- Joined
- Dec 5, 2009
- Messages
- 16,359
- Reaction score
- 4,062
R Scott Bakker's The Darkness That Comes Before. Not for the faint of heart.
His other trilogy was pretty good too. Half a king/war/world etc. The short story book is also fucking awesome. Sharp ends. Has some Glotka when he was young and a bunch of other characters. There's also a few with 2 new female characters which I liked.
Just read Kings of the Wyld which was similar in vein. Really enjoyed it. 2nd one is out soon.
Can't fucking wait. I loved that shitJust reading Kings of the Wyld myself right now and loving it.
Hope it gets a mini series or film adaptation.
Bloody Rose is out August, got my preorder in.
Finally getting into The Dresden Files. Heard lots of good things about the series. Enjoyed the first book, hopefully it stays enjoyable.
Yeah I just got the Disappearance of Winters Daughter. Gonna be a rainy few days so I'm looking forward to reading it. His other series is cool too. Age of...etc. New one of those is out soon.Just finished up a few books.
Elantris
I thought the book was good. Really good job world building and characters, but there was no real battles until the very end. I still enjoyed it because the story was really good, but it kind of felt like a chess match moving pieces into position without actually making any moves until the last few chapters.
The Crown Tower
I loved the Riyria Revolations, so it was great jumping back into the world with some prequel novels on how the Riyria duo got their start. I was holding off on starting these to finish up some other stuff, but reading this on vacation just makes me want to buy up the rest of the prequel novels.
Just started The Three Body Problem. Heard a lot of really great stuff about this series. The last few books I've read were fantasy, so looking forward to some scifi action.
Amazon wants to make a series. Not sure if a deal is done. Estimated to cost a billion to make.Just finished up The Three Body Problem.
Great book, but felt pretty lost for the first half. I feel like I would have enjoyed the book more if I went in completely blind. Just reading the synapsis tells you what the major plot is going to be, but you don't find out in the book after the half way point that you start to put together what's going on, and then it isn't until closer to the end where they really reveal the full scope. I found myself trying to force the clues you were given into what I expected to happen. I was pretty pleased when they finally connected all of the dots. Really looking forward to starting the next book.
I found it poetic that the reasons that Ye Wenjie sent the message to invade earth was the exact opposite view as the Trisolarin to send the message back with "Do not respond". I have to find those parts again, but they were almost verbatim, just complete opposite view point
I bought this, haven't started reading it yet but heard nothing but great things.
Just finished The Last Arugment of Kings, the last book in the First Law Trilogy.
Really fantastic book to end the series. It ended a little ubruptly and didn't quite get the closure I was expecting in an epic trilogy, but there was more than enough closure that I didn't feel like they left a giant hole. Bayaz was a straight up pimp in the end. I thought he was just an arrogant dick bag through the series, but he striaght up owned/played everyone that you have to give me all the props. My favorite character through the series was Glotka, so I loved that he essentially had the happiest ending of pretty much everyone.
The only thing that didn't quite live up to what was built was:
Unveiling that Tolomei had been with them from almost the begining to try and get The Seed. I knew something was wrong with Quai, but I thought maybe an Eater. When it was unveiled to be Tolomei, I was pretty jazzed, especially when she told them how long she had been with the group. But after essentialy being there since half way through the first book it wasn't even a major plot detail and felt overshadowed by the other major battles going on during that time. It did serve to prove how ruthelss Bayaz really was, since it was all speculation how she died up until that point, but it just didn't seem to get the attention that it deserved."
Going to start The Midnight Front from the suggestion in this thread. Really excited for this one to try to get the wife to read with me.
have you read the rest of the first law books like "the heroes" and "best served cold?" they're very good, and continue on with the first law trilogy story.