June '11 Book List
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lurkerwithoutA somewhat skimpy list of books read for last month. Including a large number of anthologies. Starting with Chuck Wendig's Irregular Creatures, a collection of loosely fantastic beast themed short stories. Of which I probably liked the one about the flying cat best. Then I finally got around to finishing up Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars. Not his best collection. A Murder Leads to Madness, a Brutal Revenge From a Forgotten Victim, a Deal With the Devil and a Family Member With a Dark Secret stories. The 3rd one, "Fair Extension" is both a very dark and sort of comedy, but also the strongest of the bunch...
After that was the free e-book anthology from Rockstar Games that is a tie-in to their L.A. Noire. A couple good pieces of noir/pulp fiction and some so-so ones. But a steal given the price and the talent involved. I also snagged the roommate's copy of the latest Wild Cards' anthology, Fort Freak (G.R.R. Martin ed.) I liked this one about the Jokertown precinct house a great deal. Truly one of the best in the long running series. And the last anthology for the month was the Anthology With No Name Vol. 1 - A Fistful of Dead Guys edited by SHane L. Hensley. A very short collection, with several of the stories suffering by being split up so they continue in latter volumes of this "Deadlands" tie-in series...
I also started the month with a new series by Daniel Fox. Dragon in Chains is a fantasy series loosely based around one of the various feudal China civil wars. Good enough that I'll probably eventually get the rest of the series...
Several of the anthologies before were free e-books as was Treasure Island by Roboert Louis Stevenson. This was one of many classics I've decided to finally get around to since so many of them are available for free from Amazon. Liked it a lot more than I was expecting and I'm looking forward to getting to more of R.L. Stevenson's books...
Almost forgot the more a novella in length prose adaptation of Mark Crilley's first chapter to his Akiko comic series. Akiko on the Planet Smoo starts up his kid's adventure story. Still a fun read even lacking all the pretty pictures...
Got the next book in Mark Hodder's steampunk series starring Sir Richard Burton. The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man has Burton and his allies strive to defend Regent and Country from an army of anarchist ghosts with mysterious foreign backers...
After that were a couple more e-books. Discovered that there was a sequel to Martin Millar's Lonely Werewolf Girl, the Curse of the Werewolf Girl. I might actually like this more than the earlier one and that is easily in my top list of urban fantasy. Then the Shotgun Rule an early crime/pulp book from Charlie Huston. This one is about a group of teen-age, well, hooligans in a small California town...
Went back to try some more Brandon Sanderson first with Mistborn and then ending the month with Well of Ascension. Much more polished books than Elantris and an intriguing system of magic. The second book is nice in showcasing the consequences that come once your ragtag band of rebels and outlaws overthrows the Giant Evil Overlord...
The roommate got me to try out a couple more books as well. First Larry Correia's Hard Magic. Which is a bit steampunk and a bit pulp and more than a bit like Heroes when it didn't suck if it had set in the 30s. And also Victor Gischler's Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse. An enjoyable and darkly comic post-apocalypse survival novel. Some brutal fucked up moments in that one, even some of the funnier moments...
Total books: 15
After that was the free e-book anthology from Rockstar Games that is a tie-in to their L.A. Noire. A couple good pieces of noir/pulp fiction and some so-so ones. But a steal given the price and the talent involved. I also snagged the roommate's copy of the latest Wild Cards' anthology, Fort Freak (G.R.R. Martin ed.) I liked this one about the Jokertown precinct house a great deal. Truly one of the best in the long running series. And the last anthology for the month was the Anthology With No Name Vol. 1 - A Fistful of Dead Guys edited by SHane L. Hensley. A very short collection, with several of the stories suffering by being split up so they continue in latter volumes of this "Deadlands" tie-in series...
I also started the month with a new series by Daniel Fox. Dragon in Chains is a fantasy series loosely based around one of the various feudal China civil wars. Good enough that I'll probably eventually get the rest of the series...
Several of the anthologies before were free e-books as was Treasure Island by Roboert Louis Stevenson. This was one of many classics I've decided to finally get around to since so many of them are available for free from Amazon. Liked it a lot more than I was expecting and I'm looking forward to getting to more of R.L. Stevenson's books...
Almost forgot the more a novella in length prose adaptation of Mark Crilley's first chapter to his Akiko comic series. Akiko on the Planet Smoo starts up his kid's adventure story. Still a fun read even lacking all the pretty pictures...
Got the next book in Mark Hodder's steampunk series starring Sir Richard Burton. The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man has Burton and his allies strive to defend Regent and Country from an army of anarchist ghosts with mysterious foreign backers...
After that were a couple more e-books. Discovered that there was a sequel to Martin Millar's Lonely Werewolf Girl, the Curse of the Werewolf Girl. I might actually like this more than the earlier one and that is easily in my top list of urban fantasy. Then the Shotgun Rule an early crime/pulp book from Charlie Huston. This one is about a group of teen-age, well, hooligans in a small California town...
Went back to try some more Brandon Sanderson first with Mistborn and then ending the month with Well of Ascension. Much more polished books than Elantris and an intriguing system of magic. The second book is nice in showcasing the consequences that come once your ragtag band of rebels and outlaws overthrows the Giant Evil Overlord...
The roommate got me to try out a couple more books as well. First Larry Correia's Hard Magic. Which is a bit steampunk and a bit pulp and more than a bit like Heroes when it didn't suck if it had set in the 30s. And also Victor Gischler's Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse. An enjoyable and darkly comic post-apocalypse survival novel. Some brutal fucked up moments in that one, even some of the funnier moments...
Total books: 15
