What's everyone reading right now? I'm working on Gordon Dahlquist's The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters vol II right now and getting kind of frustrated...
What's everyone reading right now? I'm working on Gordon Dahlquist's The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters vol II right now and getting kind of frustrated...
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters. It's really interesting so far, but I'm only 100 pages in.
I'm currently reading The Lies of Locke Lamora, and loving it.
I'm currently reading The Lies of Locke Lamora, and loving it.
What's Lies of Locke Lamora about?
I just finished re-reading the entire Landoer series by Terry Brooks and today on my flight from Seattle to NYC read about 1/3 of the next Landover novel, A Princess of Landover, which comes out this August from Del Rey. So far I am loving it! Familiar characters I've missed for 12 years back finally! Bout time!
After I finish Princess, I'll read Lamentation by new author Ken Scholes. And after that The Red Wolf Conspiracy. :)
Shawn, you have the best job! TWo of the books I really want to read for this year, and you get them this week. Let me know id Lamentation is as good as the buzz.
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.
Just finished The Blade Itself and am currently rushing through The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
'The January Dancer' by Michael Flynn. Guy know how to really flesh out a sci-fi universe with backstory and culture in just a few pages. Recommended to people who liked 'Firefly' on TV, definitely has that outer space fringe vibe.
"Recommended to people who liked 'Firefly' on TV"
Sold!
Promenade of the Gods by Koji Suzuki. A cool, very interesting mystery which I hear ties into the RING cycle at some point.
Hero Killer,
Let me know how you like the Road...... I have been ambivalent to starting it. I am obviously descending into a deep need for space opera, as I am rereading the Honor Harrington books again. I'm blaming the weather.
I finished The Road a couple of days ago and I really enjoyed it. At 250 pages or so with large font and big gaps between the short sections the book shouldn't take you more than a couple of sittings. As for the book itself it was beautifully written and very disturbing. It is also a very emotional story and I found myself getting choked up quite often (maybe because I'm a father who knows). One scene in particular where the father finds a packet of hot cocoa and gives it to his son and pretends he is drinking it too by blowing on a cup of hot water, then his son realizes this and chastises him for not having some himself had me choked up for awhile lol.
Very depressing yet very moving quick read.
Over the last 2 days I flew through The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. The Graveyard Book for those who are not aware is a modern retelling of Kipling's Jungle Book taking place in a graveyard apposed to the jungle. Had a lot of fun with that one. The characters are all over the top and interesting and it is fun to see which of the characters relate to their Jungle Book counterpart (I still haven't figured out them all). Definitely recommended.
Now I am moving on to read either Before They Are Hanged or the Gears of War novel "Aspho Fields" by Karen Traviss. I'm a little leery of the later seeing as its a novel based on a video game, (one of which I haven't played much at that) but I run a small book club with my friends and one of them picked it so I'll have to get to it eventually. :P I'll let you know how that goes.
I just started Lamentation by Ken Scholes..... I've been waiting for it for a few months since I first started hearing about it, official release is Tuesday, but B&N had it out on Saturday. So far.... It's awesome.
Shawn did you get it stated yet?
@ Hero Killer, thanks for the update. I may have to pick it up.
I just finished Lamentation.
This is what all first books should be. It is tightly plotted, a vivid and fractured world, and a cast of believable characters. This is not the next rote experience in fantastic literature, it is a unique and thoughtful look at what the world might be like, after the 2nd Armageddon.
I have nothing to compare it to, but I think it falls into a category of amazing first novels that I have deeply enjoyed over the last few years, The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Name of the Wind, and Mainspring among others,that reset the limits of the genre and continue it's evolution and it's message.
Now if only it were September when his next book will be available.
Went a complete different direction with my reading. Decided against either of the 2 previous mentions (though I'll have to go back to them later) and decided to read Crimson by Gord Rollo. I'm on the Leisure Horror Book mailing list. They send me 2 horror novels a month for about $10 a month. 120 pages into Crimson and I'm enjoying it the story is very similar to Stephen King's "IT". I also enjoyed Mr. Rollo's first horror novel The Jigsaw Man.
Lamentation by Ken Scholes right now. Good book so far.
China Mieville's The City & The City.
Good so far & deliriously weird just the way a Mieville book should be. Kinda like if you took Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler & George Orwell, blended them up & poured them into a big ol' glass of Weird.
I've got The City & The City sitting on my bookshelf - can't wait to get to it!
Oh, yes yes yes! I had the opportunity to read The City & The City at the end of last year and was thrilled with it. Interestingly, I compared it to both PKD and Chandler as well.
Um, is that great minds thinking alike? That's what I'm going to claim, anyway.
The City & The City is not available yet in the US so I am still eagerly awaiting it. I'm constantly waiting for new books that I know are all ready available else where but I suppose it doesn't matter when you have a TBR (to be read) pile the size of an elephant sitting at home anyway. :P
Working on Nights of Villjamur by Mark Newton.
I just finished Jeff Smith's Bone series! In color!
I am finishing up The Warded Man by Peter Brett. It's oh-so-good!
I just finished The Warded Man myself. I was deeply impressed by it, and look forward to the next one. It is a little mature in theme at times, but he does a great job of keeping the narative going.
I was waiting for some indication of where the story was going, but when the narrative finally got to the finale it flew by.
Perfect? No.
Still an awesome read? Definately.
Working on The Dragonbone Chair now. Probably will get into the Warded Man next.
Currently working through the US edition of Mark Chadbourn's WORLD'S END. Fantastic so far.