Real late in making this thread this week - but I got busy…
What book is currently on your nightstand? How do you like it? Would you recommend it to others?
I’m about to finish the second book in the mistborn series. Have you guys heard of fictionaries. They are supplemental dictionaries you can load on to your Kindle. So like I have one for Brandon Sanderson’s cosamer series. Which is super helpful. I can like click a characters name and get a little synopsis, which with his love for character back stories is helpful. There are like different ones you can download so you don’t get spoilers. It is made reading any of these books that have so much character, backstory and exposition way easier
I’ve been reading the Lonesome Dove series, not in order of publication, but in internal chronological order.
Dead Man’s Walk
Comanche Moon
Lonesome Dove
Streets of Laredo
I would never have thought to read these books, but I was looking for something to read and my current favourite author, Joe Abercrombie, said Lonesome Dove was the best book he’d ever read so I thought I’d give 'em a whirl. I’m so glad I did. McMurty has such an excellent, calm, matter-of-fact way of telling these stories. I’m most of the way through Lonesome Dove at this point. I think that Comanche Moon is one of the oddest, but most authentic books about mid-19th century Western America I’ve ever read. The other thing that stands out to me is that each chapter could really be a short story that could stand on its own without any of the other context that the rest of the book provides. It’s really a masterclass in storytelling. Can’t recommend enough.
I’m enjoying Empress of the Nile which really is a female version of Indiana Jones.
Just got done re-reading Anansi Boys, and started a re-read of American Gods last night. (Yes, I know, I’m reading them out of order, shush.)
Anansi Boys is Neil Gaiman too, right? I read American Gods decades ago in high school and remember being sort of obsessed with it. Have you ever read any of his Sandman comics? They’re fantastic.
Late in making this thread, but I just finished “Red Rising” by Pierce Brown.
It was a slow start, and veered way off course from where I thought it was going, but I really enjoyed it. I’d definitely recommend to anyone that is interested in ‘Battle Royale’ or ‘Hunger Games’ style stories. This one has a little more grown up context than those two however.
Edit: Trying to finish the last half of “Caliban’s War” from the Expanse Series - I sat it down far too long ago and may need to start over. o.O
I really liked Red Rising, and the other two books in the original trilogy. I also read the first book in the follow-up series, but found it a bit too dark for me (and I usually like dark!) I won’t be bothering with the rest of them, but I might re-read the trilogy at some point.
It really took a turn to another plot I wasn’t expecting at all. The beginning of the book set it up to be a revolution, I was not expecting eugenic battle royale… Whats worse, they never even addressed the original plot started with Eo, it was just sort of used as a setup for book two.