Which book are you reading currently? #6

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Kushiel's Justice - Jacqueline Carey

Pretty good. A significant improvement on the previous book.

 

Demons by (my favorite author) Fyodor Dostoevsky.

also, a technical biography of Fischer Black and the influence of his Black-Scholes Theorem, among other things.

 

Still halfway through "Reaper's Gale" by Steven Erikson. How does he write such huge books so brilliantly and so quickly?

Memo to George R. R. Martin: write faster! If Erikson can do it, so can you.

 

Lords of the North - Bernard Cornwell. Another excellent book in an excellent series.

 

I am presently reading "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey as well as ATTEMPTING to plow my way through "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville. That is taking some mental discipline, let me tell you.

Also just got hooked on Jack Whyte -- presently waiting or the library to get me a copy of "The Singing Sword." -- don't want to read his later stuff until I get the first stuff read.

 

Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles are very good. It's an interesting tale and very different from your standard Arthurian legend. I really enjoyed reading them.

 

Thud! - Terry Pratchett

Where's my daddy?
Is that my daddy?
It goes, "Bugerit Millennium hand and shrimp!"
He is Foul Olde Ron!
That's not my daddy!

Now I want to read Where's My Cow?

 

Moved on to Mad Ship, the second of Hobb's 'Liveship Traders' series... the first was a great book (although, not quite as good as any of the Farseer trilogy), hopefully this will be just as good or better.

 

That's good to know, Saber. I've looked at that series many times but never picked up any of the books. I enjoyed the Farseer series and often wondered if this series was worth reading.

 

Just finished House of Chains by Steven Erikson. Great stuff. So many players and so many places without losing the thread or losing pace; this series is easily one of the best I've read so far.

Will be continueing the series with Midnight Tides later on, but first I'll read Neal Asher's Polity Agent. I love the feel of the world he creates, especially the AIs with attitudes.

I've also been looking at some of Terry Pratchet's Discworld novels, but the sheer amount of them has left me wondering which ones I should pick up first. I highly suspect that not all of them will be of the same level, so I'd like some advice of which one to start with.

 

The only Pratchett novel I've read was "Going Postal," and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

Pratchett best work is his "middle" work in my opinion. The first ones are a bit too rough and rugged and the latest are a tad too dramatic focused more on story and drama than humour (still funny and the drama aint bad but it isnt the laugh out loud of the books he wrote in the "middle").

 

Finished Elantris, I'm on The Messenger by Daniel Silva now. I'm a big fan of his Gabriel Allon series.

 

On a tangent from the current discussion here, I'm reading The Science of Discworld, co-written by That Man Pratchett, and scientists Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.

The chapters alternate between a DW story involving itself with the University Faculty, and serious 'essay-lets' about the history of science, the universe and our world and how it (apparently, according to current evidence, theory the like) came to be the way it is now.

It gets into some really deep stuff, but its written in a manner that allows the open-minded layman to 'get in on the ground floor' - maybe influence of Mr. P on the two science-geeks?

 

Man, I really get hooked on Silva's Allon stuff. Slept early in the morning yesterday because I couldn't stop til I finished the whole damn book :/

started To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust.

 

Ooooo, how'd you like it? I love that book.

Moved on to Ship of Destiny... this series is getting wicked good.

 

I just read 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' and I may read '...Order of the Phoenix' now, lol.

 

Threshold - Caitlin R. Kiernan

Picked it up because it had a blurb from Neil Gaiman. So far so good. It's amusing to me that the cover is typical 'paranormal romance' fare, but the content is anything but.

 

am about to finish To Reign in Hell and have just started Fury by Salman Rushdie because a friend said that Solly reminds him of me :/

Elantris was pretty good as you said Saber. I thought Hrathen was an awesome character.