What are we all reading?

[Shadowdancer]

I'm about a third of the way into the second book of the Song of Fire and Ice series. Book Three is waiting patiently for me to finish. And I'm halfway through the Two Towers -- hope to finish it -- for the first time -- before the movie comes out.

I read Rhapsody, and I liked the beginning and the end, but the middle was tedious. I haven't worked up the strength yet to tackle the second book.

burningman: I guess what you are doing is the literary equivalent of a season's worth of TV series. I've never tried that, but I might someday.

 

[BadMojo]

Right now I'm reading "Sandman:Book of Dreams", which is a short story collection set in the world of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman".

Lots of good stuff from some top notch writers.

Will probably read "Phoenix" by Steven Brust next and will follow that with "Delta Green: Dark Theatres".

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Just finished the last book in the councelors and kings trilogy, i'll soon be reading either realms of shadow, or dragons of a vanished moon. I'm also reading the hardcover of the first Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon run for the punisher. As well as the normal 10-20 comic titles i buy each week.

 

[dagger]

Can anyone recommend a fantasy book with lots of armies fighting it out?

 

[Shadowdancer]

The Black Company books center around a mercenary army and its various campaigns.

The Song of Ice and Fire books have -- so far -- involved some armies, but most of the story has concentrated on the behind-the-scenes intrigue and plots. But the second one seems to be building toward confrontations involving several armies.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Can anyone recommend a fantasy book with lots of armies fighting it out?

Well, most of the five-book series "The Belgariad" has nothing to do with this, but in the last part of book four and a good chunk of book five, certain chapters focus on an enormous army, its travels, and its battles.

A Darkness at Sethanon, the fourth book in the Riftwar Saga, involves a prolonged siege.

I'm sure there are others, but those are the two that come most swiftly to mind. And none of them really focus on the armies, so much as they happen to involve them in certain parts of the story.

 

[madriel]

Can anyone recommend a fantasy book with lots of armies fighting it out?

You could try Sheepfarmer's Daughter by Elizabeth Moon. Moon was in the US armed forces and it shows in the battle scenes. Or Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson.

I just finished reading Prophecy by Elizabeth Haydon. That is a fantastic series.

Currently I'm reading two books at once.

Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold.

Scout's Progress by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, one of the Liaden Universe novels.

Don't know what I'm going to read next. My usual authors have either put out a book earlier this year, or their next one isn't due out for months.

 

[Tsyr]

I just finished the Forigner/Invader/Inheritor trilogy by C.J. Cherryh a while ago, I'm almost done with the three books currently out in A Song of Ice and Fire, and next on the agenda is Neverwhere, followed by a book I bought at the college library called "Life in the Shining Courts", a book on hein era japan... After that, the next Tom Clancey book should be out, and I'll read that...

 

[Tsyr]

Can anyone recommend a fantasy book with lots of armies fighting it out?

As someone mentioned, A Song of Fire and Ice has a lot of battles, though again like they said, you mostly hear about the before and after, not the battle itself.

the Wheel of Time series has a lot of armies, few battles...

At the end of Brightly Burning by Mercedes Lackey there is a huge battle between two armies, but she isn't a very good author for things like that, IMO... I like her overall, but her descriptions of military matters is somewhat lacking.

 

[Dr Midnight]

I've been TRYING to read several books recently.
Rhapsody bored me, Dragons of Autumn Twilight carried me maybe halfway through before I jumped ship...

I recently read ARMOR by John Steakley on highest possible recommendation by fellow poster Gospog. I didn't like it. In fact, I felt rather boned.

I found and reread EYES OF THE DRAGON by Stephen King... I really liked the book when I was 13, thought I'd give it another read with more fantasy novels under my belt. It didn't hold up this time. Oh well.

Currently reading TIMEQUAKE by Kurt Vonnegut, on recommendation of my lady-friend Kate. It's okay so far, but seems to be less a novel than it is a collection of anecdotes. I'm confused.

After that I'm reading another book from Kate, and then I'm rereading the entire ICE & FIRE series because it is just so damn good. Those books made sweet sweet love to my mind.