Surprisingly, a lot of fun!

[katikat]

So, I've been reading Oliver Bowden's "Assassin's Creed: Renaissance" and it's a really good book! I mean, really good. Fast paced and fun despite the gloomy summary. And I just love Leonardo Da Vinci here! Paraphrasing:

Ezio: What do we do with the body?
Leonardo: Oh, let's put it with the others *totally unruffled*
Ezio: The others? *sweatdrops*

And the fact that Leonardo got tangled up in an affair with a male prostitute doesn't hurt either, of course! :)

Comments

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

You find the most awesome books, I swear. I'm going to add this to my to-be-read pile mountain.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

It's a book to this game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ugePkNwato

I'm actually surprised how much I like it. There are no deep thoughts, no descriptions, just a fast paced action.

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

No deep thoughts/all action sounds pretty good right now. I've been overloading on non-fiction and ponderous Russian intrigue novels (and am totally behind on my reviews).

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Russian? *sweatdrops*

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

China Star by Bartle Bull, which is all about Russian expatriates stalking and killing each other in the 20s. It's a compelling story but told in an infuriatingly flawed manner, resulting in SLOG. The main character needs a good hard slap, for a start.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

*sweatdrops some more* Living in a post-communist land, I have a great aversion to Russian literature XP

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

Ah. Indeed. Well, this doesn't remind me all that much of Russian literature--it reminds me very strongly of Les Miserables, actually, which I'm fairly sure was intentional. It's also written by an American, which I suspect is part of the slog-related chaos.

But I quite see your point. How about a nice book about an ADD traveling surfer (http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Waves-Surfers-Obsessive-Wandering/dp/1594851131/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265212491&sr=8-1) instead?

Way behind on the reviews.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

:)) I'm on a manga trip these days. I bought a big pile of manga and I want to make a dent in it.