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I've finished A Trade of Blood. 4.5/5. I'll post my thoughts on it at a later date, as there's still 3 weeks until its publication. That gives some time for those interested to read the first two books in the series.Tainted Cuphttps://warosu.org/lit/thread/23277165#p23278906Drop of Corruption (I forgot to post it here, there's an archive problem, or something else) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6421326708
>Coughing, vomiting for convulsive violence, so intensethe insertion, hot and bulbous, thrusting aside the chillpaste of viscera. Grunting, blowing air, bull-huffing,bellowing—How—Sibawûl ... drowsy and almost dead, slack beneath hismonstrous exertions, his head rocking to the pelvic violence,bobbing like a drunkard fending oblivion.C I N E M A
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Is Tad Williams a good writer? I tried reading this but I didn't really get into it. It feels like there are five main characters just because the writer wanted there to be five main characters and not because the story he was telling needed that many characters.
Best SFF set underwater?
Thread's just not the same without you know what
>25404405You're not fooling anybody.>inb4 newfagFUCK BAYNEFAG.
Does Neal Stephenson have any good books? I liked the opening chapter of pic related and the chapters discussing Babylonian mythology but I wouldn't consider the rest to be very good. I'll generally read anything if the premise is interesting enough.
>>25404478I think The Diamond Age is his best book. Cryptonomicon is also very good, but only if you are a CS geek.
>>25404372That's just Tad being Tad. It may take 4 books and a million words, but all the characters do eventually do plot related stuff.
>>25404343Love this nigga like you wouldnt believe
Anybody here read John Wyndham? The Chrysalids was great. Jefferson Airplane did a song inspired by it.
>What did you just read?>What are you reading now?>What are you reading next?Legacy of Lehr by Katherine Kurtz and finished up The Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell.Currently reading The Essential ConanDon't know what I should read next.
>>25404421who is this retard?
>>25404224grabbed a copy of The Wounded Land from goodwill and found a crisp $50 bill insidethank you, mysterious Stephen R. Donaldson fan
>>25404372Tad is a great writer, but he's long winded and deliberate. If it's any consolation it always pays off, part of the experience of Tad Williams is getting annoyed by all the threads that he can't possibly resolve satisfactorily, and then watching him do exactly thatFor Otherland in particularly he needed a lot of different perspectives because there's a lot going on and he prefers his worldbuilding to be very character focused.You might like his fantasy offerings more because many perspectives and a large cast are the norm. But if you don't like those things generally then I wouldn't bother.
>>25404320So did I! Can you believe I found good threads about Arthur C. Clarke and fun SF instead of the general? Ewww!
>>25404593A good reward for those foolish but brave souls who will waste their time with that Lord of the Rapes.
>>25404532Fritz Leiber's The WandererKurt Vonnegut's Player Piano Still don't know
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>>25404611there was just the one rape and it was in the first trilogy. this is the 2nd.
>>25404624>there was just the one rapeDropped
>>25404628his rape-daughter later becomes an important character and tries to seduce him lol so it's the gift that keeps on giving
>>25404606Are you... secretly trying to pitch another on...Memory Sorrow and Thorn again?
>>25404606I don't mind long books. I love long books if they're well written. I just don't really get what Orlando is supposed to add to the plot when Irene and Xabbu are doing everything. Obviously they'll all meet up and form a party at some point as the different characters get drawn into the VR virus conspiracy but why have five characters who can hack stuff when you only need a few? I mean I'll probably read the whole thing eventually anyways because sci-fi is my autistic fixation but I don't really see the point. I've disliked stories with multiple pov characters since I read pic related as a teen. There are seven pov characters but Percy and Leo were the only ones I gave a damn about.
Is Green Angel Tower actually a 1000 page book about walking to/climbing up a giant tower because that's exactly the kind of book I'd like to read
BAKKER. IS. KING.
Oh look, pagespammer's split personality has shifted back over to the bakkerspammer persona!
>>25404717No, it is not. Senlin Ascends is.There are various others that are.
>>25404721Did pagespammer like bakker or dislike him?
>>25404703Kind of crazy to think that I read these books as a kid. You never really consciously consider how long or big a book is when you're young, because often in those times, those were the only books you had at any given time of that type. But that also ends up meaning that you consume those books as pure entertainment. Something to pass the time. You don't even remotely process what's going on and what it all actually means, years later I couldn't tell you what that post series was about, besides some kid building a metal dragon or some shit, and Percy going to a Roman equivalent of Camp Olympus
>>25404729Bakker was his first critical tear down here. It garnered a lot more support before he started criticizing megapopular books people actually liked.
>>25404729Split personalities are often completely different from the original persona so this excuse is getting pretty lame.
>>25404662no, and if i was i'd be doing a bad job of iti just like Tad Williams, i won't apologize!!!>>25404703the conceit is that it's a traditional RPG adventure party but with unusual presentationsTake Orlando, he's their fighter character, which is ironic as he's a child and a cripple on his deathbed. Fredericks is the thief, which is ironic because she's stealing male valorPaul is the powerful and noble knight but with a shadowy past and amnesia. Irene is the face and brains. Sellars is Gandalf. Xabbu exists to digital contrast the future with the spiritual past, and he has a little hobbit in him as well."everyone is a hacker" is annoying i agree, but it's a product of its time. a lot of 90s fiction was like "if you're good at computers you're a hacker". if the story was written today 95% of the characters would be social media regulars, not a hackerman
>>25404740Top 3 Tad Williams series? Rank em
>>25404721man it's been nearly 2 months since the ritual post. in that time pagespammer guy has been going crazy on 3 separate booksmaybe you're actually right
>>25404721You sound resentful
>>25404750Of course I'm fucking right. There's a direct link to between the end of bakkerspamming every single thread in existence to the sudden appearance of pagespammer.It's the same idiot.
>You sound resentfulIt's definitely the same guy, lmao.
>>25404732I've only started coming here for a couple weeks now, I wish i got to see that live. Has he read any Wolfe? Have a feeling there isn't a single wolfe book he wouldn't be completely filtered by
pagespammer is like a modern day dragon that demands virgins, only instead of virgins it's books for him to rub his bad brain juice onto, and instead of burning your village down in retaliation it's spamming unfunny memes
>bakker mentioned>thread derailedEvery single time
>>25404763Bernard Cornwell ended up being too intellectually demanding for him to get through. I'm not sure he'd be able to make it past the table of contents of The Shadow of the TorturerOne of my favorite subplots of pagespammer is that he's also really bad at pirating books and ends up grabbing shitty copies. There's a lot of really bad OCR rips of the Book of the New Sun books, it'd be so good to see him trip over one of the many typos and absolutely lose it>>25404770the thread hasn't been up very long and it's not even 50 posts deep. it's fine.
>>25404775>The Shadow of the TorturerIt would probably be smarter for him to get through the simpler ones like Soldier if the Mist or The Wizard Knight.I want to see him review The Sorceror's House and try to wrap his head about an unreliable con artist narrator
>>25404775>Pagebitch was filtered by Bernard CornwellLMAO, I knew he was an eternal fucking brainlet.
>>25404763What are you implying? That bakker filters? Why would you bring up filter out of nowhere.
>>25404793I didnt imply anything.
>>25404617>Still don't knowScratch that, I'll start Walter Tevis' Mockingbird.
>>25404703>>25404717I keep these big fantasy books in a separate box, in case I need to get rid of them to make room for better fantasy books.
>>25404858>bookshelf on a balcony attached to the house with explosive bolts, location above a dumpster
>>25404858I can't related because I'm a consumer who goes out of his way to collect hardcover books. Unfortunately I haven't been doing a good job of properly organizing and storing them until recently so I've just had stacks of books and blu-rays on the floor.
>>25404860I like your idea, but I'll want to keep the shelf.
>>25404862>hardcoverI hate them.
I tried to read king of elfland's daughter. I really did. I didn't like it. A shame, really.
>>25404865why?
>>25404869It's like using a 1980s mobile phone. Hard to carry around and too heavy to hold in your hands for long. Give me paperbacks! Which are like winter boots: made to take outside and get dirty.
>>25404869Not that anon, but a big hardcover is a lot less comfortable to read for extended periods of time. I have hardcovers of my favorite books but when I re-read them it's usually a paperback or epub.
>>25404866Unironically, filtered. Go back to Sanderson, buddy.
Just finished book one of malazan... do I continue? it feels corny
Does anyone read any sff magazines? I want to get a feel for the kind of work that is published these days and I think some of the stuff coming out of Clarkesworld can be decent - if a bit hit and miss. Are there any fantasy equivalents? Or any better places to read good modern sf?
I read 'This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me' and I liked it lads. Is it over for me?
>>25404775Bernard Cornwell is an okay writer but he has too many tropes that he repeats again and again across all his series, its why I think his Arthur Trilogy is his best because it doesn't go too long unlike near everything else he's done.
>>25404518>The ChrysalidsI read Day of the Triffids after reading at least 30 books about post-apocalyptic stuff, with some parts I got the strong feeling I read that before. Still have to read Re-Birth (The Chrysalids) although my 1955 copy is falling apart. What edition do you have?
