Author Topic: What are you reading? (Read 600660 times)

lowky · **Reply #2640 on:** June 07, 2016, 09:41:41 PM

Joe Hill's The Fireman

wintermute · **Reply #2641 on:** June 09, 2016, 07:28:24 PM

I've finally gotten around to Tina Connolly's Ironskin. Very good so far, well worth the money.

jrderego · **Reply #2642 on:** June 11, 2016, 03:26:25 AM

Quote from: Not-a-Robot on June 07, 2016, 07:39:44 AM

Quote from: jrderego on June 07, 2016, 02:19:14 AM
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. Unbelievably good.

That's his first novel right? I have read 4 novels (Mr. Rosewater, Cat's Cradle, Slaugherhous and Breakfast) and 2 books of short stories, but never Player Piano. I'll have to check it out.

I just finished 11/22/63. It was okay. King can be long-winded. My personal opinion is that it would have been much better if it were 400 pages thinner. Also, I'm getting tired of time travelers killing people. If you can time travel there are better ways... But no book is without flaws and as King books go, I'd put it in the better half.

I don't think its his first. I think he already had a name when Player Piano came out. That one was released in 63. So maybe he wrote it first but it was published later. At any rate it's was fantastic. I liked it almost as much as Mother Night and more than Slaughterhouse 5. Rosewater is such a strangely non science fiction book that I have a hard time recalling the main plot though I read it 15 or so years ago. I guess I should pick it up again sometime.

lowky · **Reply #2643 on:** June 11, 2016, 03:15:35 PM

Just started book two in the Passage Trilogy. Just finished The Fireman. Highly recommend the Fireman if you like a smidge of Science in your horror/Apocalyptic fiction.

jrderego · **Reply #2644 on:** June 27, 2016, 04:24:35 AM

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

lowky · **Reply #2645 on:** July 01, 2016, 11:49:48 PM

Just finished reading the second book in Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy. Currently reading the first Pern book.

wintermute · **Reply #2646 on:** July 02, 2016, 12:34:17 AM

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer. I'm not far in yet, but it's pretty good so far.

Not-a-Robot · **Reply #2647 on:** July 09, 2016, 06:32:53 AM

On Writing by Stephen King. I don't know about the writing advice, but prosewise, it's probably one of King's best books.

Also, he keeps it short

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lowky · **Reply #2648 on:** July 22, 2016, 09:29:20 PM

Just finished the third book in Megg, Jensens's Dragonlands series

jrderego · **Reply #2649 on:** August 06, 2016, 01:00:05 AM

Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World

Not-a-Robot · **Reply #2650 on:** August 28, 2016, 10:48:59 AM

Sorry Pleas Thank You - Charles Yu

I caught a sorry of his in a magazine and it was great. Now I'm halfway through the first short story in the book and it's great so far. If he keeps it up, I'll have to get his novel.

danooli · **Reply #2651 on:** August 28, 2016, 12:22:13 PM

Quote from: jrderego on August 06, 2016, 01:00:05 AM

Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World

see you in a few years!

jrderego · **Reply #2652 on:** August 29, 2016, 12:22:19 AM

Quote from: danooli on August 28, 2016, 12:22:13 PM

Quote from: jrderego on August 06, 2016, 01:00:05 AM
Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World

see you in a few years!

I didn't make it past the first chapter.

lowky · **Reply #2653 on:** August 29, 2016, 04:58:00 AM

just finished Robert Jordan's the Dragon Reborn, and started Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs

SpareInch · **Reply #2654 on:** August 29, 2016, 09:08:30 AM

So I read the first 3 chapters of Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' this morning, which takes me most of the way through Part I.

It's OK, and the first couple of chapters were reminiscent of HG Wells in his more self consciously whimsical works, but if it doesn't pull up its socks and get its arse moving soon, it'll be the first and last Rushdie I read. $:-\$

Not-a-Robot · **Reply #2655 on:** September 24, 2016, 11:25:32 AM

The Tin Drum Günther Grass

One of the pillars of European magical realism.

We'll see how it is.

Ryffnah · **Reply #2656 on:** October 10, 2016, 10:51:25 AM

I just read two really great furry books -- "Rat's Reputation" by Michael H. Payne is kind of like a more serious version of Brian Jacques' Redwall books, and "Flower's Fang" by Madison Keller is an amazing, fun fantasy story set in a world with canine and plant-like people. I'd highly recommend both of them.

Fenrix · **Reply #2657 on:** October 10, 2016, 11:37:52 AM

Quote from: Not-a-Robot on August 28, 2016, 10:48:59 AM

Sorry Pleas Thank You - Charles Yu

I caught a sorry of his in a magazine and it was great. Now I'm halfway through the first short story in the book and it's great so far. If he keeps it up, I'll have to get his novel.

My favorite of the bunch was “Hero Absorbs Major Damage”. It was one of the few to provide a little depth to round out the introspection and provide a better hook. I would love to hear this one in audio, as

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Moritz · **Reply #2658 on:** October 27, 2016, 12:49:46 PM

Catching up on some classics:
Robert E. Howard - Conan
Ursula K. LeGuin - Earthsea

also some non-English stuff:
Andrzej Sapkowski - the Witcher (in German translation - not even sure if all of it had been translated into English)

Fenrix · **Reply #2659 on:** October 27, 2016, 10:16:12 PM

I recently finished A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny. Quite probably the most fun novel I've read all year.

I recommend it for any YA reader who has graduated from Bunnicula. Howard and Chester have grown up and inhabit the spirit of Snuff and Greymalk. For something that could be merely silly, it hooks us to the characters and has put them in a world with real stakes.

Also recommended for any fan of The Graveyard Book by Gaiman.