May Reading Thread

[Foxbat]

Just bought books 4 and 5 in the Honor Harrington series. About to start book 4: Field Of Dishonor.

 

[tobl]

Just bought books 4 and 5 in the Honor Harrington series. About to start book 4: Field Of Dishonor.

so how is your incursion in her world?

 

[Montero]

Just read another T Kingfisher - Clockwork Boys and started the second part. Very good. Essentially a quest - but they can't stop bickering - rather funny in places. The big danger is convincing and grim, and there is plenty of other inventive trouble to go around. The author comments that she'd been rather annoyed by super-perfect Paladins in games, so she writes a Paladin who is sort of super perfect - and also really annoying in his perfection. I like it that the main female lead has allergies - there are some funny bits with sneezing fits and the blinking Paladin always having a handkerchief to offer. (It really hacks her off even as she appreciates it.)

 

[Parson]

Just bought books 4 and 5 in the Honor Harrington series. About to start book 4: Field Of Dishonor.

I hope you like it at least half as much as I did.

Finished Tau Ceti and beginning Allotropes. Dahner probably wishes I hadn't bought these and was reading the on Kindle Unlimited.

 

[Don]

My current combo read's Perry Rhodan Der kosmische Lockvogel Nr. 28 with #21 The Cosmic Decoy.

 

[Vince W]

My current combo read's Perry Rhodan Der kosmische Lockvogel Nr. 28 with #21 The Cosmic Decoy.

Willkommen von einem anderen Perry Rhodan Fan.

 

[Foxbat]

so how is your incursion in her world?

Really enjoying it, although I’m having some trouble getting my head around the operating properties and physics of the ships with gravitic wedges et al. I do get the impression that they are also almost like sailing ships of the line in that they have to position themselves to deliver broadsides. Also noticed other nods to history....one being the takeover of Haven government by a commitee set up by Rob. S. Pierre. Robespierre for the Honorverse?

 

[biodroid]

Age of Myth - Michael J. Sullivan

 

[Montero]

@Foxbat All the not very subtle French Revolution stuff rather got on my nerves I'm afraid. I enjoyed Honor for a bit and then got fed up.

 

[Foxbat]

@Foxbat All the not very subtle French Revolution stuff rather got on my nerves I'm afraid. I enjoyed Honor for a bit and then got fed up.

I can imagine it becoming tedious if its overused but as I’m only on book 4, it’s still relatively new to me

 

[Montero]

I loved the treecats. I'd also read quite a lot of Scarlet Pimpernell which I still love and the echoes in Honor didn't work for me.

 

[soulsinging]

Age of Myth - Michael J. Sullivan

I really enjoyed Theft of Swords but haven't picked up any others since. I should look into that.

 

[Danny McG]

Okay, I'm trying a book from 1936 now.
The wheel spins by Ethel Lina White.
This was subsequently made into a film, The Lady Vanishes.... And remade twice more over the intervening years

Halfway through this gem now.
Very much of it's time, a Ione Englishwoman standing resolute against the fiendish machinations of Johnny Foreigner, who will believe her?

 

[biodroid]

I really enjoyed Theft of Swords but haven't picked up any others since. I should look into that.

I haven't read the Rhyria books yet so hope I won't spoil anything

 

[pickinanameainteasy]

Currently reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? by Philip K. Dick. Hoping it is a good as blade runner.

Also reading Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. So far I really like this one. Trumbo completely eschews commas which makes it confusing at times but gives it the air of being written by an amateur, the main character after all is just a young man who is gravely injured in WW2. The flashbacks to his life feel real and while not all connected they paint the picture of a young man who was just starting his life. His ruminations on his injury and how his life will never be the same play out in a disturbing manner. The book is able to define the horrors of war and so far (half way through) we haven't even had a scene of battle. Definitely would recommend.

 

[Danny McG]

Also reading Johnny Got His Gun

The film was really disturbing

 

[pickinanameainteasy]

I'll make sure to look it up when I finish the book

 

[Don]

Willkommen von einem anderen Perry Rhodan Fan.

Danke. The weather's warmer, which encourages me to take a Spin Tale with an Ace/Moewig in my pannier and a Silber Edition mp3 piped through my earbuds.

 

[tobl]

Really enjoying it, although I’m having some trouble getting my head around the operating properties and physics of the ships with gravitic wedges et al. I do get the impression that they are also almost like sailing ships of the line in that they have to position themselves to deliver broadsides. Also noticed other nods to history....one being the takeover of Haven government by a commitee set up by Rob. S. Pierre. Robespierre for the Honorverse?

yep, there's french revolution, comunism, you name it. it gets dark but they are great reads

 

[Don]

Currently reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? by Philip K. Dick. Hoping it is a good as blade runner.

It's much better than Blade Runner in my humble opinion. Blade Runner merely scratches the surface of the story. Then again, PKD's one of my favorite authors...