palin99999 Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 New month - new thread.Still reading The Heroes and really enjoying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siemprepe Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Just finished the entire Harry Potter series. I must admit that they are more entertaining they I thought they would be.Reading shadowrise by Tad Williams while I wait for copy of the wise man's fear and The heroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gormenghast Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Me still busy with Malazan Tor re-read, tacking the second half of "The Darkness that Comes Before", and Midnight Tides and Before They Are Hanged (which is a breeze to read compared). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEvilKing Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Currently reading The Hammer by KJ Parker. Getting toward the end of it. The big revelation was quite shocking.Also reading Fall of Thanes by Brian Ruckley - about half way through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuchulain Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Finished Martin's Fevre Dream over the weekend. Couldn't really get into it at first, so I enjoyed it less than I'd expected. It's a good book, but I wasn't really in the mood for it.I've also been reading some of Graham Greene's short fiction. Interesting stuff.The Crippled God arrived in the mail this morning so that one's next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattD Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 I'm reading Martha Wells's long-awaited new book The Cloud Roads--fun adventure fantasy, as always from Wells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinevere Seaworth Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 I'm 100 pages from finishing The Clan of the Cave Bear. I admit my expectations were low, but I am enjoying the book far more than I thought I would. Jean Auel has a GRRM-like nack of describing food and feasts. Who would have ever thought prehistoric food could sound so tasty!?!Not sure about the next book. It'll be The Good Earth by Pearl Buck, The Sea Watch by Adrian Tchiakovsky or The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie. I also plan do a re-read of ASOIAF for this month to brush up on the novels before the HBO series debuts. It has been at least 6 or 7 years since I've read the first 3 books of the series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiddler's Green Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Currently reading Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang, which I'm really enjoying. After that will be probably McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Abercrombie's The Heroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphy Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 I'm 100 pages from finishing The Clan of the Cave Bear. I admit my expectations were low, but I am enjoying the book far more than I thought I would. Jean Auel has a GRRM-like nack of describing food and feasts. Who would have ever thought prehistoric food could sound so tasty!?!Not sure about the next book. It'll be The Good Earth by Pearl Buck, The Sea Watch by Adrian Tchiakovsky or The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie. I also plan do a re-read of ASOIAF for this month to brush up on the novels before the HBO series debuts. It has been at least 6 or 7 years since I've read the first 3 books of the series.Clan of the Cave Bear was the best book in the series. Now reading Georgette Heyer's Friday's Child. It's not one of her better books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Oh heck I'll jump into this too.Just started reading Attila by William Napier. Only a few pages in but I like the writing style so far.I would be reading The Crippled God but my copy from amazon was falling apart at the binding so they're sending me a replacement.Finished Arms Commander by L.E. Modesitt Jr. Meh. Usually like most of his fantasy but this one felt very flat and kinda rushed. And, I get it, MEN BAD WOMAN GOOD. Jeez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Toblerone Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 I'm reading The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones.I finished off February with Castle in the Air which wasn't as good as Howl's Moving Castle but still decent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Analu Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 In the last couple months I've read:- "The Red Wolf Conspiracy" by Redick: It started out pretty promising but was so ridiculously YA at the end, I completely lost interest. A pox on whoever recommended this in some thread on this board. Or at least a bad head cold. - "The Warded Man" and "The Desert Spear" by Brett: Finished TWM a couple weeks ago and am about 1/4 of the way thru TDS. TWM was pretty good though I had to suspend my disbelief at certain points and some plot turns were rather abrupt. Arlen and Leesha seem pretty much like Gary/Mary-Sue characters too. Still, I'm liking it. Very easy reads, which is all I'm looking for right now. Am also reading a book called "The Loan Officer's Guide to Residential Finance". I feel like stabbing myself in the eye after every chapter. I'm pretty sure I'm getting dumber by the page, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emery Silverstein Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 A little more than halfway through The Heroes and really enjoying it.Wise Man's Fear was shipped and should be here any day but I am struggling with whether to re-read The Name of the Wind or not.Also reading through Echo City during my lunch breaks at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 First comments on others. To the poster reading Diana Wynne Jones, have you read 8 days of Luke? Its out of print, but great if the library has it.And I a hundred times agree on the Red Wolf Conspiracy. What a waste of space that was. It has the second book out, and I wont touch it. Me, a man who got through all of Confesser. As for what I am reading, I am one book into The Long Price Quartet, and plan on shotgunning them. And also reading Curse of the Wolf Girl, by Martin Miller, which I thought i would get to last month, but got pushed back and back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 I finished Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End. It was a very good book, but I found the ending extremely depressing. Lot's of good concepts that have been extensively borrowed by other authors/movies/television shows. Very good book, but at times there was a bit too much tell, and not enough show.9/10Started Abercrombie's The Heroes, and it's great so far. After that I plan to read The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi and then The Wise Man's Fear by Rothfuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinevere Seaworth Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Officially finished The Clan of the Cave Bear. See my comments a couple posts earlier. I have decided on The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
automne Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Benny and shrimp (Grabben i graven bredvid is the Swedish title if I can trust wikipedia) by Katarina Mazetti. I needed a light and pleasant read and that one was just it.The elegance of the hedgehog / l'élégance du hérisson by Muriel Barbery which could have been a great book had the author refrained from overusing stereotypes. Parisian intellectual snobberism? Yes I get it, just move on. Still it's an interesting book and I do recommend it.Not sure what I'll read next. Lots of books on my TR pile.and I'm still waiting for my Daniel Abraham's fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEvilKing Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Finished The Hammer by KJ Parker. Not as fun as The Folding Knife, the build-up was a lot slower, and it occurs on a much smaller scale. But the last 100 or so pages were outstanding.CONTEST: What should I read next? First post with an answer WINS!!!!!!Options:Vellum by Hal DuncanHomicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David SimonThe Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark HodderThe Last Living Slut by Roxana Shirazi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delete this account pls Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Homicide is the only one from that list that I've read, and it's pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEvilKing Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Congratulations Brady, you win. Your prize is me reading Homicide. And may I just add that Achewood is the shit. :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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