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

[Andalusian girls]

alright bet ty babes, sounds like First Law by Abercrombie and Green Bone Saga by Lee (i am extremely character driven) take the lead

[Qalbert]

side note, I had forgotten but apparently James Cameron got the rights to make a movie based on The Devils
editing to avoid double post, Fonda Lee has a new standalone coming out on the 9th. Last Contract of Isako.

[Tyrath]

ey yo fantasyheads i went through The Black Company and Tales from Earthsea recently and aim to shoot into a new fantasy series. between Ken Liu / Fonda Lee / Joe Abercrombie / Scott Lynch we got any strong favorites or partisans

Oh I also meant to add this to my previous post and forgot. I started the Hainish Cycle around this same time. So maybe I'll do Earthsea after. Whats your review?

[Zealot]

Reading King of Ashes and the writing is excellent, but the author's name is S.A. Cosby and that feels unfortunate.

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[Zealot]

It feels like something you'd see after a content warning label.

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[Zealot]

Finished King of Ashes and goddamn the ending is a double punch to the gut. Fantastic novel and a quick read, this would make a mind-blowing season of television.

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[Andalusian girls]

Oh I also meant to add this to my previous post and forgot. I started the Hainish Cycle around this same time. So maybe I'll do Earthsea after. Whats your review?

5/5 Le Guin don't miss

kinda like Harry Potter it begins a children's/YA book that ages with the audience and it's about as good as they get. darker than most, never simplified or talked down, reads even better as an adult. if you've read Le Guin before her prose / character work is exceptional as always.

[Qalbert]

read The Lathe of Heaven a couple months back after it got mentioned in another book I was reading

[Cantih]

https://reactormag.com/finalists-2025-locus-awards/

[Souj]

5/5 Le Guin don't miss

kinda like Harry Potter it begins a children's/YA book that ages with the audience and it's about as good as they get. darker than most, never simplified or talked down, reads even better as an adult. if you've read Le Guin before her prose / character work is exceptional as always.

Just don’t watch the Earthsea Studio Ghibli movie. Terrible adaptation.

[Athas]

Eh, it's okay.

Spoiler: show

Having Leonide go out early I feel kind of hobbles the story, if they'd been forced to work together again could have a been a more unique source of drama but otherwise it's just Murderbot and more of Mensah's family and just doesn't feel like anything that we haven't seen before. No real unique or especially dangerous threats, doesn't even shift perspective between MB and Three, just leaves the setting of the torus kind of the only novelty which didn't feel like enough to carry the whole thing. Not altogether unenjoyable but mostly feeling like filler with just a few stand out flashes.

[synistar]

Welcome to Floor 10. Now remember crawlers: KILL! KILL! KILL!

Good luck everyone who got their copy of A Parade of Horribles.

[Tyrath]

Eh, it's okay.

Spoiler: show

Having Leonide go out early I feel kind of hobbles the story, if they'd been forced to work together again could have a been a more unique source of drama but otherwise it's just Murderbot and more of Mensah's family and just doesn't feel like anything that we haven't seen before. No real unique or especially dangerous threats, doesn't even shift perspective between MB and Three, just leaves the setting of the torus kind of the only novelty which didn't feel like enough to carry the whole thing. Not altogether unenjoyable but mostly feeling like filler with just a few stand out flashes.

Agreed. Murderbot was delightful as usual but the whole story didn't have much of an oomph or a big threat.

Spoiler: show

Felt like this could've been a novella instead of 250~ pages. I read half of it on a train, which is fitting because half the fucking story just seemed to be them going from on public transport to another.

Agreed about Leonide too. I was looking forward to them having to work together and then she's dead. Kind of weird that it didn't even really go into what the issue was within her family and the second father just walked away at the end. With the title being Platform Decay and it being set on an artificial ring around a planet, I was waiting for some crazy platform falling apart action scenes lol

Oh and the new Mensah family members are not that interesting either.

[synistar]

Welcome to Floor 10. Now remember crawlers: KILL! KILL! KILL!

Good luck everyone who got their copy of A Parade of Horribles.

Finished last night. Then I learned the ACE books (the re-released publisher versions) have an exclusive chapter at the end of each of the books. So if you're confused as hell at the "Backstage of the Pineapple Cabaret" Part 8 at the end of A Parade of Horribles, just pretend it doesn't exist. Definitely doesn't exist to audiobook only listeners.

Allegedly two more books to go in the series. Chaos reigns supreme.

[Souj]

Anyone reading the new James A Corey series? I haven’t checked it out yet. I haven’t done much reading at all this year so far.

[Qalbert]

lot of people didn't like the first one as much as the Expanse but 2nd is an improvement. I liked both, fwiw, but I understand the criticism

[Tyrath]

For the most part I don't read an ongoing series (Brando sando gets an exception) so I will be waiting until its done

[Cantih]

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/t...aw-books-books

[Souj]

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/t...aw-books-books

How’s his volume of work? I’ve only read Dirty Streets of Heaven. I don’t remember anything about it at all at this point, but at the time, I remember it being a little middling?

[Qalbert]

someone here recommended The War of the Flowers a while back and I enjoyed that, haven't read anything else by him, yet