Kevin's Watch

Waddley Hasselhoff wrote:Actually, I need people to read it so they can keep me updated on the story. I still care about it, and I want to know what happens without reading it. (I got to book... 9, I think)

Check out the Jordan forum in the Library.

--A

[EDIT: Sneaky Jay. There isn't a Jordan forum in the library anymore I suddenly see. Guess that means the threads are lying loose in this forum. Anyway, you missed the worst of the lot, Bk10. Bk11, KoD, was a vast improvement. Pity it didn't happen after, say, Bk6... )

Hey!

Just finshed Robin Hobb's Forest Mage. I was curious, what with all the mixed reviews about it.

Although not Hobb's best novel to date, Forest Mage is better than what a lot of people are trying to make it.

My non-spoiler book review is now on the blog, if anyone is interested.

To anyone interested in reading this book, just go into it with an open mind and don't listen to all the crap that's being said. Some will like Forest Mage and some won't. It's as simple as that...

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

To anyone interested in reading this book, just go into it with an open mind and don't listen to all the crap that's being said.

What exactly makes what other people say 'crap' - and what you say more relevant?


Because I have been busy with some other projects (both related to FBS and not) my readign ahs been out a standstilk in recent weeks. I'm hoping to put together a sloid month of reading and reviewing. Right now I'm finishing up the last story in Rabid Transit: Long Voyages, Great Lies, this is chapbook edited by the ratbastards (Alan DeNiro, Chris Bazrak, Kristin Livdahl) that features work by Alice Kim, Meghan McCarron, David Schwartz, F. Brett Cox, Geoffrey H. Goodwin and Heather Shaw.

I have also been going through Zoran Zivkovic's Seven Touches of Music which is beautifully presented by Aio.

I need to finished Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami as well, and I at this point uninspired (still very early) by Hobb's Forest Mage

I have been fiendishly reading Marvel and DC's major events!

Busy finishing up Pratchett's Last Continent again before embarking on a Dune reread, thanks to Duchess and the Hangar.

The GF is halfway through TWL, and already complaining about Linden. Needless to say, she was amused to learn of THOOLAH.

--A

pat5150 wrote:Hey!

Just finshed Robin Hobb's Forest Mage. I was curious, what with all the mixed reviews about it.

Although not Hobb's best novel to date, Forest Mage is better than what a lot of people are trying to make it.

My non-spoiler book review is now on the blog, if anyone is interested.

To anyone interested in reading this book, just go into it with an open mind and don't listen to all the crap that's being said. Some will like Forest Mage and some won't. It's as simple as that...

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

I can't be bothered going back through 115 pages of this thread but Hobb's Farseer Trilogy was basically what spurred me to revisit the fantasy genre after many years.

I discovered that I still had the imagination to enjoy Fantasy in the way I desired. With greater understanding.

I loved the fact that there was no happy ending.

Or middle.

Or beginning.

I've seen Hobb's later works in a local bookstore, but I have reservations about whether they could be as good.

I should probably be posting this on another thread.

I have been reading Erikson's House of Chains.

duchess,

Hey that's the third book in the series, yes? Is that available in the US now?

It is the fourth book, but so far it looks like it will continue storylines from the second book, Deadhouse Gates.

I ordered it and the fifth book, Midnight Tides from a book store out on the east coast that imports them from Britain. The internet is a joyous thing.

I think only the first three books plus the two novellas are officially available in the US. Which sucks since the author is from Canada!

Dune.

--A

Up to Chapter 10 of Zindell's "The Wild". Thoroughly enjoying it, yet due to my work being horrendously busy I'm barely reading 10 pages a day.

duchess,

Yeah that's right, I remember that the US gets his books way later than everyone else.

Av,

I really need to reread that one:

It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. 'That was its fate,' he explained.
—The Commentaries, Dune

Lord Mhoram wrote:Av,

I really need to reread that one:

It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. 'That was its fate,' he explained.
—The Commentaries, Dune

Well when you do, head over to The Hangar and join us in the group read, Planetfall Arrakis. Duchess has been carrying the torch alone for long enough.

--A

Hi guys!

Just finished Brandon Sanderson's MISTBORN: THE FINAL EMPIRE. Although it suffers from a few shortcomings, it's still a very entertaining read.

Check the blog for the full review!

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

Currently reading "Hyperion" and enjoying it. Just finished "The Lies of Locke Lamora" and loved it. Tried to read "Vellum" struggled to get half way through and couldn't put up with it any longer.

Just finished The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, an awesomely-disorienting novel by Philip K. Dick. Very inspiring stuff for me, as I've been writing increasingly surreal stuff these days.

My current read is The Tombs of Atuan, part two of Le Guin's Earthsea cycle. Her series puts up just as good a case for clarity and simplicity as Dick puts up for complex unreality.

Just started Wizard of EarthSea.

--A

The Tombs Of Atuan

--A

The Tombs of Atuan was always my favourite of the Earthsea books.

I'll tell you if I agree on Monday. (Got the quartet in one volume the other day.)

--A

Been a long time since I've read them. Got the 'quartet' single volume way back, from the school book club. In fact, I might have been under 10 at the time I first read the series, which is another good reason I need to reread them for a more up-to-date perspective...