It's June - What are you Reading?

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Have begun a collection by Rudyard Kipling, City of the Dreadful Night (title taken from the final story). It's an odd thing, part of a uniform set of which I only have a couple of volumes, called The Sahib Edition of Rudyard Kipling (10 volumes), published sometime in the 1890s or very early 1900s, from the appearance. The contents (for those more familiar with Kipling than I) are: "Wee Willie Winkie", "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep", "His Majesty the King", "The Drums of the Fore and Aft", and "City of the Dreadful Night". So far I have read all but the last. Not quite what I was expecting from my (limited) exposure to his work, but, despite some occasionally irritating mannerisms and the like, not at all bad, if a bit hackneyed in sentiment.
 
Greg Bear: the Wind from a Burning Woman
I like it,so far(plus the Mike Hinge cover)
Also finished a very chilling Ramsey Campbell SS: The Old School in F&SF(dec. 1989)
 
Just finished T.H White's The Once and Future King. I've decided I really didn't enjoy it very much.

I'm now just starting Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke. Never read any Clarke before and beyond the fact that he's well regarded I don't know anything about him.

The only reason I started reading was because I couldn't be arsed with a long 600 page door stopper and this looked fairly thin, which is a nice change.
 
Finished the Greg bear thingy(pub. 1978,ASF)

the protagonist is a terrorist....
good tale,i liked it
recommended
SO ,why don't you turn to novella-length stuff,like i'm doing of late
Anything with more than 300 pages tends to scare me,just like any serial with more than 12 installments and/or more than 3 sequels.
 
Just finished Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber. Really original stuff. I'm going to start Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley shortly.
 
finished Joan Vinge's Eyes of Amber(ASF,june 1977)
artwork by Schoenherr
in the mix are one alien with ambition/revenge on her mind,ruminations on the media,another protagonist with a conscience and a slight messianistic complex, and some non-essential mother/son friction which is all too quickly abandoned/easily resolved
the "problem" i had with this story is the(IMO)slightly unconvincing sociology/culture of the aliens
whence the feudalism?
 
Silver Owl said:
I'm now just starting Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke. Never read any Clarke before and beyond the fact that he's well regarded I don't know anything about him.
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I haven't read him either and just saw this was cheap for the kindle and bought it yesterday
 
Just finished Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel and will now be moving on to the second robot book The Naked Sun



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GMCox said:
Just finished Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel and will now be moving on to the second robot book The Naked Sun
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One of the few times the sequel is just as good as the first, maybe better in spots.

Finished my collection of Captain Future stories and a good collection it was. Too bad Edmond Hamilton couldn't bring The Futuremen back for a third stint. The good Captain was slowing but reassuringly turning into a dark anti-hero type, ready to go vigilante at the slightest provocation. Highly recommended.

Next is:

Contains the first part of Cities In The Air by Edmond Hamilton.
 
I'm just about to finish Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind. I have two books to choose from next - what would you recommend folks?

Michael Moorcock - fantasy masterworks: Elric (The Stealer of Souls and Stormbringer)
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Joe Abercrombie - The Heroes

I've not read anything by either of these fantasy giants, which would you choose to read first?
 
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I've not read anything by either of these fantasy giants, which would you choose to read first?
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Depends on your personal preferences - Abercrombie writes a very close character experience, whereas Moorcock I found to be far more distant. I enjoy Abercrombie, but have struggled to get into any Moorcock. You could always just read the first page of each and see which appeals more to you personally?
 
Walt Miller's Blood Bank(in:view from the stars)
a bit of genre mix
space opera/romp,detective
we follow the exploits of someone who's been accused of an atrocious thing,blasting a medical supply ship out of hyperspace
Not saying anything more,find out for yourself
 
Just finished Patrick Rothfuss's The Slow Regard of Silent Things. At first I felt unsure if this wasn't a very clever rendition of obsessive-compulsive-disorder (if it really were such, I would rate it right up there with Georg Büchner's Lenz). However, to me it isn't. It is much more. It is magic - and by that I mean the writing every bit as much as the story. In short, I am floored.
 
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Just finished T.H White's The Once and Future King. I've decided I really didn't enjoy it very much.

I'm now just starting Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke. Never read any Clarke before and beyond the fact that he's well regarded I don't know anything about him.

The only reason I started reading was because I couldn't be arsed with a long 600 page door stopper and this looked fairly thin, which is a nice change.
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Just finished the immensely enjoyable Rendezvous With Rama.

I am just starting with Flowers for Algeron by Daniel Keyes
 
@Remedy I have never read moorcock, but I do love Abercrombie's stuff a lot. He gets my vote...although I would start in Chronological order with The Blade Itself
 
Finished Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, awful book. Another example of the film improving on the book.

Now reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding
 
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