What Are You Reading? 3

[pip]

I'm about 10 chapters into The Long War and I'm really struggling with it.

I feared this might happen. Clash of styles between the authors might not suit both sets of fans.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I'm about 10 chapters into The Long War and I'm really struggling with it.

I feared this might happen. Clash of styles between the authors might not suit both sets of fans.

Catch-up is it not as good as the Long Earth which for me got a bit repetitive in the middle.

@pip if you have read it what's your verdict on it.

 

[Catch-up]

Thinking back to The Long Earth, I remember it being more exciting. Mostly because it was all new and you're figuring out how it's all going to work. Maybe I'm not being patient enough with this one. There's a lot of information to catch the reader up and illustrate all the new political situations that have evolved. And, I hate to say it, but I'm just not liking the characters very much.

 

[pip]

I'm about 10 chapters into The Long War and I'm really struggling with it.

I feared this might happen. Clash of styles between the authors might not suit both sets of fans.

Catch-up is it not as good as the Long Earth which for me got a bit repetitive in the middle.

@pip if you have read it what's your verdict on it.

Not read the long war yet. Was 50 50 on the Long Earth . Some really good moments but dragged for long periods .

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Maybe I will just Kindle this one.

 

[pip]

Damn

 

[Bouncy Castle]

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Bouncy! you should have had a Cheshire Cat emoticon for that reply.

 

[pip]

Finished The Quarry this morning.
Really loved it. Fantastically well written and some very funny moments.
Love some of the descriptions of films in the book and the drug related scenes which Banks always did well are very funny while being suitably weird.
The book is a strange but brilliant look at dealing with death and loss while also a coming of age book of sorts.

Sad to think its the last original work from Banks I will read but seriously worth a look.

Next the Long War

 

[The Mad Collector]

Next the Long War

Save yourself a lot of tedium and don't bother

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

That good was it Mad. in light of that I may wait a while and pick it up for cheap.

 

[Quatermass]

I finished reading one very good Doctor Who book (Tomb of Valdemar), and have also continued with the manga series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. I also recently purchased from the Lifeline Bookfest Doctor Who: The Ghosts of N-Space and Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.

 

[Sister Jennifer]

Interesting comments about The Long War. I haven't finished Long Earth yet.

Currently reading Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.

 

[pip]

I'm trying to like it . It makes it hard to do at times.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Just when you think it will get better it all falls apart and as for the last few chapters well....

 

[pip]

I'll persevere out of shear stubbornness and a misplaced sense of loyalty. Three books came out together that I really wanted to read . Started with The Quarry, now on the Long War and then onto the Ocean at the End of the Lane (limited edition slipcase looks bloody amazing, arrived this morning). I suppose its too much to expect all of them to live up to expectation .

 

[Dotsie]

Can I confess that...

...I got bored part way through The Long Earth, and stopped reading it. I may go back to it one day, if there's nothing else to read. The Long War is the first Pratchett that I haven't bought immediately (I might not bother).

I am way behind on my reading.

 

[pip]

My reading has dropped drastically in the last year for obvious reasons. I'm averaging a book a week at best which is not too bad I suppose.
I contemplated not getting this book until the reviews are in but I tend to preorder everything months in advance and gave in.

 

[Catch-up]

Can I confess that...

...I got bored part way through The Long Earth, and stopped reading it. I may go back to it one day, if there's nothing else to read. The Long War is the first Pratchett that I haven't bought immediately (I might not bother).

I am way behind on my reading.

I have the same confession to make. I got through one more chapter and gave up. Instead I finished Dearly Devoted Dexter, which was excellent and have started The Uninvited by Liz Jensen. I'm only about 1/4 of the way in, but it's really good so far. The blurb:

A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry.

Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger's Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioral patterns and an outsider's fascination with group dynamics. Nothing obvious connects Hesketh's Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behavior of his beloved stepson, Freddy. But when Hesketh's Taiwan contact dies shockingly and more acts of sabotage and child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career, and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father.

Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful and viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Because of the reviews here I have not bothered to buy it as yet 1st time Ihave waited this long for one.