December's here! And you're reading....?

[CyBeR]

Half way through Terry Pratchett's 'Moving pictures' and I'm so loving it. This counts my 13th book read from this author and it's, so far, a personal record for me from a single author.
It's also so much fun reading this stuff in publishing order now. I started at first with the whole Rincewind series and even got as far as 'The last continent' and now, as I've started over with the whole Discworld series, I'm actually seeing how the author really evolves. Hehe, it's fun.

 

[ratsy]

I have read a few books this month so far but havent been on here in a while

With a Single Spell - Lawrence Watt-Evans
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
The Road - Cormac McCarthy (this to me was a fantastic read)

I am also plugging away at Under the Dome - Stephen King and picked up Just after Sunset by Kings as well at the airport today...short flight but I made it through 3 short stories so far

 

[gully_foyle]

The City & the City by China Mieville.

 

[Allegra]

Still reading Look to Windward and loving it. Also reading Watchmen - hell of a book, fabulous!

 

[Connavar]

I have started reading Dispatching Baudelaire by Ken Bruen.

Not the first choice i would read of that writer, that genre but i'm criminally low on good crime books.

 

[Rodders]

Just starting to reread Stephen King's IT.

I read it about 20 years ago and thought it was superb (apart from that cop out ending.)

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Now reading The End Of The Story by Clark Ashton Smith, Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers and The Fungal Stain by W.H. Pugmire.

 

[Fried Egg]

Now reading The End Of The Story by Clark Ashton Smith...

I am jealous; I really need to make an effort to get some more CAS.

I have started "Last Dragon" by J.M. McDermott. This is part of next year's reading really and constitutes January's entry for the "Recent" category.

 

[ravenus]

Posting here after a looong time. Between movies and gaming, books have taken a backseat, I'm afraid.

Currently reading Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond. A look at how particular societies and civilizations came to dominate over and even eliminate others in the world. Apart from the tendency towards repetitions of the same inferences over and over, the book is fascinating to read.

 

[Ursa major]

Anyway, I've said I've read all of The First Law trilogy (by Joe Abercrombie), but haven't mentioned my reactions to any of the books bar the first one (whose first line, I omitted to say - was 'Logen plunged through the trees, bare feet slipping and sliding on the wet earth, the slush, the wet pine needles, breath rasping in his chest, blood thumping in his head.')

The second volume, Before They Are Hanged, has the POV characters spread about the world, and all facing mortal danger, even a certain Superior. As before, there's a balance of intrigue, adventure and out-and-out slaughter, although with death nearer by, the pace has increased. As ever, Glokta is my (and, I'd guess, many people's) favourite character, despite the verve he puts into his more-than-dubious work.

All in all, a good read: better written than the first book, it fills out the world, drops hints about things to come (and things in the past), while building up the momentum towards the final volume.

Highly recommended.


(By the way, I see that the language used has been highlighted in this thread. Abercrombie does not hold back, although it's used for telling effect. Nothing worse, really, than you'd find in GRRM's ASoIaF.)

 

[Connavar]

Half way through Terry Pratchett's 'Moving pictures' and I'm so loving it. This counts my 13th book read from this author and it's, so far, a personal record for me from a single author.
It's also so much fun reading this stuff in publishing order now. I started at first with the whole Rincewind series and even got as far as 'The last continent' and now, as I've started over with the whole Discworld series, I'm actually seeing how the author really evolves. Hehe, it's fun.

Heh my personal record is David Gemmell, 16 books in fantasy and 18 books by Donald E Westlake in crime. So i know how you feel about Pratchett.

Two authors high on my fav author list, otherwise i dont read any single writer that much.

 

[Fried Egg]

My record would probably be the 27 books I've read by Michael Moorcock...

 

[Ursa major]

If we're talking records....

I have well over a hundred records (well, mostly CDs) with works by a single composer.


* Heads off to Music. *

 

[Connavar]

My record would probably be the 27 books I've read by Michael Moorcock...

Really i didnt know you were that big of a fan. Mostly Elric ?

I liked Corum more. It will be Corum and A Warlord of time series next for me.

For me it would be PKD if i read him as much as i liked. But his 30 books is nothing compared to Westlake who has 4 pen-names and over a 100 books

 

[Fried Egg]

Really i didnt know you were that big of a fan. Mostly Elric ?

Only six elric books (you can't count "Elric at the end of time"). Only two of Corum but they were both omnibus editions containing three individual novels so it's six really. I did go through a phase in the 90's of reading lots of Moorcock. Haven't read much by him for a while although I do have one on my to read shelf...

 

[Ian Whates]

My record would probably be the 27 books I've read by Michael Moorcock...

This set me checking my own records, and I admit to being surprised on discovering that there are three authors I've read thirty-odd books by (Asimov, Van Vogt and Jack Chalker), but five I've read 40 or more by!

Namely:

Poul Anderson (40)
CJ Cherryh (41)
Michael Moorcock (41)
Alan Dean Foster (43)
Roger Zelazny (47)

I really had no idea...

 

[Grimward]

I think I have about 15-20 from Moorcock *waits for JD to show up with his complete MM collection, multiple editions*, following the counting of each book within the Corum Omnibus editions (which is what I have too, Fried). I have more than that from Weis and Hickman (was a sucker for Dragonlance stuff for a long time...).

Still marching thru the Zelazny Collected Stories, Vol. 4, and have ordered the final two volumes from Amazon........speaking of which, have no idea how to count the Collected Stories books, so I'll count them as 1 each. Leaves me with 20-30 Zelazny books, also....

 

[AE35Unit]

This set me checking my own records, and I admit to being surprised on discovering that there are three authors I've read thirty-odd books by (Asimov, Van Vogt and Jack Chalker), but five I've read 40 or more by!

Namely:

Poul Anderson (40)
CJ Cherryh (41)
Michael Moorcock (41)
Alan Dean Foster (43)
Roger Zelazny (47)

I really had no idea...

Someone should start such a thread,the number of books by each author one has read, or is there one already...?

 

[GOLLUM]

Someone should start such a thread,the number of books by each author one has read, or is there one already...?

No I don't think so....feel free to set one up if you wish.

Please refer to the January 2010 reading thread for those who have crossed over into the new year already like me or possibly hurtled into the future via a wormhole slingshot?...

I'll close this thread within the next 24hrs.

 

[Connavar]

I have started reading The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney. A very talented heroic fantasy writer prolly finest of his generation. I really like his elegent prose most of all. It makes him stand out in that sense among the others of his subgenre.

The book's world isnt as original as his other series but its very good story,characters,action.
A writer that keeps growing with every book for me. Hope to read much more books of him in near future.


P.S Its not even close 1th Januari over i'm just leaving for a New Year's party