Which book are you reading currently? #3

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Alright, been away for a month, sitting my azz down by a pool in Portugal so I've quite the list.

"Deadhouse Gates" by erickson, tale of the malazan

Good but a lot of new characters and an entirely different contintent. The chain of dogs were brillaint though.

"Memories of Ice" by erickson, tale of the malazan

Great, easily the best.

"House of Chains" by erickson, tale of the malazan

Good, especially the chronicles of Karsa and of course fiddler and Kalam.

"CSI: binding ties"

Enjoyable because I love the show

"Pop goes the weasel" James patterson

Very enjoyable read this one within one day.

Finally reading "Midnight tides" also by erickson.

@JSBB

Yeah the dark elf trilogy is easily the best simply because a character is formed which is not Salvatores biggest asset.

 

Just finished the Da Vinci Code, standard detective story with conspiracious religionistical paganist arguments to tell us that women are equal to men, fah!!
It involved a sex scene, but with two old people... Just one of days that I am not happy with my ability to visualise the story while reading it

Now starting with the Dune book.

Did Jordan start the series with an idea of how it should end? Or will he push the series on and on until he dies and his son will be forced to write the last chapter where everyone will die horrible deaths and fans will rejoice.

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Finally finished "Siege of Darkness". It took me a while to finish it. Not that is bad though, it is better than Starless Night I guess.
Anyway, although I really liked the intrigue tidbits, I thought the battle descriptions boring and uninspiring.
I will start either one of Pretchetts books or the Potop - The Deluge - trilogy. Whichever I buy first.

 

just started golden fool by hobb.

 

I finished Sojourn - it was decent although I didn't think much of the Icewind Dale meetings chunk that was stuck on the end.

I am about to start on Bedlam's Bard by Mercedes Lackey and Ellen Guon. I don't have a clue as to what it is about and I have not heard any reviews/opinions about it so I am really going in blind on this one.

 

Yes. But it was vastly more succesful than anyone expected, so he extended it. It's now, I dunno, maybe three or four times the length it was intended to be. And it's not done yet.

Jordan, IMNSHO, doesn't seem up to the task of juggling all the plot threads he's set into motion. Hence the moving-through-molases speed of the past few books.

 

Finished Winter's Tale and am now starting on Snow Crash by Neal Stephanson.

 

Thanks to everyone's recommendations on this board, I picked up Robin Hobb's "Assassin's Apprentice". Off to an interesting start.

 

I just read "Heaven" by V.C Andrews because I was away from home and had nothing better to read. I forgot how depressing her books can be.

 

"The Reluctant Suitor" by Kathleen Woodiwiss. Tried getting into "Evermeet: Island of the Elves" by Elaine Cunningham, but just couldn't get beyond chapter one.

 

I finished Bedlam's Bard - it was very good, I am definitely going to be looking for the rest of the series.

I have started on Deathstalker Rebellion by Simon Green. It is about the same as the first Deathstalker book which pretty much slots it in as being quite disappointing compared to Green's Nightside or Hawk and Fisher books.

In all three series, Green's overuse of uber-characters makes Salvatore look quite restrained but at least Green's characters are normally well written, interesting and quirky. The ones in the Deathstalker series just seem overpowered and dull.

 

starting fool's fate by hobb.

 

I just started reading The Paradise War written by Stephen Lawhead.

 

Hyperion by Dan Simmons, it is starting to become quite interesting. It is tittering between "pulp" sci-fi and filosofical sci-fi in a quite intriguing manner.

 

Demons and Angels by Dan Brown - too Hollywood for my liking

 

Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"

 

Marion Zimmer Bradley's "World Wreckers".

 

Are her books as boring/crappy as the movie based upon her feminist version of Excalibur?

 

Count Zero by William Gibson - only read two chapters so far, but I'm really liking his writing style this time. It makes things feel ... exciting ... or something.

 

just finished all my hobb books. going to start Richard Baker's Farthest Reach, book 2 in the Last Mythal trilogy in the FR setting