[July] What are you reading?

[Pielorinho]

How is it? I've read his Fionavar Tapestry and thought it was just ok, although the author seemed to have a lot of potential.

I've read a bit by Guy Gavriel Kay, and Fionavar was far and away my least favorite. Although I've not read Tigana, I can recommend A Song for Sorbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan, and the duology Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors, in increasing order (i.e., I liked the Sarantium books best).

Daniel

 

[qstor]

For Non-fiction Gettysburg by Stephan Sears

Fiction Elminster in Myth Drannor by Greenwood

 

[Red Wyrmling]

Eberron the campaign setting and The Lost Library of Cormanthyr.

 

[myrdden]

I've read a bit by Guy Gavriel Kay, and Fionavar was far and away my least favorite. Although I've not read Tigana, I can recommend A Song for Sorbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan, and the duology Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors, in increasing order (i.e., I liked the Sarantium books best).

Daniel

Thanks!

 

[Viking Bastard]

Just started on 'The Wee Free Men' by Terry Prachett.

Read the entire season one of Ed Brubaker's Sleeper last night and Rucka's Death & the Maidens.

 

[Nellisir]

I can recommend A Song for Sorbonne,

A Song for Arbonne



I like all of GGK's works, but Tigana is especially good.

Re: The Black Company -- You can skip the first 4 books (The Black Company, Shadows Linger, The White Rose, and The Silver Spike and probably not miss too much, but I'm not sure about jumping in with Bleak Seasons or She is the Darkness. If I recall, they're pretty closely tied together. If you can't get the initial trilogy (Silver Spike can be skipped), try for Shadow Games and Dreams of Steel first -- they lead into the later books.

I'll look into it a little more this afternoon.
Cheers
Nell.

 

[drothgery]

Tad Williams' The War of the Flowers, the second edition of Steve McConnell's Code Complete, and Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad currently have bookmarks in them. I'll probably be done with those by the end of the weekend though, and I'm not sure I want to keep re-reading Witch books (I'd only re-started on them to avoid my latest stack of purchases until a flying cross-country and back last weekend) until I think of something else to get (there's a lot of stuff coming out this fall that I'm definitely picking up, but in the short run, not so much).

 

[Krug]

Book 3 of Swamp Thing: The Curse. Part of Alan Moore's 'American Gothic' storyline.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

How is it? I've read his Fionavar Tapestry and thought it was just ok, although the author seemed to have a lot of potential.

Having read a few of Kay's (Al-Rassan, Sarantium, and now this) I can see a sort of evolution in his books. I haven't read Fionavar, but I think in a lot of ways it's typical fantasy. In Tigana, he's moving towards the low-magic, political of, say, Martin (there's a few powerful sorcerers) and then by Al-Rassan and Sarantium has practically obliterated magic (Al-Rassan had one seer kid and Sarantium had a necromancer/alchemist).

All that said, Tigana is quite good so far.

 

[WmRAllen67]

Just read Sandstorm by James Rollins...

Now it's back to classwork-- The Indian Ocean in World History by Milo Kearney and In the Beginning by Brian Fagan (for archaeology...)