[June] What are you reading?

[Liminal Syzygy]

Still working on Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson. BTW, anyone who likes their fantasy dark and grim with complex, coherent, and facinating world building in the background, Gardens of the Moon is just being released in hardback in the states. In another thread Pants was saying it's available on Walmart's site for about $15. I think Black Company fans will especially enjoy Erikson's work.

Was hoping to finish it before my business trip to NY next week, but looks like that won't be happening, especially with D&D planned for the Sunday before I leave.

Need to decide on a travel book... I have Stephenson's The Confusion ready to go but it's also too big to be lugging around. Hmm... Maybe Snowfall.

 

[Rabelais]

The Bad Popes

I'm also reading a book called "The Bad Popes" by Russell Chamberlain. It's a very well written (not boring) history of the Church, during the reign of seven different popes, during three distinct periods.

 

[mojo1701]

Finally finished The Last Command, the third and final book in the Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Lud Heat: and Suicide Bridge by Iain Sinclair
About the Hawksmoor churches, the Ripper murders, the Ratcliffe Highway murders, Egyptian protector goddesses, and a lot more. A very weird book that resembles a rambling drunken conversation. If you know the chapter of From Hell where Jack takes Netley on a tour of London, that's what the first 40 pages or so are like.

 

[Pielorinho]

Based on Piratecat'srecommendation in last month's (?) thread, I picked up a couple Donald Westlake novels about the master burglar Dortmunder. Don't Ask was funnier than What's the Worst That Could Happen? while the latter is probably more audacious than the first. I enjoyed the hell out of both of them, however, and now I really really really want our intermittent Spycraft game to involve some high-stakes heists. I think I'm going to make my GM see the movie of What's the Worst That Could Happen? as inspiration.

Thanks for the recommendation!
Daniel

 

[Pielorinho]

Oooh. Just read some reviews of that movie, and they're not pretty. Maybe I'll find a different one to be inspiration.

Daniel

 

[NiTessine]

Looks like I can finally get to reading what I want instead of what the teachers tell me, now that the summer vacation has started.

First on my list is Tolkien's biography by Humphrey Carpenter. Then I'll try and tackle Edward Bolme's The Alabaster Staff, and the Mammoth Book of Future Cops. After those, the last two parts of the Liveship Traders trilogy by Robin Hobb.

 

[CCamfield]

After bouncing around to three or four books, reading the first 20 pages and deciding 'not now', I think I've settled down with The Devil in the Dust by Chaz Brenchley. The first of six (!) Outremer books, but they're short books. I understand that when originally published in the UK it was a trilogy; wish they'd done that with the American imprint as well.
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Bwahaha, just wait till you find out what happens to marron in book 2.

I have the UK/Canadian paperbacks... if you end up wanting the whole series you might get them cheaper from amazon.ca. Tower of the King's Daughter, Feast of the King's Shadow, and Hand of the King's Evil.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

How's this different from the usually-seen version?

The differences between "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and "The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth" are substantial.

Spoiler

In the alternate version, Obed Marsh often traipses around town with Ephraim Waite, who is a very powerful (and evil) wizard from another HPL story (see "The Thing on the Doorstep.")

The dreams the narrator has focus more on Waite than the Deep Ones.

At the end of the story, he realizes that Waite intends to displace the narrator's mind and steal his body, trapping the narrator in Waite's current body (which will, of course, be killed).

Unlike the original story, where the narrator comes to embrace his change into a Deep One and plans to return willingly to Innsmouth, in this one he will be overwhelmed by a force he can not accept.

Or something like that.

 

[dreaded_beast]

Unfortunately for me, there are only 3 books I've been reading lately:

3.5 PHB
3.5 DMG
3.5 MM



I love to read, but I don't have the time for it lately.

I enjoy "thick" books that go beyond being a trilogy. I tried to start on the Wheel of Time series, but didn't get very far, the first 10 pages or so. I know it's a good series, but I guess I wasn't in the mood to read it at the time.

*On a side note, I just noticed I got quoted above! Thanks!