November - What are you reading?

[Angel Tarragon]

In anticipation of the movie, I've started on The Golden Compass last night. Will be reading the other ttwo books in the His Dark Materials trilogy next (The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass).

 

[Pozatronic]

In anticipation of the movie, I've started on The Golden Compass last night. Will be reading the other ttwo books in the His Dark Materials trilogy next (The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass).

Really? How is it? A part of me has been wanting to pick those books up for a few years now. After hearing that it has an "atheist agenda" (or so some people think), I'm even more interested in it.


I just picked up Michael Chabon's "Gentlemen Of The Road: A Tale Of Adventure", but I have yet to actually start it. It's dedicated to Michael Moorcock and is being compared to Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. His original name for the story was "Jews with Swords". I've been ignoring Chabon for way to long, so this is kind of my first novel of his.

 

[Ilium]

I'm reading The Golden Compass with my daughter. It's a little darker than I expected, but very very good. We're both psyched about the movie.

 

[Mallus]

His original name for the story was "Jews with Swords".

For that reason alone I'll by the book.

Well, that and the fact I love Chabon. After "Gentlemen" you should check out his hardboiled (egg) Jewish noir alternate history The Yiddish Policeman's Union -- it's fantastic. You really can't go wrong with any of his novels, not even his first, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which is very very good.

 

[WayneLigon]

Right now: The Virtu, by Sarah Monette; second in a trilogy started by Melusine and ended with The Mirador. It's an OK book with tons of characterization. Somewhat gratingly, the characterization is mainly between two half-brothers each of whom is so stubborn and damaged in different ways that they constantly talk past each other or ascribe motives that don't nessesarily exist. It gets a little wearing after a time.

 

[Pyrex]

Really? How is it? A part of me has been wanting to pick those books up for a few years now. After hearing that it has an "atheist agenda" (or so some people think), I'm even more interested in it.

I just finished The Golden Compass and am about a third into The Subtle Knife.

So far they're both good; both deeper and darker than I would have expected from something marketed at the age bracket it appears to be aimed at.

Also, it's not so much that the books have an athiest agenda, but that in the magical victorian England much of the story takes place in that the Church as a political organization is bloated, corrupt & power hungry and is full of folks willing to use, ah, "un-christian" means to accomplish what they think is "right".

 

[GlassJaw]

Almost halfway through Harry Pot-Pot #5 and reading the whole series back-to-back (to-back to-back...). I feel like this is my Everest. If it doesn't kill me, it will only make me stronger.

(By the way, last I checked, today is still October.)

 

[WayneLigon]

I just picked up Michael Chabon's "Gentlemen Of The Road: A Tale Of Adventure", but I have yet to actually start it.

OK, I must have this. I just read the Amazon description and it sounds wonderful.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

(By the way, last I checked, today is still October.)

But tomorrow is Nov. 1st. (because somewhere on the globe its is 12 hours later).

 

[EricNoah]

I'm still chipping away at my October books. I'm back to reading Helix, and I'm partway through two of the books in Pazio's Planet Stories line.