The Fantasy/Sci-Fi Books Thread Book • Page 96

I have not read Kagen the Damned but the author is one of my favorites in the zombie genre. Obviously writing high fantasy is a different monster I assume, but I really liked his style for the Rot&Ruin and Dead of Night series’

 

Do it, fuck it why not

 

It has been done

 

Hell yeah Redwall

 

grew up with it. it was $4 with the discount so I had to

 

Probably the first fantasy series I really read as a child myself. Would love to revisit one day, if it holds up haha.

 

just last weekend i grabbed some childhood favorites from my mom’s attic

 

yesssss

 

Finishing my year off at 60 books read. Been a really great year overall. Read less books than last year (65), but will have read around 3,500 more pages.

Top 10 of 2023 (in no particular order):
The Will of the Many - James Islington
Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton
The Second Apocalypse series - R. Scott Bakker
Light Bringer - Pierce Brown
Childhood’s End - Arthur C. Clarke
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn - Mark Lawrence
The Justice of Kings - Richard Swan
To Green Angel Tower - Tad Williams
Speaks the Nightbird - Robert McCammon
A Night Without Stars - Peter F. Hamilton

 

I've seen so much hype for The Will of the Many, can't wait to read it someday

 

My surprise of the year 100%

 

I missed the day it was the Audible deal of the day and I get sad every time I think about it.


About to finish Iron Flame (friend bribed me to read it after I said I was done after Fourth Wing; using her Audible log in). It’s… something.

 

I’m all for showing some WOTM love

 

I got one of those copies and it’s beautiful

 

holy hell you went fast

then I again I kinda stopped around 3 hours into the audiobook. If Violet 'lifts her chin' one more time her damn head will fall off. I don't think I can finish this one

 

listening at 2x and… it doesn’t require much attention, haha. work was pretty dead this week so I was doing an accounting report for like four hours and listened the whole time.

this book should’ve been two. there’s a lot of good bones in these books, but she’s a terrible writer to tell this story with any justice. and the romance is kinda blah too

 

Yeah I've been doing 1.25 speed and I'm still like, waiting for something cool to happen

 

My favorite Goodreads activity lately is stalking @Vivatoto ’s Dungeon Crawler Carl progress.

 

It's the best, I devoured book 2 in like 2 or 3 sittings. He really showed his worldbuilding chops with that one. And I'm so glad that He found a way for Mordecai to be around all the time. He's great. And it's smart to have someone there who can explain some of the stuff in better detail.

I love the set up for book 3 so far. Metro stations and books are a good mix for me, since the Metro 2033 series is a favorite of mine. I was really looking forward to them getting their personal spaces so all that stuff was great too. I just found out the Brandon's dead though, so that's brutal.
I decided to slot the series in where I would normally do Sci Fi in my rotation, so that way I still get a more traditional high fantasy series in. So Fantasy, Carl, Other(99% of the time horror).

Also props for choosing a series that is not going to break my wallet with kindle versions at 5 bucks a pop, haha.

 

The Iron Tangle is wiiiiiiiiiild. My friend cosplayed as Carl at SDCC and made a shirt for it about the Iron Tangle.

I listened to her audiobooks for 1-5, then bought 1 and 6. I also bought 1 in hardcover during his kickstarter. I still need to get 2-5 on audiobook for a relisten. It makes me so happy.

 

In the middle of the last currently available Gotrek & Felix audiobook and I'm going to be sad. Jonathan Keeble is such a great narrator.

 

I think I devoured all the books in about a week since I was off work and now I’m disappointed in myself because I have to wait for the next one… so thanks to you and @Garrett for putting the series on my radar.

 

I know what I’m listening to next!

also, inspired by @Vivatoto, how do you guys do your reading schedules? I love knowing how other people organize and plan stuff like that.

 

i actually do exactly what they do hah - fantasy/sci-fi/other (other fiction or non-fic) and it depends on how absorbed i get whether i rotate after a single book or trilogy/series.

had a busy couple weeks but i'll finish of darkness and light tonight most likely. the huge expansion of character viewpoints helped me get a much better grasp of the world even if i still have to think a bit about who half the characters are when i see a name because like half the viewpoints are characters with similar d-names. i know the next novella is apparently another big step up - continuing from above, there's enough here that i'm going to finish up the available stuff before moving on to something else.

after that, back to the last book of the first red rising trilogy probably? the DCC hype here has me eyeing that as my next project, or maybe sun eater.

 

I finish a book and look at my library and go, "What speaks to me?" And I immediately bump certain things to the top like trusted authors and next in a series.