[Jan] What are you reading?

[diaglo]

just finished rereading Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

currently rereading Bullfinch, Thomas: Bullfinch's Mythology

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

The Arabian Nights : Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by A.S. Byatt

Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T. O'Conner

The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose G. Bierce

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

currently rereading Bullfinch, Thomas: Bullfinch's Mythology

The Arabian Nights : Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by A.S. Byatt

The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose G. Bierce

YESYESYES those books are among my favorites!

 

[Mallus]

This month... hard SF. Finished the 2nd Phaeton book by Jogn C. Wright, The Phoenix Exultant. Thought it was great. I love his future. And I finally got around to reading a Xeelee book by Stepehn Baxter, Vacuum Diagrams. Neat, but ultimately the characters are just to flat for my tastes --granted the book is a collection of short stories, so actual characters will be in short supply. Can anyone recommend me one of his novels?

 

[Liminal Syzygy]

Just finished Kavalier and Clay... Excellent book.

 

[CCamfield]

I started Color of Magic by Pratchett, but left it on the plane. I'm more than half way thru Wild Cards. Both have been pretty good, tho radically different.

You could of course find another copy of The Colour of Magic, but if you're just starting Pratchett, I'd suggest jumping ahead to Guards! Guards or Wyrd Sisters (or possibly Mort, or Small Gods). Those start the series of really good Discworld novels, in my opinion.

 

[DaveStebbins]

Well, on my walk to work and home from work each day, I'm currently listening to the audiobook version of Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott. Publishers Weekly desrcibes it as being the first in a trilogy about "the life of Boudica, the warrior queen of Britannia who fought the Romans in the first century A.D." I'm quite enjoying it.

At home, I'm in the middle of Monstrous Regiment by Pratchett ('nuff said) and also The Corrections, a general fiction book by Jonathan Frantzan. I'm enjoying them both, but I may not finish the latter before they are due back at the library.

The books I've most recently finished are The Wee Free Men by Pratchett and Boogers Are My Beat (audiobook) by Dave Barry. Both are, just by author reputation, worth the read.

-Dave

 

[Pants]

Just finished Perdido Street Station by Mieville. I quite liked it although there's one big problem that I had with it... cactus people... friggen cactus people! I mean, I can see bug-people, fish-people, and genetically-altered people, but cactus people?! I think Mieville was trying a bit too hard to be so very different sometimes, yet I still enjoyed the story quite a bit.

I'm currently working on Robin Hobb's Royal Assassin and I am starting to believe that Hobb can write some of the damn best characters. I haven't felt as bad for Fitz as I have since I read Martin's books, and that's quite a lot of praise coming from me.

 

[Starman]

Just finished Perdido Street Station by Mieville. I quite liked it although there's one big problem that I had with it... cactus people... friggen cactus people! I mean, I can see bug-people, fish-people, and genetically-altered people, but cactus people?! I think Mieville was trying a bit too hard to be so very different sometimes, yet I still enjoyed the story quite a bit.

I actually liked the cactus people (cactacae, I believe they were called) and was hoping to see more of their interesting culture.

Starman

 

[Pants]

I actually liked the cactus people (cactacae, I believe they were called) and was hoping to see more of their interesting culture.

Starman

Actually, I found them all rather interesting, but I still couldn't get over the stigma of a walking-talking cactus.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Stopped by the Barnes & Noble last night and picked up Shadows Linger by Glen Cook and Dreamcatcher by Stephen King.