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

[Pyan]

Thanks, Cul.

Enjoy Mort! First read?

 

[Talysia]

Would you believe, I've never read any Robin Hobb.

Would you recommend them, Tal? And if so, where would you start if you were beginning again?

I'd recommend them, definitely. It took me a while to get round to reading them, after trying the Liveship Traders a couple of years ago, but I think I should've started with the Farseer Trilogy first. The two are set in the same world, but Liveship Traders does give some extra information about the dragons which appear in the Tawny Man trilogy. At least, that's what my memory of them tells me.

If I could start again with them, I'd start with the Farseer Trilogy (Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, then Assassin's Quest), then the Liveship Traders, then the Tawny Man trilogy.

Edit: Beaten to it! Ah well.

 

[HoopyFrood]

I've only read the first two of the Farseer Trilogy (Assassin's Apprentice and...the next one! Edit: Royal Assassin! That's the one. Thanks, Tal) but I enjoyed them. Hobb's use of language is very good.

 

[Culhwch]

Yeah, but you offered a lot more bang for your buck, Tal....

It is my first time on Mort, Py. I'm going back through Pratchett's back catalogue getting to the books I missed. Surprisingly fewer than I thought...

 

[Pyan]

Well, with a triple recommendation, there can't be much argument!

Thanks, all.

 

[Nesacat]

Just finished Gardens of the Moon. I'll move onto something a bit lighter with Mort...

Have fun ... Mort was my first Pratchett and it's still one of my favourites.

 

[iansales]

Finished The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. So that's all of the BSFA Award shortlist read, except for Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland.

Now for something, er, completely different: a biography of US astronaut Alan B Shepard, the first American in space - Light This Candle by Neal Thompson.

 

[Urien]

Tom Lloyd Stormcaller and Twilight Herald, read about 200 pages so far.

Also Brass Man by Neil Asher.

 

[Connavar]

Have fun ... Mort was my first Pratchett and it's still one of my favourites.

I have been thinking about reading my first book by Pratchett since i have only read Good Omens so far.

Is Mort a good first book or should i get the first Discworld book ?

Is it fantasy ?

 

[chopper]

mort's a pretty good self-contained start to several characters and fleshes out DEATH as well. colour of magic & light fantastic are the "proper" places to start, but you can always come back to them as at that point TP wasn't actually writing with continuity in mind (IMO)

 

[Nesacat]

I'll second Chopper. Many people, including myself, read them for the main characters. SO you could read all the Death books or all the Witches books or the Watch books or Rincewind books.

Or you can start from the beginning with Colour of Magic followed by Light Fantastic to get a feel of the world.

And yes, they'd be fantasy.

 

[Connavar]

I'll second Chopper. Many people, including myself, read them for the main characters. SO you could read all the Death books or all the Witches books or the Watch books or Rincewind books.

Or you can start from the beginning with Colour of Magic followed by Light Fantastic to get a feel of the world.

And yes, they'd be fantasy.

So its alright i take it reading Mort first and then going back to the first three books ?

Mort sounded interesting plus the other early books didnt sound connected much.

 

[Donna Scott]

I just started Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. I felt I had to read something by him. Okay so far if I ignore the warning *beep* *beep* negativity towards women alarm in my head. Oh and the fact that it mentions Martians.

 

[Nesacat]

Yes reading Mort first is fine. I did and it made me want to read more. Death remains my favourite followed by the Witches so those are the books I got through first.

 

[Spade]

Almost done with Ring by Stephen Baxter, which has just blown me away so far. I almost gave up on it after a couple of hundred pages when all the familiars characters suddenly changed (or so I thought). I thought Michael Poole was going to actually play a bigger role in this novel, and that has really been my only disappointment so far. Next up is To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis.

 

[GOLLUM]

Baxter's Time Ships, a sequel to Well's Time Machine, is excellent and even better then the original.

Now reading Peake's Gormenghast as part of the christening of the new library...

 

[gully_foyle]

Baxter's Time Ships, a sequel to Well's Time Machine, is excellent and even better then the original.

Well's has generated his own quantum time flux because that statement has made him spin in his grave so fast!

Finally getting around to Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

 

[sci-fi girl]

I'm reading Tales of the Otori - book 3, brilliance of the moon, by Lian Hearn.

 

[The Procrastinator]

I loved Tales of the Otori. I've read one of the sequels and it didn't disappoint either.

I've just finished Matter, by Iain M Banks. Not entirely sure what I thought of it (did I love it? Did I love only parts of it?) but that is often the case with Banks and me, I will need to read it again to properly sort it out.

 

[elvet]

I started Myth Hunters by Christopher Golden. I was interested in the book since it has one of my favorite themes - modern day person enters fantasy world. The story so far is a bit darker than I like, and seems more like a horror/thriller than a fantasy (so far).