[QuickTidal]

Saving the World And Other Extreme Sports - James Patterson (this Maximum Ride is series is pretty fun!)

[Chance]

Stalker, on Mar 26 2009, 10:53 PM, said:

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

Sounds like I'll go for it, more Cormac can't possibly be bad...

Was going for Prador Moon or the Skinner well...I tend to read of one author until I get disapointed generally I get out of books before that

/Chance

This post has been edited by Chance: 26 March 2009 - 11:37 PM

[Optimus Prime]

"A Magic of Twilight" by S.L. Farrell.

Decent so far.

[Use Of Weapons]

I'd go for Prador Moon first -- lots of lovely carnivorous alien crab action! The Skinner is fantastic, though.

[Sixty]

I just picked up The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and I'm about 70-80 pages in.

To be honest, I was disappointed...I guess it was overhyped from hearing about ridiculously good prose. Not as concise as I'd prefer, I suppose, but nowadays I dislike all prose I see, including my own. In fact, mostly with my own. But for some reason, I'm now in the habit of cringing every time I find an unnecessary "that" or "of". It's a curse, I'm afraid.

[Salt-Man Z]

Sixty, on Mar 27 2009, 09:11 AM, said:

But for some reason, I'm now in the habit of cringing every time I find an unnecessary "that" or "of". It's a curse, I'm afraid.

Hm. I'd much rather have redundant "that"s or "of"s instead of prose like Esslemont's, whose withholding of such words makes his prose ambiguous and difficult to parse.

[Chance]

Sixty, on Mar 27 2009, 03:11 PM, said:

I just picked up The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and I'm about 70-80 pages in.

To be honest, I was disappointed...I guess it was overhyped from hearing about ridiculously good prose. Not as concise as I'd prefer, I suppose, but nowadays I dislike all prose I see, including my own. In fact, mostly with my own. But for some reason, I'm now in the habit of cringing every time I find an unnecessary "that" or "of". It's a curse, I'm afraid.

Don't judge the book by the first part...I'd say the part about his childhood is pretty much the worst part of the book

Not that its the best book ever or something like that but it is a very good debute...

/Chance...who is taking a stab at Prador Moon...

[kcf]

I finished up Foundling (Blood Monster Tattoo Book One) by D.M. Cornish last week and I finally got a review up. I really enjoyed it - definately a superb example of worldbuilding, but it doesn't sacrifice in story and characterization as often happens. Marketed as YA, it has cross-over appeal.

I'm currently reading Buyout by Alex Irvine as a change of pace.

[QuickTidal]

kcf, on Mar 27 2009, 05:16 PM, said:

I finished up Foundling (Blood Monster Tattoo Book One) by D.M. Cornish last week and I finally got a review up. I really enjoyed it - definately a superb example of worldbuilding, but it doesn't sacrifice in story and characterization as often happens. Marketed as YA, it has cross-over appeal.

Been wondering about giving this series a shot....

[Stalker]

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/Chance...who is taking a stab at Prador Moon...

Let me know about that one, I think it is the only book of Asher's that I don't have. Like his other stuff, The Skinner is great and the sequel, Voyage of the Sable Keech is very good so far.

[thewikkidone]

Finished Reading Black Company books of the North. Really enjoyed it. Reading WoT book 7, Crown of swords. Planned on finishing the series by november in time for the last book, looks like that plans out. Next up is the books of the South.

[Assail]

Midnight Tides. It's frustrating slow right now. Getting on my nerves actually lol.

[Eddie Dean]

Assail, on Mar 28 2009, 12:38 PM, said:

Midnight Tides. It's frustrating slow right now. Getting on my nerves actually lol.

I thought the parts with the Tisti Edur were pretty boring, but push on and the parts with Tehol and Bugg are awesome.

I just finished the first two Dresden novels. Not bad, but I'm hoping they get better as the series goes on.

[Mentalist]

oh, they do.
very much so.

[Stalker]

3 is good, 4 is great, 5 is greater, 6 is greaterer, 9 is fantastic, 10 is slightly less fantastic.

or something like that. Basically they get better and better.

[Dag]

I bought Hans Bemmann's "Stein und Flöte" ("The Stone and the Flute") as a birthday present for a friend recently, and... Well, I had to buy her another birthday present last week, because I can't part from that book anymore. I read it last time when I was still a kid, and was mightily impressed. I didn't dare touch it for years, afraid I might be less impressed by it as I grew older, but now I'm reading it again and I must say, it managed to impress me all over again. I already got Ms. I and Mr. B to read it, and they both loved it. If any of you have the opportunity to get your hands on the English translation - I would recommend it wholeheartedly.

Now, a brief warning for those of you who might want to look it up: I was quite surprised when I saw that Amazon.com quotes the Publishers Weekly review calling the book "a rather pallid allegorical journey to enlightenment along the lines of The Pilgrim's Progress" and "a would-be German Lord of the Rings". I don't think this description is justified - I don't think that Bemmann's intention while writing this story was to moralise or to smash readers' heads with didactic clubs wrapped in smooth and colourful paper of allegory. Neither was he attempting to write a monumental epic work as this review implies by comparing him to Tolkien (which is actually fairly obvious if one reads already the first few pages of the book, thus making my surprise about this review doubly unpleasant). The form Bemmann chose for his story - a-fairy-tale-bordering-on-classical-fable-all-packed-in-a-big-fat-novel - does in a way sound like an invitation to the reader to interpret a lot of deeper meaning into the rather plain and simple content, but, to those people seeking the answer to Life, Universe and Everything in every book they read, I'll just say - good luck with this one. (And don't trust every Amazon review... )

This post has been edited by Dag: 29 March 2009 - 01:11 PM

[Werthead]

Neal Asher's Shadow of the Scorpion.

Agent Cormac versus giant mecha-scorpion of death. Nice.

[Chance]

Stalker, on Mar 28 2009, 05:41 PM, said:

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/Chance...who is taking a stab at Prador Moon...

Let me know about that one, I think it is the only book of Asher's that I don't have. Like his other stuff, The Skinner is great and the sequel, Voyage of the Sable Keech is very good so far.

It felt lightweight...entire book written for the final scene/s which if you have read the cormac novels is so bloody obvious its sad...

Would have been a great novel if I read it before the cormac novels now it kinda was an introduction to the prador and a chance to see some of the events we have already heard about which detracts quite a bit from the enjoyment.

Lots of nice detail thought...

Eddie Dean, on Mar 28 2009, 06:51 PM, said:

I just finished the first two Dresden novels. Not bad, but I'm hoping they get better as the series goes on.

It gets better, people tend to point on the third or the fifth novel for where it gets really good I'm in the second camp

/Chance...who got lots to read but no damn time...

[Dr Trouble]

Use of Weapons - Ian M Banks

I actually mistook this for his first Culture novel when I started reading it. And I was already half way through before I realised. Luckily they are all apparently stand alone.

Fascinating book.

[murphy72]

Now reading Kay Kenyon's Bright of the Sky. An interesting take on crossing from one universe to another.