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

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by CBG

Many thanks for the recommendation. I decided to get "14" after reading your post. I started it last night and I could not put it down.....

What are you typing with then? Your toes? --- Bodda-Bing!

Seriously, this sounded so good that I also picked it up. I do plan, however, to put it down when I take a shower in the morning. - Bodda-Bing! [Ouch!]

[PandathePanda]

A Scrying Shame By Donna White Glaser
Got this free for voting on kindle scout, so thought I read it as if it's a review copy since it's inly being released on the 7th July
Wanderers: Ragnarök by Richard A Bamberg
Also a "Review" copy

[CBG]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

What are you typing with then? Your toes? --- Bodda-Bing!

Seriously, this sounded so good that I also picked it up. I do plan, however, to put it down when I take a shower in the morning. - Bodda-Bing! [Ouch!]

You got me there Monsieur le Drib! I did in fact take breaks here and there, but hey, I hardly noticed.

[covingtoncat73]

I am (re) reading American Gods.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by CBG

Many thanks for the recommendation. I decided to get "14" after reading your post. I started it last night and I could not put it down.....

From this I bought it, and also added the audible edition for $2 more. We are going on vacation this week, and need something to listen to in the car. I hope it's not too scarry/goory or my wife might not like it.

[Dngrsone]

Finished The Iron Maiden. Going to take a small break from the series and read some non-fic... maybe Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

I am (re) reading American Gods.

Sigh. I've been waiting, impatiently, for it to become available at the library. Still waiting.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Just finished reading (and in some cases, re-reading) the last two years of Baen Free Stories. These are freebies posted on the main Baen site to promote new books each month, and then made available in a collection at the end of the year. The appeal of individual stores varies, depending on how much I like the author, but the overall quality is pretty good. And I do sometimes find new authors this way.

Next up, Sister Time, #2 in the Cally's War series by John Ringo and Julie Cochrane.

Finished Sister Time, and moved on to the third (and last) in the series, Honor of the Clan. I have to admit, by the time I was done, I was only finishing it to finish it. I'd pretty much used up my interest.

Next up, Dog Warrior, the 4th book in Wen Spencer's Ukiah Oregon series. Though it has been so long since I read the third book in the series, I may drop back and read it first. We'll see.

Meanwhile, finished listening to Sharpe's Rifles, #6 in the Richard Sharpe series from Bernard Cornwell. Definitely going to read more of them!

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Sigh. I've been waiting, impatiently, for it to become available at the library. Still waiting.

I got it really cheap as an Amazon eBook when it was on sale. It is back to $7.99 now, it is true. The audiobook, I used an Audible credit for. I hear you about waiting for it at the library. With the news about some movement on adapting it for a miniseries, I bet there is a run on it.

[Rumpelteazer]

Originally Posted by Geralt

I'm reading now new book by him, The Fold. It's a sci-fi book with also a Lovecraftian influence. I really like it a lot. It's written well, the characters are good ( something I find a lot of sci-fi books lack), and the suspense and action is done well.
I never read anything by him, but I will definitely put "14" on my list now.
The Fold is also kind of a mix between sci-fi and horror.

I saw that he has several sci-fi books. This isn't really my genre (sci-fi), though I often do like it when it's mixed with other genres (like horror, thriller or crime). So I'll have to look into those books.

Originally Posted by CBG

Many thanks for the recommendation. I decided to get "14" after reading your post. I started it last night and I could not put it down.....

I'm glad you liked it. I had a slow start, though that happens with most books atm, but I read the last 60% in one day.

Originally Posted by pilotbob

From this I bought it, and also added the audible edition for $2 more. We are going on vacation this week, and need something to listen to in the car. I hope it's not too scarry/goory or my wife might not like it.

I didn't find neither scary nor overly gory, however the first is very personal. I would classify the first 75% as a psychological horror and the last part as a sci-fi horror.

[Geralt]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

I saw that he has several sci-fi books. This isn't really my genre (sci-fi), though I often do like it when it's mixed with other genres (like horror, thriller or crime). So I'll have to look into those books.

I think you would like it, same as 14, because here's what Peter Clines says in the Afterword of The Fold:

Like some of them do, this book has been sitting in my head for years.
Back when I was in college, I wrote a short story called “The Albuquerque Door” for a junior year creative writing class. It dealt with several of the same ideas in this book, but with a much smaller cast of characters and on a much less talented level. Needless to say, it didn’t go over well with the instructor’s “literary” tastes, and while I didn’t agree with him on a lot of his points, it left me feeling bad enough about the story that I just filed it away.
It was around 2006 when I came across that story again and realized, through more experienced eyes, that it could be expanded into a novel. I put some work into it and ended up with about 30,000 words of a book tentatively titled Mouth. It was at this point that a few different things lined up and Mouth was put aside so I could work on this idea I had of superheroes fighting a zombie apocalypse.
Jump ahead to December of 2012. My lovely lady and I were driving home from a small Christmas party, and I was bouncing ideas off her for a possible sequel to a semi-popular book I’d written called 14. And it struck me that a bunch of elements from Mouth lined up with some things from that book, and they could go together quite well. Although, the more I thought about it, the more I thought it’d work better as a side-quel sort of story—more of a shared universe than a continuation of the same story.



As he says it's a side-quel And I already got 14 in audiobook form as well.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Now I'm starting A First Glimpse and other stories by Raymond Z. Gallun

A rather splendid collection od early SF stories. The worst is the title story - written in 1980. The rest, from the '30s, '40s and '50s are very good. An old buy I'm glad I made.

Next up: The Gods Return by David Drake. The last in his King of the Isles series.

[HarryT]

Just finished "The Serpent on the Crown" by Elizabeth Peters, the 17th book in the "Amelia Peabody" series of Egyptological mysteries. It's now 1922, and the Emerson family are approached by a lady novelist of cheap sensationalist books who claims that a golden statue her collector husband had bought was cursed, and the cause of his death. This novel is basically setting the scene for the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb the following year by Howard Carter, the events of which are described in the next book in the series. Very good indeed.

[HarryT]

A quick read: "Fiddler Fair" by Mercedes Lackey, originally bought from Baen in October 2001. A lightweight but enjoyable collection of SF and fantasy tales originally published in various magazines and anthologies. Recommended.

[CRussel]

Yes, an excellent read. I've got the DT version here, along with the eBook version off of the Baen CD for This Scepter'd Isle. Must be about time to wander through it again.