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What Are You Reading?

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  • #6602
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Glebee wrote: »
    Trying to get through The Wise Mans Fear, finding it very hard work to be honest...:mad:
    Well take your time. It's not like he's bothering much bringing out the next one.


  • #6603
    Glebee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,693 ✭✭✭Glebee


    Fcuk me, i thought it was hard work before. Just got to the Felurion section. I want to end it all now... horrible.


  • #6604
    Nody
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,335 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    Finished "The Vagrant" by Peter Newman; it's new take on scifi based in a dystopian world were (what I can best describe as) a demonic rift (think WH40k demons rather than Christian demons) has opened and spread it's chaos through out the world while the old gods are in decline still fighting a rear guard action against the taint. We follow one man, the vagrant, as he pursues something through out this world as we get told his goal, reasons and the history of the world step by step. Not the best book ever read but the world is very different and it has potential as a series (I got book 2 and 3 as well).

    For now however I'm on to the Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio; book 1 in the Sun eater series.


  • #6605
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,373 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Finished Malazan Book 6

    Reading the Ian C Esslemont companion books now


  • #6606
    Igotadose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,848 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Just finished "The Good Guys" by Steven Brust. Brust's non-Draegaeran novels can be kind of spotty in my experience. This one is o.k., secret societies keeping Magic around but not making trouble for the populace at large.

    Now reading "The Incrementalists" by Brust and Skyler White. So far, not impressed. Again, a non-Draegaeran novel.

    Gave up on "Six-gun Tarot" by Belcher about 2/3 through. Blech. Unimaginative junk, and this time the bad guys speak Lovecraft not Irish.


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  • #6607
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,967 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    I went off The Expanse ages ago but started reading the most recent 2 and Im completely hooked, Persepolis Rising was good but Tiamat's Wrath is fecking brilliant, probably because we're finally getting answers about the Protomolecule. One more book to go next year.


  • #6608
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Same, picked up Nemesis Games recently after an enforced spell away from the series. The series always manages to portray a written version of "out of the frying pan..", especially with the latest, arguably most shocking catastrophe to date.


  • #6609
    Trojan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,413 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    I'm reading City of Stairs - first book of The Divine Cities trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett. I'm about 40% in, liking it so far.

    Nody wrote: »
    Finished "The Vagrant" by Peter Newman; it's new take on scifi based in a dystopian world were (what I can best describe as) a demonic rift (think WH40k demons rather than Christian demons) has opened and spread it's chaos through out the world while the old gods are in decline still fighting a rear guard action against the taint. We follow one man, the vagrant, as he pursues something through out this world as we get told his goal, reasons and the history of the world step by step. Not the best book ever read but the world is very different and it has potential as a series (I got book 2 and 3 as well).

    Is this the book with the protagonist who doesn't speak? I think I got a few pages in and couldn't get into it. Anyone read books 2 & 3 - is it worth the effort?

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  • #6610
    Nody
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,335 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    Trojan wrote: »
    Is this the book with the protagonist who doesn't speak? I think I got a few pages in and couldn't get into it. Anyone read books 2 & 3 - is it worth the effort?
    Correct; the explanation is given about 2/3rds in to the book as what happened. I'll come back once I'm reading the follow up books :P


  • #6611
    mcgovern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭mcgovern


    Nody wrote: »
    Correct; the explanation is given about 2/3rds in to the book as what happened. I'll come back once I'm reading the follow up books :P

    I wasn't a fan of the first one so didn't bother getting it but Dealz have one of the sequels for €1.50.


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  • #6612
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    28% into "The Dark Defiles" by Richard K. Morgan, the final book in his "A Land Fit for Heroes" trilogy. It's been five years since I read book two (I'm still trying to finish off old series!) but it's been pretty easy to get to grips with. It's more grimdark and, so far, well written but not offering anything particularly new. A comfortable read.

    Before that I read "Poseidon's Wake" by Alastair Reynolds, the final book in his "Poseidon's Children" trilogy. It was.. okay. It's got the usual "ancient alien artifact" piece in there, which isn't as explored as in depth as it could have been and the resolution isn't exactly riveting. The series is best known though for it being the "elephants in space" one. And here's where Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time/Ruin" duology has ruined this for me - Reynolds uplifted elephants are, frankly, rubbish next to the work Adrian put into the mindset of his animals. There's little sense of anything about them and the fascination the characters have for them never feels warranted by the reader. Not a bad series, but just read the Children of.. series again. Or his 'Dogs of War'.


  • #6613
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Finally finished Cage of Souls (Adrian Tchaikovsky) while on holidays.

    Wasn't sure what to make of it at first, but it really, really grew on me. One of those rare books that halfway through I was *aware* of how much I was loving it. Haven't had one of those reads for a long time.

    For some reason it just worked for me. I've read Dying Earth stuff before (The Book of the New Sun) and could take or leave it, but this tale echoed another book I loved - a contemporary (non-SF) classic - Shantaram.

    For those who've read it (without giving anything away) the backstory of the character Sergei is one of the coolest *whoa* moments I've read.

    Moved straight onto Children of Ruin after this.


  • #6614
    Trojan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,413 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    Still reading City of Stairs, but accidentally started The Quantum Magician and I'm kinda hooked.

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  • #6615
    Fian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭Fian


    This time of year you can almost see the increase in throughput of books because of holidays. In my case I was on the beach daily all last week with my kindle, about to head away again on Tuesday night with my wife and kids.

    I read the prince of nothing trilogy, it is very good but I had hoped for it to be truly brilliant. didn't really live up to the hype but I enjoyed it.

    Went on to read "East of Eden", that was truly brilliant and did live up to every bit of the hype.

    Next up is 11/22/63 (Stephen King.) which also has a bit of hype about it, so I will see which way that one goes.


  • #6616
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Fian wrote: »
    Next up is 11/22/63 (Stephen King.) which also has a bit of hype about it, so I will see which way that one goes.
    I was a huge King fan in my youth, and this was my gateway back in a few years ago. Really enjoyed it... like slipping on an old pair of shoes. Got me reading him again have read a few more since.


  • #6617
    shrapnel222
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    Dades wrote: »
    Finally finished Cage of Souls (Adrian Tchaikovsky) while on holidays.

    Wasn't sure what to make of it at first, but it really, really grew on me. One of those rare books that halfway through I was *aware* of how much I was loving it. Haven't had one of those reads for a long time.

    For some reason it just worked for me. I've read Dying Earth stuff before (The Book of the New Sun) and could take or leave it, but this tale echoed another book I loved - a contemporary (non-SF) classic - Shantaram.

    For those who've read it (without giving anything away) the backstory of the character Sergei is one of the coolest *whoa* moments I've read.

    Moved straight onto Children of Ruin after this.

    big fan of shantaram also (even though the sequel is rubbish), so you've definitely got me curious about that one.
    Dades wrote: »
    I was a huge King fan in my youth, and this was my gateway back in a few years ago. Really enjoyed it... like slipping on an old pair of shoes. Got me reading him again have read a few more since.

    enjoyed 11/22/63 also but don't read his latest one (the outsider), it's incredibly poor.


  • #6618
    daragh_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,124 ✭✭✭daragh_


    Just started 'Black Leopard, Red Wolf'.

    Had planned to read it over my holidays but the last Neal Stephenson was a total slog and ate up all my free time.

    Recent reads include Ann Leckie's 'The Raven Tower' which I was very impressed with and 'Provenance' by the same author, which was a bit of a let down tbh.

    Hello forum. First time posting here - mostly I live over in the Cycling Forum.


  • #6619
    Xofpod
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭Xofpod


    daragh_ wrote: »
    Just started 'Black Leopard, Red Wolf'.

    Cracking book. Pretty sure to divide opinion though; definitely not for everyone.


  • #6620
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    shrapnel222 wrote: »
    big fan of shantaram also (even though the sequel is rubbish), so you've definitely got me curious about that one.
    Yeah, it shares a lot of the same beats... first person tale told after the fact... lots of prison, hardship... many different 'lives' with a different cast of characters. Of course one is set in Mumbai one in the future with a dying sun!
    shrapnel222 wrote: »
    enjoyed 11/22/63 also but don't read his latest one (the outsider), it's incredibly poor.
    I kinda enjoyed The Outsider with the exception of the final act. Go figure!


  • #6621
    mcgovern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭mcgovern


    Dogs of War was very good, you are really feeling for the main character and you forget that he is a huge beast of teeth and claws!
    After that it was Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. This one I didn't like. It felt more like a children's story, with motivations and decisions making no sense. I got it on sale but it is very short (90 pages) so full price is definitely over charging. It was nice to see a non-western style setting, but a good portion of those pages was spent worrying about rubbing her ointment into her hair and skin.
    Also read The Rage of Dragons. This one is also loosely African based but it is much better and I can see why this was picked up by one of the big publishers (was originally self published). It has a lot of action and fairly original magic system, my only complaint would be that the main character is a bit annoying, but I think that is done on purpose. Will be picking up the sequel whenever it comes out.
    Now reading First and Only, the first book in Gaunts Ghosts series by Dan Abnett in Warhammer 40k universe. I'm struggling to get engaged with this one, not sure why but it hasn't grabbed me yet.
    Also reading Rosewater by Tade Thompson. It's another sci-fi with an African bent. Feels a bit like District 9, though the alien, the main character etc are all very different, and it is set in Nigeria rather than South Africa.


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  • #6622
    Glebee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,693 ✭✭✭Glebee


    Finally got through The Wise Mans Fear and in the end Im not sure what to make of it. It was a massive slog in parts for me and overall I was sort of disappointed with it. I would probally read the 3rd book if it ever gets published but it needs to be something special to make this trilogy something special for me.

    Next up: Deadhouse Gates..


  • #6623
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    Just finished Gridlocked, Neal Asher, as recommended here. What took a while to get used to was the casual use of future technologies. There were no descriptions or much explanations about them; the characters just used them. This was quite refreshing, and helped with moving the story along, which moved along quite nicely. This was a debut novel, and the main character wasn't fleshed out very well, but despite this, it was a great read as hard sci-fi, where even though the sci-fi is very realistic, it takes a back seat to the action. This makes it very promising for the Agent Cormac series, as well as his other series (he's prolific!).
    A little disappointing was the introduction of the Dragon and the Maker, who came late to the game, but more annoying was the confusion it left me in at the end, as to what exactly the Maker was, and what role it played. A quick gander on the Information Superhighway showed me I wasn't alone.
    Really looking forward to reading more.


  • #6624
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    Priest of Lies by Peter McLean (book 2 in series)
    About 25% in and enjoying it big time. As said previously it has the peaky blinders vibe with magic and swords.
    I am developing a taste for the Grimdark fantasy genre. :D
    When Tomas Piety and his Pious Men returned from the war, he just wanted to rebuild his crime empire and look after his people. But the sinister Queen's Men had different ideas and whether he likes it or not, he's now a spy as well.Now, half the city of Ellinburg lies in ashes and the webs of political intrigue are stretching out from the Queen's capital to pull Tomas in. Dannsburg is calling.
    In Dannsburg the nobility fight with words, not blades, but the results are every bit as bloody. In this pit of beasts, Tomas must decide once and for all whether he is truly the people's champion . . . or just a priest of lies.


  • #6625
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    Paddy Samurai wrote: »
    Priest of Lies by Peter McLean (book 2 in series)
    About 25% in and enjoying it big time. As said previously it has the peaky blinders vibe with magic and swords.
    I am developing a taste for the Grimdark fantasy genre. :D

    Finished this today....

    Although I was enjoying the first third of the book I kinda felt in the back of my mind that this was just more of the same and nothing new.But then it was BOOM! and off to Dannisburg for a change of senery and a injection of new characters that IMO really kickstarter the whole thing again.
    Love the way it ended and will be counting the days till part three.

    Now I just need to figure out what to read next as I have a good few partly read book series and a good few stand alones to choose from.Last time I checked there where 80+ unread books on my shelf. :(
    First world problems...


  • #6626
    Johnny Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,991 ✭✭✭Johnny Storm


    Just read Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time". Its one of the most original and compelling SF books I have read in the last few years.
    Warning - it has a sequel and the synopsis for that book drops a big spoiler for "Children of Time" right in the first sentence. Avoid the synopsis until you have finished the first book is my suggestion.


  • #6627
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,967 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Johnny Storm wrote: »
    Just read Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time". Its one of the most original and compelling SF books I have read in the last few years.
    Warning - it has a sequel and the synopsis for that book drops a big spoiler for "Children of Time" right in the first sentence. Avoid the synopsis until you have finished the first book is my suggestion.
    Yes I was very impressed by it, the sequel is a great read aswell, Im sounding like a broken record now but I cant believe that Hawk and Hyena crap was written by the same author as Shadows of the Apt and Children of Time.

    Does anyone else just fecking love generation ships/colonization storylines? Its by far my favourite sub-genre of sci-fi. Just finished Shipstar and Bowl of Heaven by Larry Niven, great read. It was probably Rama by Arthur C Clarke that kicked it off for me though.


  • #6628
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Thargor wrote: »
    Does anyone else just fecking love generation ships/colonization storylines? Its by far my favourite sub-genre of sci-fi. Just finished Shipstar and Bowl of Heaven by Larry Niven, great read. It was probably Rama by Arthur C Clarke that kicked it off for me though.
    Love that genre too, again starting with Rama. :)

    The sequel to Stephen Baxter's Flood - Arc, is some pretty hard generation ship SF.

    Loved Flood and Arc (a third in the series less so).

    ---

    Also halfway through Children of Time, though am sharing time with Cosm (Gregory Benford) which fell onto my kindle last week. :)


  • #6629
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,967 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Dades wrote: »
    Love that genre too, again starting with Rama. :)

    The sequel to Stephen Baxter's Flood - Arc, is some pretty hard generation ship SF.

    Loved Flood and Arc (a third in the series less so).

    ---

    Also halfway through Children of Time, though am sharing time with Cosm (Gregory Benford) which fell onto my kindle last week. :)
    What's the third in the series? I thought there were only 2?


  • #6630
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Thargor wrote: »
    What's the third in the series? I thought there were only 2?
    Not quite a sequel.... but there was this follow-up book:
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25123838-landfall

    I gave it a go and then went off and read something else. Possibly I left it too long after Arc, and didn't do my reading-up on the universe first.


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  • #6631
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,967 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Dades wrote: »
    Not quite a sequel.... but there was this follow-up book:
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25123838-landfall

    I gave it a go and then went off and read something else. Possibly I left it too long after Arc, and didn't do my reading-up on the universe first.

    Oh yeah I vaguely remember that actually, sounds like it's pretty bad, might just pirate it.


  • #6632
    Yareli Small Above
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Yareli Small Above


    read children of time and children of ruin today.

    the hype was justified. what awesome reads!

    your man keeps writing 'loathe' instead of 'loath' and 'compliment' instead of 'complement' though... bothered me a bit


  • #6633
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,967 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    bluewolf wrote: »
    read children of time and children of ruin today.

    the hype was justified. what awesome reads!

    your man keeps writing 'loathe' instead of 'loath' and 'compliment' instead of 'complement' though... bothered me a bit
    Give the aforementioned Flood and Ark a go if you want something similar, great reads.


  • #6634
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Picked up and read Ben Aaronovitch's second 'Rivers of London' novella, "The October Man"; most immediately notable about this latest story is that it neither features Peter Grant or is even set in London - it's set in Germany. Trier to be exact.

    I was beginning to tire jusssst a little of Peter's smart-arse perspective and the London setting, so this switch up was quite enjoyable as a change of pace. The location and details seemed as authentic as in the London books (though maybe native Germans spotted obvious differences), while the lead character had a different sensibility to Grant. More world-weary than his English counterpart, while he and his partner made for a charismatic team. I'd like to read more non-English, stories set in this world.


  • #6635
    RMDrive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭RMDrive


    bluewolf wrote: »
    read children of time and children of ruin today.

    the hype was justified. what awesome reads!

    your man keeps writing 'loathe' instead of 'loath' and 'compliment' instead of 'complement' though... bothered me a bit

    Just to be clear ... you read both in one day?

    I'm listening to children on ruin on Audible after just listening to children of time. I struggle to imaging reading either in a day.

    Good stuff outa you!


  • #6636
    Yareli Small Above
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Yareli Small Above


    Yeah i had the day off and hadn't read anything in ages
    Finished up at midnight. Was about 9 or 10 hours of not moving a muscle. My fitbit was very sad with me


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  • #6637
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Yeah i had the day off and hadn't read anything in ages
    :eek:

    A day off to read... I can only dream!
    I'd be lucky to finish a Mister Man book in one sitting.


  • #6638
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Yeah i had the day off and hadn't read anything in ages
    Are you a speed reader? I wish I was faster because I have a insane backlog of books and the pile keeps growing.


  • #6639
    Yareli Small Above
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Yareli Small Above


    ixoy wrote: »
    Are you a speed reader? I wish I was faster because I have a insane backlog of books and the pile keeps growing.

    not on purpose... always been a bookworm so i suppose it might be practice. i do read faster than most. usually 100 pages an hour average. flew through those 2 though

    Thargor wrote: »
    Give the aforementioned Flood and Ark a go if you want something similar, great reads.

    i had started "empire of black and gold" but the preview of Flood is sucking me in, so i might get that next... pity it's not on kindle unlimited!!


  • #6640
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Recently finished "The Collapsing Empire" by John Scalzi, the first in his Interdependency trilogy. It's a fast moving, quite funny, story about what happens when the access routes between an empire begin to collapse. A very easy entertaining read.

    Now 64% into "Cage of Souls" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I'm enjoying this a lot and it's a much more personal tale (so far) than some of the larger scale work like the "Children of.." series. It's set in a prison in the future of a dying earth and it's very good so far.

    Also 51% into "The Ninth Rain" by Jen Williams, the first book in her Winnowing Flame trilogy. Also good - likeable characters, decent pace and some pretty good takes on traditional tropes like elves.


  • #6641
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    bluewolf wrote: »
    read children of time and children of ruin today.

    the hype was justified. what awesome reads!
    He tweeted that he has an idea for a third one...

    Also he's going to have one novella out next year - "Fire workers" set in Ghana in the near future where climate change was brought disaster and how it's being worked around.
    More interesting again though is the sounds of his novel, "Doors of Eden", that will feature a world where an alternative path of evolution lead to trillobites evolving a lot further than they got to.

    That's what he said yesterday anyway at Worldcon and confirmed to my face when I asked :D


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  • #6642
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,967 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    The man is a writing machine, just remembered I have Cage of Souls of his to read aswell, anyone read it?
    The Sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapur, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, surviving on the debris of its long-dead progenitors, Shadrapur is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity.

    Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new, is Stefan Advani, rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will treat with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?


  • #6643
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Thargor wrote: »
    The man is a writing machine, just remembered I have Cage of Souls of his to read aswell, anyone read it?

    Yep, highly entertaining, quite compulsive and very novel. Currently nearing the end of children of ruin which is also a solid read and have Becky Chambers new novella queued up next.


  • #6644
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Thargor wrote: »
    The man is a writing machine, just remembered I have Cage of Souls of his to read aswell, anyone read it?
    Loved it.
    Posted about it here. :)


  • #6645
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,967 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    I was stuck for something to read so picked The Traitor Baru Cormorant at random from my backlog, I thought it was just going to be more young adult fluff about some wonderchild taking down the evil authority like the Hunger Games and a million other copycats but I am seriously hooked, its very well written not young adult at all, Ill be moving straight on to the sequel The Monster Baru Cormorant straight afterwards.


  • #6646
    shrapnel222
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    Thargor wrote: »
    I was stuck for something to read so picked The Traitor Baru Cormorant at random from my backlog, I thought it was just going to be more young adult fluff about some wonderchild taking down the evil authority like the Hunger Games and a million other copycats but I am seriously hooked, its very well written not young adult at all, Ill be moving straight on to the sequel The Monster Baru Cormorant straight afterwards.

    I've been singing the praises of this series for a long time now. Absolutely love it and delighted someone else is finally reading and enjoying it! You're in for a treat!


  • #6647
    Trojan
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    Ok so I just bought The Traitor Baru Cormorant - cheers folks.

    🎙️ The Recognized Authority Podcast



  • #6648
    Ave Sodalis
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    I wanted something light and easy to read, just as a switch off after studying. I picked up A Court of Thorns and Roses because I enjoyed her other series as a light read (and also because I was buying something off Amazon and it bumped me up over the free shipping mark, but cheaper than the shipping would have been). I opened the map, and there in front of me was Ireland. She even called it Hybern! A slightly more obscure UK was there too, but I could have picked out where I lived in Hybernia Hybern. Not sure I want to keep reading, given the complete lack of imagination in the map making.


  • #6649
    smacl
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    On the phone so not sure if the link will work, but good fun trying to find your home in Gerardus Mercator's old map of the sod

    https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geographicus.com%2Fmm5%2Fgraphics%2F00000001%2FL%2FIreland-mercator-1606.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geographicus.com%2FP%2FAntiqueMap%2FIreland-mercator-1606&tbnid=cBxkwo7PyS5SPM&vet=1&docid=EikDeh9irdui6M&w=600&h=482&q=mercator%20map%20ireland&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim


  • #6650
    Fian
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    Finished the wind-up bird chronicle (murakami) - was heavy going by the end. Sometimes it can be annoying when a book is more "worthy" than enjoyable. Took me a long time to finish it off, I just wasn't that enthused about picking it up and reading some more. Didn't have much of a "story" to it, though obviously it was not intended to.

    Now on to children of earth and sky (Guy Gavriel Kay) which is much more fun.

    I have children of time and children of ruin on kindle ready to go to after that, based off recommendations in this thread. so three books starting with "children" in a row are queued up.


  • #6651
    cdgalwegian
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    Fian wrote: »
    Now on to children of earth and sky (Guy Gavriel Kay) which is much more fun.

    I have children of time and children of ruin on kindle ready to go to after that, based off recommendations in this thread.

    Not into fantasy novels, but the reviews sounded intriguing, with generally excellent scores; it seems the 'fantasy' element is really just that the world created is a slightly altered and renamed version of our historical world.
    Would this be about right? Because if it is I'd certainly give them a go.


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