What are you reading?

[Danny B]

Just finished I Shall Wear Midnight and I'm now debating whether to read Kraken by China Miéville or The Bones of Avalon by Phil Rickman next.

 

[NeoNico]

Just finished I Shall Wear Midnight and I'm now debating whether to read Kraken by China Miéville or The Bones of Avalon by Phil Rickman next.

I finished Perdido Street Station by China Miéville not so long ago, chilling stuff! I have The Scar waiting on my shelf to be read

Reading The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, I can highly recommend it

 

[Danny B]

Just finished I Shall Wear Midnight and I'm now debating whether to read Kraken by China Miéville or The Bones of Avalon by Phil Rickman next.

I finished Perdido Street Station by China Miéville not so long ago, chilling stuff! I have The Scar waiting on my shelf to be read

Reading The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, I can highly recommend it

You're in for a treat with the two sequels and the spin off, Best Served Cold. Refreshingly dark, brutal, seedy, bleak, nasty, sordid and depressing. Great stuff. :twisted:

 

[poohcarrot]

Sounds like Boston!

 

[NeoNico]

I've already read Best Served Cold, it's what drew me into the series - it was like reading a cross between Kill Bill and Pirates of the Caribbean

They've just opened the house of the maker O_O

 

[Tonyblack]

I started reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury yesterday and am more than half way through it. It's an excellent book and considering it was first published in 1953, it's still very relevant today - maybe even more so!

 

[Quatermass]

I am currently reading Charles Stross' The Jennifer Morgue.

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Now reading How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove

 

[Temple_maiden]

Since I downloaded various reading apps on my iphone, I have bene trawling through old freebies that I have either read once long ago or wanted to read.

I have recently read the first three of the Katy Did series of books, all of which I have read before, and am now reading the fourth - Clover - which is new to me, I didn't even know it existed until I saw it listed with the others.

I have a lifetime of books still waiting to be read - before I started the Katy Dids, I was trawling through Les Misérables. I read it once before when I was 16 - since then I have seen the musical eight times and have finally got round to reading the book again.

 

[BatrickPatrick]

Finally started I Shall Wear Midnight today.

Also, John Constantine: Hellblazer - Original sins (Delano/Ridgway/Alcala) an enormous book on Caravaggio and one on Guido Reni, the authors of which I forget and can't be bothered to go and check.

 

[chris.ph]

stacia kane unholy ghost

 

[BatrickPatrick]

Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory...'S on gutenberg.org. Yay, free books!

I think I'd rather read the Aubrey Beardsley version though.

 

[Dotsie]

I'm reading Fool by Christopher Moore, and loving it.

 

[Tonyblack]

I'm reading 'Slaughterhouse Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This and Fahrenheit 451 (which I read last) are two books I've been meaning to read for years.

 

[raisindot]

I'm reading Fool by Christopher Moore, and loving it.

Ooooh! That's a good 'un! It might be my favorite Moore next to "Lamb" since, like the latter, it's about something other than horror and vampires.

J-I-B

 

[Bouncy Castle]

I love Christopher Moore. I may have to Kindle Lamb and Fool.

 

[Dotsie]

Both excellent, although I have a soft spot for Island of the Sequined Love Nun, because it was the first one I read and it was quite unlike anything I'd read before!

 

[raisindot]

I love Christopher Moore. I may have to Kindle Lamb and Fool.

Oh NO!!!!!! Where are the OED and stuffy language police to lead the holy war against brands like 'Kindle' becoming a verb?



Besides, you've got to read Lamb in book form. They've got a great edition in black that looks like a bible, complete with one of those red ribbon placeholders.

J-I-B

 

[raisindot]

Both excellent, although I have a soft spot for Island of the Sequined Love Nun, because it was the first one I read and it was quite unlike anything I'd read before!

I'm plowing through the Robert Rankin books right now and although Rankin has been around longer than Moore, it's interesting to compare the way they work the horror/parody genre.

Rankin tends to work in the plolt-heavy "Go for the easy laugh, drop in plenty of cultural references, and show how inventive I am" school of genre parody (pioneered by Douglas Adams and PTerry in his early DW books and beaten to death by Fforde), while Moore tends to use genre conventions more as a backdrop focus for often compelling character development. Both authors are fun to read, but Moore's best books (for me, Lamb, Fool and Fluke) linger in the memory in ways that Rankin's really don't.

J-I-B

 

[chris.ph]

a hard days knight by simon r green