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Tophat665 · 03-07-2007, 06:35 PM

Lessee.

Not long ago I read The first Instrumentailities of Night book - The Tyranny of the Night. Late middle ages to Renaissance Europe and Dar al-Islam with some seriously odd magic and walking gods/ghosts/fairies. Glen Cook at his best, really. Sort of Black Company-ish with the feel of a historical fiction. (All the names have been changed to protect the sensibilities of nations, and Gibraltar is an ithsmus rather than a strait, making the geography of the Mediterranean a little different. )

Then I read the second one - Lord of the Silent Kingdom - which was not quite as satisfying as the first, as it didn't resolve as well as the first (but then, Cook will go on these two, three, four book mini-series within a series where the resolution waits till the last book of the mini0series - no worries). Left me wanting more. A third book. Immediately.

Next, finished SM101. Basically an intro college course to BDSM. Highly, highly recommended for anyone thinking about any sorts of power gradient informed sex.

As long as I was in that headspace, finished The Story of O. Kind of disappointed at how abruptly it ends. Also, while I understand and appreciate the necessity for the author to take long excursions into O's mental state, it really got tedious from time to time. If ever a woman deserved the whippings she got.... Not seriously, but sheesh!

At the moment, re-reading Shadowmarch by Tad Williams. He's got the kind of sinister grasp of faeries that Neal Gaiman shoots for (and misses low to the horror side - nothing wrong with that, mind you). Very rich world he has going there. Meaty. Believable politics. I've got the second book waiting on my loveseat for when I finish the first one.

03-07-2007, 06:35 PM	#64 (permalink)
Tophat665 Minion of the scaléd ones Location: Northeast Jesusland	Lessee. Not long ago I read The first Instrumentailities of Night book - <I>The Tyranny of the Night</I>. Late middle ages to Renaissance Europe and Dar al-Islam with some seriously odd magic and walking gods/ghosts/fairies. Glen Cook at his best, really. Sort of Black Company-ish with the feel of a historical fiction. (All the names have been changed to protect the sensibilities of nations, and Gibraltar is an ithsmus rather than a strait, making the geography of the Mediterranean a little different. ) Then I read the second one - <i>Lord of the Silent Kingdom</i> - which was not quite as satisfying as the first, as it didn't resolve as well as the first (but then, Cook will go on these two, three, four book mini-series within a series where the resolution waits till the last book of the mini0series - no worries). Left me wanting more. A third book. Immediately. Next, finished SM101. Basically an intro college course to BDSM. Highly, highly recommended for anyone thinking about any sorts of power gradient informed sex. As long as I was in that headspace, finished <i>The Story of O</i>. Kind of disappointed at how abruptly it ends. Also, while I understand and appreciate the necessity for the author to take long excursions into O's mental state, it really got tedious from time to time. If ever a woman deserved the whippings she got.... Not seriously, but sheesh! At the moment, re-reading <i>Shadowmarch</i> by Tad Williams. He's got the kind of sinister grasp of faeries that Neal Gaiman shoots for (and misses low to the horror side - nothing wrong with that, mind you). Very rich world he has going there. Meaty. Believable politics. I've got the second book waiting on my loveseat for when I finish the first one. __________________ Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.