I had the same experience. It was just too much reading for not enough advancement of the story.

I've read a ton lately, but the one that stands out is Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It's the first fantasy/sci-fi I've read in a long while, and I highly recommend it. It's really more steampunk than any other subgenre, but the writing is pretty damned good. Mieville is ambitious. Not of the caliber of Neal Stephenson, but he tells a damned good tale and the dark, gritty feel of New Corbuzon is exactly what I look for in my fantasy/scifi. It is long and tends to drag at times, but I'd encourage folks to give it a try.

If your tastes range toward: Neal Stephenson, King's Dark Tower series, William Gibson, Frank Herbert, or the Thieves World series of books, you'll probably like this one.

I just finished Paul of Dune - another of the filler books written by Frank Herbert's son. This one focuses on events that happen immediately prior to and immediately after the original Dune.

It's pretty much more of the same - entertaining, but minor compared to the original. Still, if you like Dune, you'll probably enjoy it.

Frazod,


I meant to tell you that I read Jeff Shaara's Steel Wave.

I was overall disappointed in it. Which i have always liked his works. Maybe i am expecting to much out of him this time.
Seemed like the story wasn't picking up steam to build up and get going.

But i will read his next one anyway i am sure.

Did you read it?

I'm working on "Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin. It's the second book from the series "A Song of Ice and Fire". Excellent... addictive. It is long and pretty wordy, but necessarily so due to the high number of excellent charachters and intertwined story lines. If you like medieval historical fiction these are must reads... referred by a friend who rarely leads me astray.

That is a great series Ziggy. Your friend has good taste then.

:ZZZ::ZZZ::ZZZ:

Not yet. I still have his first WWII book but haven't started reading it yet.

The last series he set me on was the Dark Elf books... Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn. Drizzt is awesome... I never really read much high fantasy other than LOTR, but I really liked it. That's another series I would recommend. Now I sleep about 3 hours a night cause I can't get enough of Tyrion Lannister.

"House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski

This is an AMAZING book. Has anyone else read this? Very unique writing format with some segments requiring you to hold the book up to a mirror to read.
Very, very creepy so far.

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I liked the first one. Especially Rommel's side.
Patton is cool also.

This last book has a lot of Eisenhower politics and pre-invasion plans.

I know what you mean. I didn't read those books, I devoured them.

The Dark Tower series is another great epic story. If I started a thread like: The Dark Tower series by Stephen King - Love or Hate the Ending? would it be a repost?

Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner. Chick lit.

I saw it at Hastings and thought about picking it up, but I was reading three other things at the time. Worth a shot?