Kevin's Watch

The Wastelands.

Dune is one of the greatest books of the 20th Century I think.

--A

Wizard & Glass, DT4

--A

I was listening to a metal adaptation of the Völsunga Saga the other day, and built a rambling little bridge through Nibelungenlied and Wagner to SRD, and now I find myself over halfway through The Gap into Vision.

Gardens of the Moon lies dormant for the moment, while I wait for the next installment to arrive to this bloody Ultima Thule somewhere from the confines of Miðgarðr. In my present state, what with work requiring a lot of attention, just couldn't digest the amount of characters. Tattersail's fairly interesting, though, so hopefully I'll get to read more about her at some point.

Still slogging through The Crippled God

Hah! I knew he'd

Spoiler

bring back Kalam.

Anticipation is rising.

Zorm wrote:I was listening to a metal adaptation of the Völsunga Saga the other day, and built a rambling little bridge through Nibelungenlied and Wagner to SRD, and now I find myself over halfway through The Gap into Vision.

Have you got The Real Story with the longish afterword by SRD? He draws specific parallels between Wagner, the Gap and the Chrons.

Anyway, I'm onto Wolves of the Calla now.

--A

Avatar wrote:Have you got The Real Story with the longish afterword by SRD? He draws specific parallels between Wagner, the Gap and the Chrons.

I actually knew about the Wagnerian connections beforehand (via Wikipedia or perchance a snatch of conversation here, don't exactly recall + Völsunga saga essentially embraces the same story as Nibelungenlied), but yes, I read that afterword with mild gusto. When it comes to TCTC, I spotted SRD's Norse mythology influences already on the first meters (like Jötunheim = Gianthome, duh...), but it was interesting nonetheless to hear him explain his sources.

Kind of makes me want to slink into the library to get a stack of Wagner recordings and see if they'd finally be able to snare my attention... Attempted listening to Das Rheingold some ten years back, but it became a sheer yawnfest due to the dragging performance.

Kind of makes me want to slink into the library to get a stack of Wagner recordings and see if they'd finally be able to snare my attention... Attempted listening to Das Rheingold some ten years back, but it became a sheer yawnfest due to the dragging performance.

A bottle of good whiskey helps.

The Dark Tower

--A

You read so friggin' fast it makes my head spin, dude!!! I'm barely at pg. 550 in ADWD--oh well: off to the coffee shop to tackle The King's Prize...

So I saw that they were making a movie of John Dies at the End, so I picked up the book. It started out fantastic: imagine if Neal Stephenson wrote Ghostbusters the way he wrote Snowcrash. However, at 1/3 in, it seems to be flagging a bit.

Oh, yeah, I read that years ago, and it was old online even then. The first part is very good, but it's one of those online things where it's done as a joke and they keep going and going - I think there are two or three distinct stories in there that were added over time.

A Dance With Dragons. Pg 200something. Enjoying it but not loving it.

Kinda heavy spoilers!

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Disappointed that Tyrion didn't die after being pulled into the water! I think it would've been a great end for him!

Stonemaybe wrote:A bottle of good whiskey helps.

Whiskey's waay too posh, it's vodka all the way.


Have advanced to A Dark and Hungry God Arises now. Unholy fragging bastich on a stick, the characters are sooo bloody messed up; Covenant turns into a light frolic upon the sunny meadows of Ponyville compared to this. Not that it degrades the quality of the story; if something's told from a serious villain's point of view, wouldn't expect his or her brain processes to resemble those of a Saturday morning cartoon dark lord.

So apparently Fasolt + Fafner = Holt Fasner.

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Oh, aye, and Tyrion rawks massively, no matter which book we're talking about.

About a quarter of a way through A Storm of Swords (re-read). This book is awesome! How GRRM laid such an egg with AFFC, I will never understand. I'm not looking forward to the re-read of that one, but maybe it will be better than I remember.

Zorm wrote: Covenant turns into a light frolic upon the sunny meadows of Ponyville compared to this.

The Gap is his best as far as I'm concerned.

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I agree. It's simply riveting...couldn't put it down.

Zorm wrote:

Stonemaybe wrote:A bottle of good whiskey helps.

Whiskey's waay too posh, it's vodka all the way.


Have advanced to A Dark and Hungry God Arises now. Unholy fragging bastich on a stick, the characters are sooo bloody messed up; Covenant turns into a light frolic upon the sunny meadows of Ponyville compared to this. Not that it degrades the quality of the story; if something's told from a serious villain's point of view, wouldn't expect his or her brain processes to resemble those of a Saturday morning cartoon dark lord.

So apparently Fasolt + Fafner = Holt Fasner.

Spoiler

Oh, aye, and Tyrion rawks massively, no matter which book we're talking about.

Maybe add a note that the spoiler is for something completely different than what the rest of your post is about. (not that it really spoils anything, but still, it's kinda risky this way).

"CATCHING FIRE," the second book in "The Hunger Games."

I am currently slightly obsessed with The Hunger Games. At least some of you should be too.

Who else is in, or has remotely considered reading it? Two or three people counts as an army: we will start a thread.