What juicy tomes are you biting into this January?

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Meh..well OK it's January 1 2008 here already, so like I thought I might start this month's thread now...OH and Happy New Year!!....:D

So what's your poison at the moment?....:)
 
OH I met Larry recently at WorldCon, interesting guy to hang out with. I confess I only have Ringworld to date being more of a Fantasy than SF fan.
 
It would be cool to meet him. I'd ask him to autograph a copy of Ringworld but only if he made his signature circular.
I've read some criticism of Ringworld in this forum...hey, that's cool, I have certain things I always crack on. I must say that Ringworld was one of those books that inspired me to read a lot more. After recently finishing everything by Alastair Reynolds, I started reading his recommendations. Revelation Space was another one of those books that inspired me to read a lot - that was totally mind blowing. I love it when the writer takes my brain out, twists it around, and stuffs it back in. Next up will be Pushing Ice, just because.
 
Finished Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman, starting Brief Lives (Sandman: Vol 7)

Cheer's, DeepThought
 
I still have 10 hours to finish Samuel R Delany's Dhalgren. Haven;t decided what the first book of 2008 will be yet... I've been wanting to read Kelley Eskridge's Dangerous Spaces since I bought it last month. But I read a Lucius Shepard novel instead. Or perhaps Stealing Light by Gary Gibson. One side-effect of buying too many books: not being able to choose which one to read next...
 
I'm halfway through Brian Lumley's Elysia at the moment, so I'll be finishing that in January. I had to stop reading it to get through Adrian Plass' Bacon Sandwiches and Salvation :)
Then I have to read Ian Irvine's The Curse on the Chosen, and by then I hope to be reading one of those star wars books that I have ordered!
 
My last 2007 book was Hidden Empire -- The Saga of the Seven Suns, Book 1. It's my first by Kevin J. Anderson. I was leery of this writer given the pop culture nature of some of his work and comments I’ve seen on his Dune prequels. It’s the first of a large scale, somewhat complex, space opera series. I didn’t find anything particularly special about the writing or the story, but it was good enough for an entertaining read. I’ll probably check out another book or two in the series. It will either grow on me or become too boring. It could go either way, but I suspect the later.

I’ve just started The Merchant of Souls by John Barnes. It’s off to a very good start.


 
One-third of the way through Brief Lives and finally things are heating up...it seems the main plot arc of the Sandman which involves the protagonist Dream/Morpheus and his siblings the Endless (which hitherto had mostly being kept in the background) are being given more focus/resolution and I can practically feel the momentum building...I just desperately hope Gaiman can keep this up to the end of the series, this is great stuff!:D

Cheer's, DeepThought
 
I'm ten pages away from finishing Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm. It's a great read, but I was too exhausted last night to finish it. Sadly, I fell asleep just before midnight. Anyhoo, I too am having trouble deciding what next to read from my pile, so I might go for Starburst which is a short story collection by my man Alfred Bester.

And Doug, while I'm not as big a fan of Alastair Reynolds, it's really great to hear someone being so into an author. What do you make of Iain M Banks?
 
Well, it's 2 hours and 39 minutes until 2008 here, but I'm just starting a reread of Jim Butcher's White Knight. My idea of an ideal New Year's Eve.:D
 
I've just started reading Neal Gaiman's Stardust -- a book I've had sitting on the shelf for a year or two (complete with signature, hand-drawn star and a smiling crescent moon, all kindly doodled by the author) -- and admit that I've been inspired to read it now after having seen and thoroughly enjoyed the movie.
 
Just completed a collection entitled The Loved Dead ... it's a collection of Lovecraft collaborations and has a foreword of the rates he charged for his services. They feel terribly low and he was often not even paid that small amount.

The book contains:
The Green Meadow
Poetry and the Gods
The Crawling Chaos
The Loved Dead
The Horror at Martin's Beach
Imprisoned with the Pharoahs
The Last Test
The Black Bottles
The Thing in the Moonlight
The Curse of Yig
The Mound
Medusa's Coil
The Trap
The Man of Stone
Out of the Aeons
The Disinterment
The Diary of Alonzo Typer
Within the Walls of Eryx
The Night Ocean
 
Flicking through The Dictionary of Mythology, a book which is very nearly as thick as my leg and a heartily welcomed Christmas present from my family (who know me far too well). I'll be having a look through my reasonably big to-be-read pile pretty soon.:)
 
Well into 'Storm Caller' by Tom Lloyd, book one of a trilogy. A new author for me; easy to read although there has been a bit of 'blood and guts'! :eek:

Lloyd's details of history at the beginning of the story were short but gave a very good idea of what had gone before. I like the way he describes his characters, you're either going to like them or hate them! :D
 
Im reading 'Across the face of the World' by Russell Kirkpatrick. Anyone else read this? Liking it so far although it seems to be focusing more on the detail of the landscape than the actual characters.
 
lea27 said:
Im reading 'Across the face of the World' by Russell Kirkpatrick. Anyone else read this? Liking it so far although it seems to be focusing more on the detail of the landscape than the actual characters.
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I've read his trilogy and really enjoyed it. I should imagine the detail of the landscape has much to do with him being a Lecturer of Geography and a map maker. :)
 
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