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[jaked122]

I'm rereading accelerando fun. The end is such a downer.

[i2amroy]

The Mistborn series... again... again again... again again again.

I can't help it, but something about this particular series just hits all the right notes, making me from a person who used to always respond to the "what's your favorite book series" with "I don't know, there's so many good ones" into one who responds "The Mistborn series, by Brandon Sanderson". The complex but extremely well defined magic systems that characters aren't afraid to use or explain, the fun and complex characters, a female character who isn't afraid to be a real character, stories of good against evil that isn't necessarily always evil (and other times is)... it all just adds up to make a series that definitely comes out on the top of my favorites list. This must be like time number 8 rereading the series in just these last couple of years, and I'm still loving every moment of it.

[Emma]

I love it when you find a really good bookshop during the holidays and buy a book then finish and then keep going back to that shop and buying heaps of books. I read American Gods, The Long Earth and Vengeance in this manner and then I finished House of Chains and so it is now time to read Midnight Tides after I re-read Days of Blood and Starlight and Dreams of Gods and Monsters.

The Mistborn series... again... again again... again again again.

I can't help it, but something about this particular series just hits all the right notes, making me from a person who used to always respond to the "what's your favorite book series" with "I don't know, there's so many good ones" into one who responds "The Mistborn series, by Brandon Sanderson". The complex but extremely well defined magic systems that characters aren't afraid to use or explain, the fun and complex characters, a female character who isn't afraid to be a real character, stories of good against evil that isn't necessarily always evil (and other times is)... it all just adds up to make a series that definitely comes out on the top of my favorites list. This must be like time number 8 rereading the series in just these last couple of years, and I'm still loving every moment of it.

I can believe that, I really enjoyed Steelheart and am looking forward to getting Firefight and while they're a different series they both show off his skills as a writer far more than his finishing of Wheel of Time did.

[TheKaspa]

You do know that yesterday Mistborn #5 was published?

[Arx]

You do know that yesterday Mistborn #5 was published?

It's not part of the same trilogy. The Wax books are good, but they're not the same (not saying they're worse, just that they have a different makeup).

[ChairmanPoo]

I'm enjoying a lot the latest "Warded Man" book ( Peter V Brett). The previous were good enough. But this one? Characters are getting killed off at a rate worthy of GOT

[Arx]

I'm enjoying a lot the latest "Warded Man" book ( Peter V Brett). The previous were good enough. But this one? Characters are getting killed off at a rate worthy of GOT

The Demon Cycle is picking up a heck (Core?) of a lot as it goes along. The recent book(s?) are quite a bit better than the older ones.

[TheKaspa]

You do know that yesterday Mistborn #5 was published?

It's not part of the same trilogy. The Wax books are good, but they're not the same (not saying they're worse, just that they have a different makeup).

Yes, I know. At the same time, I find them more interesting than the "original" trilogy, as they present a world with magic that cohexists with technology. And not technology enhanced by magic like in The Stormlight Archive, but real technology used by non-magic people. And, more in particular in the second one, a world that is changing because of technology and not by the actions of the main characters (like in Wheel of Time, even the introduction of gunpowder warfare is driven by them).

[Spehss _]

Rereading Count of Monte Cristo. Is good.

[sprinkled chariot]

Crime and Punishment. Grimdark.

[i2amroy]

You do know that yesterday Mistborn #5 was published?

Yeah and I had it (and the eventual #3 of the Wax trilogy) both preordered.

Haven't gotten a chance to read it yet, but it's sitting at my parent's house waiting for the weekend when I can pick it up.

[Comrade P.]

Crime and Punishment. Grimdark.

Fun fact: that book is in high school curriculum in Russia.
Can't allow them youths to have positive thoughts.

[NJW2000]

You should think yourself lucky. We have to read Susan Hill's possibly more depressing and less enjoyable "I'm the King of the Castle". At least Dostoevsky isn't mediocre middlebrow

[Urist McScoopbeard]

At least Dostoevsky isn't mediocre middlebrow

That's possibly the most whelming insult i've heard.

I'm going to start reading some Guant's Ghosts again. I love that series.

[jaked122]

I just want to say that Cosmic Banditos was one of the best books I ever finished over the course of a slow evening.