Book crew: what are you reading?

[Harry Caray]

i think im going to give Gravity's Rainbow another shot, anyone read that?

Anything Pynchon is going to be a good time, read it years ago (dad's copy) but now that I'm older, def want to give it another shot.

Also he has his original Dune books I'd love to dig into

 

[wildflower]

Just finished The Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry. Excellent - part two of Lonesome Dove.

Currently rereading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. A book that cries to be made into a movie, but no one seems to know how.

 

[wildflower]

i think im going to give Gravity's Rainbow another shot, anyone read that?

I couldn't do it.

 

[Sphygmo]

i think im going to give Gravity's Rainbow another shot, anyone read that?

Sure did


Boy that was something

 

[Sphygmo]

Just finished The Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry. Excellent - part two of Lonesome Dove.

Currently rereading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. A book that cries to be made into a movie, but no one seems to know how.

I got his new one - the passenger waiting on me


Excited to try it

 

[Gotcha38]

Will be starting this next.

I really enjoyed getting a look at The Fool and seeing some stuff written from his perspective.

 

[lowfat]

I really enjoyed getting a look at The Fool and seeing some stuff written from his perspective.

Spoiler: Liveships

Really liked their character in Liveships. So much better than the first trilogy.

 

[Gotcha38]

Spoiler: Liveships

Really liked their character in Liveships. So much better than the first trilogy.

I agree 100%.

 

[silkforcalde]

I mean....it depends on what your definition of "major" is, but I would consider these pretty major characters:

Spoiler: wot

Egwene al'Vere
Birgitte Silverbow
Gawyn Trakand
Rhuarc, Clan Chief of the Taarad Aiel, Nine Valleys Sept. Aethan Dor
Suian Sanche
Gareth Byrne
Davram and Diera Bashere
Alanna Mosvani
Hurin

Sure, only three of them were there from the very beginning of the series, but that doesn't take away from their impact on the story.

that's like 1% of the cast and

Spoiler

Birgitte doesn't actually die, she just returns to the patten.

 

[silkforcalde]

the fool was the best genderfluid fantasy character since Pie'oh'pah

 

[amalgamas]

that's like 1% of the cast and

Spoiler

Birgitte doesn't actually die, she just returns to the patten.

yeah, but see you're moving the goalposts now, cause first you said no one major and now you're making it about how many of them died.

Spoiler

that's a quibble cause technically everyone not killed by balefire (and immediately rescued by the Dark One) returns to the pattern when they die, she was definitely murked, then brought back by the horn, then faded away because she was being reborn with no memories so you could call that personality death since her character has faded from the story.

 

[amalgamas]

Spoiler: Liveships

Really liked their character in Liveships. So much better than the first trilogy.

it's too bad that the Rain Wild Chronicles were kinda meh

 

[lowfat]

it's too bad that the Rain Wild Chronicles were kinda meh

Still 3+ books away for me.

 

[silkforcalde]

yeah, but see you're moving the goalposts now, cause first you said no one major and now you're making it about how many of them died.

Spoiler

that's a quibble cause technically everyone not killed by balefire (and immediately rescued by the Dark One) returns to the pattern when they die, she was definitely murked, then brought back by the horn, then faded away because she was being reborn with no memories so you could call that personality death since her character has faded from the story.

i said almost no one major. 1% counts. only one out of that list was a really main character, possibly two, and it's not a quibble at all with the other character, she's there until the very end of the story and gets a happy ending. that's not a death.

 

[amalgamas]

Still 3+ books away for me.

by that point I feel like Hobb was getting burnt out, it has its good parts and she caps off some parts from Liveships in a great way, but for the most part it's just kinda meh.

Also I think that was around the time when she started her multi-author coalition against fanfiction authors IIRC.

 

[amalgamas]

i said almost no one major. 1% counts. only one out of that list was a really main character, possibly two, and it's not a quibble at all with the other character, she's there until the very end of the story and gets a happy ending. that's not a death.

 

[silkforcalde]

it's too bad that the Rain Wild Chronicles were kinda meh

no way, those were the best out of the bunch

 

[silkforcalde]

Still 3+ books away for me.

he's wrong, hobb never got burnt out. rain wild chronicles is amazing. the last trilogy gets off to a slow start but the third book is the best single volume out of the entire set of series.

 

[silkforcalde]

the tawny man got off to a slow start too though, well once you get past the dutiful part

 

[amalgamas]

no way, those were the best out of the bunch

he's wrong, hobb never got burnt out. rain wild chronicles is amazing. the last trilogy gets off to a slow start but the third book is the best single volume out of the entire set of series.

nope, not getting sucked into this.

let's just say that I strongly disagree with everything you say on this matter, let him read it himself and figure it out for himself.

K?

good.

 

[amalgamas]

TWO CAN PLAY AT THE CLOWN GAME

 

[Sphygmo]

All I know is the wheel of time fucking sucks lol

 

[silkforcalde]

you could tell brandon sanderson didn't find the spanking tasteful, that element was dropped so much after robert jordan died

 

[silkforcalde]

wheel of time has more women being spanked than the rest of the books i've ever read combined

 

[Miesha Taint]

What Sanderson books gave you read? I certainly have problems with some of them, just curious what you are basing your opinion on.

had to search my Kindle library for "Sanderson" cuz I couldn't remember

apparently I read the first chapter of the Stormlight and Mistborn series

they were lazily written and poorly edited imo

most of all, they both did bad job of introducing people and places