Winterz Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 The Silmarillion (concurrent with my WikiProject for its content) and re-reading ASOIAF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garett Hornwood Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Finished Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris yesterday to complete the T.R. biographical trilogy. The first part of the book and the epilogue were great, however the second half of the book when you obviously know you know T.R. is going to die it seemed that Morris changed the tone into something melancholy which compared to the first 2 1/2 books was a bit jarring. Don't get me wrong, I liked the book and thought it was a excellent concluding volume by Morris however something stylistic changed in the second half of the book.Today I started The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Song of Hound and Wolves Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Dunnett is great. As was mentioned, her work can be dense and she does throw in quotes in different languages, especially during the Lymond series, but it lessens later in her books. I love her plotting and her books, once you get past the first 100-200 pages, fly by so fast and come together at the end better than most other books I've read. Well worth reading, especially if you're at all interested in the time period as they are impeccably researched.Thank you for this feedback--I am more psyched than ever to read her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Song of Hound and Wolves Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Dbl post? GrrrEta: does this count toward post counts? I am perversely proud of my low post count. Mod: feel free to delete this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiddler's Green Posted April 21, 2013 Share Posted April 21, 2013 Just finished The Orientalist by Tom Reiss, same guy who wrote the Black Count. Fascinating book.Currently reading King's Blood by Daniel Abraham and about to start River of Stars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowborn Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 I finally started with So Many Books, the essays are interesting...I also picked up Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville. I'm around 100 pages into it, so far, I'm loving New Crobuzon.I love Paul Austers books. One of my top 5 authors (non fantasy authors) with Douglas Coupland. I don't think I would start with the new york trilogy though. It's an interesting read but very strange and one of his weirdest novels.Start with country of the last things, Brooklin follies, Invisible or man in the dark... hell start with any of his books. Def read the new york trilogy but I wouldn't start there. Or if you do start there and dislike it then make sure you try another.Kinda reminds me of Gaiman... lots of magic in their booksThanks for the recommendation! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peadar Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 I've just started G. G. Kay's River of Stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lummel Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 The Judge and His Hangman by Duerrenmatt, most enjoyable thing I've read in a long time, atmospheric crime story, old detective working to bring about Justice, if you like Maigret, Sherlock Holmes or Philip Marlowe stories then give it a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJB Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 A Feast For Crows, A Dance With Dragons and tomorrow I'll finish The Maze Runner trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Just finished Blood and Bone, one of Esselmont's Malazan books and the last book in my Malazan re-read. This book was a bit of a disappointment. There didn't seem much point to it. Reading Belgarath the Sorceror, after which I'll re-read the Belgariad and Mallorean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofashes Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Just finished Blood and Bone, one of Esselmont's Malazan books and the last book in my Malazan re-read. This book was a bit of a disappointment. There didn't seem much point to it. Reading Belgarath the Sorceror, after which I'll re-read the Belgariad and Mallorean.What about the other Esselmont books? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat5150 Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 Just finished Ian Tregillis' Necessary Evil and man it was awesome! The Milkweed Triptych is definitely one of the very best speculative fiction series of the new millennium! Great read!Check out the Hotlist for the full review. . . :)Cheers,Patrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narwhal Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 True, but my biggest regret about Tregillis' second and third books is that the cover design is so mundane. I can't be the only person who bought the first book solely because of how great the cover art looked. Nazi witches walking on skulls was an inspired choice.Bro holding a gun is much less so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat5150 Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 In terms of marketing, Tor never gave Tregillis a chance. The cover art for the final volume is so bad, it looks as though they didn't want it to sell at all. . . :(Too bad, as this series has a lot of crossover appeal. . .Patrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hound Dog Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 Just started the Malazan series... on the first book "Gardens of the Moon". So far so good, though just a wee bit confusing. I've heard it is somewhat better (or it makes more sense) on a reread. I also went in aware of the fact that you're thrown right into a plot already thick with action and goings on. I like that.... no hand holding in Erikson's style whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivy Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 Zona Zamfirova, I don't know if anyone heard about it xD And after this I will read Anna Karenina, for school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buff daddy Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 I'm about three quarters through River of Stars, awesome read so far.After that I've got Malice by John Gwynne and Shift by Hugh Howey. I can't figure out which one I want to read first though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolverine Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Just started the Malazan series... on the first book "Gardens of the Moon". So far so good, though just a wee bit confusing. I've heard it is somewhat better (or it makes more sense) on a reread. I also went in aware of the fact that you're thrown right into a plot already thick with action and goings on. I like that.... no hand holding in Erikson's style whatsoever.Even thought I loved some Malazan books, a reread sounds torturous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UndergroundMan Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Just finished "The Half-Made World". It was good, but didn't quite live up to my expectations. I doubt that I will read "The Rise of Ransom City" as I understand that it's not a direct sequel. I'm also about 60 percent through the third Lymond Chronicles book "The Disorderly Knights" and it is getting good. Just started "Cat's Cradle" as well. Haven't read any Vonnegut since "Slaughterhouse five" and that was about four years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Since I last posted in here I've read:The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks. Lot of fun. Weeks isn't the best writer, but he gets better with each novel.An Artist Of The Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. Really good book, and a nice counterpoint to The Remains Of The Day.Troubles by J.G. Farrell. Great book. Farrell is hilarious, and he portrays the fading British Empire in a very funny, and very poignant way.The Mirage by Naguib Mahfouz. A powerful psychological portrait of a dominated and narcissistic young man.The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Holy shit. Everyone on the planet should read this book. Seriously.Now reading Amsterdam by Ian McEwan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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