/lit/ - Literature

So, City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett was a pretty fun read. A fast-paced mystery through a pretty unique and interesting world, with a really nice way to handle Gods. It was a fun romp, with actually likable characters -- Sigrud was actually a viking daddy, and not just some guy they hired with money. [spoilers]The final fight with Kolkan/Jukov was genuinely amazing and made me think of an SMT fight. And the twisted together Gods thing was pretty fucking metal.[/spoilers]

Nothing felt like it was pulled out of its ass. It makes the book feel like a believable, consistent, and tightly written novel that showed the discipline of the writer who never went on tangents and only wrote about what was important in the current situation.

Admittedly, the third-person present tense threw me off a bit at the beginning, but I quickly got used to it. It's a pretty cool tense now, actually.

Anyway, I'm definitely picking up the rest of the Divine Cities Trilogy, but that was a nice, short cleanser from big books.

I might dive into a sci-fi book. I've got Quantum Thief, Dune, or The Book of the New Sun. Which one should I go first?