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  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    >:(

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    >:(


  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2012-12-20 00:18:32
    Has friends besides tanks now

    it's nice to have such an easy way of trolling people


    also



    I read enough of it to know that it's mostly good.



    also also



    >:(



    so nyeh

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    But yeah, I guess I can see how you might not like his narration style. Even though it's perfectly serviceable, it might just not appeal to you.

  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2012-12-20 00:24:13
    Has friends besides tanks now

    It's weird; in terms of writing, I actually quite like the dialogue (though if I remember correctly, he's one of many writers who's prone to writing said-bookisms adverbially).

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Well, liking narration is a purely subjective thing. I can't stand Terry Pratchett's writing, for example, although he's a brilliant writer.

  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2012-12-20 00:33:56
    Has friends besides tanks now

    Well, liking narration is a purely subjective thing.



    Yeah. It's just weird that I can really like one aspect of his way-of-putting-words-on-paper and really dislike another aspect of it.



    I can't stand Terry Pratchett's writing, for example, although he's a brilliant writer.



    Hmm. Not to say you're wrong, since this is subjective and all, but out of curiosity, as a fan of his who admittedly hasn't read any of him in a while: what do you dislike about Pratchett? I suppose I could look through The Way of Kings again and try to better articulate my feelings about Sanderson, in fairness.

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    It is generally thought, on those worlds where the mall lifeform has seeded, that people take the wire baskets away and leave them in strange and isolated places, so that squads of young men have to be employed to gather them together and wheel them back. This is exactly the opposite of the truth. In reality the men are hunters, stalking their rattling prey across the landscape, trapping them, breaking their spirit, taming them and herding them to a life of slavery. Possibly.



    It's just... weird.


    I can't really place it. It's a combination of the writing style and the word choice, which makes it painful to read.


    It's definitely not bad by any stretch of the imagination. I just don't like it personally.

  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2012-12-20 00:47:48
    Has friends besides tanks now

    Hmm. I suppose it is kinda weird. Though I like that passage a lot. Which book is it from?


    EDIT: In hindsight, I wonder if my main reason for discontinuing WoK is actually a loss of momentum; a lot of it is better than I would have remembered. It's mostly phrases like:



    Men did that too, he thought. Once.



    that grate. Actually, I think it's his narrative one-liners in general that fall flat for me.

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Reaper Man, IIRC.


    As I said, it's not bad. It just... turns me off the narration.

  • AlkthashAlkthash
    I'm a damn twisted person

    Well in general, Discworld narration is perpetually tongue in cheek and prone to digressions and overwrought metaphors. I can see some of those things turning people off. 

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    oh my god


    cold days is the best book i have read in like


    ever

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I just finished it about a minute ago.



    The Dresden Files continues to be one of my favorite series ever.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    im only a quarter in no spoilers

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    So catching up on things I've been reading



    • Read Cold Days, its's pretty great. Won't go into detail too much since I don't to spoil anything but Harry needs to team up with Santa to save Christmas now.

    • Reading The Valis Trilogy by Philip K Dick. I'll have to reread it one day because even only doing about a chapter a day makes it pretty difficult to read

    • Reading Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman. This book series is pretty great if you're fond of that particular era when genre fiction was really on the rise. I particularly like that Dracula is this large looming overarching force that influences events, making him a bit more like Castlevania Dracula than classic Dracula.

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Mac. ;_; why would you do this to mac

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    "Hey, wasn't there seven of you guys a moment ago?"


    this book is the bestest thing

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    finished cold days



    symmetries


    symmetries everywhere

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    Jesus you guys read fast.
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    it took me like two weeks
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    ...Jesus you Nova read fast.



    I'm pretty close to finished it myself actually. Probably will next time I sit down to read.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Not getting it until Christmas T_T

  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2012-12-20 15:13:32
    Has friends besides tanks now

    Would've been fine with getting it for Christmas, but apparently mom didn't think I wanted it added to my book list, so I guess I'll get it myself today, to catch up with you folks, and because I just finished another good book.

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled

    I considered asking for it for Christmas but I decided I didn't want to wait.

  • All NinesAll Nines
    Has friends besides tanks now
    Got it.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    I finished Cold Days in a little less than a week. 


    There are a couple of books I'm waiting on because I'm pretty sure I'll be getting some gift cards. 

  • KrakenKraken

    Actually, I finished Cold Days in one day.

  • AlkthashAlkthash
    I'm a damn twisted person

    Two days for me. 

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Four hours.

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    For the record, I can't finish a book in one sitting. Physically unable. Child with ADD and all that.

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