What Are You Reading?

Shryke

Reading Best Served Cold and it is excellent.

Ronanc1

Reading Best Served Cold and it is excellent.

Ahh cool i didnt know it was out yet ill definitly be picking it up soon loved the other 3 books

growler

cities in flight, james blish.

interesting read this

Johnny Storm

I got some kind of collected edition of all the Cities in flight books a few years ago, I found what I read of it to be a bit dated TBH.
No doubt that it's an SF classic though.

eVeNtInE

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entropi

Just finished The Spook's Sacrifice by Joseph Delaney. 6th book in a fantasy series called The Wardstone Chronicles, waited a good 7 months for it to be released, was well worth it too:D

Shryke

Finished Best Served Cold. Brilliant and highly recomended, just read the First Law trilogy first. There are plenty of references and some cameos you'd be lost without.

Starting Alice in Wonderland and might go with Through the Looking Glass while I'm at it. I just might loose interest since I know the story so well.

ixoy

Just getting into "Line War", by Neal Asher - the 5th in his Agent Cormac series. Liking it so far and it's already tying in lots of plot threads from the previous four. Hoping for lots of hi-octane action and imaginative conflicts and aliens.

mcgovern

mcgovern wrote: »

Finished A Clockwork Orange, and while it was good, it was tough going at times.
Taking a break at the moment from Sci-Fi, reading Generation Kill while I wait for next order of books to arrive from bookdepository

I seem to be jumping from one book to another at the moment
My order arrived so I put Generation Kill down and read Ayn Rand's "Anthem" in one night, very short but enjoyable.
The world is like a further gone version of 1984.

Dades

"Use of Weapons"

Slowly making my way through the 'Culture' novels.

Great stuff altogether.

Shryke

Use of Weapons blew me away.

As predicted I gave up on Lewis Carroll and I'm already a good bit into The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan.

growler

Priestess of the White by Trudi Canavan.

Read the Black Magician series which wasn't too bad, but for some reason I've always avoided reading Canavan's stuff, so after being reasonably pleasantly surprised by the black magician stuff picked up the next 3 books and after a few chapters I'm very unimpressed, puny flying human / birds and impotent immortal priesty types.


Black Magician also seems liek a patchwork of every other fantasy novel ever written, Feist's loveable rogues meets Jordan's evil magicians @ university (except for the bit of gayness thrown in, which was a new angle) !

Should I bother or quit while ahead?

shanegj

just started reading Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter,
it just stood out from everything else on the shelves after about half an hour of looking for something good to get.

Ronanc1

Should I bother or quit while ahead?

One thing my mother taught me when she fiirst started me off reading scifi and fantasy as a 12 year old, was no matter how boring ,dull or predictable a book ive started ALWAYS finish it!! because you never know what you might come across or when the enjoyment might start cause i know thers been plenty like that for me, aswell as plenty of poor ones that i slogged through too even if ther poor you can at least say you finished them and ther not left half read and you can say for sure from reading til the end that tehy were indeed poor

sry didnt mean to sound preachy but ive always thought it the best advice

eVeNtInE

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Trojan

Ronanc1 wrote: »

no matter how boring ,dull or predictable a book ive started ALWAYS finish it!

I used to agree with that. Then I started a business and realised the true value of time. A book gets 40-80 pages (an hour, max) from me, and if I'm still not enjoying it by then, screw it. My relaxation time is far too short and valuable to waste on something that I don't enjoy.

Accelerando was the latest one I tried and dropped. Just not my cup of tea at all. Glad to see a lot of reviewers online weren't into it too, so not just me.

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I'm not reading any sff at the moment, have some there but it's buried under business stuff. I need to get some new material!

growler

Ronanc1 wrote: »

One thing my mother taught me when she fiirst started me off reading scifi and fantasy as a 12 year old, was no matter how boring ,dull or predictable a book ive started ALWAYS finish it!!

i'd have agreed with you, until I Dan Brown and Paulo Coelho arrived on the scene, not sci-fi I know but that rule doesn't hold for me any longer

Hossbox

Just finished "The Swords of Night and Day" by David Gemmel

Starting into "Matter" by Ian M. Banks

eVeNtInE

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Trojan

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Cheers, I'm going to have a look at that. Here's a link to the download page (see bottom for Tor hardback version as PDF).

What's really interesting is aspiring authors could compare versions to see how it's worked and reworked from version 1 up to 6.

eVeNtInE

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Sarky

ixoy wrote: »

Did you like this? I've read four of his other books and I've liked each one more. I'm curious about this and its companion novel (Jennifer Morgue?).

Not finished yet, but I am certainly enjoying it. Might be better if there was more focused plot instead of the "just a bunch of stuff that happened" approach, but what's there is funny, clever and makes me want to read more.

fenris

I read the Poison Study trillogy last week, not the worst cliche fest ever and quite readable, while you would not stay up late to finish any of the books, they were easy to pick up again!

Just finished "Then Painted Man" - looking forward to the next one.

Feeling the urge for some traditional Sci-fi I have started the Pip&Flinx series and "Hymn before Battle" by John Ring

mcgovern

Now reading The Temporal Void, been waiting for this one for awhile!

Ronanc1

Eventine you seem to have read most of sandersons works, since hearing that he is finishing the WoT series ive been looking to pick some of his stuff up, i got Elantris a couple of months ago and thought it was quite good. Ive been looking to pick up the mistborn series though i cant seem to find them in town where abouts did you get yours? chapters or hodges and fidges thats where i saw elantris but no others

ixoy

Reading "Crown of Stars" by Kate Elliot, the final book in the "Crown of Stars" septology. It's pretty good but I'm struggling to remember what happened in the previous six as I read them years ago.

myk

bonkey wrote: »

He says he's changed from a trilogy to a 4-parter. I'll believe that when the next book finishes the saga, like Brisingr was supposed to.

Not a bad read, though...if you liked the first two.

It is ok. Pulp read in my opinion. A very easy read, but he has stolen plot devices from other sagas and has very little original material himself. I'll read the rest of the saga, and enjoy it, but I'll never call the work classic or brilliant or genius or original.

Shryke

Getting very little reading done lately. I'm half way through The Steal Remains and haven't picked it up again in ages. I may have officially given up on it. It just doesn't hold me at all.
I have just finished The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller. I wasn't a big Sin City fan. It was all style, no substance so I didn't expect a lot even though it's considered one of the best Batman graphic novels. I can say now it was brilliant! I won't rant. It was just nail on the head when it came to Bruce Wayne/Bats.

Sarky

Odd, I couldn't put The Steel Remains down myself. Had a nice irreverent tone to it that you don't often get in fantasy. I'm just starting into the third Death's Head book by David Gunn. Day Of The Damned. If it's anything like the first two I'll be happy.

orestes

Ronanc1 wrote: »

One thing my mother taught me when she fiirst started me off reading scifi and fantasy as a 12 year old, was no matter how boring ,dull or predictable a book ive started ALWAYS finish it!! because you never know what you might come across or when the enjoyment might start cause i know thers been plenty like that for me, aswell as plenty of poor ones that i slogged through too even if ther poor you can at least say you finished them and ther not left half read and you can say for sure from reading til the end that tehy were indeed poor

Gotta agree, the first 100 pages of Donaldsons Covenant Chronicles bored me to tears (I had to be physically forced to read it, no joke) but once I got into it I fecking loved it

I'm reading Piers Anthonys Bio of a Space Tyrant atm, on the second one now and frigging loving them.

I'm only just getting into sci-fi, any recommendations greatly appreciated folks