What are you reading this year 2020?

[Zardnaar]

I found the Darth Bane books, I'll start with those tomorrow. All in the name of campaign prep of course. I may have a lead on all the books (330 whatever of them), we'll see if it pans out. That would be fun, I love owning books, even electronically.

They're decent enough. Drew Kapewhatever is good. They're set around 1000 before ANH and deal with the rise of the rule of two.

 

[ccs]

ATM I'm about 3/4 the way through The End of All Things by John Scalzi.
It's a sci-fi book of 4 or 5 intersecting stories set in the Old Man's War series - Earth/Human colony planets vs a many multi-species alien coalition with a Human/Alien faction trying to cause trouble/war between them.

I picked it up out of a (heavy) discount bin while 2019 Christmas shopping. Before that I'd never heard of this author or series. Cover caught my eye, dust jacket description sounded interesting enough, & I needed something random to read. It was also only $5. So....
It's not the deepest reading, but it's not bad as far as a throw away sci-fi book goes.
Maybe I'll look into the other 5 books in the series. Or maybe I won't.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

ATM I'm about 3/4 the way through The End of All Things by John Scalzi.
It's a sci-fi book of 4 or 5 intersecting stories set in the Old Man's War series - Earth/Human colony planets vs a many multi-species alien coalition with a Human/Alien faction trying to cause trouble/war between them.

I picked it up out of a (heavy) discount bin while 2019 Christmas shopping. Before that I'd never heard of this author or series. Cover caught my eye, dust jacket description sounded interesting enough, & I needed something random to read. It was also only $5. So....
It's not the deepest reading, but it's not bad as far as a throw away sci-fi book goes.
Maybe I'll look into the other 5 books in the series. Or maybe I won't.

I found the novels in the series fun.

 

[Richards]

I'm now reading a very strange novel, Of Tangible Ghosts by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. It's a science fiction mystery in a world where ghosts are not only real but able to be seen by everyone - only it's also an alternate history world, where the Dutch are apparently the main global power, although there's an Austro-Hungarian empire on the rise with some decidedly Nazi-like traits. It's very unlike anything else I've ever read and I'm not sure I'm fully enjoying it at 84 pages in. But I'll stick with it, as my to-be-read pile is starting to dwindle.

In the meantime, I'm also rereading some graphic novels: The Boys and We3 of late.

Johnathan

 

[Zardnaar]

The Wheel of Time, in paperback, totals something like 12,000 pages. Good luck not rage-quitting before you reach the end!

I don't have a plan for the year. I have a vacation coming up for which I am building a reading list.

The manuscript for Scott Lynch's Thorn of Emberlain was completed back in May, so I am hopeful it comes out this year.

I made it to book 7 or 8 and gave up circa 2000/2001.

 

[Garthanos]

I made it to book 7 or 8 and gave up circa 2000/2001.

I actually felt book 8 or was it 9 finished the core interesting story line (tainting of the male side of the one power) and the other element I was interested in was being so drug out that well sigh. I similarly couldn't get interested in the last few.

 

[Zardnaar]

I actually felt book 8 or was it 9 finished the core interesting story line (tainting of the male side of the one power) and the other element I was interested in was being so drug out that well sigh. I similarly couldn't get interested in the last few.

Started off well, first 3 were good.

 

[Garthanos]

Started off well, first 3 were good.

It had some sparkling characters which evoked myth and legend well

 

[Zaukrie]

Just finished book 5 in the Elric saga......not sure how many times I've read this, but I forgot two things about the saga

1. So much of it is in his angsty head. Which is why I'm not sure how a tv show would work.
2. So much time jumping.

Oh, and he writes very, efficiently. No dozens of pages with descriptions and characters that aren't all that important. It's an amazing sparse series, really. I know it was party (mostly?) published as pieces originally, or something like that. But even then, very sparse.

 

[Garthanos]

2. So much time jumping.

That part has World of Warcraft ... reminding me of the Elric Stories