Reading in March 2010.

[Hobbit]

Just in case you didn't know, this is where you tell us what you've been reading in Fantasy/Horror this month. Good or bad, we want to know what and why.


Feel free to join in!

Mark

 

[Loerwyn]

*Appear*
I'm going to get on with a bit of AGoT in the next hour or so

 

[cantthinkofname]

Currently reading Reapers Gale (Erikson) then im going to read a couple from this list:
- The Well of Ascension
- Blade Itself
- Heroes Die
- Gardens of the Moon (re-read)
- Lies of Locke Lamora (sounds interesting, might buy it)
- Return of The Crimson Guard

Its hard to choose

 

[krysti]

I am currently re-reading Robert Jordan's WoT #10 (Crossroads of Twilight), and will follow that by #11 (Knife of Dreams?). I can rarely keep all the titles straight. Anyway, this is in preparation for reading the newest WoT--finally--which will probably take me well into April, since I also am trying to get some writing done as well as get through this semester at school. But, the Sword of Truth series is high on my to-read list, among way too many other things, SFF and otherwise.

 

[Aurian]

Started Madness of Angels but finding myself irritated by the main character's confused inner voice. Hope it eases up and becomes more readable soon...

 

[Gilgamesh]

80 or so pages into Guy Gavriel Kay's Under Heaven. It started pretty good. Oh how I had missed his style...

 

[Astra_]

Started yesterday Crown of Shadows by Celia S. Friedman Coldfire Trilogy, Book 3.

I am looking forward to learn how the story unravels with Calesta and Tarrant at the centre.

 

[BrightStar]

Currently reading Juliet Marillier's Child of the Prophecy (Book three of the Sevenwaters Trilogy). I loved the first book, thought the second was extremely good (but not quite as good as the first) however, I am struggling with book three. I'm finding it a bit slow, and there are far, far too many characters to keep track of. I swear, in one chapter alone, the author introduced the names of at least twelve characters!

I'm planning on sticking with the book for now though, since I'm hoping it'll get better. I'd like to complete the series.

 

[Zappster]

After finishing House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds (awesome sense of wonder sf book, that melted my brain at times), I'm now reading the 3rd in the Book of Words trilogy, Master and Fool. I'm about 180 pages in so far. It is certainly moving along faster now, there seems to be less time spent meandering along explaining the journey characters are undertaking. It's sort of a few pages of what they're doing, where they're going and *boom* skip forwards to the destination. I guess it had to happen if things were going to come to any sort of conclusion. Otherwise it could well have carried on for another few books.

 

[DurzoBlint]

Just finished The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J Sullivan. Really loved the book. Moved the second up to the on deck circle.

In the meantime I have started The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N K Jemisin. Hope it lives up to the hype.

 

[beniowa]

I'm currently a little over a hundred pages into Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard. It's pretty good so far.

 

[kcf]

I finished up The Conqueror's Shadow by Ari Marmell - it is a really snarky sword and sorcery book that stands well on its own form a mainly tie-in fiction writer (this is his first venture into true original fiction). Good stuff.

Next up is Spellwright by Blake Charlton - if the rest holds up as well as the prologue has, this is going to be a fun, intelligent book.

 

[MattNY]

I am still struggling to stay focused on one book, which is unwise considering all the school work that is currently getting in my way.

In the middle of:

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
A Storm of Swords by George R.R, Martin
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

This is my first time reading all four above. I am also rereading Elven Star still by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. I love them all, I just need to start focusing on one or two at a time.

 

[hobbs525]

Well of Ascension

Oh and I just finished Game Change. I don't usually enjoy political books but I was fascinated by this one and really enjoyed it.

 

[Magemanda]

Started Madness of Angels but finding myself irritated by the main character's confused inner voice. Hope it eases up and becomes more readable soon...

I've also just started A Madness of Angels this evening. I'm intrigued by the inner voice! Liking it so far. Have The Midnight Mayor to follow.

 

[Seak]

Finished The Way of Shadows and started Shadow's Edge. Fun series so far, maybe a little bit of a slowdown at the beginning of Shadow's Edge, but otherwise really fast-paced assassininity.

Grammatical errors are almost to the level of annoyance, but not quite and I felt the ending of The Way of Shadows was a bit of a let down.

Spoiler

Spoiler alert for emails: Really, does everyone have to kill each other? It just wasn't very compelling for me. Plus, I think Durzo's still alive since it was only a weakened poison that "killed" him. Just my guess.

Also still slowly making my way through Reaper's Gale. It's good, just hasn't grabbed me yet.

 

[Seak]

I've also just started A Madness of Angels this evening. I'm intrigued by the inner voice! Liking it so far. Have The Midnight Mayor to follow.

I've been really close to starting this a couple times, but other things have grabbed my attention. I'm eager to hear what you have to say. Consensus has been good.

 

[kcf]

I've also just started A Madness of Angels this evening. I'm intrigued by the inner voice! Liking it so far. Have The Midnight Mayor to follow.

I really enjoyed it - so far Orbit has failed to send me The Midnght Mayor - I hope I don't need to hound them.

 

[suciul]

I really enjoyed it - so far Orbit has failed to send me The Midnght Mayor - I hope I don't need to hound them.

Recently Orbit has skipped arcs for quite a few books, though sometimes they sent bound galleys if you insisted; I plan to read this one, but it's not that high a priority so I can wait until it's published

Back on topic, I finished Objects of Worship the debut collection of Claude Lalumiere - it's mostly horror/sf-nal and quite disturbing in places but excellent; I wrote a long mini-review on Goodreads and will skip cross-posting here for now, but it has a zombie dominated world ( 2 stories), comic influences (2-3 stories), post-apocalyptic stuff (2 more stories), a spider-god and elephant-god in a story each, these available online with the links provided; the interior artwork is superb too

Now I am reading more from the Swords and Sorcery anthology - so far the stories by Erickson, Cook and Nix were very entertaining despite me not being a fan of the novels, the Wolfe one is pretty good though not awesome, the KJ Parker one is excellent also, while I did not really care for the Moorcok and Enge stories, but again not a fan of the respective series; more to come, Lynch, Abercrombie and others...

As novels go I am reading City of Dreams and Nightmares by Ian Whates - another is it sf, is it fantasy novel? with the familiar city with many levels, rich on top, poor on the bottom, rich up to no good, hero from the poor levels... Familiar but quite entertaining so far

 

[Corporal Blues]

Just finished The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J Sullivan. Really loved the book. Moved the second up to the on deck circle.

Hey Durzo-

Can you talk about what you liked and why you liked it? I just read the Amazon synopsis after reading your post, and I'm intrigued, but I'd like to hear your take.

Thanks!