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

[jerryleejr]

I wish I would have kept a list but here are the Print Books I have read over here, I am waiting on a Reader.

The Good Guy Dean Koontz
THe Husband Dean Koontz
Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini (Tough for me to finish)
Angelica Sharon Shinn (Not the first book in the series but very good)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
Twilight Stephenie Meyer ( So far the entire series is very good if you can get past the teenage Love Triangle thing.)
New Moon Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse Stephenie Meyer
The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams

Currently Reading: The Darkest Evening of the Year Dean Koontz

These are just ones I can remember off the top of my head I will look around for the others. There were a few James Patterson books and a John Grisham, Tom Clancy etc. I have a very limited selection where I am at. That is why I want a Reader I am only limited by my wallet and bandwidth!

JJ

[pshrynk]

Just finished "Chasing the Light" by our very own Steve. Worth more than the $2.50 he's charging, imo.

Starting "Next of Kin" aka "The Space Willies" by Eric Frank Russell aka Pratchett's mentor.

[DixieGal]

Finished: Hal Spacejock by Bud Sparhawk

Loved it! It's a rolicking space opera of non-epic proportions. I mostly read in the car on the daily commute, and it made my husband laugh along with me as I read some of the funnier passages to him. Hal, a pilot who doesn't know how to fly, Clunk, Hal's wisecracking sidekick robot, and Navcom, Hal's navigation computer who actually flies Hal's broken down rocket ship make an unlikely team of ... well, heroes isn't the word ... characters who keep the action going and never say "die," even thought they narrowly escept death on practically every page. Also, there are loads of cow poop jokes. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for an easy, enjoyable read.


Currently Reading: The Onnuissance Cells by our own Steve Jordan

I'm at page 109 of 515. I'm enjoying it very much so far! I have been delighted thus far to find that it caught me with the first couple of paragraphs and I buzzed through the first 100 pages in about 2 hours without putting it down. But then I had to go to the bathroom, but that's neither here nor there. OK, see, knowing a bit about that political animal, Steve, I can pick up his message pretty easily. But if one were to pick up this book in a bookstore and read the back cover, it would be a keeper due to the interesting characters, future world he creates, and the mystery that I am just now getting into. It's always tricky to read and review someone's work if you know them, because you don't want to say anything bad about something as intimate as writing, but in this case, I can wholeheartedly endorse this book. The only con: Small Print! But that can't be entirely blamed on Steve.....

[rixte]

Just finished:

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

I enjoyed this book, it's a lighthearted murder and mayhem-y urban fantasy noir detective romp. Lots of fun with both genres and entertaining enough that I'll try to read the next ones.

Sadly, the second book is only available in some electronic formats (lit is one, though), but the third book is not apparently available at all - although the rest of the series is! I've emailed Penguin about it.

In the middle of:

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

Halfway through this and it is amazing and up there as one of the best books I've read this year - and definitely one of the best books to have gotten published this year. A woman in a mental hospital is approaching her 100th birthday and recounting her story - but the version of events she's writing down in secret doesn't always match up with the story that the hospital's psychiatrist is slowly piecing together from old and mouse-eaten records. Which doesn't do justice to how beautifully this is written and what a rich story is being told.

[Elsi]

Originally Posted by Elsi

I'm currently reading In the Midnight Hour by Patti O'Shea, one of the free books from TOR, also free for the Kindle at Amazon. I'm starting chapter 8, and really enjoying the book. I think I may have discovered yet another genre -- paranormal romance.

Also currently reading Prophet, third in the Oracle trilogy by Mike Resnick, purchased from Fictionwise (multi-format, DRM-free version).

Having finished both of these books, I then read The Trouble with Magic, a cozy mystery by Madelyn Alt. This was a mass-market paperback which I am sending to a book-swapping partner. Jumping back onto the Kindle, I read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and Star Surgeon by Alan Nourse. Then two really good paranormal novels by Ilona Andrews: Magic Bites and Magic Burns -- in paperback because I'm swapping these with a pal.

I'm now reading Old Man's War by John Scalzi and The Onuissance Cells by our own Steve Jordan -- both on the Kindle. Since I've read so much SF and Fantasy recently, I may set one or both of these aside and read something completely different. Who knows.

[nekokami]

Finished re-reading Steven Brust's Orca last night. Well worth the re-read (for me, anyway). I'm sure I'll do plenty of reading over the next week, but I plan to spend more time writing, actually. I have some projects that just want to be worked on.

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by rixte

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

Halfway through this and it is amazing and up there as one of the best books I've read this year - and definitely one of the best books to have gotten published this year. A woman in a mental hospital is approaching her 100th birthday and recounting her story - but the version of events she's writing down in secret doesn't always match up with the story that the hospital's psychiatrist is slowly piecing together from old and mouse-eaten records. Which doesn't do justice to how beautifully this is written and what a rich story is being told.

Why do I think I've read something by Barry? Where did you get the book? Sounds like my sort of story.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by astra

If you find book 4 boring, then I am afraid you will not like the rest of the series at all. (I hope you prove me wrong. I loved the series.)

I've only read Dark Tower 1 & 2 so far. How do the rest compare to 1 & 2?

[astra]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I've only read Dark Tower 1 & 2 so far. How do the rest compare to 1 & 2?

Since I really liked the series, I am not sure how valid my judgement is.

Book 1 - I liked but ....it was a bit odd. I cannot say I really loved it. It was OK, decent.
Book 2/3 - I liked a lot.
Book 4 - is a bit different but very good.

After that I have decided to re-read book 1 and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I understood it a lot better than when I read it for the first time. I believe that the main reason is that in book 4 we learn a lot about Ronald's past. How it all started.

Now we have come to a moot point.
Books 5,6 and 7 are considered to be a total disaster and rubbish by many readers who liked the first 4 books.
I understand some of the issues the readers have with the series, although I liked the books anyway.

People say that the whole Book 5 is unnecessary because it is a side story that doesn't contribute to the main story line. However, I disagree with this point of view. Almost everyone who disliked book 5, loved book 4. But book 4 is also a side story (even love story). Could be fit in 100 pages of concise descriptions of what happened and that's it. I liked all of them.

Book 6 is even more controversial....because King himself appears in the story. Many fans didn't forgive him this blander? or nice trick? I didn't have this problem. I had a few difficult moments to cope with it but it was quickly over. There are so many books when a story is related by protagonist who actively participated in the events related in the story and later wrote a book about it. I see no problem with it. I just pretended I don't remember that King is the real writer who actually wrote the book I am reading right now

Book 7.
Many people hated the ending. I loved it. Brilliant final. As King said himself, it could not be any different. Unpredictable, very original.

Some people say: Why did he introduce this character? or another one? They do not contribute to the story blah blah blah....
I don't understand how people who read fiction/dark fantasy genre can criticise any fiction story in this way and enjoy the genre. I don’t have enough skill to explain myself. I can only try to. When I read a fantasy book, I never ever question why this author introduced this particular character. For me, story is a story. I don’t look at it as a fiction story written by a next door neighbour. I read a story. It is not for me or anyone else to decide what happens in the story and who is participating in it. If I looked at it as if it is a novel written by a real life person whose imagination invented this world, it would ruin the whole atmosphere of the imaginary world where I live when I read a book. When I read a book I live in this world and the book is like a papyrus I have found somewhere and I read a real story that happened long time ago somewhere in this or another world…..

I loved the series

P.S. Too many words for me

[jerryleejr]

SHows you how much I keep up I thought there were only 1 and 2!

JJ

[pshrynk]

I like Dork Tower.

[rixte]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Why do I think I've read something by Barry? Where did you get the book? Sounds like my sort of story.

I got it at fictionwise - so it's pretty much available everywhere. You very well might have read more by him - that's about the only thing he has out in ebooks but he's got half a dozen other books out. It's *well* worth trying and I hope you have a chance and enjoy it

[desertgrandma]

"Catastrophies" Edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh.

20 nteresting short stories about different ways the Universe, Sun, or life on Earth could
end.....

Written in 1981, it was one of those "40cent" books bought on amazon.com, but after shipping, came to $4.39......but worth it.

[jerryleejr]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

I like Dork Tower.

I did not know you named your house?? Oh Crap RUN! the Panda's Got a Gun!!!


JJ

[pshrynk]

I am violently opposed to handgun violence.

Mortar violence on the other hand...