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

[orlok]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I did finish Kindred and I found it to be excellent. I read it for a bookclub I'm unable to go to for that meeting. But it was still well worth reading.

I'm quarter of the way into it and really enjoying it. I have a genuine sense of fear for the protagonist as she finds herself thrust back into the early 1800's and at the mercy of the slave owners. Will post back when I have finished.

[Micah Dawson]

Seidman by James Erich and then Harp & Sword Chronicles by Myristica

[Latinandgreek]

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. One of the best books I've read so far all year. I'm about halfway through.

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Next is a recent purchase. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.

Oooh - tell us what you think of it.

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell.

I just finished this recently. Did you enjoy it? Or is it in progress?

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by caleb72

I just finished this recently. Did you enjoy it? Or is it in progress?

It is in progress. My favorite David Mitchell is still going to be a toss-up between Cloud Atlas and 1000 Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, I believe, but I am only about 40% done with "Black Swan," so we'll see.

[jersysman]

I am now reading Purgatory (Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #5) by John Jackson Miller

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Grantville Gazette #50. The latest issue of the on-going short story magazine mostly set in Eric Flint's 1632 universe.

The usual enjoyable soap opera-ish stories and some extras.

Then I read Asimov's SF, January 2014 by Dell Magazine Authors

A slightly above average issue.

And now I'm reading Analog SFF, January 2014 by Dell Magazine Authors.

So far considerably above average, as it includes an interesting AI story that follows on from some previous stories that have appeared in Analog.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

It is in progress. My favorite David Mitchell is still going to be a toss-up between Cloud Atlas and 1000 Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, I believe, but I am only about 40% done with "Black Swan," so we'll see.

I read Cloud Atlas. I found it to be a mish-mosh of confusing stories that are linked by a thread the size of a human hair. It was awful and I would hope nobody else wastes their time reading it. it has no cohesion. It has no real plot. It's not really science fiction. It's more like an sf wannabe that fails at it big time.

[orange!]

After being tempted by several Kindle freebies from indie authors, and finding all of them so poorly written/edited as to be unreadable, I'm back to the classics. Currently reading The Prisoner of Zenda from the MR library (thanks crutledge).

[HarryT]

I've just finished "The Compleat McAndrew" by Charles Sheffield, originally bought in April 2000. This is a part of my "catch up with my old Baen books" project.

This is a splendid book - one of the best that I've read in a long time. It's a collection of Sheffield's "McAndrew" stories, which were originally published in magazines over the years. Hard SF at its best. The stories feature McAndrew, an impractical but brilliant physicist, and his friend Jeanie Roker, a spaceship pilot. A typical story involves them going off together somewhere - generally in connection with one of McAndrew's experiments - getting into trouble, and finding a solution using a combination of McAndrew's scientific insight and Jeanie's practicality. I only caught one scientific "blooper" in the book - Sheffield was himself a physicist; the book has an appendix which describes the scientific basis of each story in the book.

VERY highly recommended to anyone who enjoys hard SF.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I've just finished "The Compleat McAndrew" by Charles Sheffield, originally bought in April 2000. This is a part of my "catch up with my old Baen books" project.

This is a splendid book - one of the best that I've read in a long time. It's a collection of Sheffield's "McAndrew" stories, which were originally published in magazines over the years. Hard SF at its best. The stories feature McAndrew, an impractical but brilliant physicist, and his friend Jeanie Roker, a spaceship pilot. A typical story involves them going off together somewhere - generally in connection with one of McAndrew's experiments - getting into trouble, and finding a solution using a combination of McAndrew's scientific insight and Jeanie's practicality. I only caught one scientific "blooper" in the book - Sheffield was himself a physicist; the book has an appendix which describes the scientific basis of each story in the book.

VERY highly recommended to anyone who enjoys hard SF.

Thank you for the recommendation. I always enjoyed Charles Shefield and must have missed this book.
Apache

[bfisher]

Thanks for the recommendation - another one for the TBR (excellent price too ). I remember many years ago reading his collection of stories about Erasmus Darwin (Charles Darwin's grandfather) The Amazing Dr. Darwin

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I've just finished "The Compleat McAndrew" by Charles Sheffield.

I can also recommend this. An excellent Hard SF book, as HarryT says.

[Latinandgreek]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I read Cloud Atlas. I found it to be a mish-mosh of confusing stories that are linked by a thread the size of a human hair. It was awful and I would hope nobody else wastes their time reading it. it has no cohesion. It has no real plot. It's not really science fiction. It's more like an sf wannabe that fails at it big time.

I read about 50 pages of it and gave up. It couldn't grab my interest.