[August] What are you reading?

[Pants]

Very interesting. I liked The Scar, but not nearly as much as PSS. The first book (PSS) was utterly engrossing for me, one of the least boring books I've read in years; it felt like someone was transcribing my nightmares and giving them to me awake. The Scar didn't have that effect on me; nor did Iron Council. Tey both very good IMO, but not as raw as PSS was.

He does wait awhile in all the books before developing the "main" plot, inasmuch as there is a main plot.

Daniel

Keep in mind that I haven't finished The Scar yet and that while I thought Mieville could've trimmed off some pages from PSS, I LOVED the last half of book (after the moths are introduced).

 

[Olive]

Very interesting. I liked The Scar, but not nearly as much as PSS. The first book (PSS) was utterly engrossing for me, one of the least boring books I've read in years; it felt like someone was transcribing my nightmares and giving them to me awake. The Scar didn't have that effect on me; nor did Iron Council. Tey both very good IMO, but not as raw as PSS was.

This is kinda the same for me... reading PSS was like reading my favourite author for the first time... the scar was probably less polished but not as exciting for me.

 

[AuroraGyps]

Right now I'm reading Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row which is very good, but I never knew Spike went blonde so early on.

Before that was Grave Peril by Jim Butcher (I'm still waiting for books 4 & 5 from the library) & the Fray graphic novel. Plus, in between I've looking through The Draconomicon, which looks really nice.

 

[Mean Eyed Cat]

I'm currently reading Mojo: Conjure Stories edited by Nalo Hopkinson

Good vódu stuff!

 

[Elodan]

So far this month,

Infinity Beach, Jack McDevitt
Blood Rites, Jim Butcher

Picked up and put down Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson a few times. I'm having trouble getting into it.

Next up, Devlin's Justice by Patricia Bray.

 

[JoeGKushner]

While waiting for my Tawny Man series to come from the SFBC, I'm still trying to finish off Legends and the Wind Walker, a FR book. The former is going a little better than the latter.

 

[RaceBannon42]

Legends II showed up on Friday so I took a break from Vance, which is going a bit slow, to Read the Sworn Sword and get a George RR Martin fix.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Finished "King of Torts", now reading "Conquistadors" by S.M. Stirling.

 

[barsoomcore]

Just finished Fatema Mernissi's Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems -- highly recommended if you want to get an outsider's view of Western (Christian) culture. Mernissi's a great writer and her notion -- how the idea of a harem as a care-free sexual playground for the man who owns it became so prevalent in the West -- is a fascinating one.

I greatly enjoyed it. I also finished Howard's The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian and LOVED it. And I'm carrying Strunk & White's The Elements of Style around and re-reading it because you need to do that every so often if you want to write gooder.

 

[Olive]

Well, I started reading The Iron Council...

It's ggreat, but if you found his other work too political, you'll hate this. Over all, he's developing more and more as an author.