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[Stanley Woo]

I recently read Jasper Fforde's "Shades of Grey," a very challenging read about a futuristic society based around what colours you can see and with what intensity. Very different from his Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series, but no less fascinating.

Currently reading Richard Morgan's "Black Man." Morgan has really impressed me with his Takeshi Kovacs series, especially the first novel, "Altered Carbon," and I have enjoyed all his books since. Even "Market Crash," a cyberpunk-ish tale of climbing the corporate ladder and corporate competition via auto duels. "Black Man" has a bit more angsturbation than his previous books, but I'm still enjoying it so far. i just wish he'd skip the historical exposition and get on with the story.

[chelseaisthepan]

To put off until the next book comes out.. in July.

[GodWood]

Currently trying to read [again] the Chinese classic Outlaws of the Marsh

[Rockworm503]

The Chronicles of Narnia
I'm almost caught up with the movies.. just a few chapters left of Dawn Treader now.

[ADLegend21]

Harry Potter and the Half blood prince.

[whykikyouwhy]

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr

And, for a book club - The Help - Kathryn Stockett

[Addai]

Nyoka wrote...

I'm going to quote something I've just read and if someone agrees with some of the authors listed please say it, because I want some different kind of fantasy but I know absolutely nothing about the authors mentioned above and I don't want to go and start buying books blindly.

I can think of countless women who have written paradigm-shifting heroic fantasy, starting with Emily Brontë who wrote about a world of women heroes in those tiny hand-sewn diaries. Then came trailblazers Catherine Moore, Mary Stewart and André Norton. Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea is another gamechanger (although her gender-specific magic is problematic, as I discussed in Crossed Genres) and so is her ongoing Western Shores series. Katherine Kurtz’s Deryni cycle is as fine a medieval magic saga as any. We have weavers of new myths: Jane Yolen, Patricia McKillip, Meredith Ann Pierce, Alma Alexander; and tellers of old myths from fresh perspectives: Tanith Lee, Diana Paxson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Terri Windling, Emma Bull, C. J. Cherryh, Christine Lucas.

Then there’s Elizabeth Lynn, with her Chronicles of Tornor and riveting Ryoka stories. Marie Jakober, whose Even the Stones have haunted me ever since I read it. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, whose heroic prehistoric fantasies have never been bested. Jacqueline Carey, who re-imagined the Renaissance from Eire to Nubia and made a courtesan into a swashbuckler in the first Kushiel trilogy, showing a truly pagan universe in the bargain. This without getting into genre-cracking mythmakers like Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) and Louise Erdrich.

I love Isak Dinesen.  She is the main character in the film Out of Africa, which was based on her autobiographical account of her time in Africa (embellished in the film with outside sources).  Her novellas are ace.  They're a cross between European parlor fiction (Jane Austen etc.) and classic fairy tales, inclusive of macabre little twists.  I can recommend Seven Gothic Tales, Winter Tales or Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard.  Actually, Out of Africa is a great book, too- like a travel journal of colonial Africa.

Out of the rest of the list, I'm afraid I haven't read any of those authors.  I did try to read Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey, after several people on BSN recommended it.  I couldn't handle it.  The characters and political setup were very interesting, but the graphic S & M....  yeah.  <_<  I was also put off at the idea of prostitution as some sort of sacred institution.  Her language was also a bit florid for my taste.  So, there you go.  You'd have to decide if it's for you.

Modifié par Addai67, 01 juillet 2011 - 01:12 .

[naughty99]

whykikyouwhy wrote...

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr

One of my all-time favorites - great book!

[The Tookah]

Nyoka, if you want to go to sci/fi, try CJ Cherryh's Foriegner series. Cherryh studied archeology and is a master at creating a believeble alien culture.

I am currently reading Cleopatra, a recent biography by Stacy Schiff. Fascinating reading.

[whykikyouwhy]

@naughty99 - It had been brought up in some older posts over the past couple of months and was highly recommended by all (including you, if memory serves). The synopsis was intriguing, so into the "to read" pile it went.

[Wentletrap]

Just finished: "How We Decide" by Jonah Lehrer. An interesting look at how our emotions affect our decisions more than we realize.

Finishing up: "Salt" by Mark Kurlanksy. It's a history of salt, its preparation and marketing, and its effect on history.

Starting: "The Girl Who Played With Fire", by Stieg Larsson. First book in the series was a nice little page turner.

[Neesee]

Currently working on Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis.

Hoping to start on A Clash of Kings soon.

Modifié par Neesee, 01 juillet 2011 - 03:15 .

[AtreiyaN7]

I finally finished A Feast for Crows, so I'm finally getting around to The Passage by Justin Cronin. I'm happiest with really long books, so this fits the bill!

[Swordfishtrombone]

Reading Stephen Baxter's "Moonseed".

Spotted it in a used book store, and I know baxter is a good writer. Was in a mood for a good disaster Sci-fi novel, and this hit the spot. It's about some rock-eating nano-thingamajiggy particles getting on the Earth, and starting at the bedrock, spreading exponentially. Just at the part when people start realizing that the s**t has hit the fan. Good so far!

[AllThatJazz]

naughty99 wrote...

whykikyouwhy wrote...

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr

One of my all-time favorites - great book!

Same here - really good SF, one of the best.

I have just started reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith. My sister, as a huge Jane Austen fan, has practically disowned me . I couldn't help myself, however, I was intrigued by the opening ...


'Its a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. Never was this truth more plain than during the recent attacks at Netherfield Park, in which a household of eighteen was slaughtered and consumed by a horde of the living dead.'

[TheMufflon]

I recently got through this 1079 page (for a total of 483 994 words) tome by David Foster Wallace:



And though it was one of the (if not the) best, funniest and saddest books I have ever read, it was quite a handful -- both literally and metaphorically; so now I'm unwinding with some good ole' fantasy, courtesy of R. Scott Bakker:

[ADelusiveMan]

Novel adaptation of Transformers: Dark of the Moon by Peter David

and


"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

[DaveExclamationMarkYognaut]

TheMufflon wrote...

I recently got through this 1079 page (for a total of 483 994 words) tome by David Foster Wallace:



And though it was one of the (if not the) best, funniest and saddest books I have ever read, it was quite a handful -- both literally and metaphorically;

That book was amazing.

Currently, China Meiville's The City and the City for me. Perdido Street Station convinced me I need to read more books by this guy.

[Stagmar]

Currently I'm reading Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson.

[Addai]

I am reading Until the Sun Falls by Cecelia Holland, a novel about the descendants of Genghis Khan from a Mongol perspective.

Hunger Games is also on my list.