April's Astonishing, Astounding (and Sometimes Overpowering) Adventures in Reading

[the smiling weirwood]

I received, and finished reading, Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies just yesterday. It was amazing. His characterization was as superb as the first book and his plot twists were absolutely delicious. A more entertaining and rollicking adventure/suspense/cloak-and-dagger/pirate/love story I have never read.

[Hari Seldon]

Just finishing off Tim Power's On Stranger Tides. Excellent pirate fantasy.

Next up:
Bujold's Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, The Hallowed Hunt.
Moer's The City of Dreaming Books, 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures.
Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy
Gemmell's Lion of Macedon.

This will most definitely spill into May. The hardest decision is which to start first.

[murphy]

Just read a couple of Charlaine Harris' books, very short and sweet stories. Now reading Elizabeth Moon's Victory Conditions the finale of the Vatta books. Next up will be David Drake's When the Tide Rises. My week for military SF.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Hari Seldon

Just finishing off Tim Power's On Stranger Tides. Excellent pirate fantasy.

Next up:
Bujold's Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, The Hallowed Hunt.
Moer's The City of Dreaming Books, 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures.
Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy
Gemmell's Lion of Macedon.

This will most definitely spill into May. The hardest decision is which to start first.

I agree about Tim's book, it is one of the best pirate fantasies I've read but don't forget Gene Wolfe's Pirate Freedom.. Abercrombie's first 2 books were very good. Bujold is always good value and I've got a couple of Moers, Nesa has read those ones so she might log a comment or two...

Cheers...

[Quokka]

Any SFF reading has had to be put on hold at the moment, I've still got the second book of Outlaws of the Marsh about here somewhere and hopefully before April is out I'll have gotten back into it as it's been a good read so far. Reading Bass Guitar for Dummies at the moment which is pretty much how I felt ordering it from the local book store but it came highly recommended and it looks like it'll be just what's needed to give me some basic music theory.

[Marky Lazer]

Wow! Is it a new month already?

Okay:
Sir Thomas More's Utopia
Terry Pratchett's Small Gods
Irvine Welsh's If you like schoolm you'll love work

[mosaix]

Originally Posted by pyan

That's in my TBR pile, Mo...can you give me a nod (when you've finished it) whether it should be promoted or sunk?

Will do.

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

I agree about Tim's book, it is one of the best pirate fantasies I've read but don't forget Gene Wolfe's Pirate Freedom.. Abercrombie's first 2 books were very good. Bujold is always good value and I've got a couple of Moers, Nesa has read those ones so she might log a comment or two...

Cheers...

Funny i struggled much more with Stranger Tides.

Maybe im wierd but i thought The Drawing of The Dark was alot better cause of much more interesting main character,humor. The magical,supernatural feel of the beer and celtic myths i liked much more.

[elvet]

Started Sunrunner's Fire yesterday. It's a bit of a departure from previous books in that the first 9 years of narrative is condensed into a few chapters.

[murphy]

Originally Posted by elvet

Started Sunrunner's Fire yesterday. It's a bit of a departure from previous books in that the first 9 years of narrative is condensed into a few chapters.

Is that a Melanie Rawn book?

[elvet]

Originally Posted by murphy

Is that a Melanie Rawn book?

Yes. It's the third of the Dragon Prince series.

[pyan]

Just starting The Hidden Stars, by one Madeline Howard, (pronounced Ter-es-a Edge-r-ton...)

[Razorback]

Completed Necromancer, by Gordon R. Dickson. I didn’t care for Dorsai at all, but comments by j.d. and others encouraged me to read more. I wasn’t too impressed by the first half or so of this one. It was a bit dated and too metaphysical for my taste in general. But persistence paid off in this case. The story really came together in the later part of the book. I think it is a lot better than Dorsai. I rate this one a 6, or maybe 7, out of 10. It will be interesting to see if Dickson’s work continues to improve as I work through the series.

[Teresa Edgerton]

So many people mispronounce my name, it comes as a pleasant shock when somebody does it right. You've earned a gold star, pyan, for correctly identifying the soft g.


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[the smiling weirwood]

Using a hard "g" would only be correct if your name was spelled "Edgarton".