The Last Good Man: The First 30 Chapters

The Last Good Man (Scribner/Simon & Schuster 2012). This has been an interesting read. I wouldn't put it in the same vein as books like the Robert Langdon novels or the Cotton Malone books but it has this mystery appeal that makes the later worth reading. It's a Danish written collaboration which is just now getting major fanfare but has been in the US for the past year or so. It basically follows the tale of mysterious deaths 34 so far, of the so called "good people" of which according to the Jewish Talmud in a generation there are 36. The race is on as a Danish police officer teams up with the ex-wife of one of the people he looked into as "good". In the early stages it does seem repetitive to remind you the basis of the search but if you read past it then it has it's good dialogue and plot.

The Hobbit

I feel like I have failed the world of Middle Earth by never really reading The Hobbit or the books in The Lord of the Rings series but I have started on The Hobbit and it is a good start. I saw the movie first and I enjoyed it which sort of pushed me to read the book. I have high expectations but I believe that they will be exceeded. The depth and detail to create Dwarvish and Elvish dialect and then the whole Middle Earth landscape is just a mind blowing experience and to see it on paper is surreal even after seeing the movies before ever reading the books themselves.

Tolkien, eloquently built a fantasy world and made it seem real just in the same manner that C. S. Lewis built Narnia and George R. R. Martin has done with A Song of Ice and Fire. This isn't a post of appreciation on the whole, it's just taking in the whole aspect of the "Fantasy Epic" genre there are possibly others and when it comes to finding those then I'll edit accordingly but right now these 3 are the benchmarks.

I'm not much of a "putting ideas on paper" individual so if it seems abbreviated then I'm sorry.