[September] What are you reading?

[Brakkart]

I've just finished The Dream Spheres by Elaine Cunningham and am about to start reading Faces of Deception by Troy Denning. After that it'll likely be Lies of Light by Phil Athans as I loved the first book of his Watercourse Trilogy. Very eager to see how that story continues.

 

[Enforcer]

I'm reading The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. It's a novel set in the post-Civil War era in Boston. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and a few other Boston Harvard literati (The Dante Club) are working on the first American translation of Dante's Divine Comedy when someone starts killing off Boston's social elite in ways taken directly from the Divine Comedy.

It started off very slowly, but I'm beginning to really enjoy it. And it's not hard to follow despite the fact I haven't read the Divine Comedy (though now it's on my list).

 

[ShadowDenizen]

RE: The Devils Armor. 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.

Well, that's disappointing, since I have so much stuff still to be read.
I have all three books as well, and just started the first book ("The Eyes of God"); not bad so far!

As to the :Obsidian Trilogy: which I just finished; I was disappointed in that. Really storng first book, but a letdown for the second, and an anticlimactic (and completely predicatble) ending.

Still sitting on my shelf:
The first two books of the "Septimus Heap" series.
the first two books of the "Chornicles of Ancient Darkness" series.
The first book in "The Godslayer Chronicles".
The first three books in "the Kingdom of Thorn and Bone" series.
The first four books in the "Mazalan Book of the Fallen" series.

 

[Mark]

Just finished Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian which, oddly enough (a kudo to whoever can tell me why) led in nicely to Sahara by Michael Palin. Also, finally picked up a copy of The October Horse : A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough, the sixth novel in her series chronicling the demise of the Roman Republic (it begins with First Man in Rome and is highly recommended by me and others). If you ever want to add a political strain to an RPG, reading through this series will be all the education you need. I also just got my hands on a copy of Thud by Terry Pratchett which I might try to get started before the end of the month. Pratchett is something I love, a lot, but need to read in spurts or his style becomes tiresome for whatever reason. Perhaps a case of too-much-of-a-good-thing syndrome? Couple all of that with my usual history and other non-fiction reading, which tends to be in chunks and chapters rather than straight through, and I'm up to my bleary eyeballs in text to consume.

 

[ssampier]

I just finished A Feast for Crows (Go Sam!). I'm currently reading Conan the Cimmerian.

Eventually, the world will run out of paper.

What about digital media?

 

[Templetroll]

I just finished A Feast for Crows (Go Sam!). I'm currently reading Conan the Cimmerian.



What about digital media?

You mean finger puppets?

 

[Starman]

You mean finger puppets?

A finger puppet version of ASoIaF would rule!

 

[Jdvn1]

What about digital media?

Quiet you.

 

[Pozatronic]

Also, I'm in a book club that's discussing City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer...

I wish I could find a book club like that. Have you read it? I hope you did. It's very good. The Transformation of Martil Lake is one of my favorite short stories in any genre. If you liked it, Vandermeer has another novel out that takes place in Ambergris. it's called Shriek: An afterword. I haven't read it yet (It's hard cover and I just quit one of my jobs) but It's on the list.

I actually finished reading said book. I don't know what I'm going to read next. I have a used copy of Tanith Lee's Cyrion waiting for me at Borders, but I also have the following books I haven't read sitting on my shelves: The Worm Ouroboros; The Book of the New Sun (a nice hardcover edition containing all four novels that I found at the library for 40 cents); Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow; How to Breath Underwater by Julie Orringer; and St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell. Maybe I should just roll a d6?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I strated Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan on the 3rd and finished it last night. I'll be starting up Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg on Monday.