Reading

Finished reading Martin Scott's 1999 book Thraxas. Apparently some sort of British author. Decent read, though I'm not a complete fan of the way he created his world. They do say write about what you know, but when the comparisons are so rapidly determined it feels like the story was thrown together in a number of days with no real effort.

It's a fantasy setting mystery story, with a semi-anti-hero. He's only semi that because he does strive to do the good thing and have a good character etc. etc. like most "heroes", but he's meant to be portrayed as your non average hero. So he's not really an anti-hero as a lazy regular hero. Sounds kind of like the author. He's not a bad author, he's a lazy author.

The entire world that Thraxas lives in is the same one the rest of us live in with maybe two additions. You've got your whites, blacks, and asians. You've got them not getting a long and the way society doesn't always view a mixed ethnic child as something good. You've got your poor and your rich and your greedy and your lazy. Beer is beer, they smoke weed non stop, they have liquor, and they have cocaine renamed to Dwa. It's even referred to by some of its other names, Angel Dust changed to Chorus of Angels for some ridiculous reason.

So Thraxas isn't so much a good fantasy mystery book, as it is just a mystery book. The entire premise could so easily take place Anywhere that it begs the question why did the author choose fantasy and go through all the "work" or replacing cocaine with the word dwa, and asian with the word elf. It's a good read, but much like the main character, very lazy.

I don't have anything next on the table as of yet.