What Are You Reading? 3

[Moist]

Almost done with Serpent of Venice. Have really been enjoying it! I liked Sacre Blue better though.

Picked up both from the library and they are in my queue. Right now I am reading "The Kill Switch" by James Rollins and Grant Blackwood. It ties loosely into his other Sigma Force novels but the main character is former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his dog Kane. I love how parts of the chapters are written from Kane's perspective as he plays his part in the mission.

 

[chris.ph]

and just for a change im reading the same as agnes, the severed streets

 

[Quatermass]

I've started reading Furies of Calderon again. It might lead to me doing something both old and new on this forum... :think:

 

[AgnesOgg]

The latest Dresden Files you got that yet, Chris?

 

[chris.ph]

As it happens, yes I have just got it for my kindle

 

[Moist]

Just saw the latest Dresden book is on it's way to my library. :dance:

Be picking it up in the next few days.

 

[AgnesOgg]

.....and the latest about Alex Verus, I'm on holiday and need lots of books!

 

[Catch-up]

Hoping to get the next Dresden Files book in a few days too!

 

[Ghost]

that explains why I saw a few Dresden books at the works

 

[MongoGutman]

For Xmas I got Conan: The Complete Chronicles, Centenary Edition and it's been my bedtime book all year so far, just a few pages a night, you know... Haven't read Conan for 30+ years, though I read them all in my teens... Completely un-PC of course: racist, sexist and any other *ist you want to guess at... and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Howard's prose, well, I mean he's not Shakespear, Dunsany, Tolkein... not poetic, but there's a vitality and gusto to his work that is seldom equalled.

 

[Quatermass]

For Xmas I got Conan: The Complete Chronicles, Centenary Edition and it's been my bedtime book all year so far, just a few pages a night, you know... Haven't read Conan for 30+ years, though I read them all in my teens... Completely un-PC of course: racist, sexist and any other *ist you want to guess at... and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Howard's prose, well, I mean he's not Shakespear, Dunsany, Tolkein... not poetic, but there's a vitality and gusto to his work that is seldom equalled.

I feel the same way about HP Lovecraft, who was Robert Howard's contemporary and occasional collaborator. Lovecraft was very un-PC, and his writing's pretty dry and clunky, but he can create an atmosphere pretty bloody well.

BTW, about halfway through Furies of Calderon. Watch this forum...

 

[Quatermass]

Finished Furies of Calderon! Review to follow in my new thread...

 

[Moist]

Yesterday I started "Code Zero" by Jonathan Maberry, Today I am almost finished with it. Anybody with interest in zombie novels are doing themselves a disservice by not reading him. This man is the top of the heap, as far as I am concerned. Nobody can quite capture the elegance of what it takes to stop an end of the world scenario quite like he can.

 

[Catch-up]

I'm almost halfway through The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North, and it's really, really good!

Finished it and it was great. I definitely recommend it.

 

[Quatermass]

Finished reading my first Twitterature, The Pen is Mightier than the Nerd by Nev Fountain. Details in my book-review thread...

 

[The Mad Collector]

Working my way through half a dozen Robert Rankin books that I picked up in a secondhand bookshop a few years ago and never got round to reading

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Tall tales from the tall fella.

 

[Quatermass]

Just finished reading Red Dwarf: Space Corps Survival Manual. Could have been decent had it not had too many cannibalism jokes. Seriously, that got older than Methuselah very quickly.

 

[Antiq]

I have recently re-discovered Ray Bradbury I read him as a kid, or teenager or whatever, I forget, but OMG! He's awesome! I didn't realise he could be so hilarious Just finished the short story The Cold Wind and the Warm, and I startled people on the train yesterday by laughing out loud.

 

[Quatermass]

Just finished reading Future Noir, an exhaustive (and exhausting) but damned good book on the making of Blade Runner.