Recent reads
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:34 am
I read for pleasure, generally not for information
The last few:
The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson-I've got a hard on for the convoluted storylines of this series, "The Malazan Book of the Fallen". If you like big, dark fantasy works, this is one of the best I've read. Comparisons to Glen Cooks "Black Company" are warranted.
Spook Country by William Gibson - Not bad. Enjoyable.
Plague Year by Jeff Carlson - brutal, nasty, but decent storyline. Science was good, unlike
Invasive Procedures by Orson Scott Card/Aaron Johnston - this was so bad that I'd like to warn you off of it. Johnston took an old, dated short story by Card and wrote both a screenplay and a novel. Insipid. Bad science. The writing's not bad, but the awfulness of the details detracts immensly. Card should be smacked up side the head for letting Johnston do this. This was so bad that I had to write a review about it on Amazon.
Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey - I got sucked into this series at the beginning, and it's different enough so that I would ususally avoid this particular kind of genre, but the writing and storytelling is done very well, and the background is intriguing.
The last few:
The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson-I've got a hard on for the convoluted storylines of this series, "The Malazan Book of the Fallen". If you like big, dark fantasy works, this is one of the best I've read. Comparisons to Glen Cooks "Black Company" are warranted.
Spook Country by William Gibson - Not bad. Enjoyable.
Plague Year by Jeff Carlson - brutal, nasty, but decent storyline. Science was good, unlike
Invasive Procedures by Orson Scott Card/Aaron Johnston - this was so bad that I'd like to warn you off of it. Johnston took an old, dated short story by Card and wrote both a screenplay and a novel. Insipid. Bad science. The writing's not bad, but the awfulness of the details detracts immensly. Card should be smacked up side the head for letting Johnston do this. This was so bad that I had to write a review about it on Amazon.
Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey - I got sucked into this series at the beginning, and it's different enough so that I would ususally avoid this particular kind of genre, but the writing and storytelling is done very well, and the background is intriguing.