Reading in June 2011

[T77]

Finished Ender's Game - I thought it was pretty good. It was a bit slow in places and I'm not sure it deserves all of the praise it gets.

 

[Rob B]

I'll be starting The Lost Fleet: Beyond The Frontier: Dreadnaught by Jack Campbell either today or tomorrow.

 

[Loerwyn]

It's a bit of a mouthful, isn't it?

 

[livens]

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey came in the mail this afternoon Great so far. I like how the first few chapters are each being used to introduce a new main character. Also they did a good job hooking you in at the start.

 

[Hobbit]

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey came in the mail this afternoon Great so far. I like how the first few chapters are each being used to introduce a new main character. Also they did a good job hooking you in at the start.

About halfway through myself and enjoying it a lot.

Mark

 

[chitman13]

Leviathan Wakes, yet another book I really must read...

Decided to start reading Hard Spell by Justin Gustainis (urban fantasy) during my lunch break seeing how much I like his other series. Quite good so far, enjoyable writing and the setting seems quite interesting.

 

[beniowa]

I read Feed by Mira Grant and I kind of wish I hadn't. I'm not really a zombie fan, though the political angle did catch my interest. Nevertheless, it took the Hugo short list to get me to pick it up. Thank goodness I didn't have any expectations because I'm afraid the book would have failed to meet them. I did think Grant (aka McGuire) did a good job imagining civilization after a zombie uprising, but I did have some problems with her premises regarding the actual virus as well as the evolution of media/blogging. I hoped the political conspiracy might save it, but frankly I didn't find it believable. It was plausible yes, but not believable. It wasn't even original either. It might have helped if the characters were compelling, but I found them boring, stupid, or both. Oh well.

I'm reading A Feast for Crows.

 

[Westy]

Finished Leviathan Wakes today, and it's definitely one of the better reads so far this year. The action is pretty constant throughout the book and the characters are believable with their own faults and vices. The scope of the book is large with the story taking place through a number of locations in the solar system.

The science side of things was only really background info; the focus of the book is the detective story being played out in tandem with Holden and his crew and their connected relationships - I guess this is why it classified as Space Opera. This doesn't worry me, as the execution of the novel and interesting story and action made it an enjoyable read.

A small gripe maybe the length; on a few occasions I thought some sections could have been trimmed.

 

[Chrysippus]

Finished Leviathan Wakes today, and it's definitely one of the better reads so far this year. The action is pretty constant throughout the book and the characters are believable with their own faults and vices. The scope of the book is large with the story taking place through a number of locations in the solar system.

The science side of things was only really background info; the focus of the book is the detective story being played out in tandem with Holden and his crew and their connected relationships - I guess this is why it classified as Space Opera. This doesn't worry me, as the execution of the novel and interesting story and action made it an enjoyable read.

A small gripe maybe the length; on a few occasions I thought some sections could have been trimmed.

I'm really going to have to break my GRRM rule and read this; I've scarcely heard a bad thing about this one.

 

[chitman13]

Finished Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi. I listened to this one, read by Wil Wheaton, and I think it was hugely entertaining, possibly more so than if I would have read it. While the ending was rushed compared to the rest of the novel it worked for what it was. Now I need to find out what other Scalzi books I haven't read...

 

[Westy]

Started reading Peter F Hamilton's short story collection Second Chance at Eden - so far it's excellent (and my first foray into Hamilton's catalogue).

 

[algernoninc]

The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi - didn't like it as much as Old Man's War, but it was an easy read. I had some early problems when the author embraced torture and full scale assaults against civilians as examples of "necessary evil" but I was mostly disappointed at the finish line when I felt like I slipped into a script for a recent Steven Segal or Silvester Stallone movie = popcorn SF.