[July] What are you reading?

[JoeGKushner]

Don't know if it counts as it's Manga as opposed to fiction, but Berserk #4. The anime did a very good job of following most of the manga in this but there were several things that came out about Guts past that were pretty terrible.

The artists does a better job of showing everyone looking young too, much better than the anime did.

 

[Wombat]

Due to a friend's recommendation, I am now 2/3 of the way through a great book: The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman. Thick book, full of detailed characters, twisting plots, and an occult overtone, yet so far everything can be explained away as dreams, lack of sleep, or other such matters. Creepy, but taking the time to set tone, rather than just splattering blood and bodies everywhere. Great stuff!

 

[Express]

Fiction: The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, by REH Howard. Pretty good.

Nonfiction: Stalin: Court of the Red Czar by Simon Sebag Montefiore

 

[Viking Bastard]

And something called Sleeper, but I don't know who puts that out. (good d20 Modern or Supers inspiration)

DC/Wildstorm. Takes place in the Wildstorm universe which emcompasses
such titles as WildCats, Stormwatch, Planetary and The Authority.

It's quite possibly the best comic currently coming out.

Are you readin' it in trade form? Did you read the prequal 'Point Blank'?

 

[Viking Bastard]

Don't know if it counts as it's Manga as opposed to fiction, but Berserk #4.

I think it counts as both.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Just finished Tymora's Luck by Jeff Grubb & Kate Novak.

Will be reading The Cat Who Brought Down The House by Lilian Jackson Braun.

After that.... who knows....?

Up on the list:

Annihlation *Book V of the War of the Spider Queen
The Lone Drow by Robert Salvatore

 

[Galethorn]

Just finished Fluke by Christopher Moore,

About half-way through The Lust Lizard of Meloncholy Cove by Christopher Moor,

Constantly reading over the current draft of the as yet unnamed novel I'm writing.

 

[drnuncheon]

Just finished Caleb Carr's The Alienist - wonderful. Unfortunately, his talent doesn't seem to extend to science fiction, as I couldn't get very far into Killing Time. Also on the historical fiction front, Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell, for which I blame Sean Bean. I've got a Sharpe movie on my Netflix queue and happened across the books at the library, and, well...

On the genre portion of the list, I've got S.L. Viehl's Blade Dancer, set in the Stardoc universe, the latest of the Dresden Files, and the Budayeen Nights collection by the late (and sorely missed) George Alec Effinger. Plus all the Astro City trades that the EIN library network can get ahold of.

I almost picked up one of the "Vampire Huntress" books at the library - anyone read them? Are they decent, or is it a second-generation Buffy knockoff by way of Anita Blake?

J

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Beginning The Scar by China Mieville.

 

[barsoomcore]

The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane. Loving it. Brilliant. Exactly my kind of thing -- very well-crafted stupid adventure/supernatural tales. Awesome stuff.

The First World War by John Keegan. Keegan's a genius.

I'm reading some stuff on the Italian campaign of World War 2 for a game I'm planning.

Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson is sitting on my shelf calling to me.

Megatoykyo Vol 1. Yay.