What are you reading right now? (possible RotE spoilers)

[fool-ish]

The later books become a bit better actually. Stories more, really... all below 100 pages...

The hardest part is that it seems each book only has a few minor parts in common (beyond same world, of course)

Sort of like taking a single character or three that is only mentioned in one book, then focusing on them in the second. and new ones for each book. Some parts are fairly predictable, though... The concept of "true love"/"soulmates" is rather ingrained in the whole. The quality of the stories is still mediocre, but the world is well-built.

No wonder there's a lot of stories in her (L. J. Smith's) worlds written by ghost writers... The worlds are excellently built, yet the stories stuck onto the worlds aren't nearly as excellent.

Even at its mediocre level, it is better than the later stories in the "Anita Blake" world. This at least is consistent in quality. Those "stories" were just excuses for the author to stick in silly amounts of low-quality erotica.

Well you made a better go of it than I did. True love/soulmates I can deal with...I could fully imagine Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont together in A Discovery of Witches, for example. In LJ Smith's book, it just didn't work for me. *shrugs* I dunno, maybe I'm just a bit too long in the tooth for all that schoolgirl stuff

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Finished the three volumes of Bunny drop that I own (there are 7 more, but only upto volume 7 have been published so far and I haven't bought them all yet). At times funny, at times sad, most times very touching. I really liked it.

Now started Ghormenghast. It's supposed to be a classic in the fantasy genre but I'm not really into it yet.

I've got Ghormenghast on my 'to read' list. I do believe it's not to everyone's taste and that the prose is 'different' to that which most people are used to, and so quite difficult to read at times. However, it appeals to my gothic sensibilities, so will probably give it a go at some point. I wasn't actually aware it was a literary work until quite recently. I knew the name only from the TV series the BBC aired back in 2000.