[teholbeddict]

I'm currently reading the second of Butcher's Codex Alera series, Academ's Fury. I'm about half way through and I must say I am really enjoying it. It grabbed my attention right from the beginning of the book and has kept up a good pace. This is a relief actually, as I found the first book to be a bit slow, and quite boring. Thankfully several people told me to stick with the series, as the books got much better after Furries of Calderon. This has definitely held true, and if the rest of the series continues on in the vein of this second book, I think I will be in for a real treat. I imagine I am going to tear through this series much the same way I tore through the Dresden Files. Butcher is quickly working his way up my favourite author's list. It's just a shame I put off reading his work for so long.

[Eddie Dean]

I finished Academ's Fury a couple of weeks ago. I've got book 4 and on, but the I'm waiting on the libarary to get book 3. I'm having withdrawls from my Butcher addiction and its making me grumpy.

[teholbeddict]

Eddie Dean, on Jul 2 2009, 11:40 AM, said:

I finished Academ's Fury a couple of weeks ago. I've got book 4 and on, but the I'm waiting on the libarary to get book 3. I'm having withdrawls from my Butcher addiction and its making me grumpy.

It's situations like yours that make me loathe taking anything out of the library. I just buy all of my books. It's bad enough waiting for the book store to get something in if it's out of stock. The last thing I want to be doing is waiting for someone else to be done reading something so that I can then borrow it. Plus I collect books, so owning something is always a preference for me.

My Butcher addiction is likely as bad as yours, so I definitely feel for you Eddie dear! I tore all the way through Dresden and went straight to Codex, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with myself when I'm done reading the series. Butcher's books are more addictive than crack!

[Thelomen Toblerone]

I've just finished Gulliver's Travels. Had seen the TV adaptations and all that, but it struck me I'd never actually read the book, so I borrowed it and I wasnt disappointed, I thought it was bloody brilliant, really enjoyed it.

Tonight, I start RotCG, at long long looooooooong last.

[caladanbrood]

Thank god, I have finally gritted my teeth and battled through Steel Remains read the final 6 chapters today. Bleugh, I am totally unimpressed. It got better towards the end, but really, he should stick to sci-fi I reckon. I managed to persuade a friend to buy Black Man today, even though I'm disillusioned...

Gonna re-read RotCG as a pick-me-up off the back fo that.

[Salt-Man Z]

I'm about halfway through Karen Traviss' Matriarch, the fourth book in her excellent Wess'har Wars series. This book is still very good, but the pace seems to have slowed considerably since the first book. Two and a half books to go.

(I feel torn: on the one hand, I think Lucasfilm should just hand all of the Star Wars novel duties to Traviss and Matt Stover, but at the same time I'd prefer to see more "original" fiction from both of them. Is that selfish? )

Next up? Either Return of the Crimson Guard or giving Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy a try. I haven't decided yet.

[thewikkidone]

Reading Wild Cards volume 3, aces high. decided to order these off e-bay and give them a shot, so far very very good. Hopefully the whole series stays this way.

[Apsalar]

At the moment I'm going through as much Cthulu Mythos as I can. When I get tired I will continue reading Neil Gaimen's Don't Panic. I have mild obsessions with Neil Gaimen and Douglas Adams.

[Deornoth]

Finished reading Jasper Bark's 'Way of the Barefoot Zombie' where a course to 'unleash your inner zombie' becomes a lot more to the Voodoo priestess and Zombie Liberation Front agents caught up in it. I loved the concept, and characterisation, but Bark's insistence on having to explain everything to the readers really took the edge off what he was trying to say as well as slowing things down when they should have been speeding up... My full review is over Here. I'm now reading 'Through Violet Eyes' by Stephen Woodworth...

[murphy72]

At the moment I'm reading Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith. It has some wonderful moments of dark humor in it like the story of the American tourist visiting his native village in Russia. He drops dead and the villagers put his body in the communal refrigerator and send word to Moscow. They say to leave the body there until they get the proper forms to fill out. The forms never show up and the villagers get tired of trying to fit things on the man's lap so they get in a truck, load up the body, take it to Moscow and dump it on the steps of the police department. Smith says it better.

[Illuyankas]

Three I bought the other day and will be reading shortly: Richard Morgan's Black Man, Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora (finally) and one book I saw on the shelf and had to buy, Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Should be fun.

[Yellow]

I got about twenty pages into Pride & Zombies. Really couldn't be arsed with it. It wasn't funny and it wasn't particularly witty. Zombies just tended to turn up and eat people and that was about it.

Of course, I've never read Pride and Prejudice, so I don't know whether the lack of funny came from Grahame-Smith or because it stuck so close to the original. The blurb on the back was very good though

[Illuyankas]

There's an illustration with ninjas in there, so it might be terrible. But I had no choice, the title compelled me to buy it.

[Yellow]

The front cover is cool as well I think I'm going to give it to a friend of mine who loves Jane Austen. Whether or not she loves it/throws it in the bin, is up to her.

[teholbeddict]

I've just finished reading Jim Butcher's Academ's Fury. It was far, far, better than Furies of Calderon. I must say I could have done without the whole Vord story line though. It didn't seem to fit in very well with the rest of what was going on. It was very out of place, and almost had a bit of a sci-fi element to it, which I am not really a fan of. I couldn't get enough of the multiple story lines happening within the capital though. Butcher is doing a really good job of merging the various races and weaving the story lines together. The other thing I could have done without was the whole conflicted love and duty bit, it didn't add anything to the book. I struggled not to skip over those portions as they were going nowhere and just seemed to be a major interruption of the best parts of the book. Overall a fantastic book. Take away the vord and the conflicted love bit and it would be absolutely perfect. I've jumped right into book three and already it looks to be like a great read.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Reading Night of Knives...and it is fairly slow. But the Y'Ghatan nightmare was sweet.

I also went and bought Robert Jordan's Eye of the World, Whitechapel Gods and something else. Gonna read them next.

[Shinrei]

Reading Foucault's Pendulum right now.

Mr. Brown should be giving a portion of his fortune to Mr. Eco.

[stone monkey]

All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka

[alestar]

Reading Simon Kernick's "A Good Day to Die"...love his writing style.

[Use Of Weapons]

I read Maria Snyder's _Magic Study_ at the weekend. Gak, I'd forgotten how terrible _Poison Study_ was. Won't be reading her again.

Fortunately, _Cursor's Fury_ made it all better