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[ChairmanPoo]

Reading "The Wise Man's fear".

After that I'll likely read Neal Stephenson's Anathema

[Ephemeriis]

Just finished reading Lisey's Story, by Stephen King.  Decent read.  A bit atypical for him.

Now reading Last Wish, by Andrzej Sapkowski.  Thoroughly enjoying it so far.

[fqllve]

The Road. Pure depression in book form.

The Road was pretty good. I was surprised at how quick a read it was because even though I really like McCarthy I usually have to slog through his prose. I was kind of annoyed how everything was varying shades of gray in that book though. I understand the reasoning behind it, but after reading Blood Meridian, which was brilliantly colorful, it was kind of disappointing.
e: I also felt kind of fatigued during the last thirty pages. I dunno how much of that was due to reading the book in one sitting but the whole ocean section kinda failed to capture my interest.

I'm reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame and it is awesome. I'm in the middle of the 'Bird's-Eye View of Paris' chapter and it and the the preceding chapter on the cathedral itself have to be my favorite parts of the book so far. They're informative, impassioned, and excellently detailed (like everything in the book). Really helpful too, because I was completely lost on 15th century Paris at the beginning of the book but now I feel a lot more grounded.

[Lord Shonus]

I'm currently reading the X-wing series, the Dragonlance War of Souls tilogy, and Turtledove's Darkness series.

[Zrk2]

I'm reading Dune (OHGODWHATSHAPPENINGIDONTGETIT!!!AAUUGHHH!!!WHYDIDEVERYONEJUSTDECIDETOINVADE?!?!?!)

And I'm looking forward to finally getting The Crippled God and finishing the series.

[Levi]

I've been trying to push myself through a book of H. P. Lovecraft's stories, but they feel so tedious that I end up reading a bunch of comic books instead.     I've been working on this one book for months and its caused me to re-read most of my comic book collection.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I've been trying to push myself through a book of H. P. Lovecraft's stories, but they feel so tedious that I end up reading a bunch of comic books instead.

Try From The Mountains of Madness, The Rats in the Walls, and The Nameless City first. They're easier to read then most of his works. If that fails, you can read The Nameless City in a more interactive manner by playing this flash game. It's one of the weirder things I've ever encountered, but it was certainly fun to....uh...."play", if you can call it that.

[ChairmanPoo]

And I'm looking forward to finally getting The Crippled God and finishing the series.

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"Finishing the series" my ass. It ends up in an inconclusive ending with a hundred loose ends, just like the rest of the books. Might as well have called any of the previous ones "the arc ending".

The Malazan books are not horrid (The ones by Steve Erikson, that is. The ones by Esslemont *are* pukerific), but are far from brilliant. They're entertaining  (for the most part), but there's not much in the way of character development, he leaves many things unexplained, deus ex machinas are standard issue in every single book, and, as I said, can't manage to get a proper ending.

BTW: I changed my mind. I'm not reading Anathema next. I'm reading The White Luck Warrior instead. Anathema will come after that.

[Zrk2]

I don't expect a proper ending. Erickson seems like he'll never give us the satisfaction of wrapping it all up, he just gets too much pleasure from dropping red slippers everywhere for us, and, face it, he's set up such an immense backstory he can't possibly live up to the expectations it has bred, especially since it was originally gamed through in D&D (Or some game similar, I think it was just a GURPS system he had).

Also finished Dune. Uh, ok. What was that?

EDIT: Dammit TvTropes, why don't you divide all your Dune tropes by book?

[Darkmere]

If Dune was a turn-off, go ahead and ignore everything else in the series.

Finished Lukyanenko's Watch series. Kinda stalled now.

[Willfor]

If Dune was a turn-off, go ahead and ignore everything else in the series.

He might mean the ending itself. Which, to be fair, is possibly the worst ending in sci-fi history, nearly cutting off mid-sentence. Read Dune Messiah if this is the case, as it was originally written to be read together, but was split in perhaps the worst possible place.

[SalmonGod]

I've been trying to push myself through a book of H. P. Lovecraft's stories, but they feel so tedious that I end up reading a bunch of comic books instead.     I've been working on this one book for months and its caused me to re-read most of my comic book collection.

Lovecraft's problem is he uses the same terminology to describe everything.  Good for reading in short bursts.  I was never able to get through any of his longer stories for this reason.  Loved all the short ones.  Rats in the Walls is still my favorite.

[Darkmere]

If Dune was a turn-off, go ahead and ignore everything else in the series.

He might mean the ending itself. Which, to be fair, is possibly the worst ending in sci-fi history, nearly cutting off mid-sentence. Read Dune Messiah if this is the case, as it was originally written to be read together, but was split in perhaps the worst possible place.

Speaking of bad endings reminds me... Anyone else feel completely ripped off and unfulfilled at the end of Dracula? That was... terrible...

[Ephemeriis]

I've been trying to push myself through a book of H. P. Lovecraft's stories, but they feel so tedious that I end up reading a bunch of comic books instead.

The thing you need to realize with Lovecraft is that, basically, nothing happens.

Generally speaking, you've got some kind of eldritch horror that you can't even look at without going insane.

Then you've got a bunch of suspicious stuff going on.  Hints that things aren't right.  Suspicion.  Folks doing research to figure out what could be happening.

And then the "resolution", if you can call it that, is that everybody runs screaming into the night.  Or has their minds blasted by the mere thought of what could be lurking in the darkness.  Or dies under mysterious circumstances.

You aren't going to see any real action.  You aren't going to have a big ol' confrontation with the bad guy.  You aren't even going to really see the bad guy, because folks are going to go insane as soon as they look at him.

It's all hints and suggestions and suspicions.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

That isn't always the case with Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu and The Shunned House end in fairly action-y ways.