Which book are you reading currently? #3

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King of Foxes - Raymond Feist. This is the second part of the "Conclave of Shadows." So far, it's ok....

 

dmc, you legend. That Susan Cooper series was awesome, but I'm too scared to read it again in case I get disappointed.

 

Enagonios,
Glad you liked the Tim Powers 'Drawing of the Dark'. It's not the best written book in the world, nothing like as good as, say, 'A Night in the Lonesome October' (Zelazny).

However it does have plenty of charm, and near the end where Duffy was slowly being 'subsumed' it was powerful stuff imo. There were times when I could see it in my minds eye as I read, which is what the best stuff can do.

ps. Interesting you mentioned 'Weaveworld' by Clive Barker way back on this thread. I have a friend who thinks it is one of the best books he ever read. Liked it myself, too.

[ October 06, 2005, 23:08: Message edited by: Gilden ]

 

"A Fortress of Grey Ice" Part 2 of the Sword of Shadows, by J. V. Jones.

This is actually looking like a reasonable trilogy. It's a wee bit formulaic, but the writing is such a class above that Forgotten Realms rubbish I was reading before that I'm finding it to be quite good.

 

'F' is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton. It's very good, color me surprised. I think I'll give this series a read through. It should last me a while since Sue is up to S now.

 

Anybody here read anything by William Hope Hodgson. He died in the First world War, but wrote several books around the 1910's. Some of his stuff get reprinted every now and again.
Mostly supernatural stuff of one kind or another and well worth hunting for.

Notable stuff includes
The House on the Borderland (spooky)
The Night Land (spooky, hell on 'Earth')
The Boats of Glen Carrig (sp)(shipwrecked on strange dreary land)
Carnacki the ghost hunter (my favourite)

On a completely different tack (pun !) for those that have never read the long Patrick O'Brien series of Aubrey and Maturin. Set largely on warships in the early 1800's, it is a thoroughly researched and relistic look into that period. Start with book 1. 'Master and Commander'. Terrific stuff.

 

Just finished the first Book of the Malazan the fallen.

Quite amazing, slightly overwhelming and most certainly made not to be rushed through. If it still is, the clarity of what's going on is definitely clouded.


Now, onwards, to devour the second!

 

The Santaroga Barrier, by Frank Herbert.

Nowhere near as good as Dune, and unfortunately it's hard not to compare because, even though the 2 books have nothing to do with each other at first glance, you can see many similarities eventually. It's still a good book though.

 

Fallen Hearts - V.C. Andrews. How did I suck myself into reading a V.C Andrews series. These books are seriously morbid.

 

I read Raymond E. Feist's Exiles Return over the weekend. Part 3 of The Conclave of Shadows series, I thought it was a trilogy but apparently there's at least one more book in the comming. It started out great, but the ending was only average, but I guess that makes it an ok book.

 

IIRC it is a trilogy, and the next 2 (or 3?) books are another series that picks off where Exile ends.

 

I'm reading Frank Herbert's Children of Dune. I'm just wishing that I owned the books that come after this one.

 

The Year of Rogue Dragons: The Rage By Richard Lee Byers. Looks interesting so far.

 

@Gilden

yeah, weaveworld was pretty awesome, a number of other SPers also liked it iirc. right now i'm temporarily stopping my fantasy run and going back to the classics with agatha christie's ABC murders, I love Hercule Poirot

 

Storm of Swords part 2:Blood and gold, third in the A song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin.

10 more days and it's time for a Feast of Crows. That will be a weekend with the phone unplugged and me in my comfy chair untill I finish it. Than waiting the next 3 (hopefully) years in eager anticipation of A dance with Dragons.

 

The Jon Shannow books(Wolf in Shadow, The Last Guardian and Bloodstone) by David Gemmel. Really enjoying them.

And still reading Game Of Thrones by G.R.R Martin.

 

I'm a few chapters through Robert Jordan's The Great Hunt.

I've read up to book four, and I know that they start to get pretty bad a couple of books after that, but I'd like to read my way through them all so far, just for the sake of reading them.

 

A new one: A Breath of Snow and Ashes, by Diana Gabaldon. It's book six (or should that be brick six?) in her Outlander series, and they are all well worth the read.

(And the first book, Outlander, was just re-released by Seal Books, at a very reasonable price - I think I paid 6.99 CDN$ at Wal*Mart? - so it's a great time to delve into the series if you haven't yet indulged. )