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Still reading The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore. First book of The Icewind Dale Trilogy, and The Legend of Drizzt / Forgotten Realms series (publication order).

Book is pretty fast paced and full of action. Really enjoying it.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?


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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Finished Rhythm of War. The end hit hard, and I'm definitely impatiently waiting for Wind and Truth now.

Rhythm of War SpoilersRight after Kaladin jumps through the battle for the tower were all super emotional, and I also really enjoyed Eshonai's last ride with the Stormfather. I had kind of been holding out hope that she was Venli's spren somehow, but I appreciated giving her that send off, at least.

I have used hard copies of Edgedancer and Dawnshard that should be showing up today to add to my collection, so I'll probably start into those.

In the meantime I read book 5 of CJ Archer's Glass Library series, The Secret of the Lost Ledgers. I think I prefer Glass and Steele over Glass Library so far, but that's partly because magic was more secretive at the start of the arc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I wish I could experience all of Sanderson's books again for the first time and agree Rythm of War was great! I can't wait to get to Wind and Truth either. Being an audio book only guy though I'm going to have to wait a bit longer until I can continue that story!

Have you read Mistborn?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm mostly an audiobook guy, though I have both hardcover and audiobook preordered. I doubt I'll really read the physical copies, but I recently decided to refresh my bookshelves with some of my favorites just for the sake of having them and the Stormlight Archive quickly became a favorite once I finally buckled down and just bought all the audiobooks to listen straight through.

I've read some of his random smaller stuff. I thought the premise of Rithmatist could have been a pretty fun VR game. I haven't read Mistborn yet, but it's definitely on my radar. One of my biggest things is availability, though. My binge on physical books the last couple weeks was an outlier, but I generally can't afford to actually buy anywhere near as many books as I read. They're mostly not as substantial as Stormlight Archive, but according to goodreads my new books this year are still comfortably in the triple digits, so I need libraries and subscription libraries to fill in most of the volume or I'd go broke pretty quickly. I definitely want to read Mistborn, but I'll probably wait a while, because my self control on buying books can get me in trouble if I'm not careful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The first mistborn book is a bit on the nose, it comes across as a bit of a weird mix of teen romance meets classic teen fiction rebels vs fascist empire. Probably not Sanderson's best work as it is on the older side now, but it gets way way better after the first book (as many Sanderson series do). The Wax and Wayne mistborn books are awesome, so don't give up after the first one!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

lol if you looked at my goodreads you'd see plenty of cheap, casual reads. I like a variety of styles, as long as it's not super stilted and I can get some flavor of the author's personality. I'm guessing that it won't be an issue.

I appreciate the advice that it picks up though.