It’s Jonah Hex. Rock is kinda part of the framing device for Death Metal, though, so that might be why you conflated them.
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Since I understand it’s okay to do comic books now, here’s a selection of what I’ve been reading this year
I’m also going back through Master of Kung-Fu and Marvel Two-in-One now
For DC have golden age Starman and Doctor Fate queued up
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I wish I can like this post more bcuz Frieren :3 :3
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I have that Pratchett book and must read it.
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It’s a very easy read, as to be expected from newspaper short stories.
And it’s good if you go in understanding what it is. Like listening to a collection of a band’s early demos.
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Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer. It’s shit. 0/10
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I’ve read the sequel (Hotel Avocado), which is very weird. Apparently the author was aiming for a style similar to Haruki Murakami, who also writes very weird books, but I don’t think the latter aims for comedy…
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Just been blown away reading Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Brilliant. Described as space horror, it really isn’t, rather a planetary adventure in and across a very scary world. Loved it.
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Just finished Brainstorm, a book about epilepsy and neurology. It’s good and informative about experiences, though not as science-y as I was expecting. Which is reasonable, it’s clearly aimed for a more popular science audience, I just had slightly misplaced expectations.
Currently part-way through a book about the history of Chinese writing styles and the possible influence of Chinese on second-language writing in English. Interesting but a bit hard work, and it’s not really my area so there’s a lot of terminology to work through.
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I’m currently reading about a dozen books.
I have decided to make an effort to finish them all before starting any more new ones.
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I just finished the first book in the Powder Mage trilogy, called Promise of Blood.
It was… pretty good? I hesitate to say great, but it was solid. “The French Revolution with magic” is pretty good as a pitch, but the spiraling power curve quickly became an issue (“There is nothing more powerful than a Privledged, except for this OTHER, more powerful Privledged who was the strongest in our nation BUT WAIT the other nations have STRONGER Privledged…”).
And way too much Deus ex Machina. Quite literally for the final scene. But the characters are interesting and flawed, the world almost feels believable, and the integration of magic and industrial age tech is done reasonably well.
I have $300 at a local used bookstore, so if they have the sequel I will pick it up. And Kim Stanley Robertson’s… Aurora? I think? Efka recommended it in his rambly, not-very-good review of Arcs.
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the use of shelf space will inevitably be optimized as you acquire more books … there is s lot of unused air on those shelves
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Envious!
I miss having shelves. We have none at all in the house because our younger kiddo kept climbing them and our older one seems to have a paper ripping compulsion, so even having books so readily available would be a bit of a risk.
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Yes space for more…
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It is a solid series, nothing earth shattering. Very focused on its main characters which I always find a bit weird in such huge conflicts.
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That seems like a sort of inverse of Diana Wynne Jones’ superbly enjoyable Tough Guide to Fantasyland.
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What are “dragons” in that context?
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