What Else Are You Reading - October 2014

[kvon]

I really enjoyed Ancillary Sword. It picks up shortly after the first book left off, then moves off to a new direction.

I also read A Darkling Sea, not quite as good but the underwater aliens were well done.

[Joseph]

Finished Troika and am about to start Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan.

[Rob, Roberator]

I got an early review copy of the audio for William Gibson's new book The Peripheral. It was decent, but not fantastic. (My Review).

[Tamahome]

Started the new Peter F. Hamilton. But the neat technology is breaking down, dammit!

[Tokio]

Read hitchhickers guide to the galaxy, and started Dune. Hopefully I can finish the farseer trilogy after Dune if I can stop crying when I'm reading it.

[Ally]

Tokio wrote: "Read hitchhickers guide to the galaxy, and started Dune. Hopefully I can finish the farseer trilogy after Dune if I can stop crying when I'm reading it."

I've been wanting to read Dune for a while. Please keep me informed of it's worthiness (I ask of you instead of other people in the group, because you are a girl of similar age to me, it appears).

[Dara]

Finished Crux this weekend. My review. Now I'm reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for another club and Snow Crash.

[Michele]

I did a reread of Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card. I like this book, but the others in the series don't interest me, not sure why.

Then Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor sort of a knock off of Connie Willis time travel. Was ok fun, not great.

Now rereading The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas as partial inspiration for my NanoWriMo story.

And listening to The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson for Halloween scary.

[Thane]

Doctor Sleep by some new guy.

[Stephen]

I have started the audio of Prince of Fools. If you liked Jezal from Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy. then you will like Mark Lawrence's Jalan. Not as dark as Lawrence Broken Empire's Jorg.

[Casey]

I recently finished two of the James S.A. Corey Expanse Novellas.
* The Churn: An Expanse Novella - My review.
* Gods of Risk - My review.

Kind of wish now I'd taken a pass.

[CatBookMom]

Sandra wrote: "This weekend I finished Old Man's War by John Scalzi. Had to read this book to see what all the hubbub was about. I'm glad to say that I was not disappointed, I enjoyed this book so m..."

I enjoyed that and the sequels.

[Alex]

I'm half-way through my Hallowe'en pick, Joe Hill's Horns. It's very dark, to the point where I have trouble sympathizing with the protagonist on a regular basis, but I'm still enjoying it.

[Ally]

Alex wrote: "I'm half-way through my Hallowe'en pick, Joe Hill's Horns. It's very dark, to the point where I have trouble sympathizing with the protagonist on a regular basis, but I'm still enjoying it."

I didn't read it, but I LOVED the movie! It is the best movie I have seen all year! Perfect combination of humor, violence/gore, and an intriguing plot line, with good actors. Daniel Radcliffe really came out of his Harry Potter shell to me.
I liked it so much that I wish I had read the book first. I don't know why I didn't... probably because I wasn't amazed by NOS4A2. But on the other hand, I am super in-love with Locke and Key....

[Chris]

Horns was awesome, have yet to see the movie but I'm interested. Almost finished with 1984, which is very creepy in its own way. Just started The Magicians as well and I'm very intruiged.

[Joseph]

I just finished Unmade (so good!) and started City of Dreams & Nightmare by Ian Whates.

[terpkristin]

Ally wrote: "I've been wanting to read Dune for a while. Please keep me informed of it's worthiness (I ask of you instead of other people in the group, because you are a girl of similar age to me, it appears)."

I personally couldn't get into Dune and don't really get the hype. I've tried reading it a few times, including when the club read it way back when. I Lem'd it before Lem'ing was a thing. I could never get into it and had no interest in the main character who I found annoying. But others (like Emma, above) seem to love it. So different strokes...

[Steve H]

Dune...I made the mistake of seeing the movie and was scarred for life. so I'm to scared to attempt reading the books after that :)

[[deleted user]]

I also never cared for Dune. The writing was poor, he really needed a good editor to clean it up. I do realize that back then sci-fi was trash not worth the time of a good editor. But Clarke and Asimov could avoid most grammatical errors.

I found the underlying philosophical basis distasteful, very social Darwin. I think I could have taken the poor writing if I didn't disagree so strongly with the premise.

[Misti]

Finished reading The Last Continent last night and finished listening to Alif the Unseen this morning. Can't wait to start reading The Slow Regard of Silent Things when I get home this evening.

[AndrewP]

I had to put The Fall of Hyperion on hold as I just got The Republic of Thieves from the library after a 3 month wait.

[Sky]

We've been in Costa Rica since last Friday, but were quite busy getting ready for the wedding on Tuesday. Now that the honeymoon is starting I finally have time to start reading again and relax enjoy the vacation :) Finished Off to Be the Wizard which was an immensely enjoyable light and funny read. Up next I'll start The Black Prism and then Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Stephen]

Got the World of Ice & Fire/ Slow Regard of Silent Things combo shipping from my Amazon Pre-order.
(Wonder how many of those got shipped) Plus next week Steven Erikson of Malazan Fame has a SciFi novel coming out Willful Child.

[Carolina]

So I finished Alif the Unseen and quite liked it. Also Secret of a Thousand Beauties, such a lovely story. I read Mini Shopaholic...ugh I'm officially over the series, it took me one day to read the book and at the end I was asking myself, why did I wanted to read it in the first place...only reason being I had read the previous one...not a good enough reason I tell you!

[Rob]

I just reread As I Lay Dying, which is a *fantastic* Halloween read! and pretty short too. It's Faulkner's story of a family of inept psychic hicks toting a mother's corpse across the country to be interred with her kin. It's got ghosts and visions and roaring flames and raging waters and overall one truly epic journey. Also it's thoroughly grotesque black comedy. Like, Louie Ck levels of dark comedy.

[Robobobo]

I've just started "Mistborn" and I love it! It's a little infodump-y at the beginning but I actually like that, so I didn't mind. Characters are likeable, the world is interesting and still holds lots of mysteries to be explained. Really looking forward to the rest of the trilogy!

[Joel]

Robobobo wrote: "I've just started "Mistborn" and I love it! It's a little infodump-y at the beginning but I actually like that, so I didn't mind. Characters are likeable, the world is interesting and still holds l..."

I am really excited for you. Brandon Sanderson is my favorite fantasy author. I have yet to be disappointed by any of his books. I hope you like his work.

[Robobobo]

Joel wrote: "I hope you like his work."

Well, so far I definitely do. It feeds my appetite for fantasy that I usually get at this time of the year.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Still in October, I read A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny. It's told from the point of view of Snuff, a talking dog. My review...

[Sean]

A day late, but I listened to Neil Gaiman's Click-Clack the Rattlebag yesterday. Short and creepy, and best of all, free on Audible! And read by Neil himself!

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Sean wrote: "A day late, but I listened to Neil Gaiman's Click-Clack the Rattlebag yesterday. Short and creepy, and best of all, free on Audible! And read by Neil himself!"

He's a great reader.