[April] What you're reading now

King_Stannis · Apr 7, 2003

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 · Apr 7, 2003

Krug said:
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 · Apr 7, 2003

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 · Apr 7, 2003

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

AuroraGyps · Apr 8, 2003

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 · Apr 8, 2003

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 · Apr 8, 2003

Andrew D. Gable said:
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 · Apr 9, 2003

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 · Apr 9, 2003

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.