October - What are you Reading?

[Mark]

Chaucer, Ben Franklin, and Emily Bronte.

 

[Jakar]

Started book one of the Saga of the Seen Suns by Kevin J Anderson, called Hidden Empire. I am enjoying it a lot.

The other half is up to book 4 and she says it gets better all the time.

 

[EricNoah]

I'm reading and enjoying Black God's Kiss (a book from the Planet Stories line from Paizo).

I started but am not particularly enjoying another from that line, City of the Beast.

I still have these two in my pile (I'm halfway through Helix).

 

[GlassJaw]

Harry Pot-Pot #4 - Goblet of Fire

 

[megamania]

RA Salvatore's collected book- The Two Swords

 

[Chaldfont]

Bone compilation and Jeff VanDerMeer's City of Saints and Madmen. The latter is about the fictional city of Ambregris that reminds me of New Crobuzon or Viriconium.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/422075?shelf=currently-reading

 

[Wombat]

Starting my traditional October fare: begin with Ray Bradbury's The October Country, then move to various selections from Poe & Lovecraft, probably to be topped off with some classic Gothic novel (Radcliffe, Walpole, Lewis, Le Fanu; something of that ilk).

I love me some creepies in October

 

[Pozatronic]

Jeff VanDerMeer's City of Saints and Madmen.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/422075?shelf=currently-reading

Jeff Vandermeer might be my favorite author in the "new weird" sub-genre. Make sure you check out his Shriek: An Afterword when you finish City. A lot of the names you see in that book crop up as full fledged characters. It's a great book.

 

[Tolen Mar]

Started book one of the Saga of the Seen Suns by Kevin J Anderson, called Hidden Empire. I am enjoying it a lot.

The other half is up to book 4 and she says it gets better all the time.

I have every volume so far released. I have enjoyed them greatly, though I am led to wonder if the next book or two (the last of the series, he says) aren't just going to be sort of an 'afterthought.'

I said last week that I was reading 'A Game of Thrones.' It isn't bad, or poorly written, but it isn't grabbing me right now. Over the past couple of months, I have devoured book after book, but when I got to this one, I slowed waaaay down. In fact, it spent more time on the shelf than in my hands.

On the flip side, I have been engaged by 'The Skystone' by Jack Whyte. I can't leave it sit. So far, it reads like a clone of Starship Troopers (without the moral preaching) set in the Roman era. It's the first of a series re-telling the Legend of Arthur. Looks promising so far.

Sometime in the near future, I have to actually read the copy of 'Brother Odd' I keep checking out. I liked the first two 'Odd' books. In fact, I picked it up with Skystone in case once I started reading the latter, it turned out to lose my interest. I may have to try later.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

Who's read this? It looks really interesting. I just finished up the Dark Tower series last week and I'm hankering for something as new and thought-provoking. Ok yeah, the Dark Tower's not exactly a brain-buster, but on top of the fiction there are a lot of great motifs going on and the characters were all so strong and enjoyable. The Traveller sounds like that as well.