I've just finished reading a load of Finnish classics that are all dreadfully boring and only considered classics because we'd be a sorry nation if we didn't have some literary heritage other than
The Seven Brothers and
Kalevala.
I'm now on a bit of a gaming novel binge to counterbalance the heavy and deep stuff. I finished Paul S. Kemp's
Midnight's Mask (awesome end for an awesome trilogy) yesterday and followed it straight up with Jess Lebow's
Master of Chains, first book of Fighters. It was decent, but there were some anachronistic expressions I found a bit jarring. I've now started on Richard Baker's
Forsaken House which is promising but it reminds me of
Da Vinci Code with the infodumping. I hope they'll get scarcer as the plot picks up speed.
After that, I've got Philip Athans'
Annihilation and the first two novels of the Priests and the last three of the Rogues to read... Then there's
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that I read halfway through and never finished...
On the side, I'm reading Julius Caesar's
The Gallic War and I've got Conn Iggulden's Emperor series lined up after that. Autographed copies, too.
