[August] What are you reading?

[Tinker Gnome]

Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan.

 

[frankthedm]

So many distractions. Been trying to work on The Jennifer Morgue for some time now. After that I'll finish up Vector Prime.

Comics I just finished
OOTS:the start of darkness
Joker/Mask
Lobo/Mask
Lobo/Batman

 

[Brandigan]

Dug out The Hobbit and re-reading that. Trying to imagine what the movie will be like.

 

[frankthedm]

Dug out The Hobbit and re-reading that. Trying to imagine what the movie will be like.

Del Toro's Work with Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy 2 fill me with hope of a darky magical Middle Earth ready to serve up dragon sized portions of Nightmare Fuel.

 

[Richards]

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. I can't believe how quickly I'm plowing through this massive book, but I hate to put it down and stop reading for the night. (As a result, I haven't been getting as much sleep as I normally get!)

And best of all, I got it for free at a library book sale. It was on the "free to a good home" rack, having apparently gone through several previous book sales with no interested takers. No such problem now: my son gets it next after me, followed immediately by my boss.

Johnathan

 

[Aus_Snow]

Just started Consider Phlebas.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Just finished Tanith Lee's Secret Books of Paradys novels (hardcover omnibus).

I'm a big fan of hers, but hadn't heard of this one. Overall, its pretty decent, though some parts of it weren't her best.

However, there was one particular set of stories that I could easily see being done as a series of movies by Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Tarsem Singh (The Cell) or Dario Argento (Susperia) due to the way Lee describes the intense visuals.

And another would show well with a Creepshow type structure.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. I can't believe how quickly I'm plowing through this massive book, but I hate to put it down and stop reading for the night. (As a result, I haven't been getting as much sleep as I normally get!)

That book is both one of the best debut novels I've read in a while- at leasts since House of Leaves, the debut novel by the American author Mark Z. Danielewski- and also a disappointment.

Its a spectacular piece of quasi-Victorian alt-hist/fantasy.

However, it disappointed me in that some of the editing was noticeably bad: I can't recall at the moment what it was, but I remember flipping back and forth between a few pages to reassure myself that I had indeed read what I had read- some passages simply didn't follow the story continuity. Some editor was asleep at the wheel. Yes, you should expect some editing errors in a novel this size...but as I recall, they were whoppers.

Of course, I've forgotten what they were since I read the book some years ago, and for all my griping, they don't detract from the overall awesomeness of the story and how its told.

 

[Shade]

Outlaws of Mars by Otis Adelbert Kline. After the plodding The Blade Itself, I needed a nice, light, fast-moving palate cleanser.

 

[Wombat]

Recently read Raj: The Rise & Fall of British India. Then read The Alienist, which was okayish, but not at all what I expected.

Now I am re-reading LeGuin's Earthsea books. I figured I would tackle all six this time, pretty much at a go. They are beautiful, as always.