[June] What Are You Reading?

[Crothian]

I just finished Agent of the Stars one of the most original first contact stories I've ever read. It was an okay book but gets high props for originality.

 

[Richards]

I just read World War Z in two days, and it was a great read. Now I'm starting up Dracula the Un-Dead, written as a collaboration between a relative of Bram Stoker and some Dracula scholar whose name escapes me. It's a direct sequel to the original novel, set some 25 years or so after the events of the original. I'm only one chapter in, so it's still too early to see how good of a read it's going to be.

Johnathan

 

[Jhaelen]

I started reading 'The Quantum Thief' by Hannu Rajaniemi. I cannot say much about it yet, I'm still in the process of figuring out what all of the setting-specific terms mean

 

[Mallus]

I started reading 'The Quantum Thief' by Hannu Rajaniemi. I cannot say much about it yet, I'm still in the process of figuring out what all of the setting-specific terms mean

It gets clearer, mostly. Great book, the sequel's coming out this year.

I'm reading [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Without-Men-Hari-Kunzru/dp/030795711X] Gods Without Men[/ame] by Hari Kunzru. A NYT reviewer compared it favorable to Cloud Atlas, so I gave it a shot.

I recently finished [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Zazen-Vanessa-Veselka/dp/1935869051/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340305131&sr=1-1&keywords=zazen]Zazen[/ame] by Vanessa Veselka. It was on a "best books of 2011 that nobody read" list I stumbled across. The language is beautiful, I mean in an underline-every-page way, and to do it a big disservice, it's a little like Salinger meets DeLillo in not-quite-Portland, OR.

When I get back to fantasy, I'll be reading Daniel Abraham's [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Blood-Dagger-Coin/dp/0316080772/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340305476&sr=1-1&keywords=the+kings+blood] The King's Blood[/ame]

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I just finished Pirates of Venus. Really digging how much Burroughs' writing makes me want to play RPGs. I need to get Adamant's Savage Mars.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I've decided I can't put up with Wizard's First Rule any longer. Richard just leashed [-]Gollum[/-] Samuel, and I'm sick of it. Just can't do it any more.

Aww! You missed the part where Richard gets enslaved by evil dominatrix ninjas for like a month.

 

[Mallus]

Aww! You missed the part where Richard gets enslaved by evil dominatrix ninjas for like a month.

The most entertaining thing about The Sword of Truth series is people calling it "Conan the Libertarian".

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Are you sure? Have you met... THE CHICKEN THAT IS NOT A CHICKEN?!?

 

[Mallus]

I stand corrected.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I've only actually read the first book. I kinda want to read more. The chicken thing and the Most Beautiful Statue in the World both seem so amazing that there's gotta be more hilarious greatness in there.