[BlaasForRafa]

Originally Posted by OwaynOTT

Struggling to get interested in "Kraken" and after not finishing "The City and The City", it's not looking good for me and MEiville. Still have Peridido Street Station to read so hopefully that ignites a passion.
In a book lull at the moment and it sucks. Anyone care to recommend a non fantasy book

She-Wolves by Helen Castor is great. It deals with several influential queens of medieval England like Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Margaret of Anjou. You can see a lot of where George RR Martin got inspiration for Catelyn Stark and Cersei Lannister (no brother/sister incest in this book though!)

[OwaynOTT]

Originally Posted by BlaasForRafa

She-Wolves by Helen Castor is great. It deals with several influential queens of medieval England like Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Margaret of Anjou. You can see a lot of where George RR Martin got inspiration for Catelyn Stark and Cersei Lannister (no brother/sister incest in this book though!)

That was on bbc lately as well, i watched an episode.

[Shryke]

Originally Posted by OwaynOTT

Struggling to get interested in "Kraken" and after not finishing "The City and The City", it's not looking good for me and MEiville. Still have Peridido Street Station to read so hopefully that ignites a passion.
In a book lull at the moment and it sucks. Anyone care to recommend a non fantasy book

Don't bother with embassytown then. Perdido and the scar would be two of his best and one follows on from the other.
Avoid Iron Council.
Kraken is fairly decent so I'd encourage you to give a bit more effort.

[OwaynOTT]

Originally Posted by Shryke

Don't bother with embassytown then. Perdido and the scar would be two of his best and one follows on from the other.
Avoid Iron Council.
Kraken is fairly decent so I'd encourage you to give a bit more effort.

I read another bit this morning. Must get the scar

[shaneor]

I recently finished Fall of Hyperion. Thanks to everyone who recommended that I had to follow up on the sequel, I'm glad I did. It was a very good read and wrapped up the story nicely.

After starting into Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay and so far so good. I've read so many different fantasy worlds at this stage it takes awhile to get into a new one but its promising.

[Ms.M]

Originally Posted by OwaynOTT

Struggling to get interested in "Kraken" and after not finishing "The City and The City", it's not looking good for me and MEiville. Still have Peridido Street Station to read so hopefully that ignites a passion.
In a book lull at the moment and it sucks. Anyone care to recommend a non fantasy book

Ghostwritten by David Mitchell.
Set in the real world (bit of surrealism); multiple first person perspective, lovely style of writing. I couldn't get into his other books, just really enjoyed this one.

[AnCapaillMor]

Originally Posted by shaneor

I recently finished Fall of Hyperion. Thanks to everyone who recommended that I had to follow up on the sequel, I'm glad I did. It was a very good read and wrapped up the story nicely.

After starting into Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay and so far so good. I've read so many different fantasy worlds at this stage it takes awhile to get into a new one but its promising.

Stop reading that and start on endymion, set a good few years later on.

[OwaynOTT]

Just preordered "The Coldest War" by Ian Tregilis. First book in the trilogy was only old not excellent but the extended wait has be geared up for this.
I can't imagine what it will be like for Memory of Light or Republic of Thieves.

[Vastly Blank]

Originally Posted by shaneor

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After starting into Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay and so far so good. I've read so many different fantasy worlds at this stage it takes awhile to get into a new one but its promising.

Having read my way through Tolkien, Eddings,(as a teenager) Hobb while I was in Uni and Erickson(just finished last month). I enjoyed Tigana and I would also recommend Guy Gavriel Kays trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry. The first book is called the summer tree. It has been my go too fantasy fiction book when I can’t find anything else to read for the last number of years. I finished last week for the fifth time

[shaneor]

Originally Posted by AnCapaillMor

Stop reading that and start on endymion, set a good few years later on.

Hmmm ... I had been debating about whether to finish the series alright. Sounds like you'd recommend it I'll add it to my long to-read list!

[ixoy]

Reading "A Betrayal in Winter" by Daniel Abraham, the final volume in his Long Price quartet. Very much enjoying it so far - I really like how each volume is about 14 years apart and watching how the characters grow, facing the consequences of the scale of their actions in previous books.

[Zapp Brannigan]

Reading one of my guilty pleasures "The Crystal Shard" by RA Salvatore. Read them when I was younger, and I know they're not the most well written books and the story is a bit samey but I still like them!

[Zapp Brannigan]

And now I'm beginning Michael Sullivan's Riyria series. Had never heard of them before but the author is very involved in r/fantasy so I want to see what he's like. So far it's decent (only 2 chapters in though) kinda getting a Gentleman Bastards vibe (though not as good)

[growler]

Just wrapping up Web Site Story by Robert Rankin and starting into Un Lin Dun by China Mieville, after thoroughly enjoying Perdido St. Station

[Trojan]

Originally Posted by growler

Just wrapping up Web Site Story by Robert Rankin

Any good? I've often thought about having a look at his stuff, but other stuff always takes precedence.