Kevin's Watch

Shaun das Schaf wrote:

Menolly wrote:

Shaun das Schaf wrote: 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.

If you redid your sig, then perhaps it is my Watch settings, as I am still not seeing one for you.

Bachman's (King's) The Regulators.

--A

Avatar wrote:Bachman's (King's) The Regulators.

--A

Loved the Bachman books. King in a deliberately pulpy state of mind.

Some good ones indeed.

I'm actually enjoying this more than Desperation, which I'm probably going to read next...the character similarities are a bit disconcerting...I'm thinking of this as an alternate reality version of Desperation...how else it could have happened.

--A

A Clash of Kings - George Rrrrr Rrrrr Martin

One thing about this series so far:

Spoiler

he doesn't mind killing off people you least expect

Damn!

Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe.

Avatar wrote:Some good ones indeed.

I'm actually enjoying this more than Desperation, which I'm probably going to read next...the character similarities are a bit disconcerting...I'm thinking of this as an alternate reality version of Desperation...how else it could have happened.

--A

That's how I thought of it too.

StevieG wrote:A Clash of Kings - George Rrrrr Rrrrr Martin

One thing about this series so far:

Spoiler

he doesn't mind killing off people you least expect

Damn!

And he's just getting started.

I am reading The Wrath of Fate by Robert Brown, which is a novel based on a concept album. Zeppelins and time travel and pirates, oh my. Pretty good so far, but the editing is terrible and that sort of thing annoys me.

Sorus wrote:

StevieG wrote:A Clash of Kings - George Rrrrr Rrrrr Martin

One thing about this series so far:

Spoiler

he doesn't mind killing off people you least expect

Damn!

And he's just getting started.

I'm keen to read more - I have a Storm of Swords sitting on the shelf, but I'm not sure whether to keep going, or start the grand Covenant re-read. I'm such a slow reader that it willl probably take until TLD to read all the Covs by then.

Clive Barker's Books of Blood. (I have all 6 in two volumes.)

--A

Just finished the newest Iain Banks novel, Surface Detail, in paperback. A Culture novel, quite good. Just before it I had done a reread of his non-Culture The Algebraist, which I would recommend on the grounds of the interesting mix of species that turn up in it. It's also a really good yarn.

Onto Deadhouse Gates now. My second Erikson.

u.

You say things like that just to make me jump.

And it works every time. FANTASTIC book!!!

Fist and Faith wrote:You say things like that just to make me jump.

And quite rightly so! It's your fault

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Erikson for me as well. Toll the Hounds

Erikson's new novel still is not out yet in the US, so Martin for me.

Taking a break from Hispanic literature with A Storm of Swords.

the Hunger Games. finished book one, starting on book two.

they are a fast read and have kept my interest so far.

I feel like I've been neglecting this thread lately. Probably because I'm putting my energy into the weekly reviews on my blog. Anyhow:

I did indeed read Charles Stross' Accelerando, which was very thought provoking, very intelligent sci fi taking us from the near future into barely recognisable post-singularity humanity.

Last week I read Hal Duncan's Escape From Hell!, which I just reviewed on the blog. It's a fun read, and will probably offend pretty much any Christian on some level.

And right now I'm working on Jeff VanderMeer's short story collection The Third Bear. The title story is a very dark deconstruction of "monster in the woods" fairy tales...

Orson Scott Card's Red Prophet. Read Seventh Son yesterday.

--A

Is that the Alvin Maker series, Av? I've heard good things, but have not read it.