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Re: Books!

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 12:50 pm
by HowSerendipitous
eBooks. Pfft.

Finished Ancillary Mercy, now I'm reading Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George RRRRRRRRRR Martin.

Re: Books!

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 12:56 pm
by Lum
Hey guys. I'm halfway through Red Country and already wondering if I should pick Abercrombie's newest trilogy for young-adults. I know it isn't set in The First Law world. The question is if these books are so awesome (in their own way, of course) or sub par? My other option is picking the Black Company's "Books of the South"... Any thought?

Re: Books!

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 12:57 pm
by HowSerendipitous
Lum wrote:Hey guys. I'm halfway through Red Country and already wondering if I should pick Abercrombie's newest trilogy for young-adults. I know it isn't set in The First Law world. The question is if these books are so awesome (in their own way, of course) or sub par? My other option is picking the Black Company's "Books of the South"... Any thought?
Having read both.

Yes.

:twisted:

Re: Books!

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 1:02 pm
by Lum
Since I'll read both series sooner or later... :ghost:

Re: Books!

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 2:09 pm
by Victor Tombs
Some good news for me, Lum. The Navigators of Dune Audio CD presentation will be released on the 13 Sep 2016. I'm really looking forward to it. ;) :D

Re: Books!

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 3:00 pm
by Lum
Oh Victor, I'm so out of the Dune series... are Jr. and Kevin J. still milking that cow or some new authors? Is that a prequel, sequel, midquel? I should wiki that to keep the geek in me at bay :lol: :monkey:

Enjoy it as soon as it comes to you! :thumbup:

Re: Books!

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 3:59 pm
by Victor Tombs
Lum wrote:Oh Victor, I'm so out of the Dune series... are Jr. and Kevin J. still milking that cow or some new authors? Is that a prequel, sequel, midquel? I should wiki that to keep the geek in me at bay :lol: :monkey:

Enjoy it as soon as it comes to you! :thumbup:
:lol: Hey, less of the dismissive stuff, Lum. Of course it's still Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson doing the writing. True masters of their art. :P

I can't get enough of the dulcet tones of Scott Brick reading the books though. He brings the Dune universe to life. If there are any novels set in the Limit Theory universe I would love to hear Josh Parnell reading them but Id be happy to listen to Scott as a substitute. :angel:

Re: Books!

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 12:29 am
by Lum
My only experience with audiobooks was with Beck's German version of The Hobbit. He did a really good job, since back then my German wasn't all that good and despite of it I came out of it more than satisfied. Very entertaining!

Anyway, enjoy your next Dune-piece :thumbup:

Re: Books!

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 2:45 pm
by Aiha
I gotta jump back into this thread (after 1.5 years) to give a shoutout to Alastair Reynolds. I just read the first two books in his Revelation Space universe, and I don't have any better place to ramble about scifi novels than here, so here I go...

I'm no critic or anything, I just read books for fun, so I might not be able to explain very well why I'm enjoying what I've read so far. But anyway, there's something about the way every little action happens that makes everything so interesting when I would normally find certain scenarios or settings to be boring. Additionally, every event in the plot is also on the same level of... extremely interesting. (Everything the plot does is just interesting. It's pretty unbelievable)

The setting is also not quite like any space opera I've read. The way each planet is written is SO detailed and mixed. In other stories a planetary society might be generally "good" or generally "evil" or generally "[some other trait]" and maybe the writing only uses that planet to fill a role, whereas in Revelation Space each location has its own conflicts that take unique forms depending on the planet's history. It's all so... morally ambiguous? Whatever it is, I haven't read anything that did that quite so well.

There's actually a lot more I can say about it but I'm just gonna leave this how it is. Lol

For links, here's Chasm City, the second book that I just finished reading, since that page has no full plot summary a.k.a. spoilers. These might be the kinds of books where spoilers will ruin everything.

tl;dr Revelation Space is too good

Re: Books!

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:40 pm
by Lum
Noted in the "to buy"-list. Thank you! :thumbup:

Re: Books!

Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 10:11 pm
by Charley_Deallus
Who likes Stephen King? :p Who likes sleeping at night? :lol:

Re: Books!

Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 5:42 pm
by Gunther Haldan
Charley_Deallus wrote:Who likes Stephen King? :p Who likes sleeping at night? :lol:
I've read The Stand, Cujo and Tommy Knockers.

"Late last night and the night before, Tommy Knockers, Tommy Knockers knocking at my door.
I want to go out, don't know if I can, 'cause I'm so afraid of that Tommy Knocker man." :ghost: :ghost: :ghost:

Re: Books!

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 6:11 pm
by Victor Tombs
I received Navigators of Dune the audiobook on CD today. :D

Lots of quality Scott Brick listening ahead for me. :thumbup: :angel:

Re: Books!

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:23 am
by Lum
Enjoy, Victor! :thumbup:

I'm reaching climax in the third installment of The Expanse series. Pretty awesome so far :D

Re: Books!

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:27 pm
by Victor Tombs
Thanks, Lum, that's nice of you. :angel:

I'm glad to read you're enjoying your latest reading experience. :D