Thread: What are you reading?

Oathbringer by Sanderson. Not nearly as good as the first two books in this series. Kind of a slog, really. He's contracting Jordan's disease.

I wish more fiction began like this:

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents. They have hinted at strange survivals in terms which would freeze the blood if not masked by a bland optimism. But it is not from them that there came the single glimpse of forbidden aeons which chills me when I think of it and maddens me when I dream of it. That glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out from an accidental piecing together of separated things—in this case an old newspaper item and the notes of a dead professor. I hope that no one else will accomplish this piecing out; certainly, if I live, I shall never knowingly supply a link in so hideous a chain. I think that the professor, too, intended to keep silent regarding the part he knew, and that he would have destroyed his notes had not sudden death seized him.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

I wish more fiction began like this:

Man. This is a bit much. I'm really struggling with not spacing off while reading

Originally Posted by BroncoNut

Man. This is a bit much. I'm really struggling with not spacing off while reading

Try it this way.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Oathbringer by Sanderson. Not nearly as good as the first two books in this series. Kind of a slog, really. He's contracting Jordan's disease.

Yeah, after the first two it felt like he didn't know where he wanted to take the story.

Originally Posted by elsid13

Yeah, after the first two it felt like he didn't know where he wanted to take the story.

Yeah, I didn't even bother to finish Oathbringer. Shame! First two were amazing.

Had no idea Dave was an author using the pseudonym John Lindqvist.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Yeah, I didn't even bother to finish Oathbringer. Shame! First two were amazing.

Try Miles Cameron's Red Night series. A lot darker then Sanderson, but stories are similar engrossing. Cameron also writes a lot of good historical fiction.

Originally Posted by elsid13

Try Miles Cameron's Red Night series. A lot darker then Sanderson, but stories are similar engrossing. Cameron also writes a lot of good historical fiction.

I'll take a look. Have you read Joe Abercrombie books? The Blade Itself is the first of a series.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

I wish more fiction began like this:

You ever read any F. Paul Wilson?
Look him up if you haven't.
You will love his stuff.

Originally Posted by EastCoastBronco

You ever read any F. Paul Wilson?
Look him up if you haven't.
You will love his stuff.

Thank you for the recommendation.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Try it this way.

actually I reread it and it was more engrossing today. I think I will like the youtube link too but it is more than an hour long so I will have to save it for another time. in any event, thanks

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

I'll take a look. Have you read Joe Abercrombie books? The Blade Itself is the first of a series.

Yes. I like Cameron better. But they have similar vain in their writing.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Thank you for the recommendation.

Here's the link to his website.
It's got all the info you'll need.

https://repairmanjack.com/

Originally Posted by EastCoastBronco

Here's the link to his website.
It's got all the info you'll need.

https://repairmanjack.com/

Right away I tried to find a downloadable audio from the library. They had one title, but it was #2 in a series. It was called The God Gene I think.

Would you start with RJ#1? What about the Keep?