After this dude was announced to replace Michael Stackpole on the first Wasteland 2 novella I thought I'd give his back catalog a look, and this was the most accessible thing on the Kindle store so eh. It's basically army of darkness with a female protag and replace space travel with time travel. Fun, solid, and campy book. A little over halfway through with it atm and digging it. Could easily see this writer putting out a fun little WL2 story, so worth the 4ish bones I paid for it.
Loved Gaiman's work on the Sandman comics, so I thought I'd give this a quick spin and ended up finishing it in a single sitting lol. Really enjoyed this one despite the pacing moving a little too quickly at times and the story wrapping up much too nicely for my tastes, but in the end it's hard to fault him too much there as I have the feeling that was exactly what he was going for, but I still think this one would have been better if it were 75-100 pages longer. Watched the movie afterwords and kind of hated it. A shame because even though it's a pretty shit adaption it's not really that bad of a movie. Robert De Niro in drag is worth a watch for it alone though, ha.
About a quarter of the way through this one, and man, this is one of those books I'm skeptical of how authentic it is but at the same time too terrified to research it in case I find out it's all true =\ A gripping read for sure, but extremely depressing and really bleak right now. Not saying that's a bad thing or anything, but I'm glad I'm rotating in so many lighthearted fantasy novels to lighten the mood a bit otherwise I'd be depressed as all fuck everytime I put this fucker down v_v
When I head Harvey Smith, the director of Dishonored and the lead designer of Dues Ex, was writing a novel I knew I had to pick it up and read it...eventually ;p About halfway through at this point, and while occasionally the dialog feels a bit stiff and unnatural at times, I can't help but be overwhelmed by massive rushes of nostalgia reading it considering the setting is an incredibly well crafted recreation of the southwest during the late quarter of the 20th century. Everything feels painstakingly, yet lovingly created in such great detail I can't even imagine how much research went into writing this. The plot thus far is kinda interesting, featuring a man who's father died via suicide, and him coming back home after an extended stay away in order to wrap things up.
Whew, that was a big update! Here's my on deck stuff:
Also I've been thinking about picking up the wheel of time novels but have been a frightened lol. With the new possible obsidian project possibly ending up as this taking this IP I thought I'd get familiar with it, but shiiiiiiiiet the damn novel collection is near as long as War and peace
I mean I usually don't mind length, but that's just intimidating and a little frightening to me considering the last fantasy series I got into fell apart at the seams by the end of the 4th book (something something feast something something crows). So yeah....thoughts on WoT and the other books I'm planning on reading it.
