The Books thread.

Sol Invictus · Post by **Sol Invictus** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 6:42 am

I've gotten myself into a reading habit as of late, having just finished Michael Crichton's Timeline and various Terry Pratchett Discworld novels. Bought a few more Terry Pratchett books and got myself some China Mieville (His books have a dark Steampunk setting, with politics! Very well written)

How about you guys?

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 7:26 am

Just finished Frank Herbert's The Godmakers and started Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead

Doc Hill · Post by **Doc Hill** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 2:08 pm

Rearead L.E. Modessits Jr.'s Forever heor and Timegod's dawn (Yo like post apocalyptic? He be da king)Read reading MY Honor HArrington books by David Weber. Thinking about tackling the Hitchhiker series again.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 4:30 pm

snow crash, neal stephenson. American Gods, Neil Gaiman and re-reading Preacher by Garth Ennis

Sol Invictus · Post by **Sol Invictus** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 4:33 pm

American Gods was excellent. Dark and surreal.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:05 pm

Rereading Dune again at the moment. I just finished the latest of the prequels and I need to refresh myself on how the series is SUPPOSED to be.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:27 pm

I'm finishing up Xenocide by Orson Scott Card, I dont know what I'm going to read next.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 6:46 pm

Hop over to Dunelike SuperH. It's a damn fine book, I intend to reread it and its series here in the next few weeks.

Sykotik · Post by **Sykotik** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 6:51 pm

SuperH wrote:Rereading Dune again at the moment. I just finished the latest of the prequels and I need to refresh myself on how the series is SUPPOSED to be.

God Emperor of Dune sucked piles, though. The one after it was marginally better. I read Modessit's Recluce series a while back, though. Pretty entertaining.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 7:43 pm

God Emperor was damned good, all of the originals were minus Messiah.

The new ones by Frank Herbert's son are shit. They've made two prequel trilogies and are signed for another. All I'm looking forward to is the two book set finishing up the original series where it was left with that insane cliffhanger. It's still going to be badly written, but it's all based on original notes so at least it'll give me a vauge idea of how it was supposed to turn out.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:09 pm

Been reading The Dark Tower '7 and Neuromancer lately, both are good books, but DT7 is missing that little extra dealio that makes a good book great.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:32 pm

I don't read the same shit as you guys, but I've been reading Walter Mosley's crime novels, which are quite good - basically his novels chronicle the entire black history of LA from the 40s through the 60s.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:44 pm

Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa.

Outlaws of the Marsh, by Shi Nai-An.

The Sea of Fertility, The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea, by Yukio Mishima. Actually, anything from this guy.

King Rat, Shogun, by James Clavell.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:05 am

Rex wrote:and got myself some China Mieville (His books have a dark Steampunk setting, with politics! Very well written)

Good choice, I actually mentioned his work in another thread yesterday. If you like China Mieville's writing, then you should probably check out Matthew Woodring Stover. The writing isn't as stylish, but the character development is fantastic, and the action sequences are out of this world.

Sol Invictus · Post by **Sol Invictus** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:37 am

Will do.

Sol Invictus · Post by **Sol Invictus** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:38 am

*edit* freaking doublepost.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:58 am

I haven't read his Star Wars books yet, so I can't speak for them, but I can recommend either Iron Dawn (it's out of print, so check Amazon) or Heroes Die. And please let me know what you think of them... the only other DACer who read Stover (to my knowledge) was MFG, and he liked it.

requiem_for_a_starfury · Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:14 am

Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space, Chasm City, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap and Diamond Dogs Turquoise Days are worth a read if you like dark space operaish stuff.

Tingel Tangel · Post by **Tingel Tangel** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:50 am

Peter HÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¸eg: Notions on the 20th Century (Danish)
J. Bech Nygaard: God's blinded eye (Danish)
Hans Scherfig: The Scorpion (Danish)

So I'm basically fond of a lot of the litterature spawning from my home country, but I'll read anything you hand me - right now I'm reading Forgotten Realms stuff, mostly Salvatore. Well, actually only Salvatore. I've got a huge unpaid bill from the library, so I'm grateful for everything handed to me on lend.

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:04 am

read "Damnation Alley", by Roger Zelazny. Don't think of the movie, it was a total perversion of the book. All in all, a great PA book.

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