What Else Are You Reading? - July 2012

[Jim]

i just started this new book my wife bought today called the Diamond Club. It's pretty swell. The Diamond Club

[Dharmakirti]

For July, I passed on the group read because I was in the middle of re-reading Imajica by Clive Barker with some co-workers. I also finished The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco, The Inverted World by Christopher Priest and Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed. I've since started The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi and Shadowmarch by Tad Williams

[Dharmakirti]

Aloha wrote: "I wasn't planning to but started The Savage Detectives, by another Latin American writer. This is because a Goodreads friend started a forum to discuss that book, and the forum has a bunch of like-minded people whom I have a great dialogue with. This should be interesting because people either love or hate his work. I like divisive books."

Did you end up reading The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño? I've had it sitting on my shelf for about a year now. I picked up after having read Bolano's 2666 and being quite impressed by it, especially the Part About the Crimes, which chronicles the death of multiple young women and the efforts of the police to solve the crimes. Ever since hearing the Tori Amos song Juarez (from the album To Venus and Back), I've been interested in the subject of the murder of hundreds of women that has occurred over the years in Ciudad Juarez.

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[Dharmakirti]

Sandi wrote: "I'm about 1/2 way through the audiobook of Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder.

On my Nook, I'm reading Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake. I like ghost stories, and this..."

I've got the first two books in Mark Hodder's Burton & Swinburne series, The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack and The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man, on my Nook wishlist. They look like they would be fun reads.

[Rob]

I just finished up John Scalzi's Redshirts and Leviathan Wakes. Close to finishing up Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Prisoner of Heaven on audiobook. And just started reading Assassin's Apprentice. I have Jaspar Fforde's The Big Over Easy on audibook on reserve at the library after having read all of the Thursday Next books.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Dharmakirti wrote: "I picked up after having read Bolano's 2666 and being quite impressed by it, especially the Part About the Crimes, which chronicles the death of multiple young women and the efforts of the police to solve the crimes. Ever since hearing the Tori Amos song Juarez (from the album To Venus and Back), I've been interested in the subject of the murder of hundreds of women that has occurred over the years in Ciudad Juarez."
2666 was a great but difficult book... not hard to read, just hard subject matter.

I'm reading Assassin's Apprentice, Driving Over Lemons, and Skios.

[Keith]

Dharmakirti wrote: "I've got the first two books in Mark Hodder's Burton & Swinburne series, The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack and The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man, on my Nook wishlist. They look like they would be fun reads. ."

I read Spring-Heeled Jack, and it was a lot of fun, though perhaps loses control of itself a bit from time to time. It's choice of villains is...a topic for conversation when others have read it.

I had a schedule of upcoming reads, but skipped ahead a bit. I loved MultiReal so much that I jumped right into the third and final book in the series, Geosynchron.

If you are a fan of 80s cyberpunk but have no tolerance for cheesy imitations of 80s cyberpunk, this series is worth a look -- very similar without being an imitation. A natural evolution of the genre. Plus, you've never seen software development and distribution be so exciting.

[Jason]

Just finished a non-sci-fi fantasy book: The Sisters Brothers. I highly recommend it. When I first got my e-reader, I found Stephen King books were priced rather high. They've since come down, so now I plan on going back and finishing the Dark Tower series (got a 3rd of the way through book V)

[terpkristin]

Pssst! It's August :D