what are you reading?

grue · Post by **grue** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:54 pm 0

Viscount Charles wrote:RE-reading Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" marathon. Currently up to book 8, having received book 11 from the states a couple of weeks ago.

I read the 3rd about a month ago and I promised to myself never to buy another Jordan book again. His pace is all wrong and I couldn't care less about the characters..

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:50 am 0

Zoot wrote:I read a book called "Steppe" by Piers Anthony which I really loved, but it seems to be out of print.

Anyone any bright ideas how I can get it?

Ta chuckie eggs.

You could try http://www.abebooks.co.uk which is kind of a book market place type thing. I used it once to find a book that I absolutely could not find anywhere else, and ended up paying postage for it essentially (albeit overpriced postage). I guess your experience of it depends on the seller you pick. Certainly Steppe by Piers Anthony turns up though...

To get back to the question - I've just finished reading Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose ( 8 ), by Sandy Balfour. It's basically the memoirs of a naturalised South African crossword afficianado. It's nothing ground-breaking or earth-shattering, but very readable - especially if you're into cryptic crosswords.

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:53 am 0

Mark wrote:
Zoot wrote:I read a book called "Steppe" by Piers Anthony which I really loved, but it seems to be out of print.

Anyone any bright ideas how I can get it?

Ta chuckie eggs.
You could try http://www.abebooks.co.uk which is kind of a book market place type thing.

Hehe, "snap": http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?p=7 ... rey#742577

The book arrived today, exactly as described and a bargain, I'm happy to have it back.

So I guess that's what I'm reading now

stay · Post by **stay** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 1:01 am 0

"The Ringworld Throne".

Third book in Larry Niven's Ringworld series.

Eight foot tall furry, orange, feline diplomats. Hehe, You don't have to check the original publishing date to tell he started these books at the height of the Drugs and free-love era

Perkunas · Post by **Perkunas** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 1:05 am 0

Antigone - Sophocles
Lot's of course papers...

TwistedScrote · Post by **TwistedScrote** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 1:34 am 0

I'm just over halfway through 'Wizard and Glass' (Book 4). For some reason i'm not enjoying it as much as the previous three.
Especially 'The Drawing of the Three'. That was fantastic

Stick with it..! It just keeps on building and building... It's really is a stunning piece of work!

TheGoodbyeGirl · Post by **TheGoodbyeGirl** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:21 pm 0

See my sig and also Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz.

nyarla · Post by **nyarla** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:29 pm 0

Working my way through lots of H.P. Lovecraft stories.. I've read some of the shorter ones before but it's the first time i've actually read Call of Cthulhu, At The Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Out of Time (which I just started), etc..... sooo good. I think Mountains of Madness is my favourite one so far... wicked atmosphere.

grue · Post by **grue** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:34 pm 0

nyarla wrote:Working my way through lots of H.P. Lovecraft stories.. I've read some of the shorter ones before but it's the first time i've actually read Call of Cthulhu, At The Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Out of Time (which I just started), etc..... sooo good. I think Mountains of Madness is my favourite one so far... wicked atmosphere.

And for the uninitiated http://www.noveltynet.org/content/books ... /index.php

EDIT: I've been reading HP since I was 11 years old and I really can't seperate any favorites. Shadow over Innsmooth and Rats in the walls, if I was hardpressed

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:45 pm 0

I've just started reading Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

nyarla · Post by **nyarla** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:47 pm 0

grue wrote:
nyarla wrote:Working my way through lots of H.P. Lovecraft stories.. I've read some of the shorter ones before but it's the first time i've actually read Call of Cthulhu, At The Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Out of Time (which I just started), etc..... sooo good. I think Mountains of Madness is my favourite one so far... wicked atmosphere.
And for the uninitiated http://www.noveltynet.org/content/books ... /index.php

EDIT: I've been reading HP since I was 11 years old and I really can't seperate any favorites. Shadow over Innsmooth and Rats in the walls, if I was hardpressed

Nice one. I was getting them from here (html).

I first read Cthulhu mythos stuff by Brian Lumley..a lot easier to read than Lovecraft...but, er, yeah. Not as......Lovecraftian.

I didn't realise before how sci-fi Lovecraft is (as opposed to "horror"). The "Nyarlathotep" in Lumley's books (where I got my nick) isn't anything like Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep...or I probably wouldn't be called nyarla!

grue · Post by **grue** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:54 pm 0

nyarla wrote: I first read Cthulhu mythos stuff by Brian Lumley..a lot easier to read than Lovecraft...but, er, yeah. Not as......Lovecraftian. I didn't realise before how sci-fi Lovecraft is (as opposed to "horror"). The "Nyarlathotep" in Lumley's books (where I got my nick) isn't anything like Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep...or I probably wouldn't be called nyarla!

I didn't like the mythos novels of Lumley. Too action packed for it's subject. On the other hand I absolutely adore the Necroscope series, all 13 books of it

Highly recomended to anti-Rice ones

nyarla · Post by **nyarla** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:58 pm 0

grue wrote:I didn't like the mythos novels of Lumley. Too action packed for it's subject. On the other hand I absolutely adore the Necroscope series, all 13 books of it
Highly recomended to anti-Rice ones

*nod* they are rather like an action movie novelisation, hey...

i've only read one of the necroscope ones (don't know which one..probably not the first). it was good..i'll have to find more.

saul · Post by **saul** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:00 pm 0

At the moment 'The Rachel Papers' by Martin Amis, and looking forward to opening Michel Houllebecq's new one 'The Possibility of an Island'

Tmuk · Post by **Tmuk** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:01 pm 0

Just finished 'The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch' by Philip K. Dick, and I'm waiting for my copy of Arthur C. Clarke's 'Rendezvous with Rama'. Very into my classic Sci-Fi at the moment