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

Post by **Chrysalis** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 4:33 pm

I am about 2 thirds of the way through Lord Foul's Bane...
Thought it was about time to start on TCTC finally.

It has been a good few years since I read anything in this genre and although it is going slowly I am enjoying it.

Post by **Dragonlily** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 6:33 pm

Go, Chrysallis! Go, Murrin!

Murrin wrote:Just went out today and bought three books: The Real Story, Forbidden Knowledge, and A Dark and Hungry God Arises (AKA The Gap into Conflict, The Gap into Vision, and The Gap into Power). Wish me luck.

Murrin, A Dark And Hungry God Arises is one of my favorite SRD books, as is the one that follows it, Chaos And Order. Immense characters, incredible drama.

Post by **Ryzel** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 6:40 pm

I am currently working on 'the book of Atrix Wolfe' by Patricia A. McKillip.

Post by **Myste** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:37 pm

Ryzel wrote:I am currently working on 'the book of Atrix Wolfe' by Patricia A. McKillip.

Ooh, that's a good one. I finished "In the Forest of Serre" (which Duchess likes too!:D), and it was wonderful. It's going right up there with "Ombria in Shadow" as one of my favorites of McKillip's.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:02 pm

Milos Taverner sighed, ran his hand back across his mottled scalp as if to verify that what remianed of his hair was still present, and lit another nic.

I started Forbidden Knowledge last night.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:45 pm

Heh, I started the David Brinn Startide Rising/Uplift War book. It's hard, being an avid Dolphin hater (Go Pats!), but Ricky Williams insisted, so......

Post by **Ryzel** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 3:20 pm

Myste wrote:
Ryzel wrote:I am currently working on 'the book of Atrix Wolfe' by Patricia A. McKillip.
Ooh, that's a good one. I finished "In the Forest of Serre" (which Duchess likes too!:D), and it was wonderful. It's going right up there with "Ombria in Shadow" as one of my favorites of McKillip's.

I have wanted that book ever since I saw it, mostly because of the title. It is a little slow going at the moment, but I as I am getting more familiar with McKillip's style it is getting better and better.

Post by **Byrn** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:45 pm

I've read the Dark Tower up to Wizard and Glass. I decided to read the Stand to get more info on Randall Flagg.

Post by **Myste** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:38 pm

Ryzel wrote:I have wanted that book ever since I saw it, mostly because of the title. It is a little slow going at the moment, but I as I am getting more familiar with McKillip's style it is getting better and better.

Yeah, she can be tough sometimes--she tends to come at things from an oblique angle. For me, personally, (and I know it sounds a little twee) I find that some of her books are best read out of the corner of my eye; if I try to look at the story straight on, I miss it. The beginning of Atix Wolfe is like that, and so is "The Sorceress and the Cygnet." But it's always, always worth it...

<sigh.> ...I love her books...

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:46 pm

I am halfway through The Wounded Land. Heartbreaking.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:15 pm

This Gap series is a lot to handle. I'm enjoying it, they're good books, but it's just a little... off. I've admitted that I like series with heroes and good guys - even in Thomas Covenant, Mhoram was good and Covenant himself was likeable by the time the second chrons began. But the Gap has no good guys - just variations and combinations of the three roles Donaldson started playing around with in the Real Story.

Post by **Believer** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:13 pm

I think you meet unequivocal good guys by Book 3. We discussed this a bit in the Gap forum... You might want to take a gander once you're done with the series.

I personally thought book 1 was awful (like it much more now that I'm familiar with the story and see all the seeds), book 2 good, book 3 wonderful, book 4 awesome (everything came together just right), and book 5 just a slight letdown from 4.

But YMMV

Post by **dANdeLION** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:32 pm

Heh, I think I liked book 1 the best!

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:40 pm

Shortly before Angus Thermopyle and Milos Taverner left UMCPHQ aboard Trumpet, Holt Fasner visited his mother.

Will begin A Dark and Hungry God Arises when I get off the internet. (A question - to which part of Der Ring des Nibelungen do you think the title of this volume refers? I can't make up my mind on it.)

And the Real Story was great. The story stands on its own as a match to any of the other work I've read by Donaldson.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:48 pm

Started The Drawing of the Three a couple of days ago. I'm having trouble finding an opportunity to read more than a page at a time though; maybe I should get off the computer, heh.

Murrin, I'm interested to read your comments on the Gap series, as I've never read it myself. It's been on my list for a while, but not a priority; I've never really known what to expect of it.

Post by **Dragonlily** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:45 am

CJ, you never know what to expect of Donaldson. Haven't you noticed that by now?

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:49 am

It depends how much you know about it, I guess. At the end of the Real Story was an afterword about how the Gap series came about when the Real Story was combined with Der Ring des Nibelungen, and part of my interest in the Gap now is seeing how that influence is carried through the books - how the story of the Ring is used in the Gap story. I suppose if I hadn't read SRD's summary of the story in the Afterword I would see the Gap in a different way. Plus it means I already guessed exactly what Warden Dios is doing, so some of the mystery is gone.

Post by **Believer** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:28 pm

It's funny how different our opinions are

I thought the Real Story was too small.... *shrug*

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 3:04 pm

Yeah, it's even shorter than the other SRD books I own - and all of those are shorter than most of the books I have. But anyway - the Real Story is only a novella, so it's not meant to be big.

Post by **Haruchai** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:33 am

I have just finished reading 'The Brush Off' by Shane Maloney and am about to start 'The Green Mile,' by Stephen King.

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