Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[bcgirl]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

I dread reading this thread. Really. I know I'll add something to the list. Everytime.



Alex Rider by Horowitz, you mean? I want to read that too. Sounds like fun, quick series.

I think you should try The Hobbit, just like a classic deserves at least one reading. I'm not saying The Hobbit is a classic, but it's a well-known book.
I can't say I loved it, but I surely appreciated the adventure. If you find it slow-going, don't push it - waiting for the right moods might help. Worked for me.

No, Alex Cross series by James Patterson. Really good, quick reads!

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by caleb72

My next read is an anthology by Robert Dunbar called Martyrs & Monsters. This author seems to be part of a sub-genre of horror called "literary horror" and I've been meaning to try me some. I love horror and I quite often like literary - so what could be better than joining the two?

I'm giving this one 3.5 stars.

He's a very good writer, but to me the stories lacked a bit of punch and closure. Instead of getting that "OH!" reaction as the story closes, I was left quite often with "oh".

Maybe my expectations were unreasonable.

But there were some stand-outs and with the almost ever-present darkness of the stories and the quality of the writing itself I don't want to give it a score that's too low.

My next book is a traditional fantasy and second book in a series that I started last year (yep - I'm that slow). The book is The Wayfarer King by K C May, second book in the Kinshield Saga. Again, this is one for my review site.

[kennyc]

Spent most of yesterday reading "The Best American Short Stories 2012" - it has some great stuff -- even some that are 'new yorker' style stories

http://www.amazon.com/Best-American-...t+stories+2012

p.s. also a SF story thrown in - Beautiful Monsters

[HarryT]

What is a "New Yorker style story", Kenny?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by HarryT

What is a "New Yorker style story", Kenny?

It's my term for what seems to be many of the stories they publish - but as I say, they seem to be shifting a bit.

basically slice of life kinds of things without real endings/conclusions/resolutions - those sorts of stories drive me crazy.

I've been know to when reading Anthologies skip the New Yorker published stories until last.

[HomeInMyShoes]

^If it were me, I'd read them first knowing that the rest can only get better.

Currently reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

^If it were me, I'd read them first knowing that the rest can only get better.

Currently reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Good Point!



I did find a gem of a story in a previous edition (2011) that changed my position on them(new yorker published short stories).

Foster by Claire Keegan:
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/fea...fiction_keegan

It does pretty much have a resolution/conclusion.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

A very nice mystery. Very well done indeed.

Next: Asimov's SF, January 2013. I got this when it was briefly available at the soon-to-vanish Fictionwise for just $1.86 after discounts. The next issue'll cost me over $3.00 at Amazon, and for a DRMed product.

It was a slightly below average issue for me. One or two of the stories were more what I expect to find in F&SF rather than Asimov's.

Next: Analog SFF, January/February 2013 by Dell Magazine Authors.

This was definitely an above-average issue.

Two time-travel novellas to start with (although I must admit that these were probably the poorest stories in this issue for me, even though I general like time-travel speculation.)

But the four novellettes more than made up for any minor short-comings of the time-travel novellas.

And then there were three equally spendid short stories. I especially enjoyed "The War of the Worlds. Book One, Chapter 18: the Sergeant-Major". Perhaps because I'm British.

Next up: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover. Darkover Anthology #11.

[PurpleStar]

I just finished up Storm Front by Jim Butcher. What an awesome book! I will definitely be continuing the series sometime soon. For now I've started The Honor of the Queen by David Weber.

Also listening to The Hunger Games on audio. I know there's another thread for that, oh well.

[John F]

Currently reading: Second Shift - Order by Hugh Howey
On Deck: Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett

[pilotbob]

Ok.. not very far into 11/22/63... but so far it is awesome. I have trouble putting it down.

BOb

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Ok.. not very far into 11/22/63... but so far it is awesome. I have trouble putting it down.

BOb

I read that a couple of months ago. I hadn't previously been much of a King fan, but I really enjoyed that one. It's a long book, but it just flew by for me. Even though it's set firmly in American history, the main event it describes is so globally familiar that it didn't matter. Glad to see somebody else enjoying it as much as I did.

[cassidym]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Ok.. not very far into 11/22/63... but so far it is awesome. I have trouble putting it down.

BOb

I thoroughly enjoyed it. One of King's best in quite a while.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by alansplace

I finished re-reading Ghost Story yesterday, which completes my preparation for the release of Cold Days on November 27th.

I've begun my re-read (again) of James Potter And The Vault Of Destinies in preparation for the Autumn release of the 4th novel in the James Potter series, James Potter and the Morrigan Web.

I've been reading at a little slower rate since starting my re-read of James Potter And The Vault Of Destinies and am a little bit past the half-way point and enjoying it a lot (again). But Cold Days, the 14th book in The Dresden Files was released today and I've put James Potter aside temporarily and begun reading Cold Days!

[Joy736]

I started "for the love of Physics" by Walter Lewin today. Physics made fun! I needed to read more none-fiction. I would have started Cold Days today, but I'm not that far into the Dresden Files-series yet anyways. I'm only on book 4 so far . There so much to read and so little time