Weasel Wordshttp://www.klio.org/weblog/A Book Logen-usweb@klio.orgCopyright 2003<link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_10_archive.html#entry-474</link><description>I’ve remarked before how much I like the structure of comic books — the way that little episodes build into a bigger story arc, which then weaves into a long history. Kage Baker’s The House of the Stag is maybe the closest I’ve seen to that... </description><dc:date>2009-10-17T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_10_archive.html#entry-473</link><description>When you pick up a Discworld book, you never know if you’re going to get the good Terry Pratchett — the one of Night Watch and Hogfather, who can tell deeply meaningful stories while also being funny — or the mediocre Pratchett — the one of Monstrous... </description><dc:date>2009-10-17T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_10_archive.html#entry-472</link><description>Most of the books I read, I end up liking, for the simple reason that I don’t read books I don’t expect to like, and my judgment and sources of recommendations are pretty solid these days. But every now and then, I still read a stinker, like Sheila ... </description><dc:date>2009-10-17T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_10_archive.html#entry-471</link><description> Brandon Sanderson’s Warbreaker was apparently written in his breaks while writing the last three volumes of the Wheel of Time. It is more than slightly disturbing to imagine a guy who can crank out a highly original 600-page epic f... </description><dc:date>2009-10-17T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_10_archive.html#entry-470</link><description> Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire is a retelling of Thermopylae, as told from the point of view of a surviving soldier of the battle.... </description><dc:date>2009-10-17T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_10_archive.html#entry-469</link><description>So I was reading Mike Carey’s Lucifer as the trade paperbacks came out, but around volume eight I started getting a bit lost, so I decided to let them pile up until they were done, at which point I’d read the whole series in a gulp. They go... </description><dc:date>2009-10-03T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_10_archive.html#entry-468</link><description>It’s always a tricky thing, reading obscure early works by great writers. Because you know they’re not going to be as good as the writer’s great later works, but you still hope that they’ll show some of that promise. Sometimes they do, sometimes th... </description><dc:date>2009-10-03T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_10_archive.html#entry-467</link><description>I picked up Ernest Bramah’s The Wallet of Kai Lung because reviews claimed that Bramah had the sly wit and overwrought style of Jack Vance, and Jack Vance stories set in ancient China are pretty much an instant buy. Unfortunately, the revie... </description><dc:date>2009-10-03T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_10_archive.html#entry-466</link><description>Lynn Flewelling’s Nightrunners books were reasonably competent fantasies — your standard roguish hero fighting against dark gods and ancient prophecies. Decent, enjoyable, but ultimately forgettable fluff. So when I picked up Fl... </description><dc:date>2009-10-03T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item><item><title/><link>http://www.klio.org/weblog/2009_09_archive.html#entry-465</link><description> David Weber’s By Heresies Distressed is the third, and unfortunately worst, book in the series that started with Off Armageddon Reef .... </description><dc:date>2009-09-05T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date></item></channel></rss>