Books (General)

[ivory cypress]

i have lots of downloaded books but i also don't consider this a problem

they're ready to go whenever i feel it's time

[wraith lynx]

Fifth Season 22 ||I was surprised at myself that I didn't cry over Coru. But I knew it was coming tbh... enslaved Africans often jumped off of slave ships to die free over living in enslavement. This reminded me of that.||

5/5 book.

Hey theres an excerpt of Hundred Thousand Kingdoms in the back!

But I think thats... my favorite book, ever. Never have I read something that spoke to me so profoundly

[low hill]

I should finish that series...

[brazen pilot]

Dethroned Eragon?

Can't blame you

Fifth Season is just that good

Fifth Season all ||By the way, have you heard of the moon?||

[wraith lynx]

I think so. Eragon will always have a special place in my heart, and it inspired me to he a writer but this... it was so real and raw and hit home in every way I could have imagined.

[wraith lynx]

||The crazy part is I didnt even realize the moon had not been mentioned ONCE until that line 😭||

[lusty meteor]

Called it.

[wraith lynx]

Im tempted to start book 2 now but ill wait until tommrow 🫣

But man

If Mr Chris released murtagh 2 right now I dont think even that would top this

[vagrant torrent]

I should read that series. I have book 1 on my physical bookshelf

The amount of series I have to read after Stormlight boggles my mind 😵‍💫

[wraith lynx]

yes yes yes yes yes yes whenever you get the chance it is a MUST read!!

[vagrant torrent]

I can only imagine how the rest of the series will make you feel 🙂‍↕️

The feeling of a book 1 hitting you in the heart like no other is iconic

@wraith lynx Sooo what are your favorite books apart from Fifth Season? 👀

[wraith lynx]

Oh im glad you asked!

• The Red Rising Saga
• Will of The Many and Strengeth of The Few
• Any book from the World of Eragon
• Stormlight, of course 🤣
• MB era 1 is really cool too
• Folk of The Air Triolgy was great!

[vagrant torrent]

Oooh never heard of Folk of the Air! Will put it on the TBR! What’s it about?

[analog geode]

They've netted another

[snow vessel]

Gooood gooood

[vagrant torrent]

I’m a rookie when it comes to reading 🤣 The amount of books I’ve finished is tiny 😭

My favorites are MB Era 1 (especially Hero of Ages) and Watchmen

[vagrant torrent]

https://tenor.com/view/emperor-star-wars-good-goooooood-evil-gif-12447951

Also this thing

https://tenor.com/view/guy-gif-5229665

Eventually I might be the only person here to do a complete readthrough of Animorphs

[rugged tartan]

I bought Will of the Many from my local used bookstore a bit ago and sadly I have so fsr done nothing with it except use it to raise my wristrest so I can play Cyberpunk 2077 a bit more comfortably

[wraith lynx]

Obelisk Gate 1 ||NASSUN?? ||

[lusty meteor]

So much for restraint

[wraith lynx]

I ONLY WENT TO PAGE 1 DX just to check!! I can wait

buzzes

[alpine drum]

ASOIAF ||The ghost of Aegon the Conquerer talking to Maekar ||

[vagrant torrent]

Ohhh so Folk of the Air is YA

I have been meaning to put more YA on my TBR

Though most of them are series people have nostalgia for from childhood 😅

[snow vessel]

Folk of the air is veery good

[tight kindle]

I'm finally starting The Spear Cuts Through Water and man.
The way this story is being told is fascinating.

[snow vessel]

I've seen a few people online doing lists of 26 books they want to read in 2026. Might put one together myself

[small bloom]

Ooh I love that book

[vagrant torrent]

I just added The Wheel of Time and 16 Malazan books to my kindle 😂

[small bloom]

February wrap up, also read most of Tailored Realities but not technically finished since I didn’t read Mitosis

[snow vessel]

16 malazans

So not just the main series?

[small bloom]

Also idk people’s book tastes well enough to know who exactly would like it but general recommendation for An Arcane Inheritance it was great

[snow vessel]

my february

not seen is that I spent like half of the month on Reaper's Gale and havent finished it yet

[vagrant torrent]

Correct! 😂

I don’t have a february wrap up 😔

[oblique zodiac]

😔

no books this month

[minor sleet]

You can see the dip from my birthday weekend

[low hill]

• February: Godkiller, Hannah Kaner; Labyrinth's Heart M.A. Carrick; Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo; Grave Peril, Jim Butcher; Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway; Empire of the Dawn, Jay Kristoff.

[long sorrel]

How was Ninth House? and how was Empire of Vampire end? Unless that wasn't the end?

Without spoilers

[low hill]

I'm still reading that one. :)

[long sorrel]

Aaaah, I forget you do mark when you start not when you finish

Unrelated this is kinda funny

I must have read something in 2025 Feb that was particularly long?

[low hill]

Ninth House was ... ||there was a lot that happened at the end that had no foreshadowing and I don't really see how/if you were supposed to work out what was going on. And the plot pivots quite quickly at that point to be about something else||. But it was enjoyable enough, and I now know enough about the world for whatever RPG my friend ends up running set in a similarish setting.
-# Actual spoiler thoughts were here: #1404497733108236318 message

[long sorrel]

I see... I'm like, I like and dislike Leigh Bardugo all at once 🤔

That doesn't sound very promising though

[low hill]

Mmm.

I'll probably read the sequel, but I'm not going to rush out and buy it.

[long sorrel]

I should finish Rule of Wolves one of these days 😩

I definetely won't read anything else by her until I'm done with that one

[small bloom]

Rule of Wolves was one of my favorites in the Grishaverse

[long sorrel]

Interesting

I will read it, I just don't know when

King of Scars was fine?

I liked Six of Crows best of all I've read so far

[snow vessel]

Out of curiosity, i see you've used different formatting for the two names - is that book title in italics, series in bold?

[low hill]

That's how I tend to do it.

-# Unhelpfully in this case Empire of the Vampire is also the first book in the Empire of the Vampire series. :P

[long sorrel]

I don't usually make the difference for series but because of it being the first book ant the series...

[royal carbon]

Only 6 books for February

[junior dew]

February was a much slower month for me than January

[wraith lynx]

Oh right you sure did read fifth season too 😂

[long sorrel]

did you finish Livesuit?

[junior dew]

Not yet. I’ve only listened to a few minutes each day. Planning on knocking it out today

[junior dew]

Sure did lol

[spring turtle]

god I love Babel

[tight kindle]

I had a good February

[spring turtle]

Paladin's Strength 💖

[tight kindle]

I struggled with that one honestly 😭

I liked Hope much better

[spring turtle]

but you gave it a 5.0

wait I can't read

https://tenor.com/view/ok-gif-20014225

[tight kindle]

I gave Strength like a 3.5

My main complaint is that it could have been much, much shorter without losing almost anything

[winter fern]

https://youtu.be/qQsezy3Eidw?si=UK18N5RzA4gPxwFX

Oh boy, this oughta be good. lol.

[frozen glacier]

One of these days if i find a copy of that book i don't need to buy in a way that would give him mney ill read it to see just how bad it is

[raw musk]

It's bad. I DNF'd after a couple chapters

[winter fern]

The fact that he actually managed to get Michael Kramer and Kate Reading to narrate it seriously boggles my mind.

[vagrant torrent]

Oh noooooo. Hope they get some good therapy after such a traumatic experience 😭🙏🏾

Seriously though I’m shocked lmfao

[vagrant torrent]

Since that message I added the Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies 😆

[alpine drum]

Political comments like these are not allowed

[vagrant torrent]

Oh, sorry

[junior dew]

Finished Livesuit.

Started There is No Antimemetics Division and after the first chapter I am convinced I’m going to vibe with this book so hard

[analog geode]

I read the original stories and they were great, so my friend convinced me to get the audiobook and it’s so good

[junior dew]

Yeah it’s a really strong start! I’m hyped for it. Was already very curious with the blurb

[ivory cypress]

Mask of Mirrors is about to reset my reading streak 😩 52% ||i was just way more impacted by Leato's death than i imagined i could or would be. this writing duo has some chops 🙏 but ouch||

[royal carbon]

Yeah

[ripe tide]

OMG!! Have you shared more reactions to this? And can you tag me if you share more? I loved the series, would love to see what you think

[ivory cypress]

only a couple bits here and there

I'm on pause in protest

[long sorrel]

I just had one of those "huh I don't remember talking in this channel" "oh wait is Grey" moments

[royal carbon]

You don't look exactly the same, just really close.

[minor sleet]

I wish she managed it. Imagine what she would’ve written if she had. And if she never wrote another word, 58 is still too young

[analog geode]

You should read Bloodchild

[minor sleet]

I should

I just finished Fledgling, which has this as her author bio

[royal carbon]

My coworker is reading through her books

[minor sleet]

She’s one of the few author’s I’ve encountered who never had a miss

Le Guin is another, and Tamora Pierce, although I think it’s easier to have all hits when you’re writing for children

[analog geode]

I think Le Guin was physically incapable of writing a bad story

[minor sleet]

She’s so prolific that perhaps if I get to her whole back catalogue. But so far, I’ve only encountered ones by her and that don’t resonate wit me

Like The Left Hand of Darkness. I can tell it’s still a good novel, but I don’t need to imagine a world where people do not have gender or one in which they change gender. This a is truth I understand more profoundly than Le Guin ever could or did

[lusty meteor]

left hand ||I thought the left hand of darkness was good, but i didnt love it. I also thing the gender aspects are overblown in discussions bc of its novelty, the book is primary about nationalism||

[warm leaf]

Guys, I've seen an argument and the truth is that a doubt has been awakened in me

I've seen that a boy around 10 years old is reading a book by Sarah J Maas, but there are people who are outraged to read it at that age

Do you think it's okay for someone to read those books with adult themes?

[snow vessel]

Hmm... my initial is no for sjm specifically, but I think it depends on a lot of context and circumstance

[lusty meteor]

Seen where? Who is outraged

[warm leaf]

In another community I'm in

[snow vessel]

I remember I think bookborn did a video talking about ya and one of the things they mentioned was that "adult themes" are sometimes classed as such because of the lived experience needed to engage with them, and I think 10 is probably too young to have the understanding to engage with the adult themes of her work

[somber timber]

The kid can read stuff and not understand it. They’ll be fine

[lusty meteor]

The 10 year old is in this community?

[snow vessel]

But I think, for example, with maybe a parent or something who can help present it for them it could work

Or if they're just a very mature kid

[minor sleet]

My opinion is that telling the kid he can’t read it because there’s graphic sex in it is almost certainly going to make him more interested in the book

[warm leaf]

No, I think it came out of a post by X the initial discussion

[minor sleet]

That would’ve been my reaction anyway

[lusty meteor]

So someone in a different community was upset bc someone on X posted a picture of a kid reading SJM?

[warm leaf]

Well, I already had a knowledge of those subjects when I first read it in a book by Dan Brown, and my father gave it to me

[somber timber]

When you read stuff that young if you don’t have the general concept of sex ed there’s just gonna be stuff you don’t understand and so you just move on

It’s not gonna break their brains

[warm leaf]

Hey, changing the subject, I'm about to finish reading the second book of WOT, and I don't know whether to buy the first 3 books of ASOIAF, or a case of the Red Dawn trilogy

And I don't buy the next book of the Wheel because I already have the first 6

[minor sleet]

Teen Titans pool party (from New Titans Titans #33, part one of the Judas Contract storyline)

Wow! Blonde/red headed Jason Todd. I knew he was occasionally implied to be dying his hair black but I thought that was a post-resurrection ret con. Also normal response to seeing Starfire on your front doorstep

[minor sleet]

Every single news update from the past two issues of this comic has ended like this. Is this what American cable news was like in the early 1980s?

[minor sleet]

They should’ve used this gag in the cartoon

[minor sleet]

Blatant copyright infringement from Marv Wolfman and Keith Pollard the layout artist and also from Changeling

[junior dew]

Oh wow I really do not like that art style

[light drum]

Operation Bounce House 34 ||This chapter was incredibly hilarious and had me giggling||

[junior dew]

Antimemetics chapter 2 was also a banger

Oh boy I may need to binge this book tomorrow before and after work 👀

[light drum]

Ooooh its amazing feel free to ping me for your reactions if ya want

[mortal wren]

Ya know I been waiting for a new book in the left handed book sellers of London series for ever. I should really check on Garth‘s progress

Hey has anyone read Magic2.0 by Scott Meyer?

If so please @ me

[tight kindle]

Oh man I love those books
I still need to read his other stuff

[ivory cypress]

well I still wasn't quite ready to get back to mask, so maybe a quick sojourn back in the Cadfael series will suit me - ah, Stephen v Maud, that old chestnut

[low hill]

It's due out next year.

[light drum]

Operation Bounce House 53 ||"They tell the public its about terrorism but its about real-estate and money"||

[spiral jungle]

I think this is one of these things where... The piece of context that is missing from your statement is the understanding that The Left Hand of Darkness was published in 1969 (57 years ago) when there were two genders and they were "man" and "stay in the damn kitchen"

[minor sleet]

And all that’s true, but it’s no longer how most people think about gender, even though who are not agender themself like me

[spiral jungle]

agender hi five!

[low hill]

FYI, I've got what looks like the last part of the book left and I think I can see how it's going to end. Guess we'll find out in a day or two (depending on how many interruptions I get).

[ripe tide]

I've been in such a reading slump for real books other than uni stuff since the Olympics. I took a break and I've been having a hard time picking anything new up....

[rose meteor]

read watership down. or futuristic violence and fancy suits. or sixteen ways to defend a walled city, there's a book that sunk its teeth into my eyeballs

[minor sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-high-five-gif-7529230974756651709

[minor sleet]

Read a figure skating romance to extend the Olympic feeling

[ripe tide]

I already reread The Favorites. And all of the others in terms of quality the others do not sound promising. At least my friend who’s read more said she didn’t like them.

And the other one that sounded maybe interesting wasn't at my librart

This is an issue with not having my books from home where I can just pick up something for a reread easily

[ripe tide]

Wow ok.... Dan Simmons died. Author of Hyperion. Not expecting that news.

[low hill]

Oh.

[mortal wren]

Sick

[mortal wren]

Ik right

[mortal wren]

[long sorrel]

I don't want any spoilers but also want to know what this means

I guess I'll have to buckle down and read the 2 books

[low hill]

I'll probably not remember...

[long sorrel]

I wish I had liked book 1 more than I did but I also feel that I'll like book 2 more than 1 based on me hoping all the stuff I didn't like in book 1 is over

Though I expect the narrative device of ragdolling you through plot threads is still going to be there

[low hill]

But if I do, it's about something in the preamble to Part 5 that's sparked some thoughts.

[long sorrel]

If I read the 2 books in 4 days will you still remember? lol

[low hill]

Yeah, probably.

[long sorrel]

https://tenor.com/view/fly-insect-bug-evil-plot-gif-5650927

[low hill]

goes back to reading

[long sorrel]

This is very unlikely to happen but maybe I can give it a go

[low hill]

I was right about this, and the bits before.
-# Finished the book. My players are later than expected for tonight's game...

[cunning pivot]

Le Guin also addressed the fact that she did poorly on the gender stuff in various interviews and in the updated afterword to the book I believe.

Her writing while always excellent and also evolved as she got further and further away from more traditional Boys/Men focused publishing practices.

You see this evolution in Earthsea too where the first was a boy's coming of age tale and the later books very much are not.

[warm leaf]

I'm torn between two offers. I'm not sure whether to buy the first three ASOIAF books, which I haven't read yet and which have a limited edition with tinted edges, or buy the RR trilogy. What do you recommend?

[raw musk]

RR. Either one could be good, but ASOIAF feels more like a gift for someone and not for someone trying it out

[wraith lynx]

Red. Rising!!!! XD

[forest sierra]

ASOIAF limited edition with tinted edges?

What's that?

Afaik neither the illustrated editions nor the Folio ones come with that

[warm leaf]

It's a new hardcover edition in blue, not illustrated, but since I always wanted to buy ASOIAF in a nice edition and it was only available in paperback, I never read it

[forest sierra]

Can you send pics

[vital ibex]

Speaking of ASOIAF, are they ever bringing out the books with the new covers in trade paperback or is that just staying as a mmpb release?

[warm leaf]

And now that all this talk about The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has come out, and my brothers were watching Breaking Bad and it sparked some controversy, I want to read the books and then watch the series, but I was also about to start reading Red Rising

[forest sierra]

Ah, not an English edition

[warm leaf]

no srry 😔

[forest sierra]

Yeah then I'd go for RR

[vital ibex]

I may or may not have bought the box set not realising they werent trade paperbacks a while back, but if they arent ever releasing a trade edition then thats fine I guess 😂

I might swap them out for the trade version if they do though

[forest sierra]

ASOIAF is an incredibly detailed series with some very subtle and intentional wording in places for great foreshadowing and bonkers theorycrafting

I highly highly highly recommend reading it in English

RR is not that serious

[vital ibex]

because these are so nice, I want them big!

[forest sierra]

Love the first one

The books two and three covers are so clearly accidentally swapped though lol

Like even without the stag and lion imagery swap there's no reason ||the comet|| should be on book 3 instead of 2

[warm leaf]

Is it true that many people consider the third book to be the best?

[forest sierra]

yes

[warm leaf]

I plan to read up to the third book because some people say that's where an arc ends

[forest sierra]

fair but

[warm leaf]

something like WaT

[forest sierra]

book 4 especially deals very well with the fallout of the war

of the legacy of both good and bad people

[warm leaf]

So, you'd recommend I read them all?

[forest sierra]

in the same way that A Soldier's Prayer/Return of the King and Matrix Revolutions are both endings, I suppose

[forest sierra]

I recommend at least giving book 4 a chance

[long sorrel]

Oh these are gorgeous

[warm leaf]

I mean, it's been a decade and a half since the last book, And to see or read The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, would I have to read them all?

[forest sierra]

you don't need to read anything beforehand for AKOTSK

[warm leaf]

:0

My brothers don't read, so they're waiting for me to read this before watching Game of Thrones. They want to know why it's competing with Breaking Bad because of the controversy

[little dock]

There are trade ones of this cover

[vital ibex]

oh really

maybe I need to look harder then

[little dock]

https://www.amazon.com/George-Martins-Thrones-5-Book-Boxed/dp/0345535529

Vs

https://a.co/d/01PfYo7N

[vital ibex]

Ah amazon USA, might be worth a go anyway though

[low hill]

It was the end, btw.

[potent linden]

I'm working on one! and I've heard of others having done it. though I'm not very far in yet lol

[junior dew]

Antimemetics Division 3 || Hilton. Appendages. Oooooo this is fun stuff ||

[minor sleet]

That book was so fun

I didn’t even know it was an scp thing when I read it

[wraith lynx]

Obelisk Gate 5 ||Ah. I know these games now. I already know the cute brown girl pov will have the horrors Miss NK 🥴||

||also JEEZ Jija is such a bum I cant wait for Essun or Nassun to kill him||

[snow vessel]

Is Obelisk gate the sequel to fifth season?

[junior dew]

It is

[wraith lynx]

It is so peak Haze

[royal carbon]

My brother was working on animorphs the last time we talked about books. I forgot to ask for an update when I saw him last year.

[snow vessel]

Aaaah I'll get to it... sometime...

[minor sleet]

I wouldn’t have known this was Zatanna if not for the speech bubble

[frozen glacier]

I mean she lietrally has Z on her

[minor sleet]

Yeah but I’ve never seen her in an outfit that isn’t a stage magician get up

Titans make a dramatic entrance!

[little dock]

Oh that was just an example, I’ve seen them at Barnes and Noble and independent bookstores too.

[vital ibex]

Oh I do use amazon, though id like to peel myself away from them if I can, Im just in the UK

Amazon US would likely deliver them to me but Ill look to see if theres a better option

[minor sleet]

Redheaded Jason Todd looks wierd

Oops sorry Donna Troy. Wierd cropping

[minor sleet]

Wow the Young Justice cartoon did something waaaaaay different with Halo

https://tenor.com/view/halo-youngjustice-gif-23195019

This does not look like the same character at all

[vagrant torrent]

I’m writing down in my notes app what sci-fi and fantasy books and shows are priorities for me

It helps a lot!

[wraith lynx]

I wonder what her backstory is like in the comics because in YJ ||A lot of their character revolves around being """"""""muslim"""""""" and nonbinary (the nonbinary part is done way better, that doesnt need to be in quotes)||

[minor sleet]

In the comics, Halo is a runaway/vagrant who died and fused with an alien and woke up with no memory

[wraith lynx]

Hm!

[minor sleet]

So not that different a backstory but this Halo seems much cheerier

Also she has a better costume. The design looks like something could be easily modified into a more modest outfit for a hijabi character

[wraith lynx]

Mhm, the design is genuinely really cool!

[minor sleet]

Just make it less formfitting, cover the hair, and incorporate the hair streaks into the fabric of the hijab

[wraith lynx]

Ah thats so perfect

[minor sleet]

The comic character had such a boring look. You can’t give a character rainbow light powers and then put the in drab grays and browns

[wraith lynx]

So were comic halos powers more light/prism oriented?? 🤔

[minor sleet]

No, seven aura glows but they did different things. Also comic Halo’s eyes don’t change colors

[wraith lynx]

I see I see, this is so facinating

I should have expected og halo to be a random white woman 🤣

[minor sleet]

If you want to read her stuff yourself it’s all in Batman and the Outsiders from the early 1980s. She hasn’t really appeared more than that

[wraith lynx]

Makes sense 🤔

[minor sleet]

The changes they made to the character were hamfisted but presumably well intentioned

That said the show should’ve hired a Muslim writer, ideally a woman who veils, to avoid the hamfisted ness

[wraith lynx]

As much as new Halo pisses me off, I am willing to agree. Especially when they had to go back and try again for the newest season.... cue more hamfistedness but again, an attempt!

[vital ibex]

The Mystery Knight ||I figured out the Maynard Plumm twist literally like 2 pages before it was revealed lol||

[wraith lynx]

In general I tend to see a lot of non Muslims struggle to write Muslim characters. They either go too far left and make characters do things unislamic or too far right and shove silent hijabis in the background... :/

[vital ibex]

AKOTSK (book) ||Cracking end, not sure which of the Dunk and Egg stories is my favorite||

[minor sleet]

I’ve noticed this. They don’t let the characters simply be people

[wraith lynx]

Yeah, and its fustrating! Its why ive kind of given up on muslim rep in books? Not really with tv shows (even if most of them resort to option b: silent hijabi) 😒

-# dont even get me started on hoping for a black Muslim, I gave up on that for any medium a long time ago

[oblique zodiac]

off topic, but shouldnt it be Cosmic Class of 2026?

🤔

[wraith lynx]

Well no, its class of 2025 because thats the year I graduated college 😂💕

[minor sleet]

I’m pretty sure one of the human antagonists from Castlevania is a black Muslim man but then Isaac isn’t exactly positive representation

I did really like him but also he was going around raising devils in defiance of god which I’m pretty sure is as anathema to Islam as it is to Christianity

Oh! Cosmic! Have you ever read any of the Kamala Khan/Ms Marvel comics. The original ones from 2014?

The first issue ends with a quote from the Quran

[wraith lynx]

Yeah... fantastic character! Dont love it on the representation side tbh 😭

But I wanted to read more into Kamala

[minor sleet]

Wow I forgot in her first few issues she was just straight up pretending to be Carol

[minor sleet]

True friendship is hating your friends awful parents

[velvet umbra]

wait did Castlevania actually have the straight up real religions

I thought it was like "Doesn't This Remind You of Something?" pastiches

[frozen glacier]

well its certainly had Christianity.

[velvet umbra]

I think I'm mixing it up with Empire of the Vampire cause the premise is similar and that's fresher on my mind

[long sorrel]

City of brass though 😔

[wraith lynx]

Well... maybe I should have some faith 👀👀

[minor sleet]

Yeah the first episode had Blue Fangs mocking a priest in his Christian (presumably Catholic but should really be Orthodox) church

https://tenor.com/view/castlevania-night-creature-demon-god-church-gif-4258051063508617254

[velvet umbra]

yeah like I said must have been mixing it up with something else

[wraith lynx]

Til he had a name 💀

[minor sleet]

Fan given name

[velvet umbra]

I was gonna say more of a description than a name lol

[wraith lynx]

Ah I see 😂

[snow vessel]

We have some brothers karamazov fans here right?

[mild lance]

Seconding the Kamala recommendation! Her OG run is one of the all-timers! (Of course, once she got handed to other non-Muslim writers she’s gone through some dumb stuff too)

Also they actually do something cool with Black Muslim representation: ||Kamala’s brother’s love interest is a Black Muslim, and they directly address how they face discrimination from other Muslims||

[wraith lynx]

Oh im listening???? 👀👀👀👀

[sleek jungle]

Twelve months ch 14 ||"No rage flooded through me. No power kindled inside me. No magic flowed through me into the staff. And when my lips formed the word, “Fuego,” absolutely nothing happened. No power." That's just wrong Poor Harry. There might be a supernatural element to his struggles, with the weird flying thing even Bear can't perceive, but it's probably only amplifying the problem, not creating it. ||

[analog geode]

I just finished the Raven Scholar for a book club. It really surprised me how good it was. A layered story with good characters

[proper silo]

I've somewhat-accidentally stumbled upon this short webnovel called They All Say I've Met A Ghost, and mannn what a lucky find

Incredibly funny

The premise is that a guy who does not believe in ghosts is hired to teach at a school for ghosts, except he keeps not believing that ghosts are real and thinks his students just come from difficult backgrounds

That's the only joke the book has but it's short enough and manages to vary it enough that it doesn't get boring

fun/10

[oblique zodiac]

I have access to my college library now and it is rekindling my passion for reading

omg there are a ton of english literature

idk if I am fit to read though I might wait a few more weeks

[snow vessel]

RR series all ||one of my irl friends was reading IG and said she was a bit unsatisfied with Cassius's death. So I told her that "theres more information later on that expands and recontextualises the moment"||

||she does not know that this information is, yknow, Cassius not being dead ||

[rose meteor]

late but honestly the part of left hand of darkness that stuck with me most was the snow

really great snow

[old bone]

RR series all || "theres more information later on that expands and recontextualises the moment" is my way to not spoil a character's fakeout to someone in the future. thanks ||

[snow vessel]

I thought it worked quite well

[old bone]

Let's just wish I don't have to use it on you

:kekge:

cuz it would defeat the purpose

[snow vessel]

RR series all ||Well sometimes there is just information that adds to the moment that isnt it being a fakeout!||

||I used that phrasing because it can be both so big as "he didnt die" and also something like, idk another pov of the moment or a flow-on effect and both work||

[old bone]

yeah

RR series all || I just mean you now know what I would use it for ||

😭

[snow vessel]

Hey Goro I'm trying to remember which book it was you recommended me

Was it The Stranger?

Or the outsider? or something like that?

[vital ibex]

If its L'etranger by Albert Camus itll be called The Stranger or The Outsider in english @snow vessel

The copy I have is The Outsider

[snow vessel]

Ahhh so they're the same book?

[vital ibex]

if its by Albert Camus then should be yeah afaik

[minor sleet]

Himedanshi Darkseid is a really funny side effect of the Absolute Universe

[forest sierra]

I never bought it

||Offscreen deaths of prominent characters|| never count

[tight kindle]

Captive Prince is available 👀

I just started a non-fiction today that I really want to get through though 😩

We'll see whether I can hold out

[minor sleet]

I think I got my advisor into Adrian Tchaikovsky

My MA thesis was about a field hospital so when I saw a fantasy novel also set in one I knew what my thank you gift would be

He just emailed to say he finished it, got another by the same author (possibly in the same series) and that he’s been recommending it widely

[ripe tide]

Cool

[wraith lynx]

Alright friends, lots of good book finds today! Tempted to get that Robin hobb triolgy ive heard so much about 👀👀

Assassin's Aprentice + the other two

The entire expanse series is here too! But im not getting those 😂

But also also the first Licanus... so many options 👀

Gah, gardens of the moon too! Man... I dont have the funds for this 😭

[brazen pilot]

Do Assassin's Apprentice

[wraith lynx]

Thsts what im leaning towards tbh

[long sorrel]

I was going to say that from what you've said, I'd grab that, for you

but I haven't read the first Licanus

[brazen pilot]

Licanius is a solid and fun series but nothing in it shouts cosmic core imo

[wraith lynx]

There was also foundryside but I know less about that one

[small bloom]

Only one I’ve read from what you’ve listed

[wraith lynx]

👀👀

[lusty meteor]

Hold off on gardens

It will wait

[wraith lynx]

Man its like every time I poke malazan you guys are like "you are not ready young one" 😔💔

[brazen pilot]

it's almost like we also love robin hobb and think you should read her books at least as much

[wraith lynx]

[lusty meteor]

Nah she is not ready

Also what pizza said

[wraith lynx]

Excellent point pizza- alright 🤣

[alpine drum]

Fitz is cosmic-core

[brazen pilot]

I might appear to be in the Malazan cabal lately because I've been reading it and kinda blown away by how impressive it is

But like

Hobb is tied for my favorite author

[lusty meteor]

sighs yes

[brazen pilot]

Fitz is my favorite ficitonal character and it's not a contest

[wraith lynx]

woah really??? 👀👀

[lusty meteor]

Wait its a tie?

GGK slipping

[brazen pilot]

It's always been a tie

[alpine drum]

tied pizza

[brazen pilot]

If multiple things are tied for my favorite I just refer to them all as my favorite and don't acknowledge the contradiction

There are like four different manga I call my #1 favorite

[lusty meteor]

Hobb publishing rainwilds and being up there is a feat

[brazen pilot]

She wrote Tawny Man

[alpine drum]

hyperbaric (or hyperbolic idk?) time chamber

[lusty meteor]

Tawny man is goated

[wraith lynx]

I got all 3, yipee!! XD

[long sorrel]

I think you would like Foundryside personally but I also think you'd like other stuff more? Can't say

foundryside has fun characters and a pretty fun magic system

[wraith lynx]

👀👀

[alpine drum]

RotE ALL ||ne dies in the Tawny Man trilogy right? I forget which is which of the books featuring Fitz||

[long sorrel]

I wouldn't recommend it over or under Assassin's Aprentice

they're really different vibes

[brazen pilot]

fyi cosmic [farseer trilogy general] ||book 1 does not have wolf content but i think you'll still enjoy it||

[wraith lynx]

Thats okay, its not a requirement 🤣

[brazen pilot]

RotE All ||Tawny Man is the middle trilogy for Fitz. Him being in his 30s, dealing with prince Dutiful, going to the Out Islands.||

[long sorrel]

I think Foundryside is probably a bit lighter

[alpine drum]

that's what I thought, spaceduck is correct in calling goated then

[brazen pilot]

there was a solid period of time where spaceduck was enjoying the prior trilogies but not being like, completely blown away

and i kept telling him "tawny man is the part that's an outright masterpiece, tawny man fixes every issue"

and he wasn't sure if he believed me

[lusty meteor]

Tawny man is amazing. Liveships is also great except that one time

[alpine drum]

spaceduck is a fitz and the fool hater so his RotE takes have to be vetted thoroughly

[lusty meteor]

I am correct

Assassin’s Fate is a bad book

[wraith lynx]

Me who probably wont care if hes fine af (ive seen fanart. I know the answer): 🥴💕

[long sorrel]

I tried Liveship many tiems and never got into it

Now that I'm reading the first trilogy I feel this will be different

Well, I've only read book 1 but I intend to read book 2... one of these days

[low hill]

This one.

[wraith lynx]

Ah well, maybe next time 🤣

[long sorrel]

I think you would like the other 2 RJB series more than Foundryside

But who knows lol, all 3 are great

But they're quite rather different from each other (highly)

[small bloom]

Speaking of which I plan to start The Tainted Cup as soon as I’m done with The Starless Sea

[low hill]

perches chin on hands

[long sorrel]

How are you liking The Starless Sea?

[small bloom]

It’s really good so far

I’m a bit more than halfway through

Starless Sea general ||I love all the stories from in-universe books and how they’re woven into the main story
Also really like Zachary as a character
And the vibes in general are great||

[junior dew]

Highly highly recommend not doing Licanius.

And also super highly recommend Hobb

[analog geode]

Licanius was forgettable

[exotic totem]

Really? I'm reading The Tawny Man trilogy in spite of him. Wasn't a big fan of Farseer but LOVED Liveship

[low hill]

I think I slightly preferred the liveship books, but it's been so long since I read any of them...

[analog geode]

I didn’t like Liveship

[mild lance]

I need to get back to RotE soon

I read Assassin’s Apprentice like 3 years ago

[vagrant torrent]

Friends I’m going through my r/fantasy posts and listing down the recommendations people give me

It’s so much 🫠

[analog geode]

Just ignore them and read whatever I tell you

[vagrant torrent]

Go on…

[analog geode]

Earthsea! Emily Wilde! Vorsokigan!

[tight kindle]

The Starless Sea :3

[vagrant torrent]

Earthsea and Vorkosigan are on my priority list 👀

I really wanna become well read this year 😌

[vagrant torrent]

Hmm I do like fairies. Gargoyles put me on

[minor sleet]

Diversity win! The cult of Brother Blood is not racially segregated!

[long sorrel]

I'm sure you can curate it after!

[minor sleet]

George Perez made her a model so he could draw her like this. Thanks George

Huh he was track and field originally. The football backstory must be a retcon

Oh it’s New 52 bs. That makes sense

Geoff Johns, when I get you within tomato pelting range, watch out

Richard Grayson!!!

[old bone]

@snow vessel it was The Stranger

I just realized I replied to you in my head yesterday and not in chat

[lofty glen]

New 52 was so strange

Because it’s like… there are some things that worked… and some things that were absolute dogcrap

(WonderSupes being one of the things that was dogcrap)

[zinc flicker]

AA ||Wolf sad boy? Oh yes. ||

Distance has turned me around on AA. ||I never thought it was bad (and always thought it was great) but I do think it is VERY character focused and I read it at a time where I preferred plot-based stuff. Nowadays, I’d love it more if I read it again. Should probably reread before I continue with the test.||

[random dome]

Oh I am here a full day late because I have not been keeping up with this channel but hi, yes, I am actually even more Brothers K-pilled than usual and I've been thinking about rereading it sometime

[snow vessel]

It was coming up a bunch in one of my classes lol

[ivory cypress]

The Starless Sea was the really good one people liked, right?

it just came in on libby

[long sorrel]

Mhmmm

[idle trellis]

The starless sea is such a good title

[long sorrel]

It is

[minor sleet]

Everything they did with Cyborg too

He was created to be a teen titan why are yu making him a justice league founding member. There are other black heroes to pick from

[snow vessel]

So DC KO ended

That was a comic for sure

Didnt find it aggressively bad but was definitely disappointed by how DC KO all ||little tournament arc this tournament arc had, plus the ending felt pretty unimpactful. Though supposedly the next crisis will be even bigger... we'll see||

DC KO/dark nights death metal ||also I swear this ending was basically the exact same as Death Metal||

[minor sleet]

||The next crisis is always bigger (derogatory) ||

[snow vessel]

||The next one will be the important one...||

[minor sleet]

That’s what they all say

[snow vessel]

DC KO All ||I think my biggest issue with the event is that it was marketed as a multi-round bracket-based tournament and we got only one real round of 1v1 fights||

||and 90% of the cast were really irrelevant||

[long sorrel]

I have finished the book i was reading in print so now I Wonder which to pick up next, could be a reread, a horror book, cl polk, or Amina Al-Sirafi

There's a few more options there I guess

[junior dew]

Children of Time languishing in wait 😔

[long sorrel]

That's next but not from the print ones

[tight kindle]

Yessssssssssssssss

[velvet umbra]

Ended up finding an audiobook for Sir Cameron on hoopla, it was very fun can see why y’all liked it

[ivory cypress]

woohoo 🎉

[raw musk]

Heretical fishing 1 ch 4: ||Someone's aware of cultivation and LitRPG books lol. Not sure what Zorian is a reference to though||

[wraith lynx]

Obelisk Gate 9 ||I know i gravitate toward younger children in stories, but Nassun is my favorite character in the series right now. Shes so strong and clearly a victim of generational trauma. I thought I was going to vomit when I saw Schaffa show up again but... maybe the can heal together. I still worry, the last kid pov was full of The Horrors™️ 😭||

Also tee hee the titles are still so fun!

[wraith lynx]

Obelisk Gate 10 ||snaps fingers thats the title of the book! 🫵🏽||

[wraith lynx]

I am almost halfway done... 😭

[vagrant torrent]

Yippee!! 🥳

I gotta stop my habit of doomscrolling lmao. I wanna get to that level of speed 🫠

[wraith lynx]

Tbh that is a yipee! Faster i get done with this and Stone Sky, faster i can get to PHM 🥰

[vagrant torrent]

For sure! I’m done making the lists now I just need to pick out what I really wanna read

[vagrant torrent]

What’s PHM?

Btw I have 230 pages left on Way of Kings 🥰

[wraith lynx]

Project Hail Mary!

[vagrant torrent]

Oh nice! Heard it’s pretty good

[velvet cargo]

It’s the best. One of of if not my favorite standalone sci-fi books.

[analog geode]

I’m seeing it tonight!

[velvet cargo]

Lucky

[lofty glen]

This pissed me off so you guys have to see it too

The top is the original print of the Invincible and Spider-Man crossover comic

The bottom is the reprint that released a couple days ago

This is like

Genuinely unforgivable

[versed agate]

https://tenor.com/view/king-of-the-hill-jpeg-do-i-look-like-i-know-what-a-jpeg-is-distort-koth-gif-27539179

except in this case it looks like they photographed it with too much light

[proven token]

Perkins of Portland ahh moment

[minor sleet]

They also rewrote it to plug Amazon prime and its shows

[snow vessel]

Apparently two more acotar books were announced

Part of me wants to keep going with the series again but I know it won't be a good experience

[ivory cypress]

oh i'll read them

i need to have an opinion

[snow vessel]

I ragequit halfway through 2

Part of me wants to be able to have more of an opinion but I know it'll just be a sucky experience. Book 2 might be so frustrating it's entertaining but it'll get old and then I'll just be annoyed

[old bone]

Strange

Everyone I know tells me it was honestly a great book

[snow vessel]

I... definitely disagree

Book 1 was fine, book 2 I have a lot of strong feelings about (lowly)

[rugged tartan]

I haven't touched acotar, but I did get about halfway through Throne of Glass and it was a poor experience. Felt like two different stories mashed together poorly, and the dynamic of the implicit romantic pairings was baffling considering their context

[snow vessel]

ToG the series or ToG the book?

[rugged tartan]

The book

Throne of Glass ||Like, being kept as a slave worker in an incredibly abusive prison camp for a year and then crushing on your warden is one thing, and was already a hard sell, its another thing entirely for this master assassin that was so absurdly accomplished at such an impossibly young age that nobody around her believes that the rumors could be even a little bit true to also throw a potted plant at a passerby who's talking about how she wants to get a political marriage with him so you can ruin her dress/maybe kill her if it falls on her, its a third thing entirely to be a refugee from a nation that was razed to the ground, dreaming of nothing but the destruction of the empire that killed everything you knew, the last bastion of a secret magic that not everyone even believes is real, with so much (Completely justified!) contempt for its rulers that seeing its king in person nearly causes her to give up on her life to attempt to assassinate him on the spot without a full plan of how to do that, knowing full well it would result in her immediate death regardless of how successful it is, despite her aforementioned incredible prowess and expertise... and then she starts crushing on the prince of that nation based on really not that many interactions||

[junior smelt]

I was also hoping to jump into Amina al sirafi soon but Howling Dark with only 17 ch done is glaring at me 😭

[long sorrel]

I think I'm going for something else first

But I've actually resumed Children of Time now

[junior smelt]

Hell yeah

CoT is great

Where did you leave it before?

[snow vessel]

-no wot fan ever

[long sorrel]

I had read like 5 chapters?

Now I've read 6

[junior smelt]

I still found Crossroads good if not great. I do know most find it either ok or not even that. And even agree with the points. I just didn't feel the slog while reading it

[long sorrel]

I'm at the part where, Children of Time early ||they are getting the beacon signal and trying to figure out how to reply to it, then they send the solution to some math problem and the beacon turned off. Next is a spooder chapter||

[snow vessel]

Honestly I don't hate it that much I just thought it was funny that my mind read the acronym totally differently to the intention

[junior smelt]

I also immediately recognised the acronym

When I posted it

[long sorrel]

Btw @ivory cypress Wolf Worm this month!

[junior smelt]

But decided to not write about it because I was walking

[quaint tendon]

Currently reading

Well I’m on chapter 20 but. This is what was in my photo album lol

Man this book is so good

Loved This is How You Lose the Time War, and this has that dna flowing through it. Obviously one of the writers wrote this but like

All the things that were good about TIHYLTTW come through in this book too

Really great prose work

[long sorrel]

my usual bookstore is having a stroke

well the usual one for ebooks

It's like "let us know how you liked Sir Cameron and we'll recommend you these books:"
Then it gives me an emotional war book and Brimstone

I have no idea why is it recommending me those 2 books

or how do they relate to Sir Cameron

[snow vessel]

Maybe they have a knight...?

[quaint tendon]

I can’t even think of a good enough connection to make a bad joke about that

[long sorrel]

Brimstone, i assume, it's just porn, like the first one, but I never bought the first one on this store so like (nor any other smutty book)

So Idk why it went there

I have bought Folk of the Air there I guess

[uncut shoal]

The Wizard's Butler was a surprisingly good and cozy read. Some stakes but mostly living life and I liked it

The characters were a little flat, but still endearing

[ivory cypress]

yeeee i keep looking at it on my calendar

[long sorrel]

I'm excited about it being a gothic setting

I don't think we've ever gotten this type of setting before?

[zinc flicker]

Gothic 👀

the way I was just about to ask for well written gothic romance

I opened Discord to talk about wanting a gothic romance actually

[long sorrel]

I doubt it'll be a romance

Most Kingfisher horror has like a very background romance or a hint at romance at best

[zinc flicker]

Gothic is still cool!

[long sorrel]

yes, it will be horror

[wraith lynx]

Obelisk Gate 12 ||If you told me a couple weeks ago id be rooting for Schaffa as he fought against Jija i would have laughed in your face 😭||

||and yet here we are||

||also obligatory Jija is a bum||

[raw musk]

I can't explain why, but I'm enjoying Heretical Fishing more than I did Beware of Chicken, even though they have similar premises

[minor sleet]

Beware of Chicken has gone on too long

Indie authors who write chapter by chapter do not consider when enough is enough

[raw musk]

I stopped after book 1 of Chicken. I'm only on book 1 of Fishing, but I want to keep listening beyond

[small bloom]

Just finished The Starless Sea

[long sorrel]

https://tenor.com/view/hoecat-bunny-fast-zoom-gif-17159621360561728072

[minor sleet]

https://www.tumblr.com/daughter-heir/779090666330423296/this-could-be-about-anything

saveWOT.com

this could be about anything

-# #rote

Tumblr · Mar 26, 2025, 2:19 PM

[junior smelt]

Although the "... ? Is he stupid?" Is also a sarcastic quote that is used sometimes for very obvious things to intentionally show that people often take something that actually makes sense be stupid to them because they didn't consider a perspective or forgot a detail.

[tight kindle]

I was looking at Kobo ereaders because I really would like to move away from Amazon and my Kindle at some point, and the color one is only $20 more than the black and white one‽
That's wild

Also being audiobook compatible is wild as well

[alpine drum]

color eink has come a long way

I'm very satisfied with my kobo, very easy to upload epubs to it from my computer

[tight kindle]

What's the UI like?
I don't like the Kindle UI overly much

[alpine drum]

I would say it's pretty intuitive

there are some videos on youtube which show it so you can check those out if you want to get a feel for it

[long sorrel]

It's very simple

[old bone]

even new Black and white kindle with backlight is good for manga

don't even need color eink

and yeah the UI is intuitive

[uncut shoal]

This author is using the term "eather" and I just can't even

Like, it's pretty good so far, other than that

[minor sleet]

https://www.tumblr.com/danlisreal/730465637441372160/has-this-been-done-before

dani’s screams into the void

has this been done before

-# #idk if this image is even up to date #anyways rejoice that the only warrior cats podcast is back #warrior cats

Tumblr · Oct 6, 2023, 9:05 PM

[junior dew]

I refuse to accept that Warriors is furry media

[proven token]

It technically isn't, but it is a step on the pipeline

[snow vessel]

Well cats have fur, right?

[hoary path]

Oh gods, I haven’t thought about Warriors in a long time lol. I definitely had a Warriors OC as a kid.

[proven token]

Citation: all of middle and high school

[junior dew]

Lol it definitely wasn't for me. Was obsessed with it in middle school.

[hushed kettle]

Prove me wrong Neville would have been a better main character than harry

[iron pond]

Are they using it in place of "either" or "ether"? 🤔

[hushed kettle]

https://tenor.com/view/ike-smash-bros-brawl-hot-victory-gif-11289492368278827659

[uncut shoal]

Ether/aether

[iron pond]

blergh, that's annoying

[long sorrel]

This book dedication is "to those who put up with me"

[ivory cypress]

march already so different - i've just finished my first book of the month

[long sorrel]

If I ever wrote a book, which I won't, but if I did, that'd be the most fitting thing

[ripe tide]

What book is that?

[potent linden]

"idk if this image is even up to date" hilariously not even close

[ivory cypress]

it took until the THIRD look at this to even see the woman amidst the rocks ahfhdsakfjas

[long sorrel]

haha

[junior smelt]

I do not have enough bandwidth and even memory of the mainline series to engage with it well

But sure... Why?

[minor sleet]

Finished Teen Titans: The Judas Contract

I think I’m going to keep reading the New Teen Titans run, it’s fun and well written and I’m about halfway done with it anyway

[wraith lynx]

Nice! I've only seen the movie but that was a long time ago

[minor sleet]

I saw the arc from the tv show but they really softened Terra

And aged down most of the characters

[raw musk]

Heretical Fishing has been so fun. I particularly enjoyed the title for chapter 69. Nice

[junior dew]

Antimemetics was very good. Waffling between whether it’s a 4 or 4.5 star for me. Really neat book. Very well done

[south zinc]

Asoiaf all ||do u guys think book Jaime wouldve killed his cousin to get out of captivity?||

[uncut shoal]

Ohhh my gooosssshhhh. A Flesh and Fire series spoilers, also hugely NSFW ||Oh my god. She's running around mostly naked with a broken glass dildo as a weapon. I'm in bloody love||

[somber timber]

I know nothing about this series. Fully blind clicking so thank you for making me laugh like a maniac at this

[uncut shoal]

||She killed at least two things with it||

[somber timber]

||3 because I’m dying ||

[uncut shoal]

It was freaking awesome

It's a random series I found while looking for something to read on Kindle Unlimited and it's really quite good and has some amazingly hiliarous moments

[uncut shoal]

||She stabbed one jerk through the back of the head then castrated him with it||

||Sadly, he regenerates||

[somber timber]

You know I think the author must have a dart board with ridiculous things on it and just use that to just be chaotic. And I respect it

[rose meteor]

hell yeah i love antimemetics

[sharp steeple]

||that just means she gets to do it again!||

[low hill]

Finished up Sunbringer, and might dip into a Malazan for a bit.

[wraith lynx]

Obelisk Gate 16 ||Hoa was the one in Syenite's Obelisk... that makes so much sense||

Haven't had many thoughts other than WOOOOO

[minor sleet]

Finally getting to Sunrise on the Reaping and Suzanne Collins is really hammering in how cyclical this all is

The characters and names and legacies recur from book to book

It’s awful

Like all tragedies are

[wraith lynx]

Obelisk Gate 17 ||Im tired too, Nassun. Shes only 10 and she already feels so hardened. I adore her so much ||

Obelisk Gate 17 ||also her being fed up with Essun for tolerating a weak man in the first place is so... oooo the generational trauma is generationally traumaing!!! XD||

[junior dew]

The series is so peak

[ivory cypress]

okay, finally made more progress with Mask of Mirrors, up to 70% now ||Leato STILL such a gut punch, i can't believe they did this to me. i don't even know why i'm so affected. marie and alyc have the sauce||

[ripe tide]

aaaaaa

[ripe tide]

Grey, do you want an invite to their server?

[ivory cypress]

maybe when i'm further

i'm worried about spoilers :P

[wraith lynx]

Obelisk Gate 19 ||Dang, and I didnt think the titles would get better than "you get the band back together" but this one takes it 😂||

Also im less than 20% done... 😭

It has been 6 days btw 👀

[ripe tide]

I was there since the beginning and as long as you don’t scroll back in the chat, everything gets tagged. It’s just some of the way older stuff that isn’t.

[analog geode]

https://theonion.com/bookseller-scrambles-to-hide-all-the-classics-after-seeing-emerald-fennell-approaching-door/

[ivory cypress]

starless sea 4% ||HMM!!!||

[tight kindle]

You starteddddddd 👀👀👀

[ivory cypress]

yeah it came in on libby!

i now have just a couple weeks to get through it

[tight kindle]

I'm very excited to see what you think!

[wide hearth]

Welp, finally finished Pale after nearly 6 years. 3/5. (Pale) ||Incredible worldbuilding, mostly succeeds in cramming every Seal of Solomon style magic in one mostly-coherent whole, plus about 10 more magic systems. But was a bit of a slog towards the end, I wish the girls were aged up a bit, and|| (Wildbow general) ||the repetitive overuse of dialogue and white room syndrome finally affected my reading experience. It's taken me 10 million words across Worm, Pact, Ward and Pale to conclude that maybe unedited unreviewed webserials aren't my thing ||

[snow vessel]

Let's see if I can bring myself to sit through a chapter or two of merrick

[jovial tide]

Project Hail Mary lived up to the hype
||I'm afraid I'm going to catch myself saying "bad bad bad 😔 " a bunch 😅 ||

[wraith lynx]

Gosh I am SO hyped to read it XD

[long sorrel]

I was checking how long til this part yesterday (and saw it was 4%)

[ivory cypress]

that's funny

[uncut shoal]

PHM and The Martian were such fun reads

[junior dew]

PHM was so good! And people seem to really be liking the movie so I’m very cautiously excited about an adaptation that doesn’t fall flat for once

[low hill]

I'm glad you all enjoyed it, but I found it ... mid.

[junior dew]

And that’s okay!

[sleek jungle]

This one took me too much time but I'm finally done with Twelve Months! One of the better Dresden books, but not the best one imo
Twelve months all ||The beginning was tough to get through, mostly because of the subject matter. After that, there was a metric ton of things to enjoy. Bear was awesome, instant favorite. Magic rituals were super fun. Seeing a more mature, somewhat more thoughtful Harry in a leadership position was one of the best things this book did for the series. Finally, after reaching his middle years and losing his best friend and lover, Dresden thinks about the consequences before acting! Which should've begun three books earlier, but I'll take what I can get. Mab was incredible too. Really, there was only one part of the story I disliked. It's Harry's relationship with Ramires. It oscillated like a sine wave on cocaine. One day, he treats Dresden like a dangerous thrall of Winter and the White Court who abandoned all his humanity, and the next, he helps him out in a fight and everything's fine? Huh? It didn't make sense to me||

[velvet umbra]

Anyone who’s read Harrow the Ninth: Is it normal for me to have barely any idea what’s going on?

Like I kind of get some things but I’m generally super confused

[brazen pilot]

Yeah that's intended

[velvet umbra]

At what point should I start figuring things out? Cause I’m about 1/3 and still pretty lost

[brazen pilot]

RAFO

:)

[velvet umbra]

😭

Guess it’s good I hate DNFing lol

[old bone]

it is confusing yes

[velvet umbra]

I guess I’ll just report back when I get further then

[tight kindle]

I'm quite fond of Artemis as well, even though it's arguably not as good

[ivory cypress]

you are the first person i've ever heard this from

and this week is the next Rachel Neumeier drop on Patreon, Bereket i can't waaaaaaaait

[analog geode]

Amaze!

[wet belfry]

Artemis felt way too overedited

Didn't sound like Andy Weir, more like an imitation of Andy Weir

[minor sleet]

Woah…..

This never happens

[pale mortar]

So i just finished the new dresden book twelve months and I can’t figure out who he is talking to in chapter 18. My guess is || murphy’s spirit||. Does anyone else have other ideas?

[iron pond]

has already finished reading Twelve Months and does not want to give spoilers

[pale mortar]

I finished it

[iron pond]

ah, ok. I had pretty much the same thought as you when I was reading. Here's a link to the message I posted after finishing the chapter: #1404497733108236318 message

sorry for my reading comprehension fail, lol. I am sleep deprived

but yeah, every time he's playing board games in his lab and talking to an unspecified "she", the identity of "she" is the same

[snow vessel]

You will be lost for a long time

I see the whole book as a bit of a puzzle

[velvet umbra]

I just mainly want to make sure I'm getting "Part of the experience" confusion not "I zoned out and missed something" or "wait did I forget something from the last book?" lol

[snow vessel]

Yeah, it's definitely the experience

I think I had a whole little document where I was writing down all the weird stuff to see if I could figure anything out

[velvet umbra]

I probably should be doing that but I think atp I'm in deep enough to just see what happens and then go back and figure things out

[snow vessel]

I can't promise I had much success, anyways

[velvet umbra]

||the main one is characters seemingly appearing at random and later not being acknowledged as being present, many of who I am fairly certain are dead||

||Also the most obvious elephant in the room being the almost complete lack of acknowledgement of the previous book's protagonist (this one is so extreme it is obviously intentional right away)||

[uncut shoal]

||Yeah Ramirez has been doing that for the last two books and it's really inconsistent and annoying||

[snow vessel]

HTN ||which characters are these?||

^ that's safe for you

[velvet umbra]

||Abigail something? The older husband wife pair that died mid GTN? Also Harrow's "cavalier" whose name sounds familiar but obviously just kind of appeared in this book as if he has always been there and seems to just kind of awkwardly drift in and out of the story? ||

[snow vessel]

HTN ||that's intentional, and you are meant to not really know what's going on there||

||is this in the chapters with the slashed/divided icons?||

[velvet umbra]

uhhh

idk

I'm audiobooking 4/5 chapters

most of this stuff I'm clocking as fishy it's just hard to keep track for sure

[snow vessel]

Ahhh right

HTN ||yeah there's some... unusual continuity with book 1, which is on purpose||

[velvet umbra]

yeah I think since book 1 was a more staightforward read I wasn't prepared for all this going in lol

compared?

idk where that came from

[tight kindle]

Huh
Idk. I enjoyed myself while reading it.

[mild lance]

Gonna try to make this as non-spoilery as possible, read at your own risk: ||there are two stories intertwined here, one is the direct follow-up to GTN and is told in second-person, the other appears to be an alternate version of GTN and is in third-person. Harrow’s cavalier is Ortus, he was another member of the Ninth House in the first book. He and his mom escaped with the ship Gideon had intended to use and then got blown up||

[velvet umbra]

based on the first line not gonna read the rest cause it sounds like way more than Ive figured out lol

[mild lance]

Fair enough lol

[velvet umbra]

I did at least figure|| A. the POV differences are intentional and B. There is some level of non-linear storytelling or other timeline weirdness at play||

Normally I'm better at picking up on all of this stuff but I started reading this in conjunction with a bunch of other books cause like I said I didn't expect it to be this much of a thinker lol

[light drum]

Twilight Preface ||So im assuming this happens way latter and the 'death' is her becoming a vampire ||

[light drum]

Twilight 1||Ok it so plainly obvious as some one who lives in the PNW that Stephanie Meyer doesn't by hiw she veiws the rain as far worse than it is||

[junior dew]

Been listening to the Housemaid. This book is actually wild

Got an hour left. Probably won’t finish tonight but this has been a journey.

[ivory cypress]

starless sea 19% ||every time I see imagery like this referenced, I'm like - twin peaks??? 🤨 Dale Cooper is that you||

[junior dew]

I should give starless sea another shot one day

[uncut shoal]

I'm trying to read "The Worst Ship in the Fleet" because I heard that it was humorous and fun but I find I mostly want to smack the main character in the face and maybe kick him in the balls

[uncut shoal]

^tags ||Okay I want to kick him in the balls less now, but I still want to smack him upside the head||

[uncut shoal]

I randomly had a dream that we had an extended conversation over this scene lmao, I just remembered

[ivory cypress]

okay made it to the halfway point of the starless sea 👀

anxious to finish it, i've found the momentum now. maybe a day or two more until i'm done

[ripe tide]

Btw @ivory cypress do you have any predictions for ||who the Rook is?||

[junior dew]

Finished the Housemaid. Wild ride. Very fun read

Next up is Shroud by Tchaikovsky

Though Grey has me wondering about Starless Sea again

I was 24% through it when I just didn’t end up picking it up again apparently

[low hill]

Shroud is also good, but I prefer The Starless Sea...

[junior dew]

Maybe I’ll revisit The Starless Sea after shroud.

We shall… sea

[minor sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/puppet-laugh-puppet-show-gif-14644778

[mellow meteor]

re: ||Harry and Ramirez||
||I actually really liked this aspect, because we finally are beginning to see the story behind the story||

[junior dew]

My brain had been having trouble focusing while listening to books the last few weeks and I didn’t have that issue with the Housemaid so I’m crossing my fingers that it was just a very temporary issue.

Like I’d be listening and I’d have to keep rewinding because my brain kept getting pulled towards other trains of thought

Very annoying problem to have

Antimemetics was also somewhat better much of the time on that front

[mellow meteor]

twelve months ||Ramirez is kind of the one character I kind of have some mixed feelings about on a bigger level, because he was one of Harry's more friendly connections on the White Council, who also got turned against Harry by a very significant event in his life that Harry still has zero knowledge of||

twelve months ||putting him in contrast against the more hardline elements within the White Council kind of shows both that he still isn't an idiot even if he has reason to mistrust Harry deeply, and it also shows a little bit of how the White Council is basically screwed||

[exotic totem]

RotE ||Is Fitz the least likeable protagonist ever written?||

[alpine drum]

RotE ||some would say that fitz is babygirl and/or blorbo ||

[ivory cypress]

mask ||I think I'm just following ren's lead 😅 ||

[junior dew]

What do these mean

[junior dew]

How dare you

[low hill]

No. He's bad, but there are def. worse ones.

[ripe tide]

Do tell me if you ever are predicting anyone else.

[exotic totem]

I've read a lot of books. There are some who are close...Parzival in Ready Player One is the closest, but man do I hate Fitz.

[sleek jungle]

twelve months ||I guess Ramirez' problem seemed a lot more personal in Peace talks and Battle ground than this book presented it as||

[mellow meteor]

Twelve Months + Cold Case short story ||I mean, he had good reason||

but I like how in Twelve Months, ||he's also growing alongside Harry||

Battle Ground ||put a lot in perspective for him, I'd guess||

||I wouldn't be surprised if some of this was what Mab was hoping for in the first place||

[junior dew]

Been a bit since I’ve read the books now but RoTE all || I feel like I recall him making a lot of dumb decisions, but I don’t remember him being outright unlikeable ||

[exotic totem]

I don't even know what the first two mean

[alpine drum]

definitions

[alpine drum]

RotE ||nighteyes is my blorbo ||

[minor sleet]

They’re fandom terms

[alpine drum]

codenames are you calling fitz The Worst in a loving way?

[minor sleet]

Blorbo for a character you really like, baby girl as an endearment for someone you are protecting/babying etc

[minor sleet]

No I hated him and the series and wanted to slap and/or shake sense into him

I am a very decisive person and there’s nothing that drives me more insane than characters who cannot commit to choices

[brazen pilot]

I've never seen a better character than Fitz

[minor sleet]

Moiraine’s “take what you want and pay for it” is honestly the ideal character type for me

[brazen pilot]

He is the most grounded, human, nuanced, realistically complex and flawed character I've ever seen in fiction and it's not close

[low hill]

That's not incompatable with him being so annoying you want to throw him out of a window. :P

[brazen pilot]

He has literally never done anything wrong

[lusty meteor]

Rote all ||when he tortured that guy, it was for feminism!||

[brazen pilot]

Hope everyone had a good International Women's Day yesterday

[lusty meteor]

Fitz sure did!

Not blorboing fitz is a red flag on par with watching mr beast

[grim veldt]

r/raresentences

[low hill]

I would never willingly ... blorboing ... anyone.

[velvet umbra]

You don’t willingly blorbo characters it just happens

[alpine drum]

then shouldnt he also be babygirl?

[brazen pilot]

Make your poll allow multiple selection then

[exotic totem]

Everything he does is the absolute worst choice any normal, good person would make

[alpine drum]

it does

[brazen pilot]

waow

[brazen pilot]

Like what

[exotic totem]

Golden Fool ||let’s start with ignoring Hap for weeks on end while he struggles. Or, I don’t know insulting Fool every which way to Sunday. Or I know, treating Starling and Jinna like whores. Not following anyone’s advice and thinking only he can be moral and right. Should I continue?||

[lusty meteor]

||hap was rebelling, fool was also being a jerk and an argument got heated, and he did not treat starling and jinna like whores? They just had sex?||

||starling was way worse to fitz||

[brazen pilot]

Golden Fool ||The Hap situation was only ever going to be solved by Hap making his own mistakes and learning from them, Fitz was understandably busy trying to juggle a billion different things at once but I don't think the Hap stuff was actually going to go better if he was constantly coddling him. Both Fitz and the Fool were understandably unkind to each other because they had a natural clash of what each one of them cared about and wanted that was frankly inevitable. I'm not even sure what the specific point about Starling or Jinna is.||

[exotic totem]

||Starling was absolutely in the wrong as well, but it in no way gave Fitz the “right” to treat them as he did. And yes Hap needed to get himself out of his own issues but that doesn’t absolve Fitz from neglecting him for weeks on end when Jinna was pleading with him to discuss what was going on. And Fitz was way way way way worse to The Fool than the Fool was back. I’m not even getting into the Nettle of it at all. He’s just unlikable. Whiney. Indecisive. And tries to stand on a moral high ground he doesn’t have.||

[uncut shoal]

||He also never learns from his mistakes and is the exact same person at 80 that he was at 8||

[junior dew]

Blorboing as a verb based on what aaks shared doesn’t seem to make sense to me

[minor sleet]

Rand is my blorbo but Fitz is not for the same reason that I can’t stand Perrin

[lusty meteor]

Redhead bias strikes again smh

[old bone]

So true

[junior dew]

Fitz from RoTE and Adunni from The Girl with the Louding Voice are probably the two single best characters I’ve read

[exotic totem]

I’m just shocked at that. I can see liking him, I guess. But best characters ever…wow. Not even in the same stratosphere of hundreds of other characters I’ve read

[junior smelt]

The third option of "scared of seeing just how much of him is reflected in me (and not the cool/honorable parts) and confused at how to feel about it"

[brazen pilot]

I didn't read RotE to see a character who deduces the optimal approach to every single situation and makes the right decision to create the best possible outcome. It's messy, it's human, and how Fitz handles situations is hugely dictated by his trauma, the way the people around him have used him, and the cultural norms he feels bound to. Plenty of situations where you can say "well, I would have just done this" and sure, but Fitz isn't us. When you look closely at all the factors that makes him feel the way he does, then it's a lot harder to say he should have just done different things, because that's basically asking him to have just had a different and easier upbringing. But the realism of all the ways his issues affect him is a big part of why he's my favorite. I've never been pulled into a character's own internal world, and seen their struggles through their own eyes and emotions, like I have with him.

[junior dew]

Yeah when I say best I am thinking most human/most real feeling characters.

Like there may be really fun characters out there or characters I really enjoy, but Fitz has that realism factor.

[lusty meteor]

fitz reads like an actual person, your mileage will vary on how much you want that

[junior dew]

This just in, humans are deeply flawed and make mistakes in their lives

[lusty meteor]

it is really interesting to read a character who is not forced to have catharsis and overcome all of their flaws by the whims of the narrative

makes you realize how much most characters are on rails

they are nervous in chapter 1, they will be not nervous at the end of the story. they start off as violent, they will end up a pacifist.

hobb throws that out the window

[long sorrel]

I've only read 1 book, idk if it's "the best character" both from enjoyment to writing skill, but he's really good

[lusty meteor]

because, in real life, people dont always solves there problems. not every alcoholic gets sober. not every criminal faces justice. evolution is rare, and most people flatline once they get into adulthood

[junior dew]

I definitely didn’t feel “one of the best characters I’ve read” after one book.

For me it was I think the summation of the series.

Like when I was done with it I found myself wishing I could just spend more time with all of the books’ characters and the world and see more of their lives play out.

[long sorrel]

Oh, I didn't mean it as a negative just that, I don't know if I would place him at the top, but I do think he's really good

I also think "well written" varies a lot on what you expect out of a character

I do like hypercompetent characters, which Fitz is not, but also a lot of hypercompetent characters are pretty boringly written so not anyone will do.
But Fitz does hit all of the right spots in what he does and goes through even with only one book

[junior dew]

Yeah you’re good I got that much. I was just trying to also clarify my own context and views a bit

Like it took time to get there for me. I was a bit iffy on the series until about halfway through book 2 and then something clicked for me haha

But the views on the character work are for sure the result of looking at the series as a whole

Got me wondering now what type of characters I tend to gravitate towards or prefer. Never thought about that

I think it’s just fun to see different types of characters executed well

[long sorrel]

I think it clicked me halfway through book 1

[junior smelt]

Yeah I have only Farseer Trilogy but Fitz is up there for me as a character.

[royal carbon]

I keep thinking you are talking about my cat nephew (named after FitzChivalry)

[minor sleet]

Please show us the superior FitzChivalry

[minor sleet]

A red head just like his counterpart

[wraith lynx]

Stone Sky 2 ||This chapter title made me laugh out loud omg 😂||

I finished Obelisk Gate yesterday

I have not finished a book that fast since Red Rising

[ivory cypress]

loooove to hear it

[wraith lynx]

Oh Grey im having a BLAST 🤩

[ivory cypress]

:D i'm so glad!! i also devoured these one after another

i was just in the world

[royal carbon]

Back in my day, we had to wait for the next book to be published

[wraith lynx]

Oh that would have been agony 😭

[vagrant torrent]

Love to hear it bestie

[rugged tartan]

Its a good book!

[wraith lynx]

nods furiously 😋💖

[vagrant torrent]

Completely unrelated but what should I do first? Watch Game of Thrones or read A Song of Ice and Fire

I haven’t experienced a fraction of either

[analog geode]

One will never be finished, the other one has a terrible ending

It’s a lose/lose

[long sorrel]

I'd say read because it's faster

[vagrant torrent]

I’m a Hunter x Hunter fan. It’s familiar territory

[long sorrel]

and also the books are probably better anyway

and if you still want more content after you can watch the show

[vagrant torrent]

When does GOT get bad?

[analog geode]

Season 6, then it takes a nosedive in 7, then 8 is straight up offensive

[somber timber]

Somewhere in season 7 and 8

You still have an incredible show for like 85% of it

[alpine drum]

Some would say Season 5

But only if you are really into the books

[somber timber]

Yeah but it also has || hardhome|| season 5

[alpine drum]

Yeah I think the good outweighs the bad until season 7

[somber timber]

Same and even then 7 has some really great stuff

[analog geode]

The best part of season 8 is the opening animations

[somber timber]

Like I fully recommend the show

[royal carbon]

I stopped after 7 iirc

Haven't decided if I watch 8

Has been a while

[exotic totem]

I don't want Fitz to be perfect or optimal. I want him to stop whining about every choice he makes and the choices others make around him. I want him to stop making the same wrong choices over and over and over again. I want him to be interesting beyond his flaws. And he's none of those things to me 5 books into his story.

[idle trellis]

Then you are not gonna get much out of him

The entire point of Fitz is to explore his trauma

His flaws are central to him as a character

Actually I'm wondering do you enjoy Kaladin ?

I see both Fitz and Kaladin as similar characters in scope

[lusty meteor]

SA all + rote gen||i think kaladin is a very protected character where is trauma and flaws never cause him to do anything the reader could conceivably disagree with. Which is not true for fitz lmao||

[exotic totem]

I love Kaladin because for all his flaws and they are plentiful, he grows and tries not to make the same mistake over and over and over again. I just feel as if Fitz makes the same mistakes repeatedly, knows he’s making a mistake, and then does it anyway. I haven’t seen any growth from him. He whines about his life and gets the idea of what he could do to make it better but then decides he’d rather be “moral” or stubborn or whatever you wanna call it and just does the same things he’s always done.

[brazen pilot]

Describing it as whining about every choice he and others makes strikes me as a strange description. Like yeah, the story is about hard choices and difficult situations both ones he and others make, and it's gonna engage with the thoughts he has about both of those. Calling it whining has the same energy as the whole "Pride and Prejudice is just people going to each other's houses"

[lusty meteor]

Gonna be honest here. I dont think Kaladin is flawed.

[brazen pilot]

I'm not actually sure what the "same mistake" being described here is

[lusty meteor]

SA gen ||He is basically perfect but has depression||

[brazen pilot]

Stormlight general ||Hey he's occasionally kinda sexist which the story doesn't really engage with||

[exotic totem]

There’s so many…how he treats people. How he refuses to grow though the same mistakes keep happening.

Kaladin is far from perfect

[snow vessel]

Stormlight ||isn't 90% of the cast occasionally kinda prejudiced but the story doesn't really engage with it?||

[lusty meteor]

See endnight, now you are getting it!

SA gen ||At no point during the story was i like wow, i really disagree with what kaladin did here that was a mistake||

[exotic totem]

SA ||Moash||

[idle trellis]

What exactly do you associate with growth ?

[lusty meteor]

I dont even know what this is referencing

[exotic totem]

Not making the same mistakes repeatedly

[lusty meteor]

Kal grows a lot then bc he doesnt even make mistakes once!

[exotic totem]

SA ||Letting him live||

[brazen pilot]

This hasn't really clarified anything to me. I mean in the end it's okay if we disagree and we don't have to go point by point over every controversial Fitz moment, but I'm just saying, I still have no idea what you're referring to.

[brazen pilot]

WoR ||What about not killing Szeth||

[lusty meteor]

-1 mistakes actually lmao

[idle trellis]

I also think that Fitz is put in wildly different situations, therefore his engagement with them is different even tho he does tend to make the same mistakes

Kaladin kinda gets the same treatment over and over imo

[brazen pilot]

WoR ||Even when Kaladin makes a choice that I know some people really disagree with, e.g. siding with Elhokar, the story doesn't treat it like an actual choice the reader can have an opinion on, it's just narratively assumed to be right.||

[exotic totem]

RotE ||How he treats Jinna and Starling. How he refuses to even consider the fact that there are people who now need to know his status. His entire relationship with Chade.||

[buoyant whale]

spoiler pls

[exotic totem]

I can not disagree more about how Stormlight is written with regards to Kaladin

[lusty meteor]

Rote all ||Ok actually how did he treat jinna and starling poorly? Like what happened?||

[brazen pilot]

Please mark which series spoilers are for btw

[exotic totem]

I’ll get back to this when it’s easier to type spoilers on a laptop

[idle trellis]

Even this idea that a character needs to show some positivity to be liked I don't really agree with

[exotic totem]

Okay

[potent linden]

okay phew I'm not the only one who thought PHM didn't quite live up to the hype 😅 though I maybe liked it more than you - it was good, better than The Martian imo. but I'd heard so much about ||how cool the aliens were and how interesting it got and then the book barely explored the alien culture. the biology was cool too, even without a particular background in biology, but I think the culture would've made it really hit different and it didn't quite. really most of the book was a good read but not quite as peak as I was hearing. but that's just in terms of expectations, if I hadn't gone in with expectations that it would be excellent then I would have been totally satisfied, I'm sure||

Claincy is right that ||bad bad bad|| is iconic though

I finished The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue last night and that one didn't quite live up to the hype for me either - I didn't fall in love with the characters that much. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil was better, I might have liked Addie LaRue better if I hadn't read Bury Our Bones first 😅 but Addie LaRue still wasn't bad! I just didn't get that invested in the characters or feel the relationships much

[idle trellis]

I really didn't like project hail Mary 😭

I forgot most of everything that happens in it

[potent linden]

another recent read for me was Hopepunk, by Preston Norton who also wrote a book I loved called Where I End and You Begin, and Hopepunk was also a fun read so that was nice

[junior smelt]

Not really because at least the adaptation has a great ending.

[junior smelt]

Besides, I don't think Fitz should be compared to Kaladin. Shallan however...

[junior dew]

Comparing Fitz to Kaladin is so wild to me. Granted comparing any of Brandon’s characters to any of Hobb’s is wild to me

I loved Brandon’s books but uhhh… yeah character is not the standout

[vagrant torrent]

Dang I definitely consider it a standout. For now at least, until I read other authors

[old bone]

I dunno. I read books for characters and I like them

farseer is my top series and Stormlight is somewhere around 10. I find both's character work amazing

[vagrant torrent]

I only say that cuz I started with Sanderson but haven’t read authors like Tolkien, Hobb, or Martin yet

I have read Moore though

[old bone]

I have read Tolkien. Don't find the character work to be a standout.
Martin meh. I couldn't go past first book.

Only Hobb is a writer there whose work I love a lot

[junior dew]

I’ll admit I think I tend to be lower on Stormlight these days than people are on average here.

I also got back into reading via Sanderson

[vagrant torrent]

Yeah I feel like people underrate Sanderson’s character work and unnecessarily compare it to others. Feel like people forget certain series are out to portray different styles or arcs

[junior dew]

Tress is my favorite Sanderson character probably

[old bone]

I think we are just on the other side of the bar Grim. I find Tress character okay and the book insufferable

[junior dew]

Yeah for sure haha. And that’s totally okay

[old bone]

I have disliked Brandon's "plotting" and HoA hence was my least fav work of his. I rated it 0.5/5 iirc

[vagrant torrent]

How about Abercrombie, Guin or Erikson?

[old bone]

Abercrombie is great. Character work is a standout

Erikson I dropped Malazan. It was good but I haven't been able to manage 1-2 hour of reading time per day nowadays and can't do audiobook

Guin I haven't read. Heard great things about

[vagrant torrent]

I’m currently on book 1 of Stormlight. Favorite Sanderson character rn is probably Vin

Or Sazed

[old bone]

Book 3 ruined Sazed for me

[vagrant torrent]

Mistborn has a lot of great characters it gets hard to choose xP

[vagrant torrent]

I am sorry but… that’s objectively wrong 🤨

[old bone]

hoA || His portrayal of depression was really half baked for me ||

I think book 3 ruined almost every character for me except || Spook ||

[junior dew]

I think while I still very much enjoy the Cosmere and Sanderson’s work and I love the Mistborn series, as a whole I have just read so much other stuff that has really blown me away over the last few years

[snow vessel]

Goro I always find seeing you discussing HoA amusing just because of how incredibly different your opinion is compared to most

[old bone]

Yeah man

I dunno

[junior dew]

That’s how it be sometimes haha

[vagrant torrent]

That’s valid coming from a vast reading experience. I’ve only read Sanderson and Moore. My TBR is massive

[snow vessel]

Its just interesting to see someone hate a generally top-rated book

[old bone]

I'll make it clear tho.
I wanted to like that book

Really

I gave dnf'd it once, and then came back

[junior dew]

I wouldn’t call my reading experience vast. But I’ve read a decent number of books over the last few years

[vagrant torrent]

Cbm it’s top 1 Mistborn, and top 1 Cosmere atm

[junior dew]

There are others here who I would say have a vast reading experience, but definitely not me

[old bone]

It's just if I hadn't read Stormlight before, and if this trilogy was my entry into Sando,
I would have vowed to never touch his books again

That's how much I hated my experience with hoa

[junior dew]

Mistborn will always have such a special place in my heart for getting me back into reading

[snow vessel]

My opinions on Brandon are complicated for that reason

[junior dew]

Oh wow that was almost 10 years ago

[vagrant torrent]

Oh yeah I over exaggerated lol. Are you on goodreads or storygraph?

[snow vessel]

I have and probably will have for a long time a very strong attachment to the cosmere, because it got me into gestures all this. And I do like his books, but there tend to be things I notice that I definitely think are lacking a bit

Or some things that fall a bit flat

I'm hoping to do a full cosmere reread sometime soon partially for the sake of re-evaluating it all with a bit more experience (though my reading still isnt expansive)

[junior dew]

I started on Goodreads and I’ve tried Storygraph but this year I switched from Bookmory to Margins. And I have been loving Margins.

I am… perhaps somewhat notoriously very anti-storygraph

[old bone]

One of his books is among my three top 1 books of all time so I am satisfied in this regard

[snow vessel]

Is that... WAT?

Trying to remember which I've seen you talk about

[old bone]

WaT, Imajica and One Hundred Years of Solitude

hea

yea*

[vagrant torrent]

Daaaamn okay to a lesser extent I have the opposite experience with Mistborn vs Stormlight.

Okaaay so I definitely don’t hate The Way of Kings, and got 200 pages left, but I think the slowww burn would’ve put me off Sanderson. If I didn’t read Mistborn prior

[junior dew]

Not because I have anything against Storygraph mind you. I just… think the UX is very poor

[snow vessel]

Gosh I dont even know what my top 3 books are anymore

Its hard for me to choose less than 5

[old bone]

See my problem with Mistborn is it spends less time with characters to focus more on plot

idc about plot

I rarely find it engaging anyway

give me more slowtime with the characters

Be more self indulgent in that regard

[snow vessel]

One of the things I was disappointed in when I reread HOA was how few scenes ||Vin/Elend got together||

[junior dew]

Ooo top 3 books…

The Girl With the Louding Voice and Homegoing are easily both in my top 3 and then it becomes really tough to choose a third. Sword of Kaigen or Children of Ruin would be the two first contenders that come to mind for that third slot

[vagrant torrent]

I appreciate Stormlight slowtime but I really want WoK Part 4 ||this bridgeboy to get out of the damn chasms and Surgebind ||

[ivory cypress]

i like brandon but he's nowhere near top ten

none of his books are top twenty or even more, perhaps

also storygraph's ux is my favourite of anything i've seen so far

everything else is so busy, and i find that poor

[old bone]

I don't relate ig

I enjoyed that part a lot

[brazen pilot]

storygraph's interface will work for me once it lets you view the list of books you've read in an actual list, like being able to see 10-20 them on screen at once as you scroll through

does it have that yet

[vagrant torrent]

Funny to hear from a staff member tbh

[ivory cypress]

i read a lot!

[snow vessel]

I dont think I have twenty books I'd put in a top 20 😭 At least not without it just getting to being a bunch of one series

[vagrant torrent]

I don’t 🙂‍↕️ which is why I’m really trying to get through Stormlight this year

Then read other authors