[August] What Are You Reading?

[Krug]

I've started Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice. I like the slower pace, good book.

Reading that as well. It's Sword & Laser's book for the month. (Their website here: - Sword and Laser)

Still reading 20th Century Boys. Story is stretched out thin and it's getting like Lost where everything's dragged out and you just get new stuff thrown in.

 

[Agamon]

Reading that as well. It's Sword & Laser's book for the month. (Their website here: - Sword and Laser)

Yup, that's why.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

I just finished Chandler's John Grimes: Survey Captain series of books. If I ever run Traveller on this site, I'm going to base the session strongly on the Grimes books. Now I'm about to start Andrew Norton's Witch World, which spawned a whole series by the author.

 

[Nellisir]

Finished Accelerando (high concept but rather scattershot, IMO); read Never Let Me Go (which I found well-written and rather disturbing in its implications), Leviathan's Wake (good book), and now reading The Good Thief (which so far seems to be set in some weirdly alternate English-countryside sort of New England).

 

[Jhaelen]

Finished Accelerando (high concept but rather scattershot, IMO); read Never Let Me Go (which I found well-written and rather disturbing in its implications), Leviathan's Wake (good book), and now reading The Good Thief (which so far seems to be set in some weirdly alternate English-countryside sort of New England).

Ah, I was just about to start reading 'Leviathan's Wake' when I noticed it's the first installment in a series - bummer!

Instead I started reading 'The Devil's Eye' by Jack McDevitt (which is also part of a series, but at least it's one I've been following for a while).

 

[Deuce Traveler]

I finished Andre Norton's Witch World. I liked it, although the middle was a bit dry. I went on to finish the C.L. Moore short story, Shambleau, a very good and very creepy science fiction tale that reminded me of some of Clark Ashton Smith's best work in the weird fiction genre.

I am now on Book Three of the original Covenant trilogy, the Power that Preserves by Stephen Donaldson. Like with the previous two books, I am finding it hard to put the novel down.

 

[Nellisir]

Ah, I was just about to start reading 'Leviathan's Wake' when I noticed it's the first installment in a series - bummer!

LW stands alone just fine. There are potential leads into another story, but nothing significant.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

Finished the Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy / restaurant at the end of the universe / life the universe and everything / so long and thanks for all the fish. Now on Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold. Will then be axiously waiting for Erickson's Forge of Darkness.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Finished the Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy / restaurant at the end of the universe / life the universe and everything / so long and thanks for all the fish.

As great as those books are, I prefer Adams' The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, part of his never finished detective series.

 

[LostSoul]

Poul Anderson's The Trouble Twisters. I haven't hit the Trouble Twisters yet, but I should get there tomorrow. A quick read, I picked it up on Friday.

It's interesting but not as good as his other works. I really liked the Broken Sword.