Marvellous March Manuscripts? So what are you reading this month?

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tangaloomababe said:
Sounds like an absorbing book K Riehl, who is the author?

Just got started on Ocean Sea by Allesandro Baricco
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Joe Abercrombie and it's a great trilogy. The last book of which is due out this month.

Now reading The Hidden City: Book I of the House Wars by Michelle West. It's a good story, but it doesn't take up the house wars where the Sun Sword left off. It starts from Jewel's (Jay's) early years.
 
murphy said:
Joe Abercrombie and it's a great trilogy. The last book of which is due out this month.
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Agreed. I'm waiting 'patiently' for that one too. :)

zabylin said:
The Blade Itself...I have a bad habit of starting way too many books at the same time. (Oh, and Eragon).
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Hehe, this started happening to me too, but just recently.:) Hope you enjoy Joe Abercrombie's novel (reminds me a lot of George RR Martin's excellent ASOIF, which is a always good thing...), and as murphy pointed out it's the first part of a 'great trilogy'. The Blade Itself is quite impressive considering it's the authors debut novel.

Oh I'm going through a few things myself; Tarzan of the Apes (my first Edgar Rice Burroughs novel), Orwell's 1984 and Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa etc.

Cheers, DeepThought
 
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Now reading The Hidden City: Book I of the House Wars by Michelle West. It's a good story, but it doesn't take up the house wars where the Sun Sword left off. It starts from Jewel's (Jay's) early years.
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Let me know what you think.
I've started Madhouse, the 3rd book from Rob Thurman. I enjoy Niko and Cal's adventures. Light reading, but lots of humor and interesting recurring characters like the Puck.
 
Reading The Birth Of Venus by Sarah Dunnant. Meh..it's OK but not the book I would normaly read. It's the one chosen by our book club. I look forward to when I get the call up to choose the next book.
 
Should finish Nova tonight, enjoyed it a lot.

In two minds on what to read next, either Kelly Links short stories Stranger Things Happen which China Mieville highly reccomends or Orphans Of The Sky by Heinlein.

decisions, decisions.
 
Just read Sword from Red Ice by JV Jones, which despite the much delayed release was well worth the wait. This series goes from strength to strength.

Started reading Saladin: Hero of Islam by Geoffrey Hindley which is a non fiction biographical account of the historical figure.

Also literally just started reading Brethren by Robyn Young. I am hoping to have discovered a new author here.
 
Finally managed to make a hefty dent in Duma Key (Less than one hundred pages to go). I don't think it's made its way very far up the "Favourite King books" list, but it was still good. And the ending might be incredibly awesome, it's still got a chance...
Also started reading The Gunslinger Born. Was a little bemused at first, and it was dealing with the part of the Dark Tower which is my least favourite section (the back story from Wizard and Glass) but I was getting into it. I especially liked the picture of the Red King surrounded by his six Bends of the Rainbow.
 
well, started this weekend on a reread of The Dolphins of pern, finished it yesterday, then took up Dragonsblood by Todd McCaffrey... can't say I like his style as much as I like his Mothers, but I did end up slamming it down in a night... now I need to find a new book. sigh
 
I have now read the two direct sequels to Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds, namely:
  • Redemption Ark
  • Absolution Gap
The storytelling, imagination and intelligence displayed in these two books are the equal of the first. On a gross scale, there is good consistency (though not pefect) and, most of the time, the characters are well drawn.

Redemption Ark is the least strong book of the three: some** of the actions the characters take do not bear close inspection: they seem to be there only to bring certain characters together, particularly near the beginning of the book; that said, most settle down well (although there is rather too much dubious behaviour driven by soul-searching - though this does fit in with the title). Other than this, the plot is again complex and interesting and there are some good set pieces.

I really liked Absolution Gap; the major characters behave in a believable way, given the circumstances. As in all three books, it is not always possible to see what is coming, in either the sort or long term; Reynold's imagination is well displayed here.

All in all, I liked the series: all three books came to satisfying conclusions, and yet the sequels did not feel at all shoe-horned in.


(One minor gripe about Absolution Gap: I was not completely convinced by the reduced gravity on Hela, which came and went (as it were) in the narrative; however, given Reynolds's scientific background, I am quite prepared to believe that he is right and my impressions are mistaken.)


** - they are few, but obvious
 
Joel007 said:
I keep buying more Gemmell books. At this rate I'll hyave finished all of his books by the end of the month :)
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Which ones are you on now ?

I buy a Gemmell book a month just to belong the pleasure of reading him as long as possible :D

Last month Waylander, this month Quest for Lost Heroes. Only 19 books of his to go :p


You are very brave to read him so fast and risk having no books left soon !
 
Still trudging through The Chronicles of Narnia, and just started Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb. Looking forward to finishing this trilogy and seeing how it ends.
 
I'm starting "A Deepness in the Sky" - Vernor Vinge this evening. It was writen later than "Fire upon the Deep", but it was written as a prequel to Fire Upon the Deep, so I'm going to read it first.

I finished "Singularity Sky", Charles Stross, and I'm sorry to say, I'd only give this one ** 2 stars. It's fairly hard SF, and I don't have a problem with that. I understand light cones, singularities, and most of the other leveraged future science contained in the book. My shagrin was due to the fact that so much time was spent on a military ship and therefore it contained tons of military references and protocol (I'm not much into military SF, but this book does not make the military look good), but then about one quarter of the book was about this post singularity planet called "Rochard's world" where Stross was writing about it like he was under the influence of LSD (hard to read for a different reason). I didn't mind the left wing message about freedom of information, but was all of that really necessary just to get across that one message? Instead of characters growing from changes, a bunch of them just turned out to have ulterior motives. Sometimes that can be fun, but in this case it really didn't tickle me much. Ho hum. Just my humble opinion.

- Z.
 
I read Glasshouse by Stross for Hugo voting last year and didn't like the book very much. It meandered about with little real purpose and was quite boring in fact,so Singluarity Sky doesn't sound much better. I also read Rainbow's End which got the Hugo and liked that better. Personally I felt Flynn's Eifelheim was the best of the bunch but that's another story....
 
Im reading 361 by my alltime favorit crime writer Donald E. Westlake.


This Hard Case crime cover is one of the best i have seen :)
 
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