[October] What are you reading?

[CarlZog]

I'm currently reading the very, very first Dragonlance novel.

I'd like to do this again. I was in college and running an active 1e campaign when Autumn came out. I loved it! I wonder how it would hold up for me now.

 

[IronWolf]

I'm currently reading the very, very first Dragonlance novel.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

I'm only on chapter two, but I'm enjoying it quite a bit.

Fond, fond memories of this book! I still go back an re-read the series for nostalgia reasons.

 

[Mallus]

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu.

 

[Wombat]

My standard October reads...

A little Poe, a little Lovecraft, and my annual re-read of Ray Bradbury's The October Country.

Oh, and recently read Last Call (a history of Prohibition), Blameless (go Alexia!), and an uncountable re-read of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (as this latter was the first "adult" book I read as a kid, I have read it well over 100 times in my life)

 

[Krug]

Yeah, i agree the pacing was uneven at times, but Hunger Games is still one of the best books I've read in years.

That said, I was underwhelmed by the next two. Both still have pacing issues, but even worse, they both suffer from deus ex machina, expecially the last one. In both sequels, she attempts to use the Games as a template for the story, and ends up shoehorning the story into the template. I personally found the climax of the series to be flat out absurd. I won't say reading them was a waste of time, but they're nowhere near as good as the first, IMO.

I will say that the books did remind me a great deal of Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covernant, Unbeliever. Collins dwells a great deal on doubts, despite, guilt, and so on. And for the most part, she seems to be true to her characters, in that the teenagers feel like teens, not adults. A pity the plots of the second and third books dragged them down.

Well I thought the second book was all right. Took a while to pick up the pace. I do like how she's made personal marketing, propaganda and fashion such an integral part of the story. It is quite different from other YA series.

Currently on the third. Will post my thoughts when done.

 

[Richards]

I just finished Cormyr: A Novel. It was pretty good, although I figured out early who was behind the shenanigans and what Vangerdahast was up to.

Next up is a book of short stories of alternate histories: What Might Have Been, Volumes I and II.

Johnathan

 

[Krug]

Finished Mockingjay which I thought was disappointing. The character seemed to be hurried from one event to another and the motivations just felt absurb. It ended all right but was still a drop off from the first and second books.

On Neil Gaiman's American Gods now. Feels very Sandmanish, and am sick of reading the phrase "a storm is coming..."

 

[faith1806]

nowadays i want to read sth on computer network, but i am afraid that the book is beyond my depth. so i decide to read it online instead of buying one