Kevin's Watch

peter wrote: ↑ Money Fist!

Yeah. But I mean by choice. Although there are plenty who struggle through the first book or two, then quit.

Yes, Le Guin did nothing if not improve.

I was going to recommend the dissections on Ahira’s Hangar as well. It’s a shame they ended mid series.

peter wrote: ↑ I'll track them down in second hand shops ultimately...

Well that triggered a memory cascade...I posted about it.

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I read Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earths Past trilogy (which includes the Three Body Problem). The first two books are OK, but I completely lost interest during the third. It was too large scale and impersonal for my taste and his main characters, especially in the last book, were bland and uninteresting.
So after that I started Bujold's Shards of Honor which gripped me from page one. Now reading part two, Barrayar (obviously not following publication order).

Orb, Sceptre, Throne, Esselmont, Malazan novel.

(Got a bit distracted these last couple weeks and spent more time gaming than reading. ) (Oh, to be able to do both...)

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Started a book called The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.

Good first few chapters, which bodes well for the rest of it. 3 book series, all available at my local lending library.

Nice!

I've heard that's very good.

Here's hoping Fist. I'll post updates in due course.

Actually finished OST in a few days, and am now busy on The Crippled God.

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Well, that was a wild ride...finished TCG at 03h00 this morning, because I couldn't put it down. These books, more than perhaps any other, definitely benefit from multiple reads...there's just too much to take it all in at once.

Anyway, on to Esslemont's Blood and Bone.

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Well, in the last 16 days I read Blood and Bone, Assail, The God Is Not Willing, Dancer's Lament, Deadhouse Landing and Kellanved's Reach.

Thus finishing my 3 month, 3 week and 4 day re-read of all the Malazan books (with the exception of the 2 extant Kharkanas books which I shall only re-read when the final one comes out). (And excluding the Buchalain short stories.)

I am taking a short break from sci-fi / fantasy, so off to the Gen Lit forum...

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The Lies of Locke Lamora update.

Excellent, excellent read! Real page turner that left you gagging for more!

Just finished Piranesi by Suzanna Clark. Good little story with a good ending.

Hey @caamora

Only book I've read of hers was Jonathan Strange etc. and I was pretty disappointed by it.

(Still haven't decided what to read next, gaming instead.)

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Well, in desperation I'm re-reading the Dragonlance sequels published in 2002ish, which I've only read once since I discovered they existed only fairly recently. (I'm on the last book now, (Bk 3), uh, Dragons of a Vanished Moon.

Also ordered the next Esslemont ascendancy book, Forge of the High Mage, so expecting that in a week or so.

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First Collected Tales of Bauchelain and Krobal Broach. - Erikson

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And on to the 2nd Collected Tales etc. etc.

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Finished Forge of the High Mage (more on that in the appropriate forum), and now started the Omara Cycle, by Adrian Cole.

Finished book 1, A Place Among The Fallen, and now on Bk 2, Throne of Fools.

This is one of those obscure gems I think. It took me a good 20 years to get all 4 of the books, (pre-internet and out of print), but they have one of my top 3 favourite fantasy characters of all time in, and I highly recommend them if you can find them. (Might be easy nowadays.)

To quote the blurb on the back of book 1...

In the world of Omara, belief in the power of gods and magic is punishable by death. Simon Wargallow and the blade-handed Deliverers are pledged to wipe out heretics.

Yet into this world comes magic incarnate in the form of the mysterious gloved man, Korbillian, fleeing the magical world of Ternannoc, which was destroyed by a catastrophic misuse of power.

His quest, to save Omara from the same fate.

I rate Wargallow as up there with Roland Deschaine and Logan Nine-Fingers. Read them.

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Have you read R A Salvatore's Drizzt Do'Urden novels Av? I reckon those were amongst the best Forgotten Realms novels (Dragonlance was Forgotten Realms wasn't it?)