What August tome are you tackling this month?

[ras'matroi]

I liked the books but wouldn't count them to best books
I've read. They are still worth reading.
Don't know wich genre they belong to. Just looking at the
appearing creatures, like vampires, shapechangers
(Werewolfes), witches, magicans,... You wolud guess it's a
horror book. But I would say it isn't. At least it does not
compare with any horrorbook I've read bevore.
All these horror-moments (when you get really scared) are
missing.
The plotline has some weak parts but the whole idea behind
it is great.

A short description:

The book is set in Moskow around the present time. All these
creatures (they call themselves the Others) are living in the
middle of the human society.
They are split in tow groups:
the light ones and the dark ones. They are all Others but are
following different ideals.

The tow grups were fighting each other for ever but then they
signed a treaty which was the end to open fighting. It says for
example that if one side uses magic on humans the otherside
is allowed to use magic of the same degree. So it's basicly to
keep the two forces at balance.
An other result was the founding of the Nightwatch and the
Daywatch. The Nightwatch consists of light Others who are
controlling (acting as police) the dark Others during the night.
The Daywatch is just the other way around.
But the are still trying to get an advantage of the other group.

 

[elvet]

Thanks for the summary .
I'm not too fond of horror, but I like the idea of the 2 sides constantly conflicting. I might just give it a go.

 

[Taltos]

I liked the books but wouldn't count them to best books
I've read.

I would put Lukjanenko under - very good escapist reading. Easy to read and also contain things to think about after you have read the book. But to understand these books completly, you should have lived a little bit of time in the good old USSR.

Just looking at the
appearing creatures, like vampires, shapechangers
(Werewolfes), witches, magicans,... You wolud guess it's a
horror book. But I would say it isn't. At least it does not
compare with any horrorbook I've read bevore.

I think these kind of stories are called - urban fantasy nowadays i.e. real world with a 'touch' of mysticism.

 

[Jason_Taverner]

wheel of time book 11 for me. I really enjoying it

 

[Nesacat]

Have been meaning to read Nightwatch and Daywatch ever since the movie. Thanks for the summary and the added incentive ra'matroi. The movie was pretty well done I thought.

Are you planning on reading any more Stephen King Paige and what did you think of Bag of Bones?

 

[nixie]

Just started reading Midnight Tides by Stevie Erikkson. Heard that it was poor compared to the previous books in the series.However, so far I am enjoying it a lot. The Tiste Edur seem to be very interesting. Fingers crossed.

Where you here that Lacey? I admit it took me a little while to get into but IMO its only bettered by Memories of Ice.

 

[Allanon]

i did recently finish the traveller by john twelve hawks. v. v. good

 

[Taltos]

Have been meaning to read Nightwatch and Daywatch ever since the movie. Thanks for the summary and the added incentive ra'matroi. The movie was pretty well done I thought.

The book is much better (IMHO offcourse) and if the book translations are actual translations and not novellisations of the film, expect a lot of differences. The second film Daywatch had only marginal connections with the actual book(s), it borrows more from the Nightwatch book, when from the daywatch book.

 

[Teir]

Laurie R King - Locked Rooms

THEN I'll read Narnia *rolls eyes* i keep saying that

 

[Brys]

I'm reading Tom Lloyd's the Stormcaller now - so far it seems like a competent debut but nothing special. Following the mold of Elric more than LotR, but for some reason the author keeps putting in cliched races - there are elves and trolls in it. Even if they are given a slightly more interesting treatment than usual in fantasy, it's a bit irritating.

 

[Nesacat]

The book is much better (IMHO offcourse) and if the book translations are actual translations and not novellisations of the film, expect a lot of differences. The second film Daywatch had only marginal connections with the actual book(s), it borrows more from the Nightwatch book, when from the daywatch book.

Am glad then to be going from the movie to the books rather than the other way around. It's so much less dissapointing. Thank you Taltos.

 

[Thanatos]

Reading right now Olympos, sequel to Ilium alongside The Fall of Hyperion sequel to Hyperion. Hummm guess you can see the pattern here, same author both sequels

 

[Rosemary]

Will be starting to read 'The Last of the Renshai' sometime today. As suggested by Precioussss and Nixie

 

[Karsa Orlong]

Reading right now Olympos, sequel to Ilium alongside The Fall of Hyperion sequel to Hyperion. Hummm guess you can see the pattern here, same author both sequels

I bought Ilium quite recently, really looking forward to reading it.

 

[nixie]

Finished Assassin's Edge, Juliet E Mckenna and will be starting Blood Knight by Greg Keyes

 

[Nesacat]

Finished China Mieville's Looking For Jake And Other Stories and started on Ramsey Campbell's Cold Print.

 

[j d worthington]

Finished Shadows's Bend, by David Barbour and Richard Raleigh

 

[iansales]

Finished the Cherryh collection. A few too many fantasy stories for my liking. I'm now reading AE van Vogt's Planets for Sale.

 

[beenorthern]

Some of the books I've read so far this month:

*Grass for His Pillow* & *Brilliance of the Moon* Lian Hern [very good]
*Judas Unchained* Peter F. Hamilton [excellent]
*Smoke and Mirrors* Tanya Huff [good]
*Consequences* Kristine Kathryn Rusch [very good]
*Conquistador* S.M. Stirling [good junk]

I have Freda Warrington's *The Sapphire Throne* out from the library, but was hoping to get Book 1 and read that first. Unfortunately it looks like *The Amber Citadel* is stuck on the repair shelf downtown and won't show up before Book 2's final return date. But I'll put this off starting this for another day or two and tackle *Pedro Paramo* first (Juan Rulfo, mainstream novel) ...

 

[elvet]

Finished Sara Douglass' The Hanging Wall. Though it is a novel, it reads like a short story. There is not much substance to it. I'm now taking a fantasy mini-break , having just started Princess Charming a chick-lit murder mystery set on a cruise ship.