What are you currently reading?

[imported_Raf Blutaxt]

I never heard of that one before you mentioned it. Can you give some landmarks to compare it to?

[imported_Rasyr]

Another good book to read is Dragon Precinct by Keith DeCandidio. He has Unicorn Precinct coming out later this year, IIRC. Good series... Think of it as a magical CSI type show.

[markc]

I never heard of that one before you mentioned it. Can you give some landmarks to compare it to?

 It is tough to compair to as the author won an award and I think 5 other well known sci-fi authors helped him out. IMHO I can see almost different hands and ideas in different parts of the book with one overall guiding hand. There is a little of everything in the book and I do not think you will be disappointed by reading it. 
 I can say that it is the best crafted book that I have read in a long time that leaves you wanting for more ASAP. It really sucked me in an kept me hooked for the 700 or so pages, IIRC the page count and it is not a short book in any way. It was one that was recommended by Powles City of Books staff and while I was there I decided to pick it up. Also I think it has been delayed since last Aug while the authors do their thing again and be sure this book flows, reads and is constructed as well as the last. 

 I will try and thing some more about who I could compair it to but right now I am drawing a blank.
MDC

[ob1knorrb]

I've always enjoyed Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books, so I've decided to give his Codex Alera series a try.  Just finished Book 3 in the series.  It's pretty decent Fantasy material, not as much humor as the Dresden books, and a few interesting ideas for a magic system based on "Furies" which are basically elementals that people bound with which can give them different types of powers.  For example, Water gives you healing abilities and the ability to change your appearance.  Wind allows you to fly and to see great distances (by adjusting air density to create a lens).

Fairly light reading, but enjoyable.

[markc]

I also thought that the Codex Alera was OK not great but OK. At times I enjoy the Dresden Books and at others not so much. I have not finished the last book and have had it for about 4 months. I just got tired of his writing style. But in another few months I probably will be itching to finish it.

 I pick up a new series, Kris Longknife as it is said to be a better Honor Harrington and so for I am mixed. I give it a solid B as I am 1/2 way through the second book.

MDC

[imported_Raf Blutaxt]

I only read the first three Dresden books so far, light reading is what I'd call them. Interesting, funny but not too involving. I'll read the rest at some point, but I'm not exactly breathlessly waiting for the next book.

I finished Kraken now and it stays weird, very weird, very british and definitely unique. I can only recommend it.

Now I have a couple of things lying around, waiting to be read. I just can't decide whether to go fantasy or SF next.

[markc]

Now I have a couple of things lying around, waiting to be read. I just can't decide whether to go fantasy or SF next.

 That is a nice problem to have.
MDC

[imported_Raf Blutaxt]

Yes, it is, I'm only sure that I don't want to read any more papers on functional programming at the moment I looked at Name of the Wind and it sounds interesting, I'll add it to my list of interesting books.

[markc]

I just finished the first three books of the Kris Longknife series (Mike Shepard) and enjoyed them. They are light reading and like Honor Harrington but unique enough that I enjoyed them.
 I also have finished the first book of the omnibus A Confederation of Valor (Tanya huff) and it was good but I am not sold on all of the different races. They seem to be just D&D races in space. I do not know if I will read the third book as people said it was not very good.  I will just have to see if I am in a mood again to read the rest of the series.

MDC

[imported_Raf Blutaxt]

Well I just finished Daemon by Daniel Suarez, very cool, very Snow Crash in parts and a good read all the way through.
Then I pretty much rushed through Naomi Novik's His Majesty's Dragon
I read a lot of Hornblower when I was younger (terrible to say that at my age Now I will start The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, we'll see how that turns out.

[markc]

I also enjoyed Naomi Noviks series for young readers as you said it was very HH. I regret that I never read and HH and I may check to see if I can find some for me to read. And of course to see if it is ok for my nephew to read as well. Or maybe I should say when it is ok for him to read.
MDC

[imported_Raf Blutaxt]

Well, I have only dimm memories, but I know I read it at the age of 12 or 13 and liked it very much. There was of course quite a bit of violence in the books, but not to graphic. I read LotR at the same time for the first time and found it more taxing, but more from a language point than because of its content.

I would say that Novik's book was morally more intense than Hornblower and of course it has a more reflected view on customs, especially concerning women in that society. Still, I enjoyed it very much.

[ob1knorrb]

Sadly the next set of books I'll be reading is the Twilight books.  I promised some of the women/girls in my life that I would and they promised that the books were better than the movies.  I still want a "Team Blade" Tee-shirt though.

[markc]

Sadly the next set of books I'll be reading is the Twilight books.  I promised some of the women/girls in my life that I would and they promised that the books were better than the movies.  I still want a "Team Blade" Tee-shirt though.

 We most know some of the same women or maybe they hang out at the same place on the net. Because I did the same thing. I enjoyed them but I can say that they are not for everyone.
MDC

[imported_Raf Blutaxt]

Hmm, I only saw the first movie by accident and didn't like it at all.
These guys aren't vampres in my book and I object on many things the movies and almost certainly the books too, have to say on the role of women in society and relationships. It is probably the thing that scares me most about it (and makes me angry), that so many girls and women like them and don't seem to mind this. But now I've derailed the thread, I fear.