[caladanbrood]

 

masan, on 20 November 2009 - 12:18 AM, said:

I just hope LAoK doesn't disappoint.

It shouldn't. Most people tend to agree that the third book is the best of the lot

[Deornoth]

Finished reading Sarah Pinborough's 'Feeding Ground', a tale of people trying to escape a London overrun by giant spiders... If you blink then you might end up missing the climactic scenes but 'Feeding Ground' is a book that still managed to scare the...erm... stuff out of me. My full review is over Here. I seem to have come out without a book to read on the way home so no idea what I'll be reading next...

[Salk Elan]

Just startet Brent Weeks' Beyond the Shadows. Really enjoyed the first part, but the second was rather dissapointing... too much sappy heartbreak in it for my taste. But as the second part of a trilogy often seems to be the weakest, I haven't already given up all hope for the third now.

[Obdigore]

Picked up 'The Reality Dysfunction' by Peter Hamilton, off of Wert's review.

Enjoy it so far. Very info-dump heavy, but hey, I enjoy that kind of thing.

[caladanbrood]

If you like Hamilton, you've got plenty of reading ahead of you! After Night's Dawn, check out the Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained books, and the Void ones too They're all doorstops, so it'll take a while!

[Fist Gamet]

Just finished the brilliant River of Gods and have started Millenium - Tom Holland (I loved Rubicon and Persian Fire)

[Use Of Weapons]

Went to Forbidden Planet to see if they had Butcher's _First Lord's Fury_ yet. No joy, but I did pick up:

Brandon Sanderson: _The Final Empire_ (Mistborn 1)
Michelle Sagara West: _Cast in Shadow_

Am enjoying Final Empire very much so far!

[Deornoth]

Finished reading Greg Keyes' 'The Infernal City', first of two books based on the 'Elder Scrolls' computer game. This is definitely one for fans of the game, I've never seen the game and the lack of background information in the book meant it took me a while to really get into it. It also reads like half a book with characters and events very much being moved into place for Book Two... Decent characterisation, and some good cliff hanger moments, mean that I will be back for the next book though. My full review is over Here. I'm now well into 'The Resurrectionist' by Wrath James White...

[Pilgrim]

Reading "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Prachett atm, and it's pretty good. Definitely more entertaining than the prior "witches" book I just finished "Witches Abroad." So far though, these are my least favorite of all the Prachett books.

[lobo the wolfman]

Desided to give Morgan another try so I read Black Man ( or 13 in some places) and thought it was pretty fucking cool. I am now most of my way though the Steel Remains, and again it's surprisely good. Next up is Neal Asher's Gridlinked and Line of Polity.

Might have to give Altered Carbon another try again........ maybe.........

[Deornoth]

Finished reading Wrath James White's 'The Resurrectionist', a tale of what can happen when healing powers are placed in completely the wrong hands... This is a nasty slice of horror that got under my skin and kept me reading the whole way through, I wasn't sure about how it ended though... My full review is over Here. I'm now finishing off Robert Rankin's 'Retromancer'.

[LadyMTL]

lobo the wolfman, on 25 November 2009 - 05:27 AM, said:

Desided to give Morgan another try so I read Black Man ( or 13 in some places) and thought it was pretty fucking cool. I am now most of my way though the Steel Remains, and again it's surprisely good. Next up is Neal Asher's Gridlinked and Line of Polity.

Might have to give Altered Carbon another try again........ maybe.........

I really liked Black Man, even though I found it a tiny bit predictable. I'm surprised you didn't like Altered Carbon, it's my favorite Richard Morgan book.
I myself am currently reading Christopher Moore's Stupidest Angel: a heartwarming tale of Christmas terror. I love this author, if I had the money I think I'd buy everything of his that's currently in print. Well, aside from the four that I already own.

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

Finished Lies of Locke Lamorra and Red skies about a week ago, so I picked up the first two omnibus editions of Glen Cook's Dread Empire series. First one was great, just starting the second now.

[Use Of Weapons]

Got Storm Front and Fool Moon yesterday. I think that if I start reading them, I may well end up doing a complete Dresden reread again!

Does anyone know if there are plans for a collection of Dresden short stories? I really don't want to get loads of anthologies just for a single story. (Though Mean Streets was okayish, I suppose. But 'The Warrior' is the only Dresden short I've read thus far.)

[kcf]

I finished up The Other Lands by David Anthony Durham (review). I enjoyed it much more than I did Acacia.

Now I'm reading Finch by Jeff VanderMeer.

[Morgoth]

kcf, on 28 November 2009 - 02:54 AM, said:

I finished up The Other Lands by David Anthony Durham (review). I enjoyed it much more than I did Acacia.

Now I'm reading Finch by Jeff VanderMeer.

now that turned out to be an awesome book

[stone monkey]

Just bought Public Enemies by Bryan Burroughs and Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang. And a friend has lent me the complete Preacher series of Graphic Novels; which I hadn't read before...

This post has been edited by stone monkey: 28 November 2009 - 07:12 PM

[pat5150]

Just finished the excellent Subpress double-feature of Alastair Reynolds' Thousandth Night and Minla's Flowers. One of my favorite reads of 2009, no question!

Check the blog for the full review.

Patrick

[lobo the wolfman]

Maia Irraz, on 26 November 2009 - 10:22 PM, said:

lobo the wolfman, on 25 November 2009 - 05:27 AM, said:

Desided to give Morgan another try so I read Black Man ( or 13 in some places) and thought it was pretty fucking cool. I am now most of my way though the Steel Remains, and again it's surprisely good. Next up is Neal Asher's Gridlinked and Line of Polity.

Might have to give Altered Carbon another try again........ maybe.........

I really liked Black Man, even though I found it a tiny bit predictable. I'm surprised you didn't like Altered Carbon, it's my favorite Richard Morgan book.
I myself am currently reading Christopher Moore's Stupidest Angel: a heartwarming tale of Christmas terror. I love this author, if I had the money I think I'd buy everything of his that's currently in print. Well, aside from the four that I already own.

I tried three times to read Altered Corbon and couldn't get into it, l didn't really enjoy novels that are written from a first person view (the Dresden files being the exception) But with Black Man l found that l couldn't put it down untill l finshed it.

[Ribald]

I just did a quick full read of Russell Kirkpatrick's Fire of Heaven Trilogy and the last two books took me forever to finish. I think there is a drinking game in the making there... just take a drink every time Leith whines. Of course that would mean that you would be drinking on your own and be completely titfaced by the time you reached chapter 5.

What is so annoying about this is that the first book of the next trilogy is pretty damn good. Which is why I got the first trilogy in the first place.

I also just finished A Short History of Fantasy by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. This is a great wee book that essentially runs down the list of great fantasy authors and stories by time period. There isn't a huge amount of detail on most books, but it reveals how substantial and diverse the genre is and despite researching this stuff for the past four years it pointed out how little I know of the genre on the whole.

Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed an interesting SF novel that is a fascinating investigation of political realities and the concept of prisons.