Rhombaad
Video Game Time Traveler
'Salem's Lot: It's Stephen King and vampires, so I got about what I expected to get out of it. I enjoyed it, but not as much as some of his other novels. It took my mind of getting used to my new CPAP machine last fall, so that's a major plus in my book. The miniseries scared me as a kid. That kid at the window. Ugh. No good.
The Bounty Hunters: Somehow my first Elmore Leonard novel. I've always liked the movies based off of his work, especially Get Shorty, Jackie Brown and Out of Sight, and I loved Justified, but somehow I never got around to reading his stuff until now. Really liked The Bounty Hunters. Great pulpy western stuff. I never used to like westerns, but now I just can't get enough of them.
Fevre Dream: It's G.R.R.M. and vampires, so again, I got about what I expected to get out of it. I burned through this one and had a great time with it, but for some reason don't feel that highly about it looking back all these months later. I dunno. I enjoyed it, but just can't recommend it.
Kingkiller Chronicle: I'd never heard of these books until Walter mentioned them somewhere in this thread several years ago. I finally got around to reading them and found them pretty damn enjoyable. I don't think they're the greatest fantasy novels ever written like some people do, but I also don't think they're as bad as some others say. I thought they were competently written, I liked the worldbuilding (especially his magic system and all of the artificing) and some of the characters are pretty great. Looking forward to reading The Doors of Stone if/when it comes out, but I've got lots of other stuff to read in the meantime.
Hard Freeze and Hard as Nails: Finished the last two books in Dan Simmons' Kurtz series. Hard Freeze was great. I liked it even better than Hardcase, but Hard as Nails was a let-down. I'm hoping he writes more of them, because Hard as Nails just sort of ends with the characters in limbo. Maybe he got tired of them? It certainly felt like it. Simmons is one of my favorite authors, but every now and then he has a swing and a miss. Kind of felt like it with the last one.
The Bounty Hunters: Somehow my first Elmore Leonard novel. I've always liked the movies based off of his work, especially Get Shorty, Jackie Brown and Out of Sight, and I loved Justified, but somehow I never got around to reading his stuff until now. Really liked The Bounty Hunters. Great pulpy western stuff. I never used to like westerns, but now I just can't get enough of them.
Fevre Dream: It's G.R.R.M. and vampires, so again, I got about what I expected to get out of it. I burned through this one and had a great time with it, but for some reason don't feel that highly about it looking back all these months later. I dunno. I enjoyed it, but just can't recommend it.
Kingkiller Chronicle: I'd never heard of these books until Walter mentioned them somewhere in this thread several years ago. I finally got around to reading them and found them pretty damn enjoyable. I don't think they're the greatest fantasy novels ever written like some people do, but I also don't think they're as bad as some others say. I thought they were competently written, I liked the worldbuilding (especially his magic system and all of the artificing) and some of the characters are pretty great. Looking forward to reading The Doors of Stone if/when it comes out, but I've got lots of other stuff to read in the meantime.
Hard Freeze and Hard as Nails: Finished the last two books in Dan Simmons' Kurtz series. Hard Freeze was great. I liked it even better than Hardcase, but Hard as Nails was a let-down. I'm hoping he writes more of them, because Hard as Nails just sort of ends with the characters in limbo. Maybe he got tired of them? It certainly felt like it. Simmons is one of my favorite authors, but every now and then he has a swing and a miss. Kind of felt like it with the last one.
