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

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Pratchett: Unseen Academicals. Pratchett never fails! It's hilarious, especially when you're reading it while watching the FIFA world cup. :p
 
Finished "Time out of joint". Now reading "The Right Hand of Doom and other Tales of Solomon Kane" by Robert Howard.
 
Rothgar said:
Done with Red Seas Under Red Skies, thought it was fantastic. I enjoyed it more than the first installment of the series.
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Me too! I'm glad you agree, cos I've read a lot of reviews saying that the first one was much better.
 
digs said:
Me too! I'm glad you agree, cos I've read a lot of reviews saying that the first one was much better.
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As Digs told me once: it's like The Lies of Locke Lamora...with pirates! I think it's as good if not better than the first.
 
Well so far The Moon is Hell is not the most exciting thing I've read. The diary entry style of writing,being all from one person,lacks emotional content and conflict. i.e. its rather boring! I had hoped for a better read from Campbell!
 
Finshed the Vance novel and started reading Dr.Bloodmoney by Philip K Dick. I have heard its a PKD masterpiece and i hope its true because i need a great PKD and not a weak one right now.
 
@ J.D. : I never heard of that .

Anyways have postponed reading more of Karasek's decadent stories (and his novel) to read a fanastic novel dealing with alchemy under Rudolf II. (which was what "The Angel of the West Window" by Meyrink which I read last dealt with so it's kind of nice to find familiar items between the two)

"Hell Spawn" would be the best way to translate the title of ths 1853 (magazine , first in book form in 1862) book by Jose Jiří Kolár . It looks nice and I will tell you if it realy is a weird book .
 
Ronanida said:
Mmmm, The Crystal Shard from the Legend of Drizzt series, R.A. Salvatore :3 fourth book in the series
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Yes, that's part of the Icewind Dale trilogy. I've got the first 4 series in collector edns. Dark Elf trilogy is still the best of them all IMO.

Salvatore writes a little bit to a formula but few describe better battle scenes, especially one-on-one combat than Salvatore in my experience.
 
Lobolover said:
@ J.D. : I never heard of that .
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I don't know, given your views on fantasy, whether or not you would like this one; but it is a well-crafted tale with some very effective eerie moments. The emphasis, of course, is on the adventure tale, but as with so many of Ms. Norton's books, there is a lot more to it than just that....
 
I'll say this : I can stomach fantasy as long as there are no frollicing dwarfs like in "Dwellers in the Mirage" by Merritt .

And I am not sure there even is an english edition of the book I am reading now , but I bet you would like it .
 
Looking at my bookshelf the other day, I've found that I've had sporadic spells of can't-finish-a-book-itis of late. Even on a couple of King books (GASP!) I've been working my way through Moving Pictures by Pratchett for about the last month, but I've stopped about twenty pages near the end. I'm sure it ends well enough.

Anyway, I'm cracking into Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny now. I'm also in proximity to Lord of Light again, so I might have to reread that, because I really enjoyed that the first time around.
 
HoopyFrood said:
Looking at my bookshelf the other day, I've found that I've had sporadic spells of can't-finish-a-book-itis of late. Even on a couple of King books (GASP!) I've been working my way through Moving Pictures by Pratchett for about the last month, but I've stopped about twenty pages near the end. I'm sure it ends well enough.

Anyway, I'm cracking into Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny now. I'm also in proximity to Lord of Light again, so I might have to reread that, because I really enjoyed that the first time around.
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Yea its been a bad year for me DNF-wise (Did Not Finish)
Kinda puts you off picking up another book! Note to self,stick to reading the highly acclaimed works by the chosen author!
 
My cure against DNF is reading books by proven,fav,great writers. A few days ago i didnt finish Far North and i started and devoured a Jack Vance novel and now my reading engine is going strong again.

Its the same for me DNF book gets me off my mood and make it hard to read books when you want. Thats why i blend in new authors for me with old favs. After my PKD its the classic cyberpunk Software by Rucker.
 
Ronanida said:
*Sobs in envy* Collector's editions?! I'm still missing two thirds of the books T.T curssssee yoooouuuu
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Now, now, be good.....;)

I don't think these collector editions are much different to an omnibus edition really. They sell all 3 or 4 stories in the series block as a single book/volume. I also have the PB, not the HB edns. which would obviously be worth more, especially if they were signed by Bob himself...:)

Good reading.
 
Veniss Underground - Jeff Vandermeer

Oh badasserie, massive badasserie. Jeff Vandermeer and China Mieville appear to have been thinking on very similar lines. Like some of Mieville's good novels, this one also deals with mutations and deformities, alternate dimensions, enormous monstrosities and an engaging set of lead characters who get seriously HURT in the proceedings. Story is told in 3 acts: 1st act in 1st person, 2nd in 2nd person (an idea I am going to unashamedly steal if I write something worth the effort), and 3rd in the most conventional 3rd person. This one has my unmitigated admiration as a reader.
 
I've always maintained Veniss is Vandermeer's real masterpiece, as good as City of Saints and Madmen is....:)
 
I read Deathworld by Harry Harrison a couple days ago and now I'm on The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg.
 
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