December's Delights in Reading

[HoopyFrood]

Decided to go through His Dark Materials again, so reading Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.

 

[sloweye]

just started 'Pillars of the earth', got it on recomendation but its not grabing me so far

 

[Kettricken]

I've finished 'Gardens of the Moon': a very, very promising start of the series!

At the moment I'm continuing 'The Privilege of the Sword' by Ellen Kushner, 'On Stranger Tides' by Tim Powers and 'The Devil You Know' by Mike Carey.

 

[Ice fyre]

I hear ya Pyan but I am just a wee bit odd about these things! Finished it now though, they should really edited it the spelling was awful in places (hah hear me talking!) and the charicters were paper thin! But I did laugh in places, I dont think I was meant to though!

Got Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's Burning Tower to read so that should be good!

 

[Wybren]

Just started A Game of Thrones, and for christmas santa is bringing me The Lies of Locke Lamora

 

[Brett Howell]

I've basicaly got everything Wolfe has written (all novels and most story collections) including his essays on the Sun series and Lexicon Urthus which is an invaluable reference guide/dictoinary to the New Sun series. You realise there's several more books in his Sun sequence, so you are only touching the tip of the iceberg.

If you like this author's srtyle drop me a line and I can recommend what to try next or check out Wolfe's subforum in the authors section of this site.

I presume you have read Whyte's superlative Arthurian sequence the Camulod Chronicles? If not you may like to check it out.

Cheers....

Thanks GOLLUM. I do have the Camulod books on my wishlist. I only really found out about Whyte after seeing his book on the shelf, and picked it up since I have a facination with the Templar. But I was kind of holding off after my last outing with him. I may have to give The Lance Thrower a shot now (after Woolfe of course - it seems I'll be going for a while with him)


(Oh, and someone that's not a Dune fan? That's a shame - the original is a great read)

 

[Nikitta]

I've decided to dive into The Forever war. I've never read it before, so I'm really curious.

 

[Kettricken]

Just started A Game of Thrones, and for christmas santa is bringing me The Lies of Locke Lamora

You're lucky, Wybren, both great reads!

I've finished 'The Devil You Know' by Mike Carey. It was entertaining, not a masterwork however. I like urban fantasy, but this book didn't grab me so much, best thing was the descriptions of London.

 

[Nikitta]

I've now read The Forever War - It was so depressing that it should have a warning label slapped on it and yet, I couldn't really put it down.

Now I'm going to go for something in a lighter mood: Fool Moon.

The combination of those two just might give me weird dreams tonight, though

 

[Lobolover]

"The derelict" by W.H.Hodgson.Am just reading "Bubble-Well road" by Kipling.

 

[j d worthington]

Well, amonst other things (such as Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life), I've continued reading Smith's poetry and various short stories... including Anthony M. Rud's "Ooze" (Mar. 1923) and "A Square of Canvass" (Apr. 1923) as well as Vincent Starrett's "Penelope" (May 1923) and a couple of Whitehead's early tales....

 

[tangaloomababe]

Oiginally posted by Sloweye

just started 'Pillars of the earth', got it on recomendation but its not grabing me so far

Please persist sloweye, its one of my favorite books ever, I would be suprised if you didn't enjoy it!

Reading the Twilight series at the moment, I liked the first book but am finding the second one just a bit tedious and don't know if I should continue.

 

[Hilarious Joke]

Picked up First King of Shannara by Terry Brooks again, almost finished. I don't think I'll be reading any more Brooks after this though.

 

[Grimward]

Cheers HJ! Been a while...as Slow likes to say, "Ow's you?"

2/3 of the way thru Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson. While I was just OK with The Runes of the Earth, Donaldson returns in force with this second book in the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Hard to put it down, even with so much else going on here pre-Christmas...

Have also begun my Phillip K. Dick reading with A Scanner Darkly. Druggie themes were never my favorite (PKD would call me a "straight", although this doesn't necessarily color my reading preferences...), but am working with this one thusfar (about 25 pages in).

 

[BookStop]

To celebrate the season, I am reading the Hogfather book by Terry Pratchet. I must say it tickles me to no end.

 

[Kettricken]

I finished 'The Privilege of the Sword' by Ellen Kushner last Friday. Although the book seemed to start a bit 'fluffy', it had a good purpose; character development. The further I progressed, the more depth the book seemed to contain. I've really enjoyed this book and especially liked the character of the Duke. Will definitely read more by Kushner, because this book was a real treat!

I'm still reading 'On Stranger Tides' (a bit slowly, because it's an ebook and my reading time has been primarily in trains lately...), and have also started 'I am Legend' by Richard Matheson. Haven't seen the movie, so I don't know how it compares. The first 50 pages are very intruiging, I must say, the claustrophobic atmosphere is quite frightening.

 

[Lobolover]

J.D.-Ive been meaning to ask-how is "Ooze" like?

 

[LaMattie]

I've just finished Midnight Falcon by David Gemmell, and started Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies. Hoping to try The Night Angel Trilogy afterwords...

 

[j d worthington]

J.D.-Ive been meaning to ask-how is "Ooze" like?

It's an interesting tale; I think you might like it. At times it remind me somewhat of "Fishhead", and I think it may have been influenced by it in some ways -- especially the way the setting is handled, and the almost laconic way the tale is told with more than a strain of dark humor. These are the only two of Rud's few tales I've read at this point; the other impresses me less, but that's because the theme itself is rather hackneyed, and the tone is a bit more hectic (to suit the subject).

Am currently reading "The Moon Terror", by A. G. Birch -- an entertaining bit of nonsense, if completely unconvincing emotionally. Very much a blending of the Yellow Peril tale with the pseudoscientific adventure, and parts of this one, I think, may have influenced REH with "Skull-Face", just as "Ooze" may have influenced HPL....

 

[Lobolover]

Im sorry to ask,but how would you quickly sum up the Birch?

Also,im reading some E.Nesbit and also did Kipling's "Bubbling well road".Short,but it has a few vague touches.