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"The Violent Land" - William W. Johnstone/J.A. Johnstone

I read a lot of his "Ashes" series back in the day. Didn't like it much. I preferred Jerry Ahern's Survivalist.

Finished A Scanner Darkly, am working on The Kobra Manifesto - Adam Hall, and still enjoying The Invention of Air.

The Skeptical Feminist: Discovering the Maid Mother & Crone
by Barbara G. Walker.

Becoming radicalized whilst quietly sitting at home.

Started listening to the audiobook of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. Read by Gaiman.

Was sort of enjoying it. It's very good. But wasn't as into it as some of my more recent listens. Just wasn't quite hitting the right buttons. So, decided to step away and listen to the first of a new fantsy series. The Name of the Wind:Part One.

Wow. Just wow. Love it when a book grabs me straight off. Within about five minutes I had settled into the rhythm and feel of this new world, and its instantly likeable and/or intriguing characters. Brilliantly read too. Glad I opted for the audio rather than paperback, because the narrator adds so much to it.

I am currently reading The Thirteenth Majestral, by Hayford Peirce. Idle reading in the sci-fi genre. I also read Phylum Monsters prior to this and liked it. Interesting premise and fairly believable. This one is too early to call.

The main reason I dug these two out of the used bookstore stacks is because I happen to know the author and was, until recently, going to have him for dinner. (Yes, I went there! Ha Ha)

He has promised to sign them for me, which will probably double their value. I threatened to return them to the used bookstore (they buy books) and demand more than I paid since they are signed first editions. The owner was less amused than I was. :D

Next on my reading list (and yes, I *do* read) is Poems from a Transgendered Heart, by Sally Jackson. Yes, I know the author here, too. And yes, she will sign it for me. (Is this a pattern?)

Reviews to come.

Pamela

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Originally Posted by wolf (Post 815468)

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Finished A Scanner Darkly, am working on The Kobra Manifesto - Adam Hall, and still enjoying The Invention of Air.

Good movie, probably bears about as much relation to the book as Bladerunner to Do Androids Dream of electric Sheep, but stands on it's own anyway.

On my birthday I had a 50% book voucher at a local store and grabbed Transition by Ian Banks and have just now started reading it, interesting and odd so far.

Checking his bibliography I notice a few I have missed.
I like this description of Matter by Banks, i may have to try it next.

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"It's a real shelf-breaker," he says enthusiastically. "It's 204,000 words long and the last 4,000 consist of appendices and glossaries. It's so complicated that even in its complexity it's complex. I'm not sure the publishers will go for the appendices, but readers will need them. It's filled with neologisms and characters who disappear for 150 pages and come back, with lots of flashbacks and -forwards. And the story involves different civilizations at different stages of technological evolution. There's even one group who have disappeared up their own fundaments into non-matter-based societies".

Manners From Heaven - Quentin Crisp.

HEY!

'member Hot_Pastrami?

'member he wrote a book?

Here's a link to it in e-book goodness. name your own price, even.

don't be a dick. he's cool.

I have a dtb edition of HP's book. It's a lot of fun to read. Damn Interesting, indeed!

Just finished The Forever War - Joe Haldeman. Classic of SF that I somehow skipped over until now.

"In the Garden of Beasts", by Erik Larson. A nonfiction book with a novel-like structure about the American ambassador to Nazi Germany and his family. Very good.

I am sooooo enjoying The name of the Wind. It's the best fantasy book I've 'read' for a long time. Though, as I say it's an audiobook.

Sometimes the main benefits of an audiobook are that it's convenient and doesn't matter if my eyes are tired, but sometimes the audio reading really adds something to the experience. This is one of those times. Such a good reader.

agreed. I just wish I could actually hear him play the sound of the misty forest with his lute.

Ohhhhhh you have it too? Awesomesauce. You're the first person I've spoken to who has heard of it!

[eta] ah man, I just checked and you guys have a different narrator. Daresay as good.

I just listened to the sample of your guy reading. He's good.

But I prefer mine :)

http://www.audible.co.uk/search/ref=sr_lftbox_1_1

[eta] Just realised the .com site has both the English and American versions available. The .co.uk site only has the English version.

The Name of the Wind Part 2 is just as good as the first.

I just read most of Hugh Howey's catalog. He's kind of a breakout self-published guy. Good sci-fi/fantasy. Start with the Wool Omnibus Edition.

Currently reading The Inheritance of Rome.