What are you reading?

[Suttree]

For anyone who likes Bakker and "Prince of Nothing" he has some awesome short stories up on his blog. This one has some very interesting tidbits pertaining the next book in the series. Man can he flat out write...and this Titirga character should make the most bad ass list.

 

http://rsbakker.wordpress.com/stories/the-false-sun/

[ironisles]

Finished Bleak Seasons. Kind of an abrupt ending. Starting She Is the Darkness next. I'll probably finish up the with the other Black Company books before moving on as well. I think Water Sleeps is next and after that is Soldiers Live.

 

 

How are you liking it so far?

[ironisles]

Finished the Way of Kings.. hate that I'm going to have to wait for more.

[Songstress]

Finished the Way of Kings.. hate that I'm going to have to wait for more.

 

When I finished it, I started re-reading it immediately to catch the little bits and pieces that I skimmed over trying to finish the story as fast as possible.

 

The series has such epic potential, I can't wait for the second one.

[redarm]

 

How are you liking it so far?

 

 

It's good. I do prefer the first few books to these most recent ones. However, I did enjoy Murgens description of happenings in Dejagore and I am intrigued by the events surrounding the bigger events further south. (no spoilers there, I think). I have a hundred pages or so to go in She Is the Darkness and it seems that a lot of the little plot lines are coming together into the main quite nicely. Looking forward to the conclusion. (If there is one. Bleak Seasons really didn't come to any conclusion at all)

[Kaznen]

I'm reading Gods of Mars of the John Carter books. They are public domain so I got them free on my Kindle.

Edited March 19, 2012 by Kaznen

[ironisles]

Finally got around to The Towers of Midnight. Will pick up Elantris on Fri.

[redarm]

Finished She Is the Darkness. Of course now I have to go on to Water Sleeps. Can't leave it like that. Looking forward to some Company revenge.

[ironisles]

Yeah left you mad didn't it?

Edited March 22, 2012 by Red2111

[Hallow]

Finished the first Black Company book, onto the second now (Darkness never sleeps?). The series has grown on me since about halfway through book 1. Enjoying it now.

[redarm]

Yeah, a little mad.

 

Big jump in elapsed time at the beginning of Water Sleeps. Haven't gotten far though.

[redarm]

Finished the first Black Company book, onto the second now (Darkness never sleeps?). The series has grown on me since about halfway through book 1. Enjoying it now.

 

Did you finish the first Chronicle (contains first three books) or just the first Book The Black Company?

[Smittyphi]

I just finished the last Dresden files book by Butcher. I need start Way of Kings over again as I only got about half way through before things happened and I picked up a different series.

[Hallow]

Finished the first Black Company book, onto the second now (Darkness never sleeps?). The series has grown on me since about halfway through book 1. Enjoying it now.

 

Did you finish the first Chronicle (contains first three books) or just the first Book The Black Company?

 

Just the first actual book. Still have 2 more in the first chronicle. Not had much time for reading lately :(

[ironisles]

Finshed TOM..Sanderson did an excellent job. Mat is much better this time. I even like Faile now. Elayne and Eg are more annoying though. Glad Perrin finally stopped whining about being a leader. Crap, i even like Gawyn better, and I wanted him to fall into a deep hole and never climb out heh.

 

Got Elantris and will start it tomorrow. Have The Darkness that comes before and The Dread Empire omnibus by Glen Cook after that.

[Wren of the Brown]

Sean Russell - World Without End

 

I scrounged this out of the Friends of the Library outlet. It's a pretty well crafted Age of Enlightenment/End of the Age of Magic setting with some very strong overtones cast by Hope Mirrlees in her Lud-in-the-Myst (two diametrically opposed nations revolving around the trafficking of an exotic "fae fruit.") Halfway through the book, I still have no idea to what end either faction of antagonists strives toward and now there's a third faction who will not reveal the truth to the protagonist because he's so haplessly manipulated by the other two. I understand there are three other books: a sequel and two prequels.

[Suttree]

Underworld-Don DeLillo

[Jon Paul]

I'm reading book one of Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. I'm just over 250 pages in. I'm enjoying it enough.. but chapter thirteen and a bit of fourteen are quite possibly the most mind-numbingly boring pieces of fiction I have ever read. I'd rather read about Elayne having a bath again.

 

But I'll plough through.

[andrewks]

Has anyone read Sapowski's Last Wish or Blood of Elves? I really want to get into the Witcher books because of the games, but I am worried about reading the series that only so far has two books in English.

[fearless-freak]

The Lord of The Rings trilogy by J.R.R Tolkien

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

The Complete Chronicles of Conan: Centenery Edition by Robert E Howard

Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Dance With Dragons 1: Dreams And Dust

[Jon Paul]

I'm just over half-way through the Dragonbone Chair. It's quite ponderous. I think the actual story is all right and might end up being great... but I'm just not feeling how he's telling it. I wont be defeated I'll plough on but a lot of the time I find my self not paying attention as I'm reading!

 

One thing that has actually pissed me off is the names. Why do authors thinking throwing a bunch of random consonants and vowels together will give you an interesting or fun name? Please just use James, Elisabeth, Ryan, and Patrick, or minor variations of it. And the same goes for country names, etc.

[Alanna]

I haven't ready anything new in a while, and I've got a whole shelf full of books to read. I think I'm going to start Orson Scott Card's Pathfinder. I hope it's good.

[Wren of the Brown]

Underworld-Don DeLillo

 

What do you think of it so far? I enjoyed White Noise but I've never gotten around to Underworld.

[Jekyn]

I just finished reading the Emineska Series by Ben Galley. The first book, The Written was wonderfull and the second book Pale Kings was just released and proved to be a excellent sequal.

[Jon Paul]

I finished the Dragonbone Chair. Really picks up after they leave Geloe's place. Will start the beginning the Stone of Farewell tonight.