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[Fbone]

Finished The Forever War and now starting The Left Hand of Darkness.

I thought Joe Haldeman's ideas of future Earth interesting. Grade B [4 stars]

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Finished The Forever War and now starting The Left Hand of Darkness.

I thought Joe Haldeman's ideas of future Earth interesting. Grade B [4 stars]

I've had The Forever War on my TBR list for a while. I think I still have it as a potential read this year but I'm beginning to doubt that I'll get to it.

Loved The Left Hand of Darkness.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by caleb72

I've had The Forever War on my TBR list for a while. I think I still have it as a potential read this year but I'm beginning to doubt that I'll get to it.

The Forever War is definitely worth reading.

[covingtoncat73]

I'm reading Pure by Andrew Miller on my Kindle for Android. I just started it late last night, so am only about 8% in but I am liking it. I really liked his Ingenious Pain. Anyway, Pure is about a young man charged with clearing all the bodies out of Les Innocents in Paris in the 1700s.

I read Joe the Barbarian on the Comixology app. It is an 8-comic series about a boy with Type 1 Diabetes who has a diabetic episode where he is in a fantasyland adventure with his pet rat and toys. The art is gorgeous and the story is good and suspenseful.

[fantasyfan]

Today I finished reading Judith Paris by Hugh Walpole. It's one of the "Herries" sequence a generational saga extending over several novels. Judith Paris is chronologically the second and centres on the eponymous central character from her birth to middle age. She is certainly delineated with some vigour. In fact, most of the characters are interesting if not always very sympathetic.

Walpole certainly has a fine pictorial quality to his writing and can use significant detail with great skill to create a vivid context and atmosphere.

Despite the fact that the story is over 700 pages long, it does keep the reader involved with the lives of its many characters despite the fact that it is not really what one would call an exciting, eventful book. As I said, it is the second of a series, but it can be read on its own--though the ending does leave us with a new plot sequence waiting on the horizon.

Walpole was immensely popular during his lifetime but this fame proved ephemeral and he is little read today. Indeed, if one compares his books to those of F.Scott Fitzgerald or Dawn Powell who were younger contemporaries, Walpoles's writing seems old-fashioned and a bit ponderous. Still, I think he is still worth reading--at least once. {But it might be a good idea to get a copy from a library to see if it appeals to you. )

[jgaiser]

It's a Sir Terry Pratchett week (or maybe two weeks). Started a reread of Small Gods, then I've got Lords and Ladies, Men at Arms, and then a series skip to Feet of Clay lined up next. Oh, how I love Pratchett

[tecweston]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

I read Joe the Barbarian on the Comixology app. It is an 8-comic series about a boy with Type 1 Diabetes who has a diabetic episode where he is in a fantasyland adventure with his pet rat and toys. The art is gorgeous and the story is good and suspenseful.

Joe the Barbarian is amazing.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

I'm reading Pure by Andrew Miller on my Kindle for Android. I just started it late last night, so am only about 8% in but I am liking it. I really liked his Ingenious Pain. Anyway, Pure is about a young man charged with clearing all the bodies out of Les Innocents in Paris in the 1700s.

I have that queued up to read next ... sounds fascinating ...

[mewmartigan]

Finished Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber

Now onto the next in the series, A Schism Rent Asunder

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Well Burroughs ended The Gods of Mars in a cliffhanger, so I'm continuing through the contents of the Barsoom Omnibus and reading the next one, The Warlord of Mars.

I finished reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 3rd Barsoom book, The Warlord of Mars and it seems like time to take a break (no cliff-hanger)! Not because I'm not enjoying them, I am, but it just seems opportune to read in some other genre right now So before I continue the Barsoom series I'll take a break and read Dana Stabenow's 10th Kate Shugak Mystery, Midnight Come Again.

[DrNefario]

I finished Among Others by Jo Walton last night, my third from the Hugo shortlist. I liked it a lot. I was probably too harsh about Leviathan Wakes earlier on, but I still think this was better.

Moving on to China Mieville's Embassytown next. I may yet manage to finish the 5 novel nominees by the end of the month, although I'm going to have to read Deadline by Mira Grant on the iPad because I couldn't make a decent epub/mobi out of it, and that might slow me down. I might not even care about finishing it, given what I thought of its predecessor, Feed.

[HomeInMyShoes]

I finished Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha which was very good. I'm off to finish my alphabet challenge for this year with Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

It's a Sir Terry Pratchett week (or maybe two weeks). Started a reread of Small Gods, then I've got Lords and Ladies, Men at Arms, and then a series skip to Feet of Clay lined up next. Oh, how I love Pratchett

I suggest you put down Feet of Clay and go read Soul Music. Discworld is meant to be read in published order the first read around.

[JSWolf]

My current read is Early Autumn by Robert B. Parker. It's number seven in the Spencer series.

A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.

With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game.

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I suggest you put down Feet of Clay and go read Soul Music. Discworld is meant to be read in published order the first read around.

Thanks Jon, but I've already discovered that the books are pretty much enjoyable as standalones. And as I don't have a copy of Soul Music and I do have a copy of Feet of Clay, I'll have to read them out of order.