[Tes'thesula]

I just read Olympus, not realising it was the sequel to Illium...sigh

Good read though, Is Hyperion worth it?

[cauthon]

Nightwatch by Terry Pratchett. My second TP book, and I love it.

[Reborn]

Night Watch is the only book I have read by Pratchett, and I would consider it to be okay -- quite entertaining, actually -- but nothing spectacular. It was not as funny as I had expected it to be.

[caladanbrood]

Read Ben Elton's First Casualty while travelling between various places at the weekend, and now finally getting around to finishing off Judas Unchained. It's actually taken me the best part of a year to read this bo0ok, thanks to a shedload of distractions, the main of which was being in Aus for 6 months - large hardback books don't make great backpacker material... managed to laeve it behind when I came up to uni too.

Also currently reading No Present Like Time, by Steph Swainston, the sequel to Year of our War. It's alright so far, but not as good as the first one.

[henk]

im waiting for my 2 favorite writers se and elizabeth while elzibeth has already published sympohny of ages 2(hell maybe even 3) i read al of them in dutch and am waiting for translation

[Murrin]

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce.

[drinksinbars]

Tes said:

I just read Olympus, not realising it was the sequel to Illium...sigh

Good read though, Is Hyperion worth it?

damn straight!!!

just started rama II, and am going to read monarchies of god book 4 next

[Aptorian]

After hearing so much about this Stephen Donaldson I've begun Lord Fouls Bane - The first book in the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. I love the whole leper thing going on so far.

Not at all what I was expecting.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

I'm currently reading the words on this screen.

:eek: Dear God that was awful. I deserve a slap for that one.

I'm just finishing a re-read of Jasper Fforde's "The Eyre Affair"

[Obdigore]

Magician. Feist. Just finished the Cyador (Magi'i and Scion) my Modesitt.

[pat5150]

After reading fantasy and science fiction novels for over two decades, only on the rarest of occasions will I encounter a work that totally blows my mind. Hence, I'm pleased to report that Ian McDonald's River of Gods is one such works. I was thoroughly amazed by McDonald's ambitious project.

River of Gods is definitely one of the books to read in 2006. For my money, it ranks among Hal Duncan's Vellum and R. Scott Bakker's The Thousandfold Thought as one of the best novels of the year.

Check the blog for the full review. . .

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

[Shiara]

Apt;125492 said:

After hearing so much about this Stephen Donaldson I've begun Lord Fouls Bane - The first book in the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. I love the whole leper thing going on so far.

Not at all what I was expecting.

Yeah, a great book - if you want to be MISERABLE Honestly, I couldn't get more than a couple of chapters before his whinging got to me - "Oooh, I'm a leper, I'm so depressed, I'll have bits falling off me and stuff, how depressing, ooo that chick is hot but I'm a LEPER!!! I'm disgusting!!!"

Read The Blade Itself, not too bad, I agree with Hetan - though I did like the whole surprise split-personality thing, that was good

Just finished The Lies of Locke Lamora - twas cumbersome to begin with, but picked up in the second half - I like how the hero is okay with being beaten to a pulp to achieve his goals - he's not some big strong man of many talents, but his talents are formidable in their own way

Am now starting White Tiger by Kylie Chan - only a few pages in so haven't got a good idea yet what it's like, but we'll see.

[Hume]

Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond.

[Dr Trouble]

Shiara;126253 said:

Yeah, a great book - if you want to be MISERABLE Honestly, I couldn't get more than a couple of chapters before his whinging got to me - "Oooh, I'm a leper, I'm so depressed, I'll have bits falling off me and stuff, how depressing, ooo that chick is hot but I'm a LEPER!!! I'm disgusting!!!"

Read The Blade Itself, not too bad, I agree with Hetan - though I did like the whole surprise split-personality thing, that was good

Just finished The Lies of Locke Lamora - twas cumbersome to begin with, but picked up in the second half - I like how the hero is okay with being beaten to a pulp to achieve his goals - he's not some big strong man of many talents, but his talents are formidable in their own way

Am now starting White Tiger by Kylie Chan - only a few pages in so haven't got a good idea yet what it's like, but we'll see.

I loved the Thomas Covenant series. The leper thing really drew me ...

And I'm reading HOOD by Stephen Lawhead. Pretty dumb ... but I have just read 6 Gene Wolfe books ...

[Hume]

Thats the problem with reading something like Wolfe or Erikson..

Everything afterwords just seems so Crap..

[Dr Trouble]

Thats the truth. I have tried not to become a book snob; But I have fallen in love with the way Gene Wolfe writes, and anything else just seems iffy.

I only wish I had started reading his books earlier.

[Hume]

The only ennoying this is trying to Find his other Sun Cycle Books.
So freaking hard to FIND ! ! ! !

[Astra]

I have finished to read the first two books of The Dark Elf Trilogy (Homeland and Exile). I really liked them. Quite intresting
Now, I am back to The Dark Tower series, don't know for how many books. I started to re-read The Gunslinger, because I believe I am going to understand it a great deal better after reading the first 4 books of the series. Then I will jump straight to The Wolves of the Calla.

[caladanbrood]

Finished "No Present Like Time" by Steph Swainston. It got very weird towards the end, which spoiled a perfectly enjoyable book, but it was still a good read overall:)

Now I'm taking a break from reading so as to focus more upon m impending failure of this year's NaNoWriMo.