[December] What are you reading?

[GreyLord]

This whole collection is sitting on my shelf begging to be re-read. Some were ok, some... less so. IIRC Savage Caves was one of the better ones and set up characterizations that were further explored in some of the later books. What did you think of it?

I found the Savage Caves actually kind of boring. The Characters were strong in it though, particularly Lidda and Regdar...and of course the unpronounceable goblin...but overall kind of boring.

Maybe it's because I started reading Delany's Nova at the same time, which is of a different type of action and philosophical thought.

 

[Tamlyn]

That's not surprising, given that "T. H. Lain" was a shared pseudonym and the series was written by a handful of different authors. (As I recall, the thinking was they wanted all of the books to be next to each other on the bookstore shelves, rather than separated by different authors' last names.)

Johnathan

Right. It does illustrate the differences, IMO, of some of the WOTC writers of the time. Some of the books are great mindless fun, while others made me yearn for the good old days of reading Accounting textbooks.

 

[EricNoah]

Print book: Reamde by Neal Stephenson. A mystery/thriller about a WoW-like online game that is used for money laundering and spreading "ransomware" that encrypts the user's computer files until the user drops off gold pieces in-game, presumably to some kind of gold-farming outfit. Fun so far.

Audiobook: Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson. Sequel to Spin and Axis. Sci fi.

 

[Krug]

Finished Cherie Priest's Dreadnought which didn't quite measure up to Boneshaker. A nurse goes cross country to be with her father, encountering airships, zombies and a mega armored train. All fairly linear, and the action became kind of repetitious.

Before this read Iain Bank's The Wasp Factory, which was utterly brutal. Still thinking about it.

Starting on 1Q84.

 

[Jhaelen]

I recently finished "The Restoration Game" by Ken Macleod in record time - that was a real page-turner!

Next will be "Blackout/All Clear" by Connie Willis.