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| Moderator Join Date: May 2006
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| Re: New year, new books... What we're reading in January. Finished Moorcock's The Winds of Limbo (a reread) ... now I'm going to try (yet again) to tackle Irving's Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies (keep getting interrupted about 3 pages into the darned thing over and over.... ) |
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| Heretic Join Date: Jun 2004
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| Re: New year, new books... What we're reading in January. I'd read a short story collection by Fritz Lieber called The Mind-Spider and Other Stories, basically horror mixed with some futuristic elements. Some very decent stories there and some okey-dokey ones. On the whole I liked these better than his 2 horror novels Our Lady of Darkness and Conjure Wife. Also read Soul Music, a Discworld book by Pratchett, which was decent enough with a good number of chuckles (Elvis and Woodstock serve as big sources of inspiration here), but too long-winded IMO for a story that has few emotional hooks. Am currently more than 3/4ths through China Mieville's The Scar, which is another mind-blowingly brilliant epic narrative with very well-etched characters and an awesome setting, this time aboard a floating city of pirate vessels. |
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| Rattus Norvegicus Join Date: Jun 2005
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| Re: New year, new books... What we're reading in January. Almost finished with Jeff VanDermeer's City of Saints and Madmen, reading the appendix glossary, which turns out not to be a simple glossary, but another weird story, or collection of story fragments. Will start the new year with Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas, the first Culture book. |
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| Easily amused Join Date: Feb 2006
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| Re: New year, new books... What we're reading in January. Am rereading The Fionavar Tapestry. It's been long enough from the first go-round that the story was hazy at best, so it's almost like a new GGK read (And excellent as always; I'm more than halfway done in 2 days). |
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| Crazed One Join Date: Apr 2006
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| Re: New year, new books... What we're reading in January. Finished Scar Night several days ago, but will hold my thoughts for now. I'll just say that it was a solid debut. I also read Kate Elliot's Spirit Gate which I thoroughly enjoyed, and now I plan to finish Jeff Vandermeer's Shriek(which I meant to have already started) Here's to many (hopefully)great reads in 2007!! |
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| Outta sight Join Date: Sep 2006
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| Re: New year, new books... What we're reading in January. Still plodding my way through Bleak House! Also reading one of Bill Bryson's - Notes from a Large Continent or something like that! Well, actually, just about to start! Waiting to see a post on this thread that says one of my books is being read. (It happened in June - but not since!) One can but hope! |
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| Unreg. Mutant Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005
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| Re: New year, new books... What we're reading in January. Working my way through "The Grapple", part of Harry Turtledove's alternative WW2 story. Enjoying it so far but it's very samey to his other work and it shows a little. Also about to start Knive of Dreams by Robert Jordan - which is apparently better than the utterly pointless predecessor "Crossroads of Twilight". Still got the "Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch to finish as well as "A Shadow in Summer" by Daniel Abraham. |
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