What are you reading at the moment?

[Boredguy]

That trilogy was damn good, I've had them for quite a few years now and they tie nicely into Season 2 of B5, and adds a whole new level to events that occur during Season 3 and 4 (won't spoilt what)

 

I have all the B5 novels, and all 3 trilogies add just soo much back story.

[BKGarry]

Ok. I have the telepath trilogy and got this one coming. What's the 3rd trilogy?

[Boredguy]

I've been reading the Ark Royal series by Christopher Nuttall, a self published author on Amazon. The series is set about 400 years in the future. There are still nation states and each nation has been building space navies. Britain is one of five of the "Major Powers" who has been expanding into space. An alien race is unexpectedly discovered and attacks mercilessly. There are three trilogies, one of which is in progress. The first follows a Royal Navy carrier throughout the war, the second follows a cruiser, the third a battleship. The third is still in progress.

 

It's not high literature but it's an entertaining enough read.

I keep meaning to get Ark Royal, as I have all of Christopher's Emprires Corps.

 

Just finished reading Mike Shepards "Vicky Peterwald: Rebel" and "Kris Longknife: Unrelenting" (in preparation for the new book in October damnit)

It's always nice when an author creates a spin off series from one of the characters in a main series and then managed to bring both arks back together with lots of twists along the way.

[Boredguy]

Ok. I have the telepath trilogy and got this one coming. What's the 3rd trilogy?

 

The Centauri Trilogy... Legions of Fire.

It deals with the time span from Londo becoming Emperor through to Vir

 

Here is a picture of all of them in their paperback glory (and well read)

 

PS, the reason the Technomage books are so good is the author is married to a certain JMS...... same reason why the novel #7 "The Shadow Within" is also good and ties in nicely unlike the other novels (apart from #9 "To Dream in the City of Sorrows")

Edited June 27, 2016 by Boredguy

[LeMarchand]

The Magician King

 

Just finished this. An OK page-turner, but the author's style often comes across as a bit awkward. For curious show fans who want to remain unspoiled, probably best to leave this one for now. 1/2 the book follows Julia's training (broadly similar to the show, but no Kady/mother or Marina) whilst the rest is Quentin on a quest that will presumably be S2.

[LeMarchand]

Level 26: Dark Origins

Got this from Poundland. Was robbed.

 

Serial killer sicko with a media tie-in from one of the CSI peeps. Every couple of dozen pages or so you can log on to a site to see a short movie clip featuring "A-list" stars you have seen in Hollywood blockbusters - though calling Michael Ironside and Glenn Morshower "A-list" might be breaking the Trade Description Act. Except, as the book's been out a while, the site just redirects to YouTube where the first video isn't available (not sure you'd want to be known to be trying to view "snuff") and some of the others are out of order or need a sign-in to view. Not to mention that they add little and don't make sense (unless the killer took a full film crew around with him).

[Norphy]

Cold - A Joe Tiplady thriller

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cold-Joe-Tiplady-Thriller-Book-ebook/dp/B01A8G7OE0/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468878205&sr=1-2&keywords=joe+tiplady

 

I enjoyed it.

[TRC_MA]

I recently read a copy of The Time Machine that came as a double book along with The Wheels of Chance. I hadn't heard of it but had read War of the Worlds the year before, and with a title like that was looking forward to something I didn't already know the rough plot to.

 

Its about an Englishman on a cycling holiday. My friend loved it when I told him, he said "wow you've been trolled by H. G. Wells".

 

 

By the way, did anyone else know it should be "20,000 Leagues Around the World While Submerged", not "20,000 Leagues Straight Down from the Surface", I didn't realise until I was almost finished.

[davith]

I have in my hands a book titled as “The Assistants” by Camille Perri. This is about an executive assistant and the corporate world.

[LeMarchand]

Just finished "The Three" by Sarah Lotz.

 

4 planes crash under mysterious circumstances on the same day. Only 3 survivors are rescued, all children, who begin to exhibit strange behaviour. As word spreads, it seems as if these 3 may be the harbingers of the apocalypse...

 

Told (for the main part) in a similar style to World War Z - lots of oral reports, some of which "work" better than others - this is generally quite involving. Unfortunately about half way through, when people are searching for the survivor of the 4th plane, you start to feel that the author doesn't really know where she wants to go with the scenario she has set up, and dread sets in as you reach the home stretch and realise that either your questions won't get answered or it's going to be a massive cliffhanger. (Spoiler: it's the former). Could've been great, but I felt it was a big let down.

[LeMarchand]

Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire

 

What happens to those kids who visit Wonderland, or Neverland or Narnia on their return? How do they cope? That's the intriguing premise of this novella. It's quite well written, but a bit slight - and not cheap, either. Failed to live up to my hopes and the promise of the idea (or the rave reviews) but I didn't feel that I'd wasted my time.

[speckytecky]

Gray Redemption by Alan McDermott - it's number 3 of a series of 6 I picked up as a cheapie on Kindle. I can highly recommended the series so far as a very topical page turner in this terror charged climate of recent years. It's based around a former SAS guy but this third book brings in some of the authors mainstream work - which is an IT guy. So far Alan McDermott's plot has been gripping and unlike so many books doesn't loose the thread in a garbled few end pages. I'm loving it.

[LeMarchand]

Finally finished World War Z. Probably the fourth device I had read bits on, as the "oral history" nature of the book makes it ideally suited to short sessions. It petered out a bit towards the end, but the author has obviously spent far too much time working out the intricacies of what would happen come the zombie apocalypse. Well worth a read, even if you've already seen the (IMHO unfairly maligned) film.

[Elison]

Has just finished "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The funniest and the most ironical book I have ever read! But if you don't have sense of humor and rich imagination, if you can't laught at yourself, don't read it

[Sagima]

Has just finished "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The funniest and the most ironical book I have ever read! But if you don't have sense of humor and rich imagination, if you can't laught at yourself, don't read it

 

The first three books are brilliant - you should get on with The Restaurant at the end of the Universe pronto!

 

There is a chapter (18?) in Life, The Universe and Everything in which Arthur meets Agrajag that I cannot read without laughing out loud - often with tears. I sometimes start giggling just thinking about it. I must have read it 30-40 times over the last 25 years

[sted]

The first three books are brilliant - you should get on with The Restaurant at the end of the Universe pronto!

 

There is a chapter (18?) in Life, The Universe and Everything in which Arthur meets Agrajag that I cannot read without laughing out loud - often with tears. I sometimes start giggling just thinking about it. I must have read it 30-40 times over the last 25 years

4/5 are also good 6 by eoin colfer (or some such) isnt really. If you havnt listen to the radio versions as well

[Elison]

I sometimes start giggling just thinking about it.

I was reading it on my trip in the train (you know, sometimes in Russia you can spend in train day or a few days to get from one place to another), and was giggling all the time, so people around me must have thought I was crazy

Now I want to watch a film. People say it's good too

[elsiegee40]

Has just finished "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The funniest and the most ironical book I have ever read! But if you don't have sense of humor and rich imagination, if you can't laught at yourself, don't read it

@Elison I am curious. Are you reading it translated into Russian? I'm glad it's just as funny in another language

 

I agree the other books are good too.

[Andrew_C]

Film good, books better, original radio show the best.

 

I've read it many times, and I still LOL at bits. "Beware of the leopard" might be my fav bit.

[Elison]

@elsiegee40

 

Most of books I read in russian if there is a translation, coz it's faster (often I need a dictionary especially with special literature). But a lot of people advised me to read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in original, so I think I will follow their advice It's always great to read what author actually ment.

[elsiegee40]

@elsiegee40

 

Most of books I read in russian if there is a translation, coz it's faster (often I need a dictionary especially with special literature). But a lot of people advised me to read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in original, so I think I will follow their advice It's always great to read what author actually ment.

 

Some of it may be beyond dictionaries, but enjoy

[Elison]

Some of it may be beyond dictionaries

That's why it was better to read the book in russian first to understand what's going on

Thank you

[AMLinington]

I stumbled across the Servants of Fate and Reliquary series by Sarah Fine - they are engaging and fascinating, although probably more aimed at the 'psychological romance' reader crowd.

[LeMarchand]

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

 

A young girl stumbles on what appears to be a giant buried metal hand and grows up to become head of the team investigating the discovery. I was hoping for a Crichton-esque techno thriller, but came away disappointed. The novel is told in the form of reports (many of which you wonder why/how they exist) which leads to a fair bit of exposition and has characters that you wonder how they got to be where they are given their flaws. Interesting enough to make me consider the sequel, but not enough for me to be waiting for it with bated breath.

[Andrew_C]

'Web' by John Wyndham. Published 10 years after his death, I'd not heard of it until I spotted it in an Oxfam.

 

So far, somewhat wordy; maybe a more thorough edit would have helped. Still, interesting, and I'll finish it.