What Else Are You Reading - April 2011 Edition

[Tamahome]

Also reading Dan Abnett's . No, it's not a Warhammer 40k book. I'm on page 100, and the embedding is alllllllmost happening.

[Trent]

Tamahome wrote: "Also reading Dan Abnett's . No, it's not a Warhammer 40k book. I'm on page 100, and the embedding is alllllllmost happening."

I'm really struggling through the start of it. I love his 40k and HamFantasy stuff, but the immersion in this world isn't very smooth so far.

[Tamahome]

Yeah the enchipment doesn't happen til after page 100.

Has anyone been reading Ian Douglas's Star Carrier books?

[Ken]

Just finished the last of Peter F. Hamilton's Void Trilogy and am part-way through King's Wizard and Glass in Audible form.

On the book shelf, I still have The Once and Future King to finish (I bogged down at Lancelot) and the rest of Harry Turtledove's Settling Accounts series (after having read the other series' that lead up to this series.)

[Ken]

Tamahome wrote: "I'm tryin'... "

Yeah, I tried Red Mars and made it 1/2 way. I just wish it were a little more about, well, Mars.

[Tamahome]

That's exactly where I'm faltering. :)

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Tad]

Started reading The Black Company books by Glen Cook. Started out phenomenal. Now reading the 7th book, and it's really slowing down.

Still, I was so impressed by the first three -- they actually got me to read fantasy again, after I kinda... didn't for a decade -- that I'm going to read through 'til the end

[Matthew]

I have beenvworking on Tahn, which i am torn about. On the one hand the concept of a killer saving a girl from killers is a good one. However the Christain overtones are slightly turning me off.

[Nomad]

Just finished reading (listening to) The Hidden Institute by Brand Gamblin and am halfway through Astel: Chosen by J.R. Murdoch. Both are pretty fun, quick paced stories.

[Joe]

I just finished Ship Breaker which I liked a lot and am now eagerly anticipating the second one. Currently, I decided to give The Name of the Wind a try. I know many people here love it and I've heard very good things elsewhere as well. Fantasy isn't really my thing, but I've been wanting to try one recently, so I figured this is as good a choice as any.

[Chris]

I just Finished 'The Wolf Age' by James Enge. I found it enjoyable, but because it centered on werewolves I was less than thrilled. (I loved 'Blood of Ambrose' so I gave this one a shot too.) I'm so completely worn out on the current fascination of werewolves and vampires: I wish the whole subgenre would implode and die a horrible death.
Now I'm reading 'The Stormcaller' by Tom Lloyd and it's quite a fun easy read, if a bit derivative. Unfortunately It appears there may be a freaking vampire lurking in this story too, so I may be less than happy about how this one turns out in the near future.

If anyone has some good recommendations of new works that are vampire and werewolf free, I'd love to hear about them.

[Tamahome]

Chris wrote: "If anyone has some good recommendations of new works that are vampire and werewolf free, I'd love to hear about them..."

There's plenty of zombies and steampunk!

[Philip]

Just finished The Wise Man's Fear(awesome) and started The Reapers Are the Angels(digging it).

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Joe wrote: "I just finished Ship Breaker which I liked a lot and am now eagerly anticipating the second one. Currently, I decided to give The Name of the Wind a try. I know many p..."
I have had to give up saying that fantasy isn't my thing after being around this crowd for very long. It was more about discovering which parts i liked! I liked Shipbreaker too, more than the Windup Girl.

I've started listening to Bossypants and it has some funny bits.

[Laurent]

I just finished Magic on the Hunt by Devon Monk, a local Portland writer. I'm also reading Wit'ch Star by James Clemens. This series is extending its stay IMHO

[Jlawrence, S&L Moderator]

Doing a quick non-fiction break with Assassination Vacation and The Fallen: Searching for the Missing Members of The Fall before plunging into Wise Man's Fear.

[Brandon]

I finished all 3 books in the Cassandra Kresnov series and enjoyed all of them. A nice solid set of sci fi with some action, a bit of cyber tech and good characters without any hard scifi which can be good but sometimes a bit tiresome.

I also read The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie and loved it, I am now onto the seconf book in the series. I really am enjoying how well the author moves between different characters and how all of their world views seem natural for the character and that their world views are distinctly different.

[Jonathan]

Abercrombie gets better and better, book by book.

Almost done re-reading The Eye of the World. I have The Magicians ready and waiting, but as soon as my wife finishes Game of Thrones, I can start my re-read of that series in anticipation of Dragons.

Also Name of the Wind. Taking this one very slow. In part because it is SO SLOW.

[[deleted user]]

Just finished a re-read of Retribution Falls. Good stuffs. Steampunk-lite version of Firefly, minus the whole space travel thing.

[Kevin]

I'm working on World War Z.

[Boots]

I just finished The Graveyard Book; something nice to floss my brain with after Blindsight. I'm about to start Watership Down, and I also have The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress from the library; I'd like to read them before I pick up whatever it is we're reading in May.

[Anne]

Currently about 40% into Pattern Recognition and I'm still trying to get through 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. The second book has been a slow read for me and I've probably started it more than a year ago and can only get through it in chunks. This also means that I've totally lost context by now and what little I actually really understood before is getting less. I still want to finish it to be finally done with it. Somehow pathetic, since I don't think I'm getting out of this book.

Pattern Recognition is pretty good, though.

[Sanjiv]

Finished Helix. Helix

The ideas hit me hard, actually. Hoping for a sequel.

[Tamahome]

Sanjiv wrote: "Finished Helix. Helix

The ideas hit me hard, actually. Hoping for a sequel."

Oh, that's not the Eric Brown book? Sounds interesting. Also sounds like it's self-epublished, with some copyediting needed.

[Sanjiv]

Tamahome wrote: "Also sounds like it's self-epublished, with some copyediting needed.
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It is self-epublished, with LOTS of copy editing needed. Still won me over though, and I hear there are fixed versions out there, though certainly the Kindle version hasn't been corrected.

[Phillip]

I'm currently reading The Difference Engine, having never read any steampunk I heard this book kind of defines the genre.

I'm currently listening to Quicksilver. I'm having a little trouble with this book. So far I really really don't understand the draw. I wonder if I would enjoy it more if I was physically reading it instead of listening to the Audible recording.

[Jim]

Finished Judas Unchained by Peter Hamilton and really enjoyed it - On to The Dreaming Void!

Regards, Jim

[Tamahome]

The latest Starshipsofa podcast has a Peter F. Hamilton short story: http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2011...