Burning TBR Edition>Old:>>24948206>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>>24956480I can only judge with my own eyes, and i judge she chose poorly.>>24956500Honestly i genuinely didnt get past 30 pages on my re-read but i can agree that the task set before him was gargantuan. His handling of things like war and battles was so abhorrent it beggars belief though, the people that decry 'marvel quips' were on the right track. Most of the times a defeated commander just dies but just for the sake of glazing the victorious one he survives and dies to his hand specifically. Ambushing someone? Make sure you announce yourself and grandstand first! Whatever else Jordans problems were he understood war in a way sanderson was clearly incapable of.
Started reading Bleak Season... when is Murgen's retelling of events going to end?
>>24957236Is he still a mopey self absorbed bitch?
>>24957239You mean like in this book? I'm on chapter 6 so don't know.
>>24957236It won't. BS is the most downer book in the entire series.
>>24957301So, you mean that the whole book is just retelling of the previous one, but from different perspective?
>>24957236at the end of the book
Started reading some Tad Williams for the first time, The Dragonbone ChairAbout halfway through, and I like it a lot
How is Lies Weeping?
>>24957211Marry GrannyFuck NannyKill Magrat
>>24957395>marrying the virgin>fucking the hoe>killing the wackjob Based asf.
>>24957543>tfw never ever alt reality ridcully getting primo alt reality granny pussmultiple kids btw
I read The Fifth Head of Cerberus recently and Number 5's metaphorical hell life as someone trapped in a loop surrounded by dysgenic clones and a cargo cult of alien immigrants that imitate his culture reminded me a lot of... browsing 4chan.
>>24957211The Blackfire Blade, The Final Legacy #2 - James Logan (2025)I'm pleased to say that I found The Blackfire Blade to be impressively better than The Silverblood Promise. The best change was that progression of the story felt much more organic. Each scene naturally transitioned to the next rather than than seeming like an arbitrary assemblage. This is an improvement in aesthetics in that the seams of how the story was put together are no longer visible. However, the inciting event that propels everything that happens definitely could've been better. I also dislike how the characters aren't really making their own decisions for almost the entire time. Fortunately, it's done in way that I don't really have a problem with. The other major change is that unlike the first book, which was almost entirely from Lukan's perspective, his two companions are also viewpoint characters. Lukan can't carry the narrative by himself, so this works better.The characters say they've undergone development, but that hasn't yet borne itself out yet. Maybe their changes will be more apparent in the third book. It's somewhat unusual that the book has a platonic friendship between the adult male and female characters. In most books there would be sexual tension or try to progress towards something romantic. I wouldn't say it's refreshing, but it's an interesting change of pace. The 11 year old companion is still strange. She doesn't act like she is at all and really ought to have been aged up. It's more out of place because the story leans less into comedy, intentional or not, and takes itself somewhat more seriously.I suspected that this series would be mostly self-contained and so far that's the case. The setting is a different city with both new and returning faces. The investigations and heists continue on in a snow city. Alchemy, inventions, golems, and a sealed entrance to a mountain await. Also, yeah, the key from the first book. All signs point to that the third book will follow the same pattern. For new readers or those for whom it's been a while, the book starts with a recap of what happened in the first book. This is funny to me because this isn't really a book that needs it, though I would like recaps to become more common.I really appreciate reading a follow up to a debut novel where the author has significantly improved. I hope Logan continues to improve, because if he does, I'll surely be reading what he writes as it fulfills a specific niche in the kind of fantasy that I want to read at times. I mean this in the best way possible that it's standard fare fantasy done well. Yes, it also has a knowing smirk about it that it is, but that's part of its charm. The references are still present and differ from the first book. Two influences may be Dishonored and Borderlands. I'm surprised to say that this was one of the books I most enjoyed reading this year. I was more excited than could be reasonably expected.Rating: 4.5/5
>>24957732I really ought to have rated more books 4.5, so eventually I'm going to go back through my books read and let them be as such. It'll change nothing at all except how I feel, but that seems worthwhile.
>>24957732Thanks anon, I'm going to check this series out because of your review.
>>24957755For reference, here are my thoughts on the first book. https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23416579#p23416609
>so, why did you decide to eradicate an entire race?>god told me to
>>24957827ALWAYS FORWARDALWAYS DOWN
Alright Attanasioanon, I'm giving Radix a shot. So far it's okay, but the protagonist is extremely chuddy.
Anything like pic rel?
anything like pic rel?
>>24957211How is Brandon Sanderson taken seriously as this big figure in fantasy? I have a friend that's read literally everything he's written. He reads actual good books too so I thought I'd check him out but all I see are female protags, YA, and millennial writing (that apparently ruined his best series). He's been begging me to read him. At most I'll go by this meme and Elantris because it's his first and the concept interests me but I'm shocked because I was expecting way more from the hype given.
Greg Egan's short stories are much better than his novels. He even sounds human in some of them.
>>24957349murgen the sad boy somehow nailed a qt asian waifu
>>24958175That's a lie. No one that reads actual good books also reads Sanderson
>>24958175Emperor’s Soul is fucking trash, but the first Mistborn was one of my favorite books of the year. The Way of Kings is supposed to be good. I think you’re putting to much on him. Hes like King. He just shits generally good stuff out.
>>24958156Have you read the Episode III novelization? It's legitimately good.
>>24958156What from that do you want in a book?
>>24958345
stah waas :D
kotor 1 > kotor 2
Thoughts on Le Guin's sci-fi?I enjoyed Earthsea a lot
>>24956637>Imagine your life's work is literally nitpicking other people's creations, thoughIsn't that what wives are for lol
>>24958244Nah like he reads classic lit as in stuff besides Tolkien and collects high quality bindings for his personal library but for whatever reason he's a cosmere superfan has all the hardbacks because he wants the acid free paper to preserve his library. Imagine 'inheriting' Sanderson books.
>>24958151Been looking for 'prison fantasy' too. Or at least good stories set in prison. Part of what made me interested in Elantris but I'm guessing it won't actually be that prevalent when I read it.
>>24958363It's alright but it's overrated because she's a woman. It's very inherently political and she once said something like that capitalism must be questioned and that art is one medium by which to do that, so she clearly had her ideas about what should be taken away from her work.
How do I get into PKD?
where do i start bros?
>>24957211Reading Ted Chiang because an anon recommended it to me. FUCK it is good
>>24958451Short stories are the funniest and the easiest. These are my favourites:https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41562/41562-h/41562-h.htmhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/28554/28554-h/28554-h.htm
