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Truthseeker013
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To cleanse my mental palate of that Colfer travesty, I've picked up Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt. Three chapters in, and it 'taint bad 't all. After that, an early Xmas gift, The Unscratchables by Cornelius Kane.
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I love McDevitt, huge fan of his.
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Truthseeker013
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| KaosDevice wrote: | | I love McDevitt, huge fan of his. |
Then this one should be a delight for you, KaosDevice.
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Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry.
Zombies as doomsday bio-weapons in a post 9-11 world. Halfway through and enjoying it very much so far.
You can find a prequel here but it reads more like an early draft of the beginning of the book because some of it is in there word for word.
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I just finished Rick Riordan's The Battle of the Labyrinth, and before that Lords and Ladies, one of the Discworld novels that I missed. Both fun, very light reading, which is what I crave during this busy time. Still, I really ought to be reading a bunch of litcrit stuff to get a jump on my presentation in March.
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I'm currently reading this first Dresden files novel titled Storm Front. I'm underwhelmed after hearing everyone tell me how awesome this series is.
And there's something going on that just doesn't make sense: Dresden says that if he tries to figure out how a spell was cast, then this White Council will know about it. However, the White Council supposedly suspects Dresden is the one who cast this spell.
So! How can they think he did it if they would have known if he tried to do it, and why didn't they know who was actually doing it when it was being done? Maybe these questions are answered later, but regardless, this isn't a very compelling read so far.
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| MntlWard wrote: | | I'm currently reading this first Dresden files novel titled Storm Front. I'm underwhelmed after hearing everyone tell me how awesome this series is. |
I recently got a friend of mine hooked on this series. His reaction to the first book was exactly like yours - meh.
Then he picked up the second book in a used book store.
He read and called me to appologize for doubting my taste.
Butcher is an author who gets better as he goes along. He develops both his writing style and his characters. Who else is going to have a cat help save the universe? And then promise to never do it again because the cat has more important things to do. Like napping.
Try the second one too mntl. Several of us here are devotees for a reason.
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Truthseeker013
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| Ubalstecha wrote: | | MntlWard wrote: | | I'm currently reading this first Dresden files novel titled Storm Front. I'm underwhelmed after hearing everyone tell me how awesome this series is. |
I recently got a friend of mine hooked on this series. His reaction to the first book was exactly like yours - meh.
Then he picked up the second book in a used book store.
He read and called me to appologize for doubting my taste.
Butcher is an author who gets better as he goes along. He develops both his writing style and his characters. Who else is going to have a cat help save the universe? And then promise to never do it again because the cat has more important things to do. Like napping.
Try the second one too mntl. Several of us here are devotees for a reason. |
As the Wise Lady of RevSF says, mntl. Took my reading the second to be hooked.
As for actual reading at this moment, I just got a collection of C.L. Moore's Northwest Smith space-opera short stories.
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I'm reading '20th Century Ghost' by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son but shhhhsh, don't tell anyone, It's a secret).
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also a devotee of Jim Butcher. His fantasy series isn't quite as good as Dresden, but still a good read. I'm currently reading Hyperion, by Dan Simmons. I have heard of it, but never got around to reading it. It's pretty good, considering it was written in the 80's, which was not the best decade for hard sci-fi.
It's not an easy read, though. My wife would never get through it, but hey, she's a light SF reader...
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City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
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Rereading "The Shadow over Innsmouth," "Rats in the Walls," and other Lovecraft stories, for a paper I'm working on. Soon I'll reread Lilith's Brood (aka The Xenogenesis Trilogy) by Octavia Butler, for the same paper.
And Noel Carroll's The Philosophy of Horror; or Paradoxes of the Heart is a pretty darned interesting exploration of what horror is and why we like it.
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| KaosDevice wrote: | | I'm reading '20th Century Ghost' by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son but shhhhsh, don't tell anyone, It's a secret). |
How do you like them? His first book, Heart-Shaped Box is pretty good. A new one, called Horns, is due soon. And he's done several in the Locke & Key comic series, among others.
Right now I'm digging in to the 2007 Best American Short Stories collection. Is it because the guest editor was Steve King? You betcha. It might also make me appreciate short stories written by names other than King, Ellison, Bradbury, and Little.
Just finished the 5th Joe Pitt casebook by Charlie Huston, My Dead Body. A satisfying end to an intense and fun noir series. I'm looking forward to Huston's latest, Sleepless. Huston himself says somewhere on his website that his longtime readers may despise the book, so I'm naturally intrigued (OH! See what he did there? And how I fell for it?!). |
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KaosDevice
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| Frogwart wrote: | | KaosDevice wrote: | | I'm reading '20th Century Ghost' by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son but shhhhsh, don't tell anyone, It's a secret). |
How do you like them? |
For the most part I liked the collection. You can definitely see his fathers' influence though.
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| That's how I felt about it, and the same with Heart-Shaped Box. I think "Pop Art" was the best of the tales, and seemed least-influenced by dad. |
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