October Offerings - What tantalising tome are you reading?

[Nesacat]

Am very fond of Lord Peter too Brown Rat. He's almost like Father Brown in the way he works things out.

Thank you Wee Dug. I do like Tanith Lee and I shall keep at eye out for this book.

Glad you like Dante's Club j.d. How many more murders did you wish there were? Have fun with Traveller.

 

[Trey Greyjoy]

Just started into the Scions of Shannara. Just finished Colour of Magic, my first foray into Discworld.

 

[aarti]

I finished When Christ and His Saints Slept last night and must revise my earlier opinion. I thought the book d-r-a-g-g-e-d and could have used some heavy editing.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Just started into the Scions of Shannara. Just finished Colour of Magic, my first foray into Discworld.

My favorite Discworld book, where he takes the mickey out of the fantasy genre,espscially the part where he describes the two approaching unsavory looking rogues one a hulking barbarian and his shifty companion dressed in grey,a nod to Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser. Though his later books are vastly different in style as the series grew and expanded.

And I also liked the 2nd book The Light Fantastic.

 

[Nesacat]

Trey ... Tell me what you think of Colour of Magic. The style has changed so very much since then but two of my favourites are the first two books. I guess a large part of the reason is because they introduced me to the Discworld and the grave importance of toilet paper and hot water.

Have finished Treasure Island and Lored Peter and am now reading Lestrade and The Devil's Own by MJ Trow

 

[j d worthington]

Have finished Treasure Island and Lored Peter and am now reading Lestrade and The Devil's Own by MJ Trow

I've heard mention of this one ... and several others featuring Lestrade ... but haven't read any of them, nor know anyone who has. Let me know what you think, would you, Nesa?

 

[Loner]

I have not heard of Lestrade and The Devil's Own.
Have I led a deprived existence?

I am reading The Well of Tears by Cecilia Dart-Thornton. It is the second in The Crowthistle Chronicles series. They can be read alone, but I recommend you start at the beginning to get to understand the world of "seelie, and unseelie wights".

I would also recommend her Bitterbynde Trilogy. The first in particluar : The Ill-Made Mute. You just get sucked right into the world she creates with all of its wierd, wild spirits and striking landscapes. Like any part of nature, the faeries, sprites, trows, banshees etc, can be so beautiful one second, cruel and terrifiying the next. Fabulous.

 

[Nesacat]

Picked up Lestrade at a book sale of mostly US edition books. Had never seen or heard of it before either but it sounded intriguing and had a quirky cover.

Will tell what I think of it but I like it thus far.

 

[Tinuva]

i just finished feists riftwar: Murder in LaMut and im currently re-reading city of the beasts by Isabel Allende, and inbetween im also reading Blaze of Glory by Michael Pryor

 

[Taltos]

Finished Hamilton's - A Quantum Murder - (this was last month, haven't written here lately ) The SF, character interaction and story intensity was first rate, as Hamilton usually, but the mystery part was a bit let down - you could say how everything was done about 2/3 into the book

Also read through the second book of the second (what a sentence ) Foundation trilogy. Greg Bear's Foundation's Fear, which is IMHO much better work than the first instalment in these series.

Currently reading David Brin's Foundation's Triumph, about 1/3 through and so far about as good as the last one. Just one question, why call it the second FOUNDATION trilogy and then not write about the actual Foundation !? I guess this one should have been called Seldon vs. World and Robots trilogy

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Am very fond of Lord Peter too Brown Rat. He's almost like Father Brown in the way he works things out.

Thank you Wee Dug. I do like Tanith Lee and I shall keep at eye out for this book.

Glad you like Dante's Club j.d. How many more murders did you wish there were? Have fun with Traveller.

She is one of my favorites, the series I realy like are the Flat Earth one's, and you may be pleased to know that Tanith is one of the GOH at the 2008 Eastercon in London.

 

[nixie]

Caesar's Women, Colleen McCullough

 

[ravenus]

Night Watch - Terry Pratchett

I got hold of this one as my next Pratchett read since I was quite charmed by the characters of the Night Watch in his Guards! Guards!. This one takes deals mainly with Captain Vimes who has become commander of the Watch. In the quest to capture Carcer, one of the most murderous individuals in Ankh Morpork, Vimes pursues him to the library of the wizards and in true fantasy fashion they find themselves transported through a time warp into the past, where Vimes amongst other things, meets a younger version of himself.

This one actually gets more serious and emotion fraught than the Pratchett's I've read before, with Vimes trying all he can to prevent a massacre that he knows is part of Ankh-Morpork's history. As always Pratchett's prose moves briskly and remains eminently likeable. I would consider this another recommended instalment to the Discworld series.

 

[Nesacat]

She is one of my favorites, the series I realy like are the Flat Earth one's, and you may be pleased to know that Tanith is one of the GOH at the 2008 Eastercon in London.

Yes she is. I signed up for that Con at the Eastercon in Glasgow. Am looking forward to it and the one next year.

Have finished Peter Wimsey ... he'd be an interesting father/partner to have to say the least.

 

[Lunatic]

Haven't been reading much lately, but I just finished Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin and started The Grass-Cutting Sword by Catherynne Valente. After that it's onto House of Chains by Steven Erikson.

 

[Rosemary]

I am reading The Well of Tears by Cecilia Dart-Thornton. It is the second in The Crowthistle Chronicles series. They can be read alone, but I recommend you start at the beginning to get to understand the world of "seelie, and unseelie wights".

I would also recommend her Bitterbynde Trilogy. The first in particluar : The Ill-Made Mute. You just get sucked right into the world she creates with all of its wierd, wild spirits and striking landscapes. Like any part of nature, the faeries, sprites, trows, banshees etc, can be so beautiful one second, cruel and terrifiying the next. Fabulous.

Another Dart-Thornton fan! I have just finished reading Weather Witch, just as good as her previous book. However, I hadn't realised that The Crowthistle Chronicles was going to be more than a trilogy!

So now I have started The Runes of the Earth by Stephen Donaldson...

 

[aarti]

Night Watch - Terry Pratchett

I got hold of this one as my next Pratchett read since I was quite charmed by the characters of the Night Watch in his Guards! Guards!. This one takes deals mainly with Captain Vimes who has become commander of the Watch. In the quest to capture Carcer, one of the most murderous individuals in Ankh Morpork, Vimes pursues him to the library of the wizards and in true fantasy fashion they find themselves transported through a time warp into the past, where Vimes amongst other things, meets a younger version of himself.

This one actually gets more serious and emotion fraught than the Pratchett's I've read before, with Vimes trying all he can to prevent a massacre that he knows is part of Ankh-Morpork's history. As always Pratchett's prose moves briskly and remains eminently likeable. I would consider this another recommended instalment to the Discworld series.

I love the Watch series within the Discworld books. I think those are my favorite, followed by Death and Susan's books. I think now that Vimes is settling down with a family and such, his narratives are getting more serious, too. This trend continues in Thud!

 

[Thadlerian]

Oh no, I can't make up my mind, which will it be? Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan or Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz?

 

[Alurny]

Currently reading:

The war of the flowers by Tad Williams

and after that I will be moving onto:

The Portrait of Mrs.Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford

 

[baldur27]

Oh no, I can't make up my mind, which will it be? Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan or Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz?

I highly recomend Altered Carbon its a great read if a bit violent for some readers