May's (Mostly) Marvelous Literary Musings

[AvoidingReality]

Finished The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe, and have now started The Claw of the Conciliator, the second in the series. I think I'll wait until I've finished the series to comment on them, since the first seemed really to be an introduction.

[ben1xy]

Just finished the Mist of Avalon. Overall a good read thought i still prefer the Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart

[Lioness]

Originally Posted by ben1xy

Just finished the Mist of Avalon.

Gah! Stop stealing the book that I'm just about to finish. I should finish it tonight actually, if I get off the computer and start reading. Only about 30 pages to go, and I've really enjoyed it so far.

After that I'm going to read The Persimmon Tree by Bryce Courtenay. Should be good, just like all of his other books.

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by ravenus

Started off on Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill. At a quarter into, it is rather cliched but written in a breezy and likable enough manner to get along.

Not one I liked that much I have to say....

[iansales]

Finished Capacity by Tony Ballantyne. Now Reading Ian Watson's The Book of the River.

[Aleksei]

Trying out An Atlantean Triumvirate, by C. Craig R. McNeil.

[Taltos]

Finished PKD A Maze of Death - somehow it took me almost a week to finish this thin (ca. 200 page) book. Interesting and twisting plot with a surprising ending, a bit naive and stereotyped characters - but that gets an explanation at the end - altogether an enjoyable read - although not really a easy reading as the consumed time shows.
Now reading PKD The Penultimate Truth - start shows a lot of promise.

[Talysia]

Moving on to Terry Pratchett's Mort.

[Nikitta]

Originally Posted by Talysia

Moving on to Terry Pratchett's Mort.

I really liked the beginning of that but then the story took a turn that made me put it down, not to pick it up again.

[Parson]

Philip Palmer's "Debatable Space" 2/3's done. I was hoping for an upgrade after slogging through Tony Ballantyne's latest trilogy. But if it is one this book really needs a bang up last third, I doubt it, so am reading slowly.

Where is the next Honor Harrington?!!!!

[Amalthea]

Originally Posted by Taltos

Finished PKD A Maze of Death - somehow it took me almost a week to finish this thin (ca. 200 page) book. Interesting and twisting plot with a surprising ending, a bit naive and stereotyped characters - but that gets an explanation at the end - altogether an enjoyable read - although not really a easy reading as the consumed time shows.
Now reading PKD The Penultimate Truth - start shows a lot of promise.

I like a few PKD books, but A Maze of Death wasn't one of them.
The Penultimate Truth is one that sparked my interest when I read a synopsis, but because PKD is either hit or miss for me, I haven't picked up a copy yet. Would you mind letting me know what you think when you have finished?

[UltraCulture]

About 200 pages into The Swarm by Frank Schatzing, and I'm quite enjoying it, I know it wasn't meant to be funny but the exploding lobster didn't half make me laugh.

btw JD I thoroughly enjoyed Moorcocks Dancers, magnifique.

[tyr]

A friend of mine lent me 3 Discworld novels: Carpe Jugulum, Going Postal, and Making Money. Need to finish them soon.
I am pending Olympos again.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by UltraCulture

btw JD I thoroughly enjoyed Moorcocks Dancers, magnifique.

Glad you enjoyed them. They're a quirky bunch of characters, all right; and the increasing lunacy with the chaotic effects is almost the sff equivalent of that delightful rapid-fire witty dialogue of His Girl Friday or Bringing Up Baby... and yet Moorcock manages to say some very meaningful things through this completely zany performance....

[iansales]

Originally Posted by Parson

I was hoping for an upgrade after slogging through Tony Ballantyne's latest trilogy.

You didn't like it?