[Use Of Weapons]

Finished my Malaz reread in time for DoD. But now my To Read pile consists of only Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics', which I'm putting off. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Plus, am finding it really hard to get hold of Brandon Sanderson or Matt Stover novels :-(

[Deornoth]

Finished reading Chris Wooding's 'Retribution Falls', a tale of the pirate airship 'Ketty Jay' and the attempts of her crew to escape the bounty that her captain has inadvertently put on their heads. I really enjoyed reading about the exploits of the 'Ketty Jay' but the 'pulp format' and sparse world building (in places) took the shine off things a little bit. My full review is over Here. I'm now finishing off Tim Waggoner's 'Nekropolis' and Judith Tarr's 'Bring down the Sun'...

[Riot]

Half way through Best Served Cold by Joe Abercombie, then on to Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton

[murphy72]

jitsukerr, on Jun 23 2009, 05:40 AM, said:

Finished my Malaz reread in time for DoD. But now my To Read pile consists of only Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics', which I'm putting off. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Plus, am finding it really hard to get hold of Brandon Sanderson or Matt Stover novels :-(

Amazon UK is your friend. They have all the Sanderson books. I thought Warbreaker was his best so far.


In the midst of reading The Nights of Villjamur (Mark Charon Newton). Intriguing story so far.

This post has been edited by murphy72: 23 June 2009 - 09:46 PM

[Salt-Man Z]

jitsukerr, on Jun 23 2009, 07:40 AM, said:

Plus, am finding it really hard to get hold of Brandon Sanderson or Matt Stover novels :-(

What Stover stuff are you looking for?

[Deornoth]

Salt-Man Z, on Jun 24 2009, 04:19 PM, said:

jitsukerr, on Jun 23 2009, 07:40 AM, said:

Plus, am finding it really hard to get hold of Brandon Sanderson or Matt Stover novels :-(

What Stover stuff are you looking for?

I still can't find a copy of 'Blade of Tyshalle'...

Finished reading Tim Waggoner's 'Nekropolis' where a zombie private eye has to save his city as well as stop bits of him falling off... I liked the concept, and it's a solid enjoyable read, but things got a bit too predictable at times and I wasn't too sure about the cityscape was utilised over the course of the book. My full review is over Here. I'm now finishing off 'Bring down the Sun'...

[Macros]

hmm, just finished the first chonicles of the black company a few days ago.

I enjoyed them the whole way through, but am I the only one that felt, for all three, the endings felt very rushed, like RG rushed, after a great build up?

[Salt-Man Z]

I think that's very much Cook's style, though--at least in the Black Company books. He puts more emphasis on the characters hunkering down waiting for the next battle, or trudging from one town to the next, than he does on the actual battles themselves. He likes to keep the focus in tight, I think; the big all-out epic climax is just too "big picture"--not the kind of scope he's trying to achieve.

[Dark Wolf]

I finished David Moody's "Hater". It is a very good novel and hooked pretty well. Also the scenario is so realistic that is quite scary to really think of it. And since the book is scheduled to be turned into a movie with Guillermo del Toro as producer and Juan Antonio Bayona as director I can wait to see how it will turn out. I've posted my full review today.

[Astra]

Just finished The Last Argument of Kings...

Mixed feelings.
Definitely it is not worth re-reading, otherwise it would be like Logen, pissing into the wind. Real life is depressing enough, why make it worse?
I didn't expect a happy ending, but everything, absolutely everything to be bad? While you have to be realistic is a good motto, the ending is not realistic because life is shit and people do not change is overplayed.

I believe the story is not finished. I am sure, there will be at least one more trilogy. I know, I will give it a try. But if it ends up like this one, it will be the last for me.
I am unsure between rating it 6 or 8 out of 10.

Next book is going to be either Fevre Dreams(the first book by G. Martin for me) ot Neverwhere (the second and maybe the last chance for Gaiman).

[Deornoth]

Finished reading 'Bring Down the Sun' (Judith Tarr), a historical fantasy retelling the story of Alexander the Great's mother. It's a little too linear and singleminded in it's approach but I still found that I couldn't put it down until I'd finished. My full review is over Here. I'm now well into Robert Buettner's 'Orphan's Triumph'.

[Deornoth]

Finished reading Robert Buettner's 'Orphan's Triumph', the last installment of mankind's battle against alien slugs (those pesky alien slugs...) as seen through the eyes of Jason Wander. It's a very entertaining read but was let down by choppy pacing and a sense that things were contrived to have Jason in the right place at the right time... My full review is over Here. Next up is 'The Best of Michael Moorcock'.

[pat5150]

Just finished Brian Ruckley's Fall of Thanes. Dark, bloody, unforgiving, with what could likely be the largest body count of major characters in the history of the genre, this book is a great conclusion to one of the very best fantasy series of the new millennium.

Check the blog for the full review.

Patrick

[coltainereborn]

Macros, on Jun 24 2009, 04:59 PM, said:

hmm, just finished the first chonicles of the black company a few days ago.

I enjoyed them the whole way through, but am I the only one that felt, for all three, the endings felt very rushed, like RG rushed, after a great build up?

Also remember he might have been writing them against a deadline, they were originally all seperate novels, which is why I thought some of the endings were.. abrupt?

but just started reading The Tyranny of Night, only a couple of chapters in but it seems pretty different from the Black Company books

[kcf]

I finished Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie a few days ago. It was good and fun, but it also dragged a bit and I couldn't help but be a bit underwhelmed by a feeling of 'more of the same' (full review).

I'm now reading Tides from the New Worlds by Tobias Buckell - a beautiful edition from Wyrm books.

[Astra]

kcf, on Jun 29 2009, 08:37 PM, said:

I finished Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie a few days ago. It was good and fun, but it also dragged a bit and I couldn't help but be a bit underwhelmed by a feeling of 'more of the same' (full review).

More of the same in what sense?
As if a book is repeating itself or it is repeating The First Law?

[Obdigore]

Was at B&N today and grabbed

'Blood of Elves' by Sapkowski - since that is the only one I have seen since I got the witcher like 2 months ago.
Also picked up
'Warbreaker' by Sanderson (In hardcover, I hope its good)
and 'The Thousandfold Thought' by Bakker - just because I need closure. I doubt I will be re-reading this series, but meh.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Reading 'Got Fight' by Forrest Griffin.

I've actually laughed out loud on the train and in the office at lunchtime reading it.
Damn funny.

[Grimjust Bearegular]

Finished my reread of Harry Potter 6 yesterday, took me two days. Needed to refresh my memory since the movie's coming up.


Reading currently:

The Air Castle that Exploded

Memories of Ice

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

[Riot]

God of Clocks by Alan Campbell. book 3 of the deepgate codex. enjoying the vision of hell and john anchor storming through it