Re: Bookworms: what are you reading/listening to?
@Flacus burning man is actually set after ms&t. My lady loved it despite not reading ms&t, but obviously its better to have the prior context.
I actually first read MS&t in braille, but had to do a deal with the national braille library to get some of the books from what was then the nls in the states , who were willing lend to the braille library over here if not to individuals, as well as finishing MS&T, this also let me read otherland for the first time.
It was sort of ironic, since in one weekend I had the first ever release of order of the pheonix followed by Otherland, I also got most of the wheel of time from them a little later. Of course this was before a lot of the commercial stuff, plus my lady does have access to Bard as well and the amount of stuff on Bard for authors like Tad williams is quite staggering as compared to the RNIB or indeed anywhere else.
Right now I've started Steven King's the stand, and am finding it pretty awesome, albeit not many of the characters are particularly likable. Still, I'll wait to give my thoughts until I've finished the book since manifestly even though I'm only five hours in there is a long ways to go, and of course I will probably bang out a review of it as well.
@Cw, I've heard of The Expanse series but not read them.
Dark materials was a really good fantasy series and I enjoyed it right up to the point i saw philip pullman talk about it on an interview, since it always amuses me that he is this huge great atheist, and then has created a particle of universal consciousness, ie, dust which pretty much fulfills the roll of god by another name. No, he doesn't like organised religion and his alegories got so heavy handed as to be annoying, but how any writer who talks about "the universe feeling" can then repudiate God I don't know.
This is one reason that I enjoyed the first two books more than the third.
Generic fantasy that doesn't try just annoys me. I saw the Eragon film, then checked the plot synopses of the first book, and it was honestly one of those occasions where I just couldn't see the point. The plot is so blatantly cobbled together out of starwars, Lotr wheel of time Anne Mccaffrey and other elements, with a love story that is positively painful. When friends who'd read it told me the writing style was pretty appauling, and when I learned that the author basically was the son of a publisher and a family friend published the thing he wrote when he was fifteen I pretty decided not to bother.
Lord of the rings is something I reread every few years and get more out of it each time, its one of my perminant comfort books.
Next up my lady and I want to do the american Minds eye radio adaptation. While everyone I know who's heard both has said its no where near as good as the bbc, as a tolkien completionist am interested just out of curiosity, especially as it features John vickery, aka, Neroon in Babylon 5 and Scar in the Broadway production of the Lion king as both legolas and Greamar wormtongue.
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