Books
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I haven't read the latest Richard Morgan, but I thought the first of the fantasy books was pretty good. He's heavily implied that it's connected to the Kovacs series, in a weird way… Grimwood is cool, but I couldn't get into the vampire/fantasy series.
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I haven't read the latest Richard Morgan, but I thought the first of the fantasy books was pretty good. He's heavily implied that it's connected to the Kovacs series, in a weird way… Grimwood is cool, but I couldn't get into the vampire/fantasy series.
I can buy that ' Black Man/Thirteen' and 'Market Forces' could be part of the same universe because of the tech involved… but 'The Steel Remains' and 'Cold Commands'. That would be weird.
I have to admit that I prefer JCG's SF over his Fantasy, but he has a history of vampire-like characters. NeoAddix had one... and there my memory fails me. 9 Tail Fox and End Of the World Blues had a couple as well.
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I loved the Arabesque series - awesome alt.reality. I've read most of the others, up to 9 Tail Fox then I fell behind.
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It's a pity that although there are a lot of recurring themes in his books, characters seem locked into trilogies. Ashraf Bey was a great character :).
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Just started, follows on from The Fallen Blade. Feels like it's going to be a quick read. The same easy flowing style as all of JCG's books. And the next two days off work :).
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Ah, good stuff! I like that cover as well, very cool. I'm on a strict diet of manuscripts at the moment for work, no time for my regular reads right now.
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The cover has brought to bear one of my pet hates. It's a completely different design than the Fallen Blade cover… Which has been re-released in line with the new cover:
I suppose it's to try and appeal to a larger market but it really irritates me
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Ugh, yeah, Kafka is heavy stuff. Seul's recommendation is good, the other that comes to (my) mind is "Vor dem Gesetz", engl. "Before the Law", if you just want to try a short story.
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Just started this:
Great stuff. They've just started showing a tv series based on these, so I thought I'd check 'em out.
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Have to say I prefer Elmore Leonard's early work for my western fix…
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Love Elmore Leonard also, but man cannot live on one type of cowboy mystery alone…
Actually, I've only read a bit of Leonard's 'proper' westerns, I've mostly read his more contemporary stuff. I've got the Raylan Givens books now as well. I guess they're more comparable to the Longmire stuff as they're both contemporary, despite the obvious differences.
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Well, from what I understand, he started out only writing western stories as they were well paid at the time. Then he switched to crime novels. And with the advent of Raylan Givens as a 'modern' cowboy, seems to have come fill circle.
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Finally got back to some E. Leonard at last. I find I appreciate my local library more and more since Iron Heart appeared in my life :).
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Do we have any David Foster Wallace fans around here? I'm about halfway through The Pale King after a good long reading session last night. This was his last, unfinished novel but you wouldn't know it from how 'complete' it feels. I've yet to read his masterpiece Infinite Jest but really enjoyed The Broom of the System.
