What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?

[Skyweir]

FFS Av!!

Is that all you do? How are you getting through so much material?????

It's utterly confounding!



*wonders if Av is not actually human - but perhaps an alien infiltrating this planet intent on data acquisition - and simply uploads material via quasi-osmosis*



mmm.. he needs observing .. reaches for another notebook

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Haha, lots of practice. I just read fast is all.

Finished book 5, Of Fire & Night, this weekend, busy on book 6 now, Metal Swarm.

--A

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Finally, book 7, The Ashes Of Worlds. Will finish this one quick, then laze through the sequel trilogy.

--A

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The Dark Between The Stars, book 1 of the Saga of Shadows, set 20 years after the previous series. (I knew it was gonna be about the Shana Rei. )

--A

[Fist and Faith]

I might get to those books one day. I even bought that one some time ago. But, apparently, the first seven didn't grab me enough.

[Skyweir]

The Ill Made Mute Celia Dart Thornton ... please if anyones read it .. tell me it gets better .. its so far nauseatingly slow. Writings good .. but plot .. bleh .. early days tho

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I might get to those books one day. I even bought that one some time ago. But, apparently, the first seven didn't grab me enough.

I thought you liked the first 7?

--A

[I'm Murrin]

I don't actually have anything to add here, but I noticed this would be the 25,000th post in this forum so I went ahead anyway.

To make this post more relevant: I've read all of Tales of Earthsea except the novella "Dragonfly", and for some reason I keep putting off starting it.

[Fist and Faith]

To make this post more relevant: I've read all of Tales of Earthsea except the novella "Dragonfly", and for some reason I keep putting off starting it.

I hope you haven't read The Other Wind, since Dragonfly comes first.

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I haven't read either that or The Other Wind. Just the original quartet.

--A

[Fist and Faith]

Oh good lord! What is holding you back? She did nothing but improve! She answered a huge question I had always had, and gave us a great ending to the story.

[deer of the dawn]

I guess I haven't checked in in a while.

I finally read Hunger Games and loved it to an unexpected degree. Way better, of course, than the films.

I recently re-read Watership Down. I was really young when I read it (11 or 12), but it made an impression. It's amazingly, almost distractingly, well-written.

Re-reading A Wrinkle in Time aloud to my 3rd Graders. It might be a little over their heads, but they seem to find the characters relatable.

I have to admit, I took a look at the Goodreads 100 Best Books of All Time list and decided to go with some of those. Probably more than half, I've read; about a tenth I will never read (i.e. Lolita), and some I've tried and gave up (i.e., A Clockwork Orange; just couldn't take it, nor will I ever finish the Twilight saga unless paid a significant sum to do so). That left about 20 I still want to give a go.

[samrw3]

I tried to like the Hunger Games and I did enjoy some of it. I just somehow could not convince myself that that Katniss as a heroine (or reluctant heroine) had much weight. To me there were too many other story lines and parts of the story line where she was off stage or just partially on stage that I just never connected to her as a character I emotionally connected with.

Watership Down was an amazing read and I have being trying to convince myself to give it another read - so many other things ahead of it at this point.

It will be interesting to see how good (or badly - I fear the worst) they do in Wrinkle in Time movie. In a way I almost wish they would take a HUGE risk and go outside the book and do a Guillermo del Torro Pans Labyrinth type approach. To me that is how I visualized the book - kind of other worldly. I know that would never succeed too many keep true to bookers out there but I think it would be interesting risk.

[I'm Murrin]

Even though that's how I first encountered Earthsea, I find it odd to call it "the original quartet", given that Tehanu was written about 20 years after the others.

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Haha, yeah, true enough. And that was my favourite too.

Dunno Fist, just never saw them around. Maybe will make a mission to order them.

--A

[Hiro]

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

I like it a lot.

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Oh, one of my favourites.

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[Hiro]

Oh, one of my favourites.

--A

Yesterday I had some spare time, so I finished it. It is good alright.

Btw, what are your impressions of Peter Hamilton's The Reality Dysfunction (and that trilogy)?

[deer of the dawn]

I know I read me some Earthsea a long time ago. My Dad is a LeGuin fan... due for a re-read.

Other recent reads are The Road by Cormac McCarthy, The Handmaid's Tale, and One Hundred Years of Solitude (which I also read when I was a teen, and hasn't got any less weird).

Currently deep into The Philip K. Dick Anthology.

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Btw, what are your impressions of Peter Hamilton's The Reality Dysfunction (and that trilogy)?

I do mostly like it. I like the world / universe, I like the Edenists, the bitek, the voidhawks and blackhawks.

There are a couple of things I don't like about it. I won't spoil anything, but there is something that does affect my suspension of disbelief. And it's a bit deus ex machina for my liking.

That said, I've read it several times, so nothing I can't live with.

I'm reading [/i]Blood of the Cosmos[/i], Book 2 of the Saga of Shadows.

--A