What Are You Reading?

Queen-Mise

David Farland - series of books, i'm reading the first one at the moment

James-Brod

Trudi Canavan - The Magician's Apprentice

Robert Jordan - Crown of Swords (I love this series, going to be so depressed when its finished....)

Shryke

Feersum Endjinn - Banks.

shockwave

Shadow Of A Dark Queen - Raymond E Feist. - Serpentwar saga

Should have read it years ago after finishing the magician series but never got around to it.

Andy-Pandy

Altered Carbon by richard morgan. sci-fi detective noir and very very good.

Garroldy

just read the Magician series by Canavan...sort of...i got half way through the last book and lost the will to live....the mundane relationship details just overwhelmed me and slowed the plot down soooooo much...disappointing.

growler

Matter , Iain M Banks

have enjoyed most of his "culture" series so quite looking forward to this

Shryke

The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney. It took about three pages to grab me. A very good read so far.

mcgovern

Now reading The Voyage of the Sable Keech by Neal Asher.

ixoy

Currently torturing myself reading "Dune: The Butlerian Jihad" by the dreadful twosome of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Looking forward to finally clearing all their books from my shelf

jasonbourme.cs

currently reading book seven from the saga of the seven suns by Kevin J Anderson

epic series defo worth a read

marko93

Darren Shan the demonata series
its the business :P

NeoSlicerZ

The Bolo series, awesomeness, and more of Ciaphas Cain, HERO of the Imperium!

AnCapaillMor

jasonbourme.cs wrote: »

currently reading book seven from the saga of the seven suns by Kevin J Anderson

epic series defo worth a read

I envy you, i started on books 2 just as it came out, killed me to keep waiting a year for the next one.

Johnny Storm

NeoSlicerZ wrote: »

The Bolo series, awesomeness, ,,,!

Keith Laumer?
Excellent SF author IMHO.

fitz0

Book of the New Sun Vol 2. Its good but I think I left it too long between the first book and this one because half the time I don't have a notion whats going on.

Shryke

fitz0 wrote: »

Book of the New Sun Vol 2. Its good but I think I left it too long between the first book and this one because half the time I don't have a notion whats going on.

You're not meant to. It's written in such a way that it grows in the rereading. There are a lot of things you won't pick up on your first read.

AnCapaillMor

Started reading terry brooks stuff(voyage of jerle shanarra, 2/3 of the way through the sword of shannara trilogy)not great but i can't stop reading them for some reason.

Codofwar

This week im readin The Magician's Apprentice by Trudi Canavan. Its based on the way things were before the dark magician trilogy. Only at the start of it but it seems very good so far, another great book from canavan imo.

Damn!!

Currently attempting Neal Stephenson's "Anathem"

God it's tough to get through.. he just makes up his own words! makes the Baroque Trilogy seem like ann and barry go to the shops

ixoy

Wuhoo! I finished 'The Buterlian Jihad', one of the worst books I've read in years. Brian Herbert's body isn't even worthy of breaking down into water, such is his lack of talent.

Now moved onto 'The Shadow Road' by Sean Russell, the final installment in the Swan's War trilogy. The series a whole has been pretty unassuming - neither memorable nor irritating, it's pleasantly diverting so far.

Damn!!

Yeah, he seems to have broken the whole mythos of the dune universe, everything explained, everything made bland.

growler

Damn!! wrote: »

Currently attempting Neal Stephenson's "Anathem"

God it's tough to get through.. he just makes up his own words! makes the Baroque Trilogy seem like ann and barry go to the shops

great read though , stick with it !

mcgovern

Finished "The Voyage of the Sable Keech", which was quite good, but not as good as "The Skinner".

Now going back to book 6 of the Amber books by Zelanzy.

yarglags

Dades wrote: »

Gonna be starting Heinlein's: "Strangers in a Strange Land" tonite.

Picked it up on a whim yesterday. Anyone like it?

I did enjoy Stranger in a Strange Land a couple of years end ended up reading tons of Heinlein. My favorite was The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

ixoy wrote: »

Wuhoo! I finished 'The Buterlian Jihad', one of the worst books I've read in years. Brian Herbert's body isn't even worthy of breaking down into water, such is his lack of talent.

I re-read Franks Dune books not too long ago and had a better appreciation for them the second time around. Are Brian's books that bad. Should I quit while I'm ahead?

Just finished The Integral Trees by Larry Niven... Incredible setting.

ixoy

Currently reading 'The Name of the Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss. Very enjoyable so far - nice style and interesting take on magic.

yarglags wrote: »

I re-read Franks Dune books not too long ago and had a better appreciation for them the second time around. Are Brian's books that bad. Should I quit while I'm ahead?

The initial prequel trilogy is tolerable - not woeful, but not worth reading either. It fills in gaps that had no need to be filled and removes some of the mystery. It is pretty poorly written though - writing and prose is very functional and there's none of the depth of philosophy or culture of the original (besides what was stolen).

The last one I read though was awful - 'The Butlerian Jihad' read like the worst sort of fanwank. Should never have been commissioned.

AnCapaillMor

Sandor wrote: »

The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney. It took about three pages to grab me. A very good read so far.

Thanks for the recomendation, good read, altho i think they climaxed a bit too early.

Shryke

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Thanks for the recomendation, good read, altho i think they climaxed a bit too early.

I can see what you mean, but I think the last section added the touch that was needed.

Now reading Pyramids by Pratchett and taking a break from Les Mis.

ronivek

Just finishing up Steven Erikson's Deadhouse Gates at the moment; loving the Malazan Book of the Fallen so far.

growler

nearly done with "matter" iain m banks , a good read as always