Also been reading the Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson series. It's not bad, though the last book.... Frost Burn or whatever was a big letdown.

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I can't go into too much detail without using a ton of spoilers, but I think the dude used way too much deus ex machina in the 3rd book in the series, and I think that a lot of things felt rushed in the second half of the book. The first book was extremely well though out, made a ton of sense, etc; at least as far as the genre standards go. The second book is the same, although not as good as the first. The 3rd book starts out that way, but it degenerates into "Goody goody. So we're doing this now?" where most of the plot in the second half comes from people being in the right place at the right time for their problems to get solved more often than any intelligent rationalization of the characters. It basically seemed like the author started out in his original righting style, and somewhere along the lines of it he went "Oh ****. I have only 150 pages to finish this thing. Better hurry." The solutions to everything made sense, but........

That's pretty much what I took away from it too. I love the world & I was totally with it for the first two books, less so the second. With the third, I appreciate that there is actually a deus for the deus ex, but things were a bit too "right place, right time" for my taste.

Allow of Law is meant to be a standalone, but it's better appreciated with the trilogy under one's belt imo.

This was what I noticed too, but I liked it nevertheless, specially for a new author. It is a very amazing feat. I didn't read Alloy of Law, but I would read without a doubt if I had more time and not so many books in my to-read list.

Having not read any previous post, I will give a list of what I am currently in the process of reading (for entertainment):

• The Warlord's Legacy by Ari Marmell (paperback)
• FaustEric by Terry Pratchett (paperback)
• Legacies by Barinellos (posted in the M:EM)
• Fallout: Equestria by KKat (on FIMFiction)
• V for Vendetta by several people (digital comic on Comixology)

I'm also stuck in the middle of several books which I haven't been reading for months (not ones I'm waiting to update):

• Dracula by Bram Stoker (free ebook through Project Gutenberg)
• The Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore (paperback compilation thingy {all three books as one})
• That fourth Da Vinci Code book by Dan Brown which I can't remember the name of (hardcover, given to me)
• Twokinds by Tom Fischbach apparently? (at its home site)

Ok I read A Fire upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge and I liked it, but maybe not enough to continue reading the trilogy. Specially because I hate prequels.

Reading now book three from the Black Company Series by Glen Cook. I am loving it, specially Croaker.

No Gobbos

I just started Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Pretty good so far:

http://hpmor.com/

Just got Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire. Haven't gotten a good chance to start it, but I usually like her work.

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Almost done with The Name Of The Wind ... you guys should totally read it.

I tried reading it once, but the author's style just didn't hold my attention. I think I have a used copy somewhere around here. My wife read it, she said it was kinda dry.

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As far as dryness goes no more than most fantasy writers, far less so than things like Tolkien.

I fully second this. It's one of the best fantasy novels out there, on the level of George R. R. Martin.

Speaking of, I'm rereading Game of Thrones again due to running out of other options.

Better than George R R Martin.

I'll agree if we leave out Game of Thrones. The rest of Martin's work isn't that good.

Indeed, the rest of his stuff tends to be nothing to bat an eye at... but I was including Game of Thrones. And I'm saying that as someone who read it before the flood of people only doing so because they were gushing about the TV Show.

/Hipster

Hey I read it before the tv show too (ps tv show sucks) and I would place it about equal to the Name of the Wind, not worse. Which is still pretty good for Rothfuss.

Updating my list.

Finished Fallout: Equestria, Faust Eric, and Legacies, and I'm trying to work through the rest of that list before moving on.* Likely will start up another Discworld novel soon, though.

*While I'm already about a third of the way through it, I started reading Fallout: Equestria - Pink Eyes casually and am too turned off by the substandard writing to put it in my "actively reading" list.

Name of the Wind takes a steaming dump on Game of Thrones.Not even close.

Even off the bat Name of the Wind picked right up and had me wsnting to read it every chance I could... Game of Thrones I had to force myself to keep reading hoping it start moving along faster.

Simply put ive enjoyed NotW, the sequel is still good so far though not quite as good as the first, but reading Game Of Thrones was more of a chore and doing it to knock it from my to do list