What I've been reading:

I've just barely started reading "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin. I NEED desperately to sit down and plow through this book. It is amazing so far. I love George R.R. Martin's writing style. I'm only a few chapters in, and I can tell that this is an epic story. And I don't mean "epic" in the way our generation uses it on 4chan. I mean it is an epic like Beowulf, Lord of the Rings, and Ben Hur.

I've also recently picked up "Whitechapel Gods" by S.M. Peters to read once I'm done with "A Game of Thrones". This seems like it will be a fun read. I've been into Steampunk ever since the Deadlands core book (Oh my god, that was eight years ago), but besides that and "Perdido Street Station" by China Mieville, that's about as far into the genre as I've gone. I'm not expecting earth-shattering greatness from this book, but it looks fun as hell in a "Deadlands Meets Hellgate: London" kind of way.

Last night, my friend and Mage GM Tom reccomended "His Majesty's Dragon" by Naomi Novik. He said it was a fun and intelligently written fantasy story about Napoleonic dragons. In an effort to expand my horizons and step out from the (fill in the blank)punk and horror that I usually read, I've been trying out more Fantasy novels. I will openly admit that I appear to have caught Dragon Fever. Mike's pewter dragon figurines that he insisted on keeping in the living room of our house are suddenly a lot more awesome to me now. So, I will definitely pick up "His Majesty's Dragon" and give it a thorough read, because dragons kick ass, and

naominovik  seems like the kind of person I'd get along with. Plus, Napoleonic dragons!

 

 

To help me with my latest project, I've been poking at some F. Scott Fitzgerald. I picked up "The Beautiful and the Damned" and "The Great Gatsby". I'm liking both, and they're very eye opening. I think if I could go back in a time machine, I'd go to the 1920's just to see what it was like. There are probably less hackers than my version, I'd imagine, given that the Mundaneum was pretty much limited to BELGIUM ONRY.

On the manga side, I picked up "Black Magic" by Masamune Shirow. It's so cool to read his earlier, non-Ghost in the Shell work. This is filling as my cyberpunk fix, because god forbid I'm ever reading something that isn't cyberpunk.

What are you reading?