Books: What have you been reading?
Since the Books forum is gone, I thought I'd restart this thread, albeit with a slightly less in-jokey name.
I've been reading Christopher Moore's [i]Serpent of Venice[/i], a sequel to [i]Fool[/i]. It's a riff on [i]Othello[/i] and [i]Merchant of Venice[/i], featuring a disreputable court jester commenting on and meddling in the action. It's fun, but a little overstuffed. [i]Fool[/i] was just based on [i]King Lear[/i] (the lead character in both books is Lear's Fool), but [i]Serpent[/i] tries to pack in too much. There's even an extended Poe sequence. It's far from essential, but for a Moore fan or a Shakespeare buff, it's worth a look.
Anyone else read any good prose, lately?