Almost (finally!) done with A Feast for Crows, and while it’s easily the weakest of the series so far, A Song of Ice and Fire really has a hold on me. It’s just such an amazingly well-developed world.

My obsession with the books combined with the fact that I haven’t played a good RTS in quite a while means that this is hitting at the perfect time. Releases tomorrow!

I doubt you’ve heard of this book called Game of Thrones by this George R.R.R.R. Martin character, but it’s pretty damn good. Unlike anyone else in the world right now I just started reading the series and have been pretty goddamn impressed by how epic it is, how beautifully realized the world is, how realistic the characters feel and how much I’m getting sucked into all the drama. And there are three more books and one more hitting in July? Someone should make a movie of this!

All joking aside, though- this paperback has made me realize what a Nook snob I’ve become. I’m so used to plopping my little e-reader down anywhere I go and not have to worry about all these old world trifles like TURNING PAGES or HOLDING IT OPEN. Quite annoying.

A friend just lent me Game of Thrones and I was about to dive into the meaty book before I realized that I had downloaded Joe Lansdale’s A Fine Dark Line from the library, and wanted to get to it on my Nook Color before it expired. I’m a hundred pages in and I’m sad to say that it may be the first story of his that I’m just not getting into. Part of it may be due to the fact that he’s retreading what appears to be the same ground he did so beautifully in The Bottoms. Like that incredible novel, this is an autobiographical tale of a boy talking about growing up in Texas, dealing with race issues, burgeoning sexuality, what may or may not be a supernatural creature, and a mystery revolving around a unsolved murder. The only theme that feels different from the Bottoms is that he’s made the main character live in a drive-in, quite literally, which of course is another theme that he’s done before. (Read The Complete Drive-In if you can, because it’s the most batshit crazy, utterly entertaining tale you’ll ever bear witness to.)

Anyway, A Fine Dark Line is certainly interesting but it’s not grabbing me like his stories usually do. Still looking forward to his L.A. Noire story, and perhaps it’s finally time to start up the Hap Collins and Leonard Pine series.