[July] What are you reading?

[Steel_Wind]

I received Stephen R. Donaldson's "Runes of the Earth: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" in hardcover for Xmas.

It has been a long long time since I last read Covenant. So I am re-reading the first six books now before I read Runes of the Earth. I am currently on The Illearth War.

I must say that there is a lot more to Covenant I am appreciating now. I first read them in the early 80s when I was a teenager. I read them after that a few times - but not in the past 15 years or so.

It's been a long time since I visited The Land. Surprising how much of it I missed out on during the visits of my youth...

Upshot: Covenant is not for teens and tweens and never was meant to be.

 

[Brakkart]

Working my way through the Counsellors and Kings trilogy by Elaine Cunningham. Already finished The Magehound and I'm halfway through the Floodgate... and its really a let down thus far. After her wonderful songs and Swords books (especially Elfshadow) and the Evermeet book, this series is just bad by comparison. Still I bought all 3 books, so I'll finish reading them, it might get better, but I'm doubting that it will.

Still I have Maiden of Pain (wary cos of bad reviews), Farthest Reach and the last of the Scions of Arrabar books to read soon, so hopefully they will help me get over what is proving to be a big disappointment. Has made me very wary of buying the forthcoming Waterdeep novel as I don't rate Ed Greenwood as a novelist and this series sure has dented my faith in Elaine's writing skills.

 

[Acid_crash]

Still working on The Neutronium Alchemist part one; just about done with it and already have Part Two. Man, this a huge, huge work but it's very good and moves along very well. Multiple characters and viewpoints but he handles it all effortlessly.

Read Pandora's Star by Hamilton...just as good, if not just a little bit better. The end of this book was a good cliffhanger.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Phillip K Dick

 

[MonsterMash]

Read Pandora's Star by Hamilton...just as good, if not just a little bit better. The end of this book was a good cliffhanger.

I've bought Pandora's Star, but I'm not starting it till I finish Stephenson's The Confusion as I can't read two tomes at a time - in fact I'll probably reads something short inbetween.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Been reading The Jackal of Nar and working on the sequel, the Grand Design. Not bad stuff but it's taking me some time to move through the numerous characters.

 

[Welverin]

update

Read parts of The Outcaste and have moved onto The Sidereals.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Finished the Grand Design and started working on the third volume, Saints of the Sword.

 

[MonsterMash]

Just started reading the Da Vinci Code

 

[John Crichton]

Updated...

Just started the first Harry Potter book. I wanted something that I knew I'd like. And I was right (along with zillions of others). I'm about 75 pages in and lovin' it.