[May] What are you reading?

[Pants]

I'm finally readin' Storm of Sword by G.R.R Martin.

I plan on picking up Martin's A Storm of Swords this weekend.

Prepare yourselves for a cursing, hair pulling experience.

*sigh*
Kinda wish I could read it for the first time again.

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

Well I got the first two books in the Dresden Files series of novels by Jim Butcher, recomended by Wombat. I read through about 2/3's of the first book, Storm Front, yesterday in a 4 hour sitting. Haven't really torn through a book like that in a while. Still have about 100 pages left. Will finish that off today and then I will start on the second book. Next Thursday when I get paid I will order the remaining 3 books and anxiously wait until August when the next book is supposed to be out. I've quickly gotten hooked on Jim Butchers easy writing style.

If anyone has any suggestion on books in a similar style, please let me know. Looking for modern, with supernatural being either common place or well known. Like Anita Blake or the Dresden Files. Thanks.

And thanks go to you Wombat for recomending these books to me.

 

[Zappo]

Gooooood.

As for me, I'm reading the Stargate SG-1 d20 RPG book, Reaper Man by Pratchett, and after that I'm going to dive into Interesting Times...also by Pratchett.

Reaper Man is one of the two books I purchased last time I went to the library (the other being The Last Continent); I've finished it yesterday and it's definitely one of the best. There's a bit where a character is having a very serious conversation with Death... going by memory...

"Don't anyone ever try to challenge you?"
"SOMETIMES I WILL ALLOW THEM TO CHALLENGE ME IN A GAME FOR THEIR LIVES"
"Do they ever win?"
"NO. ONE GUY MANAGED TO PURCHASE THREE STREETS AND ALL UTILITIES, THOUGH"

 

[Datt]

The Saga of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

I am about to finish the first book, The Magic of Recluce. So far I really enjoy his writing style. Although he does get on my nerves a bit when he says something like three times on one page. I dont need to be reminded that the guy is cold because it is winter over and over. But that hasn't happened very much to ruin the overall book. I am looking forward to reading the other 10 or so.

 

[Darmanicus]

Nearly finished Book 2 of the Tawny Man series: The Golden Fool, by Robin Hobb........it's been great.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Reaper Man is one of the two books I purchased last time I went to the library (the other being The Last Continent); I've finished it yesterday and it's definitely one of the best. There's a bit where a character is having a very serious conversation with Death... going by memory...

"Don't anyone ever try to challenge you?"
"SOMETIMES I WILL ALLOW THEM TO CHALLENGE ME IN A GAME FOR THEIR LIVES"
"Do they ever win?"
"NO. ONE GUY MANAGED TO PURCHASE THREE STREETS AND ALL UTILITIES, THOUGH"

I WAS THE BOOT.

That was great. And of course, Death of Rats is one of the best characters ever.

I'm just about finished with Interesting Times now...then into A Hat Full of Sky.

 

[Krug]

Richard Matheson's I Am Legend. very gripping horror.

Also finished Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics.

Oh and the Midnight HC.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

The White People and Other Stories, by Arthur Machen
Currently reading "The Great Return". A nifty story where the Holy Grail is found in Wales.

 

[Filby]

I Just finished them. I was rationing myself to one a month, but I broke down near the end. Really, I don't think there is anything by Gaiman that isn't superb.

Hear, hear. I just finished the Sandman canon myself -- read the whole series in about two months, I think. I can't say how beautiful it all was... words fail me.

For my part, I'm reading Aztec by Gary Jennings. It's the first non-fantasy novel I've read in ages. Normally I hate historical fiction -- largely because much of it is just dry Victorian-era stuff -- but this non-traditional Mesoamerican material is really good reading as far as I'm concerned.

 

[AuroraGyps]

Right now I'm reading Paula Volsky's The Gates of Twilight. Before that were Lackey's The Black Swan & The Firebird. Next, I'm not sure, but my mother is coming up at the end of May and she'll be bringing up a bunch of books... including the 20 or so BtVS & Angel novels she got at Goodwill 3 for $1.