Subject: Re: Books
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Posted on: 2010-07-24 07:16:00 UTC
I'm currently reading the Dresden Files(well, rereading them) and am about to pick up Son of a Witch.
I just finished Halo: First Strike, Fool Moon, the Peshawar Lancers and Superior Saturday.
Peshawar Lancers - I'm a big S.M. Sterling fan, and a big steampunk fan, so when I found out that Sterling had written an alternate history story about a world that was stuck in the steam age due to a huge meteor storm in the 1800s, I was hooked. As with most of Sterling's books that I've read, it starts kind of slow, but it's well worth it if you stick with it.
The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher's Dresden files are really fun to read. A bit reminiscent of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe stories, with magic and other fantasy elements thrown in. While I'll admit that there is the occasional plothole, however the writing is good enough and the stories are so fun that it's easy to over look some of those.
Halo: First Strike - Man, the Halo books do a much better job of explaining what's going on than the games do. First Strike is a nice one that bridges the gap between the first and second games and goes a ways in explaining why the Master Chief acts as distant as he does, and why Sgt. Johnson survived the Flood. It also gives some insight into the way the Covenant works, and where the Brutes were during the first game.
Superior Saturday - The sixth, and second-to-last book in the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. It's a good story. Unfortunately, I don't remember much of the first five books, so I'll have to go back and reread those.