Jan 08 - What are you reading?

[Klaus]

 

[Atlatl Jones]

I just finished Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson. I picked it up based on the fact that he was chosen to finish the final Wheel of Time novel, and found this book to be possibly the most enjoyable fantasy novel I've read in years. I'm eager to read the sequel ASAP.

I haven't read Mistborn yet, but his first novel, Elantris, was one of the best fantasy novels I've read in ages.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I'm reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to my children. The Chronicles of Narnia, book 2.

For me, I'll finish Deuteronomy tonight and tomorrow will start in on Joshua. I'm also reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. That one's only so-so. Other than those two selections, I go through an Economist magazine every other week and I'm looking for some nice fluffy zone-out fantasy fiction to read on a 9-hour plane ride next week.

 

[GlassJaw]

Part 2 actually, if you go by publication date.

The compilation I have puts them in chronological order of when then stories took place, which I prefer.

 

[Jubilee]

I just finished Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik. I'm depressed that there's not another one, and that it ended on a bit of a cliff hanger. grrrrr.

I'll probably go back to Jane Austen and the Man of the Cloth by Stephanie Barron, although it hasn't really grabbed me so far.

/ali

 

[atom crash]

Just finished reading The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Awesome, awesome book, about the exploits of a con artist living in a fictional fantasy version of late medieval Venice.

Now I've started Duma Key, Stephen King's latest, which revolves around a man's recovery from an accident that takes his right arm and ends his marriage.

 

[Knightfall]

Still slowly slogging my way through "House of Chains" by Steven Eriksin. Not a bad book, just slow going.

I just started reading Book One of that series, Gardens of the Moon. So far, it's really good. His descriptions and characters are very well thought out.

 

[Enforcer]

I just finished No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. Like The Road, it's excellent. So excellent, that I've ordered pretty much everything the guy has written off of Amazon.

Now I'm reading The Orb of Xoriat by Edward Bolme, Book 2 in the War-Torn series. The series is not tied together, but that's a good thing considered how awful Book 1, The Crimson Talisman was. Book 2 is pretty good so far. I like Teron as a character, he sort of the Jason Bourne of Eberron, minus the amnesia.

 

[Cheiromancer]

I just finished a whole bunch of books by John C. Wright. His far future "Golden Age" trilogy, and his Titans trilogy. I've read three of Stephen Brust's Vlad Taltos novels, and have ordered some more from Amazon.

Man, I wish that there was a published d20 setting for Vlad Taltos. It reads like a high level campaign.

 

[Chaldfont]

That John C. Wright stuff is awesome.

I just finished Christopher Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck on vacation. Great stuff. I look forward to reading his other books.

I'm in the middle of The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. So far I like Declare and On Stranger Tides better, but it's still a fun book.

Oh, I heard Iain M. Banks has another Culture book coming out! Sweet!