Which book are you reading currently? #4

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Enagonios, C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew?

I really should revisit Narnia soon.

 

Gene Wolfe's The Wizard Knight

@Lai you mean you leave Narnia, how strange

 

Indeed it is my gel Uncle Andrew really is annoying

 

I have some free time to read now. My choice is Ken Follet - The Eye of the Needle

 

Eye of the Needle is such a great book. The Eagle has Landed is just as good.

Lately I've been reading the Handbook of Epoxy Resins (real exciting).

 

Currently reading Midnight's Mask, the last in the Erevis Cale trilogy. Pretty good, halfway through.

 

I like Ken Follet's books very much. Well maybe not all of them

 

Good point, Undertaker. Pillars of the Earth is a great book.

 

Yeah, Key to Rebecca and Triple are enjoyable as well, but Eye of the Needle is great. The movie with Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan is pretty good too.

 

The Risen Empire, by Scott Westerfeld. Stereotypical scifi, in that it's got pretty entertaining and interesting technology and plotting, but, erm, minimal characterization. At best.

Fun, but forgettable.

 

Darkness Visible by William Golding

 

will start the lion, the witch and the wardrobe tonight if i can do all my work without passing out

 

Currently working on Nietzsche's "The Gay Science", David Attenborough's "The Private Life of Plants" and Benjamin Hoff's "Te of Piglet".

Slow progress. I'll get to the end of them, eventually...

Waiting for the next volume of Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy.

But the last book I read was Terry Pratchett's "Going Postal". Bit of a Pratchett fan...

 

what's with the face? the boards are filled with Pratchett fans, I'm also now one of them how was the 1st book in soldier's son?

 

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe

err... Galaxy

 

Re-reading "A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold" by George R. R. Martin, in preparation for "A Feast for Crows" which I got the other day (I've forgotten everything that happened in the other books, I think).

 

Oh, the first soldier son book was ! As are all Hobb's books in my most humblest opinion. I'm head over heels with the way she plays the readers feelings. You actually find yourself arguing with the characters (No! Why'd you go and do that for!) and hope that the character would wisen up.

It's so great that for once a fictional character isn't just some kind of a narrator voice hanging in the ether, or a person with an amazing luck, who just does the right thing getting to the right goals without any actual effort. This is rarer than one would hope, but in Hobb's books (and in some other cases as well) it happens. Her characters have depth, and they grow as people.

On a different note, I'm waiting for Iain M. Bank's next novel as well. And those Ian Banks -books aren't bad at all either.

[ November 21, 2005, 08:13: Message edited by: Ichor ]

 

I just started some kooky book from the 1930's called 'Topper Takes a Trip' that my sister got for free when the library was trying to get rid of stuff. It's ... interesting. Magical realisticish, maybe, though I haven't gotten very far.

 

I have started on Red Death by P.N. Elrod - so far it has been forty pages of fairly dull character introduction and what appears to be a rather poor attempt at setting the stage for the beginning of the plot.

I find this bizarre given that Elrod normally jumps right into the plot, typically making you have to figure out what is going on along with the main character.

Heck, everything about this one is below Elrod's normal level - hopefully it will get better once the plot starts moving.

 

'Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams' by C.L. Moore.