May's Meanderings in Fabulous Fiction...

[Lady of Winterfell]

I'm now on to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

 

[Lobolover]

Well, finished "The Green face" by Meyrink . Read two of his short stories, the briliant "Master Leonhard" and the good story about bugs whose title I will supply later . All the rest apears to be satirical/humoristic writing and tha's not why I wanted to read Meyrink - had one of those "Is it even worth to try any other of his works" fases afterwards .

Now moving on to his "Valpurgisnacht" , and then we will see .

 

[HoopyFrood]

From Russia, With Love - Ian Fleming

and

The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch

 

[Hobbiton]

I'm finishing up a re-reading of Tokien's The Two Towers.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Now moving on to Parker's Evil For Evil.

 

[nj1]

Just finished FIRE AND SWORD by Simon Scarrow, REALLY enjoyed it, like the first two books and SS keeps the story running at a good pace and with characters like Napoleon and Wellesley you can't really go wrong. Never realised just how much of a genius Napoleon was and the achievements of both men are astounding. Can't wait for the next (final?) book of the series which covers the decline of Napoleon.

Now onto KING OF ITHACA, by Glyn Iliffe, a take on the Odyseus legend, started well so fingers crossed.

 

[MontyCircus]

Finished The Hitchhiker Trilogy. I thought the series was mostly not worth reading after the first, oh-so-brilliant book, but I thought "the ending" was really hilarious...though not worth wading through those mediocre books to get to.

Now I'm reading Dune, hope to get that finished this month. After that...hmm...not sure what's next...so many unread books...

 

[AE35Unit]

Hitchhiker's,mediocre? Heresy!
Watching Firefly,now thats mediocre!

 

[Connavar]

The Continental OP by Dashiell Hammett.

Im reading it to try out and to show respect to one of the fathers of my favorite type crime fiction.

 

[Althain's Warden]

Just bought all three current Joe Abercrombie books !!!!!! Looking forward to them alot after hearing the reviews of his work on here !

 

[j d worthington]

Well, I've read all but Mlle. de Maupin in the volume of Gautier. I quite like his work, but it does vary considerably. "Spirit Love" (originally titled Spirite), is a very odd little tale, not for those looking for the more eerie type of spectral story (though when he does choose to hint at the unreal world there, he manages to convey the atmosphere very well indeed), but for those who enjoy a more unusual kind of fantasy tale, a spiritual romance as it were, with a great deal of pathos and charm... definitely worth tracking down, as there are some very powerful (if often subtle) moments there....

"Fortunio" -- which hovers on the edges of the fantastic without ever quite becoming fantasy -- is a good deal more ironic in tone, even broadly satirical to farcical at times... yet with a biting undertone to it which keeps it from ever becoming ever quite as light as the surface would appear... and the final pages take a very different, even stark, turn to boot....

 

[ratsy]

Finally finished "The Runelords" by David Farland and have moved on to "The Hero of Ages" by Brandon Sanderson.

 

[soulsinging]

The Continental OP by Dashiell Hammett.

Im reading it to try out and to show respect to one of the fathers of my favorite type crime fiction.

I'm hoping to get to that this week.

I just finished the Preacher series of graphic novels. They were excellent. Now I'm planning to have a go at kurt vonnegut's 'Sirens of Titan.'

 

[Fried Egg]

"The Tower of Glass" by Robert Silverberg.

 

[gully_foyle]

Finally finished Timescape by Gregory Benford. What a wonderful short story it would have made. It's a pity he had to pad it with mindless soap opera.

Now reading The Martian Chronicles (aka The Silver Locusts) by Ray Bradbury.

 

[Urien]

Finshed Fatal Revenant by Stephan Donaldson. The second half of the 800 page book reminded me why I liked the Thomas Covenant books. It's still learn a new word a page, but a puissant second half saves it from a loquacious loggorheatic indecisive angst fest.

Also read The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier. Man drinks potion X on recommendation from scientist mate whilst staying alone in Cornwall. He starts seeing the distant past, get's addicted. His semi-estranged American 1969 version wife turns up with step children. Well written, bonkers science, dumb behaviour from so-called smart men. Ultimately unsatisfying (for me).

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

I am now reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

 

[Connavar]

I'm hoping to get to that this week.

I just finished the Preacher series of graphic novels. They were excellent. Now I'm planning to have a go at kurt vonnegut's 'Sirens of Titan.'

For a 20s short story collection it was a masterful book. After having read early Maltese Falcon and not liking it now i fully understand why Hammett is seen as a great one in the field.

The OP is so different from other Noir PI's,the stories are darker,corrupt than the usual heroic good looking PI ala Marlowe is involved in.

Will be interesting to see what you think about it. I enjoyed it alot and will get other OP stories and Red Harvest(OP's only Novel) as soon as i can.

 

[clovis-man]

Almost to the end of Matter. Some have said they found it disappointing. I am finding it to be uniformly fascinating.

 

[Connavar]

I have started reading Flow My Tears,the Policeman Said by Philip K Dick.

As usual it started rambling,confusing like you started reading in the middle of the story.