Jan '09: What Are You Reading?

[F5]

Working on World War Z for now. It's pretty keen, on multiple levels.

 

[Krug]

Finished Fables Vol 11: War and Pieces, where the big war with the Adversary finally happens... but I found it quite underwhelming. It all happens quite fast and there's just a lack of tension. Yes there are big changes to come, but it all seems to have fizzled out, and not sure if I'll continue with the series.

 

[Richards]

I'm currently reading Brother Odd, the third in Dean Koontz's "Odd Thomas" series, with the fourth book on deck when I finish this one, and then it's on to Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book."

Johnathan

 

[S. Baldrick]

The Jackal of Nar by John Marco.

 

[Wombat]

In honour of my upcoming golden anniversary, I am now starting a re-read of War & Peace.

A magnificent book, always.

 

[Eridanis]

I am working on P. Craig Russell's excellent adaption of the Ring cycle - just ordered book 2 from Amazon so it's here when I finish the first. On Friday, I was very psyched to pick up Michael Pennington's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM - A USER'S GUIDE, which talks in-depth about Shakespeare's play from the point of view of the actors and director. His first two USER'S GUIDES - first Hamlet, then Twelfth Night - contain some of the wisest and most thorough explorations of those plays I've ever read.

 

[bento]

Finished Fables Vol 11: War and Pieces, where the big war with the Adversary finally happens... but I found it quite underwhelming. It all happens quite fast and there's just a lack of tension. Yes there are big changes to come, but it all seems to have fizzled out, and not sure if I'll continue with the series.

This was one of the final comic book series I started just before I dropped comics entirely. I read through book 3, and like Y-the Last Man, I found it very entertaining. It's too bad some series can't keep up the quality work, especially when it reaches a point the entire storyline is building towards.

I am working on P. Craig Russell's excellent adaption of the Ring cycle - just ordered book 2 from Amazon so it's here when I finish the first.

I read these when they were published as individual comics (uncollected that is). Beautiful art and very well done. My first taste of Wagner in comics was in Thor back in 1980. In the middle of resolving the way-cosmic Celestial trial of earth (do we live or die?) Roy Thomas drops in four issues of the Ring Cycle. A truely WTF moment in comics.

Between slogging through Caesar's subjugations of the Galli, I re-read Alan Moore's Ballad of Halo Jones graphic novel. It was one of his first "acclaimed" comic series written back during his work in 2000AD. Unfortunately it was not as good as I remembered it the first time though. I think that so many of the innovations in storytelling he used has become fairly common in today's work.

 

[SlyFlourish]

I'm reading Neal Stephenson's Anathem but it's really slow so far. 270 pages in and not a whole hell of a lot has happened.

I'm hoping to read some good fantasy novels sometime here soon. I read Name of the Wind last year and I think it was my favorite book of the year.

I need to read something that gets my creative juices flowing.

 

[Aeolius]

I am either about to start reading the novel adaptation of "The Dark Crystal" or the first in the series of Southern Vampire/Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) novels... I didn't read a single novel, last year... 7 kids, don'tcha know...

 

[frankthedm]

Contagious by Scott Sigler