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

[Manarion]

Not sure what I'll be reading this month. I really haven't gotten anything new since Under A Velvet Cloak, and while I enjoyed that thoroughly, it's not exactly a major re-read like others in the series.....

I suppose, if I ever do get any more books, I would go off recommendations from Chrons here and might try to see if I could find Martin or Pratchett anywhere.......try to broaden my horizons a bit.......

[Hari Seldon]

Originally Posted by Connavar

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.

I just ordered this book off of ebay. I seen someone suggest it on an earlier Tim Powers thread. I did struggle with some parts of On Stranger Tides to the point that I needed to re-read some chapters but I did like the overall feel to the book. I did like the main character and I guess if I thought On Stranger Tides was excellent and your suggesting The Drawing of the Dark is better then I can't wait for it to arrive. Might have to be bumped up on the TBR pile.

[Hari Seldon]

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...

Sorry for posting twice but I didn't know how to get two seperate quotes in one comment box.

I haven't heard of Pirate Freedom but I will definitely see if I could get a copy. I have a few Wolfe books that I recently picked up but I haven't read anything from him yet. I'll check it out.

Based on your comments April should be a great reading month. Looking foward to it. About 50 pages into The Curse of Chalion.

[pyan]

Originally Posted by Hari Seldon

Sorry for posting twice but I didn't know how to get two seperate quotes in one comment box.

If you click on the speech marks box in the middle at bottom right of one of the posts you want to quote, Hari, and then on the same box in another post, and so on, then click "Quote", it'll give you an answer box with all the posts (in quotes).

Originally Posted by Hari Seldon

Might have to be bumped up on the TBR pile.

Originally Posted by Manarion

Not sure what I'll be reading this month.

[Hari Seldon]

You mean the self explanatory multi-quote button directly next to the quote button... I'm so stupid sometimes. Thanks for the information, Pyan. I'm embarrassed that you even had to explain it.

[Culhwch]

Don't worry, Hari. I've been here for three years and that was the first I knew of it...

[Teresa Edgerton]

I didn't know what the multiple quotes icons was for, either.

But I don't think it's been there for three years. I think it it came in with one of the recent software upgrades.

Thanks for explaining it pyan.

[Hilarious Joke]

I didn't know about it either.

And now I'm champing at the bit to multiquote. But I have to wait for the perfect occasion. Stay tuned, listeners.

[Connavar]

Im reading If He hollers let him go by Chester B. Himes.

Who is apparently the only acclaimed black crime fiction writer from the classic era.

Which is nice since this line wouldn't mean as much and be as understandable if the author was white :

" All i could hear was the sound of the baby sucking greedily, and i thought if they really wanted to give him a break they´d cut his throat and bury him in the back yard before he got old enough to know he was a nigger "

As you can see its about Robert Jones who is struggling with not letting his race stand in the way of getting a good job in 1941 just after Pearl Harbour in Los Angeles. Where its not easy with the everyday racism of that day when the white people gets startled he would even ask for a job.

Its written in a badass way the book about a crime that will happen to Jones i geuss from blurb and the everyday racism. I have read enough to see Robert Jones is so frustrated at being called boy all the time that he is about to snap. He is also afraid of beating a paddy as he calls it as before after he saw the hateful way of they dealt with the japanese.

I like how you are transported to those days in a vivid way. Not as cheesy,sappy as you see racism stories about this in movies and other books.

[AE35Unit]

I started John Brunner's 'Squares of the City' last night.
Tis a strange one!

[HoopyFrood]

Alas, alack, I'm still reading Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. (Not alas alack because I'm reading Erikson, but because I'm still on it).

[Shamu]

I stopped reading Empress by Karen Miller after a few pages and instead jumped onto the second book by Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns. I'm nearly finished with that and I can report that it's just as good as the first part.

[nj1]

I'm currently near the end of Joe Abercrombie's LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS, as usual with a good book I don't want it to end, but hey, that's life.
Next it's a toss up between either CENTURION by Simon Scarrow or Wrath WRATH OF A MAD GOD by Fiest which I've had for a while but can't find the time to start

[rimworlder]

Just finished Space Vulture by Wolf & Myers - an homage to space opera and a tour-de-force. Way too much in there for everyone to even begin describing it; an essentially simple tale of good versus evil, but so jam-packed with SF iconography that its like taking a guided tour through every SF novel ever written.

Fleet of Worlds was polished off right at the beginning of the month; if you like Niven/Known Space, its a must.

Am now working through RAH's Revolt in 2100 for research and will be doing the same with Moon is a Harsh Mistress when that's done.

[Talysia]

Having trouble getting into Cecilia Dart Thornton's The Ill-Made Mute at the moment, so I'm moving on to Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay instead.