What are you reading? (April 2005)

[Ruined]

Drachenfels by 'Jack Yeovil' (aka Kim Newman), an old Warhammer fantasy book. Very well-written and quite unconventional from your typical Sword & Sorcery fare.

Man, that was a dark book. Read it back in the day when WFRP was all we played. I recall Elsbet being a cool character. =)

 

[ragboy]

Novel: The Queen's Fool by Phillipa Gregory - Great book about a girl that's begged as a holy fool to King Edward, then Mary and off/on with the Princess Elizabeth. Highly recommended... I'm 20 pages from the end...

Next: Forbeck's Lost Mark book or Ilium, not sure which one, but both are waiting...

Non-Fiction: The Mars Travel Guide - Just picked this up this weekend off a bargain shelf. All about Mars written as a travel guide book... pretty cool looking.

Comics: Conan, The Samurai: Heavan and Earth (samurai in 16th century France...hmmm), FF, etc.

Gaming: Grim Tales (still), and Legends of the Samurai.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Hi Everyone,

Just finished the Lyonesse Series for the upteenth time by Jack Vance (surprisingly my favourite of his)

I just read Suldrun's Garden and The Green Pearl. I'm looking for the last one now, and yes, they're great books.

 

[Desdichado]

I'm coming up on finishing the Keith Baker Eberron novel. I haven't decided what to read after that. The first Malazan book is a possibility. For once, I don't really have much of anything on deck.

 

[ShadowDenizen]

Currently reading "The Outlanders", Book 2 of the Lon Tobyn Trilogy, by David Coe. He has a breezy, easy-to-read writing style, so I'm flying through them. (A nice change after reading "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell!!!)

Still on the "to be read" list, off the top of my head?
--The Chronicles of Einarrin
--Black Company (re-read: it's been years since I've read them!!)
--The War of the Spider Queen (waiting for the last book to come out before I start!!)
--the "Bartimaeus" trilogy (waiting on the 3rd book)
--the "Vampire Earth" series

For RPG's?
Re-reading the "Midnight" stuff for our campaign.
"Worlds Largest Dungeon"
"Exalted: Book of Bone and Ebony"
"Oathbound"

 

[drothgery]

Sea of Silver Light, fourth and final book in Tad Williams Otherland

Great fun, though a little longwinded. One of my favourite authors .

Just started re-reading those here; next is GG Kay's latest (Last Night of the Sun). And hopefully by the time I'm finished with those, the fifth Mazalan mass-market paperback will hit Amazon.ca.

 

[haiiro]

Simul-reading The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, the Mech Manual for DragonMech, and America (The Book). TSotW is interesting, reminding me a little bit of The Club Dumas and Foucalt's Pendulum (in good ways!); the Mech Manual could be a lot better, but it's got some fun ideas in it; and America is quite funny.

I've got The 2nd Age of Walkers (also for DragonMech), the last two books of Cerebus (Latter Days and Last Day) and a couple of other things on deck. April is going to be a fun month for reading.

 

[Herremann the Wise]

I just read Suldrun's Garden and The Green Pearl. I'm looking for the last one now, and yes, they're great books.

Hi John Q. Mayhem,

I'm sure this has been said before but wouldn't you love to be reading this series for the first time. I'm not too sure from your post whether you've read them all before or whether you have arrived at Madouc. If the latter, I sincerely wish we could trade places.

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise

PS: If you have a little spare time in terms of reading, pop in to my Story Hour again. I certainly appreciated your comments last time. Some have graciously commented that my writing style has echoes of Jack Vance (I wish I was that good) and so you might continue to enjoy the exploits of Lucifus Cray, Tunthi of the Strauchn and the unlikely events leading to them adventuriung together.

 

[Banshee16]

I'm currently reading HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brien, and will try to start the Mauritius Command when I finish. After that, I've got King of Foxes from Raymond Feist, and the City of Towers.

I've also got a stack of Sharpe novels sitting here...I'm starting Sharpe's Fortress, the 3rd in the series.

Banshee

 

[Ibram]

Im still waiting for a new crop of Games Workshop novels to show up at the local Waldens... so I dont have much to read right now.

I just finished Rebirth #13 and Ruroni Kenshin #13, and am still reading through "The Grapes of Wrath" (my copy turned up the other day out of the blue...)