I just finished reading book five of “The Saga of Seven Suns” titled “Of Fire and Night”. The series is written by Kevin J. Anderson whose previously most famous works were the “Jedi Academy” trilogy in the Star Wars setting.
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I would like to start this off by saying that this is a series I likely would have read ages ago (the third one came out in paperback in ’04) except for one reason: the cover art stinks. I have been a fan of Tim Powers since I first encountered his writings in the the early 90s and Three Days To Never is the seventh book by Tim Powers that I have read. If you are even passingly fond of manga, or interested in mysteries, this may be the best manga series you will never have a chance to read. The Kindaichi Case Files are a series of mystery stories that have been coming out in Japan since the early 90s and continues to have new chapters and volumes being released today. The main character of the stories is a high schooler named Hajime Kindaichi, the grandson of (fictional) P.I. Kosuke Kindaichi (described by some as being a Japanese Columbo). He is unmotivated, lazy, and a little lecherous (which is probably a pretty good description of most high school guys) but is also brilliant and a master of sleigh of hand tricks. With his childhood friend and girl-next-door neighbor Miyuki Nanase, they find themselves in the middle of a number of cases that usually involve someone being murdered (while they may not start out that way, in the ones I have read so far they end up that way). Reviewing these both togethor as I read them back to bank. Had picked up The Jennifer Morgue over lunch one day from the bookstore right next to where I do my banking (a truly dangerous arrangement I am finding, paycheck gets deposited and then large chunks of it spent right away as I step out of the bank and succumb to the siren’s song of books to read next door) and started reading it on my bus ride home at the end of that day. By next morning on my bus ride into work I had finished it and got off a stop early to visit a bookstore again to pick up a copy of The Atrocity Archives which I started on the way home that day and finished that night. These are those books that I read in 2009 which were my favorite reads in the past year. The books that I enjoyed the most, or that looking back on the past year, were at least the books that I remember best as having enjoyed reading. Apologies in advance for my slaughter of the English language, cold medicine and a head cold are book working brutally against me. Not counting manga, because I never manage to keep track of what and when I read that, this is a listing of most everything that I read last year. Pretty sure there was actually more than this, but I’ve re-arranged my bookshelves enough over the last year that the area where I was keeping the ‘recently read’ books has gotten mixed back into the general population a few times over the year. Kind of scary to realize I read that many Star Trek books last year, I knew I had read a few that were suggested by people I was talking to on IRC while waiting for the Star Trek Online beta to begin but I hadn’t realized there had been THAT many… One of these days, I’ll actually get around to posting up the reviews I wrote of many of these books. After a few days of play in LotRO I have to say I am still not sure what I think about it. Honestly, I still think DDO might be the superior game (go go Diablo style MMO!) but LotRO is fun for all of the interesting cameos and places to see. So I finally got around to trying D&D Online now that is had gone F2P. It actually isn’t half bad, if you like your MMOs to feel more like Diablo then WoW. I am just not very good at keeping my blog up to date. Keep meaning to be better about it, but just hard to find the time in my schedule for it and really actually motivate myself to bother. |
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