I’m currently reading a book called 1491. It’s non fiction, about life the America’s before Europeans. It’s also a sort of historiography…lots of info about the different theories in academia etc. It covers a lot of ground. As a non expert, there’s lots of interesting information.

I very rarely read or listen to books aside from Marxist theory/history these days, but since @tisamantis mentioned manga…

1. Fantasy: probably Berserk
2. Sci-fi: I can’t think of any series I liked at the moment
3. Horror: Uzumaki, at least for body horror
4. I’m considering re-reading “Bastard” and I really hope it holds up

Found a shit ton of John Grisham novels for $2.50 a pop at a thrift store. Excited to read them but don’t know where to begin.

John Grisham is an interesting figure. Not a comrade, but a lawyer and a Democratic politician whose main focus is the ludicrious incarceration rates of black people as well as ending the drug war. His books show this to a pretty large extent and despite being legal dramas set in Amerika, I think leftists/Marxists might enjoy them very much. Fair warning, a lot of it is very dark tho.

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1: Diary of a Noob/Warrior by Cube Kid

4: Origami-Yoda by Tom Angleberger

1. It’s two-fold. My favorite children’s fantasy series is The Magisterium, despite its many (many) flaws. My favorite adult series is the Legend of Drizzt.

2. I don’t own too much sci-fi, so no series, but To Sleep in a Sea of Stars was a very good book.

3. I don’t like horror.

4. Chewing my way through all 40 of the Legend of Drizzt books currently so I can buy the new one.

Bonus: Bruenor Battlehammer and his daughter Catti-Brie.

Good questions!

1. It’s a tie between David Gemmell’s Drenai series and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series.

I still need to finish the latter series. I read the first one taken up by Brandon Sanderson (Jordan died in 2007 before he could finish the series). Unfortunately, I dislike Sanderson’s style, so that book was a slog and I couldn’t face the last two at the time. Jordan had left notes for one book so that someone else could finish the story. Sanderson was chosen, probably because the publishers gambled on Sanderson extending the story indefinitely.

Then Sanderson had the bright idea to turn his one book into three (I have very few polite words to describe Sanderson). I know Jordan was not a brief writer, but wow, Sanderson likes to drag things out.

It’s interesting to note that David Gemmell died before he could finish his Troy trilogy and Stella Gemmell, his wife, finished it. She did a great job. Pity she wasn’t given the Wheel of Time contract. Troy: Fall of Kings has Stella Gemmell’s voice in it, but she is faithful to the original story.

2. Isaac Asimov’s Robot series.

I’ve still got to read the Empire books and the crossover Empire / Robot books. I’m trying not to read through them too fast – a mistake I’ve made before – so I might read one a year with extreme patience.

3. Not sure if I’ve read any series in this category. Maybe The Wasp Factory by Iain M Banks, but it’s not a series, and I’m not sure that I enjoyed it.

4. I recently finished Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom. I’ve read this several times. And this week I picked up Robert Jordan, Eye of the World (Wheel of Time book 1), but I’ve picked it up to re-read before, and couldn’t get into it. I’m hoping to stick with it this time.

Bonus answer

Matrim ‘Mat’ Cauthon from the Wheel of Time series if I have to pick one, but it is hard to pick a favourite.

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