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ChipnDale · 05-10-2009, 04:35 PM

Nevermore - Neil Gaimen

tompe · 05-10-2009, 04:38 PM

I am reading No Present Like Time by Steph Swainston (really different fantasy) and Wednesday's Child by Peter Robinson (thanks for the recommendation which I got here at MR).

Ben Goldacre's Bad Science is the non fiction book I am reading.

ChaosInc · 05-12-2009, 12:51 AM

Just finished Nightworld by David Bischoff, and starting on the sequel, Vampires of Nightworld.

ShortNCuddlyAm · 05-12-2009, 07:39 AM

Just started Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City by Anna Quindlen

toomanybooks · 05-12-2009, 11:22 AM

The Apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister by Goethe
A Short History of the World by HG Wells
The Darling and Other Stories by Chekhov
Fair Rosamund by Rebecca West

Peadar Ó Guilín · 05-15-2009, 08:57 AM

Behemoth by Peter Watts.

Gibbo · 05-15-2009, 09:04 AM

One Second After and loving it.

poohbear_nc · 05-15-2009, 09:44 AM

1. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (read it yearly)
3. The Hobbit
4. Can You Forgive Her
5. Moonraker

DixieGal · 05-15-2009, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Peadar Ó Guilín

Behemoth by Peter Watts.

I LOVED that series! It was the first new idea I had read in a long while. You read Starfish and Maelstrom first, right? Behemoth is #3 in the series.

MelC · 05-15-2009, 10:11 AM

Finished Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - not enough zombies...

Just started The Quincunx - about 120 pages in (give or take since I know it is around 800 and I am gauging from my completion bar at the bottom of my Cybook). LOVING IT, having a very hard time putting it down so I can go to work.

Mel

sirbruce · 05-15-2009, 10:25 AM

I'm reading Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice right now...

It's a good read so far, but I have to wonder how she managed to find an editor who let it be published "as is". She violates several "rules":

1. The first few chapters have very little action; it's mostly a lot of dressed-up infodump and character information with little to grab the reader.

2. Every sentence is decorated with adjectives and adverbs, almost to excess. Now I don't *personally* think she goes too far, but I can easily see a lot of editors being turned off by this. It's a frequently-cited complaint.

3. The novel is written in first-person POV, but at one point she breaks that by presenting information that would be outside the character's knowledge at the time. It's not really a problem; it fits with the story and the whole tale is being told after-the-fact anyway, but again I'm surprised an editor didn't jump all of this as being "technically" wrong.

DixieGal · 05-15-2009, 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirbruce

I'm reading Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice right now...

It's a good read so far, but I have to wonder how she managed to find an editor who let it be published "as is". She violates several "rules":

1. The first few chapters have very little action; it's mostly a lot of dressed-up infodump and character information with little to grab the reader.

2. Every sentence is decorated with adjectives and adverbs, almost to excess. Now I don't *personally* think she goes too far, but I can easily see a lot of editors being turned off by this. It's a frequently-cited complaint.

3. The novel is written in first-person POV, but at one point she breaks that by presenting information that would be outside the character's knowledge at the time. It's not really a problem; it fits with the story and the whole tale is being told after-the-fact anyway, but again I'm surprised an editor didn't jump all of this as being "technically" wrong.

I enjoyed it. And personally am sick of all of these cookie-cutter books out there. They are completely forgettable. So it's refreshing to run into one that is different.

One thing I like but which is usually a no-no, is that Hobbs kept adding characters willy-nilly throughout the story. It's fun to suspend the critic and just enjoy a book for a change.

ShortNCuddlyAm · 05-15-2009, 07:07 PM

Just read Storm Glass by Maria V Snyder. Next up is P J Lyon's (MoeJoe's) Suggested Oddities

AbFabGab · 05-15-2009, 07:19 PM

I just finished Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand. I had to keep putting it down because it was so real to me... I could feel emotions of the characters.

Idoine · 05-15-2009, 07:53 PM

Finished "For love of Mother-Not", by Alan Dean Foster, and started "Star Trek Movie Tie In", by the same (before I go to see the film !)

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05-15-2009, 10:25 AM	#1916
sirbruce Provocateur Posts: 1,859 Karma: 505847 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Columbus, OH Device: Kindle Touch, Kindle 2, Kindle DX, iPhone 3GS	I'm reading Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice right now... It's a good read so far, but I have to wonder how she managed to find an editor who let it be published "as is". She violates several "rules": 1. The first few chapters have very little action; it's mostly a lot of dressed-up infodump and character information with little to grab the reader. 2. Every sentence is decorated with adjectives and adverbs, almost to excess. Now I don't personally think she goes too far, but I can easily see a lot of editors being turned off by this. It's a frequently-cited complaint. 3. The novel is written in first-person POV, but at one point she breaks that by presenting information that would be outside the character's knowledge at the time. It's not really a problem; it fits with the story and the whole tale is being told after-the-fact anyway, but again I'm surprised an editor didn't jump all of this as being "technically" wrong.

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