I love a good serialized story. Hell, I love the format so much, I'll put up with some pretty awful stories. (Heroes, say.) At their best, serials give you all the fast pace and efficiency of short stories plus the protracted character development of novels, which is awesome. But the print serial's been on life support for a while now (the ( Read more... )

I left the handful of books I've been reading lately in my office yesterday, so when I got into bed to read last night I picked at random from my heavens-brushing, vertigo-inducing, wife-angering To Be Read pile. Which was fun in itself, because I'm usually kind of draconian about the order of my reading (I'll read in order to review, or force ( Read more... )