OT: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Thread - SPOILERS Part Three

[ajgoal]

So, like I mentioned, I'm pretty close to finishing Discworld, and I'm pretty undecided on what I should read next. I've narrowed it down to the following choices:

The Black Company
A Wizard of Earthsea
Before They Are Hanged (I read The Blade Itself recently and enjoyed it, but that was in the midst of my Discworld binge and I had bigger fish to fry)
The Brandon Sanderson secret projects
Cloud Cuckoo Land
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Consider Phlebas (I've read a couple other of the Culture novels and thought they were fantastic)



Thoughts/input? Should I just draw a name out of a hat?

Gil's All Fright Diner

 

[Lord Defect]

So, like I mentioned, I'm pretty close to finishing Discworld, and I'm pretty undecided on what I should read next. I've narrowed it down to the following choices:

The Black Company
A Wizard of Earthsea
Before They Are Hanged (I read The Blade Itself recently and enjoyed it, but that was in the midst of my Discworld binge and I had bigger fish to fry)
The Brandon Sanderson secret projects
Cloud Cuckoo Land
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Consider Phlebas (I've read a couple other of the Culture novels and thought they were fantastic)



Thoughts/input? Should I just draw a name out of a hat?

Only one I’ve read on that list is the black company. I really enjoyed that one

Black Company is great..shocked that hasn't been adapted yet

I enjoyed The Belgariad and The Malloreon by David Eddings

more recently i've been into some humourous Sci Fi..Janitors of the Post Apocalypse i really enjoyed and wish it was more than 3 books

another older series is Phule's Company series but it kinda got stales towards the end

if ya want something just thoughtless fun..Monster Hunter International series

I love monster Hunter international. It’s the book equivalent of a summer blockbuster imo.

 

[Lord Defect]

It felts like the only color he used to describe anything was ochre.
Starting book 3 now, here’s hoping for some puce or burnt umber.

He’s a big fan of “bestial” as well

 

[Lord Defect]

Spoiler: Malazan memories of ice

Im a little confused. The tlan imass in book 1 were essentially a race of skeletons that rarely spoke. In book 3 they’re speaking up a storm. Is this prior to the imass become skeleton things or did Erickson need to flesh out the race, pun intended, to better utilize them?

 

[Lord Defect]

Seems like the latter

 

[ajgoal]

Spoiler: Malazan memories of ice

Im a little confused. The tlan imass in book 1 were essentially a race of skeletons that rarely spoke. In book 3 they’re speaking up a storm. Is this prior to the imass become skeleton things or did Erickson need to flesh out the race, pun intended, to bett8er utilize them?

Time is malleable. IIRC, Memories of Ice is a fair bit before the previous books.

Edit: nope, that's a different book

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Spoiler: Malazan memories of ice

Im a little confused. The tlan imass in book 1 were essentially a race of skeletons that rarely spoke. In book 3 they’re speaking up a storm. Is this prior to the imass become skeleton things or did Erickson need to flesh out the race, pun intended, to better utilize them?

It’s been a while since I’ve read this, but wasn’t this just the story progressing? I don’t know if you’re finished with the book yet, but the answer I think is that this is what

Spoiler

Itkovian does.

 

[Lord Defect]

It’s been a while since I’ve read this, but wasn’t this just the story progressing? I don’t know if you’re finished with the book yet, but the answer I think is that this is what

Spoiler

Itkovian does.

Didn’t open the spoiler, I just started book 3, maybe a chapter past the prologue.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Didn’t open the spoiler, I just started book 3, maybe a chapter past the prologue.

Definitely don't read it. Let me know if it makes more sense when you finish the book.

 

[Chinatown88]

Oh man this is my favorite trilogy in her Realm of the Elderlings.

 

[Ben Grimm]

^ Great username.

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[Lord Defect]

I had zero hope for the fallout show until I saw the trailer. f***ing thing gave me hope that I know is going to get crushed.

 

[trostol]

I had zero hope for the fallout show until I saw the trailer. f***ing thing gave me hope that I know is going to get crushed.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

I had zero hope for the fallout show until I saw the trailer. f***ing thing gave me hope that I know is going to get crushed.

Walton Goggins as a ghoul is inspired casting and I'm hyped for the show based on him alone tbh

 

[Lord Defect]

Walton Goggins as a ghoul is inspired casting and I'm hyped for the show based on him alone tbh

There’s been one thing he’s been in that I didn’t like, but I’ll be damned if he didn’t play that character on sons of anarchy great.
I couldn’t even tell Goggins was the ghoul even after reading it. It looks like this once actor who I’m drawing a straight up blank on his name, just reddish and without a nose.

 

[Ben Grimm]

Goggins was great in Justified and the recent mini-series.

 

[Lord Defect]

Goggins as a ghouls is just Josh Duhamel without a nose. Finally figured it out!

I knew the dude played a service member and it took far too long to remember he was in transformers.

 

[ajgoal]

Goggins as a ghouls is just Josh Duhamel without a nose. Finally figured it out!
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I knew the dude played a service member and it took far too long to remember he was in transformers.

It's been a while since I've seen anything with Finch from Person of Interest in it.

 

[trostol]

anyone read the Silo series?

 

[Lord Defect]

anyone read the Silo series?

Watched the first season. Didn’t read any of the books.

 

[trostol]

Watched the first season. Didn’t read any of the books.

how was the show?

 

[Fire Tortorella]

how was the show?

Overall I thought it was enjoyable but nothing earth shattering.

 

[Hextallent63]

how was the show?

It i enjoyed it alot. Alot of shit going on at once but they did it well enough not to be confusing. Binge watched it one night i couldnt sleep and it kept me up. I read the first part but to be honest i should re read it and then read the rest.

 

[Lord Defect]

Overall I thought it was enjoyable but nothing earth shattering.

This

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

anyone read the Silo series?

About a decade ago, yeah. I don't recall a lot of the specific plot points, but I remember really enjoying them.