[Use Of Weapons]

Currently halfway through Adam Roberts's New Model Army, and enjoying it hugely. Got Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief waiting for me afterwards.

[T77]

Finished The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King the second book in his Dark Tower series. I thought the first book was better, this one felt more like an episode of the Twilight Zone.

[Slow Ben]

I've exhausted my libraries supply of Garret PI books, now i'm on to buying I guess.

But i picked up the first omnibus of the Dread Empire at B&N this weekend, so i'll start that tonight. Love me some Cook. The man is just an excellent, excellent story teller.

[Aristai]

Just finished Peter and Max...Cute and entertaining.

[QuickTidal]

Aristai, on 04 January 2011 - 04:21 PM, said:

Just finished Peter and Max...Cute and entertaining.

A Good companion to Bill Willingham's FABLES comic series indeed.

[Dutch]

Started in Shadow of a Dark Queen, Book One of the Serpent War saga by Raymond E. Feist.

When I'm done with this one I've got the following two books of the saga lined up, I hope to finish the saga before the Crippled God releases, but well, I'll see.

Funny thing is that an Uncle of my dad got me into Feist last year, but I got him in to the Malazan Book of the Fallen. I lend him my copies of Gardens of the Moon up untill untill Midnight Tides (he even took a couple of them along on a business trip to Thailand), but now he has purchased the whole series as far as it is released.

[Salt-Man Z]

I churned through the last chunk of The Sword of the Lictor last night. It took way too long to read, but partly that was the fault of the holidays.

Next, I'll be reading (and reviewing) my review copy of Orson Scott Card's The Lost Gate before finishing off my reread The Book of the New Sun, including The Urth of the New Sun.

The worst part? I finally got my copy of STONEWIELDER in the mail yesterday, and I'm desperately itching to read it RIGHT NOW.

[Dutch]

Briar King, on 04 January 2011 - 06:46 PM, said:

Dutch, on 04 January 2011 - 06:02 PM, said:

Started in Shadow of a Dark Queen, Book One of the Serpent War saga by Raymond E. Feist.

When I'm done with this one I've got the following two books of the saga lined up, I hope to finish the saga before the Crippled God releases, but well, I'll see.

Funny thing is that an Uncle of my dad got me into Feist last year, but I got him in to the Malazan Book of the Fallen. I lend him my copies of Gardens of the Moon up untill untill Midnight Tides (he even took a couple of them along on a business trip to Thailand), but now he has purchased the whole series as far as it is released.

Ive enjoyed The Rift War Saga by him. Im only on Silverthorn atm though, but Magician's 1 & 2 were really good I thought.

I've read the series up until the Kings Buccaneer, so far the series is great, just 50 pages into Shadow so the only thing I can say is that I liked what I have read so far.

Magician really got me into the series (The version that I've read was Apprentice\Master combined so at first I didn't knew that it were separate books) and I really loved Pug and Thomas, growing up from little boys playing around in Crydee towards Magician/Warrior.

[Captain Beardface]

Briar King, on 04 January 2011 - 04:28 AM, said:

Ive got read those books again its been way to long a time now...

There is also The Books of the Long/Short Sun.

Right there with you on rereading The Book of the New Sun, I felt like a freaking the idiot the first time I read those, plus I never read Urth of the New Sun

[Mentalist]

yeah, I need to hunt dow a copy of the "Urth of the New Sun" as well.. I don't think the used book store I got the "New sun" from had it... but it did have the Book of the long Sun...

in the meantime, I have read "The Ten Thousand" by Paul Kearney. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was easily recognizable, even with my cursory knowledge of Ancient history, and several moments were easily predictable, but overall I really enjoyed it. gonna give his "Monarchies of God" a shot next...

[HoosierDaddy]

Recently finished:

Stonewielder: Good, but only ahead of Night of Knives in order of Malazan preferences. Meaning I liked RotCG more. Much more, actually. Still, writing improved. Would have made RotCG much better if the writing was on par with this, prose is still jarring at times.

Antiphon: Ken Scholes, Book 3 of the Psalms of Issak. Series has really, really picked up now. The depth of the series from the Lamentation to Antiphon has grown by leaps and bounds. While the tightness of the books haven't necessarily maintained that leap, it more than makes up for it. Some really good stuff here.

Halfway done with Full Dark, No Stars by Steven King. King's ability to write short stories and novellas is pretty darn fantastic. While I don't think he'll ever match the power of Different Seasons or the early Bachman books for pure non-epic storytelling, he still knows how to keep a reader moving. His light shines brightest on us with his character's darker fantasies.

[End of Disc One]

HoosierDaddy, on 07 January 2011 - 11:13 PM, said:

Stonewielder: Good, but only ahead of Night of Knives in order of Malazan preferences. Meaning I liked RotCG more. Much more, actually. Still, writing improved. Would have made RotCG much better if the writing was on par with this, prose is still jarring at times.

Agreed, though I'm not finished. It seems most of the people who like Stonewielder more than RotCG are those who had a lot of problems with RotCG.

[champ]

I was trying to put off starting DoD but I couldn't resist the reread before tCG... Too early but who cares!

Just finished a tidy reread of The Name of the WInd by Rothfuss...

[MWKarsa]

I just finished Dust of Dreams and started Crosscurrent(a SW book) the other day and am almost finished with that. As a longtime fan of SW I've been pretty disppointed in many of the books and have actually had to stop reading a few because they were god-awful with lousy writing but like a helpless addict I keep coming back to them. After reading some information on Joe Abercrombie's books on this site I went ahead and ordered The First Law trilogy so I'll probably start that early next week but I also recently got the Mistborn trilogy and The Way of the Kings from Brandon Sanderson so I might read those first so I dunno yet.

[MTS]

Re-reading the Monarchies of God, just to see if Kearney managed to fix the godawful ending. About halfway through Hawkwood's Voyage at the moment.

[Slow Ben]

Finally made it to Abercrombies Best Served Cold in my "to read" pile. Starting it tonight.

[QuickTidal]

STAR WARS FATE OF THE JEDI (BOOK 4): BACKLASH by Aaron Allston

This series continues to impress me. Have next to no complaints.

Note: Allston apparently suffered a heart attack and had quadruple bypass surgery in between the first of the series he wrote and this one. Glad he's okay.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Reading Hemingway's Farewell to Arms. Apart from the fact that he seems to have no knowledge of a comma, it is strangely compelling to read.

[MWKarsa]

I finished Crosscurrent and will get back to Fate of the Jedi series in a little but I liked the book and am looking forward readin Omen as I already read Outcast. I decided to go history as I'm waiting to read Joe Abercrombie's trilogy when it comes in next so I'm reading Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West. It's a book I've had for awhile and have been meaning to get to.

[Yellow]

Reading Prospero Burns, the latest in the Horus Heresy series by Dan Abnett. He's changing my mind about his writing. The Viking-type stuff is excellent and it only falls down when the 40k stuff takes over, but that's not his fault.

Seriously, the guy should go write a Viking series.