Reading in July 2012

Injected my arm into the stack of books and drew forth Winterbirth, by Brian Ruckley. After 150p, I'd say that it is decent (i.e. above average) epic, secondary world fantasy fiction.
 
Reading my first Robin Hobb book, Assassin's Apprentice. It's spent too long in my TBR.
 
Finished Kingdom of Gods by Nemisin last night. I really enjoyed that book. I especially enjoyed the included short story that gives a little closure to the main character from the second book in the trilogy.

Started The Bandit King by Lillith Saintcrow today, the follow up to the Hedgewitch Queen. She's changed pov, and I'm not sure if I like this character as much as I liked the first book's protagonist. He's really. . . annoying. Very overprotective and constantly going on about how the queen is never safe. I think he needs to realize that she has far more spine than he thinks and that she'll be alright.
 
molybdenum said:
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I just finished Scourge of the Betrayer. What a fantastic book. One complaint one can have about military fantasy (or military books in general) is that because the point of view is from well worn veterans in most cases it gives kind of a cheap view of human life. Well, put a naive narrator into that military fantasy world, and add on the effect of the Bloodsounder Flail and that worry just goes away.
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Glad to see Jeff's book getting some loving...I've not started it yet but it seems right up my alley.
 
Just started in on David Gemmel's Sword in the Storm (first in the Rigante series) and am really enjoying it.

Afterwards, I am going to finally get to R. Scott Bakker's The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three.

I just finished Peter Clines' Ex-Heroes and Ex-Patriots. I was very skeptical going into a story about super heroes and zombies, but I thought the story was very well done and a real page turner.

sullivan_riyria said:
Glad to see Jeff's book getting some loving...I've not started it yet but it seems right up my alley.
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I just finished this book also and cannot wait for the next in the series to see where things go. Very good book.
 
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Just finished The Hollow City by Dan Wells today and definitely recommended. Wells has a really engaging style and writes about crazy (in this case literally) and awesome things.

Reading Scourge of the Betrayer right now and as has been said before, it's pretty dang good.
 
Still working my way through The Stand. I WILL finish it tonight though...a man's gotta have goals.
 
I have a question, whats the difference in a limited edition between a lettered and numbered edition? Seen it on Pat's blog about Best Served Cold coming out.
 
Kazz Wylde said:
I have a question, whats the difference in a limited edition between a lettered and numbered edition? Seen it on Pat's blog about Best Served Cold coming out.
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The lettered edition is more rare than the limited edition (only $75) and actually the lettered one is already sold out.
 
Just finished a bit of a sci-fi binge. Tomorrow I'm gonna start Charles de Lint's The Wild Wood.
 
Finished The Bandit King by Saintcrow last night. I liked the story, couldn't stand the main protagonist. He was horrible. There were times when I wanted to jump into the book and give Tristan a punch in the kidney, and then when he was doubled over, bring my elbow down onto the back of his neck, followed by a knee to the face. He was not attractive in any manner. He was possessive, unwilling to listen to his apparent love's wants,

He rapes his own wife! The woman he apparently would die for and is constant mewing over.

condescending and did not have a very high opinion of women and their capabilities. It was awful. Awful, awful. If other women think this type of behaviour is sexy then I think they're crazy. I have other words to use on that, but I'll refrain. That's my rant for the day.

Started In the Name of the Wind by Rothfuss before bed last night. I groaned when I realized it was a story within a story. I really don't like that framing structure. Never have, even as a kid. I remember watching the Princess Bride and Neverending Story, and I'd get mad every time they went to the story teller scenes. I don't care about that stuff, I care about the actually story. Give me the good stuff, not this other unnecessary stuff. I think it's contrived. Just tell the story to me. I'm the reader/audience. Now that the actual story has started and I'm out of this repetitive Kote section (I'm sorry, but I did not like the constant repetition about silence. I got it. He had no business. He wasn't what he seemed to be. He didn't talk about past things much.), I'm enjoying it more.
 
Recently finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. While a western and not sf/f, it contains enough of the mythic that I've come across many fantasy/horror fans who adore it. It is an amazing novel that even so I'm a bit ambivalent about. And yet, it is powerful, but also very, very violent and bloody. Given the story being told, it had to be.

Also reread Robert Heinlein's [urban] fantasy "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" and again thought it quite good for what it was and when it was published.

Now reading Ramsey Campbell's The Grin of the Dark and greatly enjoying the accumulating creepiness and how Campbell achieves it.


Randy M.
 
Kazz Wylde said:
But what does lettered and numbered mean? Lettered just has some fancier stuff??
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Kazz, Subpress has three levels of limited editions: trades, limited, and lettered. Trades are simple cloth-bound hardcovers like you normally buy in a bookstore, but with better binding and better paper. Limited are the autographed versions of the trades. Lettered is the rarest, leather-bound, with a fancy slipcase.

The lettered can be really bloody expensive. We're talking in the range of several hundred dollars.

eta: Something like this: Neil Gaiman's Letterd American Gods
 
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I just downloaded a ton of indie/self-published Fantasy novels from a promotion that was going on (Summer Solstice something or other?) so I'll be tackling some of those soon.

I've also got a copy of The Name of the Wind that I need to read. I've heard plenty about how good it is, but haven't actually gotten to reading it yet myself since I had been so busy with schoolwork!

Here's to actually reading this month?
 
beniowa said:
Kazz, Subpress has three levels of limited editions: trades, limited, and lettered. Trades are simple cloth-bound hardcovers like you normally buy in a bookstore, but with better binding and better paper. Limited are the autographed versions of the trades. Lettered is the rarest, leather-bound, with a fancy slipcase.

The lettered can be really bloody expensive. We're talking in the range of several hundred dollars.

eta: Something like this: Neil Gaiman's Letterd American Gods
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Oh I see, I didnt know this, Thanks Ben & Loerwyn.

Oh wow, that Gaiman book is cool & fancy! lol
 
Finished The Troupe by Robert Jackson Bennett. Made a big appeal for everyone to read on the thread dedicated to him. In short, this is a good book.

I'm starting Mr. Shivers next, mainly to avoid being a hypocrite.
 
I finished The Shadow Rising (WoT #4). Really enjoyed it, so much happens in this book (as it should, being the longest in the series). I'd put it on par with the last two in the series.

Next I think I'll get back to the Dresden Files by Butcher. Can't remember at the moment where I left off.
 
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