[King Bear]

Old Man's War

[Mentalist]

Finished "Stormlord rising", by Glenda Larke.

it was all right, the stroy develops, some more worldbuilding. Feels like the last volume will be somewhat disconnected though, as there's been a decent amount of closure already.

then started volume 2 of coldfire, realised I need to re-read volume 1. So, reading "Black Sun Rising" again.

[Astra]

Today I finished Deadhouse Gates [The Malazan Book of the Fallen #2] by Steven Erikson

Brilliant characters. Tons of unexpected moments and twists in the plot. Impossible to say which is good and bad side. No clear definition. The line is blurred.
Once again, the scope of the world is mind boggling.

9.5 /10
0.5 star off because too many details for each battle. Not the gore part but the actual technical details. I would settle for more general approach to the battles.
Otherwise fantastic book.

[amphibian]

Astra, on 11 June 2011 - 07:58 PM, said:

Today I finished Deadhouse Gates [The Malazan Book of the Fallen #2] by Steven Erikson

Brilliant characters. Tons of unexpected moments and twists in the plot. Impossible to say which is good and bad side. No clear definition. The line is blurred.
Once again, the scope of the world is mind boggling.

9.5 /10
0.5 star off because too many details for each battle. Not the gore part but the actual technical details. I would settle for more general approach to the battles.
Otherwise fantastic book.

It only gets better. Keep going and keep enjoyin 'em.

[King Bear]

Astra, on 11 June 2011 - 07:58 PM, said:

Today I finished Deadhouse Gates [The Malazan Book of the Fallen #2] by Steven Erikson

Brilliant characters. Tons of unexpected moments and twists in the plot. Impossible to say which is good and bad side. No clear definition. The line is blurred.
Once again, the scope of the world is mind boggling.

9.5 /10
0.5 star off because too many details for each battle. Not the gore part but the actual technical details. I would settle for more general approach to the battles.
Otherwise fantastic book.

I'm glad that you're enjoying them! Memories of Ice is even better IMO.

[Astra]

Reading Crimson Sails (or Scarlet Sails) by Alexander Grin
I have read an attractive review and decided to give it a shot.

[ansible]

Just finished Inverted World by Christopher Priest and started Mieville's Perdido Street Station.

[Baco Xpuch]

I'm about 200 pgs into Embassytown. Great fun this. Mieville really has quite the imagination. Before that, read Etched City by K. J. Bishop; good stuff. Next up, Pushing Ice.

[Use Of Weapons]

Finished Daniel Coyle's _The Talent Code_ over the weekend, and started _Bounce_ by Matthew Syed (gold medallist table-tennis player), though it seems to be a précis of TTC without the science.

Also started the 3rd book in my classic novels series, Fyodor Dostoevsky's _Crime And Punishment_. Wish me luck! Am hoping to have caught up on my schedule for this resolution by the end of the month

[Illuyankas]

Started Robopocalypse by Max Brooks Daniel H. Wilson. Not too bad, so far, even if the dialogue is a little off.

[King Bear]

The Dragon Never Sleeps

[QuickTidal]

Illuyankas, on 13 June 2011 - 12:41 PM, said:

Started Robopocalypse by Max Brooks Daniel H. Wilson. Not too bad, so far, even if the dialogue is a little off.

Yeah, there are a few moments of slightly off dialogue, I agree. Not hampering my enjoyment though. I'm about halfway through now and still enjoy it as much as I was in the first few pages.

Glad you picked it up Illy.

[End of Disc One]

Reading both White Night and Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher. I'm trying to spread the Dresden out a bit so that I won't have to wait a full year for Cold Days like the rest of you sorry addicts.

[D'iversify]

jitsukerr, on 13 June 2011 - 09:53 AM, said:

Also started the 3rd book in my classic novels series, Fyodor Dostoevsky's _Crime And Punishment_. Wish me luck! Am hoping to have caught up on my schedule for this resolution by the end of the month

Great book, what are the other classics you're planning to read/have read?

Most of the way through The Darkness That Comes Before, glad to have finally started Bakker (have had the Prince of Nothing trilogy on my person for about a year now but have had too many other things to do to start it).

[Illuyankas]

Finished Robopocalypse. Not the most substantial read in the world, the little pre-chapter summaries were too in-chapter content heavy (this is what's going to happen in just enough detail to prevent any surprises) and the post-chapter summaries condensed far, far too much storyline into a paragraph (this is the other half of the cool shit I will tell you about instead of showing you because I like to weaken my novels). There were also a few things I felt were off enough to pull me out:

Spoiler

A magic fourteen year old girl? An angry hacker manchild? A fantastically powerful AI being that rubbish at basic defense, robot construction and using all those spy satellites it had access to, let alone remote-piloted bombers? A singing robot wife? Really?

Luckily, the things it did right were pretty awesome and I'm going to look forward to the movie.

Spoiler

Some scenes of Zero Hour's planerain and the extension of the fate of Tyberius will look great onscreen

However £13 for a book I finished in an afternoon is too much, so unless you're in a massive rush just wait for the paperback and reread World War Z with all the uses of the word zombie and related synonyms replaced with robot to fill the gap.

[Abyss]

Now reading BLACK ORDER, Rollins' third Sigma Force novel. Good fun thus far.

Mentalist, on 11 June 2011 - 05:26 PM, said:

...started volume 2 of coldfire, realised I need to re-read volume 1. So, reading "Black Sun Rising" again.

heh. Same thing happened to me. And then again when the final book was released. That series is complicated and almost as rewarding on the reread as an SE novel.

amphibian, on 11 June 2011 - 09:40 PM, said:

Astra, on 11 June 2011 - 07:58 PM, said:

Today I finished Deadhouse Gates ...

It only gets better. Keep going and keep enjoyin 'em.

Future Warrior, on 12 June 2011 - 05:26 AM, said:

...I'm glad that you're enjoying them! Memories of Ice is even better IMO.

Thirded. I actually envy you for waht you're about to read for the first time.

Illuyankas, on 13 June 2011 - 12:41 PM, said:

Started Robopocalypse by Max Brooks Daniel H. Wilson. ...

This only makes me want to read it more.

End of Disc One, on 13 June 2011 - 02:29 PM, said:

Reading both White Night and Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher. I'm trying to spread the Dresden out a bit so that I won't have to wait a full year for Cold Days like the rest of you sorry addicts.

Die.

- Abyss, trying to hide the twitching.

[Use Of Weapons]

D, on 13 June 2011 - 02:48 PM, said:

Great book, what are the other classics you're planning to read/have read?

1. Charles Dickens -- _Great Expectations_
2. Mikhail Bulgakov -- _The Master And Margarita_
3. Fyodor Dostoevsky -- _Crime And Punishment_


I've not decided on an order after that, but I have Bram Stoker's _Dracula_ and Oscar Wilde's _The Picture Of Dorian Grey_ purchased and waiting. I sent out a request for suggestions on FB in January, and got loads back. I'm restricting myself to one book per author, so the likely candidates after the Wilde include:

Alexandre Dumas -- _The Count Of Monte Cristo_ or _The Three Musketeers_
John Kennedy Toole -- _A Confederacy Of Dunces_
Evelyn Waugh -- _Decline And Fall_
Jane Austen -- _Emma_
John Steinbeck -- _Grapes Of Wrath_ or _Of Mice And Men_
Voltaire -- _Candide, ou l'Optimisme_
Emily Bronte -- _Wuthering Heights_
Mark Twain -- _Huckleberry Finn_
William Makepeace Thackeray -- _Vanity Fair_
Graham Greene -- _The Power And The Glory_ or _Monsignor Quixote_
Robert Louis Stephenson -- _Treasure Island_

I'll probably carry on this resolution next year, given that I have too many suggestions to fit in this year alone (if I stick to my 1 book a month schedule).

[McLovin]

A rarity, I am reading two fiction books at the same time:

ACOK, to continue my re-read of ASOIAF in anticipation of ADWD.

Since I won't take ASOIAF on the train, my commute book is Storm Front by Jim Butcher. About 2/3 through it. There's definite room for improvement, but a solid, entertaining read.

[Slow Ben]

McLovin, on 14 June 2011 - 04:42 PM, said:

Since I won't take ASOIAF on the train, my commute book is Storm Front by Jim Butcher. About 2/3 through it. There's definite room for improvement, but a solid, entertaining read.

Just started Dresden?!?!?

You lucky...lucky bastard....

[QuickTidal]

McLovin, on 14 June 2011 - 04:42 PM, said:

A rarity, I am reading two fiction books at the same time:

ACOK, to continue my re-read of ASOIAF in anticipation of ADWD.

Since I won't take ASOIAF on the train, my commute book is Storm Front by Jim Butcher. About 2/3 through it. There's definite room for improvement, but a solid, entertaining read.

Oh man, that's like having Awesome Cake at home, and portable bacon cake for the train. Awesome!