What are you reading?

[JadedWolf]

Speaking of King,

I was really disappointed with how the Dark Tower series was wrapped up, especially the last book. It just felt like King phoned it in, just to get it over with. Mordred the spider boy seemed so... pointless, and then the way Flagg was offed, so completely random and in such an insignificant way... Ugh.

 

 

[AGX-17]

Neverwhere, in which Mr. Croup now eternally sounds like Anthony Head, in my head.

 

I think Mr. Croup would have liked that awful pun.

 

Also Blood Meridian, for what it's worth.

Edited September 27, 2014 by AGX-17

[Monte Carlo]

Lovecraft.

 

Bejaysus it's hard work.

[Bartimaeus]

I read some book called...A Far Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier? "Multicultural" Literature class. Dreadfully boring, particularly the first half. Bleck. Would recommend only if you hated yourself...or if I hated you, maybe.

 

House on Mango Street - same class. Not as bad, but still kind of bad.

 

I should read a book I'm actually interested in one of these days...I don't read as much as I used to.

[Malcador]

Plodding through the Witcher series some more, two books officially translated and one of the short stories collection unofficially so.

[ShadySands]

I just finished Tad Williams 3rd Bobby Dollar book, Sleeping Late on Judgment Day.

 

I give it 1/1

[Oerwinde]

the Maztica books really got me interested in the Aztecs

[Guard Dog]

Now reading The Bird Box by Josh Malerman. It's ok, a little creepy but also a little hard to buy into. I can only suspend disbelief so far.

[Monte Carlo]

* Some military history about the battle for the Hurtgen Forest 1944-45. Given it was the 'Murican's costliest battle of WW2 it's kind of relegated due to the legend of the neighbouring Ardennes offensive (occurring slap-bang in the middle of the period). The author served as an infantry replacement in 1944 and clearly enjoys ripping all the generals a new one, juxtaposing their self-regarding memoirs with bloody reality.

 

* Some end-of-the-world schlock I can't even remember the title of. I read a lot. A damn lot. Books eventually mush into each other.

 

* More Lovecraft. I feel like I need some sort of literary Purple Heart for slogging through baroque prose and endless lists of Arctic expedition prerequisites.

[Raithe]

Please Don't Tell My Parent's I'm a Supervillain

 

An entertaining YA read, about the young daughter of a pair of retired heroes, who stumbles into her own Mad Scientist powers and along with her two friends end up being mistaken for breakthrough Supervillains. Every time they try to correct that view, things go slightly askew and they get seen as even better Supervillains.

 

Some interesting world building and characters, and a setup where the heroes and villains have a nice set up of "rules and conduct of behaviour". Those who break it, (especially by making it personal) tend to end up facing a couple of the villains or heroes who ensure there's an "accidental" death when they next get into a fight...

[Guard Dog]

The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend. by Tom Calvin & Bob Drury. I just started it last night but I'm hooked.

[Sarex]

Finished Revelation Space (Alastair Reynolds), it was ok. Looking forward to Chasm City(book 2), because that is the book that was recomended to me.

Edited October 26, 2014 by Sarex

[Malcador]

An odd request, but a friend is looking for some good Russian audiobooks - mystery, suspense, fantasy are her targeted genres. Any ideas ?

[ShadySands]

An odd request, but a friend is looking for some good Russian audiobooks - mystery, suspense, fantasy are her targeted genres. Any ideas ?

 

Boris Akunin is the the only stuff I'm familiar with and the Erast Fandorin series in particular

 

http://www.kniga.ru/audiobooks

 

I can ask around for more stuff

 

EDIT- Forgot to mention the World of Watches series though I admit I only saw the movies (Night Watch and Day Watch)

Edited October 28, 2014 by ShadySands

[CoM_Solaufein]

CompTIA A+ Certification. Should have went for this years ago when the book was half the size.

[Agiel]

An odd request, but a friend is looking for some good Russian audiobooks - mystery, suspense, fantasy are her targeted genres. Any ideas ?

 

The Strugatsky brothers' "Roadside Picnic" and Vladimir Sorokin's "Ice Trilogy" ticks off at least two of those checkboxes; I'm unaware if they come in audiobook form.

 

If she wants to broaden her search to other Eastern European countries she can't go wrong with Stanislaw Lem's work. Pirx the Pilot, The Cyberiad, and The Star Diaries being all time favourites of mine.

Edited October 28, 2014 by Agiel

[Sarex]

An odd request, but a friend is looking for some good Russian audiobooks - mystery, suspense, fantasy are her targeted genres. Any ideas ?

 

Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko, it has mystery, suspense and fantasy in it.

[Namutree]

I just got the Cleric Quintet. 

[AGX-17]

Finished Neverwhere, more than halfway through Good Omens. Anathema Device is the best name ever conceived. The AC organizing an Inquisition against witchcraft is gripping stuff.

 

Neverwhere needs to be remade as a TV series with the BBC Radio cast.

With additional seasons/series as the novel ending is blatantly a declaration of sequel-itis

 

 

Although it should be patently obvious what the ending of Neverwhere is given the nature of humanity. It's obvious from the start how it's going to end, but that's not a flaw on Gaiman's part. One of those "it's not the destination, it's how you get there" sort of things. It really feels like a setup for a broader media franchise, at least from the perspective of someone who couldn't possibly have seen the original TV series back in the '90s. And whom is tainted by the talents of today who performed the radio-play.

 

 

Not that I want Benedict Cumberbatch and Anthony Head to get sucked into what may or may not be a black hole, but I do want Natalie Dormer to be the one who makes fools of them through that means.

 

Edited October 30, 2014 by AGX-17