June - What are you reading?

[Steel_Wind]

Dragons of the Dwarven Depths - Weis & Hickman.

It's the new "Lost Chronicles" series - filling in those deliberate gaps in the original DragonLance chronicles necessitated by not spoiling the classic module series when the books were first released 23 years ago.

Dragons of the Dwarven Depths covers the events in DL3 and DL4. The prologue covers how Lord Verminaard did not "die" at the end of Dragons of Autumn Twilight. That alone was clever enough to hook me in. [Short strokes - he did die.]

I really wish they would rewrite the original Chronicles. I know that Weis and Hickman would both like to do so - painfully aware that the prose in those novels (especially the first) was the result of their first few tottering steps as authors. Some hardcore fans would take such a re-write poorly it seems - so we get the Lost Chronicles instead.

It will have to do.

 

[Zaukrie]

Just read Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay - I thought I wouldn't like it, and then couldn't put it down (and that was after just a few pages).

Now reading the Omnivore's Dilemna, about how America grows, manufactures, and eats its food.

 

[Glyfair]

The New Destroyer - Guardian Angel

I've read this recently. It definitely goes back to the classic flavor (rather than the last handful in the series that seem to have missed the point).

Right now I'm reading Tros of Samothrace by Talbot Mundy (thanks to rereading the "Giants in the Earth" series) in between books of the Rabbi mystery series by Harry Kemelman.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Books Started and Completed as of June 1'st
Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice
Eberron: The Inquisitives - Bound by Iron

Books in Que:
Eberron: The Inqusitives - Night of the Long Wolf or something..(started it earlier today, only 1 chapter in though :-()
Forgotten Realms: Unclean by Richard Lee Beyers


Need...more...I'll be done by wendesday!

Finished night of the Long Shadow on monday. Only managed to get through 75% of Unclean today but the book doesn't flow as well as some of Richard Lee Beyers other works.

I think I'm gonna pick up all the sembia books.

 

[S. Baldrick]

"Kothar - Barbarian Swordsman" by Gardner F. Fox.

 

[Exquisite Dead Guy]

I'm woefully behind on FR novels. Currently reading (and enjoying) the Threat From The Sea trilogy by Mel Odom. Still got a huge stack after my foray to a few of the local used book stores, not to mention all the cool new ones coming out.

 

[horacethegrey]

Just bought a bunch of Doctor Who novels at a booksale and am busy leafing through them. Most of them are of the Eighth Doctor (played by Paul Mcgann), but some are past Doctor adventures involving the Fourth. I also have a Ninth Doctor adventure that I'm busy with right now.

 

[Storm Raven]

I keep a collection of bookmarks around, and when I finish a book, I put the bookmark into a book from my unread pile and put it on the bottom of the "to be read" stack. Right now, my stack looks like this:

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
Convergent Series - Niven

This will probably take me a couple weeks, or possibly the whole month if I get slammed at work.

 

[Blue]

Rereading Zelazny's Amber series for the Nth time. Forgot how cool Corwin was, and how cool Merlin wasn't.

Just finished On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. Big fan of his, this was one I couldn't find and a fellow bookophile friend loaned it to me. (If you want to read something of his, I suggest Anubis Gates as a gateway in, but the Last call "series" is probably my favorite, that or Declare.)

Awaiting my copy of Dzur by Steven Brust. I haven't picked up the most recent one even though it's been out for a while. That'll make me put down Amber, but only because I'm past Corwin. (That's no disrespect to Brust - Zelazny at his best is a powerful force in the universe.)

Cheers,
=Blue(23)

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Started reading Beatiful Stranger (Hope Donahue) last night. I'm off to read some more.