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[Arx]

Spoiler: 6/52 (click to show/hide)

Towers of Midnight - Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson (Yay, plotlines all finishing off.)
Bloodheir - Brian Ruckley (While it's well written, I'm not actually sure how much happened in it)
Divergent - Veronica Roth (Not the best book I've ever read, and definitely a YA novel, but good concept and writing.)
The Fault in our Stars - John Green (Emotion rollercoaster. Pretty good read.)
Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson (It's slightly weird reading an author who's influenced my style so much)
Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson (Manages to pull off the couple of clichés with finesse. Really enjoying this.)

By word count and average book length, I should be at ten or so by now. Stupid fantasy epics.

[TD1]

Whoooo!

WoT!

[Arx]

And The Stormlight Archives is planned to be a similar length. The waiting is going to be agony.

[Vector]

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[TD1]

Spoiler: 11/52 (click to show/hide)

GoT book 2: George R. R. Martin.

[Ant]

In if somewhat late. Going to just try to reach the old standard of 50ish books etc per year, maybe this will give little more motivation?

Spoiler: done 2/52 (click to show/hide)

Paskapuhetta/ Jouni Hynynen
Wool/ Hugh Howey

Spoiler: WIP and in waiting (click to show/hide)

The Left Hand of Darkness/Ursula Le Guin

[notquitethere]

Spoiler: 2/52 (click to show/hide)

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothuss - 650 pages and he doesn't even leave the bloody university.
The Wise Man's Fears - Patrick Rothuss - Everything seems slightly sleazy in ways I'm still putting my finger on. Also it's too damn long. Happily not read another fantasy novel this year.

I've got a whole bunch of non-fiction half-read so this list should increase massively very soon.

[TD1]

I loved The Name of the Wind, and the Wise Man's Fear....

I thought they were great.

[Arx]

I liked them too, but everyone has their own taste.

[notquitethere]

Well, I liked them well enough to finish them (part of the grumbling was that I've got so many other things to read and the books are really long) the setting was interesting, I liked many of the stories they tell, the cthaeh was a neat idea, there's some mysteries to keep you pondering. Buuuut the pace is glacial, you have to wait ages for a payoff to these mysteries (in many cases books) and at the end of the day it's a story about someone who has the power at being super good at whatever they turn their hand to. I'd just finished reading Scott Lynch's books and I really liked how in them although there are meta-plot mysteries by the handful, each novel is self-contained and complete and tells a coherent story.

The Name of the Wind & Wise Man's Fear felt more like a series of vignettes about how someone came to be famous, with almost all the major narrative payoff (why is Kvothe rubbish in the modern day, how/why did he cause a war, why is Bast trying to bring him back, why was a Chandrian leading a band of bandits etc.) reserved for later books.

[TD1]

I would disagree about the glacial pace. Things do happen, but I suppose different people are interested by different things.

Also, I'll count the Chronicles of Narnia as one book because they're bite size and hardly challenging reading.
So, that's 12/52

[wobbly]

I like The Name of the Wind & Wise Man's Fear too, & think the pace is fine. Better to keep the mysteries open too long then reveal them too soon, after all once you answer them there's no longer a mystery! I'm more critical of the I'm Kvothe & I'm so fantastic in every way aspect of the books, though there's enough I enjoy about the story to live with that.

[notquitethere]

I think the frame narrative aspect makes some of the mysteries more frustrating for me. There are things that are common knowledge in the present day of the setting (why there is a war, who with etc.) that for reasons of mystery Rothuss decides that even after 1300 pages he's not going to let you know. My favorite part in The Wise Man's Fear (which was a better book overall) was when he skipped over the shipwreck. That was excellent pacing: as a reader his journey to see the Maer was irrelevant, I wanted to see what happened when he got there and the relevant part of the wrecking was that he'd lost most of his stuff.

[ggamer]

for lack of a proper reading thread, i'll post here.

Does anyone know of any Tom Clancy political thriller type books set in the 40k universe? I feel like everything is god the imperium is rough things are rough i am manly or Commissar Cain

I say this because I just started reading God of Death and i'm really interested by how Astartes chapters handle combat and curveballs

Basically, I want the feel i'd get from a narrative lp of Chapter Master in a book.

[Arx]

Spoiler: 7/52 (click to show/hide)

Towers of Midnight - Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson (Yay, plotlines all finishing off.)
Bloodheir - Brian Ruckley (While it's well written, I'm not actually sure how much happened in it)
Divergent - Veronica Roth (Not the best book I've ever read, and definitely a YA novel, but good concept and writing.)
The Fault in our Stars - John Green (Emotion rollercoaster. Pretty good read.)
Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson (It's slightly weird reading an author who's influenced my style so much)
Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson (Manages to pull off the couple of clichés with finesse. Really enjoying this.)
A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson (I enjoyed it. Pretty good wrap-up.)

Well, I have now finished the Wheel of Time. Don't know if I should be happy or sad.