March's Marvellous Missals, Mammoth Manuals and Miniscule Monographs

[AE35Unit]

Just started The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds (library book lend)

 

[Connavar]

Read and greatly liked Black Hornet by James Sallis.

Will you start reading the series from book 1 next ?

I saw you can buy the first two books in an omnibus.

If you want a stand alone book of his Drive is a perfect read for that.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

I'm just buying whatever I can find. His stuff is not well distributed here. The only thing I am making sure to do is keep the last book, which I already have, saved up for last. I also have one non-series book of his, Cypress Grove.

 

[Wybren]

Not alot this month. I have been slowly reading China Mieville's "Perdido Street Station" and in between I have read "Twilight" earlier this month only because I was told in no uncertain terms that I may not trash it till I have read it. Then to cleanse my mind of Twilight I just finished reading "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". I am reading "Stardust" as a bed time story for my son.

 

[Connavar]

I'm just buying whatever I can find. His stuff is not well distributed here. The only thing I am making sure to do is keep the last book, which I already have, saved up for last. I also have one non-series book of his, Cypress Grove.

The only books of his i have to get second hand is the first two books of Lew Griffien series. Thankfully he is easy to find stores over here.

 

[biodroid]

The Painted Man - Peter Brett. Pretty good so far but a bit disturbing with the sexual references and child abuse.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

The Plague Dogs

another Adams classic

 

[elvet]

I'm enjoying Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age. I'm a bit limited for time these days, so it's taken me longer to finish my previous read, Cook's Book of the South.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

For what its worth, here is my suggestions for those I have read.

Here are the unread books currently in my possession and gathering dust on my shelf (not because I've had them for a long time. I'm just filthy):

- The Dragonbone Chair (Book 1 of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn) by Tad Williams
I also found this book to be incredibly slow, it was all I could do to finish it. I admit it picked up towards the end of the story, but I just didn't enjoy it enough to continue on to the next book.

- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
I really enjoyed this story, and thought it was interesting, fun to read, and well done. I would recommend giving it a go.


- Gardens of the Moon (Book 1 of The Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson
I go back and forth on much I like these books. I have currently read the first 3, and have book 4 waiting on my shelf. Just be ready to be thrown into the middle of the action in Book 1 and not really have any clue to whats going on.

Any suggestions..?

 

[thesoothsayer]

Over the past week, I completed:
Children of God - I thought this was very good. More engrossing than the Sparrow and moved at a faster pace.
Hyperion - Ending left a lot to be desired, but I liked the format.
Flowers in the Attic - Was interesting enough, but the logic of some of the actions eluded me. Read a summary of the sequel and I don't think I'll be reading it.
Slaughterhouse-Five - I guess I didn't really get it. Not sure why it's supposed to be so brilliant.

Just started on:
Flowers for Algernon - Interesting first 50 pages so far, but the supposedly "riport" from the "ritartit" protagonist reads like some of the comments on Internet blogs these days. Don't feel too bad, Charlie!
The Ancestor's Tale - About 40 pages in as well. Dawkins never disappoints. Makes evolutionary biology an interesting and easy read.

 

[Hypnos164]

Over the past week, I completed:
Children of God - I thought this was very good. More engrossing than the Sparrow and moved at a faster pace.

Oh that's interesting most reviews don't compare it very favourably with The Sparrow.

Hyperion - Ending left a lot to be desired, but I liked the format.

Well it finishes the recounting of the Pilgrim's tales which was the focus of the piece. If you want to find out what happens next (and more of what was really going on) you have 3 sequels to come...

Flowers for Algernon - Interesting first 50 pages so far, but the supposedly "riport" from the "ritartit" protagonist reads like some of the comments on Internet blogs these days. Don't feel too bad, Charlie!

Lol, just lol

 

[Perpetual Man]

Weeeeelll, just finished The Well of Assension, by Brandon Sanderson, and although I did not enjoy it half as much as I did the first in the series (Mistborn: The Final Empire), that being said the last 100 or so pages kept me glued...

It did however take me over a month to read.

I have just started Golden Fool by Robin Hobb.

Just how long this will take me I do not know, but I should be a little quicker.

(And yes, I'm still around, I have not posted anything in ages... but health problems have been keeping me at bay - but I am still here, lrking. Honest!)

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Finished reading Bluebottle by James Sallis this morning. Again, a brilliant book, literate, allusive, evocative, and hard-boiled in equal measure. Still in a noir mood, so I'm now reading The High Window by Raymond Chandler.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I just finished reading Merchanter's Luck, by C. J. Cherryh. Not one of her best, but enjoyable.

 

[Diggler]

Finished In the Winter Dark by Tim Winton. Very gripping paranoid thriller.

I'm now onto Voices in the Dark by Edmund Cooper. It's just a bunch of short stories, though you wouldn't know it from the book title, description and lack of any mention to the fact.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

A lot of SF short story anthologies from the 60s and 70s seem to be rather coy about that fact, for some reason...

 

[thesoothsayer]

Oh that's interesting most reviews don't compare it very favourably with The Sparrow.

It's probably because in the Sparrow I knew that nothing good would come out of Sandoz's tale in the end. Starts on a bright note, but the story just gets more depressing from then on. Peeling through Sandoz's misery was hard work! There were times when I didn't really want to touch it. I liked it a lot and I keep asking my friends to read it, but it's not really a book I could finish in a sitting.

The supporting characters in Children of God were probably less likeable and much less developed than those in Sparrow, but I liked the book because it gives a, sort of, positive closure to Sandoz's story, and I could understand and empathise with all 3 races. No one is inherently evil there; they all had their reasons for doing what they did.

 

[Talysia]

Next up is Ursula Le Guin's The Other Wind.

 

[purple_kathryn]

Now another star wars novel from the legacy series - exile

 

[Connavar]

I'm on page 41 of The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain which is almost half of this short novel.

The writing is masterful,so crisp,hard,layered. I see why he is a legendary writer.