Read lately

[dhampyresa]

What did you finish reading

La fabrique des corps: Des premières prothèses à l'humain augmenté by Héloïse Chochois: This was a re-read. I enjoyed it. It's very well-done, interweaving the personal journey of a man who loses his arm at the start of the book and how he adapts to life with a prosthetic and the historical journey of prosthetics as a part of medicine. I'm not sure fond of the 'future' part. Also Ambroise Paré is in it! I like Ambroise Paré.

Plutona by Jeff Lemire (scenario + backup art) and Emi Lenox (art): I picked this up at the library (so I read it in French translation) because I liked Lemire's work on Justice League Dark, way back when. This was an enjoyable read and Lenox's art is very nice, but I expected a bit more. The superheroes feel like a gimmick and not an integrated part of the story. Furthermore, I feel like there's not much there there, if you know what I mean? Do not regret reading it or borrowing it.


What are you currently reading

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson: Haven't touched since last time. It's really dense and I don't have the barinpower in the evenings.


What are you reading next

Fuck if I know.

Comments

[yhlee]

I fundamentally like Steven Erikson and read him when I did have brain and even I found him tough going because of the density. I will say that if you're willing to power through Gardens of the Moon, Coltaine's military campaign in book two, Deadhouse Gates, (the Chain of Dogs arc) is totally epic and I think you would enjoy that. (There's also a woman POV in another arc that you could skip if all you wanted was the military campaign, because the arcs don't really interact significantly.) I think I got to book four and then stopped out of sheer exhaustion. Someday, now that the entire series is out, I'll set aside a year and just read my way through the whole thing...

[isis]

This is all interesting. I have Gardens of the Moon (it was one of the Tor free ebooks) but haven't even cracked it yet!

[yhlee]

I read it when it came out--we literally bought it off a supermarket rack. I was more into big epic fantasies at the time. The main reason I gave up on it was that it was still coming out and my memory sucks and the prospect of rereading each time a new book was released made me want to cry. But unlike certain other authors, Erikson actually delivered the whole thing, year after year, and it's now done, so in principle I could read the whole thing straight through to finish if I wanted to.

His hilarious sf parody (mostly a Star Trek parody, but with bits and bobs of other things) Willful Child is completely different. I of course have no privileged access to his thought processes and haven't read interviews with him or anything, but I can only imagine him thinking to himself, I HAVE SPENT TEN YEARS WRITING FANTASY EPIC SAGA TIME FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Anyway, there's one chapter of Willful Child that manages the bravura feat of simultaneously parodying "The City on the Edge of Forever," "The Trouble with Tribbles," and lolcat memes. I got whiplash reading it.

[dhampyresa]

Give it to the Dragon and get her to tell you the story!

[ericadawn16]

I really loved Plutona but you're right, I think I might have liked the artwork the worldbuilding potential more what we were actually given. I really thought there would be another series by now.

[dhampyresa]

I wanted to know more about Plutona herself, too!