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Fantasy

Fantasy

A place to talk about anything Fantasy related. Really it can be anything from books, video games, artwork to film!

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Posted byb4ssm4st3rin/fantasy-Jan 20 at 9:30 AM

Weekend Reading... The its finally Friday edition

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I don't know about you guys but this has been a loong week for me. Basically since Wednesday I have been convinced it is Friday. But! It is finally here. Hopefully this weekend won't feel as short.

What are you guys reading this weekend? And did anyone else feel the same way?

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  • kenporustyJan 20 at 9:32 AM

    This week has felt so long! Not necessarily terrible, just dragging!

    I'm still reading Wishsong of Shannara, but by next weekend, I'll be on to the next book! Also, given that Amazon is grabbing it, I should reread Good Omens.

  • clickybangJan 20 at 2:23 PM

    Between books at the moment - I finished Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch on Thursday, and will be starting Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare sometime over the weekend. I'm not sure when I got suckered into reading series, I used to avoid them and preferred standalone books. Now everything is Part X of Y.

    • pedantherJan 20 at 10:44 PM

      How about that ending, huh?

      • clickybangJan 20 at 11:04 PM

        In Broken Homes? That utterly floored me. It was something that I briefly considered through Book 1, then forgot about until the end of this, Book 4. I'm seriously considering foregoing lunch money next week so I can order the next in the series.

  • KaelaJan 20 at 2:54 PM

    Very long week. This was my first week back at work after my ankle surgery, and it's been exhausting. Last weekend I read/listened to ALL of the first Mistborn book in 3 days (woo hoo long weekend), which was super awesome, and I was so sorely tempted to immediately start in on the second, but I knew if I did I wouldn't be able to get any work done this week. When I get into a book, it can be a problem, haha. But I know what my weekend plans are!!!

  • OculusWriterJan 20 at 12:27 PM

    Starting the last of the Hand Of Thrawn books, Vision Of The Future. The audiobooks feel so much like movies!

  • bluedepthJan 20 at 10:08 AM

    I'm reading Ringworld, by Larry Niven. So far pretty good.

  • SanasaiJan 20 at 4:02 PM

    Biography reading this weekend instead of fantasy. Working on The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. About the father of Alexandre Dumas, obviously. :)

    I do have Snow Crash to start too, but probably won't get started until I get through a couple more days worth of the Count.

  • pedantherJan 20 at 10:57 PM

    I recently finished reading Wylder's Hand by J. Sheridan le Fanu, who's best known these days for the vampire novel Carmilla. Wylder's Hand isn't technically fantasy: it's Gothic, which means that lots of ominous and creepy stuff happens but it all turns out to have a rational (if not necessarily plausible) explanation in the end.

    I enjoyed the actual story -- the central mystery is very cleverly plotted, and foreshadowed in ways that you don't notice except in retrospect -- but found the narration frequently distracting. It's balanced uncomfortably between the old style of novel where you had to explain who was narrating the story and how they knew what happened, and the modern style where you can just tell everything in third person, so it's supposedly a memoir written by Wylder's old chum Charles, but he disappears for huge chunks of the novel and in those bits the narration drifts into omniscient third. And even in the bits where he's present, he doesn't do anything. There were moments when I was taking malicious pleasure in imagining making a TV adaptation and leaving him out entirely.

  • TipaJan 21 at 6:57 AM

    I read "The Hike" by Drew Magary. Actually, I had jury duty Friday, and read it while waiting to not be selected.

    It's a decent enough book that mostly just sets up the twist at the end.

    A dad on a business trip decides to take a little hike before a meeting, and ends up being chased through a series of somewhat RPG-like fantasy worlds before he figures out the purpose and the identity of the mysterious Producer.

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