Been reading The Witcher series.. pretty disappointed to learn that Yennifer is just as annoying and worthless as in the games, compounded by the fact that Geralt is obsessed with her for some reason when she's just terrible to him the whole time. Also reads like your typical fedora-tipping neckbeard writer with EVERY female wanting to bang Geralt because he's "just a good guy". The actual little story arcs about the quests he goes on are pretty well done and entertaining but anything that involves his romantic life is really bad and tiresome.. and unfortunately there's a ton of that stuff so far (I'm just only wrapping up the second book).

I’m a huge fan of the games but have heard some mixed stuff on the books. Might get around to them eventually.

Just finished Deadhouse Gates. ****ing loved it. The chain of dogs and Mappo/Icarium storylines were great. I’m looking through the goodreads and amazon ratings for the rest of the series and it looks like everything is around 4.5 stars. Is the whole series really this good?

It just keeps getting better.

Coltaine 4 lyfe

I need that as my handle. ROFL

Taking a break from the main series and reading Night of Knives.

Overall yes. Finished the series a year ago and I already want to reread the whole thing again.

There might be few books that are a chore for you to get through depending on what stories you like and he will still introduce a lot of new characters (cough first few 100 pages of book 4 and most of book 5), but by book 6 you see the connections.

I think the payoff is very much worth it.

Night of Knives was enjoyable because it really explained a few things in more detail.

I just finished Memories of Ice. I need a break. That shit was heavy.

Took a reading break when the semester started getting a little hectic. Just finished House of Chains. On to Midnight Tides.

Just finished the third book in the Stormlight Archives only to find out the rest haven’t been written yet. Didn’t check before I started. Rookie mistake.

Ordered Gardens of the Moon after first making sure amazon has all ten of them on the shelf.

Nice! I think you’ll like Erikson. Some of his fans are a little iffy on GotM, though. My understanding is that he wrote it ten years before he started the rest of the series. I loved it, personally, but at least get through Deadhouse Gates before you make a decision on Erikson.

I’m re-reading it now. Easier read with the context of everything. Gives me little nibbles of “wow” now that I recognize some of the subtle references.

I’m kicking around the idea of writing a tabletop game module (or series) based on the world (re-winding to pre-Empire days) and running some friends through it.

It is the best series of it's kind by a large margin.

Sanderson is prolific enough, and still relatively young. Unless you just refuse to read anything unless it is finished, you'll be OK.

I don't know if this has been mentioned but Tad Williams wrote a very enjoyable fantasy book, Tailchaser's Song, that is supposed to become an animated movie soon.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailchaser's_Song

I had to take time off after Memories of Ice. I just started House of Chains. I'm through the Karsa parts and I feel like I'm finding a groove again.