July's Jubilant Joust At New Books

[GOLLUM]

You rang?....

Actually it's already mid morning here on July 1.

OK, you know the routine, what are you all reading?

[HoopyFrood]

I was just about to do my usual thing of complaining that the months go too fast, realised I do it every time now, and decided not to. Only, of course, I have...

Still on the Ambrose Bierce collection. I seem to have slowed down with reading at the moment. The thing about short story collections is that you can put them down often when each story ends...

[Culhwch]

Robert Redick's The Red Wolf Conspiracy, though it isn't doing much for me. I was halfway through The Name of the Wind by Rothfuss and was mildly enjoying it, but I went too slow and the library demanded it back. And Bryson's Walk in the Woods, which I've read before, but it's still a great read...

[murphy]

Well it's 4:45 p.m. June 30th here, but anyway.

I'm in the midst of Valor's Trial by Tanya Huff and really enjoying it. It's military SF.

[GOLLUM]

True Murphy. Always tricky to time a monthly thread with differing time zones but as several of us have already well and truly passed into July 1 I thought it probably justified. Plus I couldn't let my fellow mods to beat me to the punch...

[TheEndIsNigh]

Originally Posted by HoopyFrood

I was just about to do my usual thing of complaining that the months go too fast, realised I do it every time now, and decided not to. Only, of course, I have...

Still on the Ambrose Bierce collection. I seem to have slowed down with reading at the moment. The thing about short story collections is that you can put them down often when each story ends...

I've just picked up :-

"Twas the night before Christmas"

Don't complain to me about time going too fast - you know my position on these things.

I'm having a few books off SF at the mo. I'm reading some of Lindsey Davis' Falco series. It's about an investigator in the Roman empire AD 80 ish.

Recommend them as a break

[Jason_Taverner]

still Steven Erikson and ICE

[gully_foyle]

Still Slan by A.E. Van Vogt. The man was a master.

[BookStop]

Well, I'm reading Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man, but it is slow going. 50s lit is wonderful, but I can only really enjoy it in small bursts. I am interspersing it with Stephen King's Everything's Eventual, also quite wonderful in bursts.

[Hypnos164]

Vicious Circle by Mike Carey - should be finished soon as its pretty gripping stuff

Thinking about The Terror next - but not with any great enthusiasm ... any opinions on it?

[TheEndIsNigh]

Originally Posted by gully_foyle

Still Slan by A.E. Van Vogt. The man was a master.

Have you read any of his other work. If not, all are excellent and not to read

"Null A"

is a crime

[AE35Unit]

Well, I started WAY STATION by Simak yesterday,pretty good so far.

[Connavar]

Im just about to finish The Jugger so after that im going back to my library book Jurgen by James Branch Cabell.

Which is very weird book. The dialouges sound like some fable and the characters sound like they are written by Shakespeare writing some weird comedy. Maybe its cause of the setting and the writers writing style but its Shakespeare ´speak´ they are doing to me.


I like his writing much more when he is telling the story,about the characters without any dialog.

[Perpetual Man]

Still working my way through the backlog of comicbooks , but have started Ghosts of the White Nights by L E Modesitt, and from the two chapters I've read so far, am enjoying it greatly

[HoopyFrood]

The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce arrived about half an hour ago and I've been distracted by it. I'm only on page three and I've laughed uncontrollably about four times already. I love it.