What Are You Reading?

mcgovern · 07-07-2011 01:48PM

Finished Singularity Sky which was pretty good. Started Scattered Suns, Book 4 of The Saga of Seven Suns, and was quickly reminded why I stopped reading them.
Good story trying to get out from horrible writing and structure and pretty much everything else.

07-07-2011 02:27PM

mcgovern wrote: »

Finished Singularity Sky which was pretty good.

Iron sunrise is a good follow-up, if a bit racy at times :pac:

mcgovern · 08-07-2011 09:04AM

Its sitting on the shelf waiting to be read

It has quite a bit of company though

08-07-2011 10:00AM

They tend to do that! About 33% through Rule 34 myself and the verdict is still good.

Morag · 08-07-2011 10:49AM

Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison, it's urban fantasy, yes there is a lot of it out there atm but this series are pretty good and entertaining. And I am just about to start Simon R Green's Nightside series.

ixoy · 08-07-2011 10:38PM

"The Steel Remains" by Richard Morgan. Only 3% in so too early to judge yet. Does seem to have a nice gritty feel.

... I also have a feeling that, within a week (or days...), the "What Are You Reading?" thread is about to become very repetitive when everybody's naming the same title

.Ellie. · 09-07-2011 11:48AM

Just got the newest book of this series I read years ago.. Oh the nostalgia is consummate! Pity that i finished reading it in a couple of hours, now to buy the next one

The Rogue by Trudi Canavan.. Gods, I'm such a child.

JD1763 · 09-07-2011 10:03PM

Steel remains is a great book still waiting for the sequel tho. Still can't decide if I prefer Morgans fantasy or scifi

ixoy · 09-07-2011 10:27PM

JD1763 wrote: »

Steel remains is a great book still waiting for the sequel tho. Still can't decide if I prefer Morgans fantasy or scifi

"The Cold Commands" is due in October, according to Amazon. Probably a safe bet as the novel is gone to editing according to Morgan's blog. He's begun work on "The Dark Defiles", the final instalment.

OwaynOTT · 12-07-2011 09:12AM

Finished Moon over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch and Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregilis. Went through them in a week, after a massive black hole of no reading.
Moon over Soho was okay, it was neither brilliant or crap. Seems to be building up a lot for the next book whereas the first didn't seem like that. More of an introduction I suppose, what with it being the first book.

Bitter Seeds was really disappointing. Nice idea but really ran outta of steam and just ends. Another building up for the next book.

Reading The Unremembered by Peter Oruillian. I read a review for this book some where online where the reviewer noticed how like a Wheel of Time it was. Its actually a WOT book that gone down the wrong leg of the trousers of time.

Start with main character seeing a the creepy man guy minion - Check

Strangers in the village - Check

Jokey friend and serious friend - Check

Attack on the village by monsters from the blight/Quiet - Check

Disparate chase through the night with the monsters right on your heels - Check

Hide in the biggest city ever that will later down out only to be a town when the village bumpkins get to the real city - Check

Children of the Light - Check

Leave the town in the night - Check

Thats as far as I've got but its the same book.

AnCapaillMor · 12-07-2011 09:41AM

Finished the mistborn, i liked it. From the WOT and mistborn series, i'm liking sandersons style, he mixes it up a lot, does'n't spend a huge section of the book on a character and their feeling etc, the second it seems to get boring he'll change to another scene\character. Seems to have the timing down perfectly.

And typical after the 3rd attempt at the Eriksons malazan i finally get into it and hooked and a dance with dragons comes out.

Sleepy · 12-07-2011 01:20PM

A Dance With Dragons by George RR Martin.

Damn, it feels good to be able to post that in this thread

Demeyes · 12-07-2011 04:26PM

I'm reading Foundation by Asimov. Liking it so far, I have the next one ready to read after it.

A Dance With Dragons by George RR Martin.

Damn, it feels good to be able to post that in this thread

I'm probably going to wait a while and re-read the series before getting to the new one. I really hope my friends who are reading ASOIAF now don't spoil it for me as they are likely to get to the new book before me.

Shryke · 12-07-2011 08:07PM

Starting Dance baby!

(Can't wait 5 years for the next one!)

Zapp Brannigan · 12-07-2011 09:56PM

Memories of Ice.

I'm still flabbergasted that some people cannot get in to Erikson. Easily my favourite writer of recent times!

TwoShedsJackson · 13-07-2011 09:00AM

Reading A Dance With Dragons. Normally I would not try and read a book that size on the Luas but some books just demand to be read

Dades · 13-07-2011 11:07AM

I also am Dancing.

(And likely to be for a very long time.)

JD1763 · 13-07-2011 02:52PM

I wish I was dancing but Amazon only dispatched today

OwaynOTT · 14-07-2011 10:15AM

Dance with Dragons. On the beach, in the car, in work, bed, in the garden, toilet, shaving, shower, cinema and here there and everywhere.
Damn the size of it though.

Goldstein · 15-07-2011 03:27PM

Finished Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades, very good sequel though doesn't quite reach the highs of Old Man's War.

Started Robert J. Sawyer's The Terminal Experiment. Hooked. I think it was around 3am when it fell onto the floor. I see why it won the Nebula

mikedone · 15-07-2011 04:31PM

Just finished Mark Charan Newton's "Nights Of Villjamur" and looking forward to starting the second in the series "City Of Ruin"

Black Sheep · 16-07-2011 01:16PM

Probably fits in better in the horror subforum, but ... screw it.... I'm reading F. Paul Wilson's 'Midnight Mass'. Not dissimilar to Matheson's 'I am Legend' in concept. Vampires take over jersey shore, hoarding surviving humans as cattle and using 'cowboy' collaborators to protect them during the day. A priest, a nun and a rabbi (sounds like the set-up for a joke, I know) fight back.

Finished the first book of the 'Destroyermen' series there last week - 'Into the Storm'. WW1 era destroyer pressed into service in the Pacific theatre in WW2 finds itself slipping into an alternative dimension where humans have not evolved and intelligence lemur-type monkeys are battling for survival against a vaguely bird-like reptile race. A better alt history book than it sounds, honest. :pac: Probably appeal to fans of SM Stirling (in particular those who liked the 'Island in a sea of time' / Nantucket series).

spookwoman · 16-07-2011 11:59PM

Finished The man Kzin Wars series started on the fire and ice series. Next Ring world series.

ixoy · 17-07-2011 12:16AM

And now I too am about to join the dance!

Black Sheep · 17-07-2011 08:32PM

All done with 'Midnight Mass', starting Guilermo Del Toro's 'The Fall', book 2 of his trilogy with co-author Chuck Hogan.

Interesting series. Not sure it's better because of Del Toro's input (or how extensive that was), but there's some great visual imagery and ideas in there... Wherever they come from..

OwaynOTT · 19-07-2011 04:52PM

Dont know whether to re read Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy or try Brandon Sanderson's Elantris or finish Roger Zelazny's Amber series, just half way through first book.

What should I do.
Love the Farseer stuff and it has heaps of nostalgia for me. The Amber stuff seems to be a fun if light read. And the premise of Elantris is interesting.

Sl!mCharles · 19-07-2011 06:05PM

Carrie by big Stevie K.

Johnny Storm · 20-07-2011 04:52PM

spookwoman wrote: »

Finished The man Kzin Wars series started on the fire and ice series. Next Ring world series.

I enjoyed those Man-Kzin Wars books.
Ringworld is one of the all time great SF books.
Warning: The sequels are sh1te IMHO

pH · 20-07-2011 10:56PM

Just finished Yellow Blue Tibia, not so much science fiction as a book about a science fiction writer. Set in 1980s USSR, it tries to reconcile the fact that millions claim they've seen UFOs and been abducted with the fact that they don't exist. Strange book in many ways, quite well written and humorous in parts, but hard to recommend.

TwoShedsJackson · 21-07-2011 07:19AM

pH wrote: »

Just finished Yellow Blue Tibia, not so much science fiction as a book about a science fiction writer. Set in 1980s USSR, it tries to reconcile the fact that millions claim they've seen UFOs and been abducted with the fact that they don't exist. Strange book in many ways, quite well written and humorous in parts, but hard to recommend.

Yeah Adam Roberts is an acquired taste, I loved about four of his books and didn't like three others at all.

I recommend Land of the Headless by the same author, not an easy read either, but one of the best satires of religion, war, and vanity that I've ever read.

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