July - what are you reading?

[Asmo]

Finished The Scar by China Miéville and while he´s a great writer I found it pretty boring. I could care less for the characters,and his endless descriptions of every nock and crane on Armada is exhausting.
I would love to read a more standard fantasy book by him.

I´ve just started "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" by Susanna Clarke, and after just 20 pages I find my self smiling at the characters. Really looking forward to this one.

Asmo

 

[Torillan]

Just finishing up Gotrek & Felix: the First Omnibus , and will most likely follow up with Cryptonomicon . After that, I might pick up where I left off with the Fire and Ice saga (Book 3).

 

[awayfarer]

I just finished re-reading Maskerade, one of Terry Pratchetts books in the Discworld series. This weekend I picked up a book of poetry by Keats and I plan to give that a look.

 

[Crothian]

I finished reading Patricia Briggs Blood Bound and Moon Called. They were good modern fantasy kind of like the old World of Darkness that worked.

I also finished Vicki Peterson's Scent of Shadow and it was a nice take on modern superheroes. It made for a good read of something kind of different.

I read through The Orb of Xoriat an Eberron book. It had a nice plot but no main character I liked and I felt that hurt it.

And now I'm finishing up Harry Potter 4 and I'll read through 5 and 6 soon to get done before the movie and next book.

 

[Pyrex]

I've been reading the Dresden Files books, which are suprisingly good.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Just finished: Iron Council, by China Mieville.
Reading: Threshold, by Caitlin R. Kiernan (because of a friend's recommendation, OK?). . . and several history books, as usual these days.

 

[Mark CMG]

The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger




Moved to listening thread - All Creatures Great and Small.

 

[coyote6]

I read Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest" last night & today. Good book.

 

[Krug]

Just finished Stephen King's Cell. Started off well, where the zombies aren't your usual Romero types, but the book sagged a bit towards the middle. The explanation of the zombies is interesting, but gets a little lost. Still, if you're planning a post-apocalyptic campaign, might provide good inspiration.

 

[delericho]

I've been travelling a lot recently, which means reading lots of books. Last week, I read "Bloodlines", book two of the "Legacy of the Force" series, and then "Sharpe's Fury".

Currently, I'm about a quarter of the way through "Tempest", book three of "Legacy of the Force". I'm going to try to pick up a copy of "Exile" (book four) and read it next, but if time doesn't permit then I think I'll be going back to Jack Vance's "Tales of the Dying Earth". I forget which part I'm due to read now - I've read the first two books in the volume.