Kevin's Watch

I'm about to start the first George RR Martin book in the A Song Of Fire And Ice series....when is book 4 going to be done?

A Feast for Crows should be out in early November.

Murrin wrote:I must say, if you're going to read these books, read the book before you see the film. If you've already seen the film, you might as well skip the first book. There's nothing extra to be gained by reading it.

I saw the first Harry Potter movie before reading the books, and was delighted with the books. Such a fresh imagination in the writing, and it fleshed out the plot for me. Well, different strokes...

Moved on to Vernor Vinge's Deepness in the Sky, and a anthology edited by Neil Gaiman based on his Sandman mythos, The Sandman: book of dreams



Finished Revelation Space and Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds. Reynold's defintely imrpoves in the latter, but Revelation Space is still recommendable to fans of Science Fiction, and Space Opera. I have a coupel of thoughts on the Revelation Space HERE

I also recently finished a new author's debut, Demonsouled by Jonathan Moeller. This is a traditional fantasy work, and I will ahve a review up at FBS in a couple of days most likely.

Also grabbed Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire to see what the hype is bout:)

Murrin wrote:A Feast for Crows should be out in early November.

I'm about to start the first one so i should be done by then.

Dragonlily - I am of course only talking of the first book, and to me it just lacked depth - the prose was a little bit too simple, too plain. Having looked at The Chamber of Secrets now, I think Rowling's prose is improved in the second book, and isn't quite so flat. This one looks like it'll be okay.
(not that the first book was bad, mind you...)

Variol Farseer wrote:Finally got round to reading Sailing to Sarantium, by Guy Gavriel Kay. Today I bought Lord of Emperors so I can finish before starting my next project. Unfortunately, the editions don't match: one hardcover, one trade paperback. C'est la cookie en crumblant.

Sailing To Sarantium and Lord of Emperors are both pretty good, though it's been a while since I've read them. Enjoy.

Warmark,

Good timing. The rest of us have had to wait.

Haha, i pity the fools with no timing.

Yeah, cause its not like you are going to have wait for books five six or seven, huh?

gyrehead,

Actually A Dance with Dragons is said to be released only a year after AFFC.

Apparently Mr Martin has finished much of it.

We shall see though.

gyrehead,

Actually A Dance with Dragons is said to be released only a year after AFFC.

Apparently Mr Martin has finished much of it.

We shall see though.

Murrin wrote:Dragonlily - I am of course only talking of the first book, and to me it just lacked depth - the prose was a little bit too simple, too plain. Having looked at The Chamber of Secrets now, I think Rowling's prose is improved in the second book, and isn't quite so flat. This one looks like it'll be okay. (not that the first book was bad, mind you...)

My reaction was that the Potters got better and better through the first four. GOBLET OF FIRE deserved the Hugo, IMO. Then I didn't like ORDER OF THE PHOENIX as well. Thought it got totally out of hand in the who-can-you-trust department.

She was writing it for her son, IIRC. He, naturally, gradually grew up and needed more mature material. It probably would have stayed youth fiction otherwise. (Guessing)

Incidentally, I'm reading Brin's SUNDIVER for the third time.

Yes but much of a Feast for Crows was finished and he still has not finished it technically. Besides Paris has already said that the odds of him even getting back to working on what will now be aDWD are slim to none in the year 2005. And the latest word from him at Book Expo was that he might finish the Dunk and Egg novella first after all.

I figure two years for the next book after Feast if his fans are lucky.

So there's going to be seven books in the series?

Most likely, yes. Martin was still rather optimistically saying 6, but after this stuff with Feast, he's conceded and admits it'll probably be 7.

Having read Sailing to Sarantium on the weekend, I went out Sunday evening and bought Lord of Emperors, which I have now also finished.

Guy Kay has therefore used up my fiction budget for the month. Possibly for the entire quarter.

Just got all the Gap series in hardback on ebay, so I have much reading to do this summer. I may be going to the UK on business, so at least I'll have something to do on the long plane rides. I have heard it is a great series.

gyrehead wrote:Yeah, cause its not like you are going to have wait for books five six or seven, huh?

DAMN! i didnt know there were more!

safetyjedi wrote:Just got all the Gap series in hardback on ebay, so I have much reading to do this summer. I may be going to the UK on business, so at least I'll have something to do on the long plane rides. I have heard it is a great series.

I hope you enjoy them! And you will be more than welcome in the Gap forum.