[March] What are you reading?

[drothgery]

I think that's the book I stopped reading Wheel of Time. When the story is only advanced on the final twelve pages in a 1000 page novel, you know something's wrong.

TDR isn't a 1000-page novel (or even close to one), at least not in the American editions. US hardcover is 595 pages (that's the last numbered page in my copy, anyway); US mass-market paperback is 704 pages (according to Amazon.com).

There are some 1000-page novels in the series (and one very nearly so), but the first three (and books 7-11) aren't really even close to that long (at least going by Tor/US mass-market paperbacks). The first two of Sanderson's have been that long, but even with two novels with Sanderson endgame pacing, there were a lot of loose ends to tie up.

 

[Crothian]

With a freak scheduling error that left me with two days off in a row and little that needed done around the house I went o the library and grabbed a dozen or two Graphic Novels and have read most of them. It has been a long time since I just sat and read comics and it was great.

Now, I am reading Seanan McGuire's Late Eclipses the fourth book in her October Daye series. Of all the modern fantasy series I read I think it is about third or fourth best.

 

[Starman]

I think that's the book I stopped reading Wheel of Time. When the story is only advanced on the final twelve pages in a 1000 page novel, you know something's wrong.

I didn't become frustrated with the pacing until book 8. Fortunately after that it started picking up a bit.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Joe Abercoimes The Heroes.

Gritty and great.

 

[IronWolf]

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne with IronPup.

Recently started Once a Runner by John L. Parker.

 

[Krug]

The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Year One, an anthology of heroic fantasy short stories. Some intriguing pieces.

 

[Ebon Shar]

I'm finishing up The Heroes by Abercrombie and getting ready to dive into Blood Meridian and Let The Right One In.

 

[Shade]

I've started The World of Tiers by Philip Jose Farmer. I'm currently on the first in the series, The Maker of Universes.

 

[druidlover]

Batman Year One, finishing Scott Pilgrim and Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswald

 

[Jhaelen]

I've started The World of Tiers by Philip Jose Farmer.

Ooh! That was one of the first Fantasy novels I ever read. I remember it quite fondly. It definitely shaped my opinion what Fantasy novels should be like.