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

**Caiyuo** · 2012-02-14 00:42

Originally Posted by Souj

A Storm of Swords;

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Originally Posted by Caiyuo

should be posting here again in about 4-5 days

purposely giving zero hints

assuming anywhere but EST I fucking nailed it

**Souj** · 2012-02-15 19:51

and now onto A Feast For Crows!
asos spoiler

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I always dislike the start of a new book, especially when a chapter is a new character. always takes so long for me to grasp what's going on.

**Caiyuo** · 2012-02-15 19:55

Spoiler: show

**Souj** · 2012-02-15 20:17

no doubt shit's gonna get crazy.

**Rulke** · 2012-02-15 21:00

Ok, back in The Dark Tower series, book 2. Just love this series to pieces. I don't like horror stuff at all so most of King's stuff isn't for me, but this series is brilliant!

**Souj** · 2012-02-20 01:26

Almost done with A Feast For Crows.
It seems like it's the shortest book so far, but it's taking me the longest to get through because I never really felt like reading through the first half of the book. up until about 60% of the way through the book, it felt like boring filler. I know it was all necessary info which leads up to stuff that is finally starting to happen in the latter half of the book, but that still didn't help much at the time.

Just realized that the norm seems to be a new book every 5 years and the last book came out in 2011

**Zetanio** · 2012-02-20 01:37

Originally Posted by Souj

Almost done with A Feast For Crows.
It seems like it's the shortest book so far, but it's taking me the longest to get through because I never really felt like reading through the first half of the book. up until about 60% of the way through the book, it felt like boring filler. I know it was all necessary info which leads up to stuff that is finally starting to happen in the latter half of the book, but that still didn't help much at the time.

Just realized that the norm seems to be a new book every 5 years and the last book came out in 2011

You should read the GoT book thread.

While he's been averaging 5 years he's said recently that unless something interferes he'll have the upcoming book out in a 2-3y timeframe. The first 3 books came out in a much faster fashion, that's the timeline he's been aiming for.

Don't hold me to that, as he's also said repeatedly that he won't work exclusively on ASOIAF. He has 2-3 sagas in progress and writes shorts and novellas as well.

**Man0warr** · 2012-02-20 13:49

Originally Posted by Souj

Almost done with A Feast For Crows.
It seems like it's the shortest book so far, but it's taking me the longest to get through because I never really felt like reading through the first half of the book. up until about 60% of the way through the book, it felt like boring filler. I know it was all necessary info which leads up to stuff that is finally starting to happen in the latter half of the book, but that still didn't help much at the time.

Just realized that the norm seems to be a new book every 5 years and the last book came out in 2011

Feast for Crows didn't originally exist - it was the first half of A Dance with Dragons that they finally chopped off and released. That's why it literally reads like the first half of a book - it's missing a ton of view points you don't get to see until book 5.

This caused a huge delay for the actual Dance with Dragons book since he hit a huge plot hole he had to figure out how to resolve.

**Caiyuo** · 2012-02-20 14:11

I was hoping you wouldn't notice any of the posts about Feast for Crows before reading since seeing everyone say it was their least favorite book made it feel like an eternity while reading. There's a little joke in Feast where he promises Dance in like a year lol.

**Souj** · 2012-02-20 14:28

Originally Posted by Caiyuo

I was hoping you wouldn't notice any of the posts about Feast for Crows before reading since seeing everyone say it was their least favorite book made it feel like an eternity while reading. There's a little joke in Feast where he promises Dance in like a year lol.

I haven't read up on any single thing about any of the Song books until after I've read them. Man0warr's post didn't tell me anything I didn't already know since I'm already 70% through the book and it only started not being boring a few chapter ago.

Spoiler: show

Hopefully I'll finish the book tomorrow. Depends on how little work there is to do for me at work tonight.

**Caiyuo** · 2012-02-20 16:19

well you'll be happy to know with having one book dealing with none of those dudes, the book following is almost entirely those dudes.

**Cantih** · 2012-02-20 23:30

For anyone looking for quality this and that to read, the nominees for the 2011 Nebula Awards just went up.
http://www.sfwa.org/2012/02/2011-neb...ees-announced/

**Kerberoz** · 2012-02-21 21:09

Need to rename to "What fantasy books are you reading?"

Getting a reprint soon!

**Doombear** · 2012-02-21 21:38

Originally Posted by Kerberoz

Need to rename to "What fantasy books are you reading?"

True enough! Good thing it is a genre I quite like.

Just started this myself:

From one of the most acclaimed and profound writers in the world of comics comes a thrilling and provocative exploration of humankind’s great modern myth: the superhero

The first superhero comic ever published, Action Comics no. 1 in 1938, introduced the world to something both unprecedented and timeless: Superman, a caped god for the modern age. In a matter of years, the skies of the imaginary world were filled with strange mutants, aliens, and vigilantes: Batman, Wonder Woman, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, and the X-Men—the list of names as familiar as our own. In less than a century, they’ve gone from not existing at all to being everywhere we look: on our movie and television screens, in our videogames and dreams. But what are they trying to tell us?

For Grant Morrison, arguably the greatest of contemporary chroniclers of the “superworld,” these heroes are powerful archetypes whose ongoing, decades-spanning story arcs reflect and predict the course of human existence: Through them we tell the story of ourselves, our troubled history, and our starry aspirations. In this exhilarating work of a lifetime, Morrison draws on art, science, mythology, and his own astonishing journeys through this shadow universe to provide the first true history of the superhero—why they matter, why they will always be with us, and what they tell us about who we are . . . and what we may yet become.

Also started Tina Fey's Bossypants and Mindy Kaling's book as well.

**Souj** · 2012-02-22 02:14

Originally Posted by Caiyuo

well you'll be happy to know with having one book dealing with none of those dudes, the book following is almost entirely those dudes.

finished Feast, read his note at the end. Makes more sense knowing that they are parallel books at least for a time.
How long do the books run parallel and when do they pick up where Feast left off at the end?

**Zetanio** · 2012-02-22 03:28

You'll notice once you get to the part of the book where it leaves off.

/sarcasm

It's actually fairly long, only the last 2/5's goes further time-wise iirc. It hops around a lot towards the end.

Read it.

Then rage.

**Qalbert** · 2012-02-22 07:41

then read the preview chapter for Winds of Winter

**Zetanio** · 2012-02-22 16:46

Originally Posted by Qalbert

then read the preview chapter for Winds of Winter

then rage some more.

**synistar** · 2012-02-23 13:27

Originally Posted by Tajin

4th'd Ready Player One is pretty good read.

5th'd Fun read. Such a nostaliga trip on all the references.

aduidarnenye · 2012-02-25 17:51

I just started reading "World War Z" and it's amazing. Very, very good. I like that it's set post-zombie apocalypse rather then during zombie apocalypse.

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