QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
I really enjoyed Inversions and also The Algebraist, though I gather that is not as well received as some of his other work.
I must read some more when my current 'mindless fiction' mind-set has gone
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I really enjoyed Inversions and also The Algebraist, though I gather that is not as well received as some of his other work.
I must read some more when my current 'mindless fiction' mind-set has gone
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
It is perfect when you need to retreat from the world for a few hours and you don't want to have to think or question or engage your brain in anything more troublesome than turning over the next page
Ahh, the Jilly Cooper experience
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Has anyone else read Said's 'Covering Islam' - I've been reading it and wouldn't mind discussing some aspects the text which I found extremely irritating.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I've stalled - all I can read at the mo is shitty film mags and tinternet 
Just finished Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson. I'm afraid he's turning into Robert Jordan, page filling with meandering tangents.
At his best he's awesome... The Chain of Dogs in Deadhouse Gates is some of the best fantasy I've ever read IMHO.
Now on The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod. Near future science fiction grim and engrossing. Only a hundred pages in and <I can't spoil nothing> I hope we don't turn out like that.
I've only read Orientalism and that was for Anthropology many years ago. Was Covering Islam any good? May have to get a copy.
Banks' Sci-Fi is great. My favourites are Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons and Player of Games, in that order.
How much would I like the Culture to become reality.
At his best he's awesome... The Chain of Dogs in Deadhouse Gates is some of the best fantasy I've ever read IMHO.
Now on The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod. Near future science fiction grim and engrossing. Only a hundred pages in and <I can't spoil nothing> I hope we don't turn out like that.
I've only read Orientalism and that was for Anthropology many years ago. Was Covering Islam any good? May have to get a copy.
I really enjoyed Inversions and also The Algebraist, though I gather that is not as well received as some of his other work.
I must read some more when my current 'mindless fiction' mind-set has gone
Banks' Sci-Fi is great. My favourites are Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons and Player of Games, in that order.
How much would I like the Culture to become reality.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Just finished Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson. I'm afraid he's turning into Robert Jordan, page filling with meandering tangents.
At his best he's awesome... The Chain of Dogs in Deadhouse Gates is some of the best fantasy I've ever read IMHO.
Did we read a diifferent book? Toll the Hounds was fucking awesome. Oh and those aren't meandering tangents. He's setting it up for the finale, the big battle the END. And there is an end to the arcs coming, thats something he and co-creator Ian Esselmont always had planned.
I'm re-reading a copy of Memories of Ice and waiting till september when Ian Esselmonts second Malazan book comes out in trade paperback (return of the crimson guard)
I hope you're right DC. There are a lot of annoying characters who've lasted while many of my favourites have been bumped off...
Please kill Cutter/Crokus. He's a complete fifth wheel since Apsalar left. Traveller/Dassem Ultor is plain boring. Karsa is much less fun now than in House of Chains. I got to admit I like Nimander and the other children of Rake. As for Hood choosing to die! 
Some Jaghut master plan.
Some Jaghut master plan.Toll the Hounds really lacked a lot of the fire which the earlier books had in abundance. Maybe I'm asking too much.
Yes no doubt I'll get Return of the Crimson Guard.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Cutter is a tiresome cunt I'll give ye that
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature - just arrived today and it looks pretty interesting, really looking forward to reading this.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature - just arrived today and it looks pretty interesting, really looking forward to reading this.
I sense a common thread in your reading choices fictionist
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
At the moment DC I think I seeking excuses to have time away from 'Moby Dick' - which I still haven't finished!
I was so bored with it the other night that I read 'King Lear' instead.
I was so bored with it the other night that I read 'King Lear' instead.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Just received David Simon's "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" and am trying to decide between that and Dan Simmons' "A Winter Haunting". Or "The Ressurectionist" by James Bradley
Though I am supposed to be learning lines for "Richard III" so train-reading may have to wait for a few days
Though I am supposed to be learning lines for "Richard III" so train-reading may have to wait for a few days
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Count of Monte Cristo - Had this on my to read list for years
The Virago Book of Witches - edited by Shahrukh Husain
It's actually quite interesting - a collection of folk tales about witches from around the world. The intro's a bit heavy on the old 'men nicked all their ideas from matriarchy and then oppressed women' theme, but I guess if you've never come across that idea before, it's intriguing
It's actually quite interesting - a collection of folk tales about witches from around the world. The intro's a bit heavy on the old 'men nicked all their ideas from matriarchy and then oppressed women' theme, but I guess if you've never come across that idea before, it's intriguing
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Recently I've read:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon, which I enjoyed, despite it being implausibly polished and fine in the way of clever American novels.
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski, which is his trip through a disintegrating Soviet Union in 1990/91 and which lacks the freshness and insight of his other books.
Candido by Leonard Sciascia, which is better than almost anyone else manages, but is about his tenth best book.
Now I'm reading Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi, which is boring me to drink and early nights.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon, which I enjoyed, despite it being implausibly polished and fine in the way of clever American novels.
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski, which is his trip through a disintegrating Soviet Union in 1990/91 and which lacks the freshness and insight of his other books.
Candido by Leonard Sciascia, which is better than almost anyone else manages, but is about his tenth best book.
Now I'm reading Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi, which is boring me to drink and early nights.
Shaping up well 
foo
dirtysweet
My fave is All the Pretty Horses. Just wonderful. Touched my inner cowboy
ok cheers soj
that'll be the next one then. he's a fuckin genius isn't he. i'm totally awed.Similar threads
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