[July] What are you reading?

[JoeGKushner]

People talking about Dancing With Dragons, if you were afraid of the wait time, why did you buy the book? Don't reward bad behavior with cash.

George will get my money when the series is done, not before.

 

[Zelda Themelin]

Adventure paths by paizo and comics mostly.

I recently read nice comic series the Techno Priests by Humanoids (reprint often stuff first appeared, at least partially in Heavy Metal magazine). Yes, I have read lot of comics. But books, not so much. Have to do this really tiresome studing to do this summer.

I have been long starting to start reading some Jim Butcher. Borrowed those books to my sister last year and she liked them, still looking at me from shelf unread by me.

 

[jonesy]

People talking about Dancing With Dragons, if you were afraid of the wait time, why did you buy the book?

I don't know about others, but I bought it because even incomplete I think it's better than 99% of the genre.

 

[Crothian]

I read Water Wars this morning, a teen novel about the world after water gets contaminated and rare. It was mediocre at best.

 

[Gilladian]

I just read Tamora Pierce's "Tortall and Other Lands" collection of short stories. Fabulous!

She really has a very complex, well-thought-out world, and when she hits a character that I really like, her stories just SHINE. I think the best one in the collection was "The Dragon's Tale". Very fun!

Anyone who has NOT read her Becka Cooper series (Terrier and Bloodhound), I'd strongly suggest them. They're about the early formation of a "police force" in a medieval fantasy city/country.

 

[Crothian]

I also read The Line today a book about immigration with a Dystopian America which was kind of cool. But then they went and the character got [sblock] Superpowers [/sblock] which came out of left field and didn't make a lot of sense.

 

[jmucchiello]

[sblock]Howland Reed also knows.[/sblock]

Spoiler

But Howland Reed has not appeared in any of the books. The question is whether he told his children

People talking about Dancing With Dragons, if you were afraid of the wait time, why did you buy the book? Don't reward bad behavior with cash.

George will get my money when the series is done, not before.

That's part of why I'm waiting for the mass market paperback.

 

[Starman]

Spoiler

But Howland Reed has not appeared in any of the books. The question is whether he told his children

[sblock]Either he will show up or he told his children. I can't think of any other reveal that wouldn't feel like something out of left field.[/sblock]

 

[Crothian]

Today I read Skinned. It is a pretty good young adult novel about a girl who has her brain downloaded into an andriod after her normal body gets into a horrible accident. I think the author might have gone a little overboard with how it seems everyone treats her badly now. There is a lot of hate directed towards the main character and it doesn't let up. Maybe the rest of the trilogy will have something else happening.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

[sblock]Either he will show up or he told his children. I can't think of any other reveal that wouldn't feel like something out of left field.[/sblock]

[Sblock] With Bran now a greenseer under the tutelage of Bryndyn Stark, we now have the means to show almost any secret at the author's will.

I follow the speculation that Jon Snow is a lost Targaryen heir -- the "mummer's dragon" reference to Young Griff in ADwD certainly reinforces the possibility -- but has this been confirmed as fact? It certainly makes for a good story, but ASoIaF can certainly be resolved successfully with Jon being exactly what he is portrayed to be.[/sblock]