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

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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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Ooh sounds like you like your classic SF! I'm dying to get my hands on Gateway amongst others of its ilk.
Only read one Haldeman,Forever War,excellent book.
 
I am reading 'Red Earth and Pouring Rain' at the moment. It's getting boring...:eek:
 
Now reading Skinwalker: A Jane Yellowrock Novel by Faith Hunter. Instead of Buffy, we have a six-foot Cherokee skinwalker hunting vampires in New Orleans. So, far, it's well done.
 
AE35Unit said:
Ooh sounds like you like your classic SF! I'm dying to get my hands on Gateway amongst others of its ilk.
Only read one Haldeman,Forever War,excellent book.
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Ill read just about any scifi as long as its good :) And reading the old books you can really see where most of todays authors were influenced by those before them.


This is my first Haldeman book, and Im already looking to see what else of his I can find.
 
AE35Unit said:
Oh i will,it'll be up on my blog. So far its reading like a fantasy rather than SF! But good fantasy.
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Thats just an illusion of the fact Vance never cares about technical details. He uses ships,faster than light travel but not in SF way. In a few words in his books you travel to the other side of universe heh.

Wonder how it will look to you when you finish. To me it was very SF.

How far into the story are you ?
 
I've read Gardens of the Moon a couple of times, the first half of Deadhouse Gates twice...beyond that, they'll be the first reread (I'm wondering if I can really get through the end of of the second book again...). Although I'm only up to Midnight Tides anyway. Each rereading, even just the first, makes the whole story that little bit clearer...
 
Finishing Stainless Steel Rat which was very good i felt for more of my new sf books so im reading.

Undertow by Elizabeth Bear. With cyperpunk elements,new writer,a new style i dont get anything but i will see what its like.
 
Well, I finished Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb. This is only the first book in this trilogy, but so far I have found the Farseer story more enjoyable. Even so, I am anxious to find out what will happen with all the characters in the next book. This is certainly not a happy story; I'll have to see what happens in the next 2 books.

Now I'm on to my first Pratchett novel, The Color of Magic.
 
Having finished the reading of Baudelaire last night -- I must say, I often prefer Smith's translations, even when in prose, to several others I've read; he did seem to have a strong affinity with the French poet, to the point of capturing the flavor of his work much more closely, I think -- am now moving on to yet another of the "artists in sin" (to quote Lovecraft): Joris-Karl Huysmans, with À rebours (Against the Grain; 1884)....

For those interested in such things, this is the infamous "yellow-backed French novel" lent to Dorian Gray by Lord Henry in Wilde's novel, as confirmed at the latter's trial....
 
I finished the first book of the Magician books by Feist and am reading Magician:Master ( I understand the UK only has it in one volume ?) I havent read these books in 14 years so it is a fun read from the past! I am thinking of re-reading all of Feists books (there are about 3 only that I don't own so I will have to pick them up)

Recession = reading what I have at home
 
ratsy said:
I finished the first book of the Magician books by Feist and am reading Magician:Master ( I understand the UK only has it in one volume ?) I havent read these books in 14 years so it is a fun read from the past! I am thinking of re-reading all of Feists books (there are about 3 only that I don't own so I will have to pick them up)

Recession = reading what I have at home
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Get into bookmooch and find books you haven't read, for free!
 
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