[pat5150]

Just finished Peter Watts' Blindsight. If you're looking for a fascinating and thought-provoking novel, this one is for you!

Check the blog for the full review.

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

[Sir Thursday]

Blindsight put Peter Watts straight into joint 2nd place in my all time Sci-fi favourite authors (tied with Richard Morgan and behind Peter F. Hamilton).

Read it! Read it now! And if you liked what you read, buy a copy of the book to support him!

Currently reading the 2006 Private Eye Annual - the lookalikes in particular make me laugh: Ricky Tomlinson in The Royles is the spitting image of Saddam Hussein! And put Amelie Mauresmo and Orlando Bloom as Legolas side by side - it's uncanny!

Sir Thursday

[rlfcl]

screw Foundation, i just got the Bonehunters for Christmas!

(way behind i know)

[Tremolo]

The Cambridge Companion to Peirce

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

[Sir Thursday]

Interesting TT. Do report back on the difference between novel and film - the only Fleming novel I have read was Diamonds are Forever, which doesn't even have the same villains! It's about a gang called the Star Spangled Mob who have dodgy dealings with Horses, IIRC.


Sir Thursday

[Tiste Simeon]

I was given two books for Christmas, to keep me going after I finish the Malazan series. They are "Churchill's Story: A Novel" (or something titled like that) by Michael Dobbs and "Monster" by Frank Peretti. Look forward to reading both.

[Werthead]

Reading Flashman on the March, the (chronologically) penultimate volume of the Flashman Papers, the greatest historical series I've read. Perhaps less focused than previous instalments (though the author being 83 when he wrote it explains that), but still very entertaining. This story is set in 1868 after a lunatic Abyssinian warlord (in what is now Ethiopia) took several hundred British nationals, soldiers and merchants hostage. An under-manned British army, low on supplies and depending on the sea for sustenance via a highly vulnerable, 300-mile-long supply chain, is sent to rescue the prisoners. This war (which really happened) is just about the only military expedition undertaken by the British which apparently was written off before it even set out, yet it set out anyway and won arguably the most improbable military success in British history, with virtually no casualties. In the middle of this is cowardly Flashman, cheating, fornicating and generally being as much of a SoB as possible. Superb stuff.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Sir Thursday;147160 said:

Interesting TT. Do report back on the difference between novel and film

Well, thanks to it being Xmas I havent go t much reading done, but so far it's vastly different- the only similarity really is the bad guy's name and the casino setting. Le Chiffre is actually a Soviet agent in this one that they're trying to bankrupt to embarass the Russians and cripple the communist trade union bloc in Alsace in France.

[Falco]

Yeah Flashman's funny stuff. I read that series in high school. Currently reading William McInness' 'Cricket Kings'. Nice book...typically understated Australian prose, really captures the local environment. Not a bad summer read.

[GaesII]

Labyrinth ~ Kate Mosse

So far it's an interesting read,be intrigued to see where they go with the storyline:)

[McLovin]

The Sundering (Dread Empire's Fall, vol. 2) by Walter Jon Williams. I'm not a science-fiction guy usually, but I am just really enjoying this series.

[Falco]

longhorn;147342 said:

The Sundering (Dread Empire's Fall, vol. 2) by Walter Jon Williams. I'm not a science-fiction guy usually, but I am just really enjoying this series.

Yeah, I really liked it too. Really good random pick-up in the library it turned out to be.

[Lord Gordonis]

The Soul Drinkers Omnibus - Ben Counter, then ive got Witch Killer - CL Werner, after that Death World - Steve Lyons

[Tiste Simeon]

The Bonehunters. Love that book.

[Falco]

Well just did a library run. Polished off a couple of Asprin omnibuses (or should that be omnibi) from the MYTH series. Top comic fantasy, second only to Pratchett imho.

Now onto 'Broken Angels' by Richard Morgan. Got a few waiting including the 'Evergence' trilogy and the second Jasper Fforde.

[pat5150]

Just finished reading Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind. Daw Books are really pushing this one, hoping that it will be the next "big thing." It's a good debut, if not as impressive as Duncan's Vellum and Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora.

Still, a satisfying read. It will be released later this spring, so you'll likely hear a lot more about it since Penguin Books will be making a lot of noise. Check out the blog for the full review!

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

[Tiste Simeon]

Last week I finished Bonehunters. Then I read a book that mum edited for someone (She is an author, and ghost wrote/final edited this one) It has an awful title but it was a good book. I really enjoyed it. It is called "Freed from Satan's Grasp" by Vince McCann. Like I said the title leaves a lot to be desired. My mum had no say on the title, even though she wanted to call it something different. Oh well.

I am now reading Eragon. It's OK, but I shouldn't have read it so close after MBOTF...

[Lord Gordonis]

Soul Drinkers Omnibus - Ben Counter

[Sir Thursday]

I just finished reading Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself, which while starting slowly grew on me as it progressed. I ended up liking it overall, especially the understated humour. And Bayaz's name is wrong. It should be Badaz.


Anyway, I'm now moving on to Brian Ruckley's Winterbirth.


Sir Thursday