It's October. What are you reading?

[kythe]

I need to get into the Heroes of Olympus series. I also loved the Percy Jackson series (also got into them because of my daughter). But for whatever reason I've never gotten the second set. Is it as good as the first?

 

[Juliana]

I need to get into the Heroes of Olympus series. I also loved the Percy Jackson series (also got into them because of my daughter). But for whatever reason I've never gotten the second set. Is it as good as the first?

It's good, but very different from the first. He introduces a lot of new characters (some of them fantastic - Leo in particular is fabulous) and its a multiple point of view series, so not all about Percy. Percy isn't even in the first.

But I enjoyed it, and so did my kids.

 

[Parson]

I'm continuing to read "The Chaplain's War" and the book is getting better as I go. That's good. For my listening pleasure I am listening to Alone by Kendra Elliot, the third "Bone Secret's" novel. This has been a great series so far.

 

[tobl]

I love Patrick rothfuss. if you found the first book long lol thwn you are going to hate the second, a wise's man fear. i read all of olympus and it's good. but honestly i'm discovering some new authores that i think are very suprising. i just finished with the 3 books from Christopher g nuttall ark royal series and his stunning. so his the 3 books from sthephen w Bennett koban series. and what about kollin and the unincorporated man series?man, it made me choque sometimes. the new series powers from mark Wayne mcginnis is also funy and i'm still waiting to find the new volume from simor r green and the ghostbusters and let's nor Forget John ringo, what a amazing writer, even in a zombie world with is new series lol i also can't wait for the new books from david weber in the honor harrington series, jim butcher, david lynn golemon, Jonathan maberry, larry correia, .. and so many others

 

[FireDragon-16]

I recently finished Django Wexler's The Thousand Names which was a really good one, I highly recommend it. I also finished Sherrilyn Kenyon's Styxx which was awesome (as usual). Right now I'm reading Chloe Neill's Blood Games and Arcadia by Hope Christine.

 

[Clifford Beal]

I've got two on the go at the moment: Son of the Morning by Mark Alder and Jani and the Greater Game by Eric Brown. First is alternate history 100 Years' War with demons and angels and the latter is a cracking steampunk read.

 

[tobl]

didn't like django.... i read sometime ago the mark Lawrence broken empire series whick i liked a lot except for the final in the emperor of thorns...

 

[alchemist]

After not finishing my last two books, I really wanted a good book by a good author. I got Fatherland by Robert Harris in the library and so far it's a good book by a good author.

 

[carjug]

I started The Worm Ouroboros, but really struggled to get into it due to it's dated writing style. I'm sure there is a good story in there but I gave it 50 pages and it didn't grab me one bit.

Don't give up on the old stuff, get a copy of King of Elfland's Daughter, it is amazing. I ditched Worm Ouroboros, and that thing by Mervin Peakes too.

 

[tobl]

didn't like fatherland. i'm not much to alternative history. conspiracy theories yes but alternative.... no.there are some new authors that i like and books. let's see what the next books rom laurel Hamilton for instance are.

 

[The Judge]

I got Fatherland by Robert Harris in the library

It's some years now since I read it, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The film was good, but missed out some of the complexity in the book. I remain haunted by the socks sent to the naval (?U-boat?) personnel.

 

[Mangara]

Just finished King Rat by China Meiville. Found it to be fair to good. It was also interesting to see his style less developed, you can really see how his other books developed from this!

Now on to Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus by Oliver Bullough. I picked this up for a couple of reasons:

1) I have no idea about the history of this region barring a memoir of a Chechen soldier I read.

2) I was amazed to find the diversity of what once was there. Some of the tribes spoke 40 languages!

3) It was the last stand of Gengis Khan's ancestors at the start of this book.

4) I find Russian history fascinating.

 

[alchemist]

didn't like fatherland. i'm not much to alternative history. conspiracy theories yes but alternative.... no.there are some new authors that i like and books. let's see what the next books rom laurel Hamilton for instance are.

My only other alt history novel was by Harry Turtledove and I didn't care for it much either. But Fatherland so far uses the alt history as the background for a conspiracy story and doesn't place the focus on the mechanics of the history itself, so it's working for me.

 

[Juliana]

Reading John Scalzi's Lock In. I've liked pretty much eveything I've read of his, and this looks to be another winner.

 

[Bick]

After not finishing my last two books, I really wanted a good book by a good author. I got Fatherland by Robert Harris in the library and so far it's a good book by a good author.

I think Harris is a very good author - though I am basing this on the one book of his I've read: Imperium. It's an excellent novelisation of the rise of Cicero from lawyer to Consul in the Roman Republic. I would certainly recommend it.

 

[Sancho]

I am reading Shift by Hugh Howey. It took me a while to get through Wool but am finally getting the bigger picture from inside my silo. For me it has more depth than most of the post-apocolyptic zombie novels. I'm also just starting Ben Aaronovitch's Broken Homes. I can't get enough of his Peter Grant, spook hunter, Trainee wizard, street wise bobby. Also inspired by the view of supernatural London from an ethnic minority point of view.

 

[Darkchrome]

Magnificent, gnomic, and wonderful, and quite different from anything else. The following books are equally good in their way, but nothing is quite as satisfying as that first hit.

You're spot on! I must admit, I tried the first few chapters via my usual method (i.e however long I can manage between going to bed and before the book hits me on the nose) and I just wasn’t getting it. Work schedules and various other things meant I had no downtime at home but then - we went on holiday (hence my not logging on to Chrons for all this time) and I started again.

Now I get it

Suspend all pre-conceptions of what you think is going to happen and everything...doesn’t actually make perfect sense but is completely absorbing. I love the language, visualising scenes and becoming part of them is so easy, and you start to understand words that don’t mean anything outside the context of the story. Severian does seem to have a bad habit of falling for every female he encounters, but he’s OK really!
Anyway – Shadow is finished and I’m a good way through Claw, but I can revert to my usual reading patterns now I know what’s going on. I’ll definitely be finishing the series.

 

[HareBrain]

I'm about one-third through Toby Frost's End of Empires, and in places I'm almost finding it tiring to read because it's so funny: many superb lines, plenty of witty cultural references and all gorgeously, joyously bonkers. I've enjoyed all the Space Captain Smith books I've read but this has really shifted up a gear or two.

 

[tobl]

I am reading Shift by Hugh Howey. It took me a while to get through Wool but am finally getting the bigger picture from inside my silo. For me it has more depth than most of the post-apocolyptic zombie novels. I'm also just starting Ben Aaronovitch's Broken Homes. I can't get enough of his Peter Grant, spook hunter, Trainee wizard, street wise bobby. Also inspired by the view of supernatural London from an ethnic minority point of view.

read all the books. they are funny. i hope is continues. there are other authors in the same gender that are aldo entertaining. like justin gustainis for instances.and of course the great charles stross with the laundry files. aldo, truth be said no one is as good as jim butcher in that regard.... except maybe simon r green with the nightside. Anyone ever read the nightside series from him? i love all his series, especially the secret histories series.
as for zombies i have two recomendations: first, you have a new series from John ringo called Black Tide Rising. it's great.
second - the series joe ledger from Jonathan maberry. if you do not know any of them i think it will supreise you.

 

[dask]

Finished my Halloween reading so decided to start this interesting looking 1950 paperback I found at Value Village.

Looks like a western, doesn't it? Reads like one, right up to the jail break from the sheriff's office. Everybody rides horses, wears a gun, lives a life redolent of 1880s American west. Then, out of nowhere, people start talking about not just the telegraph which would be no big deal but the wireless in the same sentence. Next thing you know someone mentions automobiles and airplanes, even the siren call of Hollywood. But when the dust of high tech settles, it's the old west again, where bad guys are outlaws, not gangsters. Strange, disconcerting, like an alternate Earth. Good though. Just can't figure out where it's going.