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September - What are you Reading?
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Sublime_Art
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currently reading "Hellboy: Odder Jobs" and "Transmetropolitan, vol. 1". Both are a blast, and I really finding myself digging Transmetropolitan, because of all its satire on modern society.
Mark Chance
Boingy! Boingy!
Almost finished with Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques. Started Anthony Everitt's Cicero this weekend. Need to get back to Kipling's Captains Courageous. I finished about half of it before I got distracted by something shiny.
Brakkart
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Just finished reading Star of Cursrah which I can't reccomend highly enough. The fate of one of the characters is utterly chilling. Total kudo's to Clayton Emery for an enthralling and terrifying tale of the Forgotten Realms.
Started reading The Howling Delve now, but thus far I'm not very impressed and I'm about 80 pages in. Looking to get Storm of the Dead and Shadowstorm this week, and I have the Devil's Due graphic version of Streams of Silver on its way to me in the mail.
Started reading The Howling Delve now, but thus far I'm not very impressed and I'm about 80 pages in. Looking to get Storm of the Dead and Shadowstorm this week, and I have the Devil's Due graphic version of Streams of Silver on its way to me in the mail.
EricNoah
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Picked up two paperbacks today by authors I have never heard of:
Helix by Eric Brown: "Helix is a fast-paced action adventure novel following the plight of four humans when they crashland on what they think is a desolate, ice-bound planet. Daylight brings the discovery that the planet is one of thousands arranged in a vast spiral wound about a central sun. They set off to discover a more habitable, Earth-like world and come across strange races of aliens, and life-threatening perils, on their way." Sounds like some fun sci fi.
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks: "The time is roughly the present, and the U.S. is part of the Vast Machine, a society overseen by the Tabula, a secret organization bent on establishing a perfectly controlled populace. Allied against the Tabula are the Travelers and their sword-carrying protectors, the Harlequins. The Travelers, now almost extinct, can project their spirit into other worlds where they receive wisdom to bring back to earth—wisdom that threatens the Tabula's power. Maya, a reluctant Harlequin, finds herself compelled to protect two naïve Travelers, Michael and Gabriel Corrigan. Michael dabbles in shady real estate deals, while Gabriel prefers to live "off the Grid," eschewing any documentation—credit cards, bank accounts—that the Vast Machine could use to track him. Because the Tabula has engineered a way to use the Travelers for its own purposes, Maya must not only keep the brothers alive, but out of the hands of these evil puppet-masters. She succeeds, but she also fails, and therein lies the tale. By the end of this exciting volume, the first in a trilogy, the stage is set for a world-rending clash between good and evil."
I'm about 2 pages into The Traveler.
Helix by Eric Brown: "Helix is a fast-paced action adventure novel following the plight of four humans when they crashland on what they think is a desolate, ice-bound planet. Daylight brings the discovery that the planet is one of thousands arranged in a vast spiral wound about a central sun. They set off to discover a more habitable, Earth-like world and come across strange races of aliens, and life-threatening perils, on their way." Sounds like some fun sci fi.
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks: "The time is roughly the present, and the U.S. is part of the Vast Machine, a society overseen by the Tabula, a secret organization bent on establishing a perfectly controlled populace. Allied against the Tabula are the Travelers and their sword-carrying protectors, the Harlequins. The Travelers, now almost extinct, can project their spirit into other worlds where they receive wisdom to bring back to earth—wisdom that threatens the Tabula's power. Maya, a reluctant Harlequin, finds herself compelled to protect two naïve Travelers, Michael and Gabriel Corrigan. Michael dabbles in shady real estate deals, while Gabriel prefers to live "off the Grid," eschewing any documentation—credit cards, bank accounts—that the Vast Machine could use to track him. Because the Tabula has engineered a way to use the Travelers for its own purposes, Maya must not only keep the brothers alive, but out of the hands of these evil puppet-masters. She succeeds, but she also fails, and therein lies the tale. By the end of this exciting volume, the first in a trilogy, the stage is set for a world-rending clash between good and evil."
I'm about 2 pages into The Traveler.
Croesus
Adventurer
Tetsubo said:
I started that one a couple months ago, but stopped fairly quickly - it just didn't grab me. Don't know if I just wasn't in the mood, or something about the book itself. Let me know what you think of it - I may give it another try.
Just finished Ruins of Empire (history of post-WW2 Asia) and Justinian's Flea (bubonic plague in the Sixth Century). The first was good, the second outstanding.
Now reading Pipe Dreams (the fall of Enron) - entertaining, in a gossip-column kind of way.
I just read Hellgate: London over the weekend. It's based on the upcoming computer game, but wasn't half bad. No worse than many FR/D&D novels, for instance. Written by Mel Odom, who's penned novels in the FR before, actually.
I'm just begun reading "The Knights of Black and White" by Jack Whyte.
Banshee
I'm just begun reading "The Knights of Black and White" by Jack Whyte.
Banshee
Lazybones
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I was reading Cartomancy, the second novel in Michael Stackpole's The New World trilogy. I had to put it down 45 pages in. What started out as a promising and interesting story just got too... weird for me.
Now I'm reading selections from the first Legends anthology. Hard to believe how many good authors are in that book, including G.R.R. Martin and Robert Jordan (back when he could tell a cohesive story in under a hundred pages).
I have The First Book of Swords by Fred Saberhagen on order from my library. I read a few of the many swords books here and there, but never read the original trilogy as far as I can recall.
I also recently finished rereading Clay's Ark by Octavia Butler. A short, very creepy novel about an alien pathogen getting a foothold on Earth by transforming human hosts. Definitely read reviews before getting as this one is not for everyone.
Now I'm reading selections from the first Legends anthology. Hard to believe how many good authors are in that book, including G.R.R. Martin and Robert Jordan (back when he could tell a cohesive story in under a hundred pages).
I have The First Book of Swords by Fred Saberhagen on order from my library. I read a few of the many swords books here and there, but never read the original trilogy as far as I can recall.
I also recently finished rereading Clay's Ark by Octavia Butler. A short, very creepy novel about an alien pathogen getting a foothold on Earth by transforming human hosts. Definitely read reviews before getting as this one is not for everyone.
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