What Are You Reading?

eVeNtInE · 12-06-2008 1:52pm #1

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Tree · 13-06-2008 12:02am

use of weapons- iain m banks

Sarky · 13-06-2008 12:32am

Getting my teeth into The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton. It's a whole lot of reading, but the first 12 chapters have been worth it.

ixoy · 13-06-2008 9:31am

'Woken Furies' by Richard Morgan, the 3rd Takeshi Kovacs novel.

qwertz · 13-06-2008 10:28am

Last one of Peter F. Hamiltons Greg Mandel trilogy. Very good read.

ixoy · 13-06-2008 10:56am

qwertz wrote: »

Last one of Peter F. Hamiltons Greg Mandel trilogy. Very good read.

Ah good - I'll be reading that one "shortly" after I finish "Woken Furies", "The Amber Spyglass", "Red Sea Under Red Skies", "Scar City" and "The Life of Pi".

shrapnel222 · 13-06-2008 11:31am

Invasive Procedures

by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

so far so good

qwertz · 13-06-2008 11:39am

There is another followup novella called The Suspect Genome (2000, novella, Interzone).

ixoy wrote: »

Ah good - I'll be reading that one "shortly" after I finish "Woken Furies", "The Amber Spyglass", "Red Sea Under Red Skies", "Scar City" and "The Life of Pi".

tricky D · 13-06-2008 11:50am

Tree wrote: »

use of weapons- iain m banks

Currently reading his latest - Matter - having just finished rereading Use of Weapons as a warmup. Will check out some of the other books already mentioned, ta.

Thanx 4 The Fish · 13-06-2008 6:58pm

tricky D wrote: »

Currently reading his latest - Matter - having just finished rereading Use of Weapons as a warmup. Will check out some of the other books already mentioned, ta.

+1

trout · 13-06-2008 7:12pm

Finished studying for another year, so I've just treated myself to the bulk of Neal Stephensons back catalogue.

I read Snow Crash some years back, and then Diamond Age, and thoroughly enjoyed them both, and I've heard great things about Cryptonomicon in particular and the Baroque Cycle in general.

Snow Crash in particular is a great re-read, especially in the advent of Second Life and WoW, and even more so if you have an interest in IT / Security / hacking.

eVeNtInE · 13-06-2008 11:20pm

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shockwave · 14-06-2008 10:28am

I started reading the Age of misrule trilogy by Mark Chadbourne. Its a fantasy series set in modern day England.

Its not too bad so far but im only 200 pages in.

redbhoy1888 · 15-06-2008 3:03am

Book 3 of The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie,excellent stuff.
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FruitLover · 15-06-2008 3:07am

Slowly making my way through Banks' Consider Phlebas.

trout wrote: »

I read Snow Crash some years back, and then Diamond Age, and thoroughly enjoyed them both, and I've heard great things about Cryptonomicon in particular and the Baroque Cycle in general

I didn't think a whole lot of Snow Crash, but I loved The Diamond Age. Cryptonomicon is feckin brilliant. It's an intimidating size, but it's an easy read.

He still hasn't figured out how to end a book properly though! *shakes fist*

mcgovern · 16-06-2008 4:32pm

House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds new book.
Brilliant as usual.

Garroldy · 19-06-2008 10:50pm

Neal Ashers Prador Moon....he's usually reliable for getting you involved with his central characters...here however its not going well.....good story line but disappointing in its execution..finished soon and on to the next

eVeNtInE · 19-06-2008 11:13pm

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mcgovern · 20-06-2008 11:14am

mcgovern wrote: »

House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds new book.
Brilliant as usual.

Finished that a few days ago as I couldn't put it down.
Now reading World War Z by Max Brooks, its also very good.

Tree · 23-06-2008 12:28am

just started reality dysfunction (peter f hamilton). have ender's game waiting for when i finish it in six months.

trout · 23-06-2008 12:45am

Tree wrote: »

... ender's game ...

Oh ... have you got a treat in store.

Nevyn · 23-06-2008 12:50am

Hyperion again and Mir, the sentient tattoos are intresting.

Cookie_Monster · 25-06-2008 2:21pm

mcgovern wrote: »

House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds new book.
Brilliant as usual.

Must get that, I love Alastair Reynolds. Class writer

Cookie_Monster · 25-06-2008 2:22pm

Reading "Red Mars", "Green Mars" & "Blue Mars"
in order at the moment. very good books also. Can't remember author off hand

qwertz · 25-06-2008 2:43pm

Kim Stanley Robinson. Add Antarctica to the list.

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Reading "Red Mars", "Green Mars" & "Blue Mars"
in order at the moment. very good books also. Can't remember author off hand

mcgovern · 25-06-2008 2:50pm

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Must get that, I love Alastair Reynolds. Class writer

Its another new and interesting universe, with plenty of scope for further stories in it. Similar in some ways to the Revelation Space universe, but taking a longer view and with a more diverse spread of humanity inhabiting it.

Now reading "The City and the Stars" by Arthur C.Clarke, half way through and can't help thinking there isn't enough pages left for this to be properly resolved

eVeNtInE · 26-06-2008 2:09pm

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giftgrub · 30-06-2008 9:39am

I really liked Matter, not as much as Use of Weapons though

Right now i'm almost finished Deaths Head by David Gunn, its millitary sci fi, blood violent, blood great

I've also been making my way through Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson books.

I suppose you'd call Cormac McCarthy's The Road as sci fi too. that was pretty good

FunkyChicken · 30-06-2008 9:41am

Wheel of Time: Lord of Chaos

It's getting harder and harder to keep myself interested in these books. They started off so well but they're just getting bloated and dull at this stage. I think I'll need a break after this one. I've read all 5 in a row so far. Aes Sedai overload.

BlaasForRafa · 03-07-2008 10:11am

I'm reading The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss at the moment and enjoying it quite a bit.

Next up after that is The Peshawer Lancers by S M Stirling, an alternate universe/timeline book.

Wreck · 03-07-2008 10:18am

Half way thtough Erickson's 'Midnight Tides' and have 'The Bonehunters' ready for when I finish. Really loving this series, just wish I had more free time to actually read it!

mordeith · 08-07-2008 10:30am

I recently got the Dragonlance Chronicles in a 2nd hand shop and I've just started volume II "Dragons of Winter Night".

mcgovern · 10-07-2008 9:59am

Now reading Broken Angels by Richard Morgan, pretty good so far.

meditraitor · 10-07-2008 10:22am

Toll the hounds-Steven Erikson.

Trying not to read to fast as it will be 18 months before Dust of Dreams is out

and scifi/fantasy is very light on talent of late

Ostrom · 11-07-2008 12:16am

Night Watch - better than the movie

mcgovern · 11-07-2008 2:39pm

meditraitor wrote: »

Toll the hounds-Steven Erikson.

Trying not to read to fast as it will be 18 months before Dust of Dreams is out

and scifi/fantasy is very light on talent of late

Sci-fi has Alastair Reynolds, Neal Asher, Richard Morgan, Peter Hamilton, Ian M. Bainks, Stephen Baxter.....:eek:

Dades · 11-07-2008 4:07pm

Just reading the final novella in George RR Martins "Dreamsongs" anthology.

I haven't enjoyed a read that good in a long time. By way of introduction he talks through the background of all the stories, and what he was doing at the time they were written. Most of the stuff is sci-fi, and with the possible exception of the "Wild Card" stories (which were only okay), the material is all brilliant. You'd expect the earlier stuff to be dodgy, when in actual fact I thought it some of his best.

Highly recommended for those of us still awaiting "A Dance With Dragons".

tHE vAGGABOND · 16-07-2008 12:53pm

DayWatch - Book 2 of NightWatch Trillogy

Brilliant

Honey-ec · 16-07-2008 12:56pm

Just finished "I Am Legend" yesterday. Still haven't quite made up my mind about what I thought of it.

Woden · 16-07-2008 1:10pm

Farenheit 451 finding it a bit meh so far hope it picks up. Previously read Brave New World which I quite enjoyed.

Have Dune for holidays.

starflake · 17-07-2008 12:42pm

New Moon by Stephanie Meyer - I'm enjoying it, girly but enjoyable

opus · 19-07-2008 10:07am

Working my way through the Riverworld series (again), great read I have to say.

Sarky · 21-07-2008 1:33am

This weekend saw me get about a quarter of the way through The Neutronium Alchemist, book 2 of Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn thingy.

It's a lot more enjoyable than book one, where the last one took sodding ages to build up, here things kick off quickly and the pace stays brisk.

flyingoutside · 21-07-2008 1:40am

Honey-ec wrote: »

Just finished "I Am Legend" yesterday. Still haven't quite made up my mind about what I thought of it.

Really like the twist in the ending in it

mcgovern · 23-07-2008 5:11pm

Neal Asher - Polity Agent, good so far.

ixoy · 23-07-2008 10:43pm

mcgovern wrote: »

Neal Asher - Polity Agent, good so far.

How does it fare next to the previous three? "Polity Agent" is next up for me in the Agent Cormac series so I'm hoping he maintains the standard.

Biggins · 25-07-2008 12:04pm

The complete collection of Arthur C Clarke Short Stories.

Heck of a (thick) book.

mcgovern · 27-07-2008 2:22pm

ixoy wrote: »

How does it fare next to the previous three? "Polity Agent" is next up for me in the Agent Cormac series so I'm hoping he maintains the standard.

Just finished it, it was good, maybe not as good as some of the others, but worth the read. The thing that annoyed me most was changing from one charachter to another, just as something was about to happen. I know it was done on purpose, a constant cliffhanger almost, but after a few of them you just want to know what is going to happen without waiting another 30 pages.
I was also a little disappointed in what he did with some of the charachters, but there is probably a reason for it.

frenchtaxi · 28-07-2008 10:08am

reading the eye of the world, book one of the wheel of time by Robert Jordan!

ixoy · 28-07-2008 10:15am

frenchtaxi wrote: »

reading the eye of the world, book one of the wheel of time by Robert Jordan!

Blood and ashes - stop now! Save yourself and don't go any further. You'll thank me later.

Art_Wolf · 28-07-2008 10:50am

almost finished a book called Spellsinger to be followed up with the Chronicles of Conan.

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