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Currently 3 hours from the end of The Blade Itself. Since the last time I posted here I finished up Malazan, Book of the Fallen, which I loved. I’d probably enjoy a relisten at some point. I’ll move on to more of the Malazan books later, but afterwards I went on to The Tainted Cup as my wife had just read it, and then we could talk about it. I usually would move on to the sequel, but she wasn’t ready to read A Drop of Corruption yet, so I’m waiting. I rather liked the biopunkish setting. Finished the Stardust Grail and the Deep Sky before my current listen, I liked them both but not as much as the others listed here.
I tossed the Ocean at the End of the Lane into the goodwill pile, it was a DNF. I had been reading it when traveling, got maybe halfway through, and then I read the vulture article on the allegations. It sat on the bookshelf for a while, but just getting rid of it now, what a disappointment of a man
Hope you enjoy The Blade Itself. Have you read any of Joe Abercrombie before? I fell in love with the world and characters, but overall the first three books were just shy of "great" for me. The books really begin to shine though, with The Heroes and Red Country being 5/5 for me.
Nope, first foray into them, though I did catch some of the second(?) book when my wife was going through it