July - what are you reading?

[horacethegrey]

Reading a bunch of Doctor Who stuff, mostly the Eighth Doctor Adventures. Amazing reads. Since they're not bound to the laws of continuity like the BBC Books featuring the Ninth and Tenth, the writers can take them further to where the show often can't.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

To the first poster - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell rocks, IMHO. I really dug it.

Attempting to muddle my way through Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver - hopefully, successfully this time...

 

[Storm Raven]

Finished:

The Lost World - Crichton
Sphere - Crichton
Merlin's Godson - Munn
Revolt in 2100 - Heinlein
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls - Heinlein
Otherness - Brin
Crashlander - Niven
A Hole in Space - Niven
All the Myriad Ways - Niven
The Flight of the Horse - Niven

On tap:

Convergent Series - Niven Done: 7/5/07
The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton - Niven Done 7/5/07
Limits - Niven
The Magic Goes Away - Niven
The Magic May Return - Niven
Flatlander - Niven
Rainbow Mars - Niven
Dream Park - Niven and Barnes
Casino Royale - Fleming
Live and Let Die - Fleming
Moonraker - Fleming

I'm going to keep on with the Bond novels in order after that.

 

[Wombat]

Recently finished the Popol Vuh (Mayan mythological epic) and Night Watch (the Russian modern-fantasy novel, not the Terry Pratchett book of the same name).

Now I am reading Crybbe by Phil Rickman. After that, I have yet to decide. I have another Amelia Peabody mystery or two on the dock, as well as a deep desire to re-read The Lions of al-Rassan.

Later this month, of course, it will be Harry Potter

 

[Eridanis]

Reading a lot of travel guides lately. I've been daydreaming about trips to the UK, NZ, and Australia.

However, some of the pictures in the books I'm reading (the DK series with lots of great color photos) have some place as inspiration for gaming settings. For instance, there's a beach in NZ with perfectly rounded boulders of various sizes strewn all down the beach. Imagine all the ways that could be used in a fantasy campaign...

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Just finished the Sarantine Mosaic series by Kay. That was pretty impressive.

I'm trying to get out of long, enthralling books for a while, though, since they've been distracting me from the house/yard work, to say nothing of the papers I'm supposed to be submitting. So I picked up some myth/parable books, including Vedantic Tales, a collection of Indian religious parables.

 

[Umbran]

Just about to finish rereading Charles de Lint's Svaha.

Not sure, but I may move on to Wizard of the Pigeons, by Megan Lindholm

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Currently Reading Footprints of Thunder. It was sitting in my collection for a long while and hadn't read it yet, so I decided to give it a whirl. I'm still in the PreQuilt chapters.

 

[Pielorinho]

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.

Consider Un Lun Dun, his recent young-adult fantasy. It's pretty fluffy, much closer to The Phantom Tollbooth or Neverwhere than to Perdido Street Station. I didn't much care for it, but some folks found it delightful.

For myself, I just finished reading A Series of Unfortunate Events and Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (heh). I probably should have spread out reading them, instead of stuffing all fourteen books down my gullet over the course of a month; while they're often extremely funny, the formula wore me down after a bit.

I'm not sure what to read next.

Daniel

 

[Hjorimir]

I just finished Princess of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs) and just getting into Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erikson).