Peadar Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 I have just started The Turing Test by Chris Beckett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Callers Only Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 I'm just over halfway through Ash. I've stalled a bit, partly due to festive socialising and partly due to just losing interest. Might have to try speed reading as the section I'm in now is just dull.Also about halfway through If On A Winter's Night A Traveller - a long awaited read - which is great fun. It, too, has been impacted by too much socialising but I hope to polish it off in the last working week before xmas.ASH is a chore in the middle but has a strong last (very last) section; for reasons that will be apparent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_Stark_of_Winterfell Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Gonna finish A Storm of Swords. Now just halfway through it. Then, starting AFFC in Jan. Wish me luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alytha Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Finished Wings of Wrath (book 2 of the Magister trilogy by CS Friedman), and still loving the series. Has anybody read her other recent series (Coldfire or something?) and would recommend it?Continuing reading the Dresden Files backwards when I'm at my parents' place. I'm at Blood Rites now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mexal Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Finished Wings of Wrath (book 2 of the Magister trilogy by CS Friedman), and still loving the series. Has anybody read her other recent series (Coldfire or something?) and would recommend it?It's a good series but it does suffer from the travelogue nature of the plot. Still, Tarrant is an awesome character. I read it when I was first getting into fantasy. Not so sure I'd enjoy it as much now as I did then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted01 Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 I'm finally, finally reading Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. Met her at TitanCon, lovely lady, and I'm thoroughly enjoying her book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Finishing up my Black Library books.OK.. i'm lying.Oh, has the insecure schoolyard bully found that the attention his classmates were given him has waned once he chased off his favorite punching bag? The high fives dried up, his voice no longer heard?So with Lord of the Night gone, he trolls for another victim. Who will respond, professing their enjoyment of books obviously inferior to Peter's choices, so Peter can once again prove his awesomeness to his school yard chums?Tell ya what, I haven't read a tie-in for a few months. After Christmas I will buy Pariah. I will revive the Warhammer thread, talk about it here, and give you lots of time to mock me so your voice can be heard again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 SkynJay, amazon had The Color of Magic on the cheep yesterday, is that the best place to start for Pratchett? Or is it better to start somewhere later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 SkynJay, amazon had The Color of Magic on the cheep yesterday, is that the best place to start for Pratchett? Or is it better to start somewhere later?I enjoyed it, but it by no means near the top of the list. It really is a simple mocking of fantasy tropes, without the depth and strong satire that Pratchett has later one. I say Wyrd Sisters, Small Gods, or Mort are good starting points because they all act as strong stand alone novels and show some of his strengths. Then you know if he works for you or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One of Three Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Will be reading Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickg Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Oh, has the insecure schoolyard bully found that the attention his classmates were given him has waned once he chased off his favorite punching bag? The high fives dried up, his voice no longer heard?So with Lord of the Night gone, he trolls for another victim. Who will respond, professing their enjoyment of books obviously inferior to Peter's choices, so Peter can once again prove his awesomeness to his school yard chums?Tell ya what, I haven't read a tie-in for a few months. After Christmas I will buy Pariah. I will revive the Warhammer thread, talk about it here, and give you lots of time to mock me so your voice can be heard again.I should have Pariah tomorrow according to UPS. I will either start it or Forge of Darkness. I'm leaning 40k though. Its been a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinevere Seaworth Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Finished Wings of Wrath (book 2 of the Magister trilogy by CS Friedman), and still loving the series. Has anybody read her other recent series (Coldfire or something?) and would recommend it?Continuing reading the Dresden Files backwards when I'm at my parents' place. I'm at Blood Rites now.I loved the Magisters series but disliked Coldfire. If you have anything against vampirism in any format and anti-heroes, then you will not like Coldfire. I detested Tarrant and that made it hard for me to like the series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Finished Salman Rushdie's Shalimar The Clown which was terrific.Now reading I have The Right To Destroy Myself by Kim Young-ha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry. Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 I reviewed Nick Mamatas' Bulletime, which might be one of the more unsettling novels right now, at least for those still coping with the Sandy Hook massacre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johirrim Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Bought Best Served Cold because I liked the cover... Well, that and I had heard good things about Joe Abercrombie, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alytha Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 I loved the Magisters series but disliked Coldfire. If you have anything against vampirism in any format and anti-heroes, then you will not like Coldfire. I detested Tarrant and that made it hard for me to like the series.Thanks Guinevere.I don't mind vampires (unless it's the Twilight kind) and antiheroes (the Magister trilogy is pretty much full of them, isn't it?). I'll try to find a sample chapter or something before getting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubby Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Bought Best Served Cold because I liked the cover... Well, that and I had heard good things about Joe Abercrombie,Have you read the first three? BSC is a stand alone but is 4th in line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johirrim Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Have you read the first three? BSC is a stand alone but is 4th in line.Nope. Might give them a try if I like BSC well enough. Its promising so far though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiDisaster Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Just finished Red Country last week. I picked up "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline and "John Dies At The End" by David Wong on Sunday. Started "Ready Player One" yesterday and I'm about a third or so of the way through it.Pretty enjoyable so far, Wil Wheaton does the narration (I get everything on audio these days so I can listen at work) and he's pretty good as well. Never heard any of the other books he's done narration for but apparently there's a few others so I may look into them.If I finish the two books I just got before the end of the month I'll probably grab one of the Ender Saga titles. Just read (listened to really) Ender's Game last month and loved it. Not sure whether to get "Speaker For The Dead" or "Ender's Shadow" next though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 So I was away for a few days and in that time I read:the rest of Malice, by John Gwynne, which was mostly very goodThe Dream Archipelago by Christopher Priest, which I was mostly disappointed by - I like the setting and some of the ideas, but I didn't feel any connection with any of his characters. The Affirmation had a similar feel, but that's meant to at least imply that it's a portrait of a broken mind so it fit, here it felt excessive.The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi which I liked a fair bit more than the first one, mostly because I thought it had the flair the first one lacked a bit of. Still dead confused by a lot of it though. :PSwords and Deviltry by Fritz Lieber, which was excellent, though slight.And most of The Rise of Ransom City by Felix Gilman. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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