How can it be July already? What we're reading this month...

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Finished Joe Abercrombies Last Argument of Kings last night. This series was one of the best I have ever read. New and refreshing.

I am moving on to Brandon Sandersons Warkbreaker
 
Finished Flow,My Tears, the Policeman Said.
Great book,easily his best so far. There are still one or two odd moments that make you go What? but on the whole it was enjoyable. I'll say one thing tho. Dick was obsessed with drugs and sex!
 
I haven't yet read that one yet AE, but it's one of those books that i've always wanted to read. I hope you'll be posting a review of it later. (Please? :D)
 
I'm doing a reread of C. S. Friedman's Feast of Souls to refresh my memory (it's been two years) for the second book of the trilogy Wings of Wrath.
 
Just back from a mini-vacation. Other than my Malazan reread (am on Memories of Ice), I enjoyed:
The Quickening trilogy by Fiona McIntosh
Touch the Dark by Karen Chance - I liked that there was lots of story with an interesting twist.
Kushiel's Mercy - much better than Scion, but Imriel's story is not near as good as Phedre's was
Dead in Dallas - another reread whilst watching True Blood season 2 on TV
 
Rodders said:
I haven't yet read that one yet AE, but it's one of those books that i've always wanted to read. I hope you'll be posting a review of it later. (Please? :D)
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I'm not sure i'm competent enough to do a review of this one. I think you have to have the right mindset to understand Dick.
 
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Just back from a mini-vacation. Other than my Malazan reread (am on Memories of Ice), I enjoyed:
The Quickening trilogy by Fiona McIntosh
Touch the Dark by Karen Chance - I liked that there was lots of story with an interesting twist.
Kushiel's Mercy - much better than Scion, but Imriel's story is not near as good as Phedre's was
Dead in Dallas - another reread whilst watching True Blood season 2 on TV
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Karen Chance gets better with each book.
 
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Finished Flow,My Tears, the Policeman Said.
Great book,easily his best so far. There are still one or two odd moments that make you go What? but on the whole it was enjoyable. I'll say one thing tho. Dick was obsessed with drugs and sex!
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Nah his 70s books are much different than his 60s books. Darkly Scanner is also about drugs and its a 70s book of his. I wonder why :p

If you liked try his 60s books there are couple of them i rate higher than Flow My Tears. Its not in my top 3 PKD so far.

Im glad you saw the qaulity of PKD specially since its not your usual cup of tea.
 
Finished FROOMB! by John Lymington. Pretty good; won't pretend I totally understand the shuffling of murder, life after death and time travel into an sf concept but as long as I didn't dwell on it too long things zipped along nicely. The image I formed in my mind of the main super professor character was indistinguishable from Rohmer's Nayland Smith. Now reading THE RETURN, Ididore Haiblum's take on the aftermath of a "Texas-New York Nuclear Holocaust." Like first sentences? "Cramer kicked the nurse in the stomach." And it's not slowing down yet. High hopes for this one.:)
 
Just finished reading Ghost by Robert Harris. Wow! Harris never disappoints. For those who do not know much about this author, I implore you to buy all of his works.

Just started reading Robert Fisk's The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. This is a huge (1400 pages and very small print) book covering most of the experiences in the middle east of perhaps the best journalist in the last thirty years. I have always loved Fisk's journalism and his political and ideological views and hope to learn something from him by reading this book.
 
Finished Warbreaker by Sanderson. A good story with an interesting "magic" system.

I am on a Magician reread by Feist while I wait for Dragon Keeper to come in the Mail
 
The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison

Some of you might have heard about it ;)
 
Finished off Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry -- an interesting selection from the man's work. But, having followed that by beginning Clark Ashton Smith's translations (which includes the French originals), it is obvious even to someone like myself -- who doesn't read French -- how vastly things were often changed from Baudelaire's own word choices, phrasing, and imagery. Sometimes the changes were quite good; sometimes much less effective. (Smith's vary between a very literal prose translation even of the verse, and versified forms of these, incorporating some of Smith's own tendencies as poet -- in both cases, the man's abilities with language are more than evident, and he brings out both the exoticism, decadence, delicate (and sometimes not so delicate: see "Une Charogne"/"A Carcasse") perversity, and love of both beauty and horror which are a hallmark of Baudelaire's work. Reading the original in conjunction with them makes for a fascinating experience, and it certainly brings out the music and magic in Baudelaire more than the majority of translations I've seen....)
 
I just finished reading the first 3 books from The Heechee saga by Frederik Pohl (Gateway, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon and Heechee Rendezvous). Good reads, entertaining but I was a little dissapointed in the endings of all 3. But still recommended if you dont mind a little antiquated tech ideas.

Just started Old Twentieth by Joe Haldeman. So far I really like his writing style, sooo easy to read. And the story is excellent so far, up to the 3rd chapter.

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