The latest novel that I have finished is The Moon Is A Harsh Mistrss by Robert A Heinlein. I thought it was a very excellent novel. I have also read several graphic novels including Lone Wolf And Cub Vol.13, Torso by Brian Michael Bendis, and Akira Vol. 3. I thought every single one of those novels was excellent and worthy of my approval. I would love to hear what everyone else has read lately and if anyone has any questions/opinions about the books I just listed then shout them out please
Last I have completed - A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger
One I’m reading currently - Hearts in Atlantis, by Stephen King
Many Sherlock Holmes stories.
Just finished Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row, by Christopher Golden.
A Buffy The Vampire Slayer novel (As were the last few books I read…what can I say? Obsessive Fanboys R Us.), and, it’s DAMN good - follows Spike and Dru (and the Slayer of the time, and a Norse demon) during World War II.
I reccomend it to any Buffy fans, and, actually, anyone who’s not a fan, but doesn’t actively dislike the show.
Badtz Maru- what is A Fire in the Sun about? thats a cool title.
It’s a cyberpunk detective story, second in a series that began with ‘When Gravity Fails’. Very good stuff, better than most of the genre. It’s set further in the future than most cyberpunk (at least a couple of hundred years) and is set in a predominantly Muslim city.
sounds very cool, I may read that soon. Ive always like the cyberpunk theme. Is it part of a series, a trilogy, or what?
Just finished Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot. Went to Cambodia at the begininning of the year and had to find out more.
I’ve just started Merchant of Dreams : Louis B. Mayer, M.G.M., and the Secret Hollywood
Just finished Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, and am currently reading Razor’s Edge by the same author. I’m way into him. Early- to mid- 20th century British author. Immensely rewarding read.
I think it’s a trilogy so far, but I think one could read ‘A Fire in the Sun’ without having read ‘When Gravity Fails’ and still enjoy it - the story is fairly self-contained, and Effinger doesn’t assume that you know who the recurring characters are and what has gone before, though I imagine the characterizations for some of the minor characters who were more important in the first one are pretty light - yeah, on second thought try and read ‘When Gravity Fails’ first if at all possible.
Finished four this week (I’ve been alternating amongst them)
House Corrino by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (and what is the latin term for raiding your father’s grave?)
India: a History by John Keay (I love historians with a sense of humour, and I laughed a lot at this book.)
Glue by Irvine Welsh (and I still have a little scots voice popping up in my head)
and
Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 by Alvin D. Coox (normally I avoid military history books like the plague, this book was not a good reason to start reading them, when will I learn?)
right now, i’m rereading Robot Dreams by Issac Asimov (one of my favorite authors) and The Seven-Percent Solution, i forgot the author. it’s a Sherlock Holmes book, but not by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watson’s trying to get Sherlock to stop his cocaine habit. and i think that’s it…
A very good movie aswell.
Just read for the first time - Bridget Jones’s Diary. I enjoyed the movie, bought the book.
Just re-reading for the umpteenth time Tale Of The Body Thief. I’d like to be able to swap bodies some days.
For the second time in two weeks; American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Great story by a great writer. I hope there are more in this line- I was worried because I liked Neverwhere so much but was very pleasantly surprised.
I started the Chronicles of Amber trilogy recently, read a couple hudnred pages, skipped to the end, read the last chapter and don’t feel cheated one bit:)
I also just re read Susan Coopers’ The Dark is Rising series again. It’s a young adults’ fantasy set in Wales and involves Arthurian mythology. I love it.
I read the entire Robert Jordan series, all 9000 plus pages of it a month or so ago and I’m now waiting for the next one.
Ditto for Terry Pratchett.
actually I just played a computer game based on the when gravity falls series characters it was on a old activision sci/fi collection For a mid 80s computer game it was rather risque Its supposed ot be a original story by the author
As for books ive read recently heres a partial list :
once a eagle anton meyer The contiental op ( short story collection) by Hammet
A mike hammer colection a perry mason collection
But I read a book a day or so and im not picky when I was in school and so Ill read anything once in detention I read the dictionary
The First World War
Martin Gilbert.
WOrking on
The Second World War
and
The Return of the King
All Tomorrow’s Parties-William Gibson. It’s the sequel to Idoru. Very nice, I really love his writing voice. I picked it up at the local bookstore’s bargain table, hardcover, for $4.95. I think that I got a great deal.
Just finished “Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden
It’s a little slow getting started but once you get into it you’re hooked.
Last night I finished The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox. Not at all what I was expecting when I picked it up (it was a library book, and I just take those by whim), but good.
Currently reading:
The Mirror by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet (love that name) - my non-fiction book
Sean and David’s Long Drive by Sean Condon - my light reading book
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay - my fiction book
Oh, wait - do rereads count? If they do, then I also finished The Boat Who Would Not Float by Farley Mowat and Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson last night. (Couldn’t sleep…) Oh. And The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.