Nothing wrong with that, per se, but I went straight from a rather gritty Witcher novel to this, so I’m getting a bit of literary whiplash.
The book in question is The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett, the first Discworld book to be aimed at children. But, of course, it wouldn’t be all that unusual to see talking cats and tap-dancing rats in the novels he wrote for adults, either…
But I must say I didn’t expect this amount of cannibalism and people getting stabbed in the eye with frozen herrings in a children’s book.
Honestly, I don’t think I ever expect anyone to be stabbed in the eye with a frozen herring when reading a book, but that’s besides the point.
Since I’ll be going to Poland next week to attend Witcher School, I thought it only fitting that I read the second book in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher series, Sword of Destiny.
(Book 3, 4 and 5 have already been packed for the flight)
It’s always good to read up on your lore. It probably won’t prevent me from getting my ass kicked by leshens, basilisks and whatever fellow Witcher adept I might piss off, but at least I will have brushed up on my Witcher curse word vocabulary.
I’m going to be calling someone a ‘whoreson’ before it’s all over, even if it kills me.
I have also started playing Gwent. Just in case I need another excuse to start cursing at people.
None of this post will have made any sense to people who haven’t played the Witcher games, so here’s a photo of my grumpy owl, since I know that’s why most of you are here:
This one barely qualifies as a novel, considering it’s about 170 pages and every page is illustrated, but since it’s about Cohen the Barbarian and his quest to blow up the gods of the Discworld, I’m sure I’m in for a ride with The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett (and illustrated by Paul Kidby).
If you haven’t read the Discworld books, you won’t know about how Cohen is the hero we all need. I think it’s a travesty that he’s not featured in more of the books, so I’m glad that he gets to be the star of this one…
…even if he’s trying to blow up the gods and end the world out of spite.
I have been putting off reading this book for a long time, but now it’s time for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (collection of the Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas) by George R. R. Martin.
Why have I been putting it off, you might ask? After all, “A Song of Ice and Fire” is one of the greatest Fantasy series out there and a prequel could ease the withdrawal until the next book is released.
Yes, indeed ASoIaF is a truly great series.
It’s also insanely detailed and filled with more characters than you can keep track of, and I wish I had been taking notes when I read it.
Committing to books where I actually have to utilize brain power is not something I have felt up to doing in a long time, so anything that says “George R. R. Martin” on the cover has seemed daunting, even a collection of novellas. There’s even illustrations in this one!
I can do this, people… I’m almost caught up on Game of Thrones as well, even though I delayed watching the TV-show for ages, because I wanted to finish the book series first. Clearly the TV-show is winning the race and will finish at least a decade before the books, and nothing short of total social media blackout and disowning all my friends will prevent me from getting spoiled, so I caved.
It’s all planned out, so I will have finished both this book and watched season 7, before the premiere of the last season in April.
So tell me (without spoiling season 7, ya bastards!): Who do you think is going to end up on the Iron Throne?
No, Artemis is not a candidate for the Iron Throne…
I started reading Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett on Friday, didn’t get around to taking a picture until today, and now… I’m sort of done with the book already.
“Thief of Time” is meant to be taken literally, apparently, because I don’t usually have 400+ pages disappearing on me in two days.
It wasn’t even as good as the usual Discworld novel…
Or as funny…
Or made much sense at all…
So what in the world happened with this book!? I don’t even remember spending that much time reading!
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Excuse me. I just read 250 pages in a row without getting up for a drink at any time. I wouldn’t recommend that.
“Whatcha lookin’ at?”
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