JGP Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Up next -- I can barely wait -- Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker.Oh you son of a... soon as I saw this, I tried to buy the ebook but it won't let me buy from Amazon UK. Have to wait till March 20th, here. [grumbles] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Finished Kitty and the Midnight Hour in one night. For as much as I like the series, I forgot how mediocre the first book was. Kitty is actually a pretty weak character early on. Reading the second one now, which my memory says is one of the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procrastimancer Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Oh you son of a... soon as I saw this, I tried to buy the ebook but it won't let me buy from Amazon UK. Have to wait till March 20th, here. [grumbles]Finished Angelmaker a few days ago. Was quite good. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkess Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Finished All Clear, quite enjoyed it. Think I'll need to go back and read the other Oxford books from Connie Willis.Starting on Mastiff by Tamora Pierce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Finished Angelmaker a few days ago. Was quite good. :DI hate you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peadar Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 I hate you.You keep hating and I'll keep reading :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearly Headless Ned Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 The Last Werewolf by Glenn Duncan. Decent story with a sense of humour but spoiled somewhat by rather pretentious narration.Started Books of Blood volume 1 by Clive Barker. Pretty solid so far.Considering a number of novels to start now, Rendezvous With Rama by Clarke, The Hammer by KJ Parker, The Sister Brothers by Patrick Dewitt or The Tigers Wife by Tea Obreht. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vrana Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Now on to Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee.I'd be very interested to hear what you thought of this one. It's probably the Coetzee book I've read I've had the hardest wrapping my mind around as I read it but the one that I remember the most. I honestly don't know if I liked it or not.Finished Richard Dowden's Africa: Altered States and Ordinary Miracles, it read a little bit like Ryszard Kapuscinski's Shadow Under the Sun, though no where near Kapuscinskis breathtaking talent for explaining and describing. I enjoyed it, the last chapter especially is about the chinese presence in Africa and their quite extensive expansion. Some reservations about it too, which was very interesting since I feel like a lot of what I've heard from some African leaders has been overly optimistic.Finished Molefi Kete Asante's A History of Africa even the Mugabe and Gadaffi apologeticism aside it was bad. Seeemed like half the references were from his own previous works and the utter bias was palpable.Also read a detailed account of Fritz Haber's Nobel prize in Chemistry by James Cavallie. The statements of the academy at the time, the press reactions and the statements and reactions of Haber himself. This one was very controversial in sweden due to the fact that all nobel prize winners within science that year (1918) were german and Haber's influence on gas used in battle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alytha Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Finished The Devil's Graveyard by Anonymous, the third of the Bourbon Kid books. It was just about on the edge of still being ok, but pretty flat in terms of plot. Lots of splatter though, if you like that kind of thing.Now most of the way through Heirs of the Blade by Tchaikovsky, which is pretty good. Poor Tynisa :(The Life and Times of Michael K is about the book I hate most in the whole wide world, which is the result of having to read it in the class of the biggest arsehole ever to call himself an English teacher, and the protagonist being an absolute idiot. (to the eyes of an 18-year-old anyway.) I almost burned my copy afterwards, but settled on giving it away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Silenus Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 I'm glad no one tried to get between me and The Iron Dragon's Daughter this last couple of days.Poor Jane. She's just, you know, trying to get ahead and go to college and stuff.Last book finished was Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and it was was interesting, with its guild-like societies, but these people are identified as bug-kinden. Spider, Scorpion, Mantis, Moth, and so on. The Wasps are the bad guys. Make of that what you will, LOL. It doesn't come off as just Elves and Dwarves by other names.I am forcing myself to finish several scifi and fantasy series. I'm currently on the endless To Green Angel Tower, by a master of bloat who ranks with King and Jordan and the best of them, Tad Williams, and that is followed by the ambiguously fey duo of Damien and the Hunter in C. S. Fredman's Coldfire trilogy. It is intriguing to read, because Friedman has no clue how men think, does she? :P This is like lite Harlequin slash, anticipating the whole Vampire fad. Deep into bad fantasy at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alytha Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Swanwick is just soooo good. The man needs to write more.Horza, have you got Dragons of Babel yet? You should like that one too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Started Use of Weapons. Only 30ish pages in but it reminds me of Gene Wolfe so far, so A++++ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dornish prince Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 i had some free time this morning and i was away from the kindle so i picked up The Life of Pi on a lark. i haven't been able to put it down. i usually juggle a couple of books at a time but i'm fairly certain, at this point anyway, that i'm sticking with it until the end.a truly wonderful read so far. :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jojen Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 i had some free time this morning and i was away from the kindle so i picked up The Life of Pi on a lark. i haven't been able to put it down. i usually juggle a couple of books at a time but i'm fairly certain, at this point anyway, that i'm sticking with it until the end.a truly wonderful read so far. :cheers:I agree. I loved 99% of it, but there was one scene about halfway through or so that literally made me want to vomit. Why he put it in there was beyond me. It did nothing for the story, IMO.Btw, Ang Lee is directing the movie adaptation. Hopefully he won't keep that foul scene in there. And hopefully the animals won't be all cgi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vrana Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 I agree. I loved 99% of it, but there was one scene about halfway through or so that literally made me want to vomit. Why he put it in there was beyond me. It did nothing for the story, IMO.Btw, Ang Lee is directing the movie adaptation. Hopefully he won't keep that foul scene in there. And hopefully the animals won't be all cgi.Interesting. I found Life of Pi to be an easy read but pretty average in terms of content and theme, didn't do much for me though I think I can see why it became so famous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I agree. I loved 99% of it, but there was one scene about halfway through or so that literally made me want to vomit. Why he put it in there was beyond me. It did nothing for the story, IMO.Btw, Ang Lee is directing the movie adaptation. Hopefully he won't keep that foul scene in there. And hopefully the animals won't be all cgi.Been some years since I read it so I'm a little fuzzy on which scene you're talking about. Wanna put it in spoiler tags for me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodooqueen126 Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Like I said "Plutarch's Parallel Lives".I wish I could only read the best ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jojen Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Been some years since I read it so I'm a little fuzzy on which scene you're talking about. Wanna put it in spoiler tags for me?Been awhile since I've read it too. If memory serves, it'swhen Pi eats or at least considers eating Tiger poop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durckad Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Took a break from some 'real reading' to read Transmetropoliton Volume 1. It was good, very funny sometimes though I'm not sure if I want to invest any more money just for the humor. Also, I finished reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, which I hadn't read since High School. It was good, I definitely enjoyed it more this time, despite the writing being very accurately described as '95 pages of drunken rambling.'Well, back to juggling The Idiot and The Hunger Games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearbert Dondarrion Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Just finished the Blade Itself. Very good book. My favourite character is Jezal because he ressembles me the most. I would like To continue the series but I can't go To the bookshop because of the bad Weather so I will finally read the 3001 by Clarke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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