About to read China Mievelle's Perdido Street Station, which I've heard many good things about. A new breed fantasy writer who most likely has a grudge against people feeling happy or experiencing 'nice things'. Goes pretty graphic in the way of creating nightmare-like-realities.
Just finished reading Michael Moorcock's Count Brass! Great! Michael Moorcock is such an inspired author. Count Brass was a wicked trip into the psyche of Hawkmoon, who met the dead, became the dead, was the dead, then... ahh... it gets a bit complicated.
Lungs wrote:About to read China Mievelle's Perdido Street Station, which I've heard many good things about.
It's good, but that book requires a lot of determination, at least in my case. I'm a relatively experienced reader, and the only thing that got me through Perdido Street Station was knowing that I'd have nothing else to read if I put it down.
Haha, determination? Rats. I kind of need books to take me along, I've only been reading (while this sounds odd) for a year. Did you think it was worth the determination once you had finished?
Lungs wrote:Haha, determination? Rats. I kind of need books to take me along, I've only been reading (while this sounds odd) for a year. Did you think it was worth the determination once you had finished?
I doubt it was worth the effort, but I didn't exactly feel cheated once I finished it. Read the first hundred pages or so, and weigh immersion/appreciation against time and effort reading it.
The Da Vinci Code, if you've not already read it (I can't believe I'm recommending this book to somebody), basically reads itself. This says nothing of the subject matter or quality of writing, however.
Nah, it's alright, haha... I spent the better half of my youth on the internet looking at far more exciting things than the past of Jesus. Haha, giants in Charthage, sunken temples of Mu, Dzopa disks...
Kind of into fantasy. The only books I've read, though, have been by Moorcock and Aldiss. Has anyone read Cryptozoic? It's extremely hard to find as an e-book! I haven't managed to find it as of yet. It's about... time. Haha, good book.
I'm currently reading Raymond E Feist's "Flight of the Nighthawks", and once that's done I'll start the next book in the series that I got signed by the author himself as a competition prize!
You need more Robin Hobb in your life. Fantasy as a genre has some pretty crappy writing, but she is an excellent storyteller. Start with the Farseer Trilogy (AKA 'assassin books').
I am currently reading Looking for Jake, a collection of short stories by China Mieville.
You should definitely check this out, Lungs.
Lacking something to read, I decided to pick up said book, having read the first couple of pages and hurled it across the room months before (this was right after forcing myself through Perdido Street Station by the same author).
This time I read past the first two pages, and it blew me away. So far, all the stories (fantastical but set in everyday England, all mystery-horror in nature) have been excellent. Nothing revolutionary, but entertaining beyond the call of duty.
You need more Robin Hobb in your life. Fantasy as a genre has some pretty crappy writing, but she is an excellent storyteller. Start with the Farseer Trilogy (AKA 'assassin books').
I have read her and she was the second fantasy writer i didnt like so far.
Just finished reading Dragon Lance: dragons of winter night. Reading bullet proof/the total money makover/the will of god as a way of life. All good books.
I've recently finished Moby Dick and it's the best book I've read. I've started Jules Verne's voyage au centre de la terre and then I'll go with Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.