May's (Mostly) Marvelous Literary Musings

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Connavar said:
I know i was just trying to make you read the book :)
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Okay, at some point. I’ve read some of that genre before and expect I will again. But I’ve got a huge sci-fi TBR pile at the moment. By the way, you may want to check out EricVan Lustbader’s stuff. The Ninja is a good start.


 
Razorback said:
Okay, at some point. I’ve read some of that genre before and expect I will again. But I’ve got a huge sci-fi TBR pile at the moment. By the way, you may want to check out EricVan Lustbader’s stuff. The Ninja is a good start.
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I plan to read his Bourne books soon. If he is good enough i will read his Ninja series.

I have read about that series of his.
 
Finished The Book of the River by Ian Watson. Good stuff. Before tackling books 2 and 3 of the trilogy (The Book of the Stars and The Book of Being), I'm reading Virginia Woolf's Orlando as the May book for my 2008 reading challenge to read each month a classic author I've not read before. So far, it's been - January: Patricia Highsmith (meh), February: Ernest Hemingway (couldn't finish), March: Rudyard Kipling (glad I read it), April: Anthony Powell (good)...
 
Have finished The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow
... a journalist who discovers that his apparently dead father has faked his death, and has eloped to become part of a medical experiment to prolong life, run by an insanely brilliant doctor.

I read second half of the book at dawn because I could not stop. Am all bug eyed at work now but it's alright. A wonderfully dark book. Very Gothic and with the most vivid descriptions of New York and it's people at that time.
 
Rubicon, by Tom Holland.

a fast and enjoyable whizz through the end of the Roman Republic. you can imagine that the chaps at HBO had a copy knocking about somewhere...
 
I finished Sariel by Garth Nix... Most excellent book! Kept me on the edge toward the end. I'm dying to know why the two cats. I suppose after I finish reading Prince Caspian I can dive into the next book of that series.
 
Still going with Dumas, now reading The Page Of The Duke Of Savoy. Also just picked up The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (? can't remember exact title of the top of my head) by Edgar Allen Poe.
 
Dogs of Riga by Hening Mankell, the second book in Kurt Wallander crime series.


Im reading the swedish version, i wrote the english name of the book for so others understand the title since not many here speak swedish.

Its very weird reading this book cause its the first book im reading in swedish in 1 1/2 years (!).

Also its way too normal to read it on paper stuff about a swedish cop complaining the snowy weather and other truly mundane swedish stuff. its much more excotic reading abouts Cops in LA,NY,Edinbrough etc
 
Finished PKD The Penultimate Truth - and to answer question

Amalthea said:
The Penultimate Truth is one that sparked my interest when I read a synopsis, but because PKD is either hit or miss for me, I haven't picked up a copy yet. Would you mind letting me know what you think when you have finished?
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I'll have to agree with the statement on the book cover - "[SIZE=-1]An entertaining and disturbing read.[/SIZE]" - especially with the disturbing part. It is a book of ideas, how the masses can be manipulated and just how little is needed to actually do that - forget a fact here and add another here etc. I'd have to say that maybe there were a bit too many ideas for such a short book - not all parts of the book worked well together. As Amalthea - didn't add any PKD book names that were hits with you - I can't say whether you should try it or not - but with PKD it's almost always better to try and then decide as the time consumption isn't actually too great.

Next reading - don't know - tried about 4 books within an hour and couldn't find anything that grabbed attention - have to search my TBR pile a bit more.
 
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Just finished Joe Abercrombie's Last Argument of Kings, which is a great final volume of an outstanding fantasy trilogy.

Have now picked up Ken MacLeod's The Execution Channel. Fifty pages in and it's excellent; near-future rather than Ken's recent deep space novels, but totally gripping.

Also dipping in and out of an Ian Watson short story collection, Slow Birds & Other Stories, which is proving typically inventive and entertaining.
 
Taltos said:
As Amalthea - didn't add any PKD book names that were hits with you - I can't say whether you should try it or not - but with PKD it's almost always better to try and then decide as the time consumption isn't actually too great.
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Good point. I can usually finish a PKD novel in one day. My favorites are Ubik, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and Eye in the Sky. I did not like Galactic Pot-Healer or The Man in the High Castle.

Anyway, I am finishing up Maia by Richard Adams and about to read Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov. I didn't like Foundation much, but was sucked in by Foundation and Empire, so now I must finish the trilogy.
 
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