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What are you reading (May 2012)
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Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Despite what certain know-nothings in this thread will proclaim, Breakfast of Champions is a hilarious, entertaining, and poignant book of the Vonnegut catalog and definitely worth your time. Galapagos is another one that's great.
sparky2112
Member
Oh, the humanity.
Yikes. I barely made it through 50 pages of the first book before I quit.
dr3upmushroom
Banned
I need to find some good fiction to read, I always update my Amazon wishlist with stuff I find browsing around, lurking this thread, or on Twitter from people with similar taste, and it's like three-fourths non-fiction. There's nothing wrong with that, but I read The Sisters Brothers recently and it was amazing, and the first fiction I've read in probably like half a year.
I really like David Mitchell and Michael Chabon so I think I'm going to finally get around to checking out Murakami over the summer. I'm interested to check out Patrick deWitt's other book too. Thinking about some David Foster Wallace too.
If anyone has any literary fiction from that last few years they consider required reading I'd like to hear.
I really like David Mitchell and Michael Chabon so I think I'm going to finally get around to checking out Murakami over the summer. I'm interested to check out Patrick deWitt's other book too. Thinking about some David Foster Wallace too.
If anyone has any literary fiction from that last few years they consider required reading I'd like to hear.
OttomanScribe
Member
The main character is literally based upon me.
Maklershed
Member
Not the happiest book I've ever read but I loved it so much I tore through it in a day ...
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
haven't read it myself, but my s.o. is in the literature department at indiana u, and this relatively new book really impressed her when they read it last semester:
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray.
Gorgeously written, heartbreaking (bovs), and hilarious.
sparky2112
Member
Seconded. I LOVED Skippy Dies. Brilliant beyond all measure - seriously.
BenjaminBirdie, you're officially my favorite person around here.
Maklershed
Member
Yes. Yes you should. Here are some threads where fellow GAFers make book recommendations. Maybe you can find something you'd be intersted to try:
GAF Recommends!
Book Recommendations for Particular Areas of Study
History Books
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
Post-apocalpytic Books
Books of 2010
Forgotten Sci-Fi Novels
Lengthy Books
Space Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Fantasy Books
Summer Reading
Dresden's Favorite Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Sci-Fi Novel Series
Modern Fantasy and Hidden Gems
Must Read Books That Came Out in the Past 10 Years
Fantasy Recommendations
Scary Books
NPR Top 100 of Sci-Fi/Fantasy as of 2011
Best Sci-Fi You've Ever Read
Fantasy and Science Fiction That is Worth Reading
Best Factual Books on War (WWI/WW2 and Beyond)
Cat's Cradle is my go to Vonnegut reccomendation for anyone who hasn't read it.
Snowy, thanks for your comments on Godel, Escher, Bach. I've had a copy in the house for ages and ages, but it's reputation is intimidating enough that it's just languishing on a shelf and collecting dust. You've motivated me to at least try to dig out my copy, dust it off, and think about sneaking into my reading queue later in the year.
Awesome news! I'm totally looking forward to checking out your illustrations.
So, the last time I posted in the reading thread I was starting up Roberto Bolaño's 2666. I managed to get through two of the five parts of the book before going, "Well, maybe I'll just take a break from 2666 and read something lighter before diving into Part 3." That was many months and a whole pile of serial genre fiction ago.
First off, I got sucked into Ilona Andrews' Edge series and tore through the three books out so far - On The Edge, Bayou Moon, and Fate's Edge - in very short order. I'd discovered Ilona Andrews (the pseudonym for a husband and wife writing team) last year with the Kate Daniels series, an addictive urban fantasy series set in post magical apocalypse Atlanta and with an interesting take on vampires to make up for a more run-of-the-mill riff on werewolves, all of which helped make up for the series' god-awful book covers. The covers are a tad better with the Edge novels (if not by much) and they do a fine job of conveying the concept: plucky, badass heroine hooks up with smoking hot, mysterious man whose head floats benevolently up by the authors' name. The titular Edge is the border between the magical fantasyland of The Weird and our plain ol' mundane world of The Broken. It's a place where magic works, the inhabitants are scrappy and mistrustful of outsiders, and everyone is invariably dirt broke. The first book in the series sets up the formula nicely: our heroine lives in the Edge, she encounters mysterious hunk from the Weird, they Team-Up(tm Marvel Comics) to defeat bad guys, and romance blooms in the process.
Now, I realize that sounds generic as all get out, and the basic concept was certainly done very well by awesome authors like Emma Bull with the old Borderlands shared universe. The catch here is that our writing team does a damn fine job of writing fast-paced romantic adventure of the sort where you want to tear through one book right after the other; I recently introduced a friend to Andrews and she did not stop until reading all eight of the author's novels one after the other, cursed my name for introducing her to such an addictive author, and then listened eagerly to my news of upcoming installments in the series and side-project novellas. And, if the universe isn't a super original concept, it's still a fine one to base an urban fantasy series on and Andrews uses the setup in interesting ways to put our heroes and heroines through the wringer. Also, while each novel focuses on a new couple, characters from previous books in the series show up in the background and provide a lovable cast to keep track of.
To sum up, if you're a fan of urban fantasy, or have been curious about checking out the genre, I can't recommend Ilona Andrews highly enough. And, if you're thinking, "Man, I want to have a pile of light fun reading to just wallow in for the summer", well, here you go.
Next, I was curious to see what the fuss was all about, so I picked up the first book in Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy and wound up reading all three of 'em in fairly short order. I dunno that I have a lot to say about these that hasn't already been said by half the internet, but the short version is that they're fast, compelling reads, it's interesting that a YA series about dystopian teenage gladiatorial blood sports has become such a part of a the zeitgeist, and that there are some wonky aspects of the series I thought were perplexing.
First off, it's interesting reading a dystopian novel that's not very interested in explaining the society it depicts. Sure, Collins has some vague things to say about reality television and a vapid ruling class, but the setup is there more to provide a way to put the characters through the wringer than to be commented upon in and of itself. That's fine - I liked the characters I was supposed to like, I wanted to see what happened to everyone and how they reacted to the challenges of the plot, and so forth - but I mostly kept thinking that the ruling class wasn't very good at totalitarianism and that it was surprising they didn't seem to have an ideology to explain this. For example, I was surprised to see that booze was considered a black market item. If the state had some sort of ideological reason to ban this, sure, okay, I can see that, but otherwise what better way to keep an oppressed slave class compliant? It's a minor detail, sure, but one that stuck with me.
Also, man, the series really could use some more laughs. I kept thinking of satirical takes on the concept - Battle Royale, The Running Man, and so forth; hell, even Rollerball has some lighter moments - and wished that things weren't so damn earnest all the time. In particular, every time someone mentioned the President, the breathless phrase "Mr. President...a very dear friend of mine" popped into my head straight out of Death Race 2000, which didn't help in taking the series too seriously. Still, I enjoyed reading 'em and I'm glad America's current novel fad involves teenagers beating each other to death.
Then I learned that two new installments in an urban fantasy series I'd been reading were out, namely Blood Challenge and Death Magic, the less than originally titled seventh and eighth volumes in Eileen Wilks' World of the Lupi novels. Earlier novels in the series were fun examples of the Werewolf Boy Meets Magic Girl genre, but by this point Wilks is largely writing about characters in established relationships and so some of the spark is missing, even while the end of the world plots are steadily escalating. Blood Challenge introduces a new Magic Girl for a Werewolf Boy to fall in love with and she's a likeable character with a fun power, but the novel is busy following our big established couple - she's an Asian FBI agent who can detect magic, he's a werewolf prince - so there wasn't as much time spent setting up the new relationship as I would have liked. Meanwhile, Death Magic fleshes out a peripheral relationship in a pleasant way and does a lot of major plot advancing things in the process. It's entertaining enough but...hrm. I don't want to be too hard on Wilks, but while reading the book I kept thinking that, say, Jim Butcher's Dresden Files are a lot more compelling on the escalating plot front, and the romantic element wasn't nearly as compelling as, say, the Andrews novels I ranted and raved about above. I'd still recommend the Lupi novels to a dedicated urban fantasy fan looking for a new series to jump on, and I've still got the next novel in the series pre-ordered, but I can't say I'm super excited for the series at this point. Ah well.
Then I dropped everything to read The Wind Through The Keyhole, Stephen King's new Dark Tower novel. I've been a fan of the Dark Tower series for a quarter of a century now, so when Mr. King decides to revisit the world, I am so there. With the series already wrapped up King doesn't have much wiggle room to fit in a lot of new continuity, but he sidesteps the issue nicely by having our heroes hole up during a storm and pass the time with Roland telling a story from his youth, with a nested fable contained within. As a fan, it's always a pleasure to see King flesh out more of Roland's past, and King uses his horror chops to provide a suitably creepy problem for a pair of young gunslingers to solve. However, the real joy here is the fable that gets told halfway through the novel, about a young boy on a (naturally) perilous quest, which King infuses with the rhythms of the Brothers Grimm and tantalizing details about the Mythology of Mid-World. It's really a lovely book all around, a love letter from King about the importance of storytelling, and it's a must read for fans of The Dark Tower. I'd also be curious to see if it works as a stand alone novel for the uninitiated. Either way, I loved it.
Finally, on my girlfriend's recommendation, I just finished reading Touch The Dark by Karen Chance, the first novel in the Cassandra Palmer series. We're talking more straight up urban fantasy/paranormal romance here, with a Magic Girl heroine that can interact with ghosts and who grew up in the household of a vampire mobster. Now she's grown up, on the lam, and dragged back into the world of vampire politics by Destiny(tm). This was an okay start to an ongoing series, but I didn't think it was amazing and there was a lot of corn to swallow in the process. Many of the vampires are historical figures who just happened to all be the living dead, the vampire mythology is completely off the shelf, there's an organization called MAGIC (barf) that our heroine gets caught up in, and so forth. Then there's a plot that involves a lot of visions to the past, to the point where the plot gets kinda jumbled at times, but by the end of the novel we have a new status quo and a launch pad for more of our heroines adventures. Eh, like I said, it's okay. Apparently there's more humor in the following books which was a big selling point for my ladyfriend, but I think it's probably all a bit too cheesy for me. I may read more, I may not. Eh.
Last night I was flailing about for a new book and was having trouble finding something I was excited to read, but I figured I couldn't go wrong with a short Heinlein novel, so I punted and grabbed The Door Into Summer. I'm only a few pages in so far, but it's shaping up to be about time travel through cryogenic freezing, which I'm down with. I'm sure it'll be a great, fast read, and I can figure out what I want to tackle next afterwards. Perhaps I'll go back to Bolaño, hat in hand, and see if I can get further into 2666. Alternately, it might be time to read another Aubrey/Maturin novel. Hrm.
FnordChan
Awesome news! I'm totally looking forward to checking out your illustrations.
So, the last time I posted in the reading thread I was starting up Roberto Bolaño's 2666. I managed to get through two of the five parts of the book before going, "Well, maybe I'll just take a break from 2666 and read something lighter before diving into Part 3." That was many months and a whole pile of serial genre fiction ago.
First off, I got sucked into Ilona Andrews' Edge series and tore through the three books out so far - On The Edge, Bayou Moon, and Fate's Edge - in very short order. I'd discovered Ilona Andrews (the pseudonym for a husband and wife writing team) last year with the Kate Daniels series, an addictive urban fantasy series set in post magical apocalypse Atlanta and with an interesting take on vampires to make up for a more run-of-the-mill riff on werewolves, all of which helped make up for the series' god-awful book covers. The covers are a tad better with the Edge novels (if not by much) and they do a fine job of conveying the concept: plucky, badass heroine hooks up with smoking hot, mysterious man whose head floats benevolently up by the authors' name. The titular Edge is the border between the magical fantasyland of The Weird and our plain ol' mundane world of The Broken. It's a place where magic works, the inhabitants are scrappy and mistrustful of outsiders, and everyone is invariably dirt broke. The first book in the series sets up the formula nicely: our heroine lives in the Edge, she encounters mysterious hunk from the Weird, they Team-Up(tm Marvel Comics) to defeat bad guys, and romance blooms in the process.
Now, I realize that sounds generic as all get out, and the basic concept was certainly done very well by awesome authors like Emma Bull with the old Borderlands shared universe. The catch here is that our writing team does a damn fine job of writing fast-paced romantic adventure of the sort where you want to tear through one book right after the other; I recently introduced a friend to Andrews and she did not stop until reading all eight of the author's novels one after the other, cursed my name for introducing her to such an addictive author, and then listened eagerly to my news of upcoming installments in the series and side-project novellas. And, if the universe isn't a super original concept, it's still a fine one to base an urban fantasy series on and Andrews uses the setup in interesting ways to put our heroes and heroines through the wringer. Also, while each novel focuses on a new couple, characters from previous books in the series show up in the background and provide a lovable cast to keep track of.
To sum up, if you're a fan of urban fantasy, or have been curious about checking out the genre, I can't recommend Ilona Andrews highly enough. And, if you're thinking, "Man, I want to have a pile of light fun reading to just wallow in for the summer", well, here you go.
Next, I was curious to see what the fuss was all about, so I picked up the first book in Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy and wound up reading all three of 'em in fairly short order. I dunno that I have a lot to say about these that hasn't already been said by half the internet, but the short version is that they're fast, compelling reads, it's interesting that a YA series about dystopian teenage gladiatorial blood sports has become such a part of a the zeitgeist, and that there are some wonky aspects of the series I thought were perplexing.
First off, it's interesting reading a dystopian novel that's not very interested in explaining the society it depicts. Sure, Collins has some vague things to say about reality television and a vapid ruling class, but the setup is there more to provide a way to put the characters through the wringer than to be commented upon in and of itself. That's fine - I liked the characters I was supposed to like, I wanted to see what happened to everyone and how they reacted to the challenges of the plot, and so forth - but I mostly kept thinking that the ruling class wasn't very good at totalitarianism and that it was surprising they didn't seem to have an ideology to explain this. For example, I was surprised to see that booze was considered a black market item. If the state had some sort of ideological reason to ban this, sure, okay, I can see that, but otherwise what better way to keep an oppressed slave class compliant? It's a minor detail, sure, but one that stuck with me.
Also, man, the series really could use some more laughs. I kept thinking of satirical takes on the concept - Battle Royale, The Running Man, and so forth; hell, even Rollerball has some lighter moments - and wished that things weren't so damn earnest all the time. In particular, every time someone mentioned the President, the breathless phrase "Mr. President...a very dear friend of mine" popped into my head straight out of Death Race 2000, which didn't help in taking the series too seriously. Still, I enjoyed reading 'em and I'm glad America's current novel fad involves teenagers beating each other to death.
Then I learned that two new installments in an urban fantasy series I'd been reading were out, namely Blood Challenge and Death Magic, the less than originally titled seventh and eighth volumes in Eileen Wilks' World of the Lupi novels. Earlier novels in the series were fun examples of the Werewolf Boy Meets Magic Girl genre, but by this point Wilks is largely writing about characters in established relationships and so some of the spark is missing, even while the end of the world plots are steadily escalating. Blood Challenge introduces a new Magic Girl for a Werewolf Boy to fall in love with and she's a likeable character with a fun power, but the novel is busy following our big established couple - she's an Asian FBI agent who can detect magic, he's a werewolf prince - so there wasn't as much time spent setting up the new relationship as I would have liked. Meanwhile, Death Magic fleshes out a peripheral relationship in a pleasant way and does a lot of major plot advancing things in the process. It's entertaining enough but...hrm. I don't want to be too hard on Wilks, but while reading the book I kept thinking that, say, Jim Butcher's Dresden Files are a lot more compelling on the escalating plot front, and the romantic element wasn't nearly as compelling as, say, the Andrews novels I ranted and raved about above. I'd still recommend the Lupi novels to a dedicated urban fantasy fan looking for a new series to jump on, and I've still got the next novel in the series pre-ordered, but I can't say I'm super excited for the series at this point. Ah well.
Then I dropped everything to read The Wind Through The Keyhole, Stephen King's new Dark Tower novel. I've been a fan of the Dark Tower series for a quarter of a century now, so when Mr. King decides to revisit the world, I am so there. With the series already wrapped up King doesn't have much wiggle room to fit in a lot of new continuity, but he sidesteps the issue nicely by having our heroes hole up during a storm and pass the time with Roland telling a story from his youth, with a nested fable contained within. As a fan, it's always a pleasure to see King flesh out more of Roland's past, and King uses his horror chops to provide a suitably creepy problem for a pair of young gunslingers to solve. However, the real joy here is the fable that gets told halfway through the novel, about a young boy on a (naturally) perilous quest, which King infuses with the rhythms of the Brothers Grimm and tantalizing details about the Mythology of Mid-World. It's really a lovely book all around, a love letter from King about the importance of storytelling, and it's a must read for fans of The Dark Tower. I'd also be curious to see if it works as a stand alone novel for the uninitiated. Either way, I loved it.
Finally, on my girlfriend's recommendation, I just finished reading Touch The Dark by Karen Chance, the first novel in the Cassandra Palmer series. We're talking more straight up urban fantasy/paranormal romance here, with a Magic Girl heroine that can interact with ghosts and who grew up in the household of a vampire mobster. Now she's grown up, on the lam, and dragged back into the world of vampire politics by Destiny(tm). This was an okay start to an ongoing series, but I didn't think it was amazing and there was a lot of corn to swallow in the process. Many of the vampires are historical figures who just happened to all be the living dead, the vampire mythology is completely off the shelf, there's an organization called MAGIC (barf) that our heroine gets caught up in, and so forth. Then there's a plot that involves a lot of visions to the past, to the point where the plot gets kinda jumbled at times, but by the end of the novel we have a new status quo and a launch pad for more of our heroines adventures. Eh, like I said, it's okay. Apparently there's more humor in the following books which was a big selling point for my ladyfriend, but I think it's probably all a bit too cheesy for me. I may read more, I may not. Eh.
Last night I was flailing about for a new book and was having trouble finding something I was excited to read, but I figured I couldn't go wrong with a short Heinlein novel, so I punted and grabbed The Door Into Summer. I'm only a few pages in so far, but it's shaping up to be about time travel through cryogenic freezing, which I'm down with. I'm sure it'll be a great, fast read, and I can figure out what I want to tackle next afterwards. Perhaps I'll go back to Bolaño, hat in hand, and see if I can get further into 2666. Alternately, it might be time to read another Aubrey/Maturin novel. Hrm.
FnordChan
I'm in once I finish 1Q84 (that may take a while though).
I won't be diving back into a full re-read of Infinite Jest myself anytime soon, but I'd definitely give it my highest recommendation for anyone else around here curious about tackling it.
FnordChan
sparky2112
Member
Me. I've aborted read #2 about six times now. If I tried it in small-ish bursts, I'd make it through. One thing my aborted tries showed was how interconnected everything in the novel is, and unless you have a photographic memory, there's no way to pick up on all of it on a single read. So, yeah, I'm there with bells on and everything...
likedamaster
Member
Just got around to reading Steve Jobs by Walter...
Sold! I've got a copy en route and will report back once it's made it to the top of my capricious to-read pile. Thanks for the recommendation!
FnordChan
eattomorro
Neo Member
IndieJones
Member
I just finished Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16, by Moshe Kasher, and it is easily in my top 3 books of all time.
All time.
All time.
Sorry, one time through the book was enough for me.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
Edit: never mind.
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
i'm reading it anyway, and would gladly share my thoughts on it in such a thread. i've become an almost fanatical DFW fan over the past year, and this is my FIRST TIME through IJ.
brianjones
Member
ive had it sitting on my shelf for a while daring me to read it
i guess now is as good a time as any
how long did it take you guys whove finished it? im not in any hurry just out of curiosity
i guess now is as good a time as any
how long did it take you guys whove finished it? im not in any hurry just out of curiosity
Like . . . a whole month, lol. To be fair I was swamped with classwork at the time, but still, it's a big fucking book.
Just read these on a plane flight + some time at home. Quick reads, not very good, not recommended. Aspects of the story are good, and better than the writing. There are parts of the third book where the prose is some of the worst I have ever read in a published novel, reaching bad fan-fiction status, and parts where the writing is much improved from the first two books...bizarre.
Also, re-reading this series in anticipating of the 23 years-in-the-making final novel that comes out early next year. Can't say enough about The Wheel of Time, it's incredible.
It took me a few months of on-again/off-again reading. I dunno if I ever would have gotten around to the book if it wasn't for a friend and I agreeing to tag team Infinite Summer. I was very glad to finally read the novel, not least because I'd had the trade paperback sitting around collecting dust since 1997. If there is an Infinite Summer thread on NeoGAF, I'd highly recommend getting on board, since having milestones to reach and folks to discuss things with as you read makes it easier to tackle the novel. I'm not saying this because IJ is an incredibly difficult read, but it is a particularly dense one and you'll appreciate having folks to discuss the novel with as you go through it. Also, be sure to have two bookmarks on hand before you jump in. No, seriously.
FnordChan
nakedsushi
Member
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
I couldn't stop reading it last night and ended up finishing it. It's a really gripping and sometimes depressing look into the lives of North Korean people from the 1950s to the somewhat-present.
sparky2112
Member
Davis only did Swann's Way, so that series of translations is (maybe) inconsistent. I've read the Moncrief/Kilmartin, and I also scanned an old, old copy of the original Moncrief, the latter seeming very 'English', but I'm very fond of that. Just go with Moncrief/Kilmartin, unless all you want is Swann's Way. If you go beyond Swann's, get a reading guide, trust me. There's a good one out since I read Proust almost 20 years ago....
Yeah, that's what I want to avoid...and why I don't read Constance Garnett's Russian translations. Looks like the Davis translation for me. Thanks!
Bornstellar
Member
I need more. now.
googoomuck22
Member
Continuing from my Raymond Chandler kick I recently finished his second novel centred around Philip Marlowe 'Farewell, My Lovely'. I enjoyed it but it was probably the weakest of the ones I've read so far. Nothing glaringly dreadful about it by any means, just not quite as memorable as The Big Sleep, The Last Goodbye or The High Window.
After finishing that I started reading The Great Gatsby which I'm about a quarter of the way through but am already fully engrossed in. I've never read any Fitzgerald before and I'm glad that, so far at least, he seems to live up to the high praise that surrounds him.
After finishing that I started reading The Great Gatsby which I'm about a quarter of the way through but am already fully engrossed in. I've never read any Fitzgerald before and I'm glad that, so far at least, he seems to live up to the high praise that surrounds him.
Finished that.. Now onto:
Finished that.. Now onto:
Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury.
Leeroy3101
Banned
Finished Cat's Cradle by Kurt VOnnegut and loved it. I wasn't expecting that ending at all.
I'm reading a couple of nonfiction tales as well as a good fiction.
-It's pretty interesting, so far. I never learned much about this man in school. This is the autobiography of him and it's cool to see how he became the person he did.
-It's surprinsgly very good. Very factual and doesn't dive into crazy alien territory. It's nice to read a decent history of this base. Hint:
-Currently on mountains and plan to finish up the other tales in this anthology. I really like his writing style along with the amount of details he puts in. It's like Frakenstein but it's not a labor to get through. Sort of terrified to keep reading, actually.
I'm reading a couple of nonfiction tales as well as a good fiction.
-It's pretty interesting, so far. I never learned much about this man in school. This is the autobiography of him and it's cool to see how he became the person he did.
-It's surprinsgly very good. Very factual and doesn't dive into crazy alien territory. It's nice to read a decent history of this base. Hint:
the cold war has a lot to do with it.
-Currently on mountains and plan to finish up the other tales in this anthology. I really like his writing style along with the amount of details he puts in. It's like Frakenstein but it's not a labor to get through. Sort of terrified to keep reading, actually.
Finished this one up. It was pretty great, but it definitely suffers a bit from being the middle part of a trilogy. It's ultimately more about moving pieces around and introducing new characters and elements than being super satisfying on its own.
Not sure what's next up. I have to get back to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. I've finished Red Mars and Green Mars, just have the giant beast of Blue Mars to go.
Book 4 of the series. I wish more sci-fi fantasy crossovers would get written. I'm going to have to wait a bit for book 5 so I'll finally be able to read something different after this one. I'm thinking Dark Tower 4.5.
I need to get to this. Actually, I hate to admit it, but I haven't read the third book yet. I kept wanting to reread Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle but never got the time. That's on my list of things to do this year.
mikeysteena
Neo Member
A prequel to Trainspotting, one of the best Scottish novels ever written
It's fab btw!