[Morgoth]

pat5150, on Apr 14 2009, 08:41 PM, said:

Just finished China Miéville's The City & The City and it's a very good read!

A great blend of murder mystery and speculative fiction that should appeal to most genre readers.

Check the blog for the full review.

Patrick

I find myself wondering whether it is wrong to hate you as much as I do, and then I read a post like this and find my hatred is justified

[Deornoth]

Finished reading Anthony Reynolds' 'Dark Disciple', a tale of the depredations of Chaos Space Marines in the Warhammer 40k universe. This is a book where you can tell how it's going to end but the fun is in getting there. Loads of heavy weaponry and alien scum bearing the brunt of it! My full review is over Here.
I'm now well into my ARC of 'Nights of Villjamur' and things are getting to be very good now. I think this one will be worth looking out for...

[Deornoth]

Finished reading 'Nights of Villjamur', a book that wears it's influences a little too obviously but makes up for this with a plots and characters that are totally engaging. There's something for everyone and the wait for the sequel starts here as far as I'm concerned. My full review is over Here.
I'm now starting on Robert Redick's 'The Red Wolf Conspiracy'...

[Deornoth]

I've just finished reading Tim Lebbon's 'The Fire Wolves' where things get a little too hot to handle for Hellboy on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius...
'The Fire Wolves' isn't the best place to start for some who hasn't read any 'Hellboy' before (me) but is still a story that's worth a look if you like your detective stories with a hefty chunk of the supernatural. My full review is over Here. I've got loads of books on the go this week, next up is Kage Baker's 'The Empress of Mars'...

[Deornoth]

I've finished reading Kage Baker's 'The Empress of Mars', a tale of colonists stranded on Mars and what they make of their situation... You can tell how this one is going to end but the fun is definitely in making the journey! A tight plot with characters who are a pleasure to get to know, my full review is over Here.
I'm now deep into Carrie Ryan's 'The Forest of Hands and Teeth'...

[Deornoth]

Just finished 'The Forest of Hands & Teeth', a search for love and meaning in a post apocalyptic world teeming with zombies (the Unconsecrated). 'Forest' leaves a lot of questions unanswered (not sure if this is the first in a series) but still easily held my attention with strong and interesting characters as well as plenty of zombies! My full review is over Here.
I was going to pick up 'Keeper of Light and Dust' (Natasha Mostert) next but picked up Robert Dunbar's 'The Shore', to check out the first couple of pages, and now I'm hooked...

[Eddie Dean]

About done with Dresden book 3. Series is starting to get really good.

[Salt-Man Z]

Digging into the second book of the second book of Zelazny's <I>Second Chronicles of Amber</I>. Not quite as good as the Corwin books, but still very very good.

[masan's saddle]

Ok, have just finished reading Paul Kearney's "The Ten Thousand" and the first "Black Company" novel by Glen Cook.

I thought the TT became slightly rushed towards the end, almost as if Kearney had marched the Macht half way around the world and then was pissed that they wanted to come home again. Good stand alone story though and I thought the battle scenes were well written. Whilst I got the whole Greco/Spartan ( Cue Gerard Butler " WE...ARE...THE...MACHT !!!") manly men thing, I do feel that having the protagonist (Rictus) as a moody, stoical, spartan type meant that Kearney needed to flesh out the accompanying cast a bit more than he did.

Loved the Black Company and can definatley see the influence it may have had on Erikson when he was writing about the Bridgeburners/ squad based shenanigans. There are similarities with personality traits ( Croaker reminds me of Fiddler) and the interaction and banter between the main characters is similar to that of a squad of malazan marines. That said though, there the similarity ends. A fun read, I believe I will continue the series.

I like this thread, i'd never even heard of Glen Cook !!! You people are putting far too many bookie temptations in my head !!!

[Chance]

re-reading the blade itself...damn these books are good

/Chance

[Werthead]

Now reading Use of Weapons. Halfway through, but so far it's stacking up as Banks' masterpiece. Truly a remarkable book.

[Stalker]

Just finished Simmon's The Fall of Hyperion, he does some good stuff and I really enjoyed the first two. He is really into his poets and playwright- Keats, Shakespeare, and many others. But it is interesting stuff.

Just started Jim Butcher's Furies of Calderon since the Dresden novels were so good. Decided to give this series a shot

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[Dr Trouble]

Werthead, on Apr 23 2009, 10:04 AM, said:

Now reading Use of Weapons. Halfway through, but so far it's stacking up as Banks' masterpiece. Truly a remarkable book.

I only just read this recently myself. It is superb.

Banks Cemented himself to me with that book. I have now ordered his complete works.

[Dark Wolf]

I finished a Romanian SF novel, "Abatia" (The Abbey) by Dan Dobos. I also reviewed the novel to show a glimpse of the Romanian speculative fiction. I liked this novel, it has interesting concepts and ideas and Dan Dobos proves to be a talented and imaginative author. The Romanian speculative fiction needs more such novels and authors. (my full review)

[Slum]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Deornoth]

Werthead, on Apr 23 2009, 03:04 AM, said:

Now reading Use of Weapons. Halfway through, but so far it's stacking up as Banks' masterpiece. Truly a remarkable book.

It's the best book he's done, no doubt about it

Finished reading an ARC of John Dunbar's 'The Shore' where something evil is on the prowl in the New Jersey town of Edgeharbor...
Dunbar does have a habit of not letting the background scenery keep up with the characters and this made for some infuriating re-reads. Other than that though, this book scared the life out of me! My full review is over Here.
I'm now deep into Natasha Mostert's 'Keeper of Light and Dust'...

[QuickTidal]

Just finished Toll The Hounds finally.....wow,without a doubt my least fave in the series so far. It was a struggle to get thorugh it. Good still ,but nowhere near as good as I wanted.

Currently reading The Druid Of Shannara by Terry Brooks.

[Astra]

Skywalker, on Apr 6 2009, 11:38 AM, said:

I heavily, HEAVILY recommend The Time Traveler's Wife... excellent mind-bending, bitter-sweet read. Takes all the tropes of time travel we are familiar with and bends them ever so slightly. Refreshing.

I just finished the book.
It was as you say bitter-sweet....although more bitter than sweet, sad book...no regrets about reading it but for me personally it was also wrong time to choose to read it because I started to read it when my wife went to see her parents and it was the first time for almost 7 years when we were separated longer than 12 hours (one whole week, managed to watch half of The 4400). Such incredible love and so full of emotions. I should not read books like that.

[Skywalker]

Hehe... I hear ya... at the risk of sounding emo, my wife's going away for a bit this May Day too... first time in the two years since we married.

It bodes well for me though because I'm simul-reading Cryptonomicon, The Judging Eye, and The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna (Umberto Eco). So cryptology/ world war II, a battle against the no-god, and a man with amnesia. I think I'm safe

[Mentalist]

last weekend whilst i was home, i found a copy of Vadim Panov's third "Enclaves" book--"Bonfires on the altars"

read it in one sitting. He really took the vague supernatural concepts of the first two books and ran with them in this one....and I liked it. The ending was a bit shocking, but overall a great book.

Once I'm done with my finals I will be looking into his first and much longer-running series "The hidden City"