Who Wants To Be A Bibliophile discussion

Can't wait until we start talking about this! I love this book and am planning on rereading it just for this. Enjoy!

I just started Jhereg(I know I'm a little late; I've been too busy to do much reading, unfortunately)! Only a few pages in, but I'm already digging it! I'll post comments and questions as they occur to me.

Sweet, I think the first thing every one wil notice about these books is have witty the author is.

Really liking this story so far. I love all the cloak and dagger rumour-mill type stuff. Also, the world seems pretty cool and decently conceived, with lots of backstory. I'm about halfway through Jhereg, and will be moving directly on to Yendi and then Teckla.

Oh, and I love Loiosh, the mouthy winged psionically-linked poisonous lizard familiar. Just the concept makes me want to play D&D!

I know right. He is like my favorite character of all time! Sometimes I wish I had him with me to comment on something going on in my life.
The backstory is quite detailed and extensive and the world building is incredible! It only gets better!
Yes, the Cloak and Dagger like system really makes for exciting, fast paced story.

Finished Jhereg. Great story! I loved their set-up assassination at the end. It was well thought-out, and didn't stoop to cheesy hidden plot devices to pull it off with a surprise, yet still wasn't fully explained ahead of time or obvious. My only gripe with it might be that the humour felt a little stilted, but I'm into Yendi now, and I can already see that Brust really stepped up his game with regards to his humour writing in this second book. Yendi is already a fair bit funnier(in a dark way), and I love the crime noir feel it has to it.

I hope no one minds if I post comments about Yendi and Teckla on this thread! If not, just say so.

Go, for it!!!
Glad you like it!
I don't recall the humour being less than any of the others, of course it has been a while...
I am rereading Jhereg starting today so I will be able to comment more about it here.

Finished Yendi today. Very cool story. Really liked how the timeline isn't linear for these books; some people hate that, but I think it makes it more interesting to read little vignettes all out of order from this badass assassin's life. It feels like you're just sitting around having drinks with Vlad Taltos and he's telling you interesting bits of his life, not in chronological order, but as they occur to him.

The humour was better written in this one, but still felt a little forced(there are way too many incidents of "Shut up, Loiosh"). I must say, though, that I absolutely LOVED the Monty Python reference at the beginning of chapter 16:
"Yes," said Morrolan dryly. "You wouldn't want her to turn you into a newt."
"I'll get better," I said.

Priceless!

Just finished Teckla. It's nice to actually have some time to read again. I'm on a temporary layoff for a few weeks, but I've got a fair chunk of change stashed away and a decent project coming down the pipeline, so I can just collect EI for a bit, hang out with my wife and kid, and read, read, READ!

I really liked Teckla. Brust's politics were very much in evidence on this one, at least to me(Brust came recommended by China Mieville as a very good left-wing SFF author, and China was right). The Teckla/Easterner revolt was reminiscent in some ways of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and the Phoenix Guard being faced down in front of Kelly's flat sort of reminded me of the Kornilov Affair. I appreciated how Brust worked politics into his tale without becoming didactic or overbearing as some authors tend to do(I'm looking at you, Goodkind).

I also really like his descriptions of combat. It's detailed, yet concise. I've done some rapier training, and I can tell from the way he descibes Vlad's fighting style that Brust has too.

The humour was better in this one, too. You can tell that he just got better as an author with each novel he released.

Brust is a gem! I will be looking for more of his books.

Great Bryan, you are on a roll!!!