It's September - what are you reading?

[tobl]

lies ripped open by steve mchugh and empty space by alan black

 

[Brian G Turner]

Thinking of picking up Without Fail by Lee Child for a fun, fast read.

And it's a corker so far, one of my favourites so far. The tension has been intense. Just hope the last 60 pages don't spoil it!

 

[WaylanderToo]

Fated by Benedict Jacka

good series

 

[AE35Unit]

Time for some light reading...

 

[Anushka Mokosh]

Currently, Destroyer of Worlds by Niven & Lerner.

 

[Mark Ragland]

About to finish Sting of the Drone by Richard A. Clarke. A technothriller about the US using drones to fight terrorism. Not bad, but Clancy did it better.

Next up is Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence.

 

[dask]

My nightstand book:

Stopped reading it a while back, not sure why. Above average, really above average. Sticking with it till the end now.

 

[Bick]

Now reading Young Men in Spats, a short story collection by P. G. Wodehouse. absolutely terrific so far (only 3 stories in).

 

[Allegra]

Now reading Young Men in Spats, a short story collection by P. G. Wodehouse. absolutely terrific so far (only 3 stories in).

Isn't that a coincident - I just cracked open the same book! What leaped out from the first page:

'What a very, very LUCKY person you are.
Spread out before you are the FINEST and FUNNIEST words from the finest and funniest writer the past century ever knew.'
- Stephen Fry

Yes, I do feel very, very lucky.

 

[Bick]

Isn't that a coincident - I just cracked open the same book!

What ho! It's perfectly marvelous. I love how the drones reappear in so many stories. Several seem to feature Freddie Widgeon, who I'm sure crops up in other books, as does Pongo Twistleton. Now I only need Gussie Fink-Nottle to get a mention and I'd be filled to the gills with good cheer and what-not.

 

[tobl]

About to finish Sting of the Drone by Richard A. Clarke. A technothriller about the US using drones to fight terrorism. Not bad, but Clancy did it better.

Next up is Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence.

i liked the series a lot except for the final pages in the emperro of thorns. tell me what you think after mark. now Reading superego by Frank j fleming

 

[Mark Ragland]

i liked the series a lot except for the final pages in the emperro of thorns. tell me what you think after mark. now Reading superego by Frank j fleming

OK. I will, tobl.

 

[tobl]

i liked superego... there's just something that's been messing with me lately,... do you realise how many recent books deal with "humane" sociopaths? a mean for pit sake, they are making sociopaths and psicopaths look more human, seem more human... love conquers all and all that nonsense. do the authors even study anything about those mental conditions?at least John cleaver continues a clear psicopath but some of the new books i read.... a sociopath crying for love? really?a psicopath finding the love of his life and changing his ways? get real

 

[dask]

Started this:

Good so far.

 

[Extollager]

I might have to check that Beethoven book, Dask. Haven't listened to the man lately, but that would be worthwhile. Btw, for fans of A Voyage to Arcturus, I have the impression that author David Lindsay was a great admirer of Beethoven's music.

If anyone's interested -- there's a very good book called Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0007156618/?tag=brite-21

I think the only other book about a classical composer that I've read was Robert Layton's Schirmer series book on Sibelius--

I always feel that Sibelius is a composer more fans of fantasy should get to know. Try reading Blackwood's "Wendigo" again and then listen to Sibelius's Tapiola, for example.

Current reading includes rereadings of Jane Austen's Emma and Dostoevsky's bizarre Notes from Underground, and a first reading of David McDaniel's The Monster Wheel Affair, another of his Man from U. N. C. L. E. books from the 1960s and the eighth in the series of paperback novels published by Ace. It's possible this is something that I read when it came out (around 1967) -- I know I owned a couple of the series books, and the back cover photo looks familiar -- but I'm too doubtful to post about this item in the From Way, Way Back in Your Reading Life thread.

 

[BAYLOR]

Space War Blues by Richard Lupoff

 

[tobl]

read holow world by jason rough-.. really not my thing... kind of a steam punk feal, and i really don't like steam punk

 

[dask]

Space War Blues by Richard Lupoff

Very interested to know your impressions when finished.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Back to Lee Child for The Hard Way. Really need to get some more David Gemmell into my library, though.

 

[Bugg]

Over the weekend I finished Patrick O'Brian's The Yellow Admiral. Only two (and a bit) novels in the series left for me to read, now

This morning I've made a start on Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice.