I am... oooh... 3/5's of the way through the second City of Heroes novel, "The Freedom Phalanx." Its been my "going to the laundromat" book for a while, and its been enjoyable. While not War and Peace or anything, it fills in history and lore for one of my favorite games, deeping the signature characters, and all that sort of thing one would expect.

I found at that there are novels en route for Guild Wars 2, and that's pretty cool. As far as I know there are no existing Guild Wars books, so this is actually kind of exciting to me. While I will readily admit that I have a block to fantasy when it comes to playing games, I do like reading fantasy once in a while. Take one of my favorite games, make a book, and I might well be set.

I was kind of wondering though - going to Borders sometimes I see novels for all sorts of games: Warcraft, Starcraft, Halo, Warhammer and more. Even Doom had novels as I recall! Anyhow - who buys and reads them? I don't think I've ever seen anyone buy one before, or talk about reading one, but there they are, so obviously they're doing well enough. How are they? Pretty good? For fans only?

Just curious. I've got audiobooks I listen to when doing exercises in the morning, but when I'm doing laundry? I'm just sitting around for most of the time, so have some light, bubble-gum reading is always welcome...