Which book are you reading currently? #3

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Getting into The Children of Men by PD James --- dystopia rocks

 

I was on a Terry Brooks kick for the last few months. Read the Shannara series. Great books. His website turned me onto another great author, Eldon Thompson. I just finished "The Crimson Sword" by Eldon Thompson last night. Read it in a week. It's an epic fantasy with a lot of really good battle scenes. It would make a great movie someday.

 

Just started reading The game of Throne by George R. R. Martin.

 

Just finished "The Killing Dance" by Laurell Hamilton. It contained the first sex scene in the Anita series, so I guess it marks the beginning of Hamilton's metamorphosis into a writer of porn. Or is that erotica? Whatever.

 

I finished Assassin's Apprentice - I rather enjoyed it. There was nothing particularly special about the characters or plot but it was told well.

 

Reading the Sigma Protocol (or is it Directive?). I dunno, Sigma something by Robert Ludlum. Pretty good so far, about halfway through.

 

"The King and Queen of Swords" - by Tom Arden. Book 2 of the Orokon. Ok so far.

 

I just got Terry Goodkinds 'Debt of Bones' from the library, hope it's better than 'Naked Empire'.

 

"Ignorance" by Milan Kundera.

 

I have started on Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb. So far it has been pretty good but I think that if the main character goes on feeling sorry for himself for too much longer it will probably start wearing on my nerves.

 

C'mon JSBB, he's having a pretty bad time. Cut him some slack!

 

J.P. Jacobsen - "Niels Lyhne".

 

Fortunately the main character pulled out of his funk shortly after the point at which I wrote my last message. All in all I would say that it has been quite good so far.

There is one thing that is bothering me. I am not too impressed at the somewhat cliche direction that it appears is being taken with regards to King Shrewd.

 

Fools Fate by Robin Hobb. Can't wait to finish this trilogy, love the story.

 

Just finished reading City of Towers by Keith Baker, the first of the Eberron setting novels, it had me so hooked that I bought another one, Marked for Death. This whole Eberron setting has me enthralled, and the novels have been well written so far.

 

My brand new 1300 pages english dictionary.

 

I read Terry Goodkinds "Debt of Bones", a prequel to the "Sword of Truth" series, yesterday. It wasn't horrible, the fact that it's so short probably saved it. I just read a review of the new book "Chainfire", surprise, surprise, Kahlan goes missing AGAIN. I relly liked the first books in the series, but this ridiculous, can't TG come up with any other plot twist?

 

TG is a despicable writer, kinda liked his first books but his last 3-4 have been bad books and more of political pamphlets than fiction. Go read on his homepage, the man is a lunatic.

 

Lunacy doesn't necessarily make for bad writing. See: Orson Scott Card.

Finished Laurell Hamilton's Obsidian Butterfly, liked it a lot, but I'm done with the series and author now; I have no desire to read any more of her, eh...erotica, I suppose, which is what every books she's written after OB has been, or near enough.

 

Last And First Men
and
Star Maker

by Olaf Stapledon

At first I was struggling a bit with this man's way of writing. Then, when I got used to his extravagant style I really, truly wanted to throw it out of the window in a fit of frustration... the U.S. callously murdered the whole of Europe no sooner than on page 35 (I think)! =/ Of course, by then, Europe had already annihilated Russia...

Got over it eventually and continue reading ever since. Excellent stuff.