[November] What are you reading?

[Jhaelen]

I'm just about finished with Charles Stross's The Atrocity Archives (I bought it two years ago, started reading it and then lost it, and just found it again recently.) I know about his other stuff combining James Bond-style spy tropes and the Cthulhu Mythos, and I need to get it. I like his writing, and when I read it I just get a big kick out of remembering that it's the same guy who created the Death Knight, Githyanki, Githzerai, and the Slaadi!

I'm sure he's a nice enough guy and seems well connected (I've seen him being credited in a couple of novels I enjoyed) but 'The Atrocity Archives' fell completely flat for me.
I wouldn't say it was atrocious () but it was still probably the worst novel I've read in the past two years. I found it overly clichéd and predictable.

One of the first things I'll do when I get my kindle is to look for every Mythos story I can find.

In the meantime I continue reading all of the Ars Magica sourcebooks that have accumulated in the past year. I'm almost done with 'The Church' - which really made me want to re-read Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' - and will continue with 'Legends of Hermes'.

 

[Dioltach]

Recently finished rereading The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett and Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan. I don't think I'll be reading the rest of his Riyria series.

Next up is probably The Last Guardian, the latest Artemis Fowl book.

 

[Mark CMG]

So far, Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell feels a little flat but it might just be me adjusting to the POV.

 

[Krug]

Finished The Hammer and the Blade which was a decent buddy sword and sorcery book. First part of the book moved really slowly though, with the two characters hanging around a brothel for way too long.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I'm 480 pages into The Stand, which was probably not the greatest book to start when I'm A: suffering from a cold, and B: trying to do NaNoWriMo. Hrmph.

 

[Krug]

Finished AS Byatt's Ragnarok. A short, quick read and a sort of retelling of Asgardian legends. While nothing extraordinarily new, Byatt injects new vigor into the tales, particularly Baldur's death.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Cold Days was AMAZING. Everything that was a bit flat in Ghost Story is back in spades. Awesome.

 

[Karak]

Just finished the John Shannow series by David Gemmel. Now I am moving to the Ashes series by William Johnstone.
Excited to also get into the Dirk Pitt books some more.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

Just started Umberto Eco's Prague Cemetary. Might read Stephen King's Dome afterwards.

AR

 

[Krug]

Rereading Life of Pi. I like the dry humour, but the philosophical 'religions are equal' portions are a bit of a drag.