April '08: What Are You Reading?
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Fallen Seraph
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Finally got around to buying and starting to read William Gibson's The Difference Engine.
Storm Raven
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I just got my June issues of Analog and Asimov's, so those are at the top of my reading list right now. After that, Clarke's Expedition to Earth and Asimov's The Bicentennial Man. In between I'm going through Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters (yes, I do read through all my kids' books before they get them).
trancejeremy
Adventurer
The Horror in the Museum by HP Lovecraft and Others. I had read it years ago, but decided to buy it since I have most of his other work in some book or another.
Basically it's the stories he revised for other writers. Mostly it's pretty bad, actually, but a few are decent. The Mound, Out of the Aeons, The Diary of Alonzo Typer stand out as good. A few more are decent.
It's interesting though to see how the revisions are different than what he'd normally write, but at the same time, it's got a lot of his writing style. For instance, a lot of dialogue in some of them. Or actual female characters. (I mean, there's like one in all of his other stuff, almost, and she was really a he in a woman's body. And I guess a couple landladies get brief mentions in a couple others).
Basically it's the stories he revised for other writers. Mostly it's pretty bad, actually, but a few are decent. The Mound, Out of the Aeons, The Diary of Alonzo Typer stand out as good. A few more are decent.
It's interesting though to see how the revisions are different than what he'd normally write, but at the same time, it's got a lot of his writing style. For instance, a lot of dialogue in some of them. Or actual female characters. (I mean, there's like one in all of his other stuff, almost, and she was really a he in a woman's body. And I guess a couple landladies get brief mentions in a couple others).
delericho
Legend
"The Last Kingdom" by Bernard Cornwell. I've only read the prologue so far, but it seems very much like his other books. Which suits me fine.
Some time this month, I'm also going to try to finish off "Monte Cook's World of Darkness", which I started late last year but never quite got through.
Some time this month, I'm also going to try to finish off "Monte Cook's World of Darkness", which I started late last year but never quite got through.
Angel Tarragon
Dawn Dragon
How is this bento? I've been mulling over buying it.bento said:
atom crash
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I've been reading a lot lately, something I haven't had an opportunity to do since getting married nearly 2 years ago. Yay!
I'm working my way through Paizo's Planet Stories line. I've read Black God's Kiss by CL Moore and City of the Beast by Moorcock. I just finished Elak of Atlantis by Henry Kuttner a few minutes ago, and I intend to read Gygax's The Anubis Murders next week.
I'm also working my way through Clark Ashton Smith's short stories -- found them online at www.eldritchdark.com. So far my favorites are "The Beast of Averoigne" and "The Ice Demon." And I recently finished the first Robert E Howard's Conan collection, The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian.
Yeah, I've been devouring old sword & sorcery stories lately.
Now I'm trying to decide what to start next. The books I have and am itching to start are China Mieville's Perdido Street Station, Jim Hines' Goblin Quest, and three anthologies from Elder Signs Press: High Seas Cthulhu: Swashbuckling Adventure Meets the Mythos, Frontier Cthulhu: Ancient Horrors in the New World, and Hardboiled Cthulhu: Two-Fisted Tales of Tentacled Terror.
I'm working my way through Paizo's Planet Stories line. I've read Black God's Kiss by CL Moore and City of the Beast by Moorcock. I just finished Elak of Atlantis by Henry Kuttner a few minutes ago, and I intend to read Gygax's The Anubis Murders next week.
I'm also working my way through Clark Ashton Smith's short stories -- found them online at www.eldritchdark.com. So far my favorites are "The Beast of Averoigne" and "The Ice Demon." And I recently finished the first Robert E Howard's Conan collection, The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian.
Yeah, I've been devouring old sword & sorcery stories lately.
Now I'm trying to decide what to start next. The books I have and am itching to start are China Mieville's Perdido Street Station, Jim Hines' Goblin Quest, and three anthologies from Elder Signs Press: High Seas Cthulhu: Swashbuckling Adventure Meets the Mythos, Frontier Cthulhu: Ancient Horrors in the New World, and Hardboiled Cthulhu: Two-Fisted Tales of Tentacled Terror.
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