Which book are you reading currently? #7

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Viddying A Clockwork Orange.

 

Took a break from The Gotrek and Felix Omnibus to read The Hedge Knight by G R R Martin from his Dreamsongs. I'm dying to read more - need to get my hands on the next one, I think it's called The Sworn Sword or something (need to check) then I'll just have to wait patiently for A Dance With Dragons.

 

Taking a break from His Dark Materials. Read Haldeman's The Accidental Time Machine, which was good but not great. Sort of like everything else the guy has written since the Forever War. Now halfway through Robin McKinley's Dragonhaven, which is certainly at least the second-best young adult novel I've read.

 

The Fractured Sky by Thomas M. Reid
It's a Forgotten Realms book. The ending stunned me

Spoiler

by the end Helm is dead and Mystra may be joining him. Must be an attempt to move into the 4ed rule set...

 

Overcoming Law by Richard Posner
The Economic Analysis of Law by Richard Posner

 

Slightly off-topic... but for one of my classes I have the option of writing about Voltaire's Candide, Engel and Marx's Communist Manifesto, or Wiesel's Night. Now, I've read Night and scanned much of the Communist Manifesto before, but I've never even come close to reading Candide. Has anyone here read it, and if so, do you think it is worth reading?

 

I think I have read and thought it to be quite enjoyable. Seeing as I have had a hard time enjoying much of the "classical" literature I have read I guess that is a fairly good grade.

 

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett. One of the better Discworld books IMHO.

 

I've just finished reading Clockwork Orange (a real horrorshow of a book) and, caught with no books to read at the hospital, ran down to the bookshop and bought Bill Bryson's Shakespeare.

Not bad so far.

 

'The Deed Of Paksennarion' AGAIN! It's one of my favourites. Really a book you can escape with.

Also 'Perelandra' The second book in C.S. Lewis' Sci-Fi trilogy. It's hard going but a good read.

BTW, is it just me that gets C.S. Lewis and Lewis Carroll mixed up?

 

Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr.

 

Thanks, Joacqin.

I do have to read them all, I just want to delve deeper into the book that promotes that, and is enjoyable.

 

Terry Pratchett's The last hero. The book itself is not one of his great ones, but I got the hardcover edition from the library, illustrated by Paul Kidby (in colour!), and the artwork is just amazing. There are illustrations of some of the Discworld's major characters, including Rincewind, Lord Vetinari, Carrot, Death and, my personal favourite, the Death of Rats, with a small kitten toying with its tail. It's brilliant

 

I've finished Bryson's Shakespeare. It's okay, not terribly scholarly (we need footnotes!), but it's a sensible, essential reading for anyone who wishes to know about Shakey and who doesn't want to get into the crazy, crazy, crazy scholarly debates that exist about him. Certainly if more people read it they would stop harping on about rubbishy theories that Shakespeare was not Shakespeare.

This afternoon my books on Japanese history should arrive - about 7 books in all. Joy! I'm not even sure which one to start reading first. After that I might get started on the Walsingham book that's been sitting on my shelf for a while.

 

I'm about to finish Robin Hobb's Fool trilogy and am looking to start something new. I'm think about starting on either Erikson's or Feist's books - can anyone guide me on this?

 

Hi, Spelly. Nice to see ya again. Erikson is way better than Feist. Feist is OK, but nothing like Erikson. The last book I read by Feist was _Into A Dark Realm_ and I lost interest after that one. But the place to start is with _Gardens of the Moon_. Good stuff.

 

Hi Chandos Nice to see you too! Thanks -- I've ordered Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates and Memories of Ice -- that should hold me for awhile. I've heard great things about Erikson - looking forward to starting on this series.

 

Speaking of Feist, I read Flight of the Nighthawks yesterday. I thought it was light-years better than the Conclave of Shadows books, on par with his earlier good books. Good political intrigue, multiple plot threads, and Pug, Nakor and Miranda actually do something in this one.

 

I just could not get into Nighthawks that much. I liked it enough to follow-up with Dark Realm, but I just lost interest after that one. Still, you may like that one was well, since you liked Nighthawks. Conclave is the prelude story to Nighthawks; Nighthawks is really a continuation of the same story.