December: What are you reading?

[Crothian]

I just finished the The Atrocity Archives which is a very good take a of bureaucratic red tape meets Call of Cthulhu.

 

[Hammerhead]

Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings.


Things like push/pull magic, the torturing of a main character that brings out his superior capabilities combined with his unrationale hatred of nobility,

Unrational hatred? Have we read the same books? It seems pretty rational to me, in both instances. In fact, one of my complaints about the later Mistborn books is that so many of the main characters seem to forget just how bad the nobility was.

My main problem with WoK also involved comparing it with Mistborn though. I kept waiting for Kaladin to start kicking ass and DOING something; Kelsier would have overthrown their entire society by the three hundredth page, and Raoden would have convinced everyone to work together and end their stupid division.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Unrational hatred? Have we read the same books? It seems pretty rational to me, in both instances. In fact, one of my complaints about the later Mistborn books is that so many of the main characters seem to forget just how bad the nobility was.

You're right of course. I probably should have said "extreme" rather than "irrational" (never mind why I typed "unrational"). In both cases we have the hero who has been beaten down, scarred, had his "snap"
point where suddenly extreme powers manifest, and then will learn at the end that he is going to become the thing he hates, and not all of them are as bad as he thinks (Kaladin - Dalinar, Kelsier - Elon).

I do wish they'd picked the pace up, too. I groaned when I learned it was the first of 10 books. But then, Sanderson has proven he can keep up a much better pace than others -- I'm looking at you, George.

 

[megamania]

Finishing up James Wyatt's Dragon War. Not sure what is next. It'll be another Eberron novel however.

 

[Ryltar]

I'm currently reading:

- Warriors, the excellent George R.R. Martin/Gardner Dozois-edited collection of fantasy and sci-fi short stories. I'm just past the halfway mark, and can highly recommend this book.

- Prince of Wolves, the first book in the new Pathfinder Tales series penned by Dave Gross. I also recommend this, as it is a fun romp through parts of Paizo's Pathfinder setting, with writing style and general quality being a notch or two above the best Forgotten Realms novels (yes, I read them all ... make of that what you will). I wish I could say the same thing about the next book published under this label, but I digress ... and wait for Dave Gross's next book .

Also, on the Graphic Novel front, I've just finished the first collected issues (respectively) of Criminal, Scalped, For Queen and Country and Transmetropolitan. Very different, but I like each of them.

Next up: China Miéville's Kraken, Ian Cameron Esslemont's Stonewielder, George R.R. Martin's Hunter's Run and Ian Whates' City of Dreams and Nightmares.

 

[coyote6]

Finished Captain's Fury, Harry Connolly's Child of Fire, and Scalzi's Zoe's Tale -- I read a lot last week, somehow. Now reading Princep's Fury.

 

[EricNoah]

Moved on to

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Zero-History-William-Gibson/dp/0399156828/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293107047&sr=1-1"]Zero History[/ame] (William Gibson) - print

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Dust-Shadow-Account-Ripper-Killings/dp/1416583300"]Dust & Shadow[/ame] (Sherlock Holmes/Jack the Ripper pastiche) - audiobook

 

[Krug]

China Mieville's Kraken - Roaring start, but middle getting a bit muddled.

 

[megamania]

Started up Paul Crilley's Taint of the Black Brigade. Wren is terribly annoying (and thus fun to read) as ever.

 

[lorien_llannan]

currently reading The Swords of Eveningstar by Ed Greenwood. the origins of the knights of myth drannor