Jolly good July reading...

[nixie]

Swordman's Oath, Juliet E McKenna

[Teresa Edgerton]

Dark Heart, by Betsy James. Coming-of-age YA fantasy. This is actually a re-read.

[Nesacat]

Just finished Cthulhu 2000, a collection set in Lovecraft's world. A very well done collection and many of the tales actually have Lovecraft either as a character or a main point of reference.

[j. d. worthington]

Nesa, that was Jim Turner's next-to-last book, I understand. The last he did was the Golden Grypon anthology Eternal Lovecraft, which also has several top-notch stories in it... I think you'd enjoy it...

[Adasunshine]

Have finished A Blade Itself which I thought was excellent, can't wait for the next installment.

Have now started reading "City of Saints & Madmen" by Jeff Vandemeer

xx

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Adasunshine

Have now started reading "City of Saints & Madmen" by Jeff Vandemeer xx

That's a great read but personally I enjoyed Veniss Underground more.

I'm sure you'll enjoy it a lot Ada, let us know your thoughts...

[elvet]

I'm halfway into The Lies of Locke Lamora and I must say it is very good. It is different from most of the fantasy I usually enjoy. I like how the story unfolds through flashbacks and how you immediately connect with the central character - even though he is a thief. The humor is exceptional; I've caught myself chuckling out loud more than a few times. Yet, the background environment/society is as decrepit and brutal as it gets. There is some 'spicy' language, but it's never out of place and fits in with what you'd expect the characters to say. The hardest part is taking my time reading it; I want to savor the story and the writing. Everyone, go and get this book .

[Lunatic]

Originally Posted by elvet

I'm halfway into The Lies of Locke Lamora and I must say it is very good. It is different from most of the fantasy I usually enjoy. I like how the story unfolds through flashbacks and how you immediately connect with the central character - even though he is a thief. The humor is exceptional; I've caught myself chuckling out loud more than a few times. Yet, the background environment/society is as decrepit and brutal as it gets. There is some 'spicy' language, but it's never out of place and fits in with what you'd expect the characters to say. The hardest part is taking my time reading it; I want to savor the story and the writing. Everyone, go and get this book .

Already have it, and enjoyed it as well, so I second that notion.

So, I finished The Blood Knight and I have to say that it was better than the previous two. Now, I'm reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.

[The DeadMan]

I am presently reading Cally's War by John Ringo & Julie Cochrane. It's a pretty good read so far!

[sabinerak]

I completed MZB's The World Wreckers and now I've started Darkover Landfall. I'm nearly done with Llewelyn's Druids as well. I haven't yet decided what I'll be replacing that one with though.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Lunatic

Already have it, and enjoyed it as well, so I second that notion.

So, I finished The Blood Knight and I have to say that it was better than the previous two.

Seriously? In that case I look even more forward to eventually getting a copy *SIGH*..

[littlemissattitude]

I'm into three books right now:

A collection of HP Lovecraft stuff; The Glass Teat, television criticism from the late 1960s and early 1970's collection from Harlan Ellison's column in the Los Angeles Free Press; and Straight into Darkness, a mystery that takes place in Germany between the world wars, by Faye Kellerman.

None of them are going much of anywhere right now, not because they aren't good, but because I've got other stuff going on now and its too hot to concentrate much on reading. I'm thinking of saving the HPL for vacation (we leave late next week), when I hope to have some uninterrupted reading time. The Ellison is most suited for my time constraints right now, as it is a collection of very short (a few pages each) pieces. And the Kellerman...well, that's my reading-in-bed-before-I-go-to-sleep book.

[ravenus]

Read through a good part of Robert Silverberg's Dying Inside, which has as its lead character a guy who can read people's minds, but at a stage where his abilities are ebbing away. The book is a brilliant character piece, with this guy, who lives on the margins of society ghost-writing term papers for univ students, reflecting on his life and how his ability has molded him and affected his relationships with other people. At more than halfways, it's been an excellent read and MUCH more interesting than whatever I had read of that Dan Simmons book Hollow Man which also dealt with a mind-reading protagonist.

[j. d. worthington]

Yes, this was one of Silverberg's best periods. Meaty yet lean; terse writing, but elegant; and packed full of thought and emotion. Very good book...

[Thadlerian]

Have started to read The Road to Science Fiction: Part 4, edited by James Gunn, as well as another short story collection: Opowidania by Stanislaw Lem. However, it's hard to concentrate to get in and out of such short tales, all with ther own characters and settings, especially after three weeks of reading The Darkness that Comes Before.