What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech
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I'm 80% through the 1st book of the Stormlight Archive -- The Way of Kings. Good read but I have to admit that the Mistborn series is more enjoyable to me.
I don't know if I'll move to the Kevin J. Anderson series -- The Saga of Seven Suns or the Harry Bosch series which I've heard many good things about. -
Been reading Squirrel Girl with my youngest.
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Picked up Timothy Zahn's new Thrawn Alliances book so am re-reading its predecessor then the new one.
He is a fantastic writer. Great book(s).
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@PhlipElder said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Picked up Timothy Zahn's new Thrawn Alliances book so am re-reading its predecessor then the new one.
He is a fantastic writer. Great book(s).
There is a new one in the series? I just found my copies of the old trilogy a few days ago.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@PhlipElder said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Picked up Timothy Zahn's new Thrawn Alliances book so am re-reading its predecessor then the new one.
He is a fantastic writer. Great book(s).
There is a new one in the series? I just found my copies of the old trilogy a few days ago.
It's in the new timeline where those old books don't exist.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@PhlipElder said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Picked up Timothy Zahn's new Thrawn Alliances book so am re-reading its predecessor then the new one.
He is a fantastic writer. Great book(s).
There is a new one in the series? I just found my copies of the old trilogy a few days ago.
It's in the new timeline where those old books don't exist.
Oh, that seems totally lame then.
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Working my way through LOTR books again. I'm farther along now that I got last time I tried to read it... Almost done with The Hobbit.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@PhlipElder said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Picked up Timothy Zahn's new Thrawn Alliances book so am re-reading its predecessor then the new one.
He is a fantastic writer. Great book(s).
There is a new one in the series? I just found my copies of the old trilogy a few days ago.
Yeah, Disney's new canon versus what is now called the "Legends" series or old canon originally doctored by Lucas himself.
The new canon covers the movies, TV series, other online series, and any of the new books published since "The Force Awakens".
In a way, it's a good thing and in a way the decision was a bad thing.
It was good because Disney was not locked in to retelling what was already written in the plethora of Legends books and series. It was bad for much the same reason. So much was left behind.
Another good that came out of it is Zahn's ability to write using his hindsight and augmenting things. The first book was and is amazing. I'm already 3/4 of the way through it. I expect no less from the new "Thrawn Alliances" book.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Working my way through LOTR books again. I'm farther along now that I got last time I tried to read it... Almost done with The Hobbit.
I read through them when I was younger. I was sorry. Bad writing. Only books ever where I felt that the movies were better than the books. The movies have better writing and pacing. They took an okay story from the books, and enhanced it with vastly better writing technique. LOTR as books would get a C in a college writing class. They fail in nearly every way.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@PhlipElder said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Picked up Timothy Zahn's new Thrawn Alliances book so am re-reading its predecessor then the new one.
He is a fantastic writer. Great book(s).
There is a new one in the series? I just found my copies of the old trilogy a few days ago.
It's in the new timeline where those old books don't exist.
Oh, that seems totally lame then.
Get over it - nothing new will ever come out for that old time line - at least nothing sanctioned by LFL.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@PhlipElder said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Picked up Timothy Zahn's new Thrawn Alliances book so am re-reading its predecessor then the new one.
He is a fantastic writer. Great book(s).
There is a new one in the series? I just found my copies of the old trilogy a few days ago.
It's in the new timeline where those old books don't exist.
Oh, that seems totally lame then.
Get over it - nothing new will ever come out for that old time line - at least nothing sanctioned by LFL.
Yeah... but since stuff sanctioned by LFL has been pretty bad... time to just get over SW. It's just not good any more.
I'd be decently happy to get over it if what they left behind was bad, and the new stuff was good. But it just isn't.
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And LFL isn't really even a thing. They died off. It's Disney now. And Disney... well they suck as a company. Not people I want to succeed.
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@PhlipElder said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@PhlipElder said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Picked up Timothy Zahn's new Thrawn Alliances book so am re-reading its predecessor then the new one.
He is a fantastic writer. Great book(s).
There is a new one in the series? I just found my copies of the old trilogy a few days ago.
Yeah, Disney's new canon versus what is now called the "Legends" series or old canon originally doctored by Lucas himself.
The new canon covers the movies, TV series, other online series, and any of the new books published since "The Force Awakens".
In a way, it's a good thing and in a way the decision was a bad thing.
It was good because Disney was not locked in to retelling what was already written in the plethora of Legends books and series. It was bad for much the same reason. So much was left behind.
Another good that came out of it is Zahn's ability to write using his hindsight and augmenting things. The first book was and is amazing. I'm already 3/4 of the way through it. I expect no less from the new "Thrawn Alliances" book.
I'm halfway through the new book... I'd say neither of these live up to the memory I have of the original Zahn triology. They are good, but definitely not as good. As a matter of point - I started reading Alliances 4 weeks ago, and haven't gone back to it.
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I thought Zahn might be continuing the SW canon, which sounded like a great idea. That he decided to join the world of "Zahn never happened" makes sense, he knows where his bread is buttered. He has a family to feed, I assume. Whatever. But it was interesting enough to make me think SW might have a future I cared about. But, I'll get over thinking there is any hope.
Zahn... you are my only hope.
Hopes... squashed.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@dafyre said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Working my way through LOTR books again. I'm farther along now that I got last time I tried to read it... Almost done with The Hobbit.
I read through them when I was younger. I was sorry. Bad writing. Only books ever where I felt that the movies were better than the books. The movies have better writing and pacing. They took an okay story from the books, and enhanced it with vastly better writing technique. LOTR as books would get a C in a college writing class. They fail in nearly every way.
Ha ha ha ha! I totally agree with you about (most) of the movies. I haven't seen Desolation of Smaug or Battle of Five Armies yet. I keep saying I'm going to and then forget when I have time, lol.
Edit: I'm not one to critique a fantasy story, unless it's proofreading for grammar missed steaks. I have a vivid imagination as is, so I don't need all the descriptive stuff like what goes into Tolkien works.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
I thought Zahn might be continuing the SW canon, which sounded like a great idea. That he decided to join the world of "Zahn never happened" makes sense, he knows where his bread is buttered. He has a family to feed, I assume. Whatever. But it was interesting enough to make me think SW might have a future I cared about. But, I'll get over thinking there is any hope.
Zahn... you are my only hope.
Hopes... squashed.
Interesting - I'm not sure anyone could legally publish a Legacy based novel now and not get sued into the ground.
If I'm wrong, please feel free to educate me with more than "you're wrong"
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
I'm halfway through the new book... I'd say neither of these live up to the memory I have of the original Zahn triology. They are good, but definitely not as good. As a matter of point - I started reading Alliances 4 weeks ago, and haven't gone back to it.
If you were Zahn, imagine how hard it would be to really put the effort into doing what he did before. They basically burned him like crazy, and they made it that taking the universe seriously has no future. Now its stewards don't respect it. So there is neither a culture of quality, nor the personal benefits of doing a good job. I can only imagine that for Zahn last time was passion, and this time is pure dollar signs. Which really, is how everything Disney is. That's why you choose the Disney life, yeah it makes a lot of money, but there is no soul in it.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
I thought Zahn might be continuing the SW canon, which sounded like a great idea. That he decided to join the world of "Zahn never happened" makes sense, he knows where his bread is buttered. He has a family to feed, I assume. Whatever. But it was interesting enough to make me think SW might have a future I cared about. But, I'll get over thinking there is any hope.
Zahn... you are my only hope.
Hopes... squashed.
Interesting - I'm not sure anyone could legally publish a Legacy based novel now and not get sued into the ground.
If I'm wrong, please feel free to educate me with more than "you're wrong"
Disney will sue for sure. Disney had the laws altered to remove the long standing right to do that. Watch the video, that's what the video is about. The insane corruption that Disney has been involved in and how they are undermining literature in America.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@dafyre said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
Working my way through LOTR books again. I'm farther along now that I got last time I tried to read it... Almost done with The Hobbit.
I read through them when I was younger. I was sorry. Bad writing. Only books ever where I felt that the movies were better than the books. The movies have better writing and pacing. They took an okay story from the books, and enhanced it with vastly better writing technique. LOTR as books would get a C in a college writing class. They fail in nearly every way.
Ha ha ha ha! I totally agree with you about (most) of the movies. I haven't seen Desolation of Smaug or Battle of Five Armies yet. I keep saying I'm going to and then forget when I have time, lol.
Sadly they altered the story a bit in those and changed some characters pretty dramatically, which wasn't ideal.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:
I'm halfway through the new book... I'd say neither of these live up to the memory I have of the original Zahn triology. They are good, but definitely not as good. As a matter of point - I started reading Alliances 4 weeks ago, and haven't gone back to it.
If you were Zahn, imagine how hard it would be to really put the effort into doing what he did before. They basically burned him like crazy, and they made it that taking the universe seriously has no future. Now its stewards don't respect it. So there is neither a culture of quality, nor the personal benefits of doing a good job. I can only imagine that for Zahn last time was passion, and this time is pure dollar signs. Which really, is how everything Disney is. That's why you choose the Disney life, yeah it makes a lot of money, but there is no soul in it.
Disney has a committee meeting. They have the Thrawn Trilogy in hand. Committee decides to purchase the franchise. Decides that drivel is the way to go forward. Smashes franchise to pieces.
All is well
