November--What are you reading?

[Decado]

I just got back from Waldenbooks where I bought The Ambassador Chronicles. I am looking forward to more Warhammer fun.

Decado

 

[Dinkeldog]

I just finished Pullman's The Golden Compass and really want to get my hands on the next two books in that series.

Until I do, I'll be reading Janny Wurts' Peril's Gate.

 

[Starman]

Well, I read V for Vendetta and A Feast for Crows. Now, I'm diving into Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

 

[sniffles]

Novels: "The Wee Free Men" and "A Hat Full of Sky", both by Terry Pratchett.

Those are both excellent reads! Read them last year.

I'm currently blazing through Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys modern takes on "fairy tales" such as Neil Gaiman's Stardust.

 

[evildmguy]

That book is on "pause" right now, though; I'm reading R.A. Salvatore's "Promise of the Witch King," the sequel to "Servant of the Shard," which tracks drow mystery Jarlaxyl and his human assassin compatriot Artemis Entreri and their exploits. Salvatore isn't the best writer in the world, being more pulpy than refined, but his stuff is entertaining.

Thank you! I needed that as a way to describe him. The book was actually tough to read. I usually enjoy his stuff a lot. But this one was tough to get into. I don't know why. I did finish it and it was good but either I have changed or he has as this one didn't grab me as much as his books used to do.

Third in the Erevis Cale trilogy. Name escapes me.
New FR fiction. Dang I am bad with names.
V for Vendetta.
Then the next Kelley Armstrong book.
After that I have some Kim Harrisson books to read.

Been on a reading trip recently and I have really enjoyed it!

Have a good one! Take care!

edg

 

[frog]

Just finished Memories of Ice by Stephen Erickson. Now I am anxiously awaiting the U.S. release of House of Chains and Midnight Tides.

Now if they would just release Glen Cook's Dread Empire series in one hardback that would tide me over for a bit until the Erickson stuff comes out.

 

[orbitalfreak]

The book was actually tough to read. I usually enjoy his stuff a lot. But this one was tough to get into. I don't know why. I did finish it and it was good but either I have changed or he has as this one didn't grab me as much as his books used to do.

I agree with you (having finished the book a few days ago), this book's quality was a few notches below his usual stuff. It seemed like he was writing to meet a deadline and didn't get to polish this one up. The plot didn't flow well. I can barely remember what the storyline was less than a week after finishing it. The characters weren't really fleshed-out; I never got around to actually caring about any of them. Even Entreri and Jarlaxyl fell flat, to me, and I think that Jarlaxyl has the potential to be one of the most intriguing characters in the Realms.

I do think that it's his writing style that has changed, and for the worse. I make it a point to re-re-re-read the Homeland trilogy every couple of years or so, because I think that it's a well-written book that has a good story to go with it (good writing is useless without entertainment, and entertainment is lessened by bad writing; both must exist to provide a book worth reading) It's a gradual decline over the last several novels, with this one to the point of being difficult to read. I agree with a friend of mine that the decline started after he /

Spoiler

resurrected Wulfgar

\, trying to devise a plot to get around that death for whatever reason, and subsequently basically writing that character out of any future books. It hurt the series, continuity-wise, and character-development wise.

 

[Tonguez]

I'm Reading Enworld threads

 

[Tonguez]

Okay also Newtons Cannon (Greg Keyes), the Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi (Claudia Orange), Traditional Songs of the Maori (Mervyn McClean), Thud (Pratchett) and Jungle Tales of Tarzan (REH)

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Just finished "The Charnel Prince", the second book of the "Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone" series by Greg Keyes. Very good books- first was introduced to this author through his short stories in Dragon magazine a couple years back. "The Briar King" is the first of the two books. Though fantasy, they have a very down to earth, "real world" feel to them, in no small part due to the author's use of modified real world languages to differentiate regions/cultures in his world. Very interesting. Highly recommended.