[DarkGothicGirl]

Reading Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.

[Deornoth]

I've just finished reading 'Busted Flush', the latest 'Wild Cards' collection. It's definitely an entertaining read (and I'm eager for the next book) but I thought elements of the plot didn't gel particularly well and the book suffered from 'too many superheroes' syndrome... My full review is over Here.
I'm now finishing off Justin Gustainis' 'Evil Ways' and have started on Daniel Fox's 'Dragon in Chains'...

[Camel]

I just started "House and Philosophy", a series of essays comparing Dr. Gregory House's philosophy with various philosophical ideologies, including, but not limited to, Zen and Daoism.

Pretty neat stuff.

[Sixty]

With regard to Black Company, I personally skipped Silver Spike and instead read through the main plot; I thought it was pretty entertaining a read.

I just finished Anathem by Neal Stephenson the other day. Great book, but some of the metaphysics and whatnot get fairly long-winded, not to mention a head-scratching dimension jump about half a dozen times at the end. Otherwise, an interesting book.

[no_survivors]

I am about half way through Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich. Pretty interesting so far.

[Salt-Man Z]

Reading Gemmell's Legend now, since everyone here seemed to like it. Good so far. I like Rek.

[HoosierDaddy]

Just received Night of Knives.

[Deornoth]

Finished Justin Gustainis' 'Evil Ways', a decent urban fantasy tale (who's murdering children for their bodyparts and how is this connected to white witches being murdered?) that was let down, for me, by the authors choosing to just tell the tale instead of letting the readers really get to know the characters as well. My full review is over Here.
I'm now reading David Devereux' 'Eagle Rising' as well as getting well into 'Dragon in Chains'...

[Varunwe]

Night of Knives Although I'm not going very fast now that I only read in the weekends

[Bauchelain the Evil]

Finished A Feat for Crows. I didn't find it so horrble as lots of people said it was altough I do agree that some of the POV weren't necessary and that it wasn't as good as the rest of the series.

[Terez]

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Everyone keeps recommending it so I finally bought it and started it last night.

[Mushroom]

@ Terez..

I recently finished his book Collapse. That one was a little better. If a little scary too. His style of narrative can be little dry at times though. But its still a fairly easy read on the whole

I am currently still reading The Wizard by Gene Wolfe and just started The Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis

[Slum]

Terez, on Jan 23 2009, 05:24 AM, said:

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Everyone keeps recommending it so I finally bought it and started it last night.

I've been recommended that book about a million times...maybe one day I'll actually read it.


Reading Badlands by Richard Montanari. A compulsively readable serial killer/police procedural/thriller. So frikkin' twisted....had me up half the night.

[Terez]

Mushroom, on Jan 23 2009, 05:19 AM, said:

His style of narrative can be little dry at times though.

I had noticed that. But I'm hoping the subject matter is interesting enough to make it readable.

@Slum, I have also been recommended it a billion times, so I figured I'd finally read it.

[Morgoth]

Guns Germs and Steel is certainly an interesting read, and I am happy about having read it through. Still, yes, when I read outside of my law books, I don't want academic language unfortunately. Perhaps that'll change once I'm done with my masters.

Atm I'm reading Thunderer by Felix Gilman. I'd never heard of neither the book nor the author, but I noticed that Jeff Vandermeer like it so naturally I had to buy it.. I must say I'm on and off as to whether I really like it. Parts of the book are quite clumsy while others quite brilliant. It's a book based around a city much reminiscent of New Cruzbon, Ambergris, or perhaps even closer to Deepgate –though the city does not rest on chains above the abyss . The characters are not in my opinion very compelling so far, but the city itself is quite intriguing. Not to mention there's a lot of good minor characters.

I dunno yet whether I'll read Cog City, the sequel.. It all depends on the last hundred pages I think

[Astra]

A couple of days ago I finished Royal Assassin and 1/10 into Assiassin's Quest, by Robin Hobb.

It is a re-read. I read the Farseer trilogy in 2001 and decided to re-read it before I start Tawny Man trilogy.

I absolutely love it. It is even better than I remembered it. Cannot stop reading. Very sad though Fitz has a really brutal and convoluted life. Too many difficult choices to make...

[Deornoth]

I took a break from 'Dragon in Chains' to read David Gemmell's 'The Last Guardian', the continuing tales of the gunman Jon Shannow's quest through a post apocalyptic future earth. 'The Last Guardian' wears it's influences a little too obviously for me to be completely comfortable with it but was still a tale that had me completely gripped. Plenty going on and plenty to think about. My full review is over Here.
I'm now back into 'Dragon in Chains'...

[ch'arlz]

Morgoth, on Jan 23 2009, 09:32 AM, said:

Atm I'm reading Thunderer by Felix Gilman. I'd never heard of neither the book nor the author,
I dunno yet whether I'll read Cog City, the sequel.. It all depends on the last hundred pages I think

_Thunderer_ was one of my favorite finds of last year. The sequel in the US is titled _Gears of the City_. I'm about halfway through and it's waaay weirder but still fascinating in its own right. Gilman has an amazing imagination, but unlike Vandermeer he's more believably surreal, if that makes any sense.

[Morgoth]

ch'arlz, on Jan 23 2009, 06:43 PM, said:

Morgoth, on Jan 23 2009, 09:32 AM, said:

Atm I'm reading Thunderer by Felix Gilman. I'd never heard of neither the book nor the author,
I dunno yet whether I'll read Cog City, the sequel.. It all depends on the last hundred pages I think

_Thunderer_ was one of my favorite finds of last year. The sequel in the US is titled _Gears of the City_. I'm about halfway through and it's waaay weirder but still fascinating in its own right. Gilman has an amazing imagination, but unlike Vandermeer he's more believably surreal, if that makes any sense.

City of Saints and Madmen is probably my favourite book in the sub-genre that encompases such books as Perdido Street Station, Thunderer and so on.. so no . But yeah, Gears of the City is the title, I must've remembered it wrong. I finished the book and it was interesting, though it almost felt a bit rushed at the very end.. I'll probably wait for GotC to come out in paperback before I buy it.

[Stalker]

I'm working on the Iliad for one of my classes.

Also reading- Red Seas over Red Skies- Scott Lynch