October 2015: What are you reading?

[Brian G Turner]

Currently reading and enjoying Outlaw by Angus Donald...

Everyone else?

 

[ratsy]

I'm reading Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke. I'm about halfway through and don't mind it. Doubt it's his best work but I really am finding it hard to believe he wrote this in 1953!! Feels quite current.

 

[tobl]

finished books and short stories by :mark wayne mcginnis, jeanne Stein, jennifer estep, chris knopf
now Reading david gibbins

 

[BAYLOR]

I'm reading Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke. I'm about halfway through and don't mind it. Doubt it's his best work but I really am finding it hard to believe he wrote this in 1953!! Feels quite current.

They made it into a Mini series it' going be on the SyFy Channel

 

[seg42]

Im reading shadows edge -Brent Weeks i love the night angel series im just finishing up my second read of the trilogy.

 

[Hex]

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. It's outrageously good, and so well written I am salivating. Plus, it makes me laugh (out loud, often). In my head, it is narrated by @HareBrain.

(will admit I picked it up in the bookshop because of that completely mad blog review thing where Ben Aaronovitch dared to talk about his own book and was told to get stuffed. The first sentence was great and by halfway down the first page I knew I would need to buy the book right then)

 

[Mark Ragland]

Still reading Robert Ludlum's The Janus Reprisal by Jamie Freveletti.

Has anyone else read anything by her. I like her so far.

 

[soulsinging]

I'm almost done with Galactic North, by Alastair Reynolds. Only one story left (I'm saving the actual story Galactic North until after the rest of his Revelation Space books). I'm generally not a short story guy, but they're interesting enough for me to want to tackle the actual trilogy soon (I've been slightly intimidated). Very complex and thought-provoking!

 

[Bugg]

I'm almost done with Galactic North, by Alastair Reynolds. Only one story left (I'm saving the actual story Galactic North until after the rest of his Revelation Space books). I'm generally not a short story guy, but they're interesting enough for me to want to tackle the actual trilogy soon (I've been slightly intimidated). Very complex and thought-provoking!

That's a great collection of stories, I really loved it


I'm about 250 pages into Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay. It's the first I've read of his books and I'm finding it very enjoyable.

 

[HareBrain]

In my head, it is narrated by @HareBrain.

In your head, did I get paid a whopping great fee?

I quite liked Rivers of London, but haven't managed to get into the sequels. It also seemed a bit too fresh and clean to really be about London, somehow.

 

[Bugg]

I quite liked Rivers of London, but haven't managed to get into the sequels. It also seemed a bit too fresh and clean to really be about London, somehow.

I thought that, too - especially the bit that went right past where our office is situated

 

[thaddeus6th]

Still on Three Kingdoms (reasonably sure that'll be the case in November too), and Words of Radiance (but I think I might finish that this month).

 

[Jo Zebedee]

In your head, did I get paid a whopping great fee?

I quite liked Rivers of London, but haven't managed to get into the sequels. It also seemed a bit too fresh and clean to really be about London, somehow.

I love the whole series, although book two is a little weak in places, and am eagerly waiting for the next installment.

 

[Extollager]

Reading The Copenhagen Affair, a Man from UNCLE novel published 50 years ago by Ace, and rereading Hedda Gabler, and expecting to start reading William Maxwell's They Came Like Swallows, and still reading Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan, and rereading Graham Greene's dire travel book Journey Without Maps. After I finish rereading the Greene I want to reread his cousin Barbara's account of the same journey, Too Late to Turn Back (love that title), and maybe after that Tim Butcher's Chasing the Devil: A Journey Through Sub-Saharan Africa in the Footsteps of Graham Greene. I expect this month also to read Ray Bradbury's Hallowe'en Tree and have just started Ian Frazier's The Fish's Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors. I've started Henry James's A Little Tour in France and will probably pick that up from time to time. You Balzac fans would appreciate the Master's liking of Balzac, whom he keeps mentioning. I'm thinking of trying yet again to read Peake's Gormenghast, which I first read about 40 years ago, and have begun again more than once, but I seem to bog down in the page after page of Prunesquallor stuff that gets on my nerves. I think I will just scan some of that material this time and see if I can persevere; and then after that a rereading of Titus Alone would be worth trying. But we are looking well beyond October I suppose.

 

[Randy M.]

Those Man from U.N.C.L.E. books sound like fun, Extollager. Somewhere around my house I have a ...U.N.C.L.E. LittleBig book that I really liked as a kid.

Right now I'm rereading a few stories that happen to be in Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural: "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" by Robert Hichens; "Caterpillars" by E. F. Benson; and currently reading "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" by Conrad Aiken.

Randy M.

 

[Extollager]

Those Man from U.N.C.L.E. books sound like fun, Extollager.

They are. I had intended to read just one or two that I was pretty sure I had read when I was a youngster, but I expect to read a few more, probably all the McDaniel ones and one or two of the others. So far they haven't gone into the ditch the way the show did when it got really "campy."

 

[tobl]

Still reading Robert Ludlum's The Janus Reprisal by Jamie Freveletti.

Has anyone else read anything by her. I like her so far.

i love robert books... so i was a bit suspicious of the continuations after his death. and for my opinion i was right. the covert-one series is a good exemple. the first few books form various series written in conjuction with other authors receiveid his input and style. but after his death.... puf, and it shows. the stand alone where probwbly written before his death and published after but the series? forget it. besides, for instance, with a trilogy like Bourne written by the máster who the hell needs a continuation? especially an inferior one

 

[tobl]

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. It's outrageously good, and so well written I am salivating. Plus, it makes me laugh (out loud, often). In my head, it is narrated by @HareBrain.

(will admit I picked it up in the bookshop because of that completely mad blog review thing where Ben Aaronovitch dared to talk about his own book and was told to get stuffed. The first sentence was great and by halfway down the first page I knew I would need to buy the book right then)

i love this series and i'm just waiting to read the new one

 

[dask]

Those Man from U.N.C.L.E. books sound like fun, Extollager. Somewhere around my house I have a ...U.N.C.L.E. LittleBig book that I really liked as a kid.

Right now I'm rereading a few stories that happen to be in Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural: "How Love Came to Professor Guildea" by Robert Hichens; "Caterpillars" by E. F. Benson; and currently reading "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" by Conrad Aiken.

Randy M.

I've got, or had, a few of those U.N.C.L.E. paperbacks around somewhere. If I can find them I'll give them a try. Think one was written by Michael Avalone (spelling might be wrong).

Can I ask who the editor is of the horror anthology you're reading?

 

[dask]

They are. I had intended to read just one or two that I was pretty sure I had read when I was a youngster, but I expect to read a few more, probably all the McDaniel ones and one or two of the others. So far they haven't gone into the ditch the way the show did when it got really "campy."

It almost seems a universal law that shows starting off in black and white are always superior to the later ones filmed in color.