This month I’ve been rereading Halo: Primordium. Good book but just as depressing as I remember. I’ve also started working my way through the OpenLDAP Admin manual trying to wrap my head around LDAP.
So what have you all been reading? What did you think of it?
I’ve started A Memory of Light. The last book in the Wheel of Time series.
And I’m also reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Oh man, I am so excited for you! That ending is amazing for the series. WoT is how I found my way to Brandon Sanderson. Now that I’ve read a lot of his stuff I understand that he excels at endings; its probably his biggest strength.
Thanks, I’m really looking forward to it! It’s been a long journey through these 15 books. And Brandon Sanderson is great, I love the Mistborn and Stormlight books, but Elantris is one that really gripped me. Such a interesting and well-written story.
I also loved Elantris. Warbreaker was similarly great, imo.
I’m on book 6 of the Wheel of Time, after reading all of the Cosmere lol
That’s awesome. Elantris doesn’t get enough love from Sanderson fans, I think because his other work is so strong where in Elantris he was still finding his voice as his first published work. But I read it after books 1-4 of the Stormlight books and while it was clearly an early work and in comparison it’s not written as “well,” a lot of the key things are there. Compelling story, good character work, and compared to most fiction, really well written. It’s just when put next to his later works it feels a bit “less.” But obviously, his strength is really his character work, and some of them were a bit flat, but that villain… man that really showed what he can do with a character. And of course his story ideas are always just so unique and awesome.
And I don’t know how much of Sanderson’s background you know but it was the first Mistborn book that got him Wheel of Time. His telling of that story is actually really touching to me as someone who loves books and how they can affect people.
Rereading Mort by Terry Pratchett. Also And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer.
How is And Another Thing? Loved H2G2, but I read several of the Artemis Fowl books as a kid and can’t really imagine Colfer nailing Adams’s style (though I admit the latter H2G2 books began to loose their punch anyway). If anyone, I would’ve accepted Pratchett picking up the series, but alas.
The jokes aren’t as great, nor is the writing, specifically compared to Douglas Adams’ work. However, it isn’t bad, and pretty OK when consumed in the form of an audiobook. I am mostly reading it because the ending of Mostly Harmless left me sad and I wanted to read more stories involving the characters.
I am mostly reading it because the ending of Mostly Harmless left me sad and I wanted to read more stories involving the characters.
I kinda liked the bleak ending, it reinforced the theme of cosmic scale. I liked the Mark II, I liked the whole tidy Beta wrap up. I can’t imagine a very satisfying way to continue past that point.
I’m reading “So You Want to Be a Game Master” by Justin Alexander and “The Way of Kings” by Brandon Sanderson.
I also have “Needful Things” by Stephen King and “The Great Hunt” (The Wheel of Time book 2) by Robert Jordan sitting at roughly 50%, but they currently are in pause; unfortunately reading more than 2 books simultaneously is difficult if you also have to work.
I’m reading book 6 of the Wheel of Time. It’s pretty great, I started the series after finishing the Cosmere books. A friend suggested them since Sanderson finished the series for Jordan.
I’ve just finished “The Sparrow” by Mary Doria Russell. A sci-fi story where it’s the Jesuits who are sending the first mission to contact an alien species. It was a really great book, some of the best sci-fi I’ve read in recent years. The author really knows how to write great characters you care about, despite the fact that you know it’ll all end in disaster from the very beginning.
I’ve now started “Gardens of the Moon”, the first book of the “Malazan Book of the Fallen” series. The series is somewhat infamous for being very complicated and difficult to read, so we’ll see how it goes. The author definitely likes to use some very obscure vocabulary, good thing I have an ebook reader with a built-in dictionary.
