[Jan05] What are you reading?

[Jdvn1]

Mine may not be the best opinion to ask -- apart from the concepts (loved the idea of the Speaker for the Dead), I hated the Ender arc. I don't even think I followed it to completion, after finding Xenocide really disappointing.

The Bean arc is pretty nifty, IMO. Ender's Shadow crosses the line into "I'll make it look like this was what I meant when I wrote Ender's Game," but it's still a pretty good book. And Bean is an interesting character.

Most of his conclusions about what would happen after the Battle School grads return to Earth seem sound, and the next two books are both pretty good -- a lot of politics, a little war, and oodles of character development for Bean, Peter and Achilles.

Achilles? New character? I. Am. So. Surprised. Riiight.

I'm not entirely happy with Xenocide, so far. Of the four or five storylines, so far, two are interesting. I don't know anyone who's actually made it through the whole Ender arc, so I want to make it through. Xenocide seems like a lot of fluff, but because it seems like Card is trying to postpone the end, kind of. So Children of the Mind I'm hoping will be better.

I have a DM, actually, who used Ender's Game for a D&D game. Battle school in D&D is fun.

 

[Welverin]

I haven't started a novel yet, but I did get back to reading the Eberron CS (I've read more in the last few days than in the previous four months).

 

[Tav_Behemoth]

I bought myself Gene Wolfe's The Wizard - didn't realize it had come out in time to put it on my wish list - and am reading it now with great pleasure. Well, actually I'm typing about it now, but in just a moment I'll go back to reading it...

 

[devilish]

Perdido Street Station by CHINA MIEVILLE based on recommendations here at
enWorld. Lovely and surreal.

Also am listening to Dark Tower: Drawing of the Three by Stephen King on
an audiobook on my way to/from work.

-D

 

[Laurel]

Just picked up Survior's Quest by Timothy Zahn. I have liked his other books for the Star Wars Universe, and this looks like it's in keep with his style.

 

[diaglo]

The Time Traveler's Wife (Harvest Book) by Audrey Niffenegger

and Beating Back the Devil : On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service by Maryn McKenna

 

[Elodan]

I did a lot of reading over the New Year's weekend.

Finished:
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
The Wizard Hunters, Martha Wells
More than Magick, Rick Taubold
Hard Eight, Janet Evanovich

and halfway through Ironhand's Daughter, David Gemmell.

I enjoyed them all a lot.

 

[Pants]

Making quick progress through R. Scott Bakker's The Darkness that Comes Before: Book One of The Prince of Nothing series. I'm really, really enjoying it so far. Very well written.

I'm also reading a bit of The Daily Show Presents: America The Book on the side. F**kin' hilarious.

 

[Thanee]

Just started with A Game of Thrones by G.R.R. Martin.

Yeah, havn't read this yet...

Tho, I really want to continue the Quicksilver Trilogy, too. Great stuff!

Bye
Thanee

 

[dvvega]

Finished Book 1:Across the Nightingale Floor of the Otori Trilogy and into Book 2:Grass For His Pillow. Written by Lian Hearn (pseudonym) for an Australian author (well actually living in Australia, born in England I believe).

Looks like Book 1 will be turned into a movie ... will be very interested in how its done.