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[dark2332]

Finished The White-Luck Warrior, the second book in Bakker's Aspect-Emperor series. What a fucking book that was. I'd put that up there with Martin's A Storm of Swords as one of my favorite fantasy novels. That book was just a constant onslaught of insanity. Violent, hectic fights for survival, sorcerous duels, a motherfucking dragon guarding a pile of treasure, a sociopathic child manipulating his royal mother into making terrible decisions, a shocking death of a key character...this book hits all the notes.

I definitely recommend checking out Bakker if any of you guys is looking for a new fantasy series to start. I've still got two books to go out of seven total, but this series seems to get better with each installment.

Do you need to read the Prince of Nothing to start on the Aspect-Emperor series?

 

[Jack Brickman]

Do you need to read the Prince of Nothing to start on the Aspect-Emperor series?

Yeah. I finished the third book a month or so ago.

Gonna read Lord of the Flies then move on to The Great Ordeal.

 

[foucault87]

Have people read Malzan Book of the Fallen? I am reading it on a slow burn (3 books in) but it has been really good. Its a bit slower than something like Mistborn or most of the Cosmere, but I really like it.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Have people read Malzan Book of the Fallen? I am reading it on a slow burn (3 books in) but it has been really good. Its a bit slower than something like Mistborn or most of the Cosmere, but I really like it.

Pretty sure I own the first book on Kindle but have yet to read it.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Have people read Malzan Book of the Fallen? I am reading it on a slow burn (3 books in) but it has been really good. Its a bit slower than something like Mistborn or most of the Cosmere, but I really like it.

I read a bunch of them. They're long, dense, with a lot happening. Pretty good as I remember. There were different plotlines that sometimes would skip entire books. So the problem with reading a series like that when it is incomplete is that you almost have to reread the whole thing every time a new book comes out. Obviously, that doesn't apply once the series is complete.

 

[foucault87]

I read a bunch of them. They're long, dense, with a lot happening. Pretty good as I remember. There were different plotlines that sometimes would skip entire books. So the problem with reading a series like that when it is incomplete is that you almost have to reread the whole thing every time a new book comes out. Obviously, that doesn't apply once the series is complete.

Unlike ASOIAF, this one is finished.

 

[Jack Brickman]

So the problem with reading a series like that when it is incomplete is that you almost have to reread the whole thing every time a new book comes out.

Yeah, that's an issue that keeps popping up for me when I read books from prolific writers like Sanderson or Abercrombie as they come out. A new one will come out and I'll start it only to realize I only remember major events from the previous book(s) and then I'm stuck re-reading one, two, five, seven fucking books just so I can keep up with what the hell is going on.

 

[Sebastian]

Gonna read Lord of the Flies then move on to The Great Ordeal.

"Sucks to your asthmar, Piggy!"

 

[RonG]

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds​

By David Goggins
David's book is amazing i reccommend you do the book on tape, its him and another guy and he stops reading and expands on the stories. Motivated the shit out of me. I am down 60 pounds now.

 

[letgocavs]

Just read an action drama titled "where all light tends to go" quick and easy read with good suspense and quality of 3 d characters. I just got into reading this year. Have knocked out 4 books. After reading 4 last year and maybe one or two the past 15 years. I've realized I can't read non fiction. It's so boring trying to read about someone's boring ass life. Give me fiction 10/10 times. Really gets the creative juices flowing.

 

[letgocavs]

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds​

By David Goggins
David's book is amazing i reccommend you do the book on tape, its him and another guy and he stops reading and expands on the stories. Motivated the shit out of me. I am down 60 pounds now.

I just read it this year and I love his message and his videos and interviews, but as a new reader I've found non fiction books to be such a drag to get through. This one was no different. Takes me a couple of weeks to knock out a book of fiction. This one took me months.

 

[RonG]

I just read it this year and I love his message and his videos and interviews, but as a new reader I've found non fiction books to be such a drag to get through. This one was no different. Takes me a couple of weeks to knock out a book of fiction. This one took me months.

I did the book on tape, was really entertaining

 

[letgocavs]

I did the book on tape, was really entertaining

He's truly an American hero. The best motivational speaker around.

 

[N7RobBob]

I did the book on tape, was really entertaining

I did the Themis Files on audiobooks. Read the 1st, but finished 2nd & 3rd listening and it was awesome. It's sci-fi but set up as after action reports or interviews to tell what happened in the story.

Audiobooks with good direction and narration are awesome. Finally got around to Neverwhere and it was the BBC production with James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Christopher Lee and Benedict Cumbebatch.

I spend an hour 1 day in my car listening to books. Very enjoyable.

 

[Jack Brickman]

I'm about midway through The Unholy Consult, the final book in Bakker's The Aspect-Emperor series. This book is fucking wild. It's been something like 100+ pages at this point of pure battlefield insanity (maybe closer to 200), and what is probably the largest-scale fantasy battle I've ever read about.

I'm assuming that everything is going to go tits up and end terribly for most involved, but if nothing else, it's a crazy, nightmarish spectacle.