Kevin's Watch

I'm currently thumbing through Bakker's The Thousandfold Thought for quotes for a review, afterfinishng off Daniel Abraham's excellent debut A Shadow in Summer

Roland was interested in Naomi Novik's debut His Majesty's Dragon (or Temeraire in the UK), and if still interested I just put up a review of it.

drew wrote:Just started Garden on the Moon by Erikson, It came highly recomended..Confusing at the start, but after the first chapter I was able to catch on.--although I don't understand why there's a map in the book that doesn't have the names of any of the places mentioned in the book.

it will all begin to make sense soon. but GoTM is really sort of in the middle of the Malazan story! Erikson created the world with his friend Ian Esselmont and i'm told that Esselmont has also published a Malazan story that is a prequel to Gardens of the Moon, i think. but i haven't been able to find it here in town and may have to order it. you can get all kinds of good info about all this at the Malazan Empire forum. and if you have questions you should go there and read some of the threads. those folks know the books inside and out.

Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Avada Cruimperio's Making Friendship Bracelets for Death Eaters

Warmark wrote:

Loremaster wrote:Iain Banks' The Algebraist

I gpt this for Christman, its next on my list.

I can say one thing: it is excellent!

2/3 of the way through Stranger in a Strange Land. Enjoying it, but I think I'm a bigger fan of Philip K. Dick than Heinlein. That said: can't wait to finish this one and jump into two new Dick books I bought: "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" and "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said." I also must get "A Scanner Darkly" and "Ubik."

If you like Dick (no this isn't a gay bar or the pr0n thread) also try The Man in the High Castle, but do read A Scanner Darkly first before the movie comes out and Keanu Reeves ruins it.

Finished "Calde of the Long Sun" and moved on to "Exodus From the Long Sun".

Will start today IRONCROWN MOON by Julian May. The first of the series, CONQUEROR'S MOON, was my Favorite Fantasy Read of 2004.

Loremaster wrote:

Warmark wrote:

Loremaster wrote:Iain Banks' The Algebraist

I gpt this for Christman, its next on my list.

I can say one thing: it is excellent!

Finished GF and im beginning it tonight.

Pandora's Star, Peter F Hamilton

Once I got into it, The Wizard Knight is nigh-on un-put-down-able, I've been up til three or four am the last couple of nights reading. Three-quarters done.

danlo wrote:If you like Dick (no this isn't a gay bar or the pr0n thread) also try The Man in the High Castle, but do read A Scanner Darkly first before the movie comes out and Keanu Reeves ruins it.

Woops, forgot to mention that I also have Man in the High Castle--read it, loved it. Yeah, Im definitely gonna read Scanner Darkly before that movie comes out; probably won't even watch it in theaters. I can watch wooden planks for free.

Currently, my reading order is: Stranger in a Strange Land (almost done), The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Cat's Cradle (my first Vonnegut book), and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. In-between all this I am sporadically reading A Feast for Crows and re-reading The One Tree. Fun stuff!

I'm putting a few books to rest now, Paul Auster's Brooklyn Follies, Tobias Buckell's Crystal Rain, and a reread of Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora before a review.

I recenty started Hamilton's Judas Unchained, and Diana Wynne Jones' Tough Guide to Fantasyland

Feersum Endjin by Iain M Banks, and Lord Foul's Bane, by some guy, can't quite remember his name at the moment... :p

I've had a hard time getting into The Real Story by SRD so I decided to take a break with Star Wars: The Swarm War.

Dervorin wrote:

Lord Foul's Bane, by some guy, can't quite remember his name at the moment... :p

Well, I certainly hope you enjoy that book by that guy!

I am starting Gardens of the Moon, because it has had so many good reviews, but I am having trouble getting into it. Will keep plodding on though, because I have heard more than one person had that problem, but eventually it goes away and then its hard to put the book down! I keep waiting for that point to come!

Dragonlily wrote:Will start today IRONCROWN MOON by Julian May. The first of the series, CONQUEROR'S MOON, was my Favorite Fantasy Read of 2004.

Is this series also in the Galactic Milieu world?

Lady Revel wrote:Dervorin wrote:

Lord Foul's Bane, by some guy, can't quite remember his name at the moment... :p

Well, I certainly hope you enjoy that book by that guy!

I am starting Gardens of the Moon, because it has had so many good reviews, but I am having trouble getting into it. Will keep plodding on though, because I have heard more than one person had that problem, but eventually it goes away and then its hard to put the book down! I keep waiting for that point to come!

Yep, GOTM is pretty good, but I had trouble with it as well in the beginning, as well as with the followup (Deadhouse Gates). I like what Erikson's done with the two books I've read, but the massive world-building and huge cast of characters/gods/factions/etc. took some time to get used to.

As for myself, I just started reading Viriconium by M. John Harrison. Been wanting to read it for a while and I just bought a copy (late Christmas present to myself...).

Fist and Faith, the Boreal Moon series by May is completely separate from the Galactic Milieu and Pliocene Exile books. It's pure medieval fantasy, with a lot of magic and court intrigue.