Super September - What literary offering are you currently reading?

I've just picked up The Mark of Ran by Paul Kearney and Imperial Spy by our own Mark Robson from the library. I can't decide which to read!
 
Culhwch said:
I've just picked up The Mark of Ran by Paul Kearney and Imperial Spy by our own Mark Robson from the library. I can't decide which to read!
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Read Mark Of Ran and enjoyed it very much.

Yet to read Mark's work but I hear he's not too shabby...;)
 
Started A Song for Arbonne and sucked back half the book last night. I'm happy to see that Kay consistently provides good reading for me. He is becoming one of my favorite authors.
P.S. Exactly how many threads do you need before an author makes it to the sub-forums section? :)
 
Cry of the Newborn, book one of the Ascendants series by James Barclay. It's quite an opus and very ambitious. I think James is one of the finest heroic fantasy writers on the scene at the moment. If you like military, high fantasy that is gritty and contains great dialogue and characterization, you should enjoy this... although, I am very fond of his Raven trilogies.
 
@Elvet: Psstt..not sure exactly, probably depends as much on the number of members talking about the author as the post frequency and how quickly Brian wishes to expand the board after the recent merge but keep up the posting and you just never know....;)
 
Justin Thorne said:
Cry of the Newborn, book one of the Ascendants series by James Barclay. It's quite an opus and very ambitious. I think James is one of the finest heroic fantasy writers on the scene at the moment. If you like military, high fantasy that is gritty and contains great dialogue and characterization, you should enjoy this... although, I am very fond of his Raven trilogies.
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I too liked Barclay's Raven series but just never turned me on in the way militrary fantasists like Martin, Bakker, Kearney, Erikson or Cook have done.

You checked any of those authors yet out of interest?
 
Yes, I am a big fan of A Song of Ice and Fire, and I have a signed copy of the The Darkness That Comes Before on my shelf!
 
Justin Thorne said:
Yes, I am a big fan of A Song of Ice and Fire, and I have a signed copy of the The Darkness That Comes Before on my shelf!
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Lucky you!

In that case you may want to check out Kearney's Mark Of Ran or Erikson's Malazan series or Glenn Cook's Black Company. I assume you've not read these yet?
 
I've tried Malazan, and didn't enjoy the style, but am looking forward to trying Black Company, thanks for the tip.
 
Justin Thorne said:
I've tried Malazan, and didn't enjoy the style, but am looking forward to trying Black Company, thanks for the tip.
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Fair enough.

You may like Paul Kearney's Mark Of Ran, only because it's the first novel (relatively short) in a new series, so if you don't fancy it there's no need to commit further. If you didn't like Erikson not sure if you'll like Cook's multi-volume affair?

Could be useful to await Cullwch's review of Mark Of Ran, only because he's a big Martin fan but also not so much into Erikson.

Cheers.
 
Well, change in plans for me.... Instead of the Irving, I'll be tackling a volume of Thomas Moore's, containing his poem Alciphron and the prose romance The Epicurean, based on same. Both of these are mentioned by HPL in his Supernatural Horror in Literature, and both influenced his own writing... lines from Alciphron are quoted in both "The Nameless City" and "Under the Pyramids" (aka "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs", ghost-written for Harry Houdini).
 
Just started Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy - never read it before! It's gonna be a fast read, but I'm loving book one so far.
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I just finished Dark Moon by Meredith Ann Pierce and now I'm onto the third and final book of that series, The Son of Summer Stars.
 
Finally finished The Last Templar, it was both better than I expected and worse. There were some very good and thought provoking points in it, and it didn't go in the expected direction. However, some of the character's reactions and motivations didn't seem to fit, they seemed to waffle according to the plot. So, I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone but the actual direction of these Templar scholars in definitely thought provoking.

After that I read Kathy Reichs' newest, Break no Bones which was quite enjoyable.

Now I'm reading Terry Brooks' latest, Armageddon's Children. So far it isn't my normal type of fantasy but it has kept me reading so far.
 
Recently finished Winning Colors by Elizabeth Moon. This is the third book of the Serrano Legacy series. Like the first two, it was a fast paced, easy read. Unfortunately, I thought the story line was weak, with several implausible events, and the characters were more superficial than in the previous books. I was not expecting a lot from this book, but it was still disappointing. I will probably try one more at some point since I have already acquired the rest of the series. If the next is not any better, I will probably give up on the series.


I am currently reading Larry Niven’s Protector. It is pretty good so far.
 
Reading various non-fiction on nationalism, ethnicity, discrimination, etc., also including a book on "forgotten" minorities in Europe.

On the fiction side, I'm about to start on Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson.
 
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