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Finished it.
That was really fun.
As for the ending...
"He was filled with that wonderful feeling, one that happens to a man a handful of times at most over the course of his life, when every of his hindrances, in solid material form, was within the range of his fist."
So, heh, in the lull before you have another round of talking about Mistborn, I wanted to say I'm reading one of these sci-fi novels of the Eighties. For those who didn't read my post on the nature of SF&F over here - it was the time when the Party still held the land in strong grip, but it was felt its rule was essentially on borrowed time. Sci-fi at that time was pretty much an elaborate way of sticking it to the man.
So, the book I'm reading is about mankind conquered by bear-like (heh heh) aliens, and surviving people trying to live between the perpetual insufficience of resources and absurd "rational" system imposed by the aliens and their own collaboratory government. It's pretty obvious in reading, what it's all about. Must've been fun, to read and write these kinds of stories back in the day.
So I've been reading Ghost Story and.
This book is kind of depressing so far.
kind of
@Forzare: Well I'm not very far yet so I dunno how much worse it gets.
@ClockworkUniverse: True. Still, it's different. The last few books were pretty dark, but it's a different kind of darkness.
Ghost Story is the less the kind of dark of escalating violence and danger and more the dark of Harry seeing how people fall apart when he has been gone for a year.
Yeah exactly. (Although it's actually less than a year, which really just makes it worse how bad things have gotten when we pick up.)
Finished Ghost Story.
Wow.
Not quite as wow-worthy as Changes, perhaps, but few things are. I completely didn't see the big twist coming, even though in retrospect it seems like I could've figured it out if I'd thought about it.
The actual ending-ending, however, I saw coming a mile off, aside from Demonreach's involvement.
I'm in the middle of a reread of Ghost Story, before I start Cold Days. About halfway through.
Nah that was pretty cool.As for the first spoiler block, yeah, they point out that Kincaid is the most likely suspect in what, chapter 5? I was half-convinced someone else would turn out to be the kille just because it would be too obvious otherwise, but what we got...was not too obvious. My actual first guess was that an agent of Summer (specifically Fix) killed him, what with how his last encounter with Harry went and the fact that Harry's the Winter Knight and stuff. However I abandoned that guess pretty quickly after it became clear that the faeries weren't going to be playing a big role in the story, after which point I was just like "Iunno".
Cold Days. Yes. I have to get it. The library does not have it. Boooo.
Well, I was buying some Christmas presents on Amazon anyway...
Alright. Copy of Cold Days acquired. Hooray for ultra-fast December Amazon shipping.
It was pretty grand, but I expected more Santa Claus from what people told me.
I love Angela Carter.
Man. Reading Cold Days it's like Butcher just decided "fuck loose ends".
but the series is only like 60% done
I get the feeling that tit's meant to be, to some extent, the "beginning of the end". I could be wrong obviously but a lot of it feels like it's setting up for the planned apocalyptic conclusion.
Also I say it's tying up loose ends but both of the big reveals at this point just have just raised further questions. (Though I'm only halfway.)
You realize that it's book 14 of 23, right? The apocalyptic trilogy will likely be out in the mid to late 2020s.
And?
There's been a fairly consistent one-a-year release schedule. The concluding trilogy will likely be released over the start of the new decade, from 2019 to 2021.
^^Well, it would be kind of odd to make book 14 be the setup for book 21, is all. Presumably, the setup for book 21 will be book 20.
Keeping in mind that book 14 is essentially the payoff from a plot thread left dangling in book 4, it doesn't seem all that unlikely...
But I didn't mean to claim that it was the entirety of the setup or that it would lead directly into it, just that certain elements have been introduced that feel like they are going to be important in the big finale. Moreso than any other given book in the series, that is.
Ah, okay.
Bought Cold Days today
I finally finished Snow Crash, and I really should have done it sooner. I'm waiting until Christmas to get Cold Days, so in the meantime, I'll probably make another attempt at Blood Meridian and/or read Turn of the Screw. Don't know when I'll return to The Way of Kings.
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