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[Feb] What are you reading?
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James Heard
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Right now I'm trying to decide whether or not to push forward reading Dan Simmon's The Terror, or The Road to Damascus and Against the Tide by John Ringo (the former with Linda Evans). I don't know why I bother with Ringo, I think he writes like crap but my roommate collects them skulls on cultists and they're long enough that they while away the hours with me ending up wanting to stab the sanctimonious hack in eyes.
I've been feeling ill, so I've been reading a lot. This month I've already knocked out Emerald Sea and Cally's War (both Ringo books, and hence free), David Weber's Wind Rider's Oath, and The Sky People by S.M. Stirling.
Of all of them, the Simmons book will no doubt be the best written but hardest to get through and my only fault with The Sky People is that it felt like it should have been twice as long. I'm probably going to go get the new Atevi book by C.J. Cherryh here soon, and enjoy it more than all the rest put together.
Or maybe I'm just grouchy because I'm sick, or I'm always grouchy but hide it better?
Meh.
Edit: Almost forgot, last night I also breezed through Harry Turtledoves' In High Places, one of his Tor Crosstime Traffic books.
I've been feeling ill, so I've been reading a lot. This month I've already knocked out Emerald Sea and Cally's War (both Ringo books, and hence free), David Weber's Wind Rider's Oath, and The Sky People by S.M. Stirling.
Of all of them, the Simmons book will no doubt be the best written but hardest to get through and my only fault with The Sky People is that it felt like it should have been twice as long. I'm probably going to go get the new Atevi book by C.J. Cherryh here soon, and enjoy it more than all the rest put together.
Or maybe I'm just grouchy because I'm sick, or I'm always grouchy but hide it better?
Meh.
Edit: Almost forgot, last night I also breezed through Harry Turtledoves' In High Places, one of his Tor Crosstime Traffic books.
RaceBannon42
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Finished up Howard Who? by Howard Waldrop.
Its a short story collection, and short fiction isnt really my thing. They are over by the time I get into them. I'm much more of a fan of novels. Still it was very well written. Very diverse stories.
I also read Supreme Power Vol 2 HC which is a omnibus of Supreme power 13-18 and Hyperion 1-5. I prefered the first half of it to the second, and I dont think Volume 2 was as good as volume one.
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Started in on Little Big by John Crowley
Its a short story collection, and short fiction isnt really my thing. They are over by the time I get into them. I'm much more of a fan of novels. Still it was very well written. Very diverse stories.
I also read Supreme Power Vol 2 HC which is a omnibus of Supreme power 13-18 and Hyperion 1-5. I prefered the first half of it to the second, and I dont think Volume 2 was as good as volume one.
Reviews on my blog
Started in on Little Big by John Crowley
jonathan swift
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Just finished up both L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Magic of Recluce and Elizabeth Moon's Trading in Danger. Reading Moon's Marque and Reprisal now and then starting Modesitt's The Towers of Sunset.
If you can't tell, I really enjoyed the first two books in each of those series.
If you can't tell, I really enjoyed the first two books in each of those series.
sckeener
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Kunimatyu said:
Even Thomas Harris said that Jonathan Demme told a better story in the film.
It might be that the serial killer genre isn't right for you or it might be just that book.
I'm not into serial killer books, so I can't help. I think the only one I've been interested in reading lately has been Dexter (because of Showtime's series.) From what I hear though the series is better than the books....more character development of side characters in the tv series than in the book.
bento
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Vigilance said:
Wahoo! I keep waiting for Marvel to release the series in their Essential format. I'd plunk down $15 for 25 some-odd issues of Sgt. Fury!
I finished "The Ruins of Golran" book 1 of the Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flannagan. While hanging out in the local B&N with my kids I noticed there's a ton of YA fantasy now available that doesn't start with the title "Harry Potter &...". This looked the most interesting so I got a copy from the local library. Good enough to track down book 2.
Right now I'm half-way through "Thor: The Eternals Saga" Vol. 1. This was one of the first comics I picked up when I started reading them in 1979, so seeing this series get the trade paperback treatment turned it into a must buy. Part 2 of the series (soon to be in print) retell's Wagner's Ring cycle, with Thor and other Asgardians playing prominant rolls.
I've also got several of the Marvel Essentials waiting for me to dive into - Hulk v. 4, Man-Thing, Captain America v.3 and Defenders v.1. My birthday was earlier this month.
Storm Raven
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Storm Raven said:
Well, I wrapped those up, and read Contact and Comet for good measure (Contact was much better as a book than a movie by the way), and then polished off Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, which was very good.
I'm on Blish's A Case of Conscience at the moment, and then I'll read the last book I have in a couple of series by Card (Heartfire and Xenocide).
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