Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:32 pm**

Right now, I'm reading The Hour of the Dragon by Robert Howard. It's my first Conan book, and it's pretty damn good! Download it free here.

Posted: **Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:31 am**

mmm .. nice ..

cheers!

Posted: **Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:20 pm**

Just finished Jeffrey Ford's The Shadow Year.

A compelling blend of mystery and speculative fiction, The Shadow Year is a wonderful read. A relatively short work, weighing in at about 300 pages, but a satisfying reading experience nonetheless.

I doubt that younger readers will get as much out of it. Yet if you grew up in the 60s or the 70s, The Shadow Year will bring back fond memories that will make you cherish this novel even more.

Check the blog for the full review.

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

Posted: **Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:39 pm**

Finally done with all fricking 932 pages of Walter Jon William's The Rift...excellent...heartily recommend to anyone-a little too real after 9/11 and Katrina, but a very impressive piece of literature -nonetheless.

Posted: **Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:35 am**

Finished Stephen King's Song of Susannah, and now onto Insomnia before starting the final volume, The Dark Tower.

Posted: **Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:17 pm**

Just finished Andrzej Sapkowski's The Last Wish. . .

Disappointing, to tell the truth. Although the main protagonist is interesting, as a whole The Last Wish doesn't rise above most media tie-in fiction out there.

Check the blog for the full review.

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:26 pm**

Well, if he keeps this up, Sergei Lukyanenko will soon become one of my favorite speculative fiction authors! I found The Night Watch impressive when I read it last year, and The Day Watch lived up to the high expectations generated by its predecessor. Indeed, urban fantasy doesn't get much better than this!

I can't quite believe that we don't hear more about this talented international bestselling author. The Night Watch series is sure to please most SFF fans out there. Lukyanenko is definitely an author worth discovering, so do yourself a favor and check him out!

Check the blog for the full review.

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

Posted: **Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:36 pm**

Well, I've been busy in the Sci-Fi fantasy stakes...using the library down here to keep in reading material. This week, it's a major McCaffrey kick. Just read To Ride Pegasus and Pegasus in Space, prequels to her Tower & Hive series, about to read the 2 Dinosaur Planet books, and have The Ship Who Searched to go after that.

Last week it was Star Wars books, read The Approaching Storm by Alan Dean Foster, (Yes, Splinter of the Minds Eye Foster), a book set between Menace and Clones, Revenge of the Sith, Onslaught and Bloodlines. Widely spread in the pre and post Star-Wars universe, but good fun.

Week before that was Pratchett, The Wee Free Men, Wintersmith, Eric, and The Carpet People. Also the short story, uh...Sea and Fishes (?) in a collection called Legends, with stories set in famous universes, including Discworld, Pern, (The ice and fire guy's world), Tad Williams one, (memory, sorreow etc IIRC).

--A

Posted: **Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:36 pm**

Av wrote:(The ice and fire guy's world),

You mean George RR Martin's Westeros and beyond?

Posted: **Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:37 pm**

I guess,

I didn't read the story, although it's apparently set 200 years before the first book in the series..

--A

Posted: **Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:44 pm**

IIRC, I think Legends is the collection that had The Runner of Pern, or something like that.

Posted: **Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:48 pm**

Runner of Pern it was indeed.

--A

Posted: **Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:54 pm**

...bullseye...

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:25 am**

Martin's must have been a "Hedge Knight" story. Was there a guy named Egg in it?. I think the two main characters are Dunk and Egg.

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:25 am**

Yeah, it'd be The Hedge Knight, the first one. The second story, The Sworn Sword, was in Legends II, IIRC.

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:22 am**

Well done guys.

It was the Hedge Knight.

I should read it...sure I've seen y'all talking about it.

--A

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:25 pm**

Feast of Souls by CS Friedman. I love her work!

very interesting magic system -- each use takes away seconds, minutes or hours from your life. The bad guys found a way around that.....

Posted: **Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:56 pm**

Just finished "Nightside of the Long Sun" by Gene Wolfe. Liked it, but not sure if I loved it.

And now for something completely different....

"Swords and Deviltry" book 1 of the Lankhmar series by Fritz Leiber.

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:13 pm**

Mortice Root wrote: "Swords and Deviltry" book 1 of the Lankhmar series by Fritz Leiber.

I read that a couple of weeks ago. It was really good. I'm reading Swords Against Death on the side now. I'm not sure that I'd recommend it, to be honest. It makes you appreciate how good Ill Met is, though.

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:09 pm**

The Scar by China Meiville. Don't know why it took me so long as I loved Perdido and iron Council. Wish I'd read it before P2!

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