Other Books you are currently reading?

Finished Ringworld Engineers, started and finished Throne, next up Children... I also read The Rhesus Chart last night before work, bit disappointed at the trailing end..
I hate summer!

Though I have a Harry Harrison collection which'll hopefully last a while...

Yea Stars my Destination ( or Tiger, Tiger as my copy's titled) is defiantly in my top 5 books... And the poem (Blake) probably holds a similar position poetry wise...

 

Anyone got the current humble eBook bundle? Not heard of many of the authors in this one.

 

Yeah, all I want is for the next one to come out. Like Yesterday...

 

Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clarke

 

Thanks to who it was that reccomended me Ready Player One. I loved it so much. As did my girlfriend and all my work colleagues.

Over the moon to have read that book. Now I'm going to try to find its own Easter egg.

Iain

 

Currently reading:

John Katzenbach - Red 1-2-3

Recently finished:

• A. Lee Martinez - Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest
  
  
  (pretty hilarious, partially a bit long-winded and the love story is a bit cheesy)
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• Cara Hoffman - So Much Pretty
  
  
  (different from what I expected, enjoyed it a lot after I just let myself get carried away by the social study aspect of the book)​
• Adam Nevill - The Ritual
  
  
  (seems predictable, might even be, still a great read if you read Machen and Lovecraft)​
• Jonny Glinn - The Seven Days of Peter Crumb
  
  
  (holy .... that was a ride! Lyrically quite weak but it matches the raw story; insane but highly interesting)​
• Terry Hayes - I Am Pilgrim
  
  
  (very good agent thriller; a partially too patriotic but still highly enjoyable book with a few too many twists and turns to be taken for what it's trying to be: über-realistic)​
• Robert Harris - Fatherland
  
  
  (I still don't know what was best about it: the story, the characters, the realism, or the looks I got when being on a train with a book in my hands that has a pretty large swastika on it... in Germany. Took me quite some time to realize I might have serious trouble with the police for reading that version in public)​
• Robert Harris - An Officer and a Spy
  
  
  (utterly mindblowing book based on the, unfortunately, real story of the Dreyfus affair in the late 19th century in France)​
• Eleanor Catton - The Luminaries
  
  
  (every book that can take 300 pages to just explain how and why 13 people ended up in a room on a certain night without making me wish to hurry up... impressive)​
• Tom Holt - Doughnut
  
  
  (hilariously OTT story with a bunch of weird characters an a storyline that is so way out there it simply could not be a bad book)​
• Jules Verne - The Mysterious Island
  
  
  (a classic, nuff sed)​
• Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London, Moon Over Soho, Whispers Under Ground, Broken Homes
  
  
  (strong first book, just getting better and better with each new one thanks to the characters becoming more and more multi-layered and the intertwining storylines; I hate the cliffhanger at the end of book four... can't wait for September!)​

I, too, read Ready Player One and loved it. Just a couple of weeks ago my girlfriend read it. Guess what, she loved it as well.

 

Currently reading:
Zitadelle - Mark Healy
The Line Upon A Wind: The Greatest War Fought At Sea Under Sail 1793-1815 - Noel Mostert
The Easy Guide to OSCEs for Final Year Medical Students - Muhammed Akunjee

Just Finished: (Last month or so)
Ark Royal, The Nelson Touch & The Trafalgar Gambit - Christopher Nutall
Thief's Magic - Trudi Canavan
Surgical Talk: Lecture Notes in Undergraduate Surgery (3ed) - Andrew Goldberg
The Lost Fleet series - Jack Campbell
Consider Phlebas - Iain Banks
Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate, Cibola Burn - James Corey
Tales from the Special Forces Club - Sean Rayment
The Barbed Wire University: The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in WWII - Midge Gillies

I've also re-read about 10-15 of my existing book collection as I usually do. As you can probably see I've been on a bit of a sci-fi/fantasy bent recently, along with my regular history books and medical textbooks.

Queued:
Console Wars: Sega vs Nintendo - Blake Harris

 

Finished the Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb yesterday, good stuff.

Probably going to read either The Liveship Traders or The Farseer Trilogy next (and then the other)

 

Just finished reading the odyssey. I'm not sure what to read next, I've got a big stack of books unread or partially read.

Hmm I might have another go at reading 'a savage war of peace'. It's about Algeria's war of independence from France which is very interesting but pretty heavy going.

 

Currently reading:

The Long War, sequel to The Long Earth by Steven Baxter and Terry Pritchett. Bit heavy on the world building, a bit slow on the story. We'll see where it goes.

Next up:

Deep State, sequel to This Is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams. This should be good Neal Stephenson-esque political cyberpunk thriller stuff.

Degrees of Freedom, sequel to Equations of Life and Theories of Flight by Simon Morden. Good cyberpunk, but the second book was a like the first and the plot stalled a bit. Hopefully the third part makes good.

 

Good books, but I found that the third book got terribly muddled and there were parts where I wasn't really sure what was going on or what had happened.

 

Dr. Sleep.

I'm a big Steve King fan

 

Currently reading the Chronicles of Amber. It's a 10 book series, but they're very short, only 150-200 pages each. They're all written by Roger Zelazny.

Recently finished:
Nine Princes in Amber (1970)
The Guns of Avalon (1972)
Sign of the Unicorn (1975)
The Hand of Oberon (1976)
The Courts of Chaos (1978)

Currently reading:
Trumps of Doom (1985)

To read:
Blood of Amber (1986)
Sign of Chaos (1987)
Knight of Shadows (1989)
Prince of Chaos (1991)

 

Just finished it. Another great book if you are a fan. After reading a lot more from all over the place and thus getting to know more intricate styles of writing, more and better layered story lines, and re-discovering just how great King is in character design.... you just begin to see that King is not the last word in vocabulary used, unexpected twists and turns, or multi-layered storytelling in general.

But meh, it is just fun to read it and I will continue to read every last scrap he will ever write just because of that. It's less of a guilty pleasure than Dan Brown.

Just started Mr Mercedes by Stephen King. It's nice to see him writing a crime novel again. Joyland was pretty good, this time there seems to be no supernatural part at all which is very nice.

Also just finished The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson and Red 1-2-3 by John Katzenbach.

I can definitely recommend the latter, the other one... well, not a bad book but not as good as the praise it got before release made it out to be.

 

I told you I was Ill ( spike Milligan biography)

 

How strange and awesome. I'll be finished with Dr. Sleep tonight and I was going to start on Mr Mercedes next.

Kindred reading spirits, clearly

I love Mr. King's work. For me, it's that the characters are so real, but at the same time every character represents a facet of Stephen's personality.

You can always count on a suprise twist, at the same time. Some you can guess, others come from nowhere.

 

Oh, you mean like Danny in Dr. Sleep?

But yes, his biggest strength lies in the creation of extremely detailed and real characters. Something my favourite author (H.P. Lovecraft) was unbelievably bad at. And there are so many examples of great stories with pretty weak characters it is just refreshing to have a story by King that has great people in abundance!