What are you Reading? July 2018 edition

[Blue]

Finished "Snuff" as part of my Terry Pratchett. More Vimes, always an enjoyable character.

I could not help but draw comparisons between the plight of the goblins and how some groups are getting actively marginalized today in US society. Sorry, normally I don't post of things like that, don't want to derail this with a political discussion.

Still on my Pratchett train, picked up Raising Steam with MvL. I think after that I'll cleanse my palette with a bunch of non-Discworld books I've got in my reading stack, and then start the Tiffany Aching books for the first time.

 

[Richards]

I'm finally on the third book in the Companions Codex Trilogy: Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf, by R. A. Salvatore. After this, I think I'll take a long break from Drizzt Do'Urden and find something different to read for awhile. I have some Star Trek novels in my "to be read" pile, as well as some sci fi short story collections. I'm about Drizzted out.

Johnathan

 

[Kramodlog]

I just started A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1993 Hugo award co-winner). So far, I like his prose. Especially how he gradually introduced the telepathic lupin synods. It i well done. You start with what you think are individual humans and end up with far more complexe entities. I hope all the novel is like that.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

The Gathering Storm, the first posthumously released Wheel of Time book, finished by Brandon Sanderson, is done. There’s a strong continuity of style and feel. But Sanderson writes with much more agility, moving from POV to POV, covering momentous events, with ease. Yet gravitas is not sacrificed, and events have all the more weight for us not having to wait forever for the payoff.

I’m skipping my usual palate cleanser and going directly to Towers of Midnight. I'm in the home stretch now. At this rate, I should be finished with the series in a month’s time.

 

[Blue]

I just started A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1993 Hugo award co-winner). So far, I like his prose. Especially how he gradually introduced the telepathic lupin synods. It i well done. You start with what you think are individual humans and end up with far more complexe entities. I hope all the novel is like that.

I loved the world- (eh, universe-) building in that book. And the actual alien aliens as opposed to humans-with-funny-forehead. Don't want to potentially spoil anything by saying more. When you're done be glad to discuss.

 

[Blue]

Finished Raising Steam and was disappointed. Sure, callbacks to a Death book I enjoyed. And some Vimes. And a good amount of Moist von Lipwig. But somehow it didn't fall together as some of the others did.

I think perhaps it was MvL - I enjoy him as a character, but he's usually tapdanicing a tune in front of an inexorable tidal wave but steering it. In this, sure he was doing a lot but I didn't get that same idea that he was the mastermind who was bringing about the impossible in the same way as in others. Though his thrillseeker side was captured well.