Re: The Official Book Thread

[BarrileteCosmico]

FFS kindle lowerrace representing

I was pretty against reading the excerpts, but then I re read books 1 and 2 and was simply unable to stop reading after that. So now I look forward to them a lot

[Kaladin]

Same

The last batch of chapters are this week btw

Also, was unable to find the book here, looked everywhere, e-book it is

Did you read all the Cosmere books?

[BarrileteCosmico]

I've read all books, missing out on a few of the short stories, the graphic novels and stuff like Arcanum unbounded.

[Kaladin]

Do yourself a favor and read Arcanum Unbounded

White Sand isn't really required

Though, there are so many revelations in Arcanum, it is a must read, so many shocks. Especially with Mistborn Secret History, it explains a lot about what happened in Bands of Mourning (if you've read that)

[Kaladin]

Also, read Edgedancer if you haven't, its important for Oathbringer according to Brandon

[Kaladin]

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tHIS WEEK'S CHAPTER

@BC

[BarrileteCosmico]

Pretty epic stuff. 2 days. (should've released it right after the chapter IMO when hype is biggest)

[Kaladin]

I legit cant contain myself, been browsing the 17th Shard forum all week. Even taking the week off from work starting Tuesday to complete this bad boy

[Firenze]

Got ahold of the audiobook for the first novel, gonna get around to it soon. 45 hrs long ffs. Never listened to an audiobook, hopefully it isn't a struggle to adapt.

[RealGunner]

wtf man. read it instead.

[Kaladin]

I prefer reading but whatever works for you, you might miss on the intricacies if you listen though, not sure as i haven’t done it

I’m on the last few chapter @BC, no spoilers please

[Kaladin]

Speechless

I..i cant

Simply speechless

[BarrileteCosmico]

Wtf took you so long. Once I started the last part I could not let go.

I take or you're done now?

[Kaladin]

Yeah im done

Spoiler:

[BarrileteCosmico]

Yeah im done

Spoiler:

OB:

[Kaladin]

Yeah im done

Spoiler:

OB:

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[Myesyats]

"Picture of Dorian Gray"

The first book I've read in English (I don't read a lot) and I loved it. This book is phenomenal. In an extravagant manner depicts the clash between two worlds and the internal transformation of the main character (the impact of cynicism and corruption on an inexperienced and gullible character). Rottenness and beauty at the same time.

Simply amazing.

[urbaNRoots]

I've ordered the Stormlight Archive series from Brandon Sanderson today, anything I need to know about the author or the series before starting? Actually excited to start reading again after a while.

[BarrileteCosmico]

Won't really impact anything, but a lot of Sanderson's books belong to the same universe (called "Cosmere"), and there are often cameos throughout the series. Each world in the Cosmere has it's unique magic system and most are not aware of the other worlds, but there are a few characters that jump between the worlds and try to influence events elsewhere.

At this stage, it won't affect your enjoyment or ability to get what's going on at all, it's more of a "oh that's actually X person, that's neat" if you catch them. At least until book 3, where some off-world characters become more important. Specifically 2 of them from Warbreaker. So if you finish SA and want to know more about those 2, that's a natural place to follow up with.

[urbaNRoots]

Won't really impact anything, but a lot of Sanderson's books belong to the same universe (called "Cosmere"), and there are often cameos throughout the series. Each world in the Cosmere has it's unique magic system and most are not aware of the other worlds, but there are a few characters that jump between the worlds and try to influence events elsewhere.

At this stage, it won't affect your enjoyment or ability to get what's going on at all, it's more of a "oh that's actually X person, that's neat" if you catch them. At least until book 3, where some off-world characters become more important. Specifically 2 of them from Warbreaker. So if you finish SA and want to know more about those 2, that's a natural place to follow up with.

Definitely want to know as much as I can about the world, I‘m hoping this can be somewhat of a replacement for ASOIAF.

Thanks for letting me know.

[BarrileteCosmico]

Urby how did it go? Yay/nay?

BTW I highly recommend the web serial Worm to anyone here. ****ing incredible.

[Hapless_Hans]

RIP Philip Roth.

As it happens, I just recently for the first time had a streak of reading a few of his books in a row, finished his alternate-history-meets-childhood-memories The Plot Against America just a few days ago. Fantastic book, fantastic writer.

[Kaladin]

I've ordered the Stormlight Archive series from Brandon Sanderson today, anything I need to know about the author or the series before starting? Actually excited to start reading again after a while.

I somehow missed this

You don't have to follow a reading order for The Cosmere, but just don't look up stuff on google as it is very spoilery. If yoou're starting with Stormlight, i'd go:

Way Of Kings
Warbreaker
Words of Radiance
Edgedancer (Short story, important info)
Oathbringer
Mistborn (all the books in order)
Elantris
Arcanum Unbounded
White Sand (Both Volumes)

I genuinely hope you get back to reading the whole thing, its a fantastic series

[Firenze]

Returned to the Malazan series for the first time in like 6 years. @M99

funnily enough it was from the co-author, the far inferior Ian Cameron Esslemont.

Randomly decided to pick it up, mostly out of disbelief. I saw a lot of people that rightfully were underwhelemd by his previous books in the Malazan universe, praise his new prequel series based on the forming of the Malazan Empire, right from the beggining, even saying that the first two books were better than some of the mainline series.

Read the first one, Dancer's Lament. Found that to be true. It wasn't amazing, but it was definitely enjoyable and by far his best book, I liked it better than a couple of the later mainline entries. Check it out sometime if you haven't already and even have a little interest in Malazan nowadays.

[Kaladin]

You just jumped in? Should’ve refreshed your memory first

Im just finishing up The Black Company right now, not sure if you’ve heard of it but this is what Eriksen was inspired from. Its the same as Malazan, except the writing is much better i think, the first book is 2 quid on kindle i believe

I might return and finish up Malazan at a later date, but as i said before i stopped at book 8, the later books get very stale, too bogged down, especially with Tehol and Bugg, despite their amuzing relationship

[Firenze]

Yeah, I know about The Black Company since it inspired Malazan's authors so heavily. Always planned to get around to it but I already have a backlog of stuff I keep wanting to read but kept putting on hold for manga lel.

The last few books of Malazan weren't all that great anyway tbh. I still retained a good knowledge of Malazan since I have a few online friends that are into it and discuss it every now and then. I think being away for years was actually good since I needed a break from it and I always compared the co-author to Eriksen reading them around the same time and that was unfair because he was a hugely inferior writer by every metric.

I'm gonna read The First Law series after I finish up the follow up to Dancer's Lament. Always sounded appealing to me and I think it has a decent rep.

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