November's Nefarious Navigations of Notorious Novels (and other literary forms).

[Lord Soth]

Finished The Noise Within by Ian Whates - not a bad start to a series, although I thought some of the necessary plot linkings were a little contrived and couldn't have been worked a little slicker.

Have now started The Madness Season by C.S. Friedman - pointed in the direction by chron members when reading Out of the Dark.

 

[Talysia]

Moving on in my Dresden Files reread with Summer Knight.

 

[bluespider100]

I'm going on ahead and finish up QUARANTINE tonight so I could move on to reading MANIFOLD TIME by Stephen Baxter or THE ELECTRIC CHURCH by Jeff Somers both books I got from a secondhand store (YEY!).

 

[No One]

Have FINALLY slogged my way through two Dune sequels, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune (which I struggled to engage with - to the point that I read King's Misery in-between).

Will now be turning to Scott Lynch and The Lies of Locke Lamora, while chipping away at resuming and (eventually, a long time from now) completing Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Currently reading The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers, the first Charlie Chan novel. Enjoying it immensely.

 

[Vertigo]

Thoroughly enojoyed Elizabeth Moon's Marque and Reprisal - she does write enjoyable easy to read books.

Moved on to and finished L Neil Smith's Tom Paine Maru. Difficult one to comment on; I believe it was his first book and that it was re-published by him putting back all the stuff cut out by the original publishers. The writing was quite frankly not good; cliches all over, unrealistic reactions to events etc. However as I have stated elsewhere the social orders presented in the book were interesting and kept me reading to the end (though ultimately I'm not sure how likely the survival of the 'dominant' society would be in reality). I'm not totally put off his writing as I understand he has written some good stuff and this was his first after all - might try some of his later stuff sometime.

Then I tried Richard Morgan's The Steel Remains and this was a major disappointment, especially as I have thoroughly enjoyed his Takeshi Kovacs SF books. However I'm afraid that whilst I don't consider myself a homophobe, several pages of explicit gay sex with the sword wielding hero that seemed totally unnecessary has totally put me off now. I have given up half way through the book, something I almost never do. The last time I remember doing that was Orcs from Stan Nicholls some years ago, which seemed to be mainly a competition to see how many ways he could describe limbs being chopped off with blood spurting everywhere.

Really not having much joy at the moment - I think I will fall back on some easy reading SF and then give China Mieville a whirl.

 

[AE35Unit]

Finished Neal Asher's Gridlinked. Didnt enjoy it as much as Prador Moon-too long i think and not enough engagement with Cormac, who isnt actually gridlinked!

 

[Vertigo]

Ah well, there you go AE, I loved it, but then I enjoy long books more than short ones; I love to get totally immersed in the story - probably why I like Peter Hamilton so much Speaking of which I really must get around to buying and reading Hamilton's thrid Void book!

 

[AE35Unit]

Ah well, there you go AE, I loved it, but then I enjoy long books more than short ones; I love to get totally immersed in the story - probably why I like Peter Hamilton so much Speaking of which I really must get around to buying and reading Hamilton's thrid Void book!

Hmm i used to be able to read big novels but its finding the time. With a book like this you need time to read large chunks at a time-if not i lose the thread easily. Having said that i wanted more Cormac, less Pelter.

 

[jojajihisc]

Have now started The Madness Season by C.S. Friedman - pointed in the direction by chron members when reading Out of the Dark.

Not to give it any more hype to have to live up to, but I also liked that book a lot. I read it probably twelve or fifteen years ago and parts still stick in my mind.