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?
Just started Someone Like Me by M. R. Carey (known for The Girl With All The Gifts). Good so far but I really haven’t gotten far.
Recently finished the first Mistborn book which was AMAZING. Everyone was on point about Sanderson’s ability to create an amazing climax and keep you invested in those last few hundred pages! I have around 200 pages left of The Eye of the World which has been better than I thought. Feels like going from the Shire to Rivendell but in one book. The world building is great and I am totally here for this series!
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.
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.
I’m just about to finish Halo: The Flood and move onto either Halo: First Strike or The Last Wish (since the new Witcher season is coming up).
I personally couldnt get into The Flood and put it down but First Strike is great and could honestly be its own game if it wanted to lol
it got better toward the end. when the Flood finally arrive. coming off of Fall of Reach, the tone just felt different… i get its the first game but, i don’t know it read very action movie-ish in some sections, lacking depth here and there. i’m more excited to get back to Eric Nylund’s books lol