This was a nice week for book reading. Don’t usually get this much time generally.

Finished The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid. I didn’t like the writing style initially but got used to as I read along. It’s a small book, just a little more than 100 pages. An umm… interesting read.

Got my copy of The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson. Really liked the book. It was a fun, light book. There was much less action than I was expecting, after reading the announcement of the book, but that didn’t make book any less enjoyable. Finished the book in two days, which I rarely get to do now.

Grave Peril by Jim Butcher. Book 3 of Dresden Files. I have just started it, but it’s the same Dresden Files. Nothing to say about that.

What have you been reading?

  • @[email protected]OPM
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    11 year ago

    I read Mistborn quite a while ago, and remember liking it a lot, but I have heard from people that Mistborn is probably his weakest series, in terms of writing. How did you like the first two books?

    As much as I don’t like grimdark, First Law was a pretty good series. I have two standalone novels left, want to read them before continuing to Age of Madness.

    • @NakedGardenGnome
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      31 year ago

      I liked the mistborn series, and found the magic system quite unique and inventive.

      I’m now nearing the end of warbeaker, in which I also like his special magic system.

      • @[email protected]OPM
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        21 year ago

        Yeah, he has interesting magic systems. That is one of the appeal of reading his Cosmere novels, to read different magic systems on different worlds.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      The Mistborn series is just OK, but I want to see the payoff and how this ties into the Cosmere as a whole. I actually disliked it so much the first time I read Mistborn that I gave up halfway through; I thought it was absolutely the dumbest magic system I’ve ever read.

      I came back to it after reading the Stormlight books, which is also a dumb magic and currency system but such an epic story I got past it much more easily. The Mistborn series feels a little too YA for me, but I do really like some of the characters.

      • @[email protected]OPM
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        21 year ago

        I actually like his magic systems. Very scientific-y. If you didn’t like his magic systems in Mistborn and Stormlight, don’t read Elantris. 😀

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          The Stormlight magic system is a lot better than the metal system in Mistborn to me, but the goofiness of using essentially marbles as money just sticks with me. I just picture Adolin constantly walking around with like a cartoon money sack from a bank filled with spheres.

          • @[email protected]OPM
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            21 year ago

            Heh, that is a funny image. Though, people did use to carry gold / silver / copper coins, so maybe it’s not that different. Different kind of spheres for different stuff, having couple of pouches on you, rest in some chest.