What are you Reading? Noctilucent November 2019 edition

[Ralif Redhammer]

Halloween is over, and a bit of magic has gone out of the air. But books, books always have their own.

I finished reading the second half of the Elric Saga yesterday. Man, does that ending still pack a punch.

“Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou!”

Next up is Sapkowski's "Baptism of Fire." With the Witcher series on Netflix coming up soon, it's as good a reason as any to continue on in the book series.

 

[Richards]

I'm reading Deadlock by Iris Johansen. Basically, a pair of archaeologists get kidnapped and tortured for info by a crazed guy trying to find an ancient treasure. Then an occasional assassin for the CIA is hired to rescue them; he saves the woman but the man's already been tortured to death. And now they're running from the crazy guy and his army of hired thugs while figuring out a way to track not only him but the guy who hired him to kidnap the archaeologists in the first place. And the treasure is somehow tied to Rasputin, the Mad Monk. It's been...interesting thus far.

Johnathan

 

[carrot]

Just finished Brent Weeks' The Burning White: Book 5 of lightbringer. It was a really enjoyable (if very long-winded) read right up until (just before) the "final battle". Unfortunately at that point it all just went a bit "meh". It rather felt like the author was trying to include every idea he'd ever had for what to do with all the main characters no matter how little it made sense. Since that was the last of the series, its rather fallen flat.

Now onto A pilgrimage of Swords by Anthony Ryan. Not far in yet, but so far so good...

 

[reelo]

These...

 

[jaerdaph]

I'm almost done with Guy Endore's 1933 novel, The Werewolf of Paris. It was the basis for the 1961 Hammer Film Productions movie The Curse of the Werewolf starring Oliver Reed and directed by Terence Fisher.

 

[Janx]

finished These Violent Delights by Jessica Raney a few days back. A bloodsporty zombie romp with a deadly fun heroine.

Then I read Brandon Sanderson's Mitosis novella and am in the early stages of FireFight (book2 of whatever his evil super powereds series is called).

 

[Rob Kuntz]

When time permits I have been re-reading the shorts of Clark Ashton Smith in no particular order.

 

[Nellisir]

Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog, by Boris Akunin. Rather good and enjoyable, except that the translator has followed the author's and russian tradition of using all the parts of a characters name at different times in different combinations (XYZ might be XY, or Z, or X, or XYZ...), which is correct, but... <flips through the book AGAIN to figure out who someone is...>

Also reading A Brief History of the Normans, and Judge Dee At Work (Robert Van Gulik). Highly recommend the Judge Dee books.

 

[Rob Kuntz]

Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog, by Boris Akunin. Rather good and enjoyable, except that the translator has followed the author's and russian tradition of using all the parts of a characters name at different times in different combinations (XYZ might be XY, or Z, or X, or XYZ...), which is correct, but... <flips through the book AGAIN to figure out who someone is...>

Also reading A Brief History of the Normans, and Judge Dee At Work (Robert Van Gulik). Highly recommend the Judge Dee books.

Especially about the one bolded. Could be interesting!

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Been there.

I suspect that the Brothers Karamazov would be about half the length if they just standardized everybody's names.

Rather good and enjoyable, except that the translator has followed the author's and russian tradition of using all the parts of a characters name at different times in different combinations (XYZ might be XY, or Z, or X, or XYZ...), which is correct, but... <flips through the book AGAIN to figure out who someone is...>