Topic: Books You're Currently Reading?

Recently started wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson, as it released about a week ago. Pretty great so far. Would highly recommend the Stormlight Archives series (as well as pretty much any Sanderson book) to any fans of epic fantasy.

@Bigmanfan Cool! I'll be starting in on the "Cosmere" universe with Elantris after I'm done with Chuck Wendig's "Miriam Black" books. If I stick to my reading plan (which I never do ), I expect to get to Sanderson some time late next year. Looking forward to it!

Last night I managed to struggle through the last three short stories in Ramsay Campbell's Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction, 1961-1991 (Goodreads page) , a collection I've been reading on and off for about three years and I have been close to giving it up many times. I stuck with it, as some of the stories were interesting and some I even enjoyed quite a bit, but ultimately there were just too many that made my head swim and my thoughts drift away to more interesting things. "Out of Copyright", "Above the World" and "The Ferries" were among my favourites and while there were others I liked as well, in sum, this collection doesn't rate higher than two stars with me.

@FuriousMachine Glad you enjoyed James ,man. I read it shortly after reading Huck Finn after having it recommended to me by @Elodin on here. I agree with you about the third act, I've also read Everett's Telephone ,which I confess, I didn't enjoy anywhere near as much as James, but it still displayed the symptoms of a well-written novel, and I enjoyed the ending that my version delivered.

I read some Dragonlance books when I was younger Maquesta Kar-Thon I think it was called and another one, but I especially enjoyed the Maquesta book. Sea-faring tale, I believe it was.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN I'm definitely checking out more of Everett's work down the line. I've been wanting to see "American Fiction" and I discovered just the other day that it is based on Everett's Erasure, so I will read that first.

Dragonlance is a nostalgia thing for me. Dragons of Autumn Twilight was my first fantasy novel and the very first novel I read in English at the tender age of twelve. I re-read the two OG trilogies a couple of years back and I've decided to catch up on many of the novels that came out since. The quality varies, but there's always a degree of warm comfort to them, the kind that comes with fond memories. I haven't read the Maquesta book, but I do think I remember the character; she made an appearance in the third book of the first trilogy, if memory serves. A sea captain that agreed to take the companions on as passengers on a dangerous voyage that did not end well. I like that she got her own book; she was indeed an interesting character that could very well be developed further in a story of her own.

@FuriousMachine You'll be in for a treat, trust me. I think Elantris is the perfect starting point too.

@Bigmanfan Cool, looking forward to it

Finished up The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. I found it to be a fascinating, dense, complex and, at times, hard-to-follow read. I really liked all the supernatural elements and religious references held within the tome, and would highly recommend it to anyone interested in Goethe's Faust, I would suggest reading Faust, first, though, as it would make reading Bulgakov's work ,second, more enjoyable, in my opinion. Apparently a sociological critique of the Russian political and literary landscape of the time, as well as a theosophical treatise on man, his morals. and his relationship with the supernatural, in general.

Started another Kobo Abe book, it's called The Ruined Map, this time. So far I have found it to be much better than The Woman in the Dunes a book which ,as I said before, seemed to be a bit rough-going in the beginning, but turned out to be, what I described as, a flawed masterpiece. So far 'Map' has a surrealist detective noir vibe going on, with some elements of sociological criticism inherent in it, with regard to Abe's description of his fictional version of Japan.