Which book are you reading currently? #6

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Montresor taught me how to type Gödel. Have to do it in notepad but now I do know how to do it.

A World Without Time is slow going but mesmerizing. I wish I remembered more college logic - I have to keep stopping to look things up, but it's still fascinating.

 

I've finished The Unicorn Girl series by Anne McCaffery. I've got to tell you, the titular character is annoying beyond belief. After the first few Chapters through the first book, I almost gave up.
Fortunately, the secondary characters in the book are pretty funny and well-developed. And, after the first book, the characters just get better and better.
And the titular characters hardly develops in any meaningful way at all...Except to whine more. She has her moments...But, not many.

In continuing with my 'Space-Fiction', I've started on the Deathstalker series by Simon Green. I'm liking it so far.

 

crap, I misplaced Sacrament until it turns up I will re-read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. I'll probably be done before I fall asleep tonight. If Sacrament hasn't turned up by then I will start on my new purchase, Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner. It's supposed to be quite good.

 

Rereading The Listeners, James Gunn.

@Enagonios, Thomas the Rhymer is a quite good and traditional fairy tale. I liked it. Quite different in tone from Swordspoint.

 

Finished Slaughterhouse-Five... don't know what to go for next.

 

erm. I still can't find Sacrament and I left my copy of Thomas the Rhymer in my bag at the gym so til I get it back I'm going to re-read Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie. Gods, I love Hercule Poirot. Give me an egocentric belgian over a scatterbrained englishwoman any day of the week.

 

I'm reading 3 at the moment:

1776
Road to the Patriarch (Entreri & Jarlaxle book 3)
The Children of Hurin

 

Magician by Raymond E. Feist

 

Starship Troopers- Heinlein. Awesome book, funny film.

 

Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson.

Just got it from amazon.

Some facts for those of you who are interested:

910 pages (that's 20 pages more than Bonehunters)
Better map of the Lether continent.
'Dramatis personae' are those of Midnight Tides, plus the returning Edur fleet and the 14th army (= Bonehunters). But no Ganoes Paran, no Apsalar and no Cutter.

 

A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist.

It's signed by him to. Original copy from 20 years ago.

 

Burning Chrome - William Gibson is a fricking genius.

 

I finished The Robots of Dawn while in England. I found it disappointingly boring. It was no where near as good as the first book.

I arrived home on Friday and found my large Science Fiction Book Club order waiting for me. I have started on Strange Candy by Laurell Hamilton. It is a collection of short stories and I would have to say that it is much better than anything else that Hamilton has published recently. I would take hope from that except that most of the stories were written quite a while back.

 

Kathleen Taylor - Brainwashing: The science of thought control

 

Finished A World Without Time, finally, and on the whole found it worthwhile - but the author kind of melts down in the last chapter and starts bashing Gödel's present-day critics, which I found a bit disappointing.

At loose ends about what to read next.

 

I finsihed Strange Candy. The last short story was a relatively new (2005) Anita Blake story. It is sad to say just how poor it was compared to the other stories that had been written between 1989 and 1995.

On the way home I will be starting on Summer Knight by Jim Butcher.

 

I just got addicted to Rome (the series) and have put Thomas the Rhymer on hold. I'm about to start The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCollough, picked it up at a used bookstore for 2USD, it's supposed to be quite good iirc..

 

@revmaf, Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid?

 

I finished Summer Knight and Death Masks (the next book in the series) yesterday. They were both very good.

I am continuing on with the Dresden books and will start on Blood Rites on the train ride to work this morning.

 

@Morgoth, thanks, I have that somewhere and read it decades ago at least (I'm old you know) and it's high time I read it again - will sort through the book piles on my day off and see if I can find it.

The problem with my book collection is that it's a sort of literary Bates Motel: books check in but they don't check out.