July '08: What are you reading?

[The Forsaken One]

I just finished Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson two days ago on my weekend in paris, it was kinda slow but with an epic crazy ass ending. I loved it as I did all the books in the Malazan Tale of the Fallen series.

This series is by far my favorite writing of any time and has surpassed my love for Lord of the Rings as well as GRR Martins A song of Ice and Fire. I can only hope my passion for ASOAF will be rekindled with A Dance with Dragons finally gets published.

 

[Umbran]

Halfway through [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Steampunk-Ann-VanderMeer/dp/1892391759/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215007714&sr=8-1]Steampunk[/ame] edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

 

[arcanaman]

Just starting "The Well of Ascension" by Brandon Sanderson.

have you read Elantris also by Brandon Sanderson thats pretty good I am

also reading the skewed throne by joshua pallmmatier

 

[Shade]

have you read Elantris also by Brandon Sanderson thats pretty good I am

Yep. Great book!

 

[Croesus]

Next up is probably going to be McLynn's biography of Napoleon.

I'm guessing you mean Frank McLynn. I really enjoyed his 1757, about the French and Indian War. If you're interested in Napoleonic history, you might want to check out Napoleon's Master by David Lawday and Rites of Peace by Adam Zamoyski. Both cover areas that don't get a lot of attention, and are well written.

I just finished The World Without Us, about what would happen to the world if humans disappeared. A great thought experiment (and a good resource for any post-apocalyptic campaign).

Now I'm giving the Artemis Fowl series a shot.

 

[Relique Hunter]

The 5th edition of Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History. I'm planning an Indiana Jones-esque Modern20 game and thought a little background ifo would be a good idea.

 

[Wombat]

I'm guessing you mean Frank McLynn. I really enjoyed his 1757, about the French and Indian War. If you're interested in Napoleonic history, you might want to check out Napoleon's Master by David Lawday and Rites of Peace by Adam Zamoyski. Both cover areas that don't get a lot of attention, and are well written.

Exactly the one

I know of Napoleon's Master (on Talleyrand), but I am unfamiliar with the second; I'll be glad to look into it. I recently read Vienna 1814, about the Congress of Vienna (and the fallout from it) -- an excellent volume! Since having read Patrick O'Brian's novels, a bunch of Sharpe/Cornwell, the Temeraire books, Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell, etc., I appear to be fixating on the Napoleonic era! Who knows? I may go back and read the Poldark novels...

 

[S. Baldrick]

The Ginger Star by Leigh Brackett

 

[Richards]

Just finishing up Michael Crichton's excellent State of Fear. Very eye-opening, despite being a work of fiction.

Johnathan

 

[Mark]

The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth (Thorpe translation)