false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255651590m/3487878.jpg 3314369 13 When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you have two options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him. Ringil Angeleyes had already tried the first course of action with Bashka the Schoolmaster to no avail, so he put down his pint with an elaborate sigh and went to get his broadsword. And he's not the only one to be dragged from the serious business of drinking for something as mundane as the walking dead. Archeth - pragmatist, cynic and engineer - is called from her work at the whim of the most powerful man in the Empire. Ekar Dragonbane finds himself entangled in a small-town battle between common sense and religious fervour. And after a personal encounter with the vengeful gods Poltar the Shaman is about to be an awful lot more careful who he prays to. Anti-social, anti-heroic, and decidedly irritated, all four of them are about to be sent unwillingly forth into a vicious, vigorous and thoroughly unsuspecting fantasy world. 3352006 2008 The Steel Remains (Land fit for Heroes, Book 1) total:335|5:64|4:147|3:85|2:28|1:11| 335 1230 631 92 4 4 false false Sat Feb 14 16:12:06 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 19:02:10 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 16:12:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 22:22:03 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 20:31:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 09:20:12 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 09:26:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Wed Aug 27 14:38:30 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 21:54:22 -0700 2008 once was plenty.
Traditionally, in Noir, it's customary to have a protagonist who is morally compromised,...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 04:46:48 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 06:17:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 true false Sat Aug 09 08:16:18 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 21:30:48 -0700 2008
This is the first book in a trilogy but it ends in a way that makes it a satisfying book all on its own. I dig that. I'm done...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 18:53:02 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 19:05:59 -0800 2009 Altered Carbon, and when it's finally made into a movie and makes $100 mill I will scream: "in your face SUCKA!"

But I digress.

RKM is trying out the fantasy genre now. Just tore through this book quick...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Feb 18 12:53:17 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 13:02:25 -0800 2009 The Steel Remains was a let-down.

Remains follows the stories of three heroes of a past war, now each finding themselves uncomfortable in civilian life, as they discover a new threat to thei...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 10:34:24 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 10:54:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Sep 22 07:52:11 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 07:53:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 23:40:57 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 23:04:01 -0700 2009 1 Warning: This review contains offensive language, though not nearly so much so as the book itself. Do not read below the fold if this is a problem for you.

I'm still ambivalent about this one. On one hand, I really like Morgan's hard-bitten style in general; Altered Carbon, his debut, was...more...]]> 2 0 true false Sun Aug 16 04:42:45 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 05:13:49 -0700 2009
I'd read Richard Morgan's previous novels and found some good, some OK, and at least one that was based on a completely idiotic premise (Market Forces). While I enjoy swords and sorcery fiction, elements in this book only served to alienate me. Having...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 28 16:14:28 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 07:41:42 -0700 2009
So, the thing that leaped out at me in a bothersome way is that in creating a more realistic...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 18:23:04 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 08:15:09 -0700 2009
I thought this was an excellent book. It started with a...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 12:01:18 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 18:31:32 -0700 2009
This is the story of three old friends who come to find out (eventually) that they are fighting the same enemy. Gil, Egar, and Archeth.

Unusual in that the main character, Gil, a well known warrior, is gay. ...more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 14:14:08 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 23:40:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 11:16:39 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 11:25:36 -0800 2008
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Audiobook narrated by Simon Vance. He's a technically good narrator but I'm getting sick of how he overuses/misuses accents. In this book I'm just not convinced that nomads of the steppes should have cockney-esque accents.

Ri...more...]]> 2 9 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 22:30:49 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 10:22:04 -0700 2009 The Steel Remains so much more than I actually did. I was so looking forward to reading it. I've read two of Richard K. Morgan's science fiction novels, Thirteen and Altered Carbon and thought they were unique and amazing. Morgan takes sex and violence to a level I would never be...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 08 06:00:14 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 06:00:14 -0800 2009 Lord of the Rings or Conan the Barbarian and giv...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3487878