[November] What are you reading?

[Shade]

Okay, quoting myself here. At 280ish pages, this felt like a pipsqueak of a novel. Breezed through it in two nights. FWIW, it looks like this is a new beginning of a series. I would have been fine if it was a standalone. But this book just revved me up for wanting more!

I just finished it, too. It was a very fun read, and it was nice to see how he incorporated the people and events from the first series into the more "modern" world.

Sanderson said he originally pitched Mistborn as a set of 3 trilogies: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, and Science Fiction. This one was more of a one-shot between the first and second trilogies, but he may continue the adventures in this era in a follow-up book. If he doesn't, he said we'd get resolution in the Urban Fantasy trilogy.

 

[Starman]

Finished The Windup Girl the other day. It was very good, but the world was much cooler than the characters which I mostly struggled to get into. Now I'm reading The Conquerer's Shadow by some mouse-guy or something . Just a couple of chapters in, but so far it is excellent.

Finished The Conquerer's Shadow which was a very entertaining read. Now I'm reading From Hell which has been beckoning from my bookshelf for some time now.

 

[IronWolf]

Ghost Recon by David Michaels, Tom Clancy

 

[Jhaelen]

I finally got around to get "The Burning Wheel" rpg after seeing it being mentioned so often here on ENWorld.

Currently, I'm halfway through the rules book and the Character Burner.

So far I don't care about the d6 dice pools at all and I am still wondering if the game designers really understood how to calculate the probabilities involved.

The lifepaths, though, are really great. Also, dwarves and elves give me a Middle-Earth vibe I've not yet seen in any other rpg*. Very well done!



*: I should perhaps note that I bought the German version of "The One Ring" rpg at the same time as "The Burning Wheel" but haven't read it yet.

 

[Stumblewyk]

I'm currently reading REAMDE by Neil Stephenson. It's my first exposure to Stephenson, and I'm enjoying it so far. Enough that I'm considering tackling Anathem next, if my local library doesn't cough up my reserve on Ghost Story soon.

Anyhoo, I'm about half way through it, and it's mostly about an MMO-virus-based money-making scam gone horribly awry, but it's also dealing with Chinese politics, Eastern European/Russian mafias, and it's even got a dash of political spy thriller tossed in.

 

[Mark CMG]

I'm currently reading REAMDE by Neil Stephenson.

That jumped out to he as an obvious anagram of READ ME.

 

[Krug]

Finished Richard Morgan's The Steel Remains which started out well, but the world feels incomplete and there were just too many obscenities flying around. Good but not great.

Starting on Joe Abercrombie's The Heroes.

 

[Stumblewyk]

That jumped out to he as an obvious anagram of READ ME.

Yup. That's how the computer virus in the book spreads - it's a file that the average person will mistake as "README" and then open, executing the virus code, which encrypts the victim's hard drive.

 

[Mark CMG]

Yup. That's how the computer virus in the book spreads - it's a file that the average person will mistake as "README" and then open, executing the virus code, which encrypts the victim's hard drive.

Well, it worked on me to an extent. I haven't read any of Neil Stephenson's books before but after checking out the wiki entry on him, I might just try to read one.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Haunting of Dragons Cliff by Phil Athan and Mel Odom. For $2.99 it was worth the read. Read it on my Toshiba Tablet on the way to downtown and back. An interesting experience but the Tablet is a ltitle too big so I might get an actual Kindle for such trips in the future.