Which book are you reading?

I just finished Sunshine by Robin McKinley and am going to start Circus of the Damned by Laurel K. Hamilton. I've also been working on rereading the Mabinogi, a collection of old Welsh tale before starting on The Mabinogion Tetralogy by Evangeline Walton.

I've started "His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman. Although I've already read more than 100 pages, I still can't really decide whether I like it or not.

c4master sagte:
I've started "His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman. Although I've already read more than 100 pages, I still can't really decide whether I like it or not.
Now that I've finihed it, I am sure, I liked it. ;-)

It has been a nice story with some great ideas. Unfortunately, the author has concentrated only on one single plot and doesn't tell you a lot about the world. This makes the book easy to read and eventually attractive for youths (as well as the young heroine), but there is too much violence and too much higher philosophical stuff in it to be really a children's or youth's book. Anyway, I liked it even with its flaws. Maybe, I'm going to read the other two books someday.

For now, I've started Eragon.

Oh, and I forgot:
c4master sagte:
I'm going on with "Siege Of Darkness". After this one I am going to leave the Forgotten Realms again and continue something else. Probably I will try out "Fevre Dream" from G.R.R. Martin. I hope that he can finish his Song Of Ice And Fire series soon.
Fevre Dream has indeed been very good. The ending takes a bit too long, he could have written all his stuff on 100 pages less than he did, but still I like his characters and his descriptions of the world and the persons.

By the way: "Der Spiegel von Kajx" has been even better, being one of my favorite fantasy books now. I liked this episodical style and the songs, poems, stories and historical notes which appeared between every two chapters. Very cool idea. 8-)

Sandman>>The Doll"s House

I read quite some Tad Williams books and loved all of them. Steven Erikson and Robert Jordan, I haven't tried, yet.

I've finished Eragon and it wasn't that great, after all. The story was not bad, but lot's of stuff has been stolen from other fantasy books and Star Wars. I didn't like the "Old Language" because there is no explaination of it, other authors did much better creating an own language. And finally, there have been some logic errors. I mean, it wasn't all that bad, but this book is definately praised too much. Paolini is NOT a second Tolkien. He is just another Fantasy author, that's it.

I promise to try. But this year, I won't be able to read any of their books. My time is running out before the exam and I still have three books, all with more than 800 pages, lying next to my bed and awaiting my attention. I've started a book from Daniele Nadir ("Das dritte Testament" - "Lo stagno di fuoco" is the Italian original title). Starts quite nicely, some nice humor in an end-time post-apocalyptic adventure. It isn't fantasy, neither science fiction, though.

Yes, that's its meaning. Anyway, it doen't have any relations to this strange internet page called third testament, I think. I've read about 400 pages so far. It's getting a little bit annoying since the plot is moving very slowly. It is more like one episode after the other, nothing is really happening, somehow. And there is lots of violence, which I don't like. In "A Song Of Ice And Fire", I didn't feel like there was too much violence, but here it is everywhere and everytime.

Well, it doesn't pick up, actually. I'm near the end now and it it's very confusing, I really don't know what the author is trying to tell me. Steven Erikson has been recommended to me by various people, so I will try it. Someday. Maybe next year.

I am reading two books right now. One at work and one at home. The one at work is Hero of Ages (third in the Mistborn trilogy) by Brandon Sanderson. and the one at home is Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan.

I'm now reading "The Blade Itself" by Joe Ambercrombie (or rather the German translation of it). I've already done a few hundred pages and it's great! Very nice characters and nice humor seem to make this book very good. If it keeps up, it will be something nearly as fantastic as Martin's "Song Of Ice And Fire". Nearly.

c4master sagte:
I'm now reading "The Blade Itself" by Joe Ambercrombie (or rather the German translation of it). I've already done a few hundred pages and it's great! Very nice characters and nice humor seem to make this book very good. If it keeps up, it will be something nearly as fantastic as Martin's "Song Of Ice And Fire". Nearly.
It has been awesome! Very, very nice! The author does not only create a great world with many different characters, but he also manages to cast a smile on your face again and again. I've already continued with the sequel and I can HIGHLY recommend the books to anyone who liked "A Song Of Ice And Fire" or who is generally interested in fantasy, that doesn't paint in black and white. And the best about it: As far as I know, it is a trilogy and all three books are already availible, so there won't be any time of waiting for a sequel! If you've got nothing to read right now - go and get it!

edit: There is indeed one flaw: There is no map in this book. You will have to imagine all the countrys, landscapes, distances and borders.

The second book of Ambercrombie's First Law saga has been even better than the first. I'm now reading the third one and hoping for the fourth to be availible soon. Really great fantasy. :-)

Just finished The Gypsy Morph by Terry Brooks - it could have been better, lots of irrelevant filler material, but it was nice to finally read about the end of the world that gave the Shannara series it's starting point.