[April] What are you reading?

[Ebon Shar]

Three books down in The Saxon Stories and it's doing much more than holding my interest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories

Would The Saxon Stories be a good starting point for Bernard Cornwall, or would you suggest another of his books?

 

[Mark CMG]

Would The Saxon Stories be a good starting point for Bernard Cornwall, or would you suggest another of his books?

That was exactly my own concern when someone suggested the author to me, so I checked out his bibliography and decided to read a couple of one-offs first. I used to enjoy the Sharpe's series on television but I'm a pre-gunpowder/fantasy guy in my gaming these days (with an exception for Tall Ships and some SciFi) and more or less hold to that for reading (leaving aside history and literature). Anyway, I picked up Stonehenge and enjoyed it enough to grab Agincourt after that. I also just read 1356, not realizing it was the latest in the Grail Quest novels (I don't think it was on the wiki page back when I first did the research. I'll probably take a break here and there to read some non-Cornwell but I'm very happy to have three more Saxon Stories to enjoy as well as the three in The Warlord Chronicles and the first three in The Grail Quest novels. I think Agincourt is a good example of the writing style, as it has swords and such, is probably a good place to check out Cornwell. Stonehenge is very good but removed enough in setting from the others I am reading that it does stand out as decidedly different. One thing reading 1356 out of sequence did for me was convince me that I'll enjoy everything in between. And because he does make sure that each individual novel in a series has a strong arc on its own, I don't think having read it early will disrupt my enjoyment of the rest of The Grail Quest series.

 

[jeffh]

Doing some Appendix N reading - currently I'm in the middle of both Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock and The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany.

This, after several years of reading very little fiction, unless you count economics blogs.

 

[isidorus]

ReReading Oath of Swords by David Weber .

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[Hishen]

still reading games of thrones book 3...