It's time for the Wed Reading Meme...
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shadowkatYou ever think that we live in a world of too much information?
1. What you just finished reading?
The Skin Game by Jim Butcher - which I already reviewed HERE. Just scroll past the rock and roll hall of fame chatter and you'll get there.
In a nutshell? It was okay.
If you didn't like Death Masks, book 3 -- I think, in the series? You won't like this.
He brings back the dreaded Knights of the Black Denarius (the fallen angels and the coins), and unfortunately Michael Carpenter and the arch-angel Uriel. (Not to be confused with the Fallen Angel Ursial.) Add to that, a couple of dumb plot twists that are poorly handled, and far too much action to be believable.
Told my co-worker to borrow it from the local library.
2. what you are reading now?
Lord of Light by Roger Zelaney - a sci-fi classic, first published in 1964 or thereabouts. And the book that I've borrowed was printed in the 1970s...it's old, and musty with tiny print. I miss my Kindle already.
So far - it's a wee bit slow and putting me to sleep. But, from what I've read, it takes a while to get into it - because there's a lot of world-building and exposition.
It's also a tale told in reverse, with a lot of flashbacks. At root, a bro-romance, featuring various characters from the Hindu religious pantheon. Apparently after Earth has been devastated, humans traveled to a new planet, set up shop, and the people who flew them there or ran the spaceship stayed above in the spaceship and set themselves up as gods - using technology to rule over the inhabitants living on the primitive world below. They chose to use the gods and religion of the Hindu pantheon. One of these so-called gods, resists, Sam, who sets himself up as Siddartha or Buddhistva, and starts Buddhism or something to that effect.
At any rate it sounds interesting and at the very least it's outside of the Judeo/Christian mythos - which is overdone. Plus much better written than the last 100 fictional books I've read, (not including The Blind Assassin and the non-fiction book on Playbuilding). Sad but true.
As you can see, I've jumped genres again. I need to stop impulse buying books on Amazon. You would not believe how many books I own on my kindle that I currently have no interest in reading.
3. What I'll be reading next?
Eh...current plan is to attempt A Dance with Dragons by GRRM again, mainly because I want to know what happens to Ayra, Jon Snow, Dany, Jorah, and Tyrion - but I don't know. I may have to skim stuff. Martin's writing style annoys me.
I've sort of lost interest in Jamie, in part due to his arc in Feast and Dance, he got a wee bit whiny in those books - lost his snark. And in part due to how he's been portrayed in the television series.
But knowing me, I may jump to something else.
1. What you just finished reading?
The Skin Game by Jim Butcher - which I already reviewed HERE. Just scroll past the rock and roll hall of fame chatter and you'll get there.
In a nutshell? It was okay.
If you didn't like Death Masks, book 3 -- I think, in the series? You won't like this.
He brings back the dreaded Knights of the Black Denarius (the fallen angels and the coins), and unfortunately Michael Carpenter and the arch-angel Uriel. (Not to be confused with the Fallen Angel Ursial.) Add to that, a couple of dumb plot twists that are poorly handled, and far too much action to be believable.
Told my co-worker to borrow it from the local library.
2. what you are reading now?
Lord of Light by Roger Zelaney - a sci-fi classic, first published in 1964 or thereabouts. And the book that I've borrowed was printed in the 1970s...it's old, and musty with tiny print. I miss my Kindle already.
So far - it's a wee bit slow and putting me to sleep. But, from what I've read, it takes a while to get into it - because there's a lot of world-building and exposition.
It's also a tale told in reverse, with a lot of flashbacks. At root, a bro-romance, featuring various characters from the Hindu religious pantheon. Apparently after Earth has been devastated, humans traveled to a new planet, set up shop, and the people who flew them there or ran the spaceship stayed above in the spaceship and set themselves up as gods - using technology to rule over the inhabitants living on the primitive world below. They chose to use the gods and religion of the Hindu pantheon. One of these so-called gods, resists, Sam, who sets himself up as Siddartha or Buddhistva, and starts Buddhism or something to that effect.
At any rate it sounds interesting and at the very least it's outside of the Judeo/Christian mythos - which is overdone. Plus much better written than the last 100 fictional books I've read, (not including The Blind Assassin and the non-fiction book on Playbuilding). Sad but true.
As you can see, I've jumped genres again. I need to stop impulse buying books on Amazon. You would not believe how many books I own on my kindle that I currently have no interest in reading.
3. What I'll be reading next?
Eh...current plan is to attempt A Dance with Dragons by GRRM again, mainly because I want to know what happens to Ayra, Jon Snow, Dany, Jorah, and Tyrion - but I don't know. I may have to skim stuff. Martin's writing style annoys me.
I've sort of lost interest in Jamie, in part due to his arc in Feast and Dance, he got a wee bit whiny in those books - lost his snark. And in part due to how he's been portrayed in the television series.
But knowing me, I may jump to something else.
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Date: 2014-06-19 08:33 am (UTC)And I adore Roger Zelazny. He is one of the very few authors that I love as much now (if not more) as when I was twelve and read them first. In my attempts to get everything he has written, I have collected his books in three languages and there is still a lot of stuff that can't be bought anymore except in second hand bookshops.
I like the Lord of Light a lot but my favorite by him is Jack of Shadows.
About GRRM, who by the way slept on Zelaznys couch when he was young, divorced and pennyless, I'm looking forward to this history of Westeros thing, about the Targaryen kings and so on. I also find that I really remember Feast very badly. There were almost no scenes in there that stuck. it is a bit better but similar for Dance.
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Date: 2014-06-21 09:31 pm (UTC)