Fantasy Book Club discussion

I'm currently reading The Night Circus, Double Star, and Pathfinder.

I'm reading a lot at once right now. I've put 1Q84 on hold because my electronic copy of Nightlife came in from the library. I only have it for 14 days and I knew I couldn't finish both books in that time. I am loving all the creatures in Nightlife, along with Cal and his brother.

At the beginning of the month I started The War of the Worlds in paperback and I still haven't finished it. Reading it feels like a chore because the writing style is so boring. I'm determined to finish it because it was a gift and I nominated it for a BOTM in another group, but I really don't want to.

To make up for the dryness of War of The Worlds I started reading Warbreaker on my iPad. Boy was this a good decision. It's 400 pages longer than War of The Worlds but moves much faster. I was in the mood for fantasy and this was a great choice. It is my first Brandon Sanderson.

On top of it all I started listening to Skinny Dip on audio. I had to pick up someone from the airport today and wanted something to listen to. It is perfect for audio- it has humor and adventure, is only 5 hours, and most importantly keeps my attention.

I have a lot more that I want to read this month so I need to start finishing these up.

Wrapped up A Fortress in Shadow: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire and went straight into An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat, a collection of Glen Cook's Dread Empire short stories.

OK, nobody's wrapped up anything since Thursday? Me, I finished An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat and started Reap the East Wind, the first book in the last cycle of Glen Cook's Dread Empire series.

I finished the Tawny Man trilogy, Among the Mad, and the latest in the Foreigner series, Intruder. All excellent.

I finished Royal Assassin, am nearly through with The Book of Blood and Shadow and picked up Assassin's Quest from the library today.

Just heading towards end of Donaldson's first Thomas Covenant trilogy. Probably Gene Wolfe next.
Wrapped up Skellig with daughter other day. Simply astonishing.

I'm reading A Game of Thrones, but it is going slowly. I keep getting frustrated and have read about 5 other short books while attempting to read it.

Michele wrote: "I'm reading A Game of Thrones, but it is going slowly. I keep getting frustrated and have read about 5 other short books while attempting to read it."
The first time I tried to read that book, I only got about 100 pages in and stopped, but when I picked ut up again, I couldn't stop reading. A little slow at first, but well worth it.

I'm reading Eldest.

Stephen wrote: "Michele wrote: "I'm reading A Game of Thrones, but it is going slowly. I keep getting frustrated and have read about 5 other short books while attempting to read it."
The first time I..."

I loved the details and stuff in the series, somehow it keeps it apart from some other series... you get so invested into characters :)

I finally picked up Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Key, that's been sitting on my unread shelf for a year. I'm not sure what I was waiting for, 90 pages in and it's great! :)

Currently reading the first book of the Malazan Series, Gardens of the Moon. Only a few pages in, currently pretty confused, but determined to continue on after book one, even if I don't really like it.

Derrick wrote: "Just finished Star Wars: Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon.
Not eye-rollingly bad, but more of a scifi/space opera story with Lando's named tacked on to bring in Star Wars' ..."

I didn't think those were the worst Star Wars books I ever read, but I did think they were the least Star Wars-like. But that's because they were written back around the time of the original trilogy before the real start of the Star Wars novel-industrial complex we have today.

Joseph wrote: "I didn't think those were the worst Star Wars books I ever read, but I did think they were the least Star Wars-like. But that's because they were written back around the time of the original trilogy before the real start of the Star Wars novel-industrial complex we have today. "

To be fair, in my opinion, the "New Jedi Order" Series with it's 19 books (+3 "Dark Nest", which were pretty awful, I have to admit) was pretty good. So not all books of the "Star wars novel-industrial complex" (love the term) are bad, although there are some pretty strange star wars books out there.

[ot]By the way, which books were about Thrawn? I was planning on tracking them down and reading them, but never got around to do it... [/ot]

I also have to admit that I haven't actually read most of the post-Return of the Jedi books. I've read just about all of the Clone Wars-era books and did like most of them (although do Obi-Wan and Anakin have to be present in every single battle in a multi-year galaxy-wide civil war?).

I also remember walking into a drugstore in Tucson, AZ, circa 1978 or 1979 and seeing A BRAND NEW STAR WARS BOOK!!!!! on the spinner -- Splinter of the Mind's Eye.

(And as an aside, I keep buying Star Wars and D&D novels because that's exactly the sort of thing I'd like to read if they were done well. So I suppose I'm part of the problem.)

I'm reading Sabriel. Interesting so far but a bit slow.

Finished The Desert Spear & now on to Catching Fire (yes I'm all about the Hunger Games buzz).

Razmatus wrote: "one thing I CANT do is read more books at the "same time"... so during period when I read one book, I dont read another one with plot... although I found that if I read a non-fiction book besides s..."

really ? Can you watch a tv series each week ? To me it's the same thing. I might read a fantasy book and a thriller at the same time or a horror book etc. Just for a change of pace more than anything.

for me it is a different thing... reading just one book at a time helps me focus on it and remember more... which is especially good if I'm reading a fantasy novel of a difficulty like Erikson's novels :)

books to me are a lot more detailed than a TV series can hope to be :P

Razmatus wrote: "for me it is a different thing... reading just one book at a time helps me focus on it and remember more... which is especially good if I'm reading a fantasy novel of a difficulty like Erikson's no..."

I have to admit that I could not imagine reading anything while reading Erikson's books. I've only read GOTM & half of Deadhouse Gates but I found it tough going. I'm determined to try again though ...at some stage :o)

This month I'm reading Delirium, Pandemonium, Eldest , Scorched Skies & First Rider's Call
Eldest is okay so far, and Delirium is pretty good :D

Just Wrapped Up The Hobbit & Although It's Not In The Genre Of Fantasy I'm Currently Reading Life Of Pi

Razmatus wrote: you get so invested into characters :) Regarding A Game of Thrones, I think that is my problem...whenever I get interested in the characters, the story switches over to a different character! But, I am still plodding along.

it reminded me of movie sequencing, where you got a scene focusing here and then cut there is another scene there... the bigger problem for more ppl was that whenever they got invested in a character, something bad happened to the character, ranging from a seemingly small misfortune to some nice maiming or death :D

The Folklore of Discworld
I got this from the library and am enjoying it.

I'm reading Reaper's Gale and Toll of the Hounds even though I have only read the two books.

I am finishing Gardens of the moon, awesome book, looking forward to the Deadhouse Gates already :P

I finished Reap the East Wind last night -- possibly my favorite Dread Empire book -- and went straight into the next in the series, An Ill Fate Marshalling, both by Glen Cook.

I'm reading The Scar, I don't feel very involved with it and it seems to be taking forever to read.

I am reading The King's Bastard, so far it is great.

I've read Retribution Fallsthis month, which turned out to be very entertaining.

Now I'm on Cold Magic.

Finished The High King's Tomb yesterday. Felt like mostly filler, but still a great read. I felt sorry for Karigan throughout most of the book.

Just started Blackveil, which means I'll soon be joining the ranks of those waiting for the next book to come out.

I'm reading The Gamble of the Godless and loving it! A fun fast read.

I'm currently reading Morlock Night">Morlock Night. About half way through, trying to ignore the typesetting errors (commas and suchlike in surprising places) which keep me from seeing the story.

I was going to read Divergent just because it's been sitting on my shelf for so long and because everyone else has read it. (When's movie coming out? lol) But Jade mentioned The Gamble of the Godless and it looks like something different so I went and downloaded it. It better be good Jade! lol

I really want to sci-fi book club to read Perdido Street Station but I'm starting it now, whether they do it or not. And Nilah, The Gamble of the Godless is great, I read it a while ago. Main's non-fantasy stuff is good too, though different, of course.

Now I'm in page 84 of 316 of "The stone gods", Jeanette Winterson... But "Delirium" (Lauren Oliver) is waiting for me to read it the next week :)

I've been spending the last couple months reading Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series. Loving it...just starting Book 6, "Song of Susannah"

Currently reading Mysteries Of The Diogenes Club by Kim Newman. Funny, inventive, alternate dimension London and very evocative of Michael Moorcock. Lots of in-jokes and nods to other fictional characters and tropes. Hugely enjoyable.