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September Book List
Oct. 2nd, 2008 05:50 amSept 1st: Raymond E Feist - Krondor the Betrayal: A book based around a computer game thats based around a book series. And its actually pretty good. Weird...
Sept 2nd: Feist - Krondor the Assassins: Though this one isn't actually based on a game, it sometimes feels like an adaptation. But mostly I just like seeing more of what happened in Feist's fantasy setting in between the Riftwar and Serpentwar...
Sept 3rd: Feist - Tear of the Gods: And again the parts with Jimmy and company read a lot like someone adapting a game. But I'm not aware of any sequels ever being done for the "Betrayal at Krondor" game. This is also probably the book where you're reminded most heavily that Feist based the setting for his books on his D&D campaign world...
Sept 5th: Alan Dean Foster - Trouble Magnet: Flinx decides to visit one of the "rougher" Commonwealth worlds while he decides if he wants to bother saving humanity. And after letting himself be drawn into helping a youth gang he may have stumbled onto another piece of his own mysterious origin...
Sept 7th: Richard K Morgan - The Steel Remains: Morgan moves from writing about nearly amoral killers in a dark and cynical future to writing about dark and cynical killers in a nearly amoral fantasy setting. Its actually pretty good, especially if you enjoy (like me) the current crop of Low Fantasy like Scott Lynch or Joe Abercrombie...
Sept 9th: Mike Resnick - The Return of Santiago: SciFi/Western/Pulp kind of thing that reminds me a bit in style of Simon Green. Though without all the power creep...
Sept 10th: Patricia Briggs - Moon Called: The roommate got me to check out another Modern Fantasy/Urban Horror/Whatever writer. Car mechanic who is also a werecoyote in a world where the Fae have relatively recently emerged in public. Though the book concentrates on the werewolves who are thinking of following the Fae's example before modern forensics finds them out. Reads like a somewhat less "girly" C.E. Murphy of the "Urban Shaman" series...
Briggs - Blood Bound: 2nd Mercedes Thompson book. This one dealing with vampire politics. Also a demon...
Sept 11th: Briggs - Iron Kissed: 3rd and most recent Mercedes Thompson book. This one concentrating on the Fae. And then right towards the end of the book Briggs pulls the trigger on something many others in this sub-genre threaten with but pull back from. Keeping in mind that the majority of writers and lead characters in this sub-genre are women. I think Briggs handles it well. But it makes me hesitate in recommending the series after it happens. Though anyone who also manages to read Charles DeLint and can handle Jilly's back history can probably handle this as well...
Sept 12th: S.M. Stirling - The Scourge of God: And we return to Stirling's post-apocalyptic world. Still has many of the same Pagans!Yay! and Catholicism Never Dies tics that bug me. But hey, a Buddhist enclave of civilization. They will take in our band of adventurers and teach them the ways of Eastern spiritual enlightenment and using leverage to rip someone's arm off. Plus buffalo hunting with the new Sioux Nation...
Sept 13th: Mercedes Lackey - Magic's Pawn: Yes Lackey basically has 5 characters and 3 plots. But that just means you only have to pick up a FEW of her books to be able to have read them all. Plus I still like Emo!Vanyel who was yaoi before yaoi was cool...
Sept 14th: Lackey - Magic's Promise: 2nd Last Herald-Mage book with Vanyel trying for a quiet visit to his family. Hah! MORE ANGST FOR YOU!
Sept 15th: Lackey - Magic's Price: Final book in the Last Herald-Mage trilogy. Dooooooooom and self-sacrifice and gang-rape. And a "happy" ending that involves people being separated for decades from their True Love so they can then spend time as ghosts together. I wonder if there are manga editors who wake screaming Lackey's name in nightmarish rage? I bet there are...
Sept 16th: John Scalzi - Android's Dream: Interspecies financial espionage that involves farting and then moves to genetically engineered sheep and strange religious cults based on scams that aren't Scientology. And some pretty intense action sequences. Is good...
Sept 18th: Harry Turtledove - Guns of the South: One of the best time travel stories around. With renegade South African's arming the Confederacy with assault rifles to ensure they win the Civil War...
Sept 19th: Scalzi - Zoe's Tale: A follow-up to Scalzi's Old Man's War trilogy that fills in some of the holes in the last book. Like the Roanoke "werewolf" natives. Or how the colony was saved from the second Collective invasion...
Sept 21st: Jim Butcher - Small Favor: Rereading most recent Dresden Files book. With Harry having to deal with Queen Mab calling in a debt, the return of the Denarians and an upswing in his love life...
Sept 23rd: Robert Parker - Bad Business: A simple divorce case for Spenser becomes a more complicated murder mystery involving an energy trading company...
Turtledove - Gunpowder Empire: Hunh. Didn't know Turtledove was writing a YA series. This first book of cross-time resource traders involves a world where the Roman Empire never fell...
Sept 25th: Lackey - The Lark and The Wren: A fantasy book that ends with a no-reservations happy ending? How the hell did that happen?
Sept 26th: Martin Millar - Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me: Any book that almost has me trying to hunt down Zeppelin's first five or six albums has something going for it...
Sept 27th: Butcher - Captain's Fury: And rereading the most recent book in Butcher's OTHER series. Wars being run by committee, raids into the heart of enemy territory, sea monsters and daring prison breaks. Plus of course lost princes in disguise, slave revolts and deadly honor duels...
Sept 28th: Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Misenchanted Sword: First Esthar book from Watt-Evans. Basically putting together the setting and showing the difficulties in spell casting without the proper components...
Sept 29th: Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child - Thunderhead: This is the third or fourth book of their's I've read. And so far The Relic has been the only one I can recommend. And even that one has the Look A Supernatural Threat, No Fooled You in it. Seriously when your "scientific" explanation for things is stupider and less believable than A Wizard Did It maybe you should stop using the same mid-act twist. Yep because archaeologists would TOTALLY give up on solving the secrets of the Anasazi because of the risk of dying from Valley Fever...
Sept 30th: Janet Evanovich - Fearless Fourteen: Needed to wash the taste of stupid from my brain with something quick and fun. And the adventures of Stephanie Plum and Friends qualifies...
Greg Rucka - Private Wars: This book makes me want to shoot people. Lots and lots of people. And I'm using the word "people" in its loosest sense...
Total for month: 26
Sept 2nd: Feist - Krondor the Assassins: Though this one isn't actually based on a game, it sometimes feels like an adaptation. But mostly I just like seeing more of what happened in Feist's fantasy setting in between the Riftwar and Serpentwar...
Sept 3rd: Feist - Tear of the Gods: And again the parts with Jimmy and company read a lot like someone adapting a game. But I'm not aware of any sequels ever being done for the "Betrayal at Krondor" game. This is also probably the book where you're reminded most heavily that Feist based the setting for his books on his D&D campaign world...
Sept 5th: Alan Dean Foster - Trouble Magnet: Flinx decides to visit one of the "rougher" Commonwealth worlds while he decides if he wants to bother saving humanity. And after letting himself be drawn into helping a youth gang he may have stumbled onto another piece of his own mysterious origin...
Sept 7th: Richard K Morgan - The Steel Remains: Morgan moves from writing about nearly amoral killers in a dark and cynical future to writing about dark and cynical killers in a nearly amoral fantasy setting. Its actually pretty good, especially if you enjoy (like me) the current crop of Low Fantasy like Scott Lynch or Joe Abercrombie...
Sept 9th: Mike Resnick - The Return of Santiago: SciFi/Western/Pulp kind of thing that reminds me a bit in style of Simon Green. Though without all the power creep...
Sept 10th: Patricia Briggs - Moon Called: The roommate got me to check out another Modern Fantasy/Urban Horror/Whatever writer. Car mechanic who is also a werecoyote in a world where the Fae have relatively recently emerged in public. Though the book concentrates on the werewolves who are thinking of following the Fae's example before modern forensics finds them out. Reads like a somewhat less "girly" C.E. Murphy of the "Urban Shaman" series...
Briggs - Blood Bound: 2nd Mercedes Thompson book. This one dealing with vampire politics. Also a demon...
Sept 11th: Briggs - Iron Kissed: 3rd and most recent Mercedes Thompson book. This one concentrating on the Fae. And then right towards the end of the book Briggs pulls the trigger on something many others in this sub-genre threaten with but pull back from. Keeping in mind that the majority of writers and lead characters in this sub-genre are women. I think Briggs handles it well. But it makes me hesitate in recommending the series after it happens. Though anyone who also manages to read Charles DeLint and can handle Jilly's back history can probably handle this as well...
Sept 12th: S.M. Stirling - The Scourge of God: And we return to Stirling's post-apocalyptic world. Still has many of the same Pagans!Yay! and Catholicism Never Dies tics that bug me. But hey, a Buddhist enclave of civilization. They will take in our band of adventurers and teach them the ways of Eastern spiritual enlightenment and using leverage to rip someone's arm off. Plus buffalo hunting with the new Sioux Nation...
Sept 13th: Mercedes Lackey - Magic's Pawn: Yes Lackey basically has 5 characters and 3 plots. But that just means you only have to pick up a FEW of her books to be able to have read them all. Plus I still like Emo!Vanyel who was yaoi before yaoi was cool...
Sept 14th: Lackey - Magic's Promise: 2nd Last Herald-Mage book with Vanyel trying for a quiet visit to his family. Hah! MORE ANGST FOR YOU!
Sept 15th: Lackey - Magic's Price: Final book in the Last Herald-Mage trilogy. Dooooooooom and self-sacrifice and gang-rape. And a "happy" ending that involves people being separated for decades from their True Love so they can then spend time as ghosts together. I wonder if there are manga editors who wake screaming Lackey's name in nightmarish rage? I bet there are...
Sept 16th: John Scalzi - Android's Dream: Interspecies financial espionage that involves farting and then moves to genetically engineered sheep and strange religious cults based on scams that aren't Scientology. And some pretty intense action sequences. Is good...
Sept 18th: Harry Turtledove - Guns of the South: One of the best time travel stories around. With renegade South African's arming the Confederacy with assault rifles to ensure they win the Civil War...
Sept 19th: Scalzi - Zoe's Tale: A follow-up to Scalzi's Old Man's War trilogy that fills in some of the holes in the last book. Like the Roanoke "werewolf" natives. Or how the colony was saved from the second Collective invasion...
Sept 21st: Jim Butcher - Small Favor: Rereading most recent Dresden Files book. With Harry having to deal with Queen Mab calling in a debt, the return of the Denarians and an upswing in his love life...
Sept 23rd: Robert Parker - Bad Business: A simple divorce case for Spenser becomes a more complicated murder mystery involving an energy trading company...
Turtledove - Gunpowder Empire: Hunh. Didn't know Turtledove was writing a YA series. This first book of cross-time resource traders involves a world where the Roman Empire never fell...
Sept 25th: Lackey - The Lark and The Wren: A fantasy book that ends with a no-reservations happy ending? How the hell did that happen?
Sept 26th: Martin Millar - Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me: Any book that almost has me trying to hunt down Zeppelin's first five or six albums has something going for it...
Sept 27th: Butcher - Captain's Fury: And rereading the most recent book in Butcher's OTHER series. Wars being run by committee, raids into the heart of enemy territory, sea monsters and daring prison breaks. Plus of course lost princes in disguise, slave revolts and deadly honor duels...
Sept 28th: Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Misenchanted Sword: First Esthar book from Watt-Evans. Basically putting together the setting and showing the difficulties in spell casting without the proper components...
Sept 29th: Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child - Thunderhead: This is the third or fourth book of their's I've read. And so far The Relic has been the only one I can recommend. And even that one has the Look A Supernatural Threat, No Fooled You in it. Seriously when your "scientific" explanation for things is stupider and less believable than A Wizard Did It maybe you should stop using the same mid-act twist. Yep because archaeologists would TOTALLY give up on solving the secrets of the Anasazi because of the risk of dying from Valley Fever...
Sept 30th: Janet Evanovich - Fearless Fourteen: Needed to wash the taste of stupid from my brain with something quick and fun. And the adventures of Stephanie Plum and Friends qualifies...
Greg Rucka - Private Wars: This book makes me want to shoot people. Lots and lots of people. And I'm using the word "people" in its loosest sense...
Total for month: 26
