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Dec. 13th, 2012 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naathFun meme!
What are you currently reading?
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance. Which is hilarious! Oh Ivan. Book many of lots in an ongoing loosely connected set (ummm, there should be a word to distinguish the sort of series that WoT or aSoIaF are (a single story in many volumes) from the sort of series that Discworld and Vorkosigan are (many stories in the same universe with overarching character development) form the sort of series that Darkover is (many stories in the same universe but not really related to each other at all)). Bujold is fabtastic. Science Fiction with the emphasis on the people.
The Eternal Flame. Volume 2 of 3 in Egan's as-yet-unfinished Orthogonal trilogy. I <3 Egan; and this one has DIAGRAMS. It's a bit confusing because the world has a different space-time to ours which has lots of interesting consequences - there are applets on his website to do experiments in strange-space-time. Science Fiction with the emphasis on the science.
Quicksilver. Volume 1 of 3 of Stephenson's completed Baroque Cycle. The setting is on the border between Historical and Fantasy but a lot of the writing is about scientists doing science, so maybe it's SF :-p This is a re-read and I'm finding it a bit slow. Maybe because the book is heavy.
What did you recently finish reading?
Recently finished re-reading volumes 1-5 of GRRM's unfinished 7? volume Song of Ice and Fire. Which certainly benefited from re-reading to pick up lots of details missed the first time around.
What do you think you’ll read next?
Well that rather depends how long these things take to read... I've got some other stuff in the to-read pile but the book I'm eagerly anticipating with great eagerness in a Memory of Light, volume 14 of 14 in the NOW ACTUALLY FINISHED OMG Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan with some help from Brandon Sanderson.
Yes, I like series :-p
What are you currently reading?
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance. Which is hilarious! Oh Ivan. Book many of lots in an ongoing loosely connected set (ummm, there should be a word to distinguish the sort of series that WoT or aSoIaF are (a single story in many volumes) from the sort of series that Discworld and Vorkosigan are (many stories in the same universe with overarching character development) form the sort of series that Darkover is (many stories in the same universe but not really related to each other at all)). Bujold is fabtastic. Science Fiction with the emphasis on the people.
The Eternal Flame. Volume 2 of 3 in Egan's as-yet-unfinished Orthogonal trilogy. I <3 Egan; and this one has DIAGRAMS. It's a bit confusing because the world has a different space-time to ours which has lots of interesting consequences - there are applets on his website to do experiments in strange-space-time. Science Fiction with the emphasis on the science.
Quicksilver. Volume 1 of 3 of Stephenson's completed Baroque Cycle. The setting is on the border between Historical and Fantasy but a lot of the writing is about scientists doing science, so maybe it's SF :-p This is a re-read and I'm finding it a bit slow. Maybe because the book is heavy.
What did you recently finish reading?
Recently finished re-reading volumes 1-5 of GRRM's unfinished 7? volume Song of Ice and Fire. Which certainly benefited from re-reading to pick up lots of details missed the first time around.
What do you think you’ll read next?
Well that rather depends how long these things take to read... I've got some other stuff in the to-read pile but the book I'm eagerly anticipating with great eagerness in a Memory of Light, volume 14 of 14 in the NOW ACTUALLY FINISHED OMG Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan with some help from Brandon Sanderson.
Yes, I like series :-p
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Date: 2012-12-13 10:10 pm (UTC)Also reading The Mysteries of Udolpho via the Great Reads app on my iPod - but that's definitely stalled.
And Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things as a set of shorts to dip into.
Recently finished: Terry Pratchett: Where's my cow? And in fact LibraryThing seems to think I've *only* read Pratchett so far this year (Dodger, Snuff, Unseen Academicals and I Shall Wear Midnight). That's not right, as I definitely also read Michael Marshall Smith's Spares earlier this year too. Have fixed that.
Oh, that's odd, I knew I'd read other stuff this year, it's now also reminding me of Impakto (Richard Calder), On the Black Hill (Bruce Chatwin), The Light of Day (Graham Swift), and The Athenian murders (José Carlos Somoza). Wonder why it wasn't showing those before? It's still a pretty short list for a whole year!
What do you think you'll read next: A Memory of Light by Jordan/Sanderson will probably be here in time to start that next - but I do have the to-read pile of doom.
Can't find out how to link to just one collection or tag of my books on LibraryThing or I would.
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Date: 2012-12-15 07:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-12-15 08:13 pm (UTC)The Vorkosigan series is just *addictive*; such wonderful space opera... the part where it crashes straight into a drawing room farce is the best bit though.