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Just finished Deadhouse Gates. Such a good ending. About 30 pages from the end I felt like I had just finished any A Song of Ice and Fire book, then Coltaine is reborn into a child, and Duiker's body is taken back to (presumably) Darujhistan to be revived. Hell loving yes! I also loved how Icarium and Mappo wrapped things up, with Icarium forgetting everything that had happened, and them going on their way. I suspect this is the eternal journey that those two will forever repeat. I wonder if I will ever see Duiker and Coltaine again, or if I'm just left with the knowledge that they live to see another day. It'll be nice to find out, so don't spoil it for me! This is already ranking among my top fantasy series, possibly even THE top. It's just been that good, and I'm only two books into this madness! Thank you SA, thank you.
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Well, at the very least you'll have fun with Memories of Ice. Already starting with the Prologue.
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# ? Nov 21, 2011 05:57 |
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I've had to put Memories of Ice on the backburner because there's a couple books I wanted to read between Deadhouse Gates and Memories of Ice. Hopefully I'll get back to the series within the next couple weeks.
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# ? Nov 21, 2011 14:26 |
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I just got Gardens of the Moon off Amazon and even within the first 100 pages I'm noticing typos, were these in the paper copy or is it just a recognition problem with the ebook version? Most of the time its nothing important but it has made a couple of sentences read really awkwardly or make no sense at all.
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# ? Nov 23, 2011 23:54 |
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Donald Duck posted:I just got Gardens of the Moon off Amazon and even within the first 100 pages I'm noticing typos, were these in the paper copy or is it just a recognition problem with the ebook version? Most of the time its nothing important but it has made a couple of sentences read really awkwardly or make no sense at all. Have you met Toe the Younger, or perhaps the Tiste Andü? The ebooks blow, I think they were just OCR'd and got a very quick glance over and nothing more.
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# ? Nov 24, 2011 01:06 |
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I found the first half of the series in ebook was bad about that stuff, but it seemed to get better on the later books
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# ? Nov 24, 2011 16:18 |
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I wish I'd read the books in Ebook first. Toe the Younger is an awesome name.
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# ? Nov 24, 2011 17:43 |
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Donald Duck posted:I just got Gardens of the Moon off Amazon and even within the first 100 pages I'm noticing typos, were these in the paper copy or is it just a recognition problem with the ebook version? Most of the time its nothing important but it has made a couple of sentences read really awkwardly or make no sense at all. Really? I bought the GotM eBook off Amazon as well and had no typos whatsoever. I'm 8 chapters into Deadhouse Gates. Not keen on this Felisin character, does she continue to act like a bitch for long? Not sure what the deal is with Iskaral Pust. And trying to decipher what he says is hard work. If he and Kruppe are ever in a room together I think my head might explode...
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# ? Nov 26, 2011 13:22 |
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dmccaff posted:If he and Kruppe are ever in a room together I think my head might explode... Something like this happens in book 8 and it is just as amazing as you might imagine!
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# ? Nov 26, 2011 18:13 |
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Turpitude posted:Something like this happens in book 8 and it is just as amazing as you might imagine! I can't wait to get to book 8, then. Still haven't started Memories of Ice because I got distracted with other books.
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# ? Nov 26, 2011 19:26 |
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Turpitude posted:Something like this happens in book 8 and it is just as amazing as you might imagine! The only thing that would make that scene more awesome is if Tehol and Bugg were somehow there too.
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# ? Nov 26, 2011 19:58 |
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Just finished Memories of Ice. What a read! The only downer is that it looks like these characters won't be showing up again for a while. Oh well I'm sure the House of Chains characters are still awesome anyhow. Thanks to everyone on here for getting me interested in the series!
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# ? Nov 27, 2011 22:36 |
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MaterialConceptual posted:Just finished Memories of Ice. What a read! The only downer is that it looks like these characters won't be showing up again for a while. Oh well I'm sure the House of Chains characters are still awesome anyhow. Thanks to everyone on here for getting me interested in the series! Just finished HoC. I can assure you, Karsa will make up for any characters you miss from Genabackis
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# ? Nov 28, 2011 04:19 |
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I also finished HoC right about now. Started on Midnight Tides but having a little more trouble getting into it. This may be about the time in the series where I need to take a break and read something else first.
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# ? Nov 28, 2011 04:47 |
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The Ninth Layer posted:I also finished HoC right about now. Started on Midnight Tides but having a little more trouble getting into it. This may be about the time in the series where I need to take a break and read something else first. Midnight Tides starts slowly because you don't know the characters and some of the politics are kind of boring, but Tehol and Bugg are two of the best characters in the series and the book is one of the stronger in the series.
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# ? Nov 28, 2011 07:01 |
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dmccaff posted:Really? I bought the GotM eBook off Amazon as well and had no typos whatsoever. Felisin is a great character because yes you hate her and everything she does but you see why she's hosed up and making retarded decisions and so there's this bit of sympathy for a character that spends most of her time being repugnant
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# ? Nov 28, 2011 14:40 |
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Masonity posted:I wish I'd read the books in Ebook first. Toe the Younger is an awesome name. Everything is "tom" from (space, a face, the earth) instead of "torn" as well I last posted at the beginning of September about struggling through the first book and hot drat I'm almost done with the third now and things like Chain of Dogs / Siege of Capustan are pretty amazing. I've had a really good time, glad I stuck it out.
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# ? Nov 29, 2011 15:36 |
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Just finished TCG. I'd like to thank you guys for recommending this series, I really enjoyed it. I haven't ever read another series that dealed with the topic of immortality/vast lifespans and really gotten a sense the author could describe what that sort of thing could be like. The way the world changed underneath everyone, the animals were hunted out of extinctions, whole lands died and were reborn. Great stuff. Not gonna list out all the highlights of the series for me, they were mostly the same as everyone else posts about. I will have to say though, after all this the image that keeps popping into my head out of all these books is the image of the children of the King of Kolanse being stuffed and left with the rest of the trophies. Ugh, get out of my brain. The Assail really deserved to be the big bad guys in the end. I'm probably going to wait a few years to do a re-read so more of it is fresh again, but the whole story with the Snake is going to be one of the things I really look forward to that I found boring the first time around. The kids from the top to the bottom of that society really got it hard. FuriousxGeorge fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Dec 2, 2011 |
# ? Dec 2, 2011 07:45 |
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In the second part of the Q&A Erikson explains the evolution of behaviors of ST and Cotillion (and apparent inconsistency) from book 1 to 4. He puts it exactly the way I interpreted it, so I'm glad it makes sense even if it's not intuitive for the reader. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/12/steven-erikson-answers-your-house-of-chains-questions-part-2 quote:In the early scenes in Gardens, Cotillion and Shadowthrone are new to their ascension. They’re still smarting from the ‘assassinations’ and Laseen’s betrayal, especially Cotillion, an assassin beaten at his own game (and his Talons being murdered). Accordingly, he plots his revenge. But all precipitous acts need justification, sooner or later…
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# ? Dec 2, 2011 22:50 |
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I-I actually did not realize at all that was the perspective he was trying to write for them. Welp guess it's another to look out for in the re-reads!
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# ? Dec 3, 2011 05:45 |
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This is like the 3rd time I try starting on this series, and every single time this Kruppe guy just kills the books for me. Does it get any better, or should I stop feeling awful about dropping this series?
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# ? Dec 5, 2011 12:21 |
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Kruppe is a fixture in the series so he's not going anywhere, and to be perfectly honest with you there's an entire book that is basically all Kruppe so if he's that much of a deal breaker for you and none of the other features are redeeming enough I would give up now while you're ahead.
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# ? Dec 5, 2011 13:55 |
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GET INTO DA CHOPPA posted:This is like the 3rd time I try starting on this series, and every single time this Kruppe guy just kills the books for me. Does it get any better, or should I stop feeling awful about dropping this series? if you dislike kruppe that much you'd get more bang for your buck reading something else I think.
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# ? Dec 5, 2011 20:54 |
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Kekekela posted:Probably drop it, I'm gonna have to disagree. Kruppe is really only in 3, maybe 4 books total, and as a big fan of the series I mostly disliked him. I rarely if ever skim or skip parts of books, but I did skim most of his TTH Darujhistan exposition dialogue and still really enjoyed that book, unlike most. IMO, Kruppe is meh in Gardens Memories of Ice really awesome in this one Toll the Hounds mostly garbage, particularly the exposition dialogue pervading this book Did I miss any appearances? Maybe The Crippled God
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# ? Dec 5, 2011 21:19 |
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Cervixalot posted:I'm gonna have to disagree
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# ? Dec 5, 2011 22:21 |
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GET INTO DA CHOPPA posted:This is like the 3rd time I try starting on this series, and every single time this Kruppe guy just kills the books for me. Does it get any better, or should I stop feeling awful about dropping this series? Kruppe is much more than he appears to be. Or exactly as much, depending on how up on your tropes you are.
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# ? Dec 6, 2011 01:37 |
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Like kekekela said, Kruppe is probably the most blatant of Erikson's philosophizing characters and as the series goes on every character morphs into a mini-Kruppe so yeah if you can't power through it you should probably just give up.
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# ? Dec 6, 2011 06:24 |
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I'm looking for a new series after finishing A Dance with Dragons, so I picked up Gardens of the Moon. I just passed page 100. Thank you thread, because if it wasn't for the OP and subsequent posts, I don't think there's any way I would've finished this book. I'm excited for where it goes, though.
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# ? Dec 7, 2011 19:37 |
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Kruppe turned me off the first time I ran into him as well. He gets better as he is actually involved in the plot rather than just as a tool of exposition. However, as these guys mentioned, you will never escape the inner monologue-outer monologue - perception exposition mechanic. Other characters take up the standard in the future.
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# ? Dec 7, 2011 22:51 |
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Just finished book 8 Toll the Hounds. I'm on the home stretch! 2 more Erickson books and 1 ICE in between book 9 and 10.
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# ? Dec 8, 2011 20:28 |
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Guys... I just finished Crippled God. What do I do now? I no longer want to read other fantasy novels.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 10:03 |
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Read The Name of the Wind, it's pretty good.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 10:07 |
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the periodic fable posted:Read The Name of the Wind, it's pretty good. Just don't read the second one. It has the only group of people I find I can despise as much as the elves in Eragon. Other options, China Miéville has similar philosophical rants in his work, or just read the ICEsslemont stuff.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 15:00 |
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Antinumeric posted:Just don't read the second one. It has the only group of people I find I can despise as much as the elves in Eragon. I haven't read the second one yet because it's only out in Soft Cover Leviathan Edition but I was looking forward to it quite a bit. Is it as bad as you're making out? I really hope you're just exaggerating.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 16:10 |
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I haven't read it but I hear there's an entire section of the book devoted to faerie sex and it's pretty creepy
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 16:33 |
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Levitate posted:I haven't read it but I hear there's an entire section of the book devoted to faerie sex and it's pretty creepy There is, and ohgod is it bad.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 16:46 |
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I wish there was a law against fantasy and science fiction writers putting sex scenes in their books.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 17:06 |
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the periodic fable posted:I haven't read the second one yet because it's only out in Soft Cover Leviathan Edition but I was looking forward to it quite a bit. Is it as bad as you're making out? I really hope you're just exaggerating. We should really just discuss in that thread but yeah it's pretty bad. Actually to clarify that the writing is excellent but the plot meanders all over the place and you won't always like where you land when it does settle. For a massive book it essentially goes nowhere which is really frustrating too.
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# ? Dec 9, 2011 17:41 |
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pakman posted:There is, and ohgod is it bad. It's not nearly as bad as practically every other sex scene in a book I've ever read. I'm all for this law against sex scenes. The only one I've seen add to the story in a way that a pan to the fireplace couldn't is the one between Jezal and Ardee in The Blade Itself, and after I hit the second scene between two different people, it turned out that he wasn't trying to metaphorically show how hosed up their relationship was, that's just the way Abercrombie writes sex. But, you know, if he had done that on purpose, it would have been a pretty impressive legitimate use of a sex scene. When it doesn't add to the story, it's just a disturbing look at the author's kinks. Anyway, it's mostly just goons screaming. Boneing is far from the only thing Kvothe is preternaturally good at. There are (back-loaded) important story elements, so don't skip it entirely. It's not just one 50-page sex scene. Clam down, people.
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# ? Dec 10, 2011 01:52 |
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The Cthaeh scene is pretty cool though.
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# ? Dec 10, 2011 03:44 |