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

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Puddytat purr

I'm currently reading the Pern books by Anne (& now Todd) McCaffrey, then I'm going to read the Valdemar books by Mercedes Lackey, then I'm gonna read my Robin Hobb books, then my Stephen King books, then my Terry Pratchett books...

SHHHHHHHHHH, GO AWAY, I'M BUSY!

I only got my cybook last week

I've read most of the Valdemar books. I recently finished Exile's Honor and will soon read Exile's Valor and that will be it except for the short stories.

I'm slowly working on the Dragonrider books in timeline order. Next one I start will be Dragonseye.

I'm like in the middle someplace of The Stand. This will take me a while to finish.

I'm next to start on Discworld #8 Guards Guards.

[tompe]

I have started a project re-reading all Pratchett books and i just finished Eric wich is an OK book. Before that I read Guards! Guards! and it was even better than I remembered. And I now noticed a lot of word plays that I probably missed when I read it 17 years ago. Definitely a Pratchett worth re-reading.

[Lobolover]

Ive read a truck load of short stories recently.Now im reading "A Psychical Invasion" by Algernon Blackwood.

[Xenophon]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Indeed - a contractual dispute with Baen, apparently. It's a pity that the series has been left "hanging" in mid-plot, so to speak. Still, what we have is excellent.

I have no direct knowledge of the details of this dispute, but a little bird who may or may not know whereof he/she/it speaks recently claimed that there was no issue on royalties, but rather was brought on by changing exchange rates. Seems that Baen wanted to boost the advance a bit (in USD) due to decent sales. But after applying exchange rates, the advance would be smaller in GBP than for previous books.

If true, this leaves both parties between a rock and a hard place. Most of Baen's sales are in $$, so that's what they compute payment in. Most of the author's expenses are in GBP, so that's what he considers when judging value of payment. As long as the USD is way way down, there's really not any way out.

Alternatively, that little bird could have been smoking crack -- in which case your guess is probably better than mine.

Xenophon

[Elsi]

For my first read on the Kindle, I bought David Baldacci's Stone Cold which I had been eager to read, having just finished reading The Collectors in paper. I then read Sheepfarmer's Daughter by Elizabeth Moon which I had downloaded for free from the Baen site. (I'm going to buy the rest of her Deeds of Paksenarrion trilogy, for sure.) I'm now reading Snow Ball by April Hamilton, which I bought from Amazon after seeing her post here on MobileRead. It's a fair read. I have a long list of "wish list" books, from my favorite mainstream authors that I plan to buy over time. With the number of free books available, I can't see loading up the reader with too many books at a time -- it just makes it hard to decide what to read next.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I've read most of the Valdemar books. I recently finished Exile's Honor and will soon read Exile's Valor and that will be it except for the short stories.

I like a lot of Lackey's stuff, but I must admit that I find the constant pushing of the "gay agenda" in some of the Valdemar books to be a little "over the top". I don't have the slightest issue with characters in a book being gay (that is, after all, simply a reflection of the real world), but I find that in some of the Valdemar books it's "pushed forward" to such an extent that it gets in the way of the plot-line.

She doesn't do this in any of her other books; I'm not sure why the Valdemar books have it as such a prominent feature of them. Presumably it was deliberate, but I can't imagine why. Did she deliberately write them for the gay fiction market, I wonder?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Xenophon

I have no direct knowledge of the details of this dispute, but a little bird who may or may not know whereof he/she/it speaks recently claimed that there was no issue on royalties, but rather was brought on by changing exchange rates. Seems that Baen wanted to boost the advance a bit (in USD) due to decent sales. But after applying exchange rates, the advance would be smaller in GBP than for previous books.

If true, this leaves both parties between a rock and a hard place. Most of Baen's sales are in $$, so that's what they compute payment in. Most of the author's expenses are in GBP, so that's what he considers when judging value of payment. As long as the USD is way way down, there's really not any way out.

Alternatively, that little bird could have been smoking crack -- in which case your guess is probably better than mine.

Xenophon

All I know about it is what the author has written in his blog, here.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Elsi

I'm going to buy the rest of her Deeds of Paksenarrion trilogy, for sure

Do get it. It's one of my all-time-favourite fantasy novels. A superb book.

[bookwormfjl]

I just started Sara Douglass' 1st book in the Troy Game series; Hades' Daughter.
I am only a third of the way through it and it is excellent so far, although a lot of characters to keep up with.

Johnny

[mellina 52]

I am reading Duma Key by Stephen King. Love his books. Mellina

[mazzeltjes]

I'm re-reading the Uplift series by David Brin at the moment
Just started Brightness Reef,I find it hard sometimes to keep
up with the different races in it
The first three books were a lot easier
All in all they are interesting enough to keep going



mazzeltjes

Isn't it funny that there's so many
Sci-Fi and Fantasy readers here

[Xenophon]

Originally Posted by HarryT

All I know about it is what the author has written in his blog, here.

And the author's blog makes it sound like that little bird was smoking crack. Ah well, that's what disclaimers are for. Sigh.

Xenophon

[gstevens]

Working my way through www.baen.com and www.fictionwise.com - mostly Baen.

John Ringo's Looking Glass Series
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Series
Eric Flint's Time Spike (ARC)
Alan Dean Foster, Flinx and Pip Series

I've been reading on a Macbook Pro laptop and just got an Iliad to carry around.

[nekokami]

Finished re-reading The Diamond Age on the iLiad, then had to read Freud's Civilization and its Discontents and Said's Freud and the Non-European in paper, as no ebooks were available. Then read Patricia Briggs Dragon Bones, again in paper, because the friend who loaned it to me doesn't have ebooks. It was ok, but not good enough to get me to buy the rest as ebooks, so I'll probably borrow the next in paper. (I liked her Mercy Thompson books better, and I have bought some as ebooks.)

Not as much time for "fun" reading these days, as I've been spending far too much time learning about 3D modeling.

I spent much of last week visiting my brother, in what I came to call The Land of Slow Internet. I finished The Diamond Age while there and was very glad to have my iLiad so I could pick something else to read in the evenings. (I almost ended up loaning my iLiad to my mother, who was visiting at the same time, because it looked as though she was going to finish the only book she'd brought.) I wanted to re-read H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy Sapiens the other evening, but couldn't find my copy on the iLiad. Must have gotten lost in one of my file reorganizations. I have it somewhere, so I'll need to reload it. I'm also sort of in the middle of re-reading Stroud's The Golem's Eye.

[MickeyC]

Finished Monday Night Jihad which was pretty good and a very fast read and am now about half way through Broken Preyby John Sandford. So far it is one of his better Prey novels.