Sort of a bleh day.
Feb. 12th, 2012 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matt_doyleAccomplished some things, read some things.
Finished The Fading Dream by Keith Baker, the third in a trilogy of books set in the Eberron campaign world of D & D. Satisfying worldbuilding, good suspense, intriguing characters, clever interweaving of narrative and game mechanics -- Keith is good, as one would expect from the guy who designed the campaign setting. But he's too fond of leaving things unresolved, which is a good trait in a GM but gets irritating when overdone in a book -- and he overdoes it in every book he writes. The fact that he favors open-ended conclusions or cliffhangers, and leaves characters unresolved as well, means that his books are often deeply unsatisfying, leaving you wanting more -- but not in a good way. The conclusions, lack of character resolution/happy ending; and ongoing mysteries are all, individually, good things, handled well -- the excess of them is really not.
Very enjoyable and exciting read, though.
I believe this makes 25 or 26 books so far this year. Er, maybe more, I just remembered that I forgot to review two books I read last week. Now I need to remember which books those were, and doublecheck this journal tag to make sure I didn't just forget that I reviewed them rather than forgetting to review them.
I am annoyingly scatterbrained today.
Finished The Fading Dream by Keith Baker, the third in a trilogy of books set in the Eberron campaign world of D & D. Satisfying worldbuilding, good suspense, intriguing characters, clever interweaving of narrative and game mechanics -- Keith is good, as one would expect from the guy who designed the campaign setting. But he's too fond of leaving things unresolved, which is a good trait in a GM but gets irritating when overdone in a book -- and he overdoes it in every book he writes. The fact that he favors open-ended conclusions or cliffhangers, and leaves characters unresolved as well, means that his books are often deeply unsatisfying, leaving you wanting more -- but not in a good way. The conclusions, lack of character resolution/happy ending; and ongoing mysteries are all, individually, good things, handled well -- the excess of them is really not.
Very enjoyable and exciting read, though.
I believe this makes 25 or 26 books so far this year. Er, maybe more, I just remembered that I forgot to review two books I read last week. Now I need to remember which books those were, and doublecheck this journal tag to make sure I didn't just forget that I reviewed them rather than forgetting to review them.
I am annoyingly scatterbrained today.
