Kevin's Watch

I'm currently reading Memory Sorrow and Thorn ... To Green Angel Tower Part 2 'Storm'.

Rincewind wrote:never heard of Wheel of Time... should i look into it? or is it as bad as you all allude to?

Uh...the first 6 are really good most of the time...the next 4 get steadily worse, picked up again in Bk 11, maybe a bit too much. It's hard to say...it's huge, epic, intricate, and very annoying and tiresome sometimes. If you do want to read them, get them from the library or something first.

(On Bk 3 now.)

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You should look at it as it burns atop a raging bonfire.

Avatar wrote:picked up again in Bk 11, maybe a bit too much.

KoD sacrificed quality for event - he moved the plot along, but it seemed forced and there was little feeling to it. I think he pushed himself to make things happen (he really has learnt from the CoT feedback, I believe), but because he was trying so hard to make things happen the individual events lost their impact.


I'm still reading Devices and Desires.

I've just stared E. E. Knight's Dragon Champion. Knight is doing a drastic departure from his increasingly popular Vampire Earth sf series, about an alien-occupied dystopic Earth and the human resistance movement it has spawned.

Dragon Champion is Watership Down with dragons. Good stuff so far.

Murrin wrote: KoD sacrificed quality for event - he moved the plot along, but it seemed forced and there was little feeling to it. I think he pushed himself to make things happen (he really has learnt from the CoT feedback, I believe), but because he was trying so hard to make things happen the individual events lost their impact.

Agreed. It was too fast if anything, in stark contrast to Bk 10, which was way, way too slow. Was like plot lines were clanging shut on almost every page, or so it seemed.

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Just bought and about to begin The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe.

Started 'A Storm of Swords' yesterday...and still utterly engrossed in the multiple plots and characters.

I have been blessed lately in reading a string of wonderful books, all of them quite different from each other, yet each very wonderful.

Clarke's Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell
Kostova's The Historian
Russell's The Sparrow
and am currently reading Bakker's The Darkness That Comes Before

I had been starting to really burn out on the science fiction and fantasy genre but these books have restored my pleasure and my faith.

and am currently reading Bakker's The Darkness That Comes Before

I'm glad you ended up enjoying it

I'm currently reading Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (The trilogy in four parts)

Finished Parker's Devices and Desires - good characterisation, well constructed world, interesting politics, well-written battles.
According to the list from six months ago, I should start Vellum next.

Shriek: and afterword by Jeff VanderMeer.

The Battle of Corrin - Legends of Dune book 3 by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson

I have just been completely blown away by the prologue of Hal Duncan's Vellum. Wow. This is some damn good stuff.

The Shadow Rising WoT 4

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Avatar wrote:The Shadow Rising WoT 4

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I didn't quite catch that? Could you speak louder?

I have just been completely blown away by the prologue of Hal Duncan's Vellum. Wow. This is some damn good stuff.

What have I been telling people since id-last year! The Best book of the fantastic in 2005, and one of the stunning debuts ever!

No one ever believes me!

Read Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle over the weekend and just started The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll.

Loremaster wrote:

Avatar wrote:The Shadow Rising WoT 4

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I didn't quite catch that? Could you speak louder?

Actually, on Bk 5 now. *looks down, shuffles feet*.

So what did you think Encryptic?

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