May's Meanderings in Fabulous Fiction...

[Lady of Winterfell]

Seen the trailers for HBP ! The book is possibly my favourite one and the film looks set to be good !!

Yeah, I've seen the trailers too. They definately look good. Can't wait for it to come out!

 

[j d worthington]

Well, I've finished the Skinner... as said, some very interesting things in there, and some very enjoyable stories recounted in a brief, but often very entertaining and absorbing, fashion.

And have now begun a re-read of Michael Moorcock's The Golden Barge....

 

[Hilarious Joke]

@Nikkita Love the D20 reference When i can't decide something i often turn to my dice for guidence ! lol That said they still get actual use every few weeks or so.

@Althain's Warder: Love the love of the D20 reference, and I love the D20 reference itself . I use dice for all sorts of purposes, boy I love 'em!

 

[thesoothsayer]

Just started on the first few chapters of "Crime and Punishment" and "Atlas Shrugged".

So far, I'm rather neutral on "Crime and Punishment" but "Atlas Shrugged" is beginning to feel like punishment for me. Not sure if I'll push on and finish it.

 

[Connavar]

Im reading One of us is Wrong by Donald.E Westlake.

Its the first book of four in his Sam Holt series. From the late 80s. Hardboiled,fun,quirky. Its like Elmore Leonard Get Shorty,Be Cool since even though its a mystery plot Westlake writes alot about his experience in hollywood as film,tv script writer.

Sam Holt the main character is an actor that got big,rich as the hero in crime show but is too known as the character Packard in the show that he cant be seen as playing someone else.

 

[Fried Egg]

Wow, this has been a particularly productive month for me; five books finished in May. My average is three a month.

Anyway, finished "The Simulacra" by P. K. Dick and now on to "The House on the Borderland" by W. H. Hodgson.

 

[Nikitta]

I ended up deciding to give Jem a whirl. So far it's too early to say what I think of it and I have only read one short story by Frederik Pohl before (The Tunnel Under the World), but if that is anything to go by, then this one will be good.

It has gotten my attention and curiousity within the first chaper, though.

 

[UltraCulture]

The Centauri Device - M.John Harrison

I'm getting good feelings so far.

Now where did Iain M get his mojo.

 

[gully_foyle]

The Centauri Device - M.John Harrison

I'm getting good feelings so far.

Now where did Iain M get his mojo.

A great book and very out there. I'm surprised Banks didn't list this as one his favourite books (http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/24691-iain-m-banks-top-ten-sf-novels-how.html), but he did list one of Harrison's books, which I should seek out.