[pat5150]

Just finished Justina Robson's Keeping it Real. A fun and entertaining read, quite different from what this short-listed author has accustomed us to.

Another Pyr offering, another good read!

Check the blog for all the details!

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

[Tattooed Hand]

For Bread Alone by Mohamed Choukri. I'm teaching it this week. When he wrote it in the early 1970s no Arabic publisher would print it. It was translated into French. Now I see why. It's pretty racy (and gross). Erikson would benefit from reading for his scenes of depravity and poverty. (It deals with the effects of poverty on the institutions of civilization, like family, gender, social grace and decency.)

[Mane of Chaos]

Tales from Earthsea & The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin. A wonderful book by a great author.

[Lord Gordonis]

Ravanor Rogue - Dan Abnett

[Sir Thursday]

Currently reading Alan Campbell's Scar Night. It's quite good so far.

Sir Thursday

[Tiste Simeon]

Mane of Chaos said:

Tales from Earthsea & The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin. A wonderful book by a great author.

I read that years ago and forgotten most of what happens in it, but I remember that I really enjoyed it.

I have recently found a stash of David Eddings books, and despite my better judgement am reading some of them again... Currently on "Belgarath the Sorceror", though I can't find the Belgariad or the Mallorean... Maybe at my parents house...

[Blind]

Currently reading The Lies of Locke Lamora - it's as good as people say.

[Fid]

locke Lamora is definitely worth the effort. Having a break from fantasy so am combining the world is flat with Peter Cook's bography - an interesting juxtaposition.

[Kage-za]

Just started The Scar by China Mievelle.

Also reading the Deathnote manga series, and tomorrow I will scoop up and devour the new One Piece when it is released (#44--they just finished a huge story arc so I have no idea what to expect!).

[Aptorian]

Kage-za;163624 said:

Just started The Scar by China Mievelle.

Also reading the Deathnote manga series, and tomorrow I will scoop up and devour the new One Piece when it is released (#44--they just finished a huge story arc so I have no idea what to expect!).

Kage read Perdido street station and Scar, if you enjoy them avoid Iron Counsil. It has its good points, but IC is just... really bad compared to the other two.

[Murrin]

I wouldn't have called it really bad. more like very different. And his ending, while perfectly suiting the story, comes off a little weak.

[Tiste Simeon]

That's a classic Mieville trait though... great book, leading right up to the end, then... Nothing. I loved reading The Scar, til the last couple of chapters...

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Moonraker by Ian Fleming

[drinksinbars]

just rereading the whole malazan tales. made it to bonehunters now and just started it. When does reapers gale out?

[Dr Trouble]

April or something.

Just got into Dune ... enjoying it so far. But I'm pretty sure I have already read it.

[Tiste Simeon]

April - May of this year, depending on what week we are in, as it changes on a regular basis...

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Amazon's put it back to May at the moment, Im tempted not to pre-order it from there as they might receive it in April and get confused and not send it to me for ages. The fools!

[Astra]

Thelomen Toblerone;163799 said:

Amazon's put it back to May at the moment, Im tempted not to pre-order it from there as they might receive it in April and get confused and not send it to me for ages. The fools!

Fromk my experience, if they get it before the date they advertise right now, they send it to you right away. So, you receive it a few days or even weeks before the promised day (which is nice IMHO).

[drinksinbars]

play still say its out on march 24th, but cant see anything on batam about the release:(

[Mane of Chaos]

I've just finished Tales from Earthsea & The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin and am starting The Amulet of Samarkand, the first part of the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. Has anybody read it?