I have a couple of people who work at small bookstores, keeping their eyes open for me.
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: daikaij...@yahoo.com Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:35:15 +0000 Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: What Are You Reading? Good luck finding them. I found my copies when I was scrounging around in the basement and quickly put them on the shelf of honor. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@...> wrote: > > > I will, B. > > As for the two you recommend, I know that they're good. So good, in fact, > that I was going to buy them at a B Dalton, and someone stole them when I put > them down to use the Little Lifeform's Room. The manager told me that he'd > rung them up personally, the *only* copies. Been meaning to re-order them. > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody > hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: daikaij...@... > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:13:15 +0000 > Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: What Are You Reading? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Mieville is a bit hit or miss with me. He has great ideas > and can write beautifully but sometimes his work seems to run out of steam > and limp to a conclusion. I loved The Scar but was bit underwhelmed by Iron > Council. Please let me know how The City and The City turns out. > > > > Have you ever read anything by Mark Sumner? He wrote two damned fine books in > the late 90s called Devil's Tower and Devil's Engine. They take place in an > alternate American West where magic exists due to a apocolyptic event during > Civil War. They might be something you'd enjoy. > > > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Right now, B, I'm reading China Miewille's "The City and The City" (the > > second "The City" mirror-reversed), about a detective investigating the > > murder of a woman who seems to be a prostitute. The detective soon realizes > > that the woman is from a version of the city that exists in the same space > > as the city he's in. After that, I've got Brent Weeks' "Night Angel" > > trilogy, in which a young boy learns to become an assassin, but only after > > he masters the one unique magical gift he has. (Problem is, he doesn't know > > what the gift is just yet.) > > > > > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > > > From: daikaiju66@ > > > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:50:34 +0000 > > > Subject: [scifinoir2] What Are You Reading? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > My semi-legendary "To be Read" pile is starting to thin > > out just a bit and it needs to be fed before it goes feral. Any suggestions? > > > > > > > > > > > > My wife has the last book of the John Twelve Hawks Fourth Realm trilogy The > > Golden City hanging around and I may add it to the list. > > > > > > > > > > > > I just finished an urban fantasy by Seanan McGuire called Rosemary and Rue. > > i liked it but I figured out the central mystery way too early and it made > > the book drag a bit. Plus I was hoping for something a little more gritty. > > > > > > > > > > > > I have two books waiting to be read that might fit the bill: > > > > > > > > > > > > Child of Fire by Harry Connolly. It's about a not so nice guy in debt to an > > even meaner wizard. I've heard it's a bit grittier than the Harry Dresden > > series and I'm in the mood for something similar. > > > > > > > > > > > > Next is Tom Sniegoski's A Kiss Before The Apocolypse. I first read his work > > in a collection called Mean Streets that featured a Harry Dresden story. > > The work that hooked me most was Sniegoski's story Noah's Orphans. Remy > > Chandler was the seraphim Remiel who gave up his glory after the last war > > in Heaven. He lived as a human but apart until the 20th century. He fell in > > love, got drawn back into the great game of Heavenly politics and had to > > hold back an apocolypse or three. In Noah's Orphans he is drawn into the > > mystery when someone kills the "Old Man" Noah. To say more would spoil it. > > > > > > > > > > > > I came into the middle of the series and mistakenly read the second book of > > the series which has some uncanny parallels to the current season of > > Supernatural. So now I'm finally reading the first book. > > > > > > > > > > > > So what's on your list? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > > > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. > > > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/ > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/
