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- ENDUT! HOCH HECH!
Obviously, there's still 250 pages left, so there's plenty of time to botch it. I'm an optimist by nature though.
About 3/4 of the way through The Wise Man's Fear. Enjoying it very much so far. I would say it actually reads quicker than The Name of the Wind, and it's a stronger book in general. Those who liked the first can gladly enjoy the second one.
Obviously, there's still 250 pages left, so there's plenty of time to botch it. I'm an optimist by nature though.
Yeah, I doubt the ending's botched, reviews have been glowing so far and Rothfuss did take his time with it (as opposed to, say, Sanderson).
Funny you say it reads faster than TNofW as that one is over 300 pages shorter than TWMF.
About 3/4 of the way through The Wise Man's Fear. Enjoying it very much so far. I would say it actually reads quicker than The Name of the Wind, and it's a stronger book in general. Those who liked the first can gladly enjoy the second one.
Obviously, there's still 250 pages left, so there's plenty of time to botch it. I'm an optimist by nature though.
I'm in the middle of this one myself. I haven't had much time to read the last few weeks because I've been trying to get a house to move in condition, but I've been reading a few pages here and there every spare moment I can find.
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I'm in the midst of reading a collection of short stories called "The Beautiful & the Grotesque" by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Akutagawa wrote a short story (not in this collection) called "In A Grove" which was the basis for the film "Rashoman". It was a bit of a slog trying to get through the first story. I don't think I'm going to continue on with it.
The one thing I will say about him and other Japanese artists is that they don't shy away from depicting the seedy underbelly of life.
Tatsumi Yoshihiro's manga collection " The Push Man" (among many other mangaka)continues this tradition.
I'm in full on woody mode for Joe Abercrombie's "Heroes". For the first time ever I'm thinking of pre-ordering it.
Pre-ordering? That shit is out brother! You can pick it up at the bookstore this afternoon! This is next on my list once I finish Wise Man's Fear.
Dr. Mabuse wrote:
I'm in full on woody mode for Joe Abercrombie's "Heroes". For the first time ever I'm thinking of pre-ordering it.
Pre-ordering? That shit is out brother! You can pick it up at the bookstore this afternoon! This is next on my list once I finish Wise Man's Fear.
The UK edition (Gollancz) paperback with the nicer cover (axe over faux old-style map, matches the cover of the other fours books I have) is out in April, that's the one I ordered on Amazon.ca.
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Yeah it doesn't come out in Canada until the middle of April.Dr. Mabuse wrote:
I'm in full on woody mode for Joe Abercrombie's "Heroes". For the first time ever I'm thinking of pre-ordering it.
Pre-ordering? That shit is out brother! You can pick it up at the bookstore this afternoon! This is next on my list once I finish Wise Man's Fear.
It's funny you mentioned "Wise Man's Fear" I'm picking that up from my local library today.
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Yeah, I love those covers. This series has become my favourite to read. These would easily fall under my "need to read again and need to own" list of books.jay718 wrote:
Dr. Mabuse wrote:
I'm in full on woody mode for Joe Abercrombie's "Heroes". For the first time ever I'm thinking of pre-ordering it.
Pre-ordering? That shit is out brother! You can pick it up at the bookstore this afternoon! This is next on my list once I finish Wise Man's Fear.
The UK edition (Gollancz) paperback with the nicer cover (axe over faux old-style map, matches the cover of the other fours books I have) is out in April, that's the one I ordered on Amazon.ca.
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Just finishing up "The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters". Good book about 3 people thrown together and teaming up against a powerful cabal in a Victorian era/England-but-not fantasy world. I'd really recommend it, and thought I'd heard about it here but can't find any posts on it (perhaps my google-fu is weak).
Must have been on some other site I lurk about at and never post.
This book is so fun! It is one of the greatest high adventure books I've read.
My advice: DO NOT READ THE NEXT BOOK!
While there are a couple good action sequences, Dark Volume is just a disappointing mess. Everything that made the first book great is missing. I won't go too heavily into it in case you don't believe me, because the numerous points where you are angry at the book are the only things that actually illicit an emotional response.
This led us to the rather unknown first Barons' War where John defended his rule against a rebellion by 2/3rds of his vassals, combined with Scotland and France. And all this happened after John had signed the Magna Carta (which surprised me), although half-heartedly.
Also, it turned out that John had his enemies largely beat by the time of his sudden death late in 1216.
Picked up Turner's King John, the evil king? as well as Carpenter's the Struggle for Mastery 1066-1284 at Gatwick on the way back. This is proving fascinating reading. SO far I'm learning about John's early life and administration of England and the French possesions (basically Western France from Normandy to the Pyrenees).
The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: the Middle Ages has a few pages with great maps showing the conflict and Hillaire Belloc's Warfare in England provides some brilliant insights in the geographical importance of royal castles such as Windsor and Dover.
All this makes for a great game, as the whole things is finely ballanced between John's control of strategic castles and highly trained and mobile army against a host of enemies which are in the end mostly a result of him being an utter prick. His death may even have saved England from French domination as John's young son Henry (III) was a much more agreeable monarch than French Louis.
So UK Fatties: make sure to visit Rochester (take Chatham Docks in one sweep).
Another tip is Lewes, which also has a nice castle and sets the scene for the first battle in that other Barons' War. Oh, I could talk about this for hours!
This book is so fun! It is one of the greatest high adventure books I've read.
My advice: DO NOT READ THE NEXT BOOK!
Wow, thanks for the heads up! I was planning on picking it up in the near future.