July 2009 - What are you reading?
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Mercutio01
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I've never read the Prism Pentad, but I just picked up all five books from paperbackswap.com and I'm reading through them. Finished The Verdant Passage this morning, and I have to say I really missed out on these when I was focused on the Dragonlance fiction instead.
EricNoah
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Oh man, I bought those two volumes in college and wore them out. This was before we had (and I could afford) quick/easy access to video - it was the next best thing to actually watching the Flying Circus...
As for me, I am re-reading the short story collection Cthulhu 2000. I'm scouring my local public library system for some other collections of Cthulhu-esque stories.
On audiobook I am listening to Beggars in Spain, a science fiction novel about people who have been genetically modified to not need sleep.
Fallen Seraph
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I put it on the June one but I had just started it so it continues into July:
I just started The City & The City by China Mieville. Just like his previous works this is great as well.
Synopsis:
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Bes el, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and "1984", "The City & The City" is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
I just started The City & The City by China Mieville. Just like his previous works this is great as well.
Synopsis:
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Bes el, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and "1984", "The City & The City" is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
delericho
Legend
"A Sword From Red Ice" by JV Jones.
Sadly, this isn't a great book. The first two parts in the series were really quite good, but the long wait for part three hasn't helped. 150 pages in, very little seems to have happened. It's almost as if she has lost the plot somewhere along the line, and forgotten how to move it forward. Also ominous is that this is now a series, rather than a trilogy.
Next up is either "Goldfinger" by Fleming, or "Shadows Linger" by Glen Cook. I also have two Pathfinders to catch up on this month.
Sadly, this isn't a great book. The first two parts in the series were really quite good, but the long wait for part three hasn't helped. 150 pages in, very little seems to have happened. It's almost as if she has lost the plot somewhere along the line, and forgotten how to move it forward. Also ominous is that this is now a series, rather than a trilogy.
Next up is either "Goldfinger" by Fleming, or "Shadows Linger" by Glen Cook. I also have two Pathfinders to catch up on this month.
Villano
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I began reading Devil May Care, a new Bond novel by Sebastian Faulks. It's set immediately after Ian Fleming's last full novel, The Man With The Golden Gun. I don't just mean that they're just ignoring all the novels written since his death. For some reason, this one is set in 1967.
I just couldn't get into it, so I switched to Too Many Cooks, a Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout.
I just couldn't get into it, so I switched to Too Many Cooks, a Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout.
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