Kevin's Watch

Avatar wrote:Well now that has to be some kinda record. 2 posts in 19 years. Makes Brin and the other Slow Posters look positively prolific.

Nice to see you around Inkinen.

I'm busy on "The White Luck Warrior" but been playing games instead of reading the last week or two.

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Sometimes we zombies wake up and take a walk.. spit out a couple of sentences
It’s something about mr Donaldsons works that I cannot shake off. Really want to finish the last chronicles!

LOL well, when you do, you know where to come talk about it.

I'm Murrin wrote:I never got around to that one. Bakker started to really come across as an asshole the more I saw of him outside the books, and they were kind of miserable to begin with even when they were good, so I stopped paying him any attention.

Well, they're certainly tragic and brutal. I usually don't have any problem separating the author from their works, (L Ron Hubbard and OSC perhaps cases in point) but unfortunately the books just get a bit meh.

Anyway, reading the last one now, The Unholy Consult.

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Wow. Seriously, that's an hysterical posting record.

I just finished This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Well, after I finished Bakker, I went and re-read the "Rivers of London" books again. Busy on Book 9 (False Value) now, which is the latest(ish).

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Now I'm reading Prostho Plus, by Piers Anthony.

I have just finished reading Cixin Liu's Three Body trilogy.

Finished the Witcher saga except for Season of Storms and have started Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan. I’m not sure what to read next from my list except finishing the Last Dark. Maybe Earthsea Cycle by le Guin..

Earthsea is one of my top few favorites. Along with Malazan and Neverness. I recommend either of those if you haven't read them.

Wheel of Time is...variable. Book 1-6 are great, 7-10 are progressively worse, then it picks up again in book 11.

I'm fine with the Sanderson conclusions.

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Currently finishing up Smith Of Wootton Major/Farmer Giles Of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien.

I started reading CJ Cherryh's Foreigner, and got a few chapters in.

The problem is all the false starts.
You get into the story, meet some characters, then BAM- next chapter is a hundred years later or something.

I got tired of starting over in it and put it down, then googled the plot and found out the one I'm in is the *real* beginning of the book. I might pick it up again later today.

Never a good sign when you have to look up the plot of a book you're reading...just saying...

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Avatar wrote:Never a good sign when you have to look up the plot of a book you're reading...just saying...

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Well, I wanted to know if the entire book was like that.

Turns out the last start I'm in is actually the main character for the next 10 books in the series, so I think the false starts are over. They were essentially an extended introduction.

I have been reading "Sovereign of the Seven Aisles" by Wells, David A.

You know, although the main characters continue to be over-powered so they can win, I got drawn in anyway and here I am 7 books later.

I recommend it for easy reading and fun but don't expect anything high-brow.

The Dragonfall Trilogy - Mixes tech with magic. Was an interesting read. Loved the very last sentence of the third book.

Are they connected to the "Seven Isles" books? Or different universe?

Anyway, just finished "What Abigail Did That Summer," a Rivers of London novella (set at the same time as book 5). As always, recommend all these books.

And am about to start The God Is Not Willing, first of Steven Erickson's new trilogy about Karsa Orlong from the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

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You already got your hands on The God is Not Willing? Not available here yet.

I imagine you're done by now. A short one, I'm told.

LOL A bit under 500 pages. And no, only starting tonight.

If you bothered visiting the discord, you would have seen the discussion. Holsety actually told me it was out...we're pretty much on the UK publishing timeline here for most stuff.

He and LuciMay got theirs from bookdepository.com though.

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