I've started Sentinels: When Strikes The Warlord by Van Somebody Or Other, you probably haven't heard of him... ;) Good, tasty, pulp superhero fun - setting the tone for my planned super-summer of reading superhero-related novels & non-fiction (next up will be Stan Lee's Excelsior!)
My novel reading aspirations are continually thwarted by the call of the comic book stack though (just working through back issues of DC's The Demon and Flash at present, while awaiting my regular fortnightly bundle of new arrivals. I don't know how I ever found time to have a full-time job as well... On Jun 23, 8:05 am, [email protected] wrote: > I am reading the Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, and I just > finished The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil. The language in both is > very beautiful, and I find the walls of the room melting away and vines > creeping up to choke me and cloak me, to grip me and trip me, to find me and > bind me. These books were heavy hardbacks that I didn't want to travel with, > so I read Annie Proulx's Wyoming Stories on the plane. Heartbreaking! Ay yi > yi! Alas for the souls of men! > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, Jun 22, 2010 9:26 pm > Subject: RE: [The Unique Geek] What are you reading? > > I'm currently reading "Seeker" by Jack McDevitt. He's a a sci-fi author that > was recommended by the Science Fiction Book Club, so I decided to give him a > try. I'm really enjoying the book! The lead character is antiquities > dealer/archeologist in the far future. Sort of like a sci-fi Indiana Jones > (but for profit). > > To give you an idea of how well McDevitt's sci-fi is received, here are a > couple excerpts from reviews: > > McDevitt is now being compared, quite legitimately, to Arthur C. Clarke, and > not only because he has a similar kind of grand vision of the human future > among the stars. He also has characters with amiable, or not-so-amiable, > quirks, who in the middle of deciphering the secrets of lost races take time > to worry about where to get a good meal in the next town. > > Jack McDevitt won the Philip K. Dick Award for his first novel,The Hercules > Text, and the first UPC prize for his novella,"Ships in the Night." He has > been nominated for the Nebula andHugo for his novella, "Time Travelers Never > Die",The Engines of God was an Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist andhis novel, > Ancient Shores, was a Nebula finalist in 1998. > > Good, mature science fiction. > > The Irredeemable Shaghttp://onceuponageek.com > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [The Unique Geek] What are you reading? > From: "Edward Crosby" <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, June 22, 2010 4:31 pm > To: "TUG" <[email protected]> > > So, I just started reading Daniel Suarez's sequel to Daemon, Freedom. Man, > this series is so damn good. I highly recommend both books to everyone, > especially to the tech literate. > Now I am looking forward to the next book I will read. I have a wish list > but I wanted to get your input. I'm a huge Stephen King fan so I am > thinking my next book may be Under the Dome as everyone keeps raving about > how good it is. But, I am debating on a different title. > Not long ago, io9 posted an article about a book titled Altered Carbon by > Richard K. Morgan. Here is the article: > > http://bit.ly/9IiQcT > > I've never heard of Morgan but I thought I would give this a try anyhow. > Has anyone else read this book? If so, do you recommend? > What are you reading right now and what else would you recommend to me? > I pretty much like everything: sci-fi, thrillers, horror, suspense, > action, and even fantasy from time to time. > > -- > Have a Better One, > Edward Crosbyhttp://www.edwardcrosby.com > ----- > "There are no atheists in foxholes or firmware updates." > Merlin Mann > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
