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

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Finished "Ezra Caine" by Joseph Sharts . Wonderfull account of a madman, not unlike "A Madman's Manuscript" by Dickens, except much longer . Writing a review of that one is a toughie, considering, as it happens with such works, there is litle to properly describe .
 
Done with Mieville's Perdidio Street Station and back to Asimov's Mysteries...
 
Having finished and enjoyed Nothing to lose by Lee CHild, i've stayed with thrillers and have nearly finished The Last Patriot by Brad Thor. I think i suspect a thriller bookcase looming in the near future! After that it will be back to fantasy for Scott Lynch's first two books.
 
barbri's Ohio Lecture Handouts covering all subjects for the Ohio bar exam :(

And still A Feast for Crows on the side... I'm almost looking forward to taking the bar exam because when it's over I get to really dive into this book and finish it, hehe.
 
The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson.

I wanted to get in a sf book in before reading A Wizard of Earthsea by Le Guin which is my last library book to read.
 
I finished Dark Cosmos by Dan Hooper and quite enjoyed it. I would recommend it to anyone who has an interest in learning about dark matter or dark energy. The majority of the book deals with dark matter, and only the last couple chapters touch on dark energy, which is even less well known than dark matter. Hooper covers the candidates for dark matter, both those that have been proven not to be dark matter, as well as those current candidates that have yet to be proven as dark matter particles or not.

Still reading The Dragon Reborn, and now also The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin. The latter is on Newsweek's list of "50 books for our times."
 
Having finished Là-Bas Monday, I have now moved on to a volume which is titled (though I have my doubts about it actually being) The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant. It is, at any rate, a hefty thing of over 1000 pp., small print, and is one of those wonderful (if odd) "one-volume library" books put out in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (this one being 10-volumes-in-one, printed in 1903)....
 
I just finished The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin. It was another great collection of stories from her. Some real gems in there. :)

I started The Man in The High Castle by Philip K. Dick. I can't believe I've never read anything by him before, so far I love it. He is such a great writer.
 
Lobolover said:
Ah, I suposse that's gonna take you awhile .
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Worse than that, Lobo... I'm intending (at this point, at least), on following it up with The Dark Half, a collection holding (supposedly) all of his writings of a weird and supernatural/horrific nature, as well as the next volume of Julian Hawthorne's Lock-and-Key Library, which also has a selection of several of his tales, not to mention those by Erckmann-Chatrian mentioned by HPL in his paper, as well as de L'Isle Adam's "Torture by Hope", etc....
 
After a break from the books for work & gaming reasons I finally dove in and finished The Guards by Ken Bruen - horrible, brilliant and darkly funny (Thanks for Connavar for the recommendation).
 
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie - was a birthday present back in June...

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About the DÏsle ADam tale- not bad, but I find "The desire to be a man" to be better . The original story wasn't as bad, but I know ones that were better, so when people call it a masterpiece , I can't 100% agree .
 
Finished PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT, sequel to LAND THAT TIME FORGOT, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Though sequels aren't supposed to be as good as their predecessors I think I liked PEOPLE better. Now reading SPIDER KISS by Harlan Ellison. Published by Ace Books as sf I suspect it's more mainstream with fantasy elements. Time will tell.
 
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Finished PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT, sequel to LAND THAT TIME FORGOT, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Though sequels aren't supposed to be as good as their predecessors I think I liked PEOPLE better. Now reading SPIDER KISS by Harlan Ellison. Published by Ace Books as sf I suspect it's more mainstream with fantasy elements. Time will tell.
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Mmmm.... I guess that means you hadn't heard the explosion when Ace published it as sf, eh? Harlan was not best pleased with that, and it nearly cost them the contract for that line of books, iirc. It isn't sf or fantasy, but connected to his stories of juvenile delinquents and the like -- street gangs and so on: Web of the City (Rumble), The Deadly Streets, Children of the Streets (The Juvies), Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation, Memos from Purgatory (nonfiction), and so on....

That being said, I'd have to add that Spider Kiss is a very good novel, showing Ellison breaking out of the chrysalis of his earlier, sometimes strained stories and truly beginning to find his own voice (though that process had begun with some of his earlier stories, for the matter of that). Definitely one worth reading and, in fact, one I'd say bears revisiting now and again....
 
j. d. worthington said:
Mmmm.... I guess that means you hadn't heard the explosion when Ace published it as sf, eh?
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No, I hadn't, or don't recall at any rate. This edition came out in 1982. Memory is bad but I'm fairly certain Geis shut down SFR by that time, my main source of sf news at back then, after which I wasn't following the vicissitudes of the field anymore. Interesting though, thanks for mentioning it.
 
Finished reading Magician: Master by Raymond Feist and am reading Silverthorn by Raymond Feist (I think there may be a pattern forming)
 
Nice Brando avatar Con!
I'm going to read an early classic next.
Triplanetary by E.E. 'Doc' Smith.
Been looking forward to this and wish I'd read these books years ago!
 
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