Kevin's Watch

I'll make a note about the movie.

Yeah, it was good. I mean, it must have been -- I have a boatload of stuff to do today, and certainly had no intention of reading all day 'til I finished it.

+JMJ+

The Gap: TRS - SRD

Likin' it. The writing is usual SRD quality but refreshingly different in narrative style.

Wosbald wrote:+JMJ+

The Gap: TRS - SRD

Likin' it. The writing is usual SRD quality but refreshingly different in narrative style.

And it only gets better.

Yeah, just wait...

--A

Finished City of Stairs. Now to decide if I'm going to: Read the Naked God, finish the Eye of the World, start the Book of the New Sun, read the Yiddish Policemen's Union, or just switch genres and read Casanova's Chinese Restaurant or Life on Mars (or Grahame Greene, or Ambrose Bierce, or Edward Spencer, or...)... I could also switch to Young Adult and read the Rithmatist or Monster Blood Tattoo...

This reading thing is out of control!

I'm back to MOI now. Feersum Endjinn can wait, I've read it before.

Orlion wrote:Read the Naked God, finish the Eye of the World, start the Book of the New Sun...

All of them.

--A

Avatar wrote:I'm back to MOI now. Feersum Endjinn can wait, I've read it before.

Orlion wrote:Read the Naked God, finish the Eye of the World, start the Book of the New Sun...

All of them.

--A

Helpful as always I'll probably hold off a little on the Naked God until I'm a designated driver at a bar... that should really help me make a dent in it! I only have a couple more hundred pages in Eye of the World, which should go by pretty fast... I just don't have access to the rest of the series yet! Maybe this Saturday...I'd like to complete a series before I start another one... but that probably isn't going to happen for a while, soooo.....

Graham Greene it is!

House of Chains.

--A

+JMJ+

Gap: ADAHGA

Read Midnight Tides this weekend, so I'm on The Bonehunters now.

--A

SoulBiter wrote:

Rawedge Rim wrote:
So far the Way of Kings has been an outstanding set

I ordered this for my kindle today.. I have two sets of books ahead of it to read so it might be a bit before I get to it.

Way of Kings.. excellent book! Not yet finished but getting there.

The House of Discarded Dreams by Ekaterina Sedia. I read, and very much liked, one of her earlier books, but this one is weird. The main character sort of seems to drift along, not consciously acting on her own behalf, while this weird stuff goes on around her. I mean, it's set on the Jersey Shore, but that's really no excuse. I almost bailed on it, about 50 pages in. I'm about 90 pages in now, and it's getting a little better.

SoulBiter wrote:

SoulBiter wrote:

Rawedge Rim wrote:
So far the Way of Kings has been an outstanding set

I ordered this for my kindle today.. I have two sets of books ahead of it to read so it might be a bit before I get to it.

Way of Kings.. excellent book! Not yet finished but getting there.

I may have to re-read that before I read the sequel: Words of Radiance. I've been holding off so that I have a shorter wait for the third book, which should be coming out in about a year and a half.

SoulBiter, have you read Marcus Sakey's Brilliance books? They're among the current Monthly Deals at Amazon. I just read the two. (Third in the trilogy coming fairly soon.) Pretty cool. Not too taxing, but a lot of fun. Brilliants/Abnorms/Twists are 1% of the population since they first appeared in the 80's. Better at whatever each does. Math, music, physics, sports, recognizing patterns in human behavior, strategy, etc.

Right now, I'm reading The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, by Claire North. Each time he dies, he goes back to his birth. He remembers many things about his previous lives and the world events that will happen.

Fist and Faith wrote:SoulBiter, have you read Marcus Sakey's Brilliance books? They're among the current Monthly Deals at Amazon. I just read the two. (Third in the trilogy coming fairly soon.) Pretty cool. Not too taxing, but a lot of fun. Brilliants/Abnorms/Twists are 1% of the population since they first appeared in the 80's. Better at whatever each does. Math, music, physics, sports, recognizing patterns in human behavior, strategy, etc.

I havent read these.. I will take a look

I very much enjoyed Claire North's The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. As I said, each time he dies, he goes back to his birth. Memories of his previous life come back around the age of three. By six, he remembers it all. When he dies again, by age six, he remembers both previous lives. And on and on. There are other like him. They address the time paradox stuff, but you really have to just let it go. Assume infinite universes, or whatever works for you. It's very cool to see information passed forward and backward through time, and how things are changed.

I'm going to start Touch now. (I think she only has the two books.)

He tried to take my life. Instead, I took his.

It was a long time ago. I remember it was dark, and I didn't see my killer until it was too late. As I died, my hand touched his. That's when the first switch took place.

Suddenly, I was looking through the eyes of my killer, and I was watching myself die.

Now switching is easy. I can jump from body to body, have any life, be anyone.

Some people touch lives. Others take them. I do both.

One of the main characters of Olivia Butler's Seed to Harvest series had a similar power. He didn't need to touch, though. When he died, he jumped to the closest body, which destroyed the mind/personality that was in it to begin with. Even if he was alone in the wilderness, and the closest body was hundreds of miles away. It wasn't intentional, it's just the way he was born. Thousands of years ago in Egypt, iirc.

We'll see how this one works out.

Return of the Crimson Guard.

--A

Started Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor.

+JMJ+

The Gap: TDAGD - SRD

I re-read Small Gods this weekend. Still a great book. Was thinking of Sir Terry, of course.