As soon as I can get a copy, I’ll be reading Robert Alden Rubin’s new book Going to Hell in a Hen Basket: An Illustrated Dictionary of Modern Malapropisms.
Butcher has said his contribution to the MHI anthology is about MHI’s janitor. I’m reading the MHI books again waiting for the new Fantasy novel from Corriea to come out, an Indian mythology inspired book about rigid caste structures and a massive upheaval.
Re-reading the original Bran Sanderson Mistborn trilogy.
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A month later… finished Seveneves. Ugh. Not a great book. An okay book. Come for the world building and … well that’s it really.
So for the next couple weeks, it’s time to catch up on some podcasts. No Such Thing As A Fish and going to see how good the new host for The News Quiz is.
The Emperor’s Tomb by Steve Berry. Not my favourite of his, but I’m enjoying it.
Stephen King “Needful Things”. Just finished his “Rose Madder” in a day. When books are great they’re great!! When they’re not, they are really not… I’ve taken a couple off the list because I just couldn’t get into them…
Yeah, there have been a few that sounded great from the back cover and the small excerpt in the front. And then a couple chapters in, I start getting distracted with thoughts that I’d rather be cleaning the house.
Christopher Rice’s book was like that. I kept wishing that it was possible to travel into the book to strangle the main characters.
I think this is something that Stephen King is/was really good at for a while. A lot of his books, at least for a certain era, were a great length for casual reading, especially on a trip or similar.
I always read The Long Walk in one sitting. It’s a thing now.
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William Gibson’s original ‘Sprawl’ trilogy. Just about to start ‘Mona Lisa Overdrive’.
I’ve only ever read Neuromancer. How are the other books in that series?
I remember having trouble with them, but that was probably when I was a young-ish teen. They might be more readable now, although ‘cyberpunk’ as a genre has aged poorly in many cases.
The books came off to me as a bit of mis-sell when I read them years ago. I was expecting action and thrills, but there’s a lot of angst and morality discussion. Again, I might enjoy them if I tried now as I’m more accustomed to sometimes reading stuff like that.
I’m readying Realityland which is a behind-the-scense for Walt Disney World. Not great, but not bad. I may read the books the author did covering Disneyland and Disney Animation as the Kindle previews were interesting. I love reading about the hurdles in getting these massive parks built. For example, at Disneyland the asphalt in some areas was poured the morning the park opened and was far from solid in California heat, so women were losing their high heals as they stuck into the pavement.
Right now I am knee deep of edits and re-writes of my first draft of my newest book. I took a different tack with this book and went total pantser on it. No outline, barely a plot, and then just wrote out the story in a bare bones sort of way, to advance the narrative. Now I’m filling in the blanks and finding I rather like expanding on things when I have the time to stop and ponder things like the texture of wallpaper… It’s weird, but as to reading, when I have time I read SE Smith’s Command Decision and I’ve found my new favorite author, Kate Danley. I woke up Mr. Sev a few times laughing at some of her dialogue and scene set up. She keeps me laughing.
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Im currently reading one of the halo books, there are so many and they are not the best. But i love the halo universe and so I love them deeply.
I’m working my way through Iris Johansen right now, starting with the Eve Duncan books. It’s slow going since it’s so crazy at work and home right now, but I’ll get there eventually…
RCN Series by David Drake.
Then I dunno.
I read too fast. It gets expensive if I don’t control it.
Page a minute for me in most paperbacks.
I have all of my books shelved, and I throw out/ donate/ give away any I don’t want to read again. Some have been re-read a dozen or more times. If I pick it up and remember too much of the plot I put it back and let it lay fallow for a couple of years.
I’ve tossed some stuff lately that I thought was top of the craft in Science Fiction thirty years ago… it’s utter drivel.
I just started a Drake - Monsters of the Earth, which is apparently one of the “Books of the Elements” series. I’m amazed at how long it took for him to get any action going. Seriously… character and plot layout took d@mned near the first half of the book! If it hadn’t been Drake, I’d have tossed it.
I’ve been reading only Kindle books for ages. Most of my books are in boxes in my basement, and I can’t bear to sell or throw away any of them. Even though I haven’t read a paper book in a couple years. I think I need to start reading paper again.
I usually read a standard paperback book in 3-5 hours, including time when the Kindle is on, but I’m not actually reading it. I think LE Moddisett is going to be why I go back to reading physical media. I have so many of his books that I can’t make the case to buy them all again, especially since they are all so similar.
While a bit boring im reading my Networking Plus book.
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‘Midnight in Broad Daylight’
Edit: Finished it on the train home tonight.
A damn fine read. An insightful look into the horrors of war, the meaning of loyalty to one’s country, and duty to one’s family.