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

[xElipsis]

My daily drive is ~3 hours. Audio books work well for my situation. I love spending hours in a book, but it's difficult to do with kids now.

[Zetanio]

3 hours, jesus fuck.

[BaneTheBrawler]

All of my nope. I hate my 30m one way drive.

[xElipsis]

No traffic, though. Atlanta traffic is cancer.

I used to work remote three days a week until all of IT was "standardized to one day a week". Also, people who couldn't work remote bitched because my team could. . .

[xElipsis]

Halfway through The Eye of the World. Loving it so far. I saw they were making a TV show. Can't find much info on it...

[Souj]

Probably because nothing will ever come of it like the last time it's rights were bought for film/tv.

[mallister]

yeah they did a 10 minute 'pilot' so they could keep the rights or some shit a few years ago. it was really awful.

[Obiron]

I think this is about all the info we have so far

Basically, Red Eagle tried to slip a pilot under the radar a few years ago to hold onto the rights. Harriet (Jordan's widow) released a statement saying the pilot was unauthorized and she was taking legal action. A little while later she said the issue was resolved and a big name company would be involved in the show. From this article, we now know that Sony is running the show, but Red Eagle is still somehow involved. Beyond that, there are no dates or scripts or anything, so it's still just a pipe dream until something more concrete is announced.

[Andalusian girls]

hey kykes and dykes gearing up for a run-through of the Witcher series, was pondering reading the books beforehand. anyone have any experience with them ?

[Zetanio]

hey kykes and dykes gearing up for a run-through of the Witcher series, was pondering reading the books beforehand. anyone have any experience with them ?

They're pretty good. The author is a cunt.

[Andalusian girls]

yeah well Roman Polanski raped a 13 year old girl but Chinatown is still a great film. i'll give The Last Wish a go

[Gustave]

hey kykes and dykes gearing up for a run-through of the Witcher series, was pondering reading the books beforehand. anyone have any experience with them ?

Never played the game for more than a few minutes to test out gpu but I really enjoyed the books.

[Souj]

Read Prince of Thorns. It was alright.
Reading King of Thorns. Still alright, but despite me not minding the constant flashbacks in the first book, I feel they're just a bit tedious and forced in just for the sake of having flashbacks like the first book did.

[shukudai]

Read Prince of Thorns. It was alright.
Reading King of Thorns. Still alright, but despite me not minding the constant flashbacks in the first book, I feel they're just a bit tedious and forced in just for the sake of having flashbacks like the first book did.

It's pretty damn alright. Jorg is an amazingly fun main dude. And they get better. The second series of books isn't as good, but still pretty good imo. And a new one just came out.

[mallister]

just finished the Delirium Brief by charles stross, latest in the Laundry Files series. another great offering in the spies and weaponized autist thaumaturges vs. cultists of the elder things and their middle managers series.

[Cantih]

I'm still bummed he's not going to continue the Halting State series.

[Qalbert]

don't want to get anyone's hopes up but GRRM has started making appearances and doing side stuff again and is rumored to be at SDCC so maybe, just maybe, TWoW is finished.

[Zetanio]

don't want to get anyone's hopes up but GRRM has started making appearances and doing side stuff again and is rumored to be at SDCC so maybe, just maybe, TWoW is finished.

Oh sweet summer child.

[Qalbert]

I know, I know.

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[Rulke]

don't want to get anyone's hopes up but GRRM has started making appearances and doing side stuff again and is rumored to be at SDCC so maybe, just maybe, TWoW is finished.

Naw, he just wants another easy paycheck what with hbo new season coming out