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

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Back to Red Mars. *sigh*

(I never much liked Nerilka's Story for some reason.)

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[Orlion]

Finished Blood & Bone and The Illustrated Man.

[I'm Murrin]

Yesterday I finished The Price of Spring, bringing me to the end of the Long Price quartet. It really is an excellent series.

[Menolly]

(I never much liked Nerilka's Story for some reason.)

It's not a favorite of mine, either. But it helped clarify the differences in attitudes between hold, hall (at least the Harper Hall), and weyr even more for me.

[ussusimiel]

Finished A Storm of Swords and I'm on to A Clash of Kings now. I picked up ASAS in a 2nd-hand store, my sister saw me with it and it turned out she had the whole series (which she generously lent me) hence the backward nature of the reading. (I've watched the TV series and I'm enjoying not knowing what happens next so I may wait before I go on to A Feast of Crows.)

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[Cambo]

Just finished Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson. Lots of geek-out revelations, cool origin stories for various important characters, action scenes, etc. The tone was very dark, even for Erikson. The most heartbreaking books in MBotF all had some regular lightening of tone, even comic relief. But damn, this one was almost wall to wall depressing. Thank heaven for a wry Jaghut or two to sprinkle some much needed deadpanning around.

I also recently read the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. WOW. These books are a wild ride, and I highly recommend them to everyone. I fell in love with the characters, and the plot twists so dramatically it'll invert your spine Gonna move on to Sanderson's other works very soon, but right now it's time to start my Covenant re-read

[Orlion]

I also recently read the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. WOW. These books are a wild ride, and I highly recommend them to everyone. I fell in love with the characters, and the plot twists so dramatically it'll invert your spine Gonna move on to Sanderson's other works very soon, but right now it's time to start my Covenant re-read

It was a very enjoyable trilogy. I've been going through his other "cosmere" work (essentially, a lot of his adult books take place in the same universe, if on different planets). The main thing, of course, is that they are not as involved and complicated since a lot of them are suppose to "stand alone". But they are still very enjoyable (keep in mind that I have not read The Way of Kings yet).

The Emperor's Soul is a good read also, if you can get a hold of it.

[Cambo]

I also recently read the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. WOW. These books are a wild ride, and I highly recommend them to everyone. I fell in love with the characters, and the plot twists so dramatically it'll invert your spine Gonna move on to Sanderson's other works very soon, but right now it's time to start my Covenant re-read

It was a very enjoyable trilogy. I've been going through his other "cosmere" work (essentially, a lot of his adult books take place in the same universe, if on different planets). The main thing, of course, is that they are not as involved and complicated since a lot of them are suppose to "stand alone". But they are still very enjoyable (keep in mind that I have not read The Way of Kings yet).

The Emperor's Soul is a good read also, if you can get a hold of it.

Yeah, I've read a bit about the Cosmere (being wary of spoilers) and it sounds like an awesome concept. The idea of a "background epic" that slowly emerges over the course of several series that are complete in and of themselves...very cool.

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Noonshade by James Barclay. Actually book 2 of a series, will look for the rest if I enjoy it.

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[deer of the dawn]

I also just finished The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Loved it. I felt like I was somewhere between A Wrinkle In Time and Narnia. I do wonder what his thing is with cloth and evil beings (i.e. Coraline).

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So that Raven Chronicles book was pretty good, although I was dubious at first.

I'm reading King's Firestarter now, although what I'm really doing is putting off Green Mars. (Y'know, if they'd cut out the middle 300 odd pages of Red Mars, it could have been good. Strong beginning, great ending, but a real slog through the middle.)

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[Orlion]

Reading a bunch of different books right now. Working my way through The Song of the Beast by Carol Berg and started Tuf Voyaging by George RR Martin yesterday. I'll probably finish Tuf Voyaging first. I'm really enjoying it more then Game of Thrones... particularly since it has what aSoIaF lacks:

Spoiler

Cats!

[I'm Murrin]

Lies. Arya spends half the first book catching them.

[Orlion]

Lies. Arya spends half the first book catching them.

Not enough. There needs to be more! Come to think of it, the Chronicles are sorely lacking in this regard.

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Read Skeleton Crew over the weekend, reminding me all over again why I love the early King stuff. (Even if he does recycle names all over the place.)

Now...Green Mars...send out search parties if necessary...

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[deer of the dawn]

I was reading some crap (I can't even remember the name) and I realized I wasn't into it. Downloaded Ulysses by James Joyce, which has been on the TBR list for, like, ever. Danlo had posted a link to a how-many-books-on-this-list have you read, and I realized I have work to do!!

[duke]

Finished The Illearth War on my grand re-read of TCoTC. I last read through the books 10 years ago. Having been married and divorced since my last read of these books, so much of Covenant's anguish feels very personal to me. I'm finding that I still know the story so well, that all the old images in my mind of the Land return with the re-read. On to the Power that Preserves...

[ussusimiel]

I was reading some crap (I can't even remember the name) and I realized I wasn't into it. Downloaded Ulysses by James Joyce, which has been on the TBR list for, like, ever. Danlo had posted a link to a how-many-books-on-this-list have you read, and I realized I have work to do!!

Feel free to join in Orlion's thread, Ulysses. We'd got as far as chapter 5 (the Lotus Eaters) as of last February, so you might give us the impetus to at least do one more chapter this year

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[Hiro]

The Islanders, by Christopher Priest.

[danlo]

Love Christopher Priest!!! The Inverted World and A Dream of Wessex are fantastic-(The Cell loosely base on Dream) read and seen The Prestige, of course. Indoctrinaire one of THE weirdest books ever written. An Infinite Summer one of THE best collection of time travel stories-The Extremes-extremely good too!