I'm reading Moving Pictures the last Discworld book I have yet to read. I'm finding it very diffrent from his other books but I will finish it.

Loved Moving Pictures - all the movie references totally blew me away...

I've just read 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter' (the first of the Dexter novels) and was a wee bit disappointed - I thought the writing would be a bit more funky than it was (I apologise for any Jeff Lindsay fans out there but, to me, the book read like a James (YUK) Patterson) - I suppose seeing the first couple of episodes of the first series may have ruined the 'flavour' of the novel for me.

I am now about 3/4 of the way through American Gods - it is an interesting read , I honestly don't know if I'm enjoying it or not - I like a story to sort of flow through me and this one keeps jarring - but I won't decide on it until it is done.

Cheers,

R.

The one good thing about being laid up is having the chance to read I just read A Deeper Blue and Hell's Faire by John Ringo and now I have some Orson Scott Card Ender books to go to.

I've just recently started my foray into George R R Martin and Tad Williams.

I finished Martin's "A Game of Thrones" yesterday. That is a big book. Martin is very good at keeping the story line moving without bogging it down. I like the way one chapter will follow one individual and then next will follow another. He has also evoked some of the strongest emotions from me while reading. I guess it's just the way he sets up the dialog and plot that brings me into the story. I've had my heart race, wanted to cry, and wanted to slit the character's throat.

Overall, it has been one of the more emotionally draining books that I have read in a while. It has also been one of the better ones too.

Williams' "The Dragon Bone Chair" was a good read. It is also a big book. Finished it earlier last week. Very interesting storyline. His is a completely different read from Martin. Both are excellent writers, but I think I may like Martin a little more. I'll see when I have finished both series.

Am also starting on George Martin

Lets see. Last week I read Making Money, reread Thud!, read Wintersmith and now I'm rereading Making Money. I usually don't reread books that fast, but at the end I felt that I missed stuff.

I really liked Wintersmith. Pratchett has Tiffany down.

I realy like Wintersmith as well. nearly finished Moving Pictures. I dont have another book up here so i will have to re-read Making Money again as that the only other Pratchett I have at my digs and I'm not going to my libary this weekend (aka my parents house).

I have finally got my grubby paws on a paperback of Making Money, and I'm now enjoying mistreating it in my bag on the train and so-on. I do like Moist's adventures, and I have been smiling at a lot of things, but no Laugh out Loud rolling around on the floor laughing my arse off moments yet (except for one, but that doesn't count, it just so happened to coincide with a private joke between friends and therefore nonPterry)

Also bought the first two Artemis Fowl books, thanks Waterstones for the 3 for 2 offer, took me a while to find out which order they should be in, no number or anything, but I guess the Harry Potters didn't either. Well, at least you could sort those by increasing thickness...

Finished Newton's Cannon, and also the next book in the series - A Calculus of Angels. Pretty enjoyable series so far, overall.

Nearly done with The Road to Death by Matt Forbeck, the second book its series, based in the DnD world of Eberron. I found Marked for Death, its predecessor, to have as many flaws as it has potential, many of its characters flat, and myself left only to observe something resembling an accelerated action-fantasy movie. Still, there was that tinge of potential left in there, and thus... I read on.

The second book had what I was expecting - pulpy action, but now... there actually seemed to be deeper plot. And the characters, though mainly the same ones from the first book, seemed to have gained an extra dimension. The improvement in the quality of the writing more than made up for the effort I had to put in at times to actually finish the first book. Thus, by itself, I while I would not reccomend Marked for Death, I would reccomend the trilogy in its entirety. There is enough in the first book to draw you on, but not that much. Not unless you actively plan on reading the entire trilogy.


I'm also close to finishing another book that I purchased recently - this one a rather odd fantasy work called The Etched City by K. J. Bishop, which is both dark and weird enough to fit into the New Wierd genre. I'd compare it to works like China Mieville's Perdido Street Station, and The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. The setting, a dark and desolate world with seemingly little of the unnatural and magical, reminded me a little of a kind of Western at first, where the heroes are all dead and all you're left with are some of the lesser villians trying to make ends meet...

It's a great book, doesn't suffer from any niticable flaws save from, perhaps, not being that suitable for the easily depressed or even for the weak of stomach... Reminded me of William Gibson's Neuromancer in terms of sheer depressive desolation, decreptitude, and violence that becomes part of the scenery.