Reading in February 2012

Rob B said:
Throne of the Crescent Moon was superb, tons of fun, great narrative energy, wonderful characters and terrific world. I can see this book ending up on many award shortlists.
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Excellent to hear...you've just made me shuffle my TBR list.
 
Finished Flanagan's The Emperor of Nihon-Ja and on to The Lost Stories. That will conclude his Ranger's Apprentice series. I would not expect many here to overly enjoy it, as it is YA. In that sense, it seemed something like Eddings, except there was no magic, nor were there any deities. For context, I happened to like the Elenium and the Belgariad, while I thought that the Tamuli and the Malloreon were examples of milking a storyline. In this case, I would say that I liked Flanagan's series as well, with some books being better than others, but decent overall.

I'll be saving these up for the boys to read later.
 
Starting The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham. The only book I've read by him is Leviathan Wakes, and that's only half authored by him. I've heard good things about it.
 
Finished Percepliquis by Michael J. Sullivan, the last in the Riyria Revelations series, and enjoyed it a lot. Now I'll read Among Others by Jo Walton, which a fair amount of people seemed to enjoy quite a bit, and is the book of the month for March. Looking forward to it, from the description it seems to be quite different from what I've been reading lately, and I think I need that change.
 
Finished "A Storm of Swords" a few days ago, obviously an awesome book. Decided to read a couple shorter books before taking on "A Feast for Crows", so this week I read "The Silent Land" which I enjoyed so much I read it in 24 hours, and I started "Throne of the Crescent Moon" yesterday. I'm about 1/4 of the way through it and so far, it's very entertaining.

I really like reading these fun, quick stories in between huge, epic volumes.
 
Mekrath said:
I really like reading these fun, quick stories in between huge, epic volumes.
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I like that too. I have three books on hand that I've been sneaking stories from in between larger books: Wild Cards vol 1 by GRRM and co, Burning Chrome by William Gibson, and The New Space Opera by Gardner Dozois
 
Finishing up my journey with Royce and Hadrian, I started Heir of Novron today.
 
Danogzilla said:
I'll tell you that you might find the next section to be a little bit of a slog as well. But keep going. By the end of the book you may well be looking for more (as I was).
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Yeah, it was a bit of a slog...

...9 1/2 Weeks in Fairyland. But for every moment in this book that I find overly verbose there's an equally magical moment that makes me forgive Rothfuss for all his long-windedness. Like the weaving of the shaed cloak -- that made the tedious descriptions of flowery pixie sex seem worthwhile. I also really liked the talking tree with pre-cognition (sorry, I'm so bad at remembering made up fantasy names). I actually really enjoyed the part wtih Kvothe training to be a Shaolin monk (or whatever they're meant to be called in the world).

I don't want to give the impression I'm not enjoying the book. After two weeks of reading I'm on page 818, which is pretty fast reading for me.
 
Darksbane said:
Finished Percepliquis by Michael J. Sullivan, the last in the Riyria Revelations series, and enjoyed it a lot. Now I'll read Among Others by Jo Walton, which a fair amount of people seemed to enjoy quite a bit, and is the book of the month for March. Looking forward to it, from the description it seems to be quite different from what I've been reading lately, and I think I need that change.
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Woohoo-- I'm glad you liked Percepliquis - it was a fun book to write.

I also have Among Others on my TBR - bit as I'm a slow reader it might be a while before I get to it.
 
Just finished The Steel Remains, and I really enjoyed it. I've been slogging through some monstrous tomes lately, so it's refreshing to see a well-done fantasy novel clock in at under 500 pages. I've heard good things about the sequel, so I'll probably start on that soon, but for now I'm veering over into historical fiction and taking a look at E.L. Doctorow's The March.
 
I am about 200 pages in on Kay's Under Heaven and its great. But, I have to take a quick break to read some borrowed non-fic, Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel. A look at why some societies developed different technologies than others and ended up taking over most of the world - goes right back to the stone age. Fascinating.
 
Daddy Darth said:
But, I have to take a quick break to read some borrowed non-fic, Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel. A look at why some societies developed different technologies than others and ended up taking over most of the world - goes right back to the stone age. Fascinating.
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Must read for any fantasy writer :D
 
I finished up Shadow Ops: Control Point by Myke Cole a few days ago. It's very, very good. I'm now reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, which is also very good.
 
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