The Jim Butcher Files: Dresden . Codex Alera . Cinder Spires & More

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by leanansidhe

Close...Sanya

I really like him too, especially in Changes.

Originally Posted by red_phoenix

Thanks Lea. I guess this makes up even.

Originally Posted by Toxaris

I liked the little more insight in Sanya in Small Favors too.

[leanansidhe]

Originally Posted by red_phoenix

Thanks Lea. I guess this makes us even.

Hmmmm I guess it does...that's ok, we have plenty of time to give and receive gifts my child

[alansplace]

.................
“Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles
'pon it instead," I said solemnly,
"and frosting of white.”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor
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[taosaur]

I finally started the Codex Alera last month, and it sucked me right in. A lot of sword-and-sorcery bores me, but Butcher's characters are compelling as ever and the worldbuilding draws more on the Robert E. Howard/Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy lineage, with a touch of Lovecraft, rather than leaning too heavily on Tolkien and the Arthurian mythos.

I took a break after book two to revisit the Gentlemen Bastards series, which I am enjoying, but I find myself itching to go back to Alera.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by taosaur

I finally started the Codex Alera last month, and it sucked me right in. A lot of sword-and-sorcery bores me, but Butcher's characters are compelling as ever and the worldbuilding draws more on the Robert E. Howard/Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy lineage, with a touch of Lovecraft, rather than leaning too heavily on Tolkien and the Arthurian mythos....

to that!

.....Do you know that writing that series was the result of an on-line discussion and an associated wager? It seems that there was a challenge issued claiming that if a writer based a book on a highly worn and poor premise then a poor novel would inevitably be the result. So Jim Butcher accepted the challenge (taking the opposite viewpoint that the story was much more important and telling a 'good' story could result in a 'good' book) and even said give me TWO poor premises. They were 'a lost Roman Legion' and 'pokemon'! The result was the six book Codex Alera series!

[treadlightly]

Thanks to Alan, my avatar's getting into the Christmas spirit!



:: pours a glass of eggnog for all::

So what is everyone reading these days??? I'm clearing up unread mysteries and new release UF from my 2013 Challenge and counting down the days left to complete it!

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by treadlightly

Thanks to Alan, my avatar's getting into the Christmas spirit!

Originally Posted by treadlightly

:: pours a glass of eggnog for all::

So what is everyone reading these days??? I'm clearing up unread mysteries and new release UF from my 2013 Challenge and counting down the days left to complete it!

I just finished a complete re-read of the Dresden Files and associated short stories. Now am reading Phryne Fisher Mysteries, Spenser, and assorted freebies from Amazon and Smashwords.

[red_phoenix]

Working my way through Dangerous Women.

[alansplace]

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by alansplace

I think someone needs to reread Cold Days...

Spoiler:

I my understanding Kringle is Odin, a god instead of a faerie...

Then again, I might be wrong...

[CWatkinsNash]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

I think someone needs to reread Cold Days...

Spoiler:

I my understanding Kringle is Odin, a god instead of a faerie...

Then again, I might be wrong...

Kringle is a wyldfae. Odin is Donar Vadderung. However, the Mantle of the Winter King may be sometimes worn by Odin.

Or something like that.

[Abtacha]

for the festive avatar Alan.

Originally Posted by treadlightly

[...]So what is everyone reading these days??? I'm clearing up unread mysteries and new release UF from my 2013 Challenge and counting down the days left to complete it!

Right now Legend by David Gemmel, after that either Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch or the next on my way through the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold (that would be the Miles Errant omnibus).

[treadlightly]

Originally Posted by Abtacha

Right now Legend by David Gemmel, after that either Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch or the next on my way through the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold (that would be the Miles Errant omnibus).

Ooh I have both the Gentlemen Bastards and the Vorkosigan Saga (well the start of it anyway) on my TBR list for 2014. Looking forward to both of them.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by Abtacha

for the festive avatar Alan.

Originally Posted by Abtacha

Right now Legend by David Gemmel, after that either Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch or the next on my way through the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold (that would be the Miles Errant omnibus).

This morning I've just begun a long overdue re-read of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

[AlbertaCowboy]

Nice.
I think im going to have to start my yearly reread of David Eddings' "The Belgariad" I miss some of my old friends there.