Which book are you reading currently? #3

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Read the third, second, and fourth books in Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake series. Fun stuff, though the romantic entaglements in book four are a tad whack--she has to date more than one person at once, or else violence ensues? Heh.

 

I'm reading Master of the Cauldron by David Drake.

I admit I like the series, even though almost every book follows the same formula (All the characters get seperated and go through their own ordeals, get reunited for the big finale, celebrate).

 

@AMAster - yeah those early books were pretty good - unfortunately the series is pretty much all down hill from there.

I am currently reading Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card. It has been o.k. so far but I am still waiting for the story to get beyond the introducing the characters phase.

 

Just finished re-reading "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester. This tale of the revenge-driven Everyman, Gully Foyle, is still one of the great ones.

 

"Lawns and Groundcover" by Eion Scarrow. Got to renovate my lawn before winter hits. Time to get rid of the paspallum and resow the bare patches.

 

JSBB...when does the series start going down hill? I want a specific title to avoid

 

@AMaster - I would say that book two is by far the best in the series and it starts slowly but gradually going down from there. I would say that they are still worth reading up to Obsidian Butterfly (book 9) but after that there is a pretty big fall in quality.

I just finished Seventh Son - it was o.k. but it really seemed to be more of a very extended introduction instead of a complete novel.

 

Just finished King of Foxes by Raymond E. Feist, it's the second book of his latest series. I really liked it at first, finally a book were Pug doesn't save the world from imminent destruction. Well... Pug was instrumental in saving the world of Midkemia again and will probably do some more worldsaving in the next volume.

 

"Dawn of Night" the second in the Erevis Cale series by Paul S. Kemp. Another thumbs up so far.

 

Hitchhiker's Trilogy I - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Just finished it. What a way to start a five part trilogy Starting on II - Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

 

@newfie

would you recommend that i pick up dawn of night without first reading twilight falling? Dawn of Night is the only one they sell here, whatta hassle

 

You might be left in the dark some. I wouldn't really recommend Dawn of Night yet; I am only about halfway through and it seems to be getting worse. The first one was good though, if you can order it in from a bookstore. Revolves around three thieves' adventures with shapeshifting villains, first in a city, then in ancient Netherese temple in the jungle. Original and refreshing for a WotC book, best since City of Ravens. Also not bad are Venom's Taste and the Rage.

 

I finished Red Prophet and Prentice Alvin. Both were decent enough and while they most certainly were part of the larger series they felt much more like they were complete stories than Seventh Son did.

I am not sure what I am going to start next - maybe book four or I might take a break from it and read Rhapsody. I picked it up yesterday, someone gave me books two and three of that series and they have been sitting gathering dust for quite some time now.

 

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm reading it to my daughter at bedtime. She wants me to get through the book before we see the movie.

 

How old is your daughter, that she is interested in Hitchhiker but not reading it herself?

 

She's nine. This way I can "edit" stuff if I deem it necessary.

She likes when I read aloud to her because I will give each character a different "voice."

Sometimes I even manage to make them sound different.

 

Quality. I've also become much better at doing funny voices since I've had to read "Bad Jelly the Witch" to HB jr.

 

Found out we decended not from apes but from hairdressers And boy is misery contagious, even amongst robots. So the actual trilogy is over. Wonder what books IV and V have in store.

 

It's a actually a five part trilogy so IV&V are part of the 'trilogy' . I think I'll have to reread it once again before I see the movie, getting a bit bored with Steinbeck's King Arthur although I just started reading it, Merlin is such a drag. Does it get any better?

 

I decided to go for something completely different so I started reading Hawk and Fisher by Simon Green. So far the writing style is quite good but I had to groan a few minutes ago. The story just turned into an Agatha Christie locked room murder mystery and those almost never turn out to be half as good as Christie's ones.