Kevin's Watch

So read them again.

I'm on Shards of a Broken Crown. Last book of my recent Feist read.

--A

Right? That's a no-brainer. heh

Just started rereading this old book...published 34 years ago...you might know it...Lord Foul's Bane by some guy named Donaldson...

--A

Sound kinda lame.

Right?? "*grrrrr* I am Lord Foul!!! Fear me!!"

the IllEarth War

--A

Fist and Faith wrote:Right?? "*grrrrr* I am Lord Foul!!! Fear me!!"

This is probably sufficiently OT to warrant deletion by a mod...but I just noticed the LOL sign guy has exactly the same hair as Goku from Dragon Ball. Just had to mention it.

Blackveil: Book Four of Green Rider. by Kristen Britain

Fist and Faith wrote:Right?? "*grrrrr* I am Lord Foul!!! Fear me!!"

Work on that a little bit.

Avatar wrote:Just started rereading this old book...published 34 years ago...you might know it...Lord Foul's Bane by some guy named Donaldson...

--A

Makes me feel kind of old.

I'm trying to slog through the early parts of Erikson's GotM. Can't say that it's grabbed my attention yet.

Good luck, Rob. I have yet to return to it after three+ years...

rdhopeca wrote:I'm trying to slog through the early parts of Erikson's GotM. Can't say that it's grabbed my attention yet.

All the Erikson lovers around here will tell you it really doesn't get good until the third book.
I liked the second actually, but really NOT GOTM. I gave up halfway through the third book;

Avatar wrote:Just started rereading this old book...published 34 years ago...you might know it...Lord Foul's Bane by some guy named Donaldson...

--A

I also am reading that book just now =)

drew wrote:

rdhopeca wrote:I'm trying to slog through the early parts of Erikson's GotM. Can't say that it's grabbed my attention yet.

All the Erikson lovers around here will tell you it really doesn't get good until the third book.
I liked the second actually, but really NOT GOTM. I gave up halfway through the third book;

NO Erikson lover around here will tell you it really doesn't get good until the third book. Most will tell you that the first book is good, even if it's difficult in ways. Some of us loved it right off the bat, though.

I think all agree that the second book is superior to the first, and nearly all say it's extraordinary.

I happen to love the third even more than the second, which is really saying something.

Whoa. I think you found the "Fist in your face" button. They said only Rusmeister knew where it was...

rdhopeca wrote:I'm trying to slog through the early parts of Erikson's GotM. Can't say that it's grabbed my attention yet.

It can be a bit confusing in the early parts - not in the way people often say (by dropping you into a fully formed world without much exposition - that's not really an issue at all), but because he does some jumping back and forth in the timeline in the early chapters while not really making it clear he's done so. The book gets good in part 2, Darujhistan.

Murrin wrote:It can be a bit confusing in the early parts - not in the way people often say (by dropping you into a fully formed world without much exposition - that's not really an issue at all)

It was for me! I spent the first hundred or so pages going "WTF?" Then I got hooked.

But DG is better, yeah.

Oh! I'm reading Majyk by Hook or Crook by Esther Friesner. She was one of the guests of honor at WFC last fall. This is the second book in a series; I finished the first, Majyk by Accident, earlier this week. It's very silly stuff. Herewith, a sample. To set things up: Kendal, who narrates the books, nearly flunked out of wizard school -- just before he, and a smart-@ss cat named Scandal, accidentally absorbed a boatload of Majyk (the stuff that makes magic work in this world). Kendal is still trying (and mostly failing) to figure out how to make the Majyk work. The first sentence below is Kendal speaking.

"We've got a long voyage and this ship just doesn't look seaworthy. It doesn't even look like a ship!"

"It is not a ship," Rhett said. "Any fool can see that."

"Any fool just did," Scandal remarked.

"It is a snail. A goodly giant four-masted snail."

"A snail?" I repeated.

"What else did you expect?" Rhett shrugged. "This ship belongs to the Postal Service."

rdhopeca wrote:I'm trying to slog through the early parts of Erikson's GotM. Can't say that it's grabbed my attention yet.

I have no idea who that is or the book you're referring to.

Ok, I never thought I'd find it. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson.

Worm, it's the first of a huge series of books. The final installment of which, the tenth book, is coming out March 1st. It's incredible. Absolutely incredible.