Brahm_K wrote:
I'll be reading over the holidays:
Cormac McCarthy- The Road
Tell us how you like that one ^_^ (Been putting off picking it up for ages)
Ya, I kind of put it off too- haven't read it yet. I do reccomend Latro in the Mist though, which is kind of like Memento set in ancient Greece (though the books in it were published before Memento), and which is excellent, though difficult due to the fact that the narrator forgets everything every 12 hours, making the narrative very hard to follow (this is a good thing).
City of Saints and Madmen is also reccomended- it's a book of short stories set around a fictional city called Ambergris, and is at times just about as weird and at other times as funny as anything I've ever read. Vandermeer really evokes the place through use of different fonts, authors, and genres within the book. For example, one short story is a history, complete with hilarious footnotes; another is a scientific exploration of the squid, complete with a 38 page bibliography that is both insightful to the world and "author" and funny; then there are all sorts of stories, many of which are extremely weird and haunting. Great writer, very interesting book.
rio wrote:
Finished a load of books so am beginning a load more in rotation.
Robert Jordan- Knife of Dreams (after the first couple of POVs in the prologue and also looking at amazon reviews it seems like its going to be far better than the last three... something might even happen, you never know)
We'll see what you think... I think it's completely overrated personally, and that people only rate it so highly because things do happen, eventually. That doesn't mean that those things are well written, though, or that there's not 500 pages of padding and characters like Elaine being a bitch in minute detail, just that it's not as godawful as Crossroads of Twilight.
