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RE: Book Reviews in the Batcave: Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
I think I've had a similar experience. I finished Daniel Abraham's brilliant Long Price Quartet and now I seem to be trying to read everything he's ever written - I have read the first and have the remaining four books on hold of The Dagger and the Coin and I'm presently reading the second book of The Expanse, his collab with Ty Franck under the pen name James S.A. Corey. (And I have his short story collection Leviathan Wept also on hold at the library.)
Oh you totally know my pain @terry93d! I am going to look into LPQ with your recommendation. And I did the same relentless reading through David Foster Wallace's books. There were plenty of good ones but I am still recovering from the lackluster insanity that was The Broom of the System. I suppose even the best authors don't hit a home run everytime!
LPQ is a fantastic epic fantasy series, especially if you want something different. Just be warned, it's "slower" than most other fantasy series. Not in the sense that it drags but in the sense that there isn't much action, that it's paced more deliberately. I want to tell you more about it, but you strike me as someone who doesn't want spoilers, so I'll refrain.
I've not read any of DFW (weird typing that, I lived in Texas for a decade so DFW means "Dallas/Fort Worth" to me...) but I do have Infinite Jest on my reading list - in part thanks to your recommendation.
Consider LPQ officially on my reading list! I have no problem with the slow-burn novels, as long as they develop the hell outta their characters.
And let me know when you read Infinite Jest. Man that book is so good - challenging, but so damn good!
Develop the hell outta their characters, you say?
If Brandon Sanderson's thing is worldbuilding, Daniel Abraham's is characterization. The first book of LPQ is a little weaker than the remaining three - understandably since it's his first published novel - but I guarantee you that by the end you will not be disappointed.
Also, will do! I'll put it on hold at the library when I'm finished with The Dagger and the Coin.
Lol we have an agreement of books-to-read! I am in!