[Rob B]

July has begun, thus begins this topic. I'm about 150 pages into Echoes of the Great Song by David Gemmell. Not bad so far, Gemmell is keeping me turning the pages.

[magze]

Finished Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears,intresting read and have now started R Scott Bakker's The Darkness that comes before.Managed to lose the dust cover of it already :o

[Murrin]

Still pushing on through The Once And Future King. Up to The Ill-Made Knight.

[ezchaos]

I managed to get hold of both Corum trilogies by Michael Moorcock recently, so I'm starting with the first book.

[Jay_T]

As I mentioned in the last post - finished Vellum by Hal Duncan - thsu far the profound debut novel of 2005 IMHO.


Working on Richard Bowes' From the Files of the Time Rangers now.

[Ingram]

Listening to A Song Of Ice And Fire A Storm Of Swords Part 2

[kingma15]

Listening to A Song Of Ice And Fire A Storm Of Swords Part 2

mordread, i am about 150 pages into a storm of swords part 2 at the moment! After that I plan on starting the chronicles of Thomas Covenant

[FicusFan]

Well I started are finished my first July fantasy book, but posted my comments in the June thread :D Ghosts in the Snow by Tamara Siler Jones.

[Holbrook]

Well, I am just about finished Manda Scott's "Dreaming the Bull." A third of the way through Scott Bakkar's "The darkness that comes before." and have Janny Wurt's latest tempting me along with Step Swainson's(sp) new one.

BUT they are all going to go on hold!! I managed to get a copy of Gordon Steven's "All the King's men". Yes I now it shares a title with Robert Penn Warren's book and by doing so it might have done this book a disservice.

I read it about 15 years ago, a copy was on the travelling Library that trundles round the villiages here. Being semi locked in at the time, due to caring for young children and having no car. The visit to the library van was a few hours of fun for myself and the girls.

Anyway... this book is an old fashioned ripping yarn. It does not try and wrap an essay on morals, our present society, religion or politics into it's story line. It does not set out to shock or titillate or show me how clever the writer is by their use of big words and oh so convoluted literary styles that you have to have a degree to understand the first page.

It is just a story and a damn good one!

And to be honest it is nice to know I can pick up this book, re-read it and just enjoy the adventure not find I am being preached too every other page...

Maybe it's me, but lately so many books, though well written, seem to have lost the sense of being just a good story, without all the dross that folks think is needed to make the story of "value"

[jainsafel]

Hi all; been lurking for a while, but then finally decided to, like, post and stuff.

I have a to-read pile that threatens to devour me at any moment, so what do I do? Start a reeeaally short book. Yeah, that'll really lower the Teetering Pile of Death. Yep.

Anyway, I'm reading Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions and loving it. This is my first Anderson; I also have The Broken Sword around here somewhere, but it will likely be a while before I get to it. After that, I have no idea what the good Anderson stuff is... guy was seriously prolific! Any recommendations?

~I'm also reading Jane Austen's Persuation, which is a delight -- but then, Jane's such a smartass.... how can you not love her?