Been putting off trying to do last month's list. Mostly because of it being over fifty books. The majority of which is from rereading all thirty-five volumes of the Grantville Gazette anthologies at work. Plus the first two Ring of Fire anthologies after getting the 3rd's advanced reader copy as an e-book ( Read more... )

A lot more use of the Kindle this month. Starting with Jim Hines' "Jig the Goblin" series. Which are funny fantasy rpg adventure books told from the point of view of the monsters. Adventurers are tools mostly. Finished Goblin Quest on the 1st, Goblin Hero on the 2nd and Goblin War on the 5th. Also read Goblin Tales an anthology of mostly Jig- ( Read more... )

Looking at Simon R. Green's author page, I think the reason his books are all so similar is that he's actually some kind of book writing robot. Because seriously, twenty novels over an eight year span? Thats just inhuman...

First off, let me just say that this is a fine book. An excellent example of Simon R. Green's style of writing. And thats part of the problem. I was midway thru it when I realized that I had read it before. Not the book, but the story. In his Deathstalker series. And the Mom Quest parts of the Nightside series. And even much of Drinking ( Read more... )