[McLovin]

The Judging Eye by R. Scott Bakker - not far in, but so far, so good.

[Bauchelain the Evil]

Just started Bakker's Darkness that Came Before. I'm curious to see if I will be one of those who likes it or one of those who hates it.

[Aptorian]

The tenth book in Jim Butchers Dresden Files, Turn Coat: Seems a bit slower than I remember the books, but it is gooooood. So goooood.

[Mushroom]

Still plowing through the current list;

Orhan Pamuk My Name is Red

Gene Wolfe The Wizard (still!)

Michael Oren Power Faith and Fantasy: America in the middle east 1776-present Somewhat of a page-turner suprisingly

Larry Kolb Overworld: The life of reluctant spy

David Christian Maps of time: An introduction to big history Also a decent page turner

Edward Said Covering Islam

Stephen Pinker The Language Instinct

Paul Kennedy Parliment of Man

Cormac Mcarthy The Road (fantastic book)


Thats pretty much it at the moment.

[Macros]

Just starting "the name of the wind"
only about 25/20 pages in, I'm interested enugh to carry on, so it bodes well

[Aptorian]

Macros, on Apr 5 2009, 08:23 PM, said:

Just starting "the name of the wind"
only about 25/20 pages in, I'm interested enugh to carry on, so it bodes well

I bought that one along with Turn Coat. Next on my read list. The blurb on the back of the book sold the story for me.

[Skywalker]

After a long (loooooooong) drought I'm finally reading again because work gives me some breathing space (between 9 PM and 3 AM - ha!). I always chew on multiple books at a time, so this time picked two that are different enough to not have ANY thematic overlap, yet stimulating enough to go together:

Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - very intriguing plot, and I love Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose, but I must admit it was the illustrations that drew me in...

Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon - this is for me one of those books you keep meaning to read but never get around to. So, yeah... finally.

[Astra]

Yesterday, I finished Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb, Liveship Traders, Book 3.

Fantastic series. One of those that you cannot put down.
It was a re-read after 7 years since the first time I read it and before I read Tawny Man Trilogy.
No regrets about re-reading Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies. Brilliant books.
I think Hobb is now firmly on a third place in my top any-number list.

I am going to read a few stand alone books before I read Tawny Man.


Cannot decide which one to read though...
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
or
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak...
or maybe
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
?

This post has been edited by Astra: 06 April 2009 - 10:32 AM

[Skywalker]

Astra, on Apr 6 2009, 04:00 PM, said:

(snip)
Cannot decide which one to read though...
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
or
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak...
or maybe
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
?

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 am reading Cryptonomicon myself, and just a few chapters in, it looks very promising.

[alestar]

Finished "The Bonehunters" last night, decided to stretch the series by reading a book or two before tucking into "The Reaper's Gale".

2 chapters into Andrew Davidson's "The Gargoyle", so far so good...

Probably read Joe Abercrombie's "The Blade Itself" next, then TRG

[Sixty]

I got about 50-60 pages into The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker and just kinda lost interest...I'll get around to finishing it, but not before:
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, fantastic book...colorful dialogue and a unique premise.

That and Kenneth Robert's Oliver Shitswell, which is for school. Which I cannot bring myself to read more than 10 pages at a time in the interest of staying awake.

[kcf]

I finished up The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks. My feelings are mixed - it's a readable epic fantasy and I'll certainly read the sequels, but it seemed more uneven than many of the recent debuts that have received similar buzz. At times it read a bit too much like fan-fic. (full review)

Next up is World's End (Age of Misrule) by Mark Chadbourn.

[Deornoth]

I've finished reading C.L. Werner's 'Blood for the Blood God', a Warhammer tie-in tale of revenge on the edges of the Chaos Wastes...
It's a fun read but it's repetitive structure can make things drag... My full review is over Here.
I'm now reading Matthew Sturges' 'Midwinter'...

[Zhuangzi]

Aptorian, on Apr 5 2009, 11:25 AM, said:

Macros, on Apr 5 2009, 08:23 PM, said:

Just starting "the name of the wind"
only about 25/20 pages in, I'm interested enugh to carry on, so it bodes well

I bought that one along with Turn Coat. Next on my read list. The blurb on the back of the book sold the story for me.

Name of the Wind is excellent, you'll love it. I'm waiting for my autographed copy of Turn Coat to come in the mail before I get to it.

Right now reading The Judging Eye. Its freaky and hard to put down. Got in trouble sneaking reads while at work... ;-)

[QuickTidal]

Turn Coat - Jim Butcher

[Fist Gamet]

Skywalker, on Apr 6 2009, 07:22 AM, said:

After a long (loooooooong) drought I'm finally reading again because work gives me some breathing space (between 9 PM and 3 AM - ha!). I always chew on multiple books at a time, so this time picked two that are different enough to not have ANY thematic overlap, yet stimulating enough to go together:

Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - very intriguing plot, and I love Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose, but I must admit it was the illustrations that drew me in...

Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon - this is for me one of those books you keep meaning to read but never get around to. So, yeah... finally.

Yeah, Cryptonomicon has been one of those books for me too, just keep finding something else to read instead. One day...one day...

Anyhoo, almost finished Dune now...

[stone monkey]

Cryptonimicon is way cool. Neal kindly signed my battered copy last year on his tour for Anathem.

I'm currently wading through The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, and I fear I shall be at it for quite a time to come. I'm finding it a little impenetrable at the moment.

I'm also doing The Romance of the Rose by Guiilaume de Lorris & Jean de Meun, which is less of a chore; but still not easy going.

I also have Flight of the Nighthawks by Raymond Feist, which was lent to me by one of my oldest friends in a fit of apparent cruelty. His words were "This is a shit book which you might actually read!" He told me that when he bought the trilogy, the girl who served him at Waterstones looked at him as if he were mad and he then felt he actually needed to explain himself to her by pointing out to her that he's been reading Feist since he was fifteen and hasn't managed to shake the habit in the intervening 24 years.

[Zhuangzi]

stone monkey, on Apr 9 2009, 09:53 AM, said:

I also have Flight of the Nighthawks by Raymond Feist, which was lent to me by one of my oldest friends in a fit of apparent cruelty. His words were "This is a shit book which you might actually read!" He told me that when he bought the trilogy, the girl who served him at Waterstones looked at him as if he were mad and he then felt he actually needed to explain himself to her by pointing out to her that he's been reading Feist since he was fifteen and hasn't managed to shake the habit in the intervening 24 years.

Interesting - thats my problem too!! I keep expecting the level to rise back to the level of Magician, Silverthorn, King's Buccaneer, etc.

I think his problem is he's run out of original characters - He's still dealing with Jimmy the Hand's great grandson's like they're the original!

[Stalker]

Hmmm, well I am reading:

Virgil's The Aeneid for a class, it's good but I enjoy Homer's stuff more.

Neil Asher- The Voyage of the Sable Keech, to finish my read through of most of his works, everything I've read has been great so far.

and Turn Coat is in the mail! Which I want now, or three days ago.

[Slum]

Zakes Mda - Ways of Dying