What are we reading?

[GDS_Starfury]

it should come with a map or guide. But it's not badly written.

so should women.

[besilarius]

Was always a little surprised that no one tried to do a game on Glen Cook's the Black Company.  Couldn't be tactical, although with the new games like JTS Pike and Shot, you could try to make scenarios.
But a fantasy world could be really deep.

[Gusington]

I've read some Black Company too. The thing with Cook is that I always hope to like his work more than I actually do.

[MetalDog]

Not sure any of you have read them both to agree/disagree with my comparison, but, the Black Company books remind me of Roger Zelazny's Amber books.  What I mean is, I liked the first five Amber books much better than the next five.  I had a similar problem with Cook's Black Company.  It seemed as if both authors went to the well one too many times.  For comparisons sake, it doesn't even have to be those two authors.  It could be any who have a recognized set of characters and a break in time between the first series and the second.

[JasonPratt]

I know at least one friend who likes the Malleorean more than the Belegariad (not sure about spelling), to the point of choosing one set rather than the other when keeping books for a move across country.

And most people think Weis and Hickman managed to improve on Dragonlance with the Legends after the Chronicles -- though certainly everyone agrees they eventually went to that well too many times (arguably anything after Legends at all).

[MetalDog]

And I would choose the Belgariad and Chronicles over the Malloreon and Legends.  What makes me most happy is that we have so many good books to choose from.  And even a decent book is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY better than a decent tv show.

[JasonPratt]

^^ Indeed.

(Though you're the first person I recall ever thinking the original trilogy was better than the sequel. Not that I can't see some reasons why, just unusual.)

[Gusington]

It's not unusual to be flummoxed by MD.

[MetalDog]

^^ Indeed.

(Though you're the first person I recall ever thinking the original trilogy was better than the sequel. Not that I can't see some reasons why, just unusual.)

I will admit, it's been fully twenty years since I read the Malloreon.  It may be that it is better than the Belgariad, which I see as a thinly veiled Lord of the Rings.  As for Dragonlance, Chronicles beats all!

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Finished
A MURDER OF QUALITY.

[Gusington]

Not really digging Glen Cook's book either, I remember A Passage at Arms being better. I am 0 for 3 in my last three reads :( Next up is Terms of Enlistment by Cloos. Fingers crossed for that.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I read the first two books in Cloos's series a few months back.  They were alright.  Kinda forgotten most of the details already.   

[Gusington]

Terms of Enlistment is the first one, right? Maybe I'll just put it on the back burner for now. Is it a quick read at least? The Dragon Never Sleeps is only 300 pages but they are 300 dense, sluggish pages :/

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Terms on Enlistment is the first one and it's pretty light.  I breezed through each one in a few days.  They're pretty standard sci-fi space grunt stuff.  I thought the second one was better than the first.  I haven't read the third one in the series. 

I kind of went on a military themed, hard sci-fi bender there for a while but I think I'm better now.  I think of the 5-6 different series I read, I liked the Star Carrier ones the best. 

http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Strike-Star-Carrier-Book-ebook/dp/B0037B6QX4/ref=pd_sim_kstore_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=08K58HVPV1X9JFWD46ZZ

[Gusington]

^Nice, thanks for that link.

The second one in Cloos' series looks pretty good too, I've had that in my Amazon cart for a while.