What Else Are You Reading? October 2012

[Tamahome]

Perdido Star? Mieville's gonna sue.

[Derek]

Tamahome wrote: "Perdido Star? Mieville's gonna sue."

Hackman wrote his book about 5 yrs before Mieville. So no case. 8-D

[Keira]

I am currently rediscovering my love for Terry Pratchett. I am reading Men in arms and Carpe Jugulum. My favorite books by him are still The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents and Good Omens that he wrote with Niel Gaimen.

[Laura]

Keira wrote: "My favorite books by him are still The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents and Good Omens..."

Those are my favorites as well

[terpkristin]

I finished listening to Energized yesterday. It was science fiction just as Daemon is (which is to say, not too much), but it was still a fun thriller-type book.

My goal is to finish reading The Way of Kings before the month ends so I can start The Dirty Streets of Heaven on November 1.

[kvon]

I really enjoyed Lavinia. Finally Aeneas' tale makes sense to me.

I enjoyed the free Gaiman on Audible, although the intro, about how more downloads means more charity contributions, was a bit long. What a lovely voice.

I finished audiobook The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson; lovely accent by the reader, nice images of island life, boo for unlikeable narrator, yay for magical menopause.

I also read Mouse and Dragon, a planetary romance in the Liaden universe, emphasis on romance. Fun popcorn read.

[Kevin]

[Rob, Roberator]

Finished listening to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone so now I'm on to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as I'm staying in to avoid the latest storm of doom.

At this rate I'll be onto Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by tomorrow. Assuming I still have power..

[David Sven]

Rob wrote: "At this rate I'll be onto Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by tomorrow. Assuming I still have power.. "

The books get bigger the further in you get. I listened to them as well and was thinking at the start "I'll have all these done in no time." Wrong.

[Rob, Roberator]

David Sven wrote: "The books get bigger the further in you get. I listened to them as well and was thinking at the start "I'll have all these done in no time." Wrong."

Yeah. I know they will get longer. I only have the first three so far anyways.

I've listened to most of Chamber already today while playing World of Warcraft and trying to ride out this storm. I imagine I'll be done tomorrow assuming I don't lose power.

[Derek]

Finished Wake of the Perdido Star. As good as I remember, still wish for a sequel.

Trying to listen to Beyond Those Distant Stars by John B. Rosenman. Think I'm going to Lem the book. It tries to be an old style pulp scifi, but just comes across as juvenile.

[Derek]

Snokat wrote: "Trying to listen to Beyond Those Distant Stars by John B. Rosenman. Think I'm going to Lem the book. It tries to..."

I should've Lemmed the bloody thing! If I had a physical copy of this crap I'd tear it up, burn it and piss on the ashes! Not only doesn't it get better, don't know why I slogged through it, just left it on as background noise. But the idiot heroine battles her way through physical and psychic attacks to confront the big bad of the story, crawling to within feet of where it is, and the bloody damned story just bloody ends!! Checking on line and it turns out that in the 10 odd yrs since the author wrote the book, he has tried several times the write a sequel, but it hasn't worked out.
I hate, HATE, starting a story with no ending, even if I can't stand the story.
Don't read Beyond Those Distant Stars. The story is poorly written, everyone but the main character is dead by the end of the book, and most of all, there is absolutely no resolution at the end, and no sequel in sight.

[Jeff]

Finished The Dirty Streets of Heaven and absolutely loved it. So glad to be done before discussions started. Might be a slight pause in the next book as I have some CrossFit certification material to go thru (yes there is study material and a test!!) for a class coming up.

[Laura]

I've now read Sourcery and I Don't Want to Kill You, which wasn't as good as the book before it book still just about perfect. Although it isn't a sword or laser, I will start American Lion before The Dirty Streets of Heaven appears in the mail.

[Rob, Roberator]

Finished listening to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets while stuck at home (thankfully with power) during Hurricane Sandy. Started listening Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

[AndrewP]

After 600+ pages of Iain M. Banks I needed something completely different. Dug up a copy of Redwall that I have been meaning to get to for a year or more.

[David Sven]

Finished Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber.
My review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Starting on the November Read Dirty Streets of Heaven

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

I just finished listening to Soulless by Gail Carriger. I remember when the books came out but in my head I didn't feel interested. The S&L video with her made me give it a try and it was so much fun! Naive but intelligent Alexia is a great character, and the audio is great.

I'm also reading Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel (National Book Award finalist) and Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age for another book club, so the Carriger was a great rompy antidote.

[Derek]

The mention of Harry Potter made me realize that it's been a while since I've listened to them. So I've decided to give them a relisten. Unfortunately I've never gotten around to putting them on my iPod. I'm on the road and only have access to the copies I uploaded to the Amazon Cloud Player, so I'm streaming them on my phone. And I'm discovering just how unready the network is for this type of use.

Anyway I've listened to book 1, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. And now working my way through book 2, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.