Candy rots ones brains
But that's what I've been reading. I've read all the way through "Dead in the Family", which I think is Sookie Stackhouse #11. I'm enjoying the books much more than season 5, which is painfully awful. I like how the series emphasizes the town and community of Bon Temps, LA which has a Wal-Mart, but no other restaurants except Merlotte's. Someone open a pizza place there, please.
I finished reading "A Thousand Sons" which is a Warhammer 40k novel about the legion that was blasted to near-nothingness by Leman Russ & Co. Lots of hermetical references and sneaky cameos by the HP Lovecraft mythos.
"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". It was fun and it worked pretty well as "flipside of history", but not done as beautifully as Tim Powers can.
The non-junk was the Hunger Games trilogy. Once you start reading these, it's impossible to stop. The second one was very much a second act and the third one is just a tornado. I like Katniss, a lot. She really does come across as a teenaged girl forced into too much responsibility too early, and when her happy ending comes, it's a long time in doing so, just like real life.
I started Neal Stephenson's "Reamde" last night. After being absolutely unable to get into "Cryptonomicon" and giving up 200 pages in, I am delighted to report that I have a hard time putting this one down, too. I loved "Snow Crash" (read it in one sitting on a bus from Ottawa to Pembroke, Ontario) and "The Diamond Age" so "Cryptonomicon" seems to have been an anomaly.
I'm reading "Reamde" as a hardcover I picked up at a book swap. As for the rest, I love my Kindle.
I finished reading "A Thousand Sons" which is a Warhammer 40k novel about the legion that was blasted to near-nothingness by Leman Russ & Co. Lots of hermetical references and sneaky cameos by the HP Lovecraft mythos.
"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". It was fun and it worked pretty well as "flipside of history", but not done as beautifully as Tim Powers can.
The non-junk was the Hunger Games trilogy. Once you start reading these, it's impossible to stop. The second one was very much a second act and the third one is just a tornado. I like Katniss, a lot. She really does come across as a teenaged girl forced into too much responsibility too early, and when her happy ending comes, it's a long time in doing so, just like real life.
I started Neal Stephenson's "Reamde" last night. After being absolutely unable to get into "Cryptonomicon" and giving up 200 pages in, I am delighted to report that I have a hard time putting this one down, too. I loved "Snow Crash" (read it in one sitting on a bus from Ottawa to Pembroke, Ontario) and "The Diamond Age" so "Cryptonomicon" seems to have been an anomaly.
I'm reading "Reamde" as a hardcover I picked up at a book swap. As for the rest, I love my Kindle.