Caught up to side stories in Side Jobs by Jim Butcher. It’s a short stories collection in Dresden Files universe. Only 1 short story and 1 novella remaining in the book. Short story is after next the book and the novella is after the book after that.
Now reading The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. I have this book in my library for over 15 years. Bought it a long time ago just by looking at King’s name, but then assumed it must be a part of a series (at that time all fantasy I had read were part of series), so left it for later and then forgot. Someone mentioned the book somewhat recently, and I looked it up again and found out it’s a standalone book, so finally reading it now.
It’s written in very different style from King’s usual work, like a tale told orally. It’s also a medieval fantasy, with kings, magic and dragons. Also, not as long, less than 400 pages. I am about halfway done, and enjoying the book. Should finish it soon-ish.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Just finished 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Really interesting regarding the Kennedy assassination and time travel
I failed at finishing Quicksilver by Neil Stephenson. I really like a lot of his other works (Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, D.O.D.O., et al), but this one in particular I found too cumbersome to get through. It seems the main story/plot revolves around the fact that the author was learning about historical trivia and then tied all of these into the vicinity of a main character. To me, that’s not really much of a foundation for a story unless it is combined with character arcs and developments, for example the way Forrest Gump does it is perfect - there’s an actual story there that stands well on its own, it just happens to tie in with historical events.
So instead I picked up Dungeon Crawler Carl on audible after someone mentioned it here on Lemmy. Loving it so far.
The Eyes of the Dragon is my favorite King story. There is a brief moment at the end which implies a tangential connection to other works.
I’ve been struggling lately to get through books for a few months. This week was a breakthrough in that struggle, I needed some distraction and was able to get the focus I needed.
I finally finished We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson and A Prayer For The Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers just as last week. I’m gonna start reading Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees which should be fairly quick and if I can; optimistically move onto Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman.
These all help progress my Bingo sheet.
Just finished the first mistborn arc. I can see why people had mixed feelings about it. The final empire is excellent, but it feels a little like it was intended to be standalone, then he got a little stuck in book 2. But he brings it back around and the full story works, and the slow part in the second book does pay off.
Started into Wax and Wayne, and it’s cool to see how the utilization of the same powers evolved in the time between.
Since you have just finished Arc 1 and started Arc 2, how much would I miss if I start Arc 2 but only recall main plot points from Arc 1 without all the details and characters?
I wouldn’t worry too much about it. It’s well into the future, and the world is very different from the first arc. I’m not that deep, but I can say pretty confidently that I don’t think you’ll need to know anything from the first set to immerse yourself in the second. There are places named for characters, and religions are connected to players in the first story, but they’re all historical figures at this point (potentially minus some timeless figures from the bigger Cosmere, though that’s just guessing from my other reading of his Cosmere novels).
Yeah, I know it’s well into the future, but it’s still a sequel so was thinking if I should read the original trilogy again. I have read them twice, so they should be a pretty quick read, but I may also get bored because of that, I have become less patient when it comes to books now.
Well, I won’t be starting it this week, so just finish the books and let me know if I am safe. I may still decide to re-read them first, but at least then I would be doing it because I want to, not because I have to. Makes a big difference.
I loved the first arc, it was my first Sanderson books but agree the second book is a little slower. I want to revisit the second arc as I haven’t read the newest book and wasn’t paying full attention for the first 2 books really. I think the latest book is release soon if it remember correctly so I may wait for that and then do all the books through from the beginning of the second arc.
I’m looking forward to the third arc more I think although I’m sure that is a while off yet!
I personally really like the trilogy still. I just see why I got a couple “push through and make sure you get to Wax and Wayne”. I still teared up at the ending lol.
I know book 5 of the Stormlight Archive is coming in December. I’m definitely excited for that. I have no clue about more Mistborn stuff other than that the third arc is about the Ghostbloods, who appear in the Stormlight books.
Devolution by Max Brooks I loved his other works and I saw this one in a book store. I grabbed the audio book from Libby I’m enjoying it so far
