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

    I kept getting distracted, as it was like midnight.

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    Finished.



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

    the entire book


    is basically just a puzzle piece

  • AlkthashAlkthash
    I'm a damn twisted person

    Nova let me just ask this as plainly as possible - are you a wizard? Reading 500+ pages in 4 hours while distracted and tired, that's that's.... yeah are you a wizard?

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    @Nova: yes. but then...things happened and oh my god and I can't talk about it because making spoilers on my phone is a pain, but



    that was ALMOST Changes-tier in holy shit-itude
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Nova let me just ask this as plainly as possible - are you a wizard? Reading 500+ pages in 4 hours while distracted and tired, that's that's.... yeah are you a wizard?



    It's a page every 30 seconds. While understanding it all, relating it back to previous events, keeping up with narrative flow, and noting themes and styles. So no, I am not a wizard. :|



    that was ALMOST Changes-tier in holy shit-itude



    Nope.


    Rather, Cold Days was more... we've taken a step back and we're seeing the conflict for what it actually is.


    Not even close to the 'holy shit' that was Changes though.

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    Overall it's place in the series is very different yes. Changes was the end of phase one, Cold Days the beginning of phase two, more or less.



    But I still got similar feelings from the endings.
  • KrakenKraken

    The best Christmas gift that I ever got this year was Santa Claus with a longsword.

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Are we talking colloquial longswords or technical longswords? 

  • SaturnSaturn
    Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!

    So what is the Dresden thing anyway

  • KrakenKraken

    Urban detective noir fantasy.


    It is so much fun.


    Alex: I really don't know. And I don't have my copy with me right now.

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

    Also, he makes a lot references to Star Wars and Spider-man and punched out an Elder God once.

  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2012-12-22 10:54:22
    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 is the thing I stole Forzare from.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    Someone mentioned Blood Meridian


    I am forced to post this: http://letterstoatticus.tumblr.com/post/37072532567/cormac-mccarthy-goes-to-the-grocery-store

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

    Reading Deeper by James Moore since my uncle lent it to me and rereading Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress by Michael Moorcock since The Hobbit put me in a heroic fantasy mood.

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    I got myself some Fritz Leiber to read, personally.

  • JHMJHM
    Here, There, Everywhere

    I really should like to read more Fritz Leiber.


    At the moment, I'm reading Harlan Ellison's collection Angry Candy. It's... dark. Great, though.

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled

    So...should I read Elantris or Warbreaker first? Leaning toward the former.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Can't comment on Warbreaker, but Elantris is awesome.
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2012-12-26 14:40:02
    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'd say Elantris because it's great.



    I never actually got more than like fifty pages into Warbreaker.
  • AlkthashAlkthash
    I'm a damn twisted person
    So yeah, Way of Kings is pretty great. First time since Cold Days that I've gotten 100+ pages in a book before realizing I never stopped reading.



    Liking the setting here so far. The world sounds like a freaking wreck and the plants and creatures in it seem bizarre and fantastic. Going to keep reading to get to the plotty bits once stuff kicks into high gear.
  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2012-12-26 16:36:54
    Has friends besides tanks now

    I guess I'll give Way of Kings another try soon, to be fair on account of apparently even Jim Butcher's narration style annoys me now, as well. Mostly the said-bookisms and adverbs, and I'm still around page 400 or so into Cold Days (which is really good), but still. Never thought I'd have said that. :V

  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2012-12-27 01:07:09
    Has friends besides tanks now

    Finished Cold Days.


    "Masks, mantles," Kringle said. "What's the difference?"

    Damn. Not sure if that bodes well or poorly, but . . . damn.

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled

    Eh, I read it as a statement on events that had happened rather than events to come.

  • All NinesAll Nines
    Has friends besides tanks now

    I just thought it was interesting because Harry still does have a very dangerous mantle to hold onto, and it probably won't be going away anytime soon.

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    I originally figured he'd get rid of it somehow but given the ending...perhaps not.
  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2012-12-27 02:16:45
    Has friends besides tanks now

    I figured that if he didn't somehow shake out of it in this very book, it won't happen until some point in the apocalyptic trilogy, or very close to the start of it. And since he'll almost certainly have it for a while longer, and things are going to get worse, the mantle will probably do much worse to him, and the line between mantle and Harry will probably be blurred quite a bit; "is it the mantle, or is Harry using the mantle as a mask" type of thing. Pretty dark thought, but that idea's been beaten into my head pretty well at this point. And I'm definitely stretching to make that quote fit, since the Winter Knight mantle isn't remotely relevant to that particular conversation, but it leaves me wondering, and the quote was poignant by itself.

  • NyktosNyktos
    edited 2012-12-27 03:10:30
    a little muffled

    I figured that if he didn't somehow shake out of it in this very book, it won't happen until some point in the apocalyptic trilogy, or very close to the start of it.
    Yeah, same here, more or less. But Molly being Winter Lady more or less makes sure that it can't happen anytime soon because even if he found a way he'd pretty much be abandoning her if he did it, unless he could help her escape too, which seems less likely.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    gah


    i need to read this

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled

    Yes. Yes you do.

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