R.CAllen Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 I gave up on Lucien Leuwen (so boring! no good bits!) and moved to Iain M. Banks' The Hydrogen Sonata. In preparation for it I quickly re-read all but three of his Culture novels and have noticed a few recurring favourite words of his : inchoate, spinnaker, accrete. So there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.CAllen Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Just finished The Universal Baseball Association Inc., J. Henry Waugh Prop. by Robert Coover. It was excellent. It's a novel about an old guy that's created his own fantasy league of baseball players that he meticulously gameplays, rolling dice for every moment of each game and every detail of each player. It avoids the sort of cliches that this sort of scenario brings to mind and does what it does simply and beautifully. It kind of reminded me of Philip K. Dick (plot-wise, the style is very different) especially the turn it takes at the end. The last chapter is a killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted November 21, 2012 Author Share Posted November 21, 2012 I'm roughly 100 pages into A Dance With Dragons. 800-some more, and I can finally venture into The Snowflakes and Posies thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.CAllen Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 I'm towards the end of Palafox by Eric Chevillard and it is pretty good. The book is like "What if Moby Dick was some combination of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner and a really French guy was narrating the action?" and I kind of think it would make a good movie. As long as the movie had a CGI SFX budget of twenties and thirties of millions of dollars in order to do a rendering of the title character justice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted December 3, 2012 Author Share Posted December 3, 2012 200 pages left in A Dance With Dragons, also 1/4 of the way through The Hobbit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Lohr Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Have almost finished Clockwork Angels. Having only been familiar with Kevin J. Anderson through his Star Wars works (which have never been my favorites), I wasn't sure what to expect. Being based on the latest album by my favorite band, Rush (that is, the story/lyrics of drummer Neil Peart), however, intrigued me enough to check it out. Not blown away exactly, but it's certainly been worth the trip to the library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 cracking the spine on The Hobbit. Haven't read this since high school. Also, reading a collection of short stories titled Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint. If you've never read de Lint, you should. His quality of writing is very literary but his stories are a melding of folklore, urban legend, magical realism and horror. He is a true modern classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Winch Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Just finished a Destroyer spinoff book. Pretty good. There was a promo for the next one coming in the series and now I have to wait. Stupid arrow of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms. Spam Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 I'm going old school for bedtime reading. I've got Alistair MacCleans' Force 10 from Navarone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 The Islanders by Christopher Priest. It is really strange. I am 102 pages into and I'm just now beginning to see how the vastly disparate threads are going to be woven together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted January 18, 2013 Author Share Posted January 18, 2013 For anyone who has watched the movie previews for Beautiful Creatures and wonder what the hell the storyline might be, it's basically gender bent Twilight. But while it's not the best book ever, it is on the upper end of quality for YA paranormal romance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I am so close to being finished with The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan. "Why, Cashmere," you might ask, "Why would you put yourself through that after RC's scathing review and recommendation to burn it with fire?" Well the answer is that my library had it right on the shelf at a time when I needed another book for the challenge, so I figured that review counted as "hearing bad things" about it. It sucks. A lot. But it's getting slightly better as the climax approaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.CAllen Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 It really does improve towards the end. Like I said, I'd read a sequel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted January 28, 2013 Author Share Posted January 28, 2013 The Help. I'm already 100 pages in. And I read the last quarter of my last book today, too. This book is going to ruin any illusions of productivity I have until I finish it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 China Mieville's Kraken, An Anatomy. I was pleased to see that the title character was indeed released right off the bat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Lohr Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Halfway through George R. R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons. I wasn't a huge fan of the way he split this and the last book, so that an entire novel went by without some of my favorite characters and then I had to "catch up". Likewise, the beginning of this book was odd, too, because it essentially went back in time to the beginning of the previous book. Thankfully, this far in, it's no longer really a problem. And though it's not the format I would have chosen, it really doesn't stop this from probably being my favorite fantasy series ever. Is it wrong that A Song of Ice and Fire has fairly well surpassed Tolkien's works in my heart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 I am listening to Just Kids by Patti Smith. She also reads the book. I have been fighting the urge to smash my ipod for days now. She is incapable of pronouncing even her most commonly used words correctly, even when you cut her some slack for her NYC accent. Two of the most grating examples:drawling (referring to making marks on paper with a writing utensil rather than speaking in a Southern accent)Fur-tography??? Come on lady, you've lived your whole life as artist surrounded by people who do these two things regularly and you still haven't made even the slightest effort to learn how to say them?!?! Also, I didn't really know who she was when I started the book, and about half of the people she mentions in the book I have never heard of. Looking forward to it being over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.CAllen Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Harriet Doerr's The Tiger In The Grass : Stories And Other Inventions. The title biographical story is excellent but the rest so far is very same-y. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Homeland by Cory Doctorow. Sequel to Little Brother. Going to a signing in SF tomorrow night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 RATS: Observations on the history and habitat of the city's most unwanted inhabitants by Robert Sullivan It is non-fiction. For the contest. (I've had it for a long time- it's the kind of non-fiction I like, engaging, specific, and somewhat icky) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.CAllen Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Stanley Elkin's The Magic Kingdom. Pretty good so far. Like an effed up Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 The owner's manual of KITT's new Radar Detector, who already busted the fuzz today in his first trial run! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Winch Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Slow starter and horribly distracting grammar, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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