April's Aspiring Adventures Along Allegorical Avenues

[Lady of Winterfell]

Great thanks, I recall trying the Liveship trilogy some time back and not getting along with it. From memory, it was well written but not a lot seemed to be happening (at least in the first third / half I read) and so I put it down.

With that in mind I think I'll follow what you did and skip that trilogy, even if some points feel a little disjointed.

The first Liveship book was just alright to me. It was good enough to make me want to pick up the next book, but not much more. However, the next 2 books were amazing, and this is now one of my favorite trilogies. I will second what Ratsy said, and recommend you give them a go...at least at some point.

 

[HareBrain]

Just started Porius by John Cowper Powys, a book I've been meaning to read for a while since enjoying two of his other books last summer. But boy, is this one dense. It makes A Glastonbury Romance feel like fluffy chick-lit. And strangely, despite being dense enough to have its own gravitational pull, its main force isn't attraction, but the opposite -- my attention kept wandering to the conversation of the two elderly ladies on the coffee-shop table next to me. Nevertheless I'm going to keep going with it because it shows signs that eventually it could be really interesting and possibly unique.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

I just finished The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. It was alright, nothing special. However, I would like to read other books about Achilles, Hector, and the Trojan War so any recommendations would be appreciated.


Now I'm picking up Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. I saw him recently at our book festival and was really impressed with him so I bought this book. I'm really hoping its good, my most recent reads have really left me wanting more.

 

[dask]

THE SEA-WOLF by Jack London, another of his realistic fictional excursions so real I sometimes forget that what I am reading is not actual biography or historical account. This morning I was left dazed and shaking at the callous brutality of Wolf Larsen, the title character. London is very good at what he does but I may not make a steady diet of him.

 

[MontyCircus]

Just started Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.

 

[GOLLUM]

Apologies everyone for only now posting the May reading thread.

Please standby.