Books- read, reading, will read

[Aurora Black]

On Writing - probably the main reason why I allowed myself to write.

I'll find out how great it is soon enough.

 

[chris 44]

I'll find out how great it is soon enough.

If it works for you, you'll love it.
If it doesn't, you won't.

We all write in different ways, King just pressed my button so god bless him

 

[Aurora Black]

If it works for you, you'll love it.
If it doesn't, you won't.

We all write in different ways, King just pressed my button so god bless him

If he's the reason you're here at Lit, I'll go buy all of his books.

 

[cloudy]

I just ordered three books from Amazon today (used my gift certificate, finally):

"River God : A Novel of Ancient Egypt" by Wilbur Smith
"Warlock : A Novel of Ancient Egypt" also byWilbur Smith
(I've read these both before, but loved them)

"Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore

can't wait to get 'em.

 

[Guest]

I just ordered three books from Amazon today (used my gift certificate, finally):

"River God : A Novel of Ancient Egypt" by Wilbur Smith
"Warlock : A Novel of Ancient Egypt" also byWilbur Smith
(I've read these both before, but loved them)

"Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore

can't wait to get 'em.

I'm 50/50 on the Chrisopher Moore. I loved Bloodsucking Fiends, but Practical Demonkeeping left me in the middle and I haven't gone back. I've been thinking about "Lamb" and the other one, where -- I think it's Coyote -- haunts a man and makes things happen in his life.

 

[chris 44]

If he's the reason you're here at Lit, I'll go buy all of his books.

Now who needs a spanking

 

[Aurora Black]

Now who needs a spanking

Why do I need a spanking, pray tell?

 

[sophia jane]

I'm 50/50 on the Chrisopher Moore. I loved Bloodsucking Fiends, but Practical Demonkeeping left me in the middle and I haven't gone back. I've been thinking about "Lamb" and the other one, where -- I think it's Coyote -- haunts a man and makes things happen in his life.

The only one I've read of his is Lamb and I HIGHLY recommend it. It's not only hilarious but it provides lots of food for thought.
ETA: I've added so many books to my library request list cuz of this thread!

 

[Munachi]

If you want to fall in love with the Iliad, I recommend "Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea" by Thomas Cahill. He uses a recent translation of the Iliad to illustrate the spiritual and cultural traditions of ancient Greece; in turn, his insights into Athenian culture bring the story and characters of the Iliad to life. I admit I sleep-read my way through the Iliad when I read an older translation as a class assignment. Cahill's book made the story not only relevent, but so moving I was in tears at the end.

okay cool, will look for it... i had read some children versions of it as a kid, that's part of why i was interested in reading it again (and of course all the cultural aspects)... the translation i read was quite an old one indeed, or based on an old one with only a few changes...

 

[Munachi]

oh and just remembered, i decided what to read next - one book about colombia (like, a general overview, history, geography, culture, etc. - the only thing is the book is from 1996 so after that i will have to do some additional reading to be more up to date), and some czech book for teenagers that i bought ages ago to practice czech with (because my reading skills are still not taht good, so i think a book for teenagers might be easier)...

 

[Adrenaline]

Right now I'm switching back and forth between The Lady's Tutor by Robin Schone,

I really tried to get into Robin Schone, but she seems to have a weird thing about homosexuals (in this historical romance novels of hers that I've read). And the writing is pretty mediocre I find.

cloudy, River God was my first Wilbur Smith book and my favourite.

I recently completed: Dreamtigers - Jorge Luis Borges and Kingdoms of Elfin - Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Reading: The Virgin in the Garden - A.S. Byatt, The Computational Brain - Patricia Churchland and Mapping the Mind - Rita Carter.

In the Future: The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett (which is in my bag right now). Phantoms in the Brain - V.S. Ramachandran and On the Ideal Orator - Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

[Guest]

d[/i] - Rita Carter.

In the Future: The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett (which is in my bag right now). Phantoms in the Brain - V.S. Ramachandran and On the Ideal Orator - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Once I run through my Chandler phase, Hammett is next!

 

[Straight-8]

Just read: Theatre of the Mind by Jay Ingram: an overview of consciousness theory. I found it provoked some very interesting thoughts. I hope to read more about this subject in the future.
Am reading: Napolean, Son of Austerlitz by Max Gallo: second in his slightly fictionalized biography of Napolean.
To read: I have a rather heavy 'History of Judaism' that I keep promising myself I will read. I made about 50 pp so far - interesting, but slow going. More likely the third volume of Gallo's Napolean Biography

 

[Aurora Black]

I really tried to get into Robin Schone, but she seems to have a weird thing about homosexuals (in this historical romance novels of hers that I've read). And the writing is pretty mediocre I find.

The subplot did distract me a bit, yes. As to her writing style, I was both fascinated and frustrated by all the teasing involved. In The Lady's Tutor, the first kiss between the two protagonists didn't happen until page 220 or so! I could also spot the "twist" of the story a mile away.

But I don't mind really; reading mediocre books only strengthens my resolve to outdo them.

 

[Belegon]

just finished: The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara

Reading: Lost by Gregory MacGuire

next: Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan, Into The Darkness by Harry Turtledove

 

[oggbashan]

This week:

Read:

Ray Coleman - Survivor, The Authorised Biography of Eric Clapton
David Gemmell - Morningstar
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
H Rider Haggard - The World's Desire
C L Grace - A Shrine of Murders
A G Hales - McGlusky in India
Robert Heinlein - The Star Beast

Reading:

Len Deighton - Yesterday's Spy
Paul Gallico - Confessions of a Story-teller
John Nichol & Tony Rennell - The Last Escape
Georgette Heyer - Black Sheep

It's only Tuesday evening.

Og

 

[Guest]

This week:

Read:

Ray Coleman - Survivor, The Authorised Biography of Eric Clapton
David Gemmell - Morningstar
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
H Rider Haggard - The World's Desire
C L Grace - A Shrine of Murders
A G Hales - McGlusky in India
Robert Heinlein - The Star Beast

Reading:

Len Deighton - Yesterday's Spy
Paul Gallico - Confessions of a Story-teller
John Nichol & Tony Rennell - The Last Escape
Georgette Heyer - Black Sheep

It's only Tuesday evening.

Og

Og, you just went up yet another notch in my estimation for reading Georgette Heyer Black Sheep is one not yet read (I've got three of her mysteries that aren't read yet as well). Is that a recent printing or an older one? When I was in England 2 years ago, I hit bookstores (waterstones? It's a large chain) picking up her books, as different titles were being released there, some of which have not yet been released here or hadn't been released then.

 

[shereads]

Ahem.

An alert AHer, who will wish to remain anonymous (rhymes with Proctor Caboose) has informed me that I confused Jon Krakauer and Sebastian Junger. I might point out that it's easy to confuse these authors; both have been published in Outside Magazine, have brown hair, and do outdoors-y things, which makes them nearly interchangeable. (Like the two Darrens on 'Bewitched.')

Still, there's no good excuse for confusing two authors. So from now on, I'm combining them into a single, all-purpose writer of non-fiction adventure/survival/murder/Afghanistan books: Jon Sebastian.

Read anything you can find by Jon Sebastian.

(An exception is his unfortunate sell-out to commercial television - the theme song for the TV sitcom, 'Welcome Back Kotter.' Hard to believe that bit of silliness was composed by the writer of 'Into Thin Air' and a lovely, under-appreciated 60's ballad called "Darling Be Home Soon.")

 

[Guest]

Ahem.

An alert AHer, who will wish to remain anonymous (rhymes with Proctor Caboose) has informed me that I confused Jon Krakauer and Sebastian Junger. I might point out that it's easy to confuse these authors; both have been published in Outside Magazine, have brown hair, and do outdoors-y things, which makes them nearly interchangeable. (Like the two Darrens on 'Bewitched.')

Still, there's no good excuse for confusing two authors. So from now on, I'm combining them into a single, all-purpose writer of non-fiction adventure/survival/murder/Afghanistan books: Jon Sebastian.

Read anything you can find by Jon Sebastian.

(An exception is his unfortunate sell-out to commercial television - the theme song for the TV sitcom, 'Welcome Back Kotter.' Hard to believe that bit of silliness was composed by the writer of 'Into Thin Air' and a lovely, under-appreciated 60's ballad called "Darling Be Home Soon.")

*snicker*

Proctor Caboose.

 

[oggbashan]

Og, you just went up yet another notch in my estimation for reading Georgette Heyer Black Sheep is one not yet read (I've got three of her mysteries that aren't read yet as well). Is that a recent printing or an older one? When I was in England 2 years ago, I hit bookstores (waterstones? It's a large chain) picking up her books, as different titles were being released there, some of which have not yet been released here or hadn't been released then.

Black Sheep is an older one, probably 1950s. I don't have the book with me - it's in the other house. I might have a hardback here. I'll look at the date.

Her mysteries are not as good as her Regency novels and some of her other historical periods are variable. 'Simon the Coldheart' is not great. "An Infamous Army" about Waterloo used to be recommended reading at Sandhurst (the UK's Army Officer College) for its accurate description of the campaign.

Og

Edited for PS: Black Sheep was published 1966 in the UK. I have a battered ex-library First Edition. Heyer's books can be obtained from www.abebooks.com

 

[Guest]

[Books listed from oldest to newest]
[No means I did not read it yet]

Cathy Clamp/C.T. Adams
- Hunter's Moon
- Moon's Web
- Touch of Evil
- Captive Moon (no) August 2006

Shari Anton
- Midnight Magic

Kelly/Kelley Armstrong
- Bitten (no)
- Stolen (no)
- Dime Store Magic
- Industrial Magic
- Haunted
- Dates from Hell
- Broken (no) April 25, 2006

Amanda Ashley
- Midnight Embrace (no)
- After Twilight
- After Sundown
- Midnight Pleasures
- Night's Kiss
- A Whisper of Eternity
- Stroke of Midnight
- Desire After Dark

Nina Bangs
- Master of Ecstasy (no)
- Night Bites
- Wicked Nights
- Pleasure Master (no)
- A Taste of Darkness (no) May 2006
- Wicked Pleasure (no) June 2006

Patricia Briggs
- Moon Called

Kresley Cole
- If You Dare (no)
- Hunger Like No Other (no)

Mary Janice Davidson
- Undead and Unwed
- Undead and Unemployed
- Bite
- Derik's Bane {Wyndham Werewolf Tale} (no)
- Hello Gorgeous (no)
- Undead and Unappreciated
- Undead and Unreturnable
- Dead and Loving It {Wyndham Werewolf Tale}
- Drop Dead, Gorgeous (no) May 2006

Christine Feehan
- Dark Prince
- Dark Desire
- Dark Gold
- Dark Magic
- Dark Challenge
- Dark Fire
- After Twilight (Dark Dream)
- Dark Legend (no Gabriel)
- Dark Guardian
- Dark Symphony
- The Only One (Dark Descent)
- Dark Melody
- Dark Destiny
- Hot Blooded (Dark Hunger)
- Dark Secret
- Dark Demon
- Dark Side of the Moon (no) May 30, 2006
- Dark Celebration (no) September 5, 2006
- Dark Possession (no) 2007

Laurell K Hamilton
{Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series}
- Guilty Pleasures
- Laughing Corpse
- Circus of the Damned
- Lunatic Cafe
- Bloody Bones
- Killing Dance
- Burnt Offerings
- Blue Moon
- Obsidian Butterfly
- Narcissus in Chains
- Cerulean Sins
- Incubus Dreams
- Micah
- Danse Macabre (no) June 27, 2006

{Merry Gentry Series}
- Kiss of Shadows
- Caress of Twilight
- Seduced by Moonlight
- Stroke of Midnight
- Mistral’s Kiss (no) December 12, 2006

{Ravenloft Covenant}
- Death of a Darklord (no) July 2006

Lori Handeland
- Blue Moon
- Stroke of Midnight
- Hunter's Moon
- Dark Moon
- Crescent Moon
- Dates from Hell
- Midnight Moon (no) August 2006

Charlaine Harris
- Dead Until Dark
- Living Dead in Dallas
- Club Dead
- Dead to the World
- Bite
- Dead as a Doornail
- Definitely Dead (no) May 2, 2006

Kim Harrison
- Dead Witch Walking
- The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
- Every Which Way but Dead
- Dates from Hell
- A Fistful of Charms (no) June 27, 2006

Candace Havens
- Charmed and Dangerous (no)

Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Fantasy Lover (no)
- The Beginning (found on the site and in the back of Sins of the Night)
- Dragonswan (no)
- Night Pleasures
- Night Embrace
- Phantom Lover (in the anthology Midnight Pleasures)
- Dance with the Devil
- A Dark-Hunter Christmas (found on the site and in the back of Dance with the Devil)
- Kiss of the Night
- Night Play
- Winter Born (in the anthology Stroke of Midnight)
- Seize the Night
- Sins of the Night
- Unleash the Night
- Dark Side of the Moon (no) May 30, 2006
- The Dream-Hunter (no)

Angela Knight
- Master of the Night (no)
- Master of the Moon (no)
- Bite
- Master of Wolves (no)

Katie MacAlister
- A Girls Guide to Vampires
- Sex and the Single Vampire
- You Slay Me {Aisling Gray}
- Fire Me Up {Aisling Gray}
- Sex, Lies, and Vampires
- Even Vampires Get the Blues (no) May 2006
- Light My Fire (no) November 2006

Cheyenne McCray
- Forbidden Magic

Michelle Rowen
- Bitten and Smitten
- Angel with Attitude (no) July 2006

Lynsay Sands
- Love Bites
- Single White Vampire
- Tall, Dark, and Hungry (no)
- A Quick Bite
- Perfect Wife (no)
- Dates from Hell
- A Bite to Remember (no) June 27, 2006

Susan Sizemore
- I Burn for You
- I Hunger for You
- I Thirst for You
- Master of Darkness
- Primal Heat (no) July 2006

Kerrelyn Sparks
- How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
- Vamps and the City (no) April 25, 2006

Lynn Viehl
- If Angels Burn
- Private Demon
- Dark Need (no) June 2006

J.R. Ward
- Dark Lover
- Lover Eternal
- Lover Awakened (no) September 2006

Christine Warren
- Wolf at the Door (no)

 

[Guest]

Black Sheep is an older one, probably 1950s. I don't have the book with me - it's in the other house. I might have a hardback here. I'll look at the date.

Her mysteries are not as good as her Regency novels and some of her other historical periods are variable. 'Simon the Coldheart' is not great. "An Infamous Army" about Waterloo used to be recommended reading at Sandhurst (the UK's Army Officer College) for its accurate description of the campaign.

Og

Edited for PS: Black Sheep was published 1966 in the UK. I have a battered ex-library First Edition. Heyer's books can be obtained from www.abebooks.com

I knew about "The Infamous Army". My local bookpusher is a long time Heyer fan and kept at me until the addiction was in my blood. So far, I've had two of her Regencies and one historical fail to capture me (Beauvallet just made my teeth hurt, False Colors was dull, and The Foundling is still being difficult but I haven't surrendered yet) but Frederica, The Grand Sophy, and Arabella are wonderful, and These Old Shades and Devil's Cub made a transatlantic flight go by in no time at all

I like the covers on the newer British editions better than the ones released from Harlequin over here. I've one of her books in hardcover, with a story behind its acquisition I shan't make public

 

[oggbashan]

Georgette Heyer

I like:

The Toll Gate
The Unknown Ajax
The Quiet Gentleman

Og

 

[MissBri]

 

[Guest]

I like:

The Toll Gate
The Unknown Ajax
The Quiet Gentleman

Og

I've read all those -- almost one after the other. I also like Cotillion, for little other reason than Heyer wrote her hero against her usual type -- which made it a very funny book to me.