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

**Intrinsic** · 2017-02-20 07:55

Originally Posted by Souj

To be honest, I started skimming through the bigger paragraphs.

I do have one question for people who've read Lightbringer (Zetanio, you can read this spoiler if you've read far enough to know who Gavin is.):

Spoiler: show

It does explain it in full. I enjoyed this series, reading all 4 books in less than a week. I was very hesitant to read these as I thought his debut series, the Night Angel Trilogy, was mediocre at best.

Spoiler: show

**Wulfgang** · 2017-02-20 14:58

Lightbringer is ok, Weeks is just a weirdo imo. I posted about it after reading the 4th book, but the afterword on vaginissimus was just ridiculous.

**Ksandra** · 2017-02-22 00:24

Just finished reading The Handmaid's Tale. The more I process the novel, the less I like it. Fucking sucks because I love dystopian novels, but it is so hard to find ones I consider to be excellent reads, and this one was supposed to be an excellent read. I need some Bradbury-level shit.

Any recommendations? (I've read most of the classics: Orwell, The Running Man, The Giver, etc.)

**Zetanio** · 2017-02-22 07:48

Are you looking for more dystopian only?

**BaneTheBrawler** · 2017-02-22 09:04

Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds. Might fit the bill.

The Expanse by Daniel Abraham, also might work.

**Ksandra** · 2017-02-22 09:47

Originally Posted by Zetanio

Are you looking for more dystopian only?

For now, yeah. I just reread 1984 before reading The Handmaid's Tale, so I'm in that kind of mood atm.

**Zetanio** · 2017-02-22 10:03

If you haven't read it - Fahrenheit 451
Ready Player One is dystopian but it's a little more 80's references and video game-y so YMMV.
Battle Royale
You could rock some Philip K Dick novels. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly.
Brave New World
A Clockwork Orange
Logan's Run
Neuromancer

There's a pretty stark difference between the YA dystopian bullshit (Hunger Games, 5th wave, Divergent) and the rest of the genre.

**Buffy** · 2017-02-22 12:21

Only read a clockwork orange if willing to have your brain melt from the language.

**Lurking Badger** · 2017-02-22 19:37

Kallocain by Karin Boye

**Gustave** · 2017-02-28 11:22

Finished Mistborn: The Final Empire and I've started on The Well of Ascension. I'm hooked. I'm going to take a break and knock out The Slow Regard of Silent Things and then start back on book#2. I also have some dry CCIE reading to do over the next few months so I don't know how much time I will have for Mistborn. I may wait until I finish book 3 before starting on that.

**Zetanio** · 2017-02-28 11:35

Finished The Black Prism.

Started the next one but I'm tempted to put it down. It's getting a bit tedious and the magic system is fucking annoying.

**Souj** · 2017-02-28 12:24

Originally Posted by Zetanio

Finished The Black Prism.

Started the next one but I'm tempted to put it down. It's getting a bit tedious and the magic system is fucking annoying.

I stopped to read Jemisin's Dreamblood Duology and I'm on the second book of that. It serves as a good example that you can have a weird-ass magic system on top of a very different world and not have to spend an entire half of a book explaining every little detail and still be completely understandable.
Of course, that's something most best selling fantasy authors know full well.

Man, all my criticism of Weeks make it sound like I despise the side. I think his story seems interesting enough, I'm just super disappointed by how it turned out.

**Gustave** · 2017-03-04 12:13

Well of Ascension done. I'm not sure how I feel about everything which is probably a good thing. It was enough to make me feel conflicted about the changes to everything.

**ben.sawyer** · 2017-03-05 21:33

Started reading Giver, by Lois Lowry. anybody read that? Recommendations, reviews?

**Zetanio** · 2017-03-05 21:44

I read it when it was age-appropriate (middle school) and thought it was decent. Read it again a few years ago and found it pretty boring.

**shukudai** · 2017-03-06 04:07

Originally Posted by Gustave

Well of Ascension done. I'm not sure how I feel about everything which is probably a good thing. It was enough to make me feel conflicted about the changes to everything.

Mistborn is always great stuff. The first book was truly amazing though. You're in for a fucking treat though when you move to the next set, the Wax & Wayne books are a sort of different thing than the original trilogy, but are just as interesting but somehow have so much more "oomph" to their charm or something. I don't know how to explain it, but Wax & Wayne stuff is just amazing. Mistborn is "better", but I enjoy Wax & Wayne more.

**Zetanio** · 2017-03-06 07:25

Originally Posted by shukudai

Mistborn is always great stuff. The first book was truly amazing though. You're in for a fucking treat though when you move to the next set, the Wax & Wayne books are a sort of different thing than the original trilogy, but are just as interesting but somehow have so much more "oomph" to their charm or something. I don't know how to explain it, but Wax & Wayne stuff is just amazing. Mistborn is "better", but I enjoy Wax & Wayne more.

I can't disagree with this more. Wax and Wayne was garbage.

**Rulke** · 2017-03-06 09:12

Originally Posted by Zetanio

I can't disagree with this more. Wax and Wayne was garbage.

+1 on this. I rarely have to force myself to read through a book but the new mistborn series is one of them and its heavily because of the characters. Frankly I'm just going to spoiler #3 when its out because I can't bring myself to read that drudgery agian.

**synistar** · 2017-03-06 09:40

Curious if you guys went any further after Alloy of Law. I only liked Bands of Mourning regarding the history aspects

Spoiler: show

Otherwise, only thing to look forward to in book #4 is everything happening outside the Elendel Basin. Characters are kinda shoe-horned in to the worldbuilding. Harmony is a bro though.