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

[Manpreet]

I'm currently reading The Time Traders by Norton Andre. Its quite good science fiction. Pretty interesting!

[Slite]

Currently re-reading Lin Carters Callisto series. And it still amazes me how such a blatant plagiarism of E.R. Burroughs Mars-series could possibly be written and published

[igorsk]

Originally Posted by Slite

Currently re-reading Lin Carters Callisto series. And it still amazes me how such a blatant plagiarism of E.R. Burroughs Mars-series could possibly be written and published

Well, it seems to work since you're reading it

[Slite]

Originally Posted by igorsk

Well, it seems to work since you're reading it

True... but thats just because I have a soft spot for that kind of over the top hack'n'slash type fantasy

[Dr. Drib]

If you "like" that (and think it's derivative ), then check out the Thongor series.

Actually, I like Lin Carter. Although, I agree his work is derivative - like a very enthusiastic child writing fan fiction - there's something about his writing and his world-building that is contagious.

As an editor, specifically of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, he was incredibly influential in the Fantasy field.

Don

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Just finishing "From the Borderlands, stories of terror and Madness" Edited by Elizabeth and Thomas F Monteleone. With stories by Bentley Little, Whitley Strieber, John Farris david J. Schow, and a new novella by Stephen King. (Stationary Bike, Daffy!)

Groan. A small, tightly bound paperback. Not available on Kindle. Boy, am I spoiled. No way to hold with one hand, my fingers were screaming. Type small.

The stories are disturbing. With one exception..........Rami Temporalis, by Gary Braunbeck. Outstanding, haunting. What if you had part of the face of God?

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Now, that's a title that has me interested!

I own the Sony PRS-505 (and love it). I'll keep an eye out for that title if/when it becomes available as an ebook in my format.

Thanks for letting us know about it.

Don

DG always has good suggestions. I'll put this one on my "watch for e-version" list. Right now, reading Janet Evanovich's "Three Plums for One" based on DG's recommendation. Never in a million years would have read it otherwise, but I have found it to be hydterically funny.

I can't read on my EV-1150 anymore because of my eyesight, but can read it in PDF on my big monitor, blown up 200%.

[nekokami]

Re-reading The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud. Trying to decide whether to pick up Superior Saturday by Garth Nix, or wait until Lord Sunday comes out and read them both at the same time. Or I could get Tamora Pierce's Melting Stones. Or I suppose I could wait until later this month and buy Paolini's Brisingr.

Of course, none of these are available as ebooks.

Edit: Well, Brisingr might end up being available as an ebook. The other two Paolini books are. And when Tamora Pierce's Bloodhound comes out in the spring, that will probably be available, as Fictionwise has the first book in that series (Terrier). Looks like the breakdown is along expected reader age lines. <sigh>

[MoSo]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

DG always has good suggestions. I'll put this one on my "watch for e-version" list. Right now, reading Janet Evanovich's "Three Plums for One" based on DG's recommendation. Never in a million years would have read it otherwise, but I have found it to be hydterically funny.

I can't read on my EV-1150 anymore because of my eyesight, but can read it in PDF on my big monitor, blown up 200%.

The first couple Evanovich novels were good, but the problem is that her "heroine" is an incompetent dipshit who never seems to learn anything, which gets annoying after several books (I think she's up to 12 or 13 now). Also, around Book 5, I think it is, there is a major love triangle sub plot that plods on and on and on without resolution. Good start, but a friend sent me the last one to read and it's an absolutely "by the numbers" copy of the previous books, and an excellent example of why series books need to be finite.


...and it's funny you mention bad eyesight, because light pink text on a white background is just about unreadable to me.

[BookishDreamer]

Originally Posted by MoSo

The first couple Evanovich novels were good, but the problem is that her "heroine" is an incompetent dipshit who never seems to learn anything, which gets annoying after several books (I think she's up to 12 or 13 now). Also, around Book 5, I think it is, there is a major love triangle sub plot that plods on and on and on without resolution. Good start, but a friend sent me the last one to read and it's an absolutely "by the numbers" copy of the previous books, and an excellent example of why series books need to be finite.


...and it's funny you mention bad eyesight, because light pink text on a white background is just about unreadable to me.

Stephanie's misadventures are exactly why I read the books. I just sit and laugh at the incomprehensibly bizarre situations in which she finds herself. Come on, she has learned a few things. The problem is she doesn't always apply this knowledge successfully. For me that's the fun part...to see just how far off-track things can get.

Dreamer

[Peadar Ó Guilín]

Originally Posted by Slite

True... but thats just because I have a soft spot for that kind of over the top hack'n'slash type fantasy

You and me both

Currently reading "The Cult of Loving Kindness" by Paul Park -- definitely not hack'n'slash, but great if you're heavily into world-building.

After that, I'll read "Mistborn" by Brandon Sanderson before plunging into "Anathem", which should be available from Fictionwise by then.

[Slite]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

If you "like" that (and think it's derivative ), then check out the Thongor series.

Actually, I like Lin Carter. Although, I agree his work is derivative - like a very enthusiastic child writing fan fiction - there's something about his writing and his world-building that is contagious.

As an editor, specifically of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, he was incredibly influential in the Fantasy field.

Don

Oh I like hiw writing a lot, especially as you say his world-building. Just that I can't read any of hiw works without feeling an urge to go back and read the entire Mars-saga .... again for the umpteenth time

[nekokami]

Re-reading Pratchett's The Hogfather.

[Dr. Drib]

I just started reading Six Deadly Dames, a collection of six noir mystery stories that I assembled and made available yesterday.

This book is as hard-boiled as they come. If you like plenty of action - the kind of action associated with old pulps - then you should check this one out.

The stories originally appeared in Black Mask magazine, THE legendary magazine of hard-boiled detective stories.

This is one fun, great read.

Don

[astra]

I finished Hard to Be a God by Strugatsky brothers.
Nothing spectacular. It is neither Sci-Fi, nor Fantasy. Just a political treatise. It was quite a let down for me. Some said it was on of the first fantasy books in the USSR. Reading it in native language didn't help at all.

Started Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny

[Sparrow]

Finally started 'Vanity Fair'.
Thackery is one of the authors I've never quite got round to, and I've been meaning to rectify that for ages.

Thoroughly enjoying it so far .