Which book are you reading currently? #3

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Am reading Coraline by Neil Gaimen while waiting for the books I may or may not be getting on my birthday. Also have some short stories thingy, which is quite dull.

 

@aik

new gaiman fan?

Yeah, definitely love hobb's work. Am now starting Mad Ship. I better get a copy of Ship of Destiny within the next 5 days or I'm going to get pissed off :/

 

@ Aiky

Coraline is good. Hope you enjoy it...

I guess I have to find these Robin Hobb books all you guys are talking about, since my daughter's taking her time with Harry Potter.

 

I just finished Dune. It is a good book. The movies were bad, should have none the book wasn't. But c'est la vie.

I started now Tales of the Dying Earth by Jackie Chan... ah Vance.

 

New Gaimen fan? Not really. I read American Gods and Neverwhere ages ago. My sister has just been going on a 'must get Neil Gaimen stuff!' spree, so consequently I've been reading more of it

Coraline was funky - now, to find something else to pass the time with...

 

ah, i see. well, I'm a gaiman fan have you read stardust too? good stuff.

 

Stardust rocks. I think that might be my favourite book of his, actually.

 

Thanks for that, Harbs. Methinks Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb will be my next purchase.

Does anyone know if I can get it via SP?

 

I'm reading:
HP Lovecraft - The Quest for the Unknown Kantath

It's so...so...so... there is no word to descript it!
I only wish I could write stories like this :-/

 

You have to read his "In the House of Old Witch". The title is probably wrong, but it is something in the lines.

 

yeah, stardust rocks. imo, it's because the stuff he uses there is stuff you've always heard of, particularly when you were little, but in such a different manner. he was here a coupla weeks ago, had my BATTERED copy of Neverwhere signed

 

Hmm, I liked Stardust because is had a certain feeling of magicalness ... which is something that I absolutely can't explain beyond that. Sadly, very few books have the 'magical' feel to them.
If you have a clue what I'm talking about and know of any others - feel free to recommend

 

i think i do, because i also can't explain why i like stardust so much 'fraid i don't know of any other books like it though..

what are some of the others? stardust is the only one that i've run across.

 

(Yeah, so we've hijacked this thread...)

I would say that Tolkien's work has 'magicalness', and The Last T'En Trilogy by Cory Danniels. But alas, that's about all in the way of books. They're not exactly *like* Stardust at all, but they ... feel magical.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is also worth checking out for this, now that I think of it.

The children's movies Beauty and the Beast and The Swan Princess also have it, as well as a few Nightwish and Within Temptation songs. The movie Big Fish feels magical too.

That's the exhaustive list of all that I've come across. Presently I'm exploring magical realism, which could very well have it. Especially hunting for the book Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin.

 

Just started in George Martin's "A Clash of Kings" after finishing its prequal "A Game of Thrones".

 

Just finished the Opal Deception by Eoin CPOifer. A very good book, if not quite on par with the earlier ones... I hope it will not be the last time we see Arty.

 

Reading the Binding Stone set in Eberron. Not bad.

 

Reading "The Brave Soldier Shveik"(dunno if that's the correct spelling, it's by Yaroslav Hashek) again. Laughing my lungs out. Continue reading. See second sentence.
And so it goes on...

 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. It's about an autistic boy who discovers a dead dog on his neighbour's lawn. A very good book. It feels good to get away from fantasy.