Which book are you reading currently? #4

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About a quarter into the first book of Tad Williams' Otherland. It's been rather frustrating, as parts of it are quite good, while others are either too bizzare or just plain uninteresting to engage me. I'm not liking the VR aspect of the book.

I'm also completely at a loss to see how Otherland is four volumes. The basic story seems simple enough to resolve in one.

 

I just finished The Wolves of Calla (Book V of the Dark Tower Series) by Stephen King, excellent stuff. I'll definetly get the last two volumes.

 

Otherland is the most drawn out story ever. It could easily have been cut to a third of its size and be much better off for it.

It is worth reading though but there are long stretches of uninteresting transports.

 

Newfie - Deadhouse Gates rocks. It only gets better too.

 

I know, Harbourboy. I just love fantasy set in a desert or winter setting and we have the prison setting as well. With the desert setting, I just imagine how much fun an archeologist and an anthropologist like Erikson is going to have. Bring on the forgotten sites!

[ January 17, 2006, 01:12: Message edited by: Newfie ]

 

I'm about a third of the way through Gardens of the Moon. Anomander Rake has just showed up.

I;m also reading Golden Fool, and Forever Odd, the sequel to Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. My reading list rocks!

 

Anomander Rake is one of the my favourite characters in any book. I tried to play an Anomander Rake like character in BGII but it didn't really work.

 

Reading: Guards!Guards!

 

Finished Myst: Book of D'Ni. Not bad. Also finished Fletch and the Man Who by Edgar Mcdonald. All of the Fletch stories are brilliant. Funniest stuff I've ever read, bar none. Right now I'm reading An Eye for an Eye by Gerald Seymour.

 

I finished Deadly Quicksilver Lies yesterday - it was o.k. but definitely a big step down from the earlier books in the series.

I have started on the next book - Petty Pewter Gods. So far it looks like it is another step down in the quality department.

 

forgot to mention, also read the new book in the new FR series The Fighters. Master of Chains by Jess LeBow. A good idea, just poorly executed haven't given up on the whole series yet though. I'll give the next book a shot when it comes out, it may be better.

 

I wouldn't bother Enaganios, Ghostwalker is even worse than Master of Chains. Forget WOTC, pick up Gardens of the Moon and read some intelligent fantasy. Plus the Malazan books are so long, you have lots of reading material to keep you busy and save on your pocketbook.

 

I didn;t mind the cleric series, I quite enjoyed it, even just for research for fanfics

 

I have just started reading 'Mizora: A World of Women' by Mary E. Bradley Lane. Apparently its a Victorian feminist-utopian science fiction novel set inside the (hollow) earth, oh my!

 

Having finished Midnight's Children (which actually turned out to be quite good, after slugging through the somewhat irrelevant beginning) - I'm now reading Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin.

 

I read Lady of Poison in the Cleric series. It was quite possibly the worst FR book I've ever read. Okay, thanks Newfie. Problem is: Erikson's books aren't readily available here. They had the whole collection maybe 9 months ago but I didn't have enough money to get it at the time so I passed on it. Now that I DO have the cash all they have left are midnight tides and house of chains..

Am about to start The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follet.

 

Check out your library, Enagonios. They are pretty popular fantasy books so they might have them. Key to Rebecca is a great Ken Follet book but I liked Triple and Eye of the Needle a little more.

 

Ah, I'm afraid 3rd-World libraries aren't like the libraries you guys all seem to be used to

Maybe I'll get lucky and some relative will be visting the U.S. If so, I can order via Amazon, have it sent to the U.S and have it carried home by my relative.

 

You can get your hands on all the new WOTC stuff but not Erikson? Dungeons and Dragons must be really big where you are. Erikson is pretty big in North America and Europe so you probably can get your hands on it somewhere. Just goes to show how many little things we take for granted here in Canada.