[Vengeance]

I just got and am starting City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer. Morgy recommended it... So far looks good.

[QuickTidal]

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

[Fist Gamet]

Dune.

Finally.

[Stradivarius]

Wolf of the plains by colin inguland

[Dark Wolf]

I finished "The Dog of the North" by Tim Stretton. The novel has some interesting ideas behind the story, but with a slow pace and rhythm. It left me with mixed feelings and although I liked some of the authors ideas, this novel was a rather unsatisfactory one for me. (my full review)

[Yellow]

Fist Gamet, on Mar 19 2009, 10:57 PM, said:

Dune.

Finally.

Was it as boring as I've always suspected it to be?

I'm reading Neal Stephenson's System of the World. Still.

This post has been edited by Yellow: 21 March 2009 - 11:34 AM

[Astra]

Finished The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb, Liveship Traders, Book 2.
Superb re-read.
It has been discussed so many times that I am not going to add anything new. I just loved it and it was a real page turner.

Started to read 24 Hours of a Woman's Life by Stefan Zweig (in Russian).

This post has been edited by Astra: 21 March 2009 - 06:25 PM

[Mentalist]

Read "Small favour" last night

great book, all in all.

[Tarcanus]

I just blew through The Lies of Locke Lamora and it was great.

Now I'm going to start on Tad Williams' Shadowmarch. We'll see how this goes.

This post has been edited by Tarcanus: 22 March 2009 - 03:40 PM

[pat5150]

Just finished L. E. Modesitt, jr.'s Imager, the first volume in The Imager Portfolio.

I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that this could well be the best and most accessible opening chapter in any of his fantasy series to date.

Check out the blog for the full review.

Cheers,

Patrick

[QuickTidal]

Schools Out-Forever - James Patterson (the second in his YA series Maximum Ride)

[Use Of Weapons]

Finished _Poison Study_ by Maria Snyder last night. Good read, not terribly demanding, pretty predictable. Some characterisation problems meant I really couldn't get into it fully. While I'd like to see how the plot unfolds, I'm not interested enough to buy the remaining novels in the trilogy (Magic Study; Fire Study). It may be that my patience for [abused|neglected|ordinary]-teenager-discovers-hidden-powers fantasy is running a bit thin.

And above -- Dune, boring? Dune is the antithesis of boring. On a scale of 0 - 100, where 0 is ultra boring (Eddings, Sharon Green) and 100 is Erikson, Dune would be around 98.

[Astra]

24 Hours of a Woman's Life by Stefan Zweig
Very short story but full of emotions.
Good read...

Anyway, back to The Liveship Traders, book 3. Ship of Destiny.

I will sue Robin Hobb for addicting me to her books.

[Deornoth]

Finished reading Bruce Sterling's 'The Caryatids' last night, I absolutely loved the world that Sterling put together but it was a shame that this seemed to come at the expense of the story itself... My full review is over Here. I'm now trying to finish off Adrian Tchaikovsky's 'Dragonfly Falling' (realised that I put it down, half finished, a week ago and forgot to pick it up again which is weird seeing as it's pretty good...)

[Fist Gamet]

Yellow, on Mar 21 2009, 11:34 AM, said:

Fist Gamet, on Mar 19 2009, 10:57 PM, said:

Dune.

Finally.

Was it as boring as I've always suspected it to be?

I'm reading Neal Stephenson's System of the World. Still.

Actually, not working out too bad, mate. I am not too keen on the slow build and the way so much intrigue is spelled out to me so early but it is well written with lots of really neat ideas and chock full of imagination.

[Deornoth]

I've just finished reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's 'Dragonfly Falling', the second book is his 'Shadows of the Apt' series. There's so much going on that things do get a little clunky as conclusions are cut short in favour of finding out more about other characters but it still has everything that made 'Empire in Black and Gold' such a good read, I'm still in for the long haul with this series! My full review is over Here.
I've got no idea what I'll be reading next. Mark Newton's 'Nights of Villjamur' looks very good but so does Ken Scholes' 'Lamentation'. Having said that though, I've got the next three days off work so it might be the best time to finally read 'Toll the Hounds'...

[Slow Ben]

Just finished Fool Moon, getting ready to start Grave Peril.

These Dresden files are good.

[Anomander]

Just finished reading Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.

Overall not a bad story, it ended long before I would have gotten annoyed with it. I must admit I found it highly amusing to read as the whole time I kept thinking "this story is essentially Jane Eyre fanfiction."

[Chance]

Just finished Line War by Neal Asher and pretty sure I'm going through rest of his next...

Feels like an inbetween of the Kovacs novels and Banks Culture novels damn nice...

/Chance...

[Stalker]

Yeah I like Asher's works as well. Went straight through the Cormac stuff.
@Chance- if you do like that stuff you should buy Shadow of the Scorpion, kinda a prequel that sets up Cormac's life. Very good.

But now I am reading Asher's Voyage of the Sable Keech