Right now I'm about to start a new book actually, but I'm a bit torn. I've got the Appeal from John Grisham, American gods by Neil Gaimann and the first Shannara books by Terry Brooks. All were acquired on my recent trip to Orlando, and I'm not sure which to begin with tbh as all are quite appealing

War Horse - Michael Murpurgo

With the film coming out I thought I'd read the novel again. Now I remember why I loved it so much.

Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By...Possibly...I think it's called...Aaamywho...It's by the amazing Dan Abnett anyways...Who's one of me fave authors at the mo...

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Warhammer 40 000 - Soul Drinkers Omnibus by Ben Counter...

I've read "Hunger Games" trilogy last weekend, in a sort of a reading frenzy. Even my gaming suffered because of it. The books are good, but the topic depressed me (even more).

It feels like the same kind of gut-wrench that I experienced when I read first 50 pages of Thomas Covenant saga. Normal human being just doesn't come prepared for mental images of children being thrown into death like that, while the whole world watches it as if it was a spectacle. It just shows how much of a failure we, as a species, are, or might become really soon.

Dresden Files. Currently on book 5.

I'm making my way through them. I'm on book two. Not trying to finish them anytime very soon though.


Excellent books. For the most part they get better as you get later in the series. Harry really pulls off some cool stuff.

Currently rereading the Saga of Beowulf at the moment. Currently I'm rediscovering the delightful way I can enjoy it on two different levels; part of me is thinking 'Ah, I see the author is employing an epic simile here' or 'Ooh, I see we have some iambic pentameter' and another part of me is jumping up and down and going 'THIS IS AWESOME!!'.

It's a fun feeling

Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor by Matthew Stover...

Just finished the famous Nightfall by Isaac Asimov. In a word; ohmygodohmygodohmygodsoooooogoooood!

I liked it quite a bit.

Mark Charan Newton - Nights of Villjamur...

After leaving the fantasy genre in disgust at yet another formulaic sword-n-sorcery quest cookie cutter (y'mean to tell me I wasted fifteen bucks on this??), I picked out a new author that sounded interesting.

Joe Abercrombie. First I read "Best Served Cold" OMG! It was gritty, it was bloody, it was BRUTAL! Just the way I like it! And this guy wrote one of the toughest female characters I've ever read, and I could identify with her! Unlike so many of the fantasy novels I had been reading which seemed like they were meant for the "young adult" (an oxymoron if I ever saw one) crowd - full of emo's and flimsy stereotypes, this was very adult and very real. It almost didn't qualify as fantasy, since there was very little magic in it. Then I read his First Law trilogy (The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, and Last Argument of Kings), and kicked myself for not reading it first (since Best Served Cold takes place after these three). Love, love, love the character development in these four novels. Now I have a fifth one of his - The Heroes, which is supposed to take place before The First Law. I will read that soon!

I have also read a few other outstanding fantasy fiction - it's enough to get me back into the genre after years of hard SF. Next was the Cartamandua Legacy, by Carol Berg. Going from the really gritty, bloody gutter style of Joe Abercrombie, I went into something that was more pure magic. It's a retelling, basically, of the old Celtic tales of the Danae (more Welsh I think, than Irish) and the connection of the Old Folk to the land. But it was so well done I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Last is Under Heaven, by Guy Gavriel Kay. It's set in a country that strongly resembles Tang China, and is very Chinese in its treatment of characters and events. A truly amazing epic and very different from the usual slash -n- smash.

Right now I'm reading "The Fountain head" written by Ayn Rand. This novel was written on 1943.

Cool, that was the year my Dad was born... ...

I'm now reading a book about the real life pirates behind the stories that wind up being in films/tv etc...

Crucible by S.G. Maclean...Bought it at Tesco for £3.50 'cause it looked cool...And it is... ...

I'm not much of a comic guy, but after reading this and seeing this I got myself some summer time reading, Also Scarlet and the White Wolf.

I just finished L'eau des Collines (The Water of The Hills) by French author, Marcel Pagnol.
After getting around the tricky tenses and grammer, I rather enjoyed it. I probably should have just bought the English translation though.

And, because I have a fascination with Great Britain during that period of time before the Normans and after the Romans, I just bought The Warlord Chronicles series by Bernard Cornwell.
I also bought the first two James Bond books, Casino Royale and Live and Let Die.
I expect I'll finish all five by late July. But, then again, it'll be summer and if the weather is nice I probably won't finish them until September, unless they're particularly gripping.

I started Game of Thrones. So far it's pretty good, though I'm less than a hundred pages in.

It only gets better.

Not surprisingly, what I am reading at the present is TES-related. The Infernal City, and also obscure lore stuff they have on Imperial Library.

That's good to know.