So, What Are You Reading?

Monster Hunter Legion, another in Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International series

Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell, a historical novel about a sheltered woman who goes to Egypt in the 20s and meets T. E. Lawrence and Winston Churchill who are at the conference that basically divided up the post-WWI Middle East

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr about a girl with The Sight who becomes a pawn in the struggles between the Winter Queen and her son, the Summer King.

Fellside by M. R. Carey, a rather different book from her first, The Girl With All the Gifts, which was set in a Zombie Apocalypse. This one is Magical Realism about a woman in prison both haunted and aided by the ghost of the boy she's supposed to have killed.

@Tomodachi: IMHGO The Gods Themselves is Asimov's most underrated work.

edited 24th Sep '16 1:20:42 PM by tricksterson

Currently most of the way through an eight book two volume collection of the Charlie Parker books by John Connolly. I'm almost finished with the last one, "The Lovers".

Robot visions by Asimov.

The Goblin Emperor. After more or less everyone recommended it, I gave it a try, and it is truly awesome!

Yes it is. The author name is a pseudonym btw of Sarah Monette. Highly recommend the stuff she's written under her own name.

edited 28th Sep '16 12:55:07 PM by tricksterson

I heard the stuff she wrote under her own name is rather darker than The Goblin Emperor, and I really like that this book had a likeable protagonist. So am not sure whether to give it a try.

It's not as dark as say Joe Abercrombie, but yeah it's darker in that it's pitched to a more adult audience while, I believe, The Goblin Emperor was aimed more at the YA set. Probably why she used a pseudonym.

edited 1st Oct '16 2:39:41 PM by tricksterson

Currently still reading the Charlie Parker series by John Connolly. I've got one more to get then I'm up to date for when I stopped reading them the last time, but there's at least two more done since that date. The one I just finished about a couple of minutes ago is "The Burning Soul" - slightly more twisty and, well, twisted than the usual run of thrillers but that's nothing unusual for Connolly.

Plus the Fulci Brothers show up and I just love the Fulci Brothers.

Well Fellside definitely had a serious twist about halfway through.

Currently reading:

End of Watch, the final book in the Stephen King trilogy that started wit Mr. Mercedes. Good read but wish he had kept the trilogy non-supernatural. Then again, this is Stephen King. I don't think he can stop himself.

Icebound by Kelley Armstrong, another novel set in her Otherworld universe

Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, the latest in The Vorkosigan Saga, this time returning the focus to Cordelia after Aral's death

Native Tongue by Carl Hiassen. Rare voles are kidnapped from a Disney World knockoff. Wackiness ensues.

edited 16th Oct '16 5:51:21 AM by tricksterson

The Pigman for school. It's an okay book, not a huge fan of the first-person perspective or the time period it takes place in. It got very sad by the ending, though. Poor Pignati...

I just finished Stephen King's It (good lord, that man does not believe in trimming things down), so now I'm making another attempt at Tristram Shandy. I also bought the Thomas Ligotti collection "Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe". Not doing much for me so far (though I liked "The Lost Art of Twilight" a lot), but I still have most the collection to go.

I did not get the impression that The Goblin Emperor was aimed at Young Adults. I got the impression that its target audience was adults like me - adults who can't see grimdark anymore.

To be fair, I only know the contents of her other novels from reading the entries on here. Just saying, that's a bit too much rape and torture for my tastes. Perhaps it is not as dark as ASOIAF or the like, but there are things I'd much rather only read in small doses.

And then there is also the fact that, like all works that take place in patriarchal worlds, The Goblin Emperor is very dark in the background, where the reader doesn't notice. Marital Rape License is standard in such worlds, and the horrors that implies ... well. A YA audience will probably have a happier time reading that book than adults who know exactly what goes on behind the scenes of such a world.

After several years of my brother (who I introduced the series to in the first place) bugging me to read the two most recent Dresden Files books, I've finally gotten to them. Was good, but I kind of wish I'd held out until the next few novels were out because I am greedy like that.

I just noticed Robot visions was an anthology, sharing all the tales of I Robot (with the exception of the prologue, and Calvin and the narrator conversations), so I finished I Robot.

I'm actually more interested in robotics now! I really like the book and Susan Calvin. I read some other tales with her, Robot Dreams, and I was fascinated by her and the world. I'm really enjoying Asimov stories.

Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up The Moon, by Richard Roberts. I can understand why the author's said no to the books being filmed, but they'd make hella good anime.

U. S. Battleships: an Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman, just finished. Such a good book; I may have to go back and ogle some of the designs some more.

Having taken a break from my re-re-read of Patrick O'Brian's The Reverse of the Medal (it's an awfully harrowing book to get through with emotions intact), I'm tackling it once again, in hope of powering through to the end. Wish me fair winds!

Republic of Thieves, the most recent in Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard series.

Bitter Seeds, a Weird War II story by Ian Tregillis in which the Nazis create super powered minions and the British counter with Black Magic.

Wastelands, an anthology of stories set After the End

A Parcel of Rogues, by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis, a Ring of Fire book about getting Oliver Cromwell out of Britain after breaking him out of the Tower of London.

edited 16th Oct '16 5:59:16 AM by tricksterson

I'm close to finishing Nightfall, by Asimov.

edited 18th Oct '16 5:32:56 PM by Tomodachi

I'm currently making my way, at a snail's pace, through Aristotle's Poetics. This may seem strange to say, but it presents such a weird and alien way of looking at art for me, at least in terms of the ways I see people talk about art...though I'm probably interpreting it differently from other people. I find it really interesting to consider art in how it shapes (and in a way, becomes a kind of) reality through metaphysical processes. In my future readings, I'm going to try to link up the things Aristotle says about form and character development with the things he says about psychology, metaphysics, and ethics. Should be either fun or maddening!

I'm also finally trying to finish Ulysses for the third time. I went all the way to the Eumaeus chapter last time, so now I'm hoping to go the full distance! Such a wonderful book. No other work has connected me so much with the experiences of other people and the world around me.

edited 20th Oct '16 10:24:08 PM by Llyr

Second straight run through the Charlie Parker books by John Connolly.

Reading the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

I'm half finished, and i'm bored.

"Nick of time" by Ted Bell.

I am reading "The treasure island'. really interesting, I must say

The Robert Louis Stephenson classic or something else of the same title?