this.

[Quadrophenia]

29 minutes ago, Orlion Determined said:

Add a smidgen of Clive Barker's Hellraiser, stir well *tastes with spoon and shudders* that's one Second Apocalypse!

That's perfect! Also, don't forget to pepper it with Dune!

[Quadrophenia]

14 minutes ago, Morzathoth said:

I really need to read this.

It gets gloriously and ridiculously edgy. Like Warhammer40k if it wasn't taking the piss. ... There's also at least one rape scene every 5 to 10 pages in every book. 

Bit tedious, really. Bakker can't write drama to save his life, so he just has someone, male or female (mainly female) sexually assaulted by rape orcs that wear crowns of severed human penises for a trophy or by shapeshifting demons that spurt black slpooge across your face.

Oi vey. One book literally ends with a large Orc army raping to death a smaller human one.

[Zathoth]

20 minutes ago, Quadrophenia said:

It gets gloriously and ridiculously edgy. Like Warhammer40k if it wasn't taking the piss. ... There's also at least one rape scene every 5 to 10 pages in every book. 

Bit tedious, really. Bakker can't write drama to save his life, so he just has someone, male or female (mainly female) sexually assaulted by rape orcs that wear crowns of severed human penises for a trophy or by shapeshifting demons that spurt black slpooge across your face.

Oi vey. One book literally ends with a large Orc army raping to death a smaller human one.

That sort of sounds like an edgier Berserk and I loved Berserk so XD

[Quadrophenia]

4 minutes ago, Morzathoth said:

That sort of sounds like an edgier Berserk and I loved Berserk so XD

It's Berserk if the main protagonist was Griffith XD

In all seriousness, it's Berserk without the humanity and humour,

Edited September 20, 2016 by Quadrophenia