[May] What are you reading?

[ShadowDenizen]

Just finished "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World"; not sure if I liked it or not.
And "The Woman in White" (for my book club.)

Currently reading?
"ShadowPlay" by Tad Williams.
(I'm such a huge Tad Williams fan that I've even put aside the "Dresden Chronicles" so that I could read it!!)

On the back burner is:
the "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series by Steven Erikson
the "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" by Michelle Paver
the "Godslayer Chornicles" by James Clements
"On her Majestys Occult Service" by Charles STross
"Un Ln Dun" by China Mieville

 

[Pozatronic]

I'm finishing up on Tanith Lee's 1983 novel Anackire. It's turning out to be one of her better ones; shame it had to follow the lackluster Storm Lord...

I plan on re-reading a few selections from Kelly Link's Magic For Beginners. A fine collection of short stories in a "fantastical fiction" sense. Highly Recommended.

Speaking of short stories, Miranda July (love her) has her first collection coming out on the 15th. I'll probably drop whatever I'm reading to start that. A couple day's later I'll probably start The Childrens Hospital by Chris Adrian. It takes place in a...um...childrens hospital during the second Flood. So, it's kinda fantasy.

 

[Wombat]

Let's see...

Recently finished Eragon, which was better than I expected if not exactly "the thing".

Now rereading The Three Musketeers, which is always fun

 

[Storm Raven]

Currently reading Niven's Destiny's Road. After that I'll be reading The Gripping Hand, and then on to C.S. Lewis' space trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength). I'll probably read The Screwtape Letters after that, and they likely Card's Homecoming series (The Memory of Earth, The Call of Earth, The Ships of Earth, Earthfall, and Earthborn.

That should get me through most of May.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

Currently reading Niven's Destiny's Road. After that I'll be reading The gripping Hand, and then on to C.S. Lewis' space trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength).

I thought Perelandra was the best of that series (as I like to call it, J.R.R. Tolkien in Space), though they're all good in their own ways. That Hideous Strength is kind of like an amalgam of all Lewis's influences at the time. He even mentions Numenor!

Anyway, hope you enjoy!

 

[Storm Raven]

I thought Perelandra was the best of that series (as I like to call it, J.R.R. Tolkien in Space), though they're all good in their own ways. That Hideous Strength is kind of like an amalgam of all Lewis's influences at the time. He even mentions Numenor!

Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Thanks. I've heard good things about them, so I've been looking forward to getting to them.

 

[Mycanid]

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I thought Perelandra was the best of that series (as I like to call it, J.R.R. Tolkien in Space), though they're all good in their own ways. That Hideous Strength is kind of like an amalgam of all Lewis's influences at the time. He even mentions Numenor!

Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Yes, yes, YES! That Hideous Strength was STUPENDOUS!

How could I forget about that one?

 

[Mycanid]

Currently reading?
"ShadowPlay" by Tad Williams.
(I'm such a huge Tad Williams fan that I've even put aside the "Dresden Chronicles" so that I could read it!!)

Yes! I also like Williams, but more his fantasy than his sci-fi. :\

 

[Victim]

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It's like watching trainwreck.

 

[jonathan swift]

I thought Perelandra was the best of that series (as I like to call it, J.R.R. Tolkien in Space), though they're all good in their own ways. That Hideous Strength is kind of like an amalgam of all Lewis's influences at the time. He even mentions Numenor!

Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Oddly enough, Perelandra was my least favorite of the books. I still enjoyed it I just thought the other two were far superior as fiction. Though Perelandra is probably the strongest of the three (or second just behind That Hideous Strength) as far as the points he is trying to make.