[October] What are you reading?

[drothgery]

Okay, that re-read of WoT was totally necessary.

Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan's notes just kept me up until 3am. And wow.

 

[Darth Shoju]

...now reading Dracula the Un-Dead, a sequel to Dracula apparently based on some notes from Bram Stoker and written by his great-nephew or somesuch. I'm about 3 chapters in and, no, it is not great literature nor particularly reminiscent of what I remember of the original's writing style, but it's ok so far.

Is the story told through a collection of journal entries, letters, and newspaper articles like the original Dracula?

 

[EricNoah]

Is the story told through a collection of journal entries, letters, and newspaper articles like the original Dracula?

No. It's told in a rather pedestrian, straightforward way - author(s) engage in a lot of "telling" rather than "showing."

 

[Darth Shoju]

No. It's told in a rather pedestrian, straightforward way - author(s) engage in a lot of "telling" rather than "showing."

Huh. It's too bad -- I wouldn't mind a "real" vampire story, what with all the sparkly mary-sue-ness that is afflicting them nowadays (not that I've ever been a huge mark for vampire fiction, but I reallly enjoyed Dracula).

 

[EricNoah]

Still working on Deepsix, but also now reading Dracula the Un-Dead, a sequel to Dracula apparently based on some notes from Bram Stoker and written by his great-nephew or somesuch. I'm about 3 chapters in and, no, it is not great literature nor particularly reminiscent of what I remember of the original's writing style, but it's ok so far.

Ohh kay ... my verdict on Dracula the Un-Dead is ... don't bother.

Spoilers: [sblock]None of the characters is likable and it is a relief as they are killed off one by one. We also get to meet a talentless hack named Bram Stoker who did not write Dracula, he was told it by Van Helsing - and Van Helsing did not tell him the story as it actually happened. Also apparently all of this vampire stuff is related to Jack the Ripper, don't ya know. Plus it turns out Dracula was the good guy all along, and there was an even more evil vampire working off screen and we just didn't know about her![/sblock]

 

[Asmo]

Finished The Law of Nines by Terry Goodkind.


Asmo

 

[AJCarrington]

Reading "Orcs" ny Stan Nichols. Not bad so far, but I'm starting to get bogged down in the 3rd section.

AJC

 

[Darth Shoju]

Ohh kay ... my verdict on Dracula the Un-Dead is ... don't bother.

Spoilers:

Yikes...thanks for the warning on that one.

 

[Wombat]

Yeah ... read the sequel to Dracula as an advance read copy ... it was, at very, very best, mediocre. A couple of characters were okay, but for the most part it just felt ... lame.