S. Baldrick
Explorer
Hex and the City by Simon R. Green
[October] What are you reading?
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Just restarted with Storm Front.
S. Baldrick
Explorer
Re-reading The Hobbit after 28 years.
Wombat
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Having finished this all I can say is ... it tries way too hard. Where it wants to be cynically funny, it comes off as just bitter. Where it wants to be insightful, it just comes off as "there are better things than fantasy in this world; grow up already!" Meh. Severely disappointed.
Now reading John LeCarre's A Most Wanted Man.
... and did, thanks to some travel for work giving me time in airports, on planes, and alone in a hotel room to catch up my reading. Plus my standard fall weekends of reading during commercials of college and pro football games.
Cergorach
The Laughing One
Just finished book 45 from The Destroyer series (Remo & Chiun), still 90 to go ;-) They are entertaining, I'm reading them in spurts of 15 books at a time, then I need something else to read...
Before that I read the DragonCrown War Cycle by Michael A. Stackpole. I read the first book with pleasure (The Dark Glory War) and if the next three books where written in the same 'style' I would have been a very happy camper, alas I wasn't :-( The first book was written from pretty much a single perspective, the next three from the perspective from all the main characters and there are a lot of those. The problem is that by the time I 'get into' the story of that character the chapter ends and another character is 'tapped' (ad nosum).
Stackpole stopped writing Battletech books due to his complaint that the publisher enforced a word count and that was unacceptable to him. Now I know why the publisher enforced a word count, Stackpole can string a lot of words together and call it a book, but unless your really are dedicated you'll never finish the series due to boredom! Seriously!
Book 1: Excellent! Great read.
Book 2: Rather surprising twist, but bearable.
Book 3: Booring! Started glancing over chapters.
Book 4: Will the suffering never end! Then he fills the last 50-100 pages with more action than the two previous books combined.
The Only thing I can say, "The Dark Glory War" is a good read, avoid the rest!
Before that I read the DragonCrown War Cycle by Michael A. Stackpole. I read the first book with pleasure (The Dark Glory War) and if the next three books where written in the same 'style' I would have been a very happy camper, alas I wasn't :-( The first book was written from pretty much a single perspective, the next three from the perspective from all the main characters and there are a lot of those. The problem is that by the time I 'get into' the story of that character the chapter ends and another character is 'tapped' (ad nosum).
Stackpole stopped writing Battletech books due to his complaint that the publisher enforced a word count and that was unacceptable to him. Now I know why the publisher enforced a word count, Stackpole can string a lot of words together and call it a book, but unless your really are dedicated you'll never finish the series due to boredom! Seriously!
Book 1: Excellent! Great read.
Book 2: Rather surprising twist, but bearable.
Book 3: Booring! Started glancing over chapters.
Book 4: Will the suffering never end! Then he fills the last 50-100 pages with more action than the two previous books combined.
The Only thing I can say, "The Dark Glory War" is a good read, avoid the rest!
EricNoah
Adventurer
Still working on Deepsix, but also now reading Dracula the Un-Dead, a sequel to Dracula apparently based on some notes from Bram Stoker and written by his great-nephew or somesuch. I'm about 3 chapters in and, no, it is not great literature nor particularly reminiscent of what I remember of the original's writing style, but it's ok so far.
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