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Nov. 12th, 2008 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbI spent an age last night sitting waiting for my laptop to connect to the internet. I keep getting 'limited or no connectivity: this problem occurred because the network did not assign a network address to your computer' messages, or sheer inability to detect the network. I am pissed about this, and no mistake: not least because it has been happening on and off for the better part of the last two months. (Always before, eventually it would come right. It might take ten or fifteen minutes, but it would come right. Not so much, tonight. Curse you, eircom broadband. I will rearrange your guts with coathangers. I will. Also, it is useless if you tell me I am connected, and give me consistent 'page not found' messages through my browsers.)
Now it is Wednesday, and I am posting this on a college PC. (My blood pressure, it is not happy with this, you understand?)
Books 2008: 137-141
137, 138, 139. Tim Pratt, Blood Engines, Poison Sleep, Dead Reign.
I read these in the order thus: Dead Reign, Blood Engines, Poison Sleep. That's third, first, second, for anyone playing along. I had Blood Engines to hand, but I brought Dead Reign back from Calgary, and only recalled Blood Engines when I was nearly done with it. (Immediately on finishing Dead Reign, I read Blood Engines. Immediately on finishing that, I sought out and bought Poison Sleep. That should tell you something.)
These are taut, fast, driven contemporary fantasy - urban fantasy, but without all the vampire/werewolf/love interest stuff that clings to most urban fantasy now, dragging it down into sameness. No. This is fresh, intelligent, and grimly funny in parts. Oh, they have flaws, but minor ones. The characters are interesting, even the insane or amoral ones. Everything's pretty well thought out, and I found them very enjoyable. Looking forward to number four.
140, 141. David Drake, The Mirror of Worlds, Some Golden Harbor.
I like Drake's long-running Isles series perhaps a little too much. I also like his O'Leary & Mundy space opera stuff more than a little. Respectively, that's what these are, and while there's nothing particularly new about either of these instalments, what's there is certainly well-done.
Now it is Wednesday, and I am posting this on a college PC. (My blood pressure, it is not happy with this, you understand?)
Books 2008: 137-141
137, 138, 139. Tim Pratt, Blood Engines, Poison Sleep, Dead Reign.
I read these in the order thus: Dead Reign, Blood Engines, Poison Sleep. That's third, first, second, for anyone playing along. I had Blood Engines to hand, but I brought Dead Reign back from Calgary, and only recalled Blood Engines when I was nearly done with it. (Immediately on finishing Dead Reign, I read Blood Engines. Immediately on finishing that, I sought out and bought Poison Sleep. That should tell you something.)
These are taut, fast, driven contemporary fantasy - urban fantasy, but without all the vampire/werewolf/love interest stuff that clings to most urban fantasy now, dragging it down into sameness. No. This is fresh, intelligent, and grimly funny in parts. Oh, they have flaws, but minor ones. The characters are interesting, even the insane or amoral ones. Everything's pretty well thought out, and I found them very enjoyable. Looking forward to number four.
140, 141. David Drake, The Mirror of Worlds, Some Golden Harbor.
I like Drake's long-running Isles series perhaps a little too much. I also like his O'Leary & Mundy space opera stuff more than a little. Respectively, that's what these are, and while there's nothing particularly new about either of these instalments, what's there is certainly well-done.
