[Dominus]

Just finished American Gods...it was OK I guess, interesting and everything, hopefully he'll write a more deep sequel or something.

[Cannon Fodder]

Originally posted by Zsinj


I don't mean to start a fight here, but I get kind of disgusted when people call books "throwaway" I honestly don't understand why someone would want to throw a book in the trash, if you don't like it, why not sell it to a used bookstore, that certainly would be more productive than burning it. I've read a few books that I didn't like, but I never, ever threw them in the trash, I sold them to a used bookstore. If I threw them away, I felt like I was robbing/preventing somebody else out there from possibly getting a good read out of the book I didn't like. I felt it would be selfish and wasteful to throw it away. Sorry if I sound preachy and fanatical on this subject, but that's just the way I feel.


You seem to be labouring under a misapprehension. I didn't use the word 'throwaway' in any literal sense. I meant it more in the sense that the book was light and brief, or pulpy. As it happens, I've never thrown a book away in my entire life and I don't think I ever will either. I don't like the idea of throwing a book into the bin any more than you do by the sound of it.

[Zsinj]

I meant it more in the sense that the book was light and brief, or pulpy.

Yes, but pulpy can also be good though, case in point Robert E. Howard's works! ;)

[Dominus]

Just started Lions of Al-Rassan, hopefully I'll finish it before the new year.

[Nimea]

Finished Miracles and other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis.

Backt to Blade of Tyshalle . . .


I need more TIME! :mad:

[Shayna]

Just finished Coldheart Canyon! What a different read!

Now...getting ready for january's read! Can't wait to share!;)

[FicusFan]

forgot to mention one of the other books I read over Christmas. It it still in hardcover, but it looked so cute that I checked it out from the Library. It is called Enslaved by Ducks by Bob Tarte. It is a non-fiction account of a man who is not a pet owner, and he marries a woman who is. They move out of the city and a small menagerie of animals slowly moves in. Mostly bids, and bunnies. It was charming and very funny. I read it because, besides ducks and outdoor birds he also ended up with parrots. I used to own two and love to read stories about newbies trying to live with them.

I am now still reading Viriconium (think that has all the 'i's?) and have just gotten into the 2nd chapter of Storm of Wings - and am finding it a bit slow: into my 2nd chapter of description, with very little actually happening - but I will read on.

I was also bad in that I started another book. I just got my latest haul from the UK, and on my way home from the bookstore stopped for dinner and had nothing to read. :D So I am now also reading The Court of the Midnight King by Freda Warrington. It is a retelling of Richard III entwined with a magical female earth deity. So far so good. The other book I just got from the UK was Maul by Tricia Sullivan, and it looks very sharp and nasty, and may be next.

[Cannon Fodder]

Originally posted by Zsinj


Yes, but pulpy can also be good though, case in point Robert E. Howard's works! ;)

Nothing wrong with 'pulp.' Michael Moorcocks various series spring to mind as creative, well written enjoyable works of a pulpy nature.

[Shehzad]

Donaldson rocks... on to A Man Rides Through

Waiting in the wings: Steven Erikson.