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I went through John Scalzi's archives before NYE, as I was bored at work, and requested several library books from author interviews. Also I got Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis from Reg for xmas. So I'll start with that one. It's sort of a detective novel, but the mystery is totally unimportant. What's important is the survey of all that is weird and perverse in America. It's highly entertaining and short.
Last week I read Mark of the Demon. A Louisiana-based demon summoner who also happens to be a cop gets assigned to work on a serial killer. She thinks the killer has demonic help. Also a quick read that's totally engrossing. The demons are nasty but honorable, unlike people.
At the moment I'm reading Child of Fire. An ex-con gets hired by a society of magicians to find out just why all the kids in Hammer Bay are going up in flames - and no one remembers it. Not quite done but it's pretty cool. I think partly because it's told from the point of view of a guy who isn't afraid to kick some ass to get the job done.
In nonfiction I picked up This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America. The author is a Burner who wrote a very interesting survey of America's past 100 years in "the drug war." Granted the official drug war started with Nixon, but banning drugs began a while back. And of course using drugs was even before that, but he makes an interesting argument that drug use ballooned with temperance movements. If people aren't getting drunk, then they are probably getting high.
Last week I read Mark of the Demon. A Louisiana-based demon summoner who also happens to be a cop gets assigned to work on a serial killer. She thinks the killer has demonic help. Also a quick read that's totally engrossing. The demons are nasty but honorable, unlike people.
At the moment I'm reading Child of Fire. An ex-con gets hired by a society of magicians to find out just why all the kids in Hammer Bay are going up in flames - and no one remembers it. Not quite done but it's pretty cool. I think partly because it's told from the point of view of a guy who isn't afraid to kick some ass to get the job done.
In nonfiction I picked up This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America. The author is a Burner who wrote a very interesting survey of America's past 100 years in "the drug war." Granted the official drug war started with Nixon, but banning drugs began a while back. And of course using drugs was even before that, but he makes an interesting argument that drug use ballooned with temperance movements. If people aren't getting drunk, then they are probably getting high.
