Kevin's Watch

Starting Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff

danlo wrote:7 chapters into The Wise Man's Fear (first book on Kindle and I'm already an addict )...loved Name of the Wind, took a little while for the story to click back in, but the 2nd book is, now, moving faster and faster.

I loved that series!!!!

Also the Kindle has been great for me. I was an avid reader before, now its worse because I can get books cheaper and at the touch of a button.

SoulBiter, there's a thread not too far down the page.

I finished Blackout, and am now getting into All Clear. I had no idea the London Blitz was such a cool world to read about.

I just finished Bad Monkeys. Not sure about it. Think the voice was off.

Bakker, The Judging Eye.

--A

I'm starting Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill.

Finished a couple of Robert Silverberg standalone sci-fi novels: The Longest Way Home and Dying Inside (reread). Both are good, he seems to use sci-fi as a vehicle for philosophic speculations which suits my taste.

I also did a reread of Tobias Hill's The Cryptographer. Futuristic rather than pure sci-fi. Stylish. It would probably qualify as 'literary fiction' as well. (Where's lucimay to spank me for my abuse of the word 'literary' )

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Return of the Crimson Guard

ussusimiel wrote:(Where's lucimay to spank me for my abuse of the word 'literary' )

You may have managed to slip under her radar...

Dust of Dreams by Mr Erikson well actually half way through

I've finished a reread of Dream Finder by Roger Taylor. Taylor is a good fantasy writer, but I don't ever hear much about him. I thought his Hawklan series was very good. Anyone else read him?

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Finally finished Midnight Tides. Don't know why it took me so long, I actually really liked it in the end. Erikson's politics seemed more overt in this book, which I enjoyed. And I always appreciate his sense of humanity. (But I should probably take this to another sub-forum!)

Currently reading... The Bonehunters. Actually I'm not quite sure what I'm reading. I just varnished a table (stupidly, in the house) and I believe I may be high. Who are you people again?

We're the voices in your head, given digital form on a website that is an online extension of your subconscious

Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box was very good. Not sure what I'm starting next. Maybe Charles Stross' Accelerando.

Cambo wrote:We're the voices in your head, given digital form on a website that is an online extension of your subconscious

That explanation improves my personality so I'm going to run with it. Thanks Cambo

Shaun das Schaf wrote:

Cambo wrote:We're the voices in your head, given digital form on a website that is an online extension of your subconscious

That explanation improves my personality so I'm going to run with it. Thanks Cambo

I foresee SdS finally having a signature.

And here I thought you all were the voices in my head.

--A

Menolly wrote:

Shaun das Schaf wrote:

Cambo wrote:We're the voices in your head, given digital form on a website that is an online extension of your subconscious

That explanation improves my personality so I'm going to run with it. Thanks Cambo

I foresee SdS finally having a signature.

I have one already Menolly. Can't you see it?
Crap, must have put it in the wrong dimension.
Here, have some varnish....



Where I come from, the above is picture-perfect because we call our large beers Schooners

And just so I'm not off-topic, I'm currently reading Ruffley Sandback's Planet Stayne And Other Adventures at Altitude.

Finished a reread of Katherine Kerr and Kate Daniel's Polar City Nightmare which is basically a well-written sci-fi detective thriller. I never been able to get into Kerr's Deverry Series though I think I've tried a couple of times.

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