It can't be July, already? Can it? Oh well, let's hear what you're reading!

[AE35Unit]

Weeel...I've read next to nothing by John W. Campbell and given that a major non-Hugo Award is named after the fellow I would be quite keen to try and source his best known work.

I'll let you know how it goes. Its written like a journal with diary entries for chapters.

 

[mosaix]

Torment of Others by Val McDermid

Besides SF the other genre that I read a lot is detective fiction. Val McDermid is an excellent author. Torment of Others has the character Tony Hill, played by Robson Green in the TV adaption of her books - Wire In The Blood.

If you like detective fiction a bit on the raw side don't miss this series of books.

 

[Connavar]

Torment of Others by Val McDermid

Besides SF the other genre that I read a lot is detective fiction. Val McDermid is an excellent author. Torment of Others has the character Tony Hill, played by Robson Green in the TV adaption of her books - Wire In The Blood.

If you like detective fiction a bit on the raw side don't miss this series of books.

Val McDermid is very good i liked the first Tony Hill book i read. It wasnt a disapointment since Wire in the Blood is easily the best british crime series i have seen. Robert Green was great in it. I was so angry when they canceled a quality,still popular tv show.

I read more crime fiction than SFF usually because of my love for hardboiled,detective fiction. I have to read more of Val McDermid.

 

[j d worthington]

Finished Cabell's Beyond Life; not a book one can simply whip through as, despite the wonderfully witty and easy prose, there's a great deal to ponder, relish, and find infuriating in that little opus. Rapidly becoming one of my favorites among his books, one I keep finding myself going back to time and again.

Have moved on now to a reread of an old favorite: Witch Wood (1963), by Andre Norton, the first in that famed series, and a book I've not read in some years now. This time, I'm taking it at a very leisurely pace and am, if anything, even more impressed with her abiilities here. The manner is quiet and understated, yet very tight and often quite powerful.

 

[elvet]

I've just started The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff. I'm enjoying the Canadian references.

 

[Connavar]

I moved from Far North that was a bit dull to The Palace of Love by Jack Vance.

Dont let the title make you think its a cheery book, its book 3 in Demon Princes Space Opera series. Very sombre book,very strong world building wise.

 

[Riselka]

I'm re-reading Stuart Woods' novel CHIEFS at the moment.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I'm reading The Alchemy of Stone, by Ekaterina Sedia. Steampunk fantasy. I'm only a few chapters in, but so far I like it.

 

[gully_foyle]

Starting Kraken by China Mieville. Yey!

 

[digs]

I'm about half a page into Gardens of the Moon by Erikson. Looking forward to it!

 

[GOLLUM]

I'm about half a page into Gardens of the Moon by Erikson. Looking forward to it!

Huh?.....that means you are not even past the Dramatis Personae yet.....

Enjoy the ride in what I consider to be both the most complex but also the finest EPIC fantasy series I've so far read.....

 

[Fried Egg]

Finished "Dragon in the Sword" by Michael Moorcock the other day and am now ploughing my way through "Time out of Joint" by Philip K Dick.

 

[digs]

Huh?.....that means you are not even past the Dramatis Personae yet.....

Enjoy the ride in what I consider to be both the most complex but also the finest EPIC fantasy series I've so far read.....

Pff I'm barely past the first map. There's enough names on it for it to count as a page of writing.

 

[elvet]

After finishing 2 fantasy series and a standalone, I decided to try a little more SF. On a recommendation, I had bought Ian Banks' Consider Phlebas. I just started it yesterday and was immediately drawn in by the slam-bang start. One of the reasons I don't like SF as much is that there often is a level of technological world building that is confusing to follow. I'm pleased to find that so far, Consider Phlebas is emminently readable, and hope it continues to be so.

 

[Talysia]

I'm changing genre now to a little historical fiction, and reading C.J. Sansom's Winter in Madrid.

 

[AE35Unit]

After finishing 2 fantasy series and a standalone, I decided to try a little more SF. On a recommendation, I had bought Ian Banks' Consider Phlebas. I just started it yesterday and was immediately drawn in by the slam-bang start. One of the reasons I don't like SF as much is that there often is a level of technological world building that is confusing to follow. I'm pleased to find that so far, Consider Phlebas is emminently readable, and hope it continues to be so.

Good book, i thoroughly enjoyed it! If you like that you'll probably like Neal Asher-full on crazy action!

 

[ratsy]

Bloodheir - by Brian Ruckley, having a hard time keeping interest, and I just got Flash Forward in the mail so I may have to switch

 

[Khale]

Shadow's Edge, second book in the Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks.

Took me a while to get into the first one, but when I did I raced through it. I've also just finished Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding, which only took me a few days to finish.

I am about half way through The Shadow's Edge and I have to say that I am enjoying it much more than The Way of Shadows.

I am also reading the second volume in the The Raven trilogy, Noonshade, and also like it better than the first volume, Dawnthief.

 

[Rothgar]

Done with Red Seas Under Red Skies, thought it was fantastic. I enjoyed it more than the first installment of the series.

Now on to Esslemont's Return of the Crimson Guard.

 

[j d worthington]

Finished Andre Norton's Witch World this afternoon. (For those who have read this novel, the fact it took me four days to get through it tells you what little time I've had for reading for a while....)

Having been forced by circumstances to take this one at a more leisurely pace than usual, I am even more impressed with it than I have been before. Ms. Norton was prone to classify herself (from my understanding) as "rather a very staid teller of old fashioned stories", but I think this is true only in the rather limited sense that she tended to tell good, solid stories and also tended to avoid flashiness and technical gewgaws in favor of well-constructed prose which is often understated but also, upon reflection, emotionally complex.

At any rate, this was a very good novel, and an excellent way to begin the series, introducing the entire concept of the Witch World through the eyes of ex-Colonel Simon Tregarth, who finds himself there as the result of a rather unusual method of evading assassins sent after him. For those who love good fantasy, I would highly recommend it. For those who are into older forms of science fiction, I would also recommend it, as this is one of those older books which blend the two quite successfully. And for those who enjoy a tale with some rather eerie moments, this has those as well, especially with the living-dead servants of the Kolder....

I have read this one a good dozen times since I first encountered it some thirty-five years ago, and my respect for it continues to increase with each reading.