February 2, 2005

I'm giving up on Into the Fire. I'm really getting tired of how melodramatic everybody is. Even battle-hardened immortal elves will burst into tears at the mere mention of death. I'll probably keep the books around for a while in case I ever feel like finishing them when I'm terribly bored or stuck at home or something. Then there is the decision of what to read next. I could start CJ Cherryh's books in scifi, or David Eddings' Tamuli, or the Magic Kingdom of Lanover series. Hopefully whatever I pick won't take four months to read (or maybe it will, since I have so much damn homework). I know I like David Eddings, and this series has most of the same characters as Elenium -- except for Kurik, of course.

I think I'll try CJ Cherryh's Foreigner. It has a guy in the lead - a young one - who seems to take a bit of a beating now and then. Not too tough a guy. Just how I like them. Uber-tough heroes too big for pain are no fun.