Torque Control reviews Twilight

In preparation for my review (posting on 12/16), here's a review of Twilight by Liz (not sure of her last name) over at Torque Control.

The writing might be an attempt to write like a seventeen-year-old girl in love might write, but it is drowning in adverbs; everything is ‘utterly absurd’ or ‘gloriously intense’, Edward has a ’sculpted, incandescent chest’ and ’scintillating arms’, and he even has an alabaster brow, which I hope is a nod to Anne of Green Gables but I’m worried it’s meant to be sincere.

Heh.

Lists!! Of Books!!

Niall Harrison has a list of "essential" fantasy novels over at Torque Control plus a handful of links to other such lists.

This isn't a list of the usual suspects of fantasy novels that many read as a primer into the fantasy genre (the Tolkien, Feist, Brooks, Jordan list), but provides, perhaps, a more advanced reader list of what to read next.

Good list(s)