Light reading, part 2
Here’s the list for the last weekend of reading:
Thud! is the latest Discworld book. It keeps up the laughs (sometimes inappropriately, as I laughed at something in the book just as something really horrible happened on TV so that Otter thinks I am even more of a brute). Terry Prachett maintains a consistently high level of writing, and his development of Sam Vimes over the last few books has been well done, which continues in this book. 384 pages
Knife of Dreams. Book 11 in the Wheel of Time epic, this one makes up for the sometimes meandering storyline in the last two or three books of the series. It may in fact be a little to directed, as every chapter seems to end with “It’s all for Tairmon Gai’don, duh.” Of course, that didn’t stop me from becoming completely addicted and finishing the book at 0215. 783 pages.
The Resurrected Man is a very well done exploration of an old question: When you’re teleported, what happens to the copy? It’s lighter on the answers (no heavy philosophy stuff to drag me down, man) but heavy on the plot and ideas. Very good mystery/scifi. 529 pages
Cascade Point is a collection of Timothy Zahn’s early short stories, with some exposition by the author. It’s a good book, and you can see some of the progression that the author takes as he moves from Physics student/writer to writer-with-physics-background.
