What literary delights are you delving into this December?

[Orion]

I just finished A Feast for Crows by GRRM. I'm thinking I'll start The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams next. Tomorrow maybe.

 

[GOLLUM]

I have got into it and now are enjoying the tale of Duffy


All the sword play is fun too

For once the blurb on the cover is true, good action,humor and well done characters.

I was looking for other type of fantasy than the most typical type when i decided to try Powers and im getting that!

You should try his time travel novel The Anubis Gates, a modern classic and probably his best work to date. Certainly his most entertaining. Both of these novels are part of the Masterwork series.

 

[Connavar]

You should try his time travel novel The Anubis Gates, a modern classic and probably his best work to date. Certainly his most entertaining. Both of these novels are part of the Masterwork series.

Im gonna get Anubis Gate cause i knew about its famous before i knew the author did write other genres.

Im gonna though order his fantasy first. I lack good fantasy,supernatural stories right now while 70 % of TBR pile is SF


By the way is On Stranger Tides a fantasy with supernatural elements like most of his fantasies or is a horror like story?

Im gonna go to my store and order On Stranger Tides and Declare or Last Call

 

[GOLLUM]

Im gonna get Anubis Gate cause i knew about its famous before i knew the author did write other genres.

Im gonna though order his fantasy first. I lack good fantasy,supernatural stories right now while 70 % of TBR pile is SF


By the way is On Stranger Tides a fantasy with supernatural elements like most of his fantasies or is a horror like story?

Im gonna go to my store and order On Stranger Tides and Declare or Last Call

I've got Declare and Last Call too. I think they're part of a duology. They both won World Fantasy Awards. I still need to get to these myself.

I believe Stanger Tides is a Pirtates Of The Caribbean style story. So yes supernatural with fantasy elements and some horror thrown in. I've never read the book so I may try to check it out next year.

I also have a very good short stroy collection by Powers I read entitled Strange Itineraries. Worth getting if it doesn't overblow the budget too much.

Cheers...

 

[Connavar]

I've got Declare and Last Call too. I think they're part of a duology. They both won World Fantasy Awards. I still need to get to these myself.

I believe Stanger Tides is a Pirtates Of The Caribbean style story. So yes supernatural with fantasy elements and some horror thrown in. I've never read the book so I may try to check it out next year.

I also have a very good short stroy collection by Powers I read entitled Strange Itineraries. Worth getting if it doesn't overblow the budget too much.

Cheers...

Declare and Last Call isnt the same series. Last Call is a trilogy about The Fisher King. Declare is a supernatural spy story.


Good to know On Stranger Tides has horror in it and cant wait to see how he writes the famous Blackbeard. Pirates and supernatural is an awesome blend.


I just choosed On Stranger Tides and Declare as his next books to read. They sounded too interesting and i like to read his Last Call series at once instead of getting one book at the time which is something i dont like.

 

[Rosemary]

I couldn't resist it for long... The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss... very good so far xx

Have to agree with you there Ada!

None of those books on my 'to read pile' are available yet, so I thought I would try this new author.

The Name of the Wind contains Wizards, dragon-slayer, swordsman...

I'm really enjoying this story and I like the authors style of writing. He has also created some great characters.

 

[Adasunshine]

Have to agree with you there Ada!

None of those books on my 'to read pile' are available yet, so I thought I would try this new author.

The Name of the Wind contains Wizards, dragon-slayer, swordsman...

I'm really enjoying this story and I like the authors style of writing. He has also created some great characters.

Rosie, it's the first part of a trilogy, something I didn't know when I picked it up but later found out from the author's website... another bloomin' trilogy!!!

I've now finished this book and I absolutely loved it, what a debut novel from Rothfuss. I am literally chomping at the bit for the next instalment but I don't think it's very forthcoming... saying that The Name of the Wind was so good I'm more than willing to wait for the rest of Kvothe's story.

xx

 

[Talysia]

The Autumn Castle, by Kim Wilkins.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Finally finished that blasted fourth part of the Dark Tower series, say thank ya (it's my least favourite and, typically, it's the biggest ) and now moved onto Wolves of the Calla by, of course, Stephen King.

 

[GOLLUM]

Finally finished that blasted fourth part of the Dark Tower series, say thank ya (it's my least favourite and, typically, it's the biggest ) and now moved onto Wolves of the Calla by, of course, Stephen King.

Have you got the first Graphic novel based on King's Dark Tower series? It's very good.

 

[HoopyFrood]

I haven't yet. Saw it in Waterstones the other day, though and as my dad's given me some money for Christmas, I'm thinking that with it I shall buy The Gunslinger Born and also the Concordance for the Dark Tower series. And then I shall be a very happy lassie, say thankee

 

[GOLLUM]

I haven't yet. Saw it in Waterstones the other day, though and as my dad's given me some money for Christmas, I'm thinking that with it I shall buy The Gunslinger Born and also the Concordance for the Dark Tower series. And then I shall be a very happy lassie, say thankee

I've got the books but I don't think I'll be going as deeply into it as buying the Concordance as well.

Hope you like the Graphic novel then, although there will be others in the series by Marvel.

 

[01Boxer]

I just finished The Long Price by Daniel Abraham and Tau Zero by Poul Anderson. Both fantastic. I've just started Temeraire by Naomi Novik and I need to get round to reading volume three of The Dark Tower.

 

[Shingetsu]

This thread is too hard for me to reply too. I have to think of all I've read this month so far. Let's see, I believe I finished off the ending of the Fitz books of Robin Hobb, The Curse of Chalion and the two Sharing Knife books by Bujold, Night Watch right now. Um, maybe the two vampire Christopher Moore books I read earlier this month after the Hobb books I think. Though I don't think those fit in here. I think that's everything so far. Started Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko today. So probably will read sequel next this month aswell. Probably acouple other books aswell before the month is over.

 

[AE35Unit]

Just started,again,Clifford D Simak,The Visitors. I started it before but just wasn't in the mood then. Will give it another go. This one's from 1979/80 and got slated on some blog I found,lets see eh. I enjoyed his Cemetary World and his collection Off Planet but this will be only the second novel of his I've read.
Is Way Station deserving of its award status?

 

[Ian Whates]

Is Way Station deserving of its award status?

Simple answer: Yes!

Slightly longer answer... A very good read, though remember how long ago it was written. Does show its age slightly now -- very much a book from another era -- but as long as you accept that, it's a very good book. Leastways, I thought so.

Of course, it's nothing compared to City, which is one of my favourite all time SF books, but it's still well worth the effort.

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Hopefully, if I get them, David Eddings' Dreamers series. (Yes, I know I've referred to it as the Dreamweavers series, that was a mistake.)

Other than that, really nothing I haven't read before....

 

[j d worthington]

Well, along with bouts of not being able to read at all, I'm afraid: Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines 1891-1911, ed. by Sam Moskowitz. A lot of things in there I've not read before, and I really enjoy the difference between the manner of telling a tale then and now. One can easily see the milieu from which Wells, Cutcliffe Hyne, & Co. sprang. Plus the history is very informative....

I'm thinking maybe someone should start a thread on Sam Moskowitz' contributions to the genre.....

 

[Ursa major]

I have just finished reading Engines of Light, a series that consists of three books:

• Cosmonaut Keep
• Dark Light
• Engine City

Overall, I liked the books. There is a lot of speculative science and history, not to mention politics, but the books never overwhelm the reader with too much of any of these at any one time. I particlarly liked the way the books dealt with the differential ageing that results from the interstellar travel. The books are entertaining as well as thought provoking. (The politics, while of a certain persuasion, shouldn't frighten the reader.)

The quality of Cosmonaut Keep, as a believeable story, exceeds that of Dark Light. Engine City is the weakest of the three. (All are readable, in case you're worried.) Frankly, Dark Light and, in particular, Engine City have poor endings; not enough to spoil what has gone before, but I expected better.

I ought to mention one weak point in Engine City, a character called Gaius Gonatus. Part way through his story, his relationship with those around him changes, in a way that I found inexplicable. (I won't explain what happens as I don't want to spoil it for new those thinking of reading the books.)

All in all, reading time well spent.

 

[Connavar]

I have read the trades Max Punisher : Widowmaker and Invincible: Three is a company.

Books wise its Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham a historical fiction about Hannibal.