Which book are you reading currently? #6

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Both House of Chains and Memories of Ice rock. When is that Reaper's Gale coming out?

 

Mappo Trell and Icarium are better, I reckon.

Um, can anyone clarify the order of books in the series, cos I have a niggling suspiscion that I've missed a book out.

 

I kinda agree, but I did not think that House of Chains was all that bad (I really liked the second half of the book). I'm not very far into Midnight Tides, but so far it is really good. Yet thus far it starts a whole new thread to the story, with a new set of characters.

[ April 24, 2007, 04:51: Message edited by: Chandos the Red ]

 

I think House of Chains was good but Memories of Ice was excellent. I would have to say that the sections of House of Chains dealing with Karsa and Fiddler were interesting but just about all of the other characters' storylines really seemed to drag on at times.

SPOILER: I kind of have mixed feelings about the ending. In a way it is quite poetic for the dead from the chain of dogs to have their revenge but it really made the end too easy. I think I would have liked it better if Adjunct Tavore had got the chance to fight the battle and show us some nasty strategic work before the spirits from the chain of dogs joined in to seal the deal.
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I don't have Midnight Tides yet. For some reason the bookstores have had it only in paperback but the hardcover was supposed to be released last week. I got The Bonehunters in hardcover last October. The publishing schedule here is just completely messed up.

 

I am still stunned by how behind the US is. I read Bonehunters over a year ago and have had time to read it again. It rocks big time. Karsa Orlong rules.

 

How could I forget about Tehol Beddict

Yes, Tehol is my favorite character. I love that whole useless conversation thing that he and his manservant Bugg have got goin on

Anyway I just finished The Average American Male by Chad.. Kultner(?). If you're a feminist you'll probably want to take a shotgun to the guy but if you're expecting a pig of a book all about sex you'll find it hilarious I'm broke now and it's a pretty short book so I read it at the bookstore earlier, frickin hilarious

 

Yeah well it has been really annoying for me to have The Bonehunters sitting there just waiting to be read for six months but not able to do so because the previous book in the series was not available in hardcover yet.

I think that in Canada we are getting trade paperback editions on roughly the same schedule as you get the hardcovers in New Zealand but the hardcovers are not being released until the US release date. My copy of The Bonehunters is from the U.K. I think which is why I was able to get it in hardcover before the September 07 North America hardcover release date.

I must say that I have NEVER heard of a publisher bringing out a trade paperback before a scheduled hardcover release. Releasing a hardcover version of a popular book that was originally released only in paperback is one thing but releasing a trade paperback then a hardcover then another paperback edition is just plain weird.

I was sorely tempted to pick up the trade paperback of Midnight Tides but I knew that I would just end up getting the hardcover anyway so I have been patient.

 

Interestingly strange. Especially since the books say Erikson lives in Canada...

Reading "Byzantium: The Apogee" by Norwich at present. Oh, the intrigues... and the poor envoys time and again returning to their homeland with promising news - to find the emperor had died in the meantime.

And those emperors... everything from purebred, learned aristocrats of the nth generation to mostly-illiterate, violent armenian adventurers to the one who spent most of his time caring for his newly built, 2000-strong horse stables.

Very entertaining reading on the bus in the morning.

 

Finally finished Vonnegut's Player Piano... it wasn't bad, I just had no inclination to read it.

 

I finished Friday on the train ride home. It was excellent. It is by far the best Heinlein book that I have read (although admittedly I have only read a few of his books).

I have started on The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov.

 

I finished The Caves of Steel yesterday on the train ride home and I started on the next book The Naked Sun. It is an excellent series but that is what you would expect from Asimov. Unfortunately with my working from home today and flying to England tomorrow it will probably be a couple of weeks before I get to finish it.

 

Just starting "Night Watch" by Terry Pratchett.

 

Tehol Beddict rocks.

I am now reading "Monstrous Regiment" by Terry Pratchett.

 

I gave in and am reading Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. At the same time for one of my classes I'm reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

 

Feast of Souls - Celia Friedman. It's intriguing, and gives me good ideas for Ars Magica plots...

 

I ended up bringing the book with me so I finished The Naked Sun on the plane. It was o.k. but not nearly as good as The Caves of Steel. I continued on to start on The Robots of Dawn which has been surprisingly boring so far.

 

A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel And Einstein, by Palle Yourgrau. I'm having to dust off my college symbolic logic and foundations of mathematics memories but it's a fascinating review of Godel's nearly forgotten logical proof that in a world in which Einsteinian relativity is true, time cannot exist. (Yes, I know Godel's name is supposed to have an umlaut but I don't know how to type one here.)

 

The Sheep Look Up - John Brunner, just to continue in the apocalyptic theme.