Books, Books?, Books!, Books...What are YOU reading? aka the WoT, GoT, Orson Scott Card thread

**Souj** · 2014-07-23 19:16

Originally Posted by Wulfgang

I commend his efforts on WoT for sure and think he did admirably. Towers of Midnight is easily my favorite WoT book; the whole Ghenji Tower arc is awesome. That said, I still hate A Memory of Light to this day.

Yeah, but how much of A Memory of Light was his fault and how much of it was the fault of the endings he was chained to by Jordan/Jordan's wife?
He's actually got a rundown of what he did in prepping for the books on his website somewhere.

**synistar** · 2014-07-24 00:06

And I was mistaken. It was Alloy of Law that he conceived during his creative break. These blog posts are quite informative in regards to how he managed to hammer out all the WoT novels and Stormlight Archive in such a short time.

http://brandonsanderson.com/another-...-future-books/
and about how Alloy of Law came about
http://brandonsanderson.com/wrapping-up-my-time-off/

**Mertron** · 2014-08-09 21:49

Incredible.

Originally Posted by Howie Roary

spaghetti wtf is a kinch, it's on like page 6 of Ulysses. Never did figure it out, got annoyed and stopped reading

just started Ulysses, a kinch is a knife

**Howie Roary** · 2014-08-10 21:04

thank you, maybe now I'll get to page 7

**Buffy** · 2014-08-11 21:01

Reminder, the next book by Robin Hobb is due tomorrow, she's starting a new Fitz series. "Fool's Assassin"

**Wulfgang** · 2014-08-11 22:51

Book 4 of the Dagger and the Coin series (Widow's House) came out a few days ago. Enjoying it mightily.

**Buffy** · 2014-08-25 21:31

I'm wracking my brain trying to remember a book I read about 20 years ago, I can't remember many specifics. If it jogs anyone's memory, please say something.

What I remember of the plot: Post-Apocalyptic book, set about 1000 (?) years in the future. A small team of humans were stuck in a suspended animation (cave? station?) due to a war and expected to be woken up in a year. When they wake, they realize that much more time has passed and they aren't when they they expected to be. Earth has mostly reverted at this point to a iron-age culture, with expected losses in knowledge of education and medicine, etc.

The book *may* have had a sequel, and one of the books *may* have had an animal in the title...wolf? possibly?

Not much to go on, but again, if it jogs anyone's memory....

**Dngnhack** · 2014-08-26 05:27

Tried to google came up with warrior triliogy by donald Mcquinn.

**Evane** · 2014-08-26 07:51

Just finished the hero of ages book. I feel empty inside.

**Coren** · 2014-08-26 12:52

Originally Posted by Evane

Just finished the hero of ages book. I feel empty inside.

I thoroughly enjoyed the mistborn trilogy (I really love Sanderson's magic systems). The first was my favorite, but I did like Hero of Ages as well. I also enjoyed Alloy of Law.

I'm looking forward to him tying his different worlds together (Elantris, etc).

And did anybody else read his short story Emperor's Soul? That one's awesome, but I don't expect to see much more from that concept any time soon.

**Buffy** · 2014-08-26 17:54

Originally Posted by Dngnhack

Tried to google came up with warrior triliogy by donald Mcquinn.

Book cover looks familiar. I'mma gonna buy and re-read, if right I'll let you know. Your google-fu is stronger than mine!

**Aksannyi** · 2014-08-26 18:21

I'll update this thread with a huge reading list once I've gotten all of the syllabi for my classes this semester. I'm taking three lit classes so I'm sure I'm going to be reading at least a dozen or more novels.

**Rulke** · 2014-08-27 23:59

Just finished Tower Lord, and I will echos what others said; didn't capture the magic of the first one. A few reasons why for me:

Spoiler: show

Now I need to figure out what to read next.

**Mertron** · 2014-08-28 00:00

Originally Posted by Aksannyi

I'll update this thread with a huge reading list once I've gotten all of the syllabi for my classes this semester. I'm taking three lit classes so I'm sure I'm going to be reading at least a dozen or more novels.

i will be reading this during the upcoming semester

http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/978076076...3_s260x420.JPG

hlep

**Zetanio** · 2014-08-28 00:38

Originally Posted by Spaghetti

i will be reading this during the upcoming semester

http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/978076076...3_s260x420.JPG

hlep

Throw it away and change classes?

**Mertron** · 2014-08-28 00:56

easy professor, and grad school pickins be slim

**Jakson** · 2014-08-28 08:56

I read Eco's Kant and the Platypus and thought oh I got this Kant guy np.
Nope.

**Buffy** · 2014-08-28 18:14

Brent Week, The Broken Eye, just came out Tuesday. Pretty strong contribution to the series.

**Aksannyi** · 2014-08-28 19:56

The fall reading list is as follows:

Gilgamesh
Excerpts from the The Bible
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Lysistrata
Beowulf
Grendel
The Inferno
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
In Our Time (Hemingway)
A Lost Lady (Willa Cather)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Go Down, Moses (William Faulkner)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
The Marble Fawn (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
Shiloh and Other Stories (Bobbie Ann Mason)
Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
Are You My Mother? (Alison Bechdal)

Yeah I'm going to be busy this semester. I have read some of these but it has been a while.