What are you reading?

Michael Everett wrote:Lackey? Would that be Mercedes Lackey? My curiosity leads me to ask, is it the Valdemar series, the SERRAted Edge or one of her other (smaller) series that you prefer to peruse? I personally do not mind admitting that I have many of her books.

Currently re-reading the Trilogy of the Damned by Alan Dean Foster (A Call To Arms, The False Mirror, The Spoils Of War). It is an intersting take on the Humans Are Barbarians By Comparison To Others style of sci-fi.

Awaiting comments.

I've read many of her books though I haven't touched the Serrated Edge series yet. I personally like a lot of the Valdemar series as I got started on the Black Gryphon when it first came out.

I'm currently readin 3 or 4 different books and I read fast enough that I'm usually not reading the same book for more than a week so here are some of my favorites.

George R.R. Martin. Song of Fire and Ice. One of My all time favs. Be warned If you decide to check these out No One Is Safe. His other Non Series books are good to.

David Weber. Of course

Brandon Sanderson. I didn't really know about him until he took over the Wheel of Time but I'm gald I found him. Mystborn is really good and I really enjoy his stand alone books too.

Jeniffer Fallon. The Hythrun Chronicles are great. Have read the 6 books in this series more than once and enjoy them alot.

Brent Weeks. Night Angel Trilogy. Found this guy By accident But am really glad I did. only has one trilogy out right now but I'm excited about his new stuff.

Robin Hobb. Farseer Trilogy. Her books are great, and you will love to hate her by the end.

Frank Herbert. Dune. Need I say more. I have read most of his non Dune works and I find I enjoy them too.

Carol Berg. Books of the Rai-kirah. I really enjoy her writing style and her other series are equally as good.

Since I have a rather catholic taste in authors I will list some I enjoy reading time and time again:

Nautical Fiction Douglas Reeman for his WWII novels.
C. S. Forester for Horatio Hornblower novels and his less well known WWII novels such as The Ship and The Good Shepard. C. Northcott Parkinson for his Gernsyman novels in the age of sail. Duddly Pope for his Ramage novels and his other fiction and historical works on the British Navy. The Nathaniel Drinkwater novels starting with eye of the fleet; author's name aludes me just now.

SF Heinlein, Pournelle, Drake, Webber, Turttledove, Schmitz, Anderson, Reynolds, Stirling, Shelly, Moon, McCaffery, Dietz, de Cruz.

Lamour for his westerns.

Read and enjoy

Ooh, I read several of Parkinson's Guernsey novels in college, and really enjoyed them. I'll have to go look them up again. Thanks for the reminder!

I loved, loved his Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower.

I also like Reeman's Alexander Kent novels (though I haven't seen the later ones, and hear they're not great). I'm not sure why, but I find Bolitho and Hornblower far more readable than Aubrey/Maturin.

Right now I'm working on the Discworld series (just discovered) and Ellis Peters' Sister Fidelma mysteries.

Do you mean Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael, or Peter Tremaybe's Sister Fidelma? They're both very good, my wife and I have all the books.

Cheers

John

JenBurdoo wrote:Ooh, I read several of Parkinson's Guernsey novels in college, and really enjoyed them. I'll have to go look them up again. Thanks for the reminder!

I loved, loved his Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower.

I also like Reeman's Alexander Kent novels (though I haven't seen the later ones, and hear they're not great). I'm not sure why, but I find Bolitho and Hornblower far more readable than Aubrey/Maturin.

Right now I'm working on the Discworld series (just discovered) and Ellis Peters' Sister Fidelma mysteries.

John Prigent wrote:Do you mean Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael, or Peter Tremaybe's Sister Fidelma? They're both very good, my wife and I have all the books.

Cheers

John

JenBurdoo wrote:Ooh, I read several of Parkinson's Guernsey novels in college, and really enjoyed them. I'll have to go look them up again. Thanks for the reminder!

I loved, loved his Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower.

I also like Reeman's Alexander Kent novels (though I haven't seen the later ones, and hear they're not great). I'm not sure why, but I find Bolitho and Hornblower far more readable than Aubrey/Maturin.

Right now I'm working on the Discworld series (just discovered) and Ellis Peters' Sister Fidelma mysteries.

On a diff note:
Dan Simons Hyperion series and Endymion series

The Eternity Brigade by Steven Goldman

The Shadowman by Vanderman is a suedoname though his real name is: Take a guess He wrote about 90 westerns in the 80's/90's. I was pissed because he never wrote the sequel to Shadowman though the book doesn't need it really.

Dune
Under Pressure also by Herbert

The Neutral Stars by: oh brother my mind has lost me jack mcdevitt?

Most of everything Jack McDevitt writes

Mistborn

Elantris

Tad Williams don't know the name of the series, not the Dragonbone chair etc, but the ones he wrote after that series. Big books. I don't own them, but I remember liking them at the time. Maybe I simply liked them because they were huge and I needed to burn a lot of time.

BFoote

bafoote wrote:

John Prigent wrote:Do you mean Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael, or Peter Tremaybe's Sister Fidelma? They're both very good, my wife and I have all the books.

Cheers

John

JenBurdoo wrote:Ooh, I read several of Parkinson's Guernsey novels in college, and really enjoyed them. I'll have to go look them up again. Thanks for the reminder!

I loved, loved his Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower.

I also like Reeman's Alexander Kent novels (though I haven't seen the later ones, and hear they're not great). I'm not sure why, but I find Bolitho and Hornblower far more readable than Aubrey/Maturin.

Right now I'm working on the Discworld series (just discovered) and Ellis Peters' Sister Fidelma mysteries.

On a diff note:
Dan Simons Hyperion series and Endymion series

The Eternity Brigade by Steven Goldman

The Shadowman by Vanderman is a suedoname though his real name is: Take a guess He wrote about 90 westerns in the 80's/90's. I was pissed because he never wrote the sequel to Shadowman though the book doesn't need it really.

Dune
Under Pressure also by Herbert

The Neutral Stars by: oh brother my mind has lost me jack mcdevitt?

Most of everything Jack McDevitt writes

Mistborn

Elantris

Tad Williams don't know the name of the series, not the Dragonbone chair etc, but the ones he wrote after that series. Big books. I don't own them, but I remember liking them at the time. Maybe I simply liked them because they were huge and I needed to burn a lot of time.

BFoote

I belive you are thinking of the Otherland series.

John Prigent wrote:Do you mean Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael, or Peter Tremaybe's Sister Fidelma? They're both very good, my wife and I have all the books.

Cheers

John

I haven't read or watched Cadfael. Would like to, though. I found that Peter Tremayne is a pseudonym for Peter Ellis (got it the right way around this time) -- which seems thoroughly confusing given they're roughly the same genre!

I read everything Pratchett, and Good Omens is my favorite book.
I like the combination of characters, strategy, politics, action, maybe a bit of romance, so is it any wonder why I like Weber, or George RR Martin.
I've had a huge hunger Reginald Hill's Daziel and Pascoe series. It's the best British police procedural I've found. I can't read enough of him.
There's always some Warhammer (or 40k) book laying around.
Westerns are usually a fun quick read for me.
There's a few authors I follow in the graphic novel world. Mark Waid, Ed Brubaker, and I forget his name but he writes the Walking Dead series.

Currently just picked up the fourth book of Safehold and am actually going through it slowly rather than reading it in a single night as I usually do.
Otherwise I've just been re-reading some from the Vorkosigan series.