[June] What are you reading?

[Viking Bastard]

I last read The Sword in the Storm by David Gemmell. A whole book to build up to a
great war between pseudo-Romans and pseudo-Celts and then when the big battle finally
comes it just feels like an afterthought.

Overall the characters are in the book pretty good, entertaining but believable, but all
introduced in the most clumsy way possible. It's a pretty classic hero 'coming of age'
story and is step-by-step by the book with several attempts at twists, all that failed
(except one, which I must admit I did not see coming).

Not really a 'bad' book as such, but fairly forgettable. At best: Meh.



What to people here think of Gemmell's stuff? Is this typical Gemmell story or awaits
me something more interesting in the Gemmell library?

 

[Bloodstone Press]

I've been re-reading some old horror stories while I await my next shipment of books from Amazon. I've also been reading some Bradbury short stories.

 

[Nighthawk]

In the King's Service by Katherine Kurtz.

 

[Shag]

Here is my second post in this thread, not going to quite make it through 4 books, I've started reading the Marcus Didius Falco books by Lidsey Davis.

3.5 books a months isn't too bad I blame knights of the old republic 2 for that.

 

[Asmo]

Finished "Polgara the Sorceress" and Dan Browns "Deception Point".
Today I`ve read 200 pages of "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman.
This has been a great month!

Asmo

 

[Iron_Chef]

I read George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice And Fire series back to back:

A Game Of Thrones
A Clash Of Kings
A Storm Of Swords

Took me three weeks (one per book). Fantastic! Better than Tolkien or any other fantasy I've ever read. Just ordered Legends 1-2, which feature two prequels to the series, The Hdge Knight and The Sworn Sword...

 

[Asmo]

I read George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice And Fire series back to back:

A Game Of Thrones
A Clash Of Kings
A Storm Of Swords

Took me three weeks (one per book). Fantastic! Better than Tolkien or any other fantasy I've ever read. Just ordered Legends 1-2, which feature two prequels to the series, The Hdge Knight and The Sworn Sword...

I´ll read Martin when he´s finished with the series..I´ll not do the same mistake as with Robert Jordan.
I quit after book 6, started to read book 7 and could not remember what happened in book 6.

Asmo

 

[drothgery]

So far this month (counting Memorial Day weekend as this month, which isn't technically accurate, but unofficially June stretches from Memorial Day weekend to the 4th of July weekend in my book)...

I picked up three books by random authors Amazon.com thought I'd like so I'd have something to read while flying over Memorial Day weekend. Diana Francis' Path of Fate was good enough that I bought the sequel. Elizabeth Moon's Trading in Danger would have been, except that the sequel's hitting paperback in two months, so I thought I could wait. Patricia Briggs' Dragon Bones, I'm giving up on after the first book.

Reread Bujold's Vorkosigan series (well, except for the Winterfair Gift short story that's in an anthology with nothing else I'm interested in and haven't broken down and bought anyway), and read her The Hallowed Hunt (the third Challion universe fantasy book). I'd brought Cordelia's Honor with me along with the three random books above in case I didn't like any of them.

Saw Peter David's Tong Lashing (the third Aprobos book) in paperback and picked it up, too.

Also reread the three parts of Brust's Viscount of Adrilankha, and all five Harry Potter books (as the sixth will be out Real Soon Now).

Currently rereading Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy while waiting for another Elizabeth Moon sci-fi book and Harry Potter 6 from Amazon.

Long term projects: Reread Wheel of Time in September/October, picking up the main novels for the first time since I was so disappointed by Crossroads of Twilight (I've read New Spring to help me out with my PBP d20 WoT game).

 

[scireader]

Book

Looking forward to Buried Deep Inside by Steve Mallard www.stevemallard.com. Looks like several novels will be published. Been following the site for several months and the book is to be released in August.

 

[MonsterMash]

Currently The Confusion Neal Stephenson, Maximum Bob Elmore Leonard, Pocket Players Handbook, and Elements of Magic Revised. The last one is for a review so very detailed work.