[busy monster]

QuickTidal, on 08 April 2011 - 01:07 PM, said:

About 160 pages into my re-read of REDEMPTION ARK by Reynolds...

Is it me or does reading this a second time make REVELATION SPACE seem like a really long, but ultimately fucking awesome prologue?

Oh and also...Clavain is the shiznit.

That is all.

Chasm City is the real prologue to it all And it's even more fucking awesome

[Yellow]

Agreed, have a banana.

Now reading some Churchill/WWII stuff while waiting for the new Bakker.

[Primateus]

I'm almost finished with A Game of Thrones. Good stuff!

[Use Of Weapons]

Weber's _A Mighty Fortress_ continuing the Safehold series. Things are coming to a head with the Church of God Awaiting's underlying deception being revealed to more and more, and their Holy War against the newly formed Charisian Church and Empire starts to founder on suspicion and fear of the Grand Inquisitor (and a more thoroughly corrupt and objectionable villain I would struggle to find in all of SF).

[Puck]

Markus Zusak's The Book Thief.

[polishgenius]

Kafka on the Shore by Murakami- finally got around to it, had it for ages (my first Murakami). Unfortunately I'm finding the central thread about Kafka himself a lot less interesting than the rest of the book so far and am skimming parts of it, but it's alright and the rest is keeping me involved.

[Mott]

I have quite a few books lined up but I can't seem to settle on one to read, I got Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel for christmas but I feel more like I should read it since it was a gift rather than really looking forward to it. I got catch-22 a few weeks ago and am leaning towards it but I was half way through Return of the Crimson Guard before I read tCG so I should probably start that one from the beginning. I suppose too many books is better than too few.

[Use Of Weapons]

Finished A Mighty Fortress this morning, hoo-boy things are nicely poised for the next book! Can't wait for the introduction of some more modern military tech to Safehold!

Embarked on Daemons Are Forever now, and after that will come The Master And Margarita, which I am really looking forward to.

[Mott]

jitsukerr, on 12 April 2011 - 09:41 AM, said:

Finished A Mighty Fortress this morning, hoo-boy things are nicely poised for the next book! Can't wait for the introduction of some more modern military tech to Safehold!

Embarked on Daemons Are Forever now, and after that will come The Master And Margarita, which I am really looking forward to.

The Master and Margarita is one of the best books I have ever read, truly brilliant, bizarre, beautiful, dark and satiric. Even just the first two chapters had me completely over-awed.

[Baco Xpuch]

I'm about halfway through The Lies of Locke Lamora. I'm really enjoying the Gentleman Bastards. I actually put down The Yiddish Policeman's Union after about 100 pages to read this; just wasn't in the mood. My previous four books were The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe (counted as two), The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, and Old Man's War by John Scalzi. I think Yiddish Policeman's Union kind of reminded me of Windup Girl with all the foreign language I wouldn't get until the last quarter of the book. Don't get me wrong, Windup Girl was excellent, but like Gene Wolfe's stuff, I can only take a couple a year. Also reading Looking for Jake by China Mieville as my nightstand book. Next up to bat is either Best Served Cold or The Judging Eye by Bakker (though I tend to wait until authors are near completion of their work before I really dig into them - lesson learned by reading WOT for almost a decade and some change).

[Abyss]

Baco Xpuch, on 12 April 2011 - 11:30 PM, said:

...Also reading Looking for Jake by China Mieville as my nightstand book. ...

Some of the short stories in this are nothing less than brilliant. The (totally decent) Bas-Lag story is far from the best bit.

[Baco Xpuch]

I'm about halfway through Looking for Jake and am thoroughly enjoying it. You can really feel H.P. Lovecraft's influence through Mieville. Some of the stories are quiet freaky, which I enjoy. Details and Familiar are my favorites thus far. (I did skip ahead and read the Bas-Lag short, and though it was great, it's not my favorite so far). Anyone who enjoys Mieville's work would be doing themselves a disservice in not checking this book out, it's pure Mieville.

[MTS]

Is the Bas-Lag story the one about the streets? Don't have the book on hand to check.

[Abyss]

MTS, on 13 April 2011 - 04:24 PM, said:

Is the Bas-Lag story the one about the streets? Don't have the book on hand to check.

Nope, completely separate story. The streets one is probably my absolute favourite in the book.

[Mentalist]

Finished "Under Heaven". Goddamn, Kay is good.


Continuing the list of amazing books post tCG, I will now try to fit Asher's Brass Man in between studying for exams.

[Ulrik]

Finished Richard Hammond´s On the Edge: My Story. He is solid, sometimes too "normal" writer. But his wife and her memory of first days... Its almost painful to read it. Without her part it would be "read and forget", but now. Pretty hard and powerful writing.

Now I dont know what begin. Mistborn or Wheel of Time?

[lumo]

Baco Xpuch, on 12 April 2011 - 11:30 PM, said:

I'm about halfway through The Lies of Locke Lamora. I'm really enjoying the Gentleman Bastards.

How is it? Its on my shelf staring right at me.

My girlfriend asked me to read Under the Dome by Stephen King. I'm about halfway through, I like it.

[Bauchelain the Evil]

lumo, on 14 April 2011 - 02:22 PM, said:

Baco Xpuch, on 12 April 2011 - 11:30 PM, said:

I'm about halfway through The Lies of Locke Lamora. I'm really enjoying the Gentleman Bastards.

How is it? Its on my shelf staring right at me.

The Lies of Locke Lamora is an excellent book. Easily in my top ten. But really stop there. Red Seas Under Red Skies was a huge disappointment, a mediocre book at best. You can perfectly enjoy LoLL as a standalone.

[End of Disc One]

The Lies of Locke Lamora is the real deal. For less epic fantasy it's about as good as it gets.

[Abyss]

LIES is a totally great book. It's the sequel where things fall apart, but hopefully book 3 will recover the series.


I finished GRRM/G Dozois' WARRIORS anthology. S M Stirling is just awesome - i enjoy everything i read by him and 'Ancient Ways' was no exception. The rest of the anthology was... fine enough, i suppose... Waldorp and Dozois did nothing for me, Morell's story was good, Silverberg's was typical meandering Silverberg which either works for you or it doesn't (for me) and Ball's was back to ok.

Overall, as anthologies go, without GRRM's Dunk & Egg i can't say this book would be worth the dollars. With it, i would have been ok with a mmpb purchase but if i had paid hb dollars i would have been dissappointed. As a library pull, worth the read time.


Still not over my 'post TCG inability to commit to serious reading' slump, i grabbed Alten's MEG and PRIMAL WATERS from the middle of the TRP for a little light reading about massive frikkin jurassic sharks eating cruise ships.