April's Amazing Adventures and Articles

[elvet]

I'm halfway through Chris Wooding's omnibus - The Braided Path. It's very good and grabbed my intrest from the start. Nicely paced and not as lengthy as most trilogies, I'm pleasantly surprised. I bought Retribution Falls, and now am really looking forward to the start of his Tales of the Ketty Jay.

 

[elvet]

I'm currently reading Dante's Equation by Jane Jensen and loving every page. It starts simple enough with Torah code, some quantum physics and a lost manuscript, but when it kicks in, it kicks into overdrive. I love it!

I'm an adventure gamer, and have played Jane's Gabriel Knight games. Her storytelling is legendary. Thanks for mentioning this and reminding me. I meant to get this book.

 

[Hober Mallow]

I just finished reading More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon. It was very good but I thought it could have been better. Later this week, I'm going to start on The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein.

 

[blacknorth]

Reading New Model Army by Adam Roberts, hugely enjoyable thus far.

 

[Hypnos164]

I finished The Crippled God in the early hours of this morning a worthy conclusion to the epic series (once you get to the point where stuff actually starts to happen).

Not sure what to follow that with.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Dark Water by Koji Suzuki, the dude who wrote the Ring etc novels.

 

[Rothgar]

I finished NK Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms last week. I'm not sure what I was expecting but it was a good story. I liked the mythology she developed for the world.

I also read HP & the Sorcerer's Stone. I don't know if I'll be able to make myself read the rest of the series. At this point I don't see what everyone else does in this story. It was simple and sparse on the action with a few clever points thrown in.

As a break I've picked up Martha Wells The Death of the Necromancer.

 

[Rodders]

Just finished Orbus by Neal Asher. Now onto Jack Campbell's "The Lost Fleet: Dauntless". I've seen these about for some time and have read a lot of positive stuff on these books. I'm very much looking forward to it.

 

[Demonomania]

Finished 'The Darkness That comes Before' a few days back. Brilliant read.

Yesterday I managed to find 'Memories of Ice' ( I try to only buy books from charity or 2nd hand shops) and I'm around 150 pages in. Loving it. So far this one has felt more accessible that the previous two but it remains to be seen whether the conclusion will fill me with as much emotion as 'Deadhouse Gates'. I get shivers every time I think on it!

 

[purple_kathryn]

To finish April & start May

The Silent War (part 3 of the Asteroid Wars by Ben Bova)

 

[blacknorth]

Just finished Orbus by Neal Asher. Now onto Jack Campbell's "The Lost Fleet: Dauntless". I've seen these about for some time and have read a lot of positive stuff on these books. I'm very much looking forward to it.

I read Asher's Africa Zero last month and thoroughly enjoyed it. Recommend that one if you haven't picked it up.

 

[Vertigo]

Just finished Orbus by Neal Asher. Now onto Jack Campbell's "The Lost Fleet: Dauntless". I've seen these about for some time and have read a lot of positive stuff on these books. I'm very much looking forward to it.

I'll be interested to hear what you think of that one Rodders; I enjoyed it but have spoken to very few other people that have read those books.

 

[Lemmy]

I'm an adventure gamer, and have played Jane's Gabriel Knight games. Her storytelling is legendary. Thanks for mentioning this and reminding me. I meant to get this book.

She has written several books, including a novelization of the first two Gabriel Knight-games. Oh, and you have played Grey Matter, of course?

Anyway, I finished Dante's Equation (brilliant all the way through) and started Somewhere south of midnight by Stephen Laws. It's pretty good so far, although I've only finished part 1. (about fifty pages.)

Edit: Getting a bit off-topic here, sorry. But a quick check on wikipedia (I know...) came up with this:

"After the release of Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, Jane Jensen stated that she had started planning a possible story and setting for a fourth game. A search of the SIDNEY computer interface for "gk4" in Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned brings up an entry on ghosts, which Jane Jensen has remarked would have been the antagonists in her outline for a fourth entry to the series.

However, no Gabriel Knight 4 has been announced. In August 2006 it was confirmed that Jane Jensen's next adventure game project would not be a new Gabriel Knight but the revival of Gray Matter, a game which was released in German speaking territories in November 2010 , and is set for release internationally in February 2011."

So there wasn't a Gabriel Knight 4 because she wanted to work on Grey Matter instead, but she did plan a story for it, and now that Grey Matter is finished... dare we hope?

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

I also read HP & the Sorcerer's Stone. I don't know if I'll be able to make myself read the rest of the series. At this point I don't see what everyone else does in this story. It was simple and sparse on the action with a few clever points thrown in.

I think each book gets better than the one before it, and it may be because Rowling was able to include more things (as evidenced by the fact that each book is longer than the previous one). When I reread them I remember thinking the first book was rather weak compared to the rest. But HP may just not be to your tastes, and thats alright too.

 

[HareBrain]

Robert Redick's River of Shadows came in the post today, a book I've been looking forward to for a while, and now I'm too busy to read it.

The cover promises much, though. A sea-serpent in a purple wig!

 

[thatollie]

I am now reading The Sword of The Lictor by Gene Wolfe, no prizes for guessing that my next read is The Citadel of The Autarch.

 

[bluespider100]

I'm now re-reading Variable Star by Heinlein.

 

[Vertigo]

Just finished The Quiet War by Paul McAuley, my first book from him. I enjoyed it but wasn't bowled over. I thought it was well researched as hard SF - his descriptions of the colonies on the moons of Juptier and Saturn were thoroughly thought out. Maybe a little too thoroughly though, I found some of the detail a too much. Also there were a few deus ex machina moments too that irritated me. Finally the ending was very week and inconclusive. I know there is a sequel but it wasn't really billed as a series.

However it was good enough that I shall probably try more of him, in particular I liked his well thought out and scientifically feasible future.

 

[Rothgar]

I think each book gets better than the one before it, and it may be because Rowling was able to include more things (as evidenced by the fact that each book is longer than the previous one). When I reread them I remember thinking the first book was rather weak compared to the rest. But HP may just not be to your tastes, and thats alright too.

I don't think the series will be to my taste, possibly because of being geared towards kids but I'll give a couple more a shot. I hope I'm able to agree with you that they get better.

 

[woodsman]

I don't think the series will be to my taste, possibly because of being geared towards kids but I'll give a couple more a shot. I hope I'm able to agree with you that they get better.

I gave up at book 4/5 (can't remember) it just seemed very generic and wasn't really holding me. Plus I don't think Rowling is the best wielder of a pen to do so. I did however wath one of the films- number 6 I think because it had Helena Bonham-Carter in and she was the best part of that as well...

Finished Pushing Ice - Reynolds, ok bit annoying due to tha lack of the Author actually writing the big climatic sceenes and just skipping the timeline on. Also polished off a re-read of Palahnuik's Fight Club. It does take a re-read quite well although the twist is obviously gone. Still gets the old grey matter going but not quite the same impact as it had when I first read it in my teens.

Moving onto Peake's Titus Groan, been meaning to read this for years and finaly got hold of it. 50 pages in nothing has happened, but, I'm living in Gormenghast - love it so far.