[April] What you're reading now

[King_Stannis]

I am about 3/4 of the way through "Starship Troopers". Alot different than the movie (though I liked the movie), overall a pretty good read.

 

[Pielorinho]

Ok just started on Mielville's King Rat. His writing is very fluid and reads very easily.

Mieville da man! I checked Perdido Street Station out of the library because of half-remembered recommendations of it, and was swept into his vivid nightmare of a novel. Like Charles Dickens on bad Angel Dust, or like Ankh-Morpork with no trace of humor. Crazy good writing!

Last week I bought The Scar, still high on Mieville's prose. Although I didn't like it quite as well as PSS, it was stil a great read.

I'm going to ask my used-bookstore friend to keep an eye out for King Rat for me. He's such a damnably good writer.

Currently I'm reading Death of the Necromancer. It's interesting, reads sort of like Kushner's excellent novel Swordspoint. But I've just started it; we'll see how it progresses.

Daniel

 

[Kip the Bold]

I just started reading The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson, a book of short stories set in the same universe as the Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy. So far, so good. The original trilogy is pretty darn good, one of the better hard sci-fi series I've read.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

About halfway through Guy Gavriel Kay's Sailing to Sarantium. So far, I'm liking it.

 

[AuroraGyps]

Ended March and started April with two Greyhawk novels: The Temple of Elemental Evil & Keep on the Borderlands. Both were pretty good (I still like Paul Kidd's novels best), but they just made me miss role playing (I haven't played anything in 2 years
) Now I'm reading Black Body by H.C. Turk... it's about witches in the late 1700s in England. So far it's interesting.

 

[Sulimo]

Batman - Dark Victory, by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale
The History of Alexander, by Quintus Curtius Rufus

+ I should have Freedom City (for Mutants and Masterminds) to read in a few days.

 

[Pielorinho]

About halfway through Guy Gavriel Kay's Sailing to Sarantium. So far, I'm liking it.

This two-book trilogy (duology? Trilogy short-stack?) is my favorite work by one of my favorite authors. Good, good stuff -- and IMHO, the second book is even better than the first.

Daniel

 

[Crothian]

Finally got through Game of Thrones, happy to see others reading it as well. Going to start into Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut next.

 

[Turlogh]

Just finished David Weber's War of Honour and March Upcountry.
Currently reading Steven Erikson's Malazan novels.
Next up is Poul Anderson's Dominic Flandry series and The Stars are Also Fire.

 

[KnowTheToe]

Re-reading Clash of Kings to prepare for the new book at the end of this year.