Grand unified books thread

[Queequeg]

Anyone read the Xiaoping book?

[Fireblade]

I'm reading "A Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin. Yeah it's pretty obscure, but holy shit guys it's fucking awesome!

[Darth Wagtaros]

7 weeks, 200 pages a day, I've finished my reread of the Wheel of Time just in time for the last book!

You beat me, I finish book 13 a month ago. Took 2 years to read them all.

I haven't read any of those in ten years.

I ain't re-reading shit. I just want it to be over with.


Points tim, from my Amazon credit card.

[jimmy olsen]

What did you think of the previous two Sanderson WOT books?

Have you read his other stuff? The Mistborn trilogy and The Way of Kings are particularly good.

[Josephus]

I'm reading "A Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin. Yeah it's pretty obscure, but holy shit guys it's fucking awesome!

They should make a series about it some day.

[Syt]

I tried reading Wheel of Time, but quit the first book after less than a hundred pages. The cliché start (young half orphan with mysterious origins raised in a small village etc.) just was a massive turn off for me.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Mistborn was pretty good.  Way of Kings too, though I started and stopped several times.

[jimmy olsen]

Have you read the Malazan: Book of the Fallen series? I've heard lots of good things, but I tried the first book when it came out like ten years ago and couldn't get into it.

[Agelastus]

Hah!

Gods bless Amazon and the Royal Mail...I have in my hands "A Memory of Light". Finally, after just over 20 long years... the climax!

[Yep, I bought the first volume when it was published in the UK in 1992.]

[jimmy olsen]

So jealous.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Have you read the Malazan: Book of the Fallen series? I've heard lots of good things, but I tried the first book when it came out like ten years ago and couldn't get into it.

Grallon recommended it to me a long time ago, and I think I pikced it up, but never really got into it. 

[Agelastus]

Have you read the Malazan: Book of the Fallen series? I've heard lots of good things, but I tried the first book when it came out like ten years ago and couldn't get into it.

Grallon recommended it to me a long time ago, and I think I pikced it up, but never really got into it.

The books are very variable; book one is fairly average, book two is good, book three is excellent, book four is average, book 5 is unreadable (OK, poor.), book 6 is very good, book 7 is good, book 8 is average, book 9 is excellent, book 10 is excellent.

I'd recommend them to people though- they're good enough as a story that I bought the last 3 in hardback (or whatever North Americans call it.)

[Gups]

I read the first one. I thought it was shit. Hope that helps.

[Grey Fox]

Hah!

Gods bless Amazon and the Royal Mail...I have in my hands "A Memory of Light". Finally, after just over 20 long years... the climax!

[Yep, I bought the first volume when it was published in the UK in 1992.]

Lucky SOB, Amazon doesn't do preshipping here. I'll get my copy thursday at earliest, probably Monday.

[Agelastus]

Hah!

Gods bless Amazon and the Royal Mail...I have in my hands "A Memory of Light". Finally, after just over 20 long years... the climax!

[Yep, I bought the first volume when it was published in the UK in 1992.]

Lucky SOB, Amazon doesn't do preshipping here. I'll get my copy thursday at earliest, probably Monday.

According to Amazon they handed it off to the Royal Mail at 20:19 last night - it arrived this morning around 11am. And I hadn't paid for premium delivery (always supersaver delivery for penny-pinching me!)

Hence why I was calling on the Gods to bless them.