what are you reading?

[Firefox]

Start with either Prador Moon or the Ian Cormac series

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Asher

The two Spatterjay books are good but more planet bound (Although a very,very interesting planet).

Ah, cool. I've already chucked Gridlinked into my basket.

I *really* enjoyed that!

I was a bit unsure at first, it just seemed like heaps of gratuitous ultraviolence to start with. But after a chapter or two I got into the characters and it became a real page turner. I'll definitely be reading the rest of the series soon.

Thanks HGFB!

[limb_clock]

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

[HGFB]

I just finished the awesome Kethani by Eric Brown and finally got around to reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I think I'd put it off so long because I was expecting it to be closer to the movie than it actually was (Not very). That's probably why even though Robert Heinlein is one of my fave writers I've only just started Starship Troopers today.

[SimonB]

Since the last post:

Ian Fleming - Moonraker. And now:

Russell Brnad: My Booky Wook.

Also got Jean M. Auel - The Shelters Of Stone in my phone.

[Mat]

'Fatal Revenant' - Stephen Donaldson

I tried, I honestly did.
I got the hardback, but the damn thing was just boring me to tears.
Now it just sits on the end of my bookcase gathering dust. I think I've out-grown Stephen Donaldson.
Now that's something I never thought I'd say.

What I am reading at the moment after saving it for years and years is Dune, and it's fantastic.

[grue]

'Fatal Revenant' - Stephen Donaldson

I tried, I honestly did.
I got the hardback, but the damn thing was just boring me to tears.
Now it just sits on the end of my bookcase gathering dust. I think I've out-grown Stephen Donaldson.
No that's something I never thought I'd say.

I hear you. I read the original trilogy and I swore never to touch another Donaldson book. He is boring. Dry as a rock writing and repeating the same situations again and again. No thanks.

I'm currently reading Last Argument Of Kings - Joe Abercrombie.

[Mat]

That's the thing though, when I originally read the Thomas Covenant books, I loved them. Same with the Mordant's Need stuff and his Gap series (which I still think are his best books).
But I can't help feeling now that maybe he's always been this bad but I was just a moody teenager when I read him originally and his brand of misery struck a chord.

[benedictw]

That's the thing though, when I originally read the Thomas Covenant books, I loved them. Same with the Mordant's Need stuff and his Gap series (which I still think are his best books).
But I can't help feeling now that maybe he's always been this bad but I was just a moody teenager when I read him originally and his brand of misery struck a chord.

Yeah. Our reading style has shifted, but the authors of the time have not.

Try Robin Hobbs' Assassins books - very, very good.

[Mr Dom]

That's the thing though, when I originally read the Thomas Covenant books, I loved them. Same with the Mordant's Need stuff and his Gap series (which I still think are his best books).
But I can't help feeling now that maybe he's always been this bad but I was just a moody teenager when I read him originally and his brand of misery struck a chord.

Yeah. Our reading style has shifted, but the authors of the time have not.

Try Robin Hobbs' Assassins books - very, very good.

Yup - good series, great first 2, weak 3rd book tho. which always annoys me.
But after them, 'The Liveship Traders' trilogy, slow start but fantastic finale. It carries on from there but the last sets aren't as good as these 2 trilogies.
I only ever managed 1.5 Thomas Covenant books before things like 'fantasy' characters called Kevin and the dull tedium of bugger all happening, grumpily, all made it too much to bother with.

[grue]

Almost finishing the Last Arguement of Kings by Joe Abercrombie.
It's the 3rd book of The First Law trilogy and anyone that's enjoys their fantasy brutal and gritty should read them.

[HGFB]

I've recently read the third in the Dragonlance Dark Disciple series Amber and Blood and have just finished a reread of Stranger in a Strange Land which is still the best book ever written.

Later today I'm going to start The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge.

[ShadowTail]

I'll second the call for Robin Hobb's assassin books - The Farseer Trilogy (starting with Assassin's Apprentice).

At the moment I am reading Hyperion - Dan Simmons, which I am finding very good so far.

I have recently failed to get through Lankhmar - Fritz Leiber. It just doesn't fit into my brain, even though I'm sure there's a good story in there somewhere.

The last book I finished was a reread of The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch which I believe to be the greatest fantasy book written in recent years.

[Istar]

Recently read "The Danger", "For Kicks", and "Twice Shy" by Dick Francis. I'm not at all a 'horsey' person, but for some reason I've recently acquired a taste for his writing style, and am really enjoying going through his back catalogue.

Currently reading "Imperium" by Robert Harris, which is a rattling good yarn and brings ancient Rome in the time of Cicero to vivid life. I've also read "Pompeii" by him in the past, which did the same for the events leading up to Vesuvius' eruption.

Next on the list - well, a search on '@unread' in my still-incomplete-but-growing LibraryThing collection gives me 43 titles to choose from. I think perhaps either Al Murray's "The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense", or possibly Iain M. Banks' "Matter".

[SimonB]

Since Russell:

William Gibson - Burning Chrome (thus finishing off the first wave of Gibson re-reads that I was doing for the first time in 10+ years)

Adam Ant - Stand & Deliver (fascinating about the mental health stuff as well as the music)

ane now

Stan Nicholls - Orcs omnibus edition.

[VNVObit]

Finished Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman didn't quite enjoy it as much as much as the first 2 in the trilogy

Also just finished Persopolis by Marjane Satrapi found it quite interesting and enjoyable.Reminded me superficially of Maus (memoirs via comics).Definitely worth reading

now to see what's left in the unread pile