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Reading The Novice by Trudi Canavan. The second book in The Black Magician trilogy.

What about all of you? What have you all been reading or listening to lately?


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[-] PDFuego@aussie.zone 8 points 12 hours ago

I just finished the second Red Dwarf book earlier tonight, I liked it. It's interesting how they've mashed together and expanded on so many of the episodes to make them flow together back to back. I feel so much sorrier for book-Lister than show-Lister, and he was already in a living hell.

Also about halfway through Watcher of the Void by Michael G Manning but there's not much to say about it. If you can get past Will (and Mordecai before him) being fairly unlikeable and impossibly powerful so that it feels like you're playing a game with a child who can make the rules as they go, it's more of the same. This is book twenty-something so if you're reading it you probably know what to expect.

It's just that and the next three Red Dwarfs lined up for now, then back to First Law probably.

[-] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

Would you recommend watching the Red Dwarf show prior to reading the books?

[-] PDFuego@aussie.zone 4 points 10 hours ago

I think so, yeah. I don't think I'd have liked this if I didn't already love the series, which I've seen dozens of times throughout my life (it's my "that show"). Seasons 1 & 2 aren't my favourite and they're very different to 3+, but 3-6 and somehow 10 are fantastic.

Maybe try it, and if you aren't into the first ep it'll at least give you some context so you can skip to 3 to see if that's any better. You'll miss a bit, but for the first handful of seasons the major plot developments are more of a change of status quo between seasons and less about individual episodes, so you should be fine.

[-] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

Thanks for the guidance, will definitely give it a go!

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