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BearMountainBooks · 07-24-2010, 05:35 PM

I'm not a history buff. I don't even generally enjoy it. But I'm trying this fictionalized account of American history by Jeffry Hepple:

http://www.amazon.com/Gone-Soldier-S...007173&sr=8-10

It's interesting. BUT. I don't generally like these things so I can't guarantee I will stick with it. I once read a fictionalized account of Crazy Horse (an American Indian) by Win Blevins. Very good. Still. The truth is I tend to like much more fictional fiction. It's like the newish trend to retell fairy tales (Jim C. Hines and the princess series. Mercedes Lackey also did a series of retelling.) There's this part of me that always feels like I have read the story. And I know the ending...

robkat · 07-24-2010, 06:32 PM

Reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" not what I expected!!
Thought there would be more action.

MickeyC · 07-24-2010, 06:33 PM

Hi TwilightShadows and welcome to MobileRead

carld · 07-25-2010, 12:04 AM

Finished Scryer's Gulch. It was a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to further installments.

I decided to buckle down and dig into Dog Days by John Levitt. It's not available as an ebook, and I've been holding on to the paperback for months hoping the publisher might issue a digital version. At least the next 2 books in the series are out in ebook format.

"Mason used to be an enforcer, ensuring that suspect magic practitioners stayed in line. But now he scrapes out a living playing guitar. Good thing he has Louie, his magical...well, let's call him a dog. But there are some kinds of evil that even Louie can't sniff out. And when Mason is attacked by a supernatural assailant, he'll have to fall back on the one skill he's mastered in music and magic-improvisation."

mukoan · 07-25-2010, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by naql

Use of Weapons was excellent. I still think Excession was the best of Banks's Culture novels but this one was really good. I wasn't expecting the ending at all.

I agree... just finished Excession and I by far enjoyed it the most. Though anyone just getting into these novels would probably want to read a few of the others before tackling this one. I've always enjoyed the aloof, sarcastic nature of the AI's, and to have a novel whose whole plot centers around them was great.

SneakySnake · 07-25-2010, 03:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robkat

Reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" not what I expected!!
Thought there would be more action.

You haven't got to the classic car chase scene yet then?

GeoffC · 07-25-2010, 04:13 AM

TwilightShadows

Welcome to mobileread ....

neilmarr · 07-25-2010, 04:50 AM

Yep, good to have your new company, TwilightShadows. Best wishes. Neil

glowhappy · 07-25-2010, 09:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robkat

Reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" not what I expected!!
Thought there would be more action.

It's been 3 months for me and I'm still not 1/3 of the way through this book! I think I'll cut my losses and move on.

MickeyC · 07-25-2010, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robkat

Reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" not what I expected!!
Thought there would be more action.

Hang in there. The action does pick up nicely. I can also recommend the movie. Ditto for The Girl Who Played with Fire

pilotbob · 07-25-2010, 12:21 PM

I just started reading "His Majesty's Dragon" by Novik, Naomi. It has a very good start. This was nominated in the MRBC but didn't win so I had bought it since at the time it was $0 in the Kindle store.

BOb

neilmarr · 07-25-2010, 01:02 PM

***It's been 3 months for me and I'm still not 1/3 of the way through this book!***

You display great sticking power, Glowhappy. That's about as far as I got before I deleted the entire trilogy I'd bought on the grounds that the author simply didn't know his job. Turgid doesn't begin to describe this work. Cheers. Neil

glowhappy · 07-25-2010, 01:26 PM

That's not sticking power, thats stubborness LOL. But I know when I'm licked and luckily I only bought the one book.

BexBits · 07-25-2010, 02:02 PM

Since posting here last time I have read Brechalon by Wesley Allison, Dreamshade by AJ Lath and Tales from the Green, Book One, by Steven Best.

I'm working my way through Scryer's Gulch, (MeiLin Miranda), which is being published as a serial so I'm trying to read it a section at a time as I catch up to get the serial kind of feel. It is throughly enjoyable.

I'm also part way through Tales from the Green, Book Two.

All of the above are by MR members, that is my compromise in looking for good stuff in the mountain of material at Smashwords. I don't poke around blindly there as the good-find-per-time-unit-spent ratio is so low, I just follow links from here to see if the books look worth reading.

Brechalon is the novella prequel to Allison's Senta and the Steel Dragon (fantasy) series and showed enough interesting world building for me to go ahead and buy the rest of the series that is out to date. You don't really get to know the characters very much but there are interesting glimpses into what may be people to care about in future full length books.

Dreamshade and Tales from the Green are children's books, fantasy's both. Both have a few rough places but were worth sticking with. Dreamshade has a premise I've never seen before, having to do with childhood "imaginary" friends while Tales from the Green seems at first glance to be pretty a standard quest-elf-dragon but the author has a sense of humor and throws in enough twists to keep me interested.

In paper I finished (rereading) Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells and (in a startling departure from the recent fantasy binge) reread Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout. I only reread top flight books and they both fit that description.

kainne · 07-25-2010, 10:24 PM

Just finished Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill & wow it was good. I had bought the pbook version & it had a story from 20th Century Ghosts in the back that was very good also.

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07-24-2010, 05:35 PM	#5701
BearMountainBooks Maria Schneider Posts: 3,746 Karma: 26439330 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Near Austin, Texas Device: 3g Kindle Keyboard	I'm not a history buff. I don't even generally enjoy it. But I'm trying this fictionalized account of American history by Jeffry Hepple: http://www.amazon.com/Gone-Soldier-S...007173&sr=8-10 It's interesting. BUT. I don't generally like these things so I can't guarantee I will stick with it. I once read a fictionalized account of Crazy Horse (an American Indian) by Win Blevins. Very good. Still. The truth is I tend to like much more fictional fiction. It's like the newish trend to retell fairy tales (Jim C. Hines and the princess series. Mercedes Lackey also did a series of retelling.) There's this part of me that always feels like I have read the story. And I know the ending...

07-24-2010, 06:32 PM	#5702
robkat Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 38 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Scotland Device: Sony PRS 300	Reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" not what I expected!! Thought there would be more action.

07-24-2010, 06:33 PM	#5703
MickeyC Grand Sorcerer Posts: 16,731 Karma: 12185114 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida Device: iPhone 6 plus, Sony T1, iPad 3	Hi TwilightShadows and welcome to MobileRead

07-25-2010, 12:04 AM	#5704
carld Wizard Posts: 2,698 Karma: 4748723 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Finished Scryer's Gulch. It was a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to further installments. I decided to buckle down and dig into Dog Days by John Levitt. It's not available as an ebook, and I've been holding on to the paperback for months hoping the publisher might issue a digital version. At least the next 2 books in the series are out in ebook format. "Mason used to be an enforcer, ensuring that suspect magic practitioners stayed in line. But now he scrapes out a living playing guitar. Good thing he has Louie, his magical...well, let's call him a dog. But there are some kinds of evil that even Louie can't sniff out. And when Mason is attacked by a supernatural assailant, he'll have to fall back on the one skill he's mastered in music and magic-improvisation."

07-25-2010, 04:13 AM	#5707
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	TwilightShadows Welcome to mobileread ....

07-25-2010, 04:50 AM	#5708
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,215 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	Yep, good to have your new company, TwilightShadows. Best wishes. Neil

07-25-2010, 12:21 PM	#5711
pilotbob Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,832 Karma: 11844413 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tampa, FL USA Device: Kindle Touch	I just started reading "His Majesty's Dragon" by Novik, Naomi. It has a very good start. This was nominated in the MRBC but didn't win so I had bought it since at the time it was $0 in the Kindle store. BOb

07-25-2010, 01:02 PM	#5712
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,215 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	*It's been 3 months for me and I'm still not 1/3 of the way through this book!* You display great sticking power, Glowhappy. That's about as far as I got before I deleted the entire trilogy I'd bought on the grounds that the author simply didn't know his job. Turgid doesn't begin to describe this work. Cheers. Neil

07-25-2010, 01:26 PM	#5713
glowhappy lost my wits... Posts: 593 Karma: 216708 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Texas, USA Device: Sony PRS-600	That's not sticking power, thats stubborness LOL. But I know when I'm licked and luckily I only bought the one book.

07-25-2010, 02:02 PM	#5714
BexBits Zealot Posts: 134 Karma: 184000 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Colorado Device: Nook classic, Nook Simple Touch, Nook HD	Since posting here last time I have read Brechalon by Wesley Allison, Dreamshade by AJ Lath and Tales from the Green, Book One, by Steven Best. I'm working my way through Scryer's Gulch, (MeiLin Miranda), which is being published as a serial so I'm trying to read it a section at a time as I catch up to get the serial kind of feel. It is throughly enjoyable. I'm also part way through Tales from the Green, Book Two. All of the above are by MR members, that is my compromise in looking for good stuff in the mountain of material at Smashwords. I don't poke around blindly there as the good-find-per-time-unit-spent ratio is so low, I just follow links from here to see if the books look worth reading. Brechalon is the novella prequel to Allison's Senta and the Steel Dragon (fantasy) series and showed enough interesting world building for me to go ahead and buy the rest of the series that is out to date. You don't really get to know the characters very much but there are interesting glimpses into what may be people to care about in future full length books. Dreamshade and Tales from the Green are children's books, fantasy's both. Both have a few rough places but were worth sticking with. Dreamshade has a premise I've never seen before, having to do with childhood "imaginary" friends while Tales from the Green seems at first glance to be pretty a standard quest-elf-dragon but the author has a sense of humor and throws in enough twists to keep me interested. In paper I finished (rereading) Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells and (in a startling departure from the recent fantasy binge) reread Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout. I only reread top flight books and they both fit that description.

07-25-2010, 10:24 PM	#5715
kainne Connoisseur Posts: 50 Karma: 51520 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Ontario, Canada Device: PRS-700	Just finished Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill & wow it was good. I had bought the pbook version & it had a story from 20th Century Ghosts in the back that was very good also.