what are you reading?

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:46 am 0

I've just started reading the Saga of Seven Suns series by Kevin J Anderson

http://www.wordfire.com/seven.html

It's giving me the same sort of vibe as Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy. It's written in a similar style (A large cast of characters and jumping between then every chapter)

grue · Post by **grue** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:21 am 0

I'm still fighting with Steven King's Cell. It's boring like hell but I hope it will pick up soon. When will this happen is another matter since I'm past the middle.

If I've not finished it by Friday it's going to the second hand bookstore.

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:32 am 0

I'm reading this:

Which is an absolutely harrowing account of a corrupt policeman's success in convicting nearly half of a town's black male population of drug dealing crimes they almost certainly didn't commit. The corrupt cop's motivations and actions are a lot easier to understand than the judicial system that indulged him and delivered some ridiculously stern sentences to innocent men.

It all got sorted in the end and this is the story of how it happened. Quarter of the way through and in place's it's so terrible it's nearly funny.

Glyndwr · Post by **Glyndwr** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:22 am 0

Brian Lumley... Necroscope: The Touch.

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:29 am 0

grue wrote:I'm still fighting with Steven King's Cell. It's boring like hell but I hope it will pick up soon. When will this happen is another matter since I'm past the middle.

If I've not finished it by Friday it's going to the second hand bookstore.

Don't bother - I loved it for about the first third, but like a lot of King's books recently, he doesn't really seem to know how to follow up on the initial premise.

The ending sucks, BTW.

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:37 am 0

James Clavell's 'Shogun'. I enjoyed the 1980 mini-series and understand that the book is a lot better so thought I'd give it a go. So far, so good.

grue · Post by **grue** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:10 pm 0

RageMatrix wrote:
grue wrote:I'm still fighting with Steven King's Cell. It's boring like hell but I hope it will pick up soon. When will this happen is another matter since I'm past the middle.

If I've not finished it by Friday it's going to the second hand bookstore.
Don't bother - I loved it for about the first third, but like a lot of King's books recently, he doesn't really seem to know how to follow up on the initial premise.

The ending sucks, BTW.

That does it then, tonight I'll start Reaper's Gale!

Glyndwr wrote:Brian Lumley... Necroscope: The Touch.

I'm a rabid Necroscope fan but this was so shit I almost cried.

Avengers was such a great swan song for the series (even though it shamelessly copied I Am Legend

) he should leave it there.

merman · Post by **merman** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:14 pm 0

"Nature of the Beast" reprint from the Retrovision welcome pack - top work!

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:30 pm 0

Struggled through Lost Books and needed cheering up so now re-reading Good Omens for the first time in at least 10 years. Mr P & Mr G are such a good team.

adam · Post by **adam** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:34 pm 0

i reread good omens a couple of years back, & very nice too...

every time i see this thread i imagine one called "what are you wearing?"

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:36 pm 0

adam wrote: every time i see this thread i imagine one called "what are you wearing?"

Start one and see if it runs then!

craigt · Post by **craigt** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:38 pm 0

RageMatrix wrote:Don't bother - I loved it for about the first third, but like a lot of King's books recently, he doesn't really seem to know how to follow up on the initial premise.

The ending sucks, BTW.

King seems to suffer from this. Generally, I enjoy his books but he just doesn't know how to finish them sometimes. I'm still reading the Dark Tower series (currently two-thirds of the way through Wolves of the Calla) and i'm just hoping it doesn't go wrong in the last two books.

merman · Post by **merman** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:52 pm 0

SimonB wrote:
adam wrote: every time i see this thread i imagine one called "what are you wearing?"
Start one and see if it runs then!

Second reply will be Your Mum

Glyndwr · Post by **Glyndwr** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:14 pm 0

grue wrote:
RageMatrix wrote:
grue wrote:I'm still fighting with Steven King's Cell. It's boring like hell but I hope it will pick up soon. When will this happen is another matter since I'm past the middle.

If I've not finished it by Friday it's going to the second hand bookstore.
Don't bother - I loved it for about the first third, but like a lot of King's books recently, he doesn't really seem to know how to follow up on the initial premise.

The ending sucks, BTW.
That does it then, tonight I'll start Reaper's Gale!

Glyndwr wrote:Brian Lumley... Necroscope: The Touch.
I'm a rabid Necroscope fan but this was so shit I almost cried.
Avengers was such a great swan song for the series (even though it shamelessly copied I Am Legend ) he should leave it there.

Yes I agree regarding 'The Touch', but I've just got to finish it now!

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Thu May 17, 2007 12:21 am 0

Just finished 'Ice' by Tristan Jones.

Very compelling old fashioned sea yarn about a man and a boat and a dog trying to reach the furthest north ever visited by a sailing boat.

So compelling was his story-telling that I had to have some warming soup for lunch today, as the arctic took hold...

I have already put on order for his 'The Incredible Journey' too.