Knights & Knaves Alehouse

Looks like a sweet ERB pastiche.

Ghul wrote:My newest used book score from ebay. I'm eager to read this one!

I'm judging by the cover, but... THAT BOOK LOOKS FRIKKIN AWESOME. Who is the author? I gotta find a copy of that.

Thundar by John Bloodstone.

Just bought one for 5 bucks off Amazon. Sweet!

austinjimm wrote:Just bought one for 5 bucks off Amazon. Sweet!

Nice. I'll post my thoughts on the book in the next month or two.

I'm currently reading The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi. It's a wacked out post human sort of thing. Main character is a thief.

That is actually on pause as I read the current Dresden Files book, Skin Game. Butcher is my current pulp author. I think he's a decent writer and I think he has some decent editing as well.

My current effort (number 3 IIRC) to read the Baroque Cycle has stalled.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. Mainstream literary fiction (it won the Pullitzer Prize a few years back). The main character is an rpg fanatic so there are tons of gaming references - name-drops of Gary Gygax, Dragon magazine, Gamma World, Aftermath, Champions, Fantasy Games Unlimited, etc. - along with tons of Tolkien and other miscellaneous sf, fantasy, and comic book references, which make me smile in recognition but are presumably meaningless to most other people who read the book (though to be fair there's also a bunch of Spanish slang and stuff about Dominican history and politics that I don't get, so I suppose it evens out). Alas, the premise of the book (the first 2/3 of it, at least) is that this guy is a total nerd loser (he also weighs 300 lbs and is utterly hopeless with girls), so despite incorporating a depth of rpg-knowledge that has to be first hand, this is definitely not a positive mainstream media portrayal of rpg fans. Don't read it for the rpg references, but if you're otherwise interested enough to read it, the rpg references will be a fun easter egg.

Reading Colleen McCullough's Antony and Cleopatra. Library had it. So far, it's alright.

At bedtime, reading Stuart Little, The Wind in the Willows, and A Princess of Mars to the kids.

Just dipped into Tales of Averoigne, and just got a copy of Tolkien’s Beowulf translation in the mail (anniversary present).

Re-read Asimov's The End of Eternity, and it's still entertaining and interesting. With just a tad updating, it'd make for a decent movie, and the annoying guy from Big Bang Theory would be a good fit for the main character. I know, I know. Almost everyone on that show is annoying, but I mean the one that's intentionally annoying. Sheldon, I think is his character name.

Don DeLillo: "Underworld". Brilliant book, plain and simple.

The Dao De Jing...in Chinese!

The Silmarillion; I've never made through in one reading. About halfway through right now. Just finished the Lord of the Rings including all the appendices (which I have never read before, though I have often referenced them).

What's your opinion on the *Dread Empire* series, by Glen Cook, guys?