[March] What are you reading?

[Dog Moon]

I just finished Mechanicum, a part of the Horus Heresy series. [when things go boom in this book, things REALLY go boom. seriously though, there's a point where the auther is like 'and the ship crashes, killing a billion people' or 'and the machines continued their rampage, killing a thousand souls per second'. It sorta makes it feel EPIC though.]

Taking a break from that series to start Ciaphus Cain Hero of the Imperium, another omnibus in the warhammer world.

After that... I'm thinking I'm going to read another book in the Dresden series. No, I don't seem to be able to finish one series before starting another!

 

[Keith Robinson]

Finished The Orchard Keeper (Cormac McCarthy) and have moved onto Kurt Vonnegut's Sluaghterhouse 5. I read it around twenty years ago so am revisting it - as I am with many novels atm

 

[ggroy]

Just started reading "The Coming Race" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

It was originally published back in 1871. Some science fiction type tropes it used (or anticipated) is stuff like:

- telepathy
- "The Force" (sorta like Star Wars)
- robots as servants
- hollow earth
- "psionics"

Despite the book's notorious history, it reads like a generic early-mid 20th century science fiction or fantasy novel. It was very much ahead of its time.

 

[Crothian]

I've been quickly going through all the Marvel Ultimate lines and working my way to Ultimatium. Some of the lines have been better then others but overall I've been fairly impressed but the scope, the good story telling, and just how dark some of them have been.

I finished Old Man's War which was very good science fiction and Child of Fire which was not.

Next up is either The wise man's fear or The Warlord's Legacy.

 

[TanisFrey]

Finished the last of the Forgotten Realms novel, Empire series call Crusade. Now I am moving on to the Cormyr series. The lead novel is called Cormyr, A Novel, of course.

 

[Starman]

Just about done with The Dragon Reborn, book three in The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Then I'll be moving on to book four, The Shadow Rising.

Finished both of those and now I'm reading book five, The Fires of Heaven.

 

[Asmor]

Continuing in the Shadows of the Apt series... finished book 2 (Dragonfly Falling), now onto book 3 (Blood of the Mantis).

 

[Azgulor]

I just finished readind Bag of Bones by Stephen King. I enjoyed the novel, though thought the end was something of a let down.

I've found this to be true with 95% of the King novels I've read.

I love his ideas and find his characters interesting. The guy just can't write a satisfying ending.

 

[Jupp]

Currently reading the Spinward Fringe series written by Randolph Lalonde on my Kindle (get a Kindle! It is a great way to read books from authors you would never hear of otherwise!). It's a gripping sci-fi saga that starts like a space piracy opera and continues into an epic tale about saving the known galaxy from the grip of an artificial nemesis. A great read so far. I am in the middle of book 4 and it is worth every penny spent on it.

Before that I was reading through the The Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan, a fantasy saga about a brooding thief and his knightly companion. For the first few pages it felt like a revisit of Mouser and Fafhrd but shortly after the story took twists and turns that set it apart from Leibers story. In my opinion it was a great and entertaining read. Sullivan recently got the chance to publish his stories on paper so the last part of the saga received some kind of delay because of this. But fortunately the new publisher decided to release the last part of the saga on the Kindle as well, although with a delay of a few months. But I am more than willing to wait for it.

Before those two I was reading World War Z - A History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks. The style is quite interesting since it is made up like some kind of documentary where the protagonists tell the stories to a reporter who made it his duty to report of the great war of the zombies waging war against humanity. A great read for sure.