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What Are You Reading?

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  • #362
    mcgovern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭mcgovern


    Finished Horizon Storms by Kevin J Anderson, he is one of the most frustrating writers I've ever had to misfortune to read.
    Now onto "Treason" by Orson Scott Card, interesting so far.


  • #363
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    To Kill A Mockingbird. Completely brilliant. I'll now read some Sherlock Holmes with The Hound of the Baskervilles even though I know exactly what's going to happen.
    To keep remotely in line with the forum (sci fi/fantasy) I've also been reading some short stories by Iain M. Banks. I've read most of his novels at this stage but never gave the short stories a chance. I picked up the State of the Art and it's been OK. Like all compelations of stories I look at the index and start by reading the shortest. So far so good I guess. The only persons who have ever impressed me with their short stories are Edger Aen Poe and Neil Gaimen and that says a lot for Neil Gaimen.


  • #364
    thebullkf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭thebullkf


    Shryke wrote: »
    To Kill A Mockingbird. Completely brilliant. I'll now read some Sherlock Holmes with The Hound of the Baskervilles even though I know exactly what's going to happen.
    To keep remotely in line with the forum (sci fi/fantasy) I've also been reading some short stories by Iain M. Banks. I've read most of his novels at this stage but never gave the short stories a chance. I picked up the State of the Art and it's been OK. Like all compelations of stories I look at the index and start by reading the shortest. So far so good I guess. The only persons who have ever impressed me with their short stories are Edger Aen Poe and Neil Gaimen and that says a lot for Neil Gaimen.

    +1

    Gaimen=genius


  • #365
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,045 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Just started into "House of Suns" by Alastair Reynolds. Seems very different to his Revelation Space universe. I know it was Hugo nominated so I'm particularily looking forward to this one.


  • #366
    Trojan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,415 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    ixoy wrote: »
    Just started into "House of Suns" by Alastair Reynolds. Seems very different to his Revelation Space universe. I know it was Hugo nominated so I'm particularily looking forward to this one.

    Give us a review after, very interested.

    🎙️ The Recognized Authority Podcast



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  • #367
    mcgovern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭mcgovern


    Trojan wrote: »
    Give us a review after, very interested.

    I read it awhile ago, and found it very good, but I love Reynolds so.... :D


  • #368
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,045 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Trojan wrote: »
    Give us a review after, very interested.
    Just finished it and have a review here. I purposely put very little of the plot in - I rarely even read blurbs on books as they're too spoiler heavy (this book is no exception - I'd urge you not to read the blurb).

    Suffice to say that I really enjoyed it and think it's probably his most mature and best work to date. I'm a Reynolds fan like McGovern but this is his most accomplished feat.

    Next up is "Lyra's Oxford" by Philip Pullman which should take under an hour!


  • #369
    Johnny Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,995 ✭✭✭Johnny Storm


    Currently I'm reading Gardner Dozois' Years Best SF 26 (for 2008). Up to the usual standard so far.

    I also recently read Alan Moore's "The League of Gentlemen" graphic novel. I had no particular expectations of this one but, IMHO, it's great! The recent movie was total sh1t by comparison.


  • #370
    jonsnow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 724 ✭✭✭jonsnow


    Dust of dreams from the malazan book of the fallen series by Stephen Erikson.Top notch in parts,really boring in other parts.A lot like Jordan in that respect.I often just skim read the boring characters sections.But the 14th army characters and Karsa Oblong(if he shows up) always entertain.

    SPOILERS:Loved the clash of empires in reapers gale but felt cheated by the Redmask storyline.One minute hes a military genius the next hes totally incompetent.and what was the point of it all!!


  • #371
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,045 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Currently reading "Iron Angel" by Alastair Campbell. It's the sequel to "Scar City" and I'm enjoying it so far and this time I'm not having trouble remembering what went before. There's a refreshing industrial feel to this series and, with a large dash of angels, marks it out among the many other series out there.


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  • #372
    fitz0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,753 ✭✭✭fitz0


    Robot Dreams - Isaac Asimov. This is my first real exposure to Asimov and I have to say I'm loving it.


  • #373
    bonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    Reading Shadow's Edge - book 2 of the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks.

    I'm enjoying it, but it seems somewhat less dark then book 1. Reminds me in parts of a cross between Terry Goodkind and Trudi Canavan, which book 1 certainly didn't.


  • #374
    Cookie Jar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭Cookie Jar


    I have just finished reading Maria V. Snyder's "Yelena" trilogy.
    Just picked up in a book store with no prior knowledge. Was really impressed.:D


  • #375
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Reading The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Century: 1910. It's quite a bit shorter than the other installments but it's Alan Moore so who cares. Anything is good!


  • #376
    bonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    Shryke wrote: »
    Reading The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Century: 1910. It's quite a bit shorter than the other installments but it's Alan Moore so who cares. Anything is good!

    I thought only part 1 (of 3) had been released so far? If so, then its not that its shorter...its that you only have 1/3 of it...


  • #377
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    I saw it in HMV for €6 and assumed it was a standalone. Didn't know there was going to be any kind of new entry to the series. Bring it on Mr. Moore.


  • #378
    apsalar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭apsalar


    Woohoo! with money in my pocket, the latest Steven Erikson has found its way into my library...on page 3 and it's going great!:D


  • #379
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,045 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Just started "Honored Enemy", part of Raymond E. Feist's collaborative 'Legends of the Riftwar' series. Too early to get a feel yet but the writing style is markedly different to Feist's light breezy one.
    apsalar wrote: »
    Woohoo! with money in my pocket, the latest Steven Erikson has found its way into my library...on page 3 and it's going great!:D
    You know I saw "Apsalar" had posted last and I wondered if you had been reading an Erikson book :)


  • #380
    PADRAGON
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭PADRAGON


    I'm about halfway through swan song,very good so far.I picked up six Robin Hobb books in a second hand shop.The assassin trilogy and the liveship trilogy.Looking forward to starting them i've heard great things
    about them here.


  • #381
    growler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭growler


    Acacia, David Anthony Durham.

    about a 1/3 of the way in and its not a bad read, depends on how the plot develops , also just got the 3 from Night Angel series books by Brent Weeks which I've heard good things about.


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  • #382
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Finally picked up "Dune" again.

    Tried it a couple of years ago in the wrong frame of mind - didn't get far. Have got a bit more into it now so hoping to get really stuck in...

    Worth it?!


  • #383
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,045 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Dades wrote: »
    Finally picked up "Dune" again.

    Tried it a couple of years ago in the wrong frame of mind - didn't get far. Have got a bit more into it now so hoping to get really stuck in...

    Worth it?!
    Yes 'Dune' is worth it! It's rightly held up as one of the greatest (if not the greatest) science fiction novels of all time. It's a masterpiece in world building, epic story lines, and vision. Sure I'm your moderator here and my Boards username is derived from 'Dune'!


  • #384
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Reading The Graveyard Book. It's fresh in all it's wierd little Gaiman type ways and I'm liking it but it's not the best thing he's ever written.
    That's after reading Feet of Clay which was excellent. The watch books are easily my favorite for Vimes alone.
    I also recently read the first graphic novel of Transmetropolitan and I thought it was brilliant! The protagonist is a rogue journalist in a future where technology has raced so far ahead that the wierdest stuff possible surrounds you every day. And he reacts to it the ony way he can.


  • #385
    apsalar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭apsalar


    Dades wrote: »
    Finally picked up "Dune" again.

    Tried it a couple of years ago in the wrong frame of mind - didn't get far. Have got a bit more into it now so hoping to get really stuck in...

    Worth it?!

    Very much worth it. Read it about 7 years ago the first time and it left me cold. Then read it last year with the sequels and enjoyed it. You have to be in the mind-frame but its a pretty creative book, especially considering how long ago it was written. Didn't much like the movie though I do think Kyle MacLachlan is soooo dreamy....

    If you like it, pick up Arthur C. Clarke's Rama books as well- if you haven't read them yet. I particularly enjoyed rama II


  • #386
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    apsalar wrote: »
    Didn't much like the movie though I do think Kyle MacLachlan is soooo dreamy....
    Only remember flashes of the movie so that at least means nothing material has been spoiled for me.
    apsalar wrote: »
    If you like it, pick up Arthur C. Clarke's Rama books as well- if you haven't read them yet. I particularly enjoyed rama II
    Read all the Ramas - man, did they get weird after a while!

    I'd never get through them now - don't have the time. Got halfway through the "Mars" trilogy (Kim Stanley Robinson) and had to move on to something different. Life is too short to spend (in my case) months on one 'big book'.

    Already looking forward to the train home and Dune though!


  • #387
    Johnny Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,995 ✭✭✭Johnny Storm


    Dades wrote: »
    Finally picked up "Dune" again.

    Tried it a couple of years ago in the wrong frame of mind - didn't get far. Have got a bit more into it now so hoping to get really stuck in...

    Worth it?!

    I agree with most of the comments on Dune: it is great.
    However beware that IMHO a lot of it has been "used-up" by Star Wars etc
    Also JIMHO the first sequel "Dune Messiah" is just as good as the Dune itself and is essential reading. But IMHO the story really ends at the end of Dune Messiah; all the other sequels are, sorry to say, cash-ins.

    And of course the recent "prequels" are .... abominations

    EDIT to add: BTW I thought the first two KSR Mars books were excelllent, the third one - meh.


  • #388
    in-like-Flynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭in-like-Flynn


    Yes Dune is definitly one of the best out there. I'm waiting on "Starship Troopers" to arrive, just bought it off ebay last week, I've heard nothing but good things about it so decided to give it a try.
    Also has anybody read "The Wars of Light and Shadow" by Janny Wurts, just finished the first three and thought they were very good, I will be getting the next three in the series.


  • #389
    Ichiro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Ichiro


    Just started 'Last Argument of Kings' the third installment of Joe Abercrombies The First law books.

    Loving it!


  • #390
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    2 wrote: »
    Use Of Weapons. By Ian Banks.

    Incredible book. I loved it.

    Against a Dark Background, Banks.


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  • #391
    pH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie *****


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