Joseph’s Comments (group member since Oct 24, 2012)

Joseph’s comments from the Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" group.

Jason M wrote: "Michael Tierney's beautiful Robert E Howard Art Chronology."

Nice!

Jason M wrote: "Congratulations Joseph - great times lie in your future!"

At least initially, this is a revisit -- I read books 1-5 back in ... 2004?, then stopped because that's all that had been published, and never quite got around to continuing; and it's been long enough now that I figured I should jump back in at the beginning.

Started Gardens of the Moon. I'm guessing I know what I'm going to be reading well into next year.

Just started She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan.

Picked up Roger Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness, which I know I read when I was young but which went right over my head; let's see how things work out this time around.

Just started the much-anticipated (by me, at least) Lord of a Shattered Land by Howard Andrew Jones.

Finally started Jade War.

Finished The Hand of Chaos (fifth in the Death Gate Cycle) and had to pivot to Thieves' World for an upcoming book club discussion I'm taking part in.

After blasting through the entire* John Carter of Mars series in about two weeks, I'm starting my vacation reading a couple days early -- this year it's Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Death Gate cycle, beginning with Dragon Wing.

*These days, I skip "John Carter and the Giant of Mars", the first half of John Carter of Mars, because it was apparently ghost-written by his son, is canon-breaking, and is kind of terrible.

Let's see ... recently finished Dan Abnett's Triumff and Amanda Downum's The Poison Court, and am now rereading Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars for about the hundredth time.

Greetings!

Finished the Prydain books (including the short story collection The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain, which I had never read back in the day) and, on a whim, started Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn, the no-longer-canonical book that started the whole Star Wars revival back in the 90s.

I'm revisiting some childhood favorites: The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander.

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. This is going to take a while.

Heard about it; and will happily watch it if it ever eventuates.

I've been plowing through Jack Vance's Dying Earth books in preparation for next week's Appendix N Book Club Patreon discussion. Currently in Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight: (previously titled Cugel's Saga) (a.k.a. Cugel's Saga), the actual object of discussion.

Just started The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter.

A Treasury of Fantasy, edited by Cary Wilkins.

Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek by H. Rider Haggard.

More historical fiction: Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings.