Ok then...
- Thread starter Janie
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Ky
Stupid is as stupid does
Canal Dreams is crap. Iain Banks is his "contemporary" fiction name and Iain M. Banks for his sci-fi stuff.
Walking on Glass is his best contemporary book, along with possibly Complicity (turned into a film with Jonny Lee Miller) but his sci-fi stuff is awesome.
Pegasus Belgar
Red Bull gives me wings!
Good to see more Feist and Goodkind readers here. I also read all the Eddings series and the David Gemmell were very english and nitty gritty fantasy.
Looking forward to Feist lastest novel due later this year.
Just started reading some Sci fi while passing the time so after watching AvP i dug out a copy of Alien Vs Predator Omibus stories. Its good to get an idea of what the Predator's lifestyles is like, very klingonish and a mixture of oriental.
Looking forward to Feist lastest novel due later this year.
Just started reading some Sci fi while passing the time so after watching AvP i dug out a copy of Alien Vs Predator Omibus stories. Its good to get an idea of what the Predator's lifestyles is like, very klingonish and a mixture of oriental.
MedicineMan
Full Member
Just Read = Stephen Kings - Liseys Game
Reading = Flags of our Fathers
Waiting to read - The Cat From Hue
Reading = Flags of our Fathers
Waiting to read - The Cat From Hue
Zerine
Enpi Enpi Enpi Enpi Enpi Enpi /gasp
Just finished "Sunshine" by Robin McKinley.
If you're into vampires, you may like it. Alternate Earth, where vampires and werewolves and magic is real, but set in a modern day earth setting. No great wizard with fireballs flying around, and vampires are REALLY scary (due to what they can do).
Female readers may also like it for the 'shag-ability' of Constantine (main vampire 'hero'), but you'd have to read it to understand why.
If you're into vampires, you may like it. Alternate Earth, where vampires and werewolves and magic is real, but set in a modern day earth setting. No great wizard with fireballs flying around, and vampires are REALLY scary (due to what they can do).
Female readers may also like it for the 'shag-ability' of Constantine (main vampire 'hero'), but you'd have to read it to understand why.
Sharra
Chimpette
I'm reading Something Beginning with.. by Sarah Salway (one of my Uni tutors) at the mo.
Janie - Ian Banks wise - I really liked the Crow Road, Complicity and Walking on Glass (the last one is a bit of a head f***).
Other stuff I would recommend Cloud Atlas or Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell, Never Let Me Go by Kasuo Ishiguro, The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Girlfriend in a Coma or Generation X by Douglas Coupland uhm uhm so many books, so little time to type them all here!
Janie - Ian Banks wise - I really liked the Crow Road, Complicity and Walking on Glass (the last one is a bit of a head f***).
Other stuff I would recommend Cloud Atlas or Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell, Never Let Me Go by Kasuo Ishiguro, The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Girlfriend in a Coma or Generation X by Douglas Coupland uhm uhm so many books, so little time to type them all here!
McHoff H. McChrist
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The only Iain Banks book I've read was the Wasp Factory. It was... interesting... 
Pretty intense, and well written, but I'm not filled with any burning desire to read it again.
Iain M Banks stuff is completely different.
Btw, did anyone see the professions version of University Challenge this year? Bakers vs Lawyers, Teachers vs. Doctors etc. Writers won this year, mainly because they had Mr Banks on their team and he pretty much won it for them. <3
Pretty intense, and well written, but I'm not filled with any burning desire to read it again.
Iain M Banks stuff is completely different.
Btw, did anyone see the professions version of University Challenge this year? Bakers vs Lawyers, Teachers vs. Doctors etc. Writers won this year, mainly because they had Mr Banks on their team and he pretty much won it for them. <3
Pictelf
Mistress of Forums
Am reading Preistess of Avalon, Marrion Zimmer Bradley kinda chomped my way through the whole series recently but interspersed with other books as it would have been a bit much all in the oner.
Also got God Delusion on the go, was brought up completely athiest (wasn't christened/baptised or otherwise brainwashed) and finding it quite interesting. Never really thought about how as a society we all tiptoe round peoples 'faith'.
Before those I had got myself up to date (paperback) on The Anita Blake and Merry Gentry stuff and have a mind to try some other of that genre (will bear you recomendation in mind Janie) Bitten Stolen etc were bloody good I enjoyed them and I liked that she explored her 'new' characters with successive books.
Apart from a few 'gardening' and 'horse' books thats about it recently! Hmmm can see me starting to read at night, try not to cos I forget to go to sleep at a reasonable hour.
Also got God Delusion on the go, was brought up completely athiest (wasn't christened/baptised or otherwise brainwashed) and finding it quite interesting. Never really thought about how as a society we all tiptoe round peoples 'faith'.
Before those I had got myself up to date (paperback) on The Anita Blake and Merry Gentry stuff and have a mind to try some other of that genre (will bear you recomendation in mind Janie) Bitten Stolen etc were bloody good I enjoyed them and I liked that she explored her 'new' characters with successive books.
Apart from a few 'gardening' and 'horse' books thats about it recently! Hmmm can see me starting to read at night, try not to cos I forget to go to sleep at a reasonable hour.
McHoff H. McChrist
4" Member
Iain M Banks is your pen-name Picty?
Sorontar
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Currently finishing off The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb and will then try and find which of my Eberron novels I haven't read and which ones have a new book out (I bought an absolute stack of them and kind of lost track )
Hopefully by then I'll be able to pick up the first book in The Liveship Traders series by Robin Hobb, although I'll have to get the g/f to finish it first.
)Hopefully by then I'll be able to pick up the first book in The Liveship Traders series by Robin Hobb, although I'll have to get the g/f to finish it first.
McHoff H. McChrist
4" Member
And I'm allegedly the goth?
Read any Poppy Z Brite, Zed? It's touching stuff, really speaks to me...
Read any Poppy Z Brite, Zed? It's touching stuff, really speaks to me...
ooh, time to get stuck in :-
Ian Banks - Never read any sci fi of his, but Espedair Street is so damn funny! Some of it is even better because i live roughly where it was set (also 2 streets away from Crow Road).
Robin Hobb - Recently finished Forest Mage for the 2nd time, it really grows on you and I cant wait for the 3rd book to appear, hopefully sometime this year. Still by far my favourite author.
David Gemmell - Recently read some of his stuff that i had only sort of glanced at in passing, Winter Warriors and Dark Moon, still excellent reading even if not quite Legend or Waylander.
Raymond E Feist - hated Magician, little character development, poor plot, people just finding magical suits of armour etc etc, i have glanced at some of his other work though and it appears to have improved drastically, I will have to give Riftwars a try.
Terry Goodkind - going downhill lately, not read phantom yet, spose i will at some point, but not exactly champing at the bit for it.
Robert Jordan - His first 3-4 books were superb, especially the 3rd, but his seeming directionless last few books have left me rather disillusioned, about the only thing that will keep me reading is to see if he ever actually gets all 3 into bed at the same time (yes, yes, i'm a perv)
George R R Martin - Absolutely superb, intriguing and twisting, ruthless and heartwarming at the same time. His style of writing is gripping, even when talking of mundane matters and providing us with filler (as per the last book) material he keeps you reading. I cannot reccommend A Song of Ice and Fire enough. I managed to get a copy of The Hedge Knight about 6 months ago, its kept me wanting more of this epic series, if not quite filling the gap between books.
Bob Salvatore - Went back to read the Drizzt books again, can't believe I ever really liked this stuff tbh, how we change. Scared to read the original Dragonlance books now, in case it ruins my warm happy feelings.
John Grisham - An Innocent Man - I really quite like Grisham, this however is not a work of fiction, but a disturbing retelling of an horrific travesty of justice that leaves you disgusted at the legal system in America. Not his finest writing, but definitely a tragic tale.
Ian Rankin - The Rebus novels are all damn good. Dark, gritty and definitely worth reading, the TV series with John Hannah was poor really, but Ken Stott takes the role to heart and plays it exactly as the books.
David Eddings - Loved these when i was younger, am reading The Redemption of Althalus at the moment, but it feels rushed and the characters are a pale comparison (and rip off) of the original 2 series. It is pretty much as if Eddings only ever had one story to tell, but wants to tell it in 8 different ways.
anyways, thats my critique for today
Ian Banks - Never read any sci fi of his, but Espedair Street is so damn funny! Some of it is even better because i live roughly where it was set (also 2 streets away from Crow Road).
Robin Hobb - Recently finished Forest Mage for the 2nd time, it really grows on you and I cant wait for the 3rd book to appear, hopefully sometime this year. Still by far my favourite author.
David Gemmell - Recently read some of his stuff that i had only sort of glanced at in passing, Winter Warriors and Dark Moon, still excellent reading even if not quite Legend or Waylander.
Raymond E Feist - hated Magician, little character development, poor plot, people just finding magical suits of armour etc etc, i have glanced at some of his other work though and it appears to have improved drastically, I will have to give Riftwars a try.
Terry Goodkind - going downhill lately, not read phantom yet, spose i will at some point, but not exactly champing at the bit for it.
Robert Jordan - His first 3-4 books were superb, especially the 3rd, but his seeming directionless last few books have left me rather disillusioned, about the only thing that will keep me reading is to see if he ever actually gets all 3 into bed at the same time (yes, yes, i'm a perv)
George R R Martin - Absolutely superb, intriguing and twisting, ruthless and heartwarming at the same time. His style of writing is gripping, even when talking of mundane matters and providing us with filler (as per the last book) material he keeps you reading. I cannot reccommend A Song of Ice and Fire enough. I managed to get a copy of The Hedge Knight about 6 months ago, its kept me wanting more of this epic series, if not quite filling the gap between books.
Bob Salvatore - Went back to read the Drizzt books again, can't believe I ever really liked this stuff tbh, how we change. Scared to read the original Dragonlance books now, in case it ruins my warm happy feelings.
John Grisham - An Innocent Man - I really quite like Grisham, this however is not a work of fiction, but a disturbing retelling of an horrific travesty of justice that leaves you disgusted at the legal system in America. Not his finest writing, but definitely a tragic tale.
Ian Rankin - The Rebus novels are all damn good. Dark, gritty and definitely worth reading, the TV series with John Hannah was poor really, but Ken Stott takes the role to heart and plays it exactly as the books.
David Eddings - Loved these when i was younger, am reading The Redemption of Althalus at the moment, but it feels rushed and the characters are a pale comparison (and rip off) of the original 2 series. It is pretty much as if Eddings only ever had one story to tell, but wants to tell it in 8 different ways.
anyways, thats my critique for today