New Review: Robin Hobb's Ship of Magic
September 23, 2002 (11:35 AM) ( link )

ADDED a review of Robin Hobb's Ship of Magic. This is another great book in another great series. I've already started reading Mad Ship, the second book in The Liveship Traders Trilogy, and I hope to finish that by the end of the month.

I'm also trying to get through CS Friedman's When True Night Falls, but it's really no comparison to Hobb's series. What will be sad is if I end up reading the entire Liveship Traders Trilogy before finishing this second book (as I did with The Farseer Trilogy while I was trying to finish Black Sun Rising). But it's simply remarkable how much better Hobb's book is than Friedman's, although Hobb's has a much less exciting premise. (It makes me wonder what Hobb could have done with Friedman's world, but oh well.)

I think, because of all this, that The Deathgate Cycle will have to be put on hold. I also think that some time soon I'm going to just do some cleaning out of my Books I Plan to Read page; in particular I'd like to weed out stuff I don't really want to read anymore, as well as take out a lot of the descriptions and just have a list of books instead.

In other news, I'm considering whether or not to post a review of something completely different: John Hart Ely's book Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review. I read it for Con Law and it's interesting enough for me to try to discuss, but then, it doesn't really fit in with the rest of this page. But we'll see--if I do write up something anyway, I might as well try sticking Ely's book in as well.