I finished "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers last week. Absolutely recommendable. I put a short review up here: http://intersectiondiaries.com/2015/11/11/zeitoun/ Currently reading The Bourne Identity. Tom
I've just read Joe Abercrombie's, The Heroes which I enjoyed. He's really good with characters, I particularly liked the craziness of Gorse lurching effortlessly from wounded to love struck to a battle-crazed maniac. The fine blend of crafty with coward made Calder entertaining too. I really don't like long winded descriptions of armour though, so that was a drag, but the actual fighting was very good.
I just finished reading Mean Streak, Deadline, and Low Pressure by Sondra Brown. I wasn't impressed with Low Pressure. However, the other two books were great. I plan to start reading Gray Mountain by John Grisham in a few days.
I haven't been reading much lately but I just started Foundation And Empire by Isaac Asimov. I also read Rendevous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke earlier this year and really enjoyed it. Loved the desolation and alien feel that he manages to create.
Revelation by R.P. Miller It's my fantasy novel, recently released, but it's so nice to read it in printed form rather than on my computer screen.
I looked that book up after you mentioned it the other day. The title comes from the Seven Eves mentioned in the story-line, but is the book title pronounced seh-veh-neh-vehs or Seven Eves?
I pronounce it Seven Eves, but I don't know for sure whether Stephenson intended that. It's a cool book, though he does sometimes go too far in tangents on orbital mechanics and other scientific aspects. I've finished the first part, and now the timeline has jumped forward.
So far, yes, I quite enjoy Tolkien's work. It covers a lot of the mentioned but not explain details in the Silmarillion and his main stories of the ring and the hobbit.
I've beeping meaning to read his work. I have seen the films, which I really enjoyed so I expect the books are even better, as is usually the case.
People differ on that. I think the books are better, but I've known plenty who stopped reading them halfway through. They're from an older time and in a style that isn't necessarily attractive to the modern reader. But if you like that sort of writing, you'll enjoy them.
Also, Tolkien is one of those authors you have to spend time to read as there is so much informatiobn, it's is almost as if you are studying a new subject. personally i like that but not all do.
Ok thanks for that. I will try a sample before getting it. It's possible that I don't go for the old style, as I really like a close third person, like Terry Goodkind's books.
I started Planet of Exile by Le Guin, but lost interest fairly early. I also tried another Marie Lu book in The Legend series, Prodigy, but that one didn't move me either, too cliché. So now I'm on the second Marie Lu book in The Young Elites series, The Rose Society.
I've just started reading Sand by Hugh Howey. Also reading How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to be (non-Fiction) by Jack Canfield.
He's okay. The principles he uses are pretty obvious when it comes down to it, but it helps to keep me motivated. At the moment I try and read a chapter a day, just to keep me focused and it does help. I swapped it with someone for another book, otherwise I don't think I would buy it.
Finished reading The Caretaker, a play by Harold Pinter. It was a good read that, such a lovely play. Moving on to The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Never read it as a kid and it's fun and more bloody than I expected so far.
