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<blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 4054412" data-attributes="member: 143">Just finished Varley's Steel Beach. Very thought-provoking book about life in a society with an all-powerful &quot;benevolent&quot; computer running things.I'm about to head to the library to pick up Glen Cook's Annals of the Black Company and Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb. I have Brandon Sanderson's Well of Ascension on order; while I did not enjoy Mistborn as much as I did Elantris, the series did interest me enough to decide to move forward with it. I think the downfall of the series is that the protagonist and primary foes are so all-powerful that all of the other characters (and to some degree, the setting) seem uninteresting by comparison. I've heard some interesting things about book 2 so we'll see how it goes.I'm also reading a very interesting non-fiction book called The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids by Alexandra Robbins. I've read a lot of books about how screwed up our education system is for the poor, but this book casts a hard look at the challenges rich kids often face as they are driven to succeed (often in highly destructive ways).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lazybones, post: 4054412, member: 143"] Just finished Varley's [i]Steel Beach[/i]. Very thought-provoking book about life in a society with an all-powerful "benevolent" computer running things. I'm about to head to the library to pick up Glen Cook's [i]Annals of the Black Company[/i] and [i]Shaman's Crossing[/i] by Robin Hobb. I have Brandon Sanderson's [i]Well of Ascension[/i] on order; while I did not enjoy [i]Mistborn[/i] as much as I did [i]Elantris[/i], the series did interest me enough to decide to move forward with it. I think the downfall of the series is that the protagonist and primary foes are so all-powerful that all of the other characters (and to some degree, the setting) seem uninteresting by comparison. I've heard some interesting things about book 2 so we'll see how it goes. I'm also reading a very interesting non-fiction book called [i]The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids[/i] by Alexandra Robbins. I've read a lot of books about how screwed up our education system is for the poor, but this book casts a hard look at the challenges rich kids often face as they are driven to succeed (often in highly destructive ways). [/QUOTE]

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