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

[Buffy]

If I don't get a new John Ringo book soon, I might revolt.

[BaneTheBrawler]

Have you read March Upcountry (and the following series)? Should scratch that itch if you haven't.

[Qalbert]

Has there been any word on the new dresden files book yet? Seems like it's been forever since the last one, especially with how short they ultimately are.

Aeronaut's Windlass was pretty hefty, probably took a lot of time from Dresdening

[Buffy]

Have you read March Upcountry (and the following series)? Should scratch that itch if you haven't.

Yah I own everything he and Weber have written. In 2012 (I think?) Ringo wrote a blog post that the outline for the 5th book in that series had been sent to Weber, but that was the last I've heard of it.

[BaneTheBrawler]

ah. uhhhh could try The Ember War by Richard Fox. Has a sort of similar feel, iirc. idk been a while since i read Ringo.

[Wulfgang]

Finished my third re-read of the first two KKC books. The Wise Man's Fear is really not as great as I remember it (never thought it was better than the first though obviously). The second half is just immensely rushed relative to the rest of the series. It's as if the editor was like "You have been at the University for way too long, you need to hit plot points X, Y, Z, etc. or we're not publishing" and Rothfuss just mechanically went through those. I mean:

Spoiler: show

Second half of the book is:
Severen / Maer - Demonstrates his exceptional social interaction / flexibility
Bandits in the Eld - Demonstrates magical / Taborlin the Great prowess
Felurien - Oh he's amazing in the sack as well
Adem - Let's put those sack skills to work; also, now he is master swordsman
Fake Ruh Bandits / Saving the "princesses" - Much noble, so kindness; time to demonstrate those Adem sword skills
etc

These all just flow together so quickly and is really rather out of place with the rest of his pacing. Also, 3,000 pages of unrequited love really starts to wear thin at the end of the book when he reunited with Denna, everything looks to be going "swimmingly" at the river with Denna, and then there is some bullshit and boom he's back at square one for the 800th time.

Still love the books.

[Zetanio]

Spoiler: show

Denna is a giant cunt. That is all.

[Wulfgang]

Yes, yes she is

Haha I totally forgot about the Adem too; dude crammed a ton of shit in there

[Souj]

Finished Golden Son. Got a little bored near the end conflict, and the very end was super ultra predictable, it was still a good book and can't wait for the last book.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Got done with the first two Muirwood book sets and give them a B. Definitely had YA touches and had interesting but eventually clunky faith/magic paradigm that lead to rather weak plotkai shenanigans. Kinda felt like the author wanted to punish characters and locations like GRRM but wasn't able actually to kill things making me felt confused at outcomes.

[Zetanio]

Started with the Dagger and the Coin series. Not far enough in to make a judgement.

[Evane]

Finished The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson. Goddamn. Took me forever since I'm a slow reader and was really busy with work but man. This shit needs a man like Elon Musk of entertainment to adapt it in its entirety into animation. Cuz I don't think you can do it as a series of films.

[Wulfgang]

Started with the Dagger and the Coin series. Not far enough in to make a judgement.

It's pretty solid imo; basically ASoIaF-lite to me.

[Souj]

Read Titanicus and Xenos.
Gonna have to buy Horus Heresy online as I can't find it at any physical store.

[shukudai]

Heads up, Brandon Sanderson's next Mistborn book in the Wax and Wayne series is out on Tuesday, "The Bands of Mourning", google and you can find the first 6 chapters of it for free on TOR.com.

[shukudai]

And, holy fuck was The Bands of Mourning good. So much STUFF happened, and opened like five hundred different doors. To top it off, there is an unnanounced novella, Mistborn: Secret History that also came out, previously unannounced :O It should be online today as well.

Cannot recommend this enough if you like Sanderson.

[Qalbert]

niiice

[Wulfgang]

I feel bad for not loving Mistborn. Not sure what it is exactly, but Sanderson is hit or miss with me. He needs to crank on the Stormlight Archive series; completely enraptured by the first two books. I may actually start re-reading those two for the heck of it after Morning Star comes out.

[Zetanio]

Don't feel bad. I liked the original Mistborn but I can't even get 20 pages into the Western gunslinger ones that he put out.

[shukudai]

Bad mistake says I.

And, it's intended read Secret History one AFTER the latest wax and wayne, but that novalla is set within 10 years of the end of the first series.. I'd say read it