I just read the entirety of The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks, and I highly suggest it for fans of the Dark Epic Fantasy. I think I enjoyed it at least as much as the last two books in the Song of Ice and Fire, with the added benefit of it all coming together to a satisfying conclusion.
It begins as an almost dystopic fantasy novel centered on assassins (which seems to be a trend in fantasy these days) but by the end of the first novel has greatly broadened its scope and ends up with so much happening that I was convinced it wouldn't get wrapped up. But it did, and well. Give it a try.
I've picked up the book club book from my local library but I'm not sure I want to keep on with it. It's The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. So far it seems very bleak with little humor and if it continues this way through to the end I think I'd rather wait and see what next month's book is. I don't mind dark novels, but right now I don't need more depressing things in my life. If you've read it, please let me know if the tone changes.
Laga, I often feel that I might be missing tone in works that I read in translation, but that doesn't prevent me from reading them.
Laga, the tone really doesn't change much. That said, I really enjoyed it, but I have an odd sense of humour and a pretty cynical viewpoint on the world.
I realize I'm already 1/4 of the way through The White Tiger so I think I'll probably finish it so I can go to the book club. I used to go to Great Books with my mom and I miss being able to discuss something I have read in common with other people in the same room. I just wish we were discussing Moby Dick.
I am almost finished with The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and one of the anvils that the author has been dropping everywhere since the beginning of the book has finally hit the protagonist. I was beginning to wonder if she was ever going to get a clue.
Hey, Laga, I realize it's been a few days, but I just checked in and want to say congratulations on finishing Moby Dick. It's one of my favorite books, if not my favorite, and I always find something new and funny in it.
I am struggling quite a lot with it, myself.I always thought, for instance, that I have a decent vocabulary and I suppose I have, by modern standards, but they used words quite differently in that era.Not least because there seem to be so many more of them in that one.
There were parts of Moby Dick that were completely (and unexpectedly hysterical. But I had major whale fatigue through the middle.
maybe that's it.
Also, it's so different from the way people write today that reading it is a little like translating(even though I took a course on the Brontes in college, so it's not like I've never read anything 19th century, but to be honest, it's been a while.)And it(he?) is not a frigging fish. Sometimes I see that and get annoyed by it all over again, even though for all I know the point may be to show us that Ishmael is really wrong about that, too.
