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So what are you all reading? (sopuli.xyz)

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And how are you liking it?

I'm working my way through Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett and it's solid so far, lots of fun, very compelling. I'm not the fastest reader but I'm already halfway done after just a few days.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Finally on Book 10 of the "Malazan: Book of the Fallen" series by Steven Erikson, "The Crippled God". Been a long road getting through this series. Started at the end of June. It's had it's ups and downs. I adore Book 5 but hated books 2 and 3, and I'm not a fan of how many plots are surely going to be left unresolved at the end of Book 10.

...I guess that's why there's another 17 books in the series or whatever, but I'm likely done with it once Book 10 is done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I had a similar issue with books two and three and unfortunately stopped reading after them. They were well written but I read to relax; I can deal with a little darkness but those books were downright bleak.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Impressive you soldered on after hating 2 & 3 (2 is my overall fav and I loved 3). It's an epic finale, hope you enjoy it! I said I was done with the series too, but The God Is Not Willing drew me back in and now I'm sizing up the ICE novels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My feelings on books 2 and 3 are complicated; but I hated book 2 because I saw the ending coming from a hundred pages in ("ohhh, this is gonna be tragic AF, right?") and I just in general found 2 and 3 to be much darker than I like. I mean, those books are both SO dark.

But dark doesn't mean they were badly written, or even badly plotted, and both books still had moments of incredible beauty, or stunning revelation, or twisted WTF that made me gawk.

It's a good series; I just think Steven Erikson is too mean to his characters. ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's a heavy series, definitely. 2 and 3 are especially grim books tbf. In fact I hated 2 myself back when I read it the first time as a teen. It's only when I went back in my 30s and tried again it became one of my favourite reads ever.