Which book are you reading currently? #5

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just finished a feast for crows. dammit, when's the next one coming out

 

The Secret Pilgrim by LeCarre.

Not as good as The Spy Who Came in From the Cold or Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

 

killing time. am reading "Death in the Air" by Agatha Christie (again)!

 

Picked up book 3 of the Liveship Traders series again after getting bored and putting it down. I can't get enough of it now. I'll be reading the Fool series again after this one I think.

 

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

Frickin' awesome hard SF. Took me fifty pages to get into it, but now that I am...damn. Hamilton is not even close to being in the same league.

 

Just finished Blood Hunt by... err, ian Rankin under some pseudonym or othger. it was decent enough, good solid thriller with a plot just a bit implausible. But I liked it

 

Prisoner of Azkaban

 

I read Reynold's before Hamilton and even though I thouroughly enjoyed Reynold's I found the epic scope of Hamilton's books even more appealing.

 

about to start the Anubis Gates by Tim Powers.

 

Clancy, Executive Orders

 

I finished the Grantville Gazette 2 last Wednesday and I started Fool's Errand but I worked from home on Thursday and Friday so I have not really had any reading time until today. So far Fool's Errand seems remarkably slow paced.

 

JSBB, I suspect you will be driven nuts by the slow pace of the Tawny Man trilogy. Lucky you read so fast.

I'm still 3/4 of the way through "Memories of Ice" by Steven Erikson. I'm up to the big siege of Capustan. Does anybody do sieges better than Erikson?

 

Fool's Errand's 1st half is basically a recap of the Farseer Trilogy. I guess that's why it seems pretty slow.

 

Singularity Sky by Charles Stross

It's pretty good, though the blurbs on the back exaggerate its merit (shocking, I know).

 

So long as you've read the Assassin books first I don't see how you could consider the Tawny Man series slow paced. You've got to remember that you're not reading a Steven 'let's see how much confusing crap I can fit into one chapter' Erikson action-fest. Robin Hobb likes you to get to know the characters she creates almost like an old friend rather than just use them as tools to further the story. if you get what I mean...

 

I am on about page 287 now. I would say that the pace has been ok since Fitz left his cabin but up until that it was too slow and didn't seem to do much to either advance the characters or set up the plot.

 

Barmy, the Tawny Man books ARE great, but that first part in his cabin is a bit unnecessary. It doesn't take much to work out that:
a) he doesn't want to leave his cabin; but
b) he eventually will (I'm not spoiling much by saying this as it is obvious from the blurb on the back and the picture on the cover).

Also, in all that time, we find out hardly anything about the character of Hap, which might have been a worthwhile by-product of spending half a book centred in that area.

Drifting further off-topic, I think Hobb does a good job on SOME of her characters but some of them are surprisingly 2 dimensional (Kettricken comes to mind - that SHOULD be great character - but somehow isn't)

Back on topic, I'm taking a brief interlude to read a Justice League "graphic novel", which is just a fancy way of saying I'm reading a comic.

 

What other authors can you recommend? I need something new to read.

 

Trudi Canavan - The High Lord trilogy Barmy