[September] What are you reading?

[Pants]

Just finished The Lies of Locke Lamora. Pretty damn entertaining, starts kinda slow but it gradually builds up in momentum then it just kicks you in the junk and leaps forward into spectacular action.

Good stuff. I don't know what I'm going to read now.

 

[jonesy]

Reading Shadows Over Baker Street, a short story collection which places Sherlock Holmes into the world of Lovecraft. So far Poppys story is the best. The one by Gaiman is awesome too, but I think it would have had a far better impact at the end of the book (instead of the beginning) because of how the twist works.

 

[Tetsubo]

No Commercial Potential: The Saga of Frank Zappa by David Walley

 

[eris404]

Good book! I loved that series when I first read it!

Agreed! I love Hobb - the Fool series is very good as well. The Ship series isn't as good to me, but they are still enjoyable reads.

 

[eris404]

Reading Shadows Over Baker Street, a short story collection which places Sherlock Holmes into the world of Lovecraft. So far Poppys story is the best. The one by Gaiman is awesome too, but I think it would have had a far better impact at the end of the book (instead of the beginning) because of how the twist works.

I think I'm going to have buy that.

Right now I am reading River Town - it's about an american Peace Corps volunteer who taught english in Sichuan Province, China, in the mid-nineties. I bought it when we were in Hong Kong a couple of weeks ago just before traveling to Sichuan myself. I almost finished with it and I can't decide what to read next. I've been meaning to reread the Song of Ice and Fire books again (since I finally bought Feast of Crows), but I really want to read The Dark Tower books, too. And I never did get around to reading The Confusion and System of the World (Neal Stephenson). Also, I'm in a book club that's discussing City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer.

Unfortunately, school starts for me next week, too.

 

[Storm Raven]

I just wrapped up DuBois' Resurrection Day, and now I'm on Sheckley's Immortality, Inc.. After that I'm probably going to get to Pohl's Gateway, and then make a dent in my Asimov collection (The Stars Like Dust, The End of Eternity, The Gods Themselves, and so on). I have to get back to Man-Kzin Wars VII too, I left off right after A Darker Geometry.

 

[Eridanis]

I really haven't read much in the past month; I still have BLACKSTAFF in my bag, and DZUR is on order with buy.com (my local B&N never got it in! I ordered it with my Colossal Red Dragon). Also have Julian May's just-finished series to start.

I love love love Hobb's Assassin/Ships/Fool series. The detour through the Ships series was jarring at first, but very well worth it IMO. The whole cycle was the first series in a long while that I BURNED through - I would finish one book, put it on the shelf and immediately grab the next one to continue.

 

[ShadowDenizen]

I'm still reading The Devil's Armor by John Marco

OOOH!
Any good?
No spoilers, though, since I haven't started the trilogy yet. (I have to finish "The Obsidian Trilogy" first.)

 

[Jdvn1]

Well, I officially finished Accidental Theorist, though I might re-read it pretty soon. I also read through the first volume of Isaac Asimov's DEREC, and I don't know where to get the rest. :\

I suppose it's okay. Not sure what's next...

 

[Starman]

OOOH!
Any good?
No spoilers, though, since I haven't started the trilogy yet. (I have to finish "The Obsidian Trilogy" first.)

I've been disappointed, actually. The first book started off well enough and I thought it would take the Arthurian elements in an interesting direction. Sadly, it didn't. The second book has also been just 'okay' with nothing really standing out. I'm hoping that the third book is a big improvement. At this point, I'm not sure I'd actually read any farther if I didn't own all three books. I hate to have unread books on my shelf.