Books just aquired...

[Mercutio]

Originally posted by Starr Polish
I also just bought The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. Ah...British Literature.

Good luck!

Just got the first of C.S. Lewis's space trilogy books...ya know the group with "that hideous strength," except I forget the name of the one I have. Hmm....

[crickhollow]

that would be "Out of the Silent Planet." a good read. "perelandra" is much, much better, though.

[Falagar]

Originally posted by BeardofPants
Anyone else read Tad Williams or Robin Hobb? How do the two series compare?

Not read Tad Williams but just finished the first book in Hobb's Farseer-triology, a good read.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by BeardofPants
Anyone else read Tad Williams or Robin Hobb? How do the two series compare?

I haven't read any Tad Williams, but I've read all of Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy, and I loved it. I then went on to read her 'Tawny Man' Trilogy and I think that was a major mistake. It's a continuation of the Farseer Trilogy, but it gets weirder and I lost interest. I still haven't read the last book of that trilogy because it I doubt I'd like it.

[Stephen]

Last book i bought(a month ago) was a first american ed of the silmarillian. Fo' too fitty.

[BelegS]

Beardofpants posted,

Anyone else read Tad Williams or Robin Hobb? How do the two series compare?

I have read the Farseer first book by Hobb and Memory, Sorrow and Thorn saga by Tad Williams. Just acquired his Otherland books too.
For me, I would say, Tad Williams is better. The first book [by hobb] is kind of strange. Though the story isn't bad at all and her chracterization is great. Tad Williams sometimes reminds me of Tolkien and I love the Trolls!

I hope Otherland would be as good as Memory, Sorrow and Thorn saga was.

[BeardofPants]

Thanks Beleg. I was beginning to think that no-one else had read Tad Williams. I think you'll enjoy the scope of the Otherland series. It gets very weird at the end though, which I guess could be construed as weakness. But an enjoyable series, with an interesting/different POV from the usual assortment of fantasy/sci-fi. So far though, it seems to me that his Sorrow series is the better of the two series, but they're both very DIFFERENT.

edit: hey, wow, we have another member from the 'dark continent'. Welcome! Oh, have you read Dune?

[BelegS]

Thanks Beleg. I was beginning to think that no-one else had read Tad Williams.

Your are welcome.
I guess Melko Belcha [Sp?] has read Tad Williams too and Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is a favorite of his.

Otherland looks nice, though I have to say Tad William's war writing is no where near writers like Sebastian Faulks etc.
Memory, Sorow and Thorn I guess is pure fantasy, while Otherland is a fine mesh of Cyberpunk/Cybernatics, Fantasy and mainstream fiction.

edit: hey, wow, we have another member from the 'dark continent'. Welcome! Oh, have you read Dune?

Thank you! But since when has Asia become a Dark Continent? I thought the title was reserved for Africa?
On the risk of being labeled a heretic , I'd say I haven't read Dune mainly because I couldn't get past the first few pages.
But now that I have read a couple of other threads [Dune seems to be a favorite of folks here], I guess I'll give it a second, longer try and go on to about 100-150 pages.

[Stephen]

I read the first 3 of the dune series. I liked the first 2 very much.

[BeardofPants]

Originally posted by BelegS
Thank you! But since when has Asia become a Dark Continent? I thought the title was reserved for Africa?

Er... yes well, we NZers aren't exactly known for our geography. Actually, I don't think I've heard of Africa as the 'dark continent', I was just applying it to pakistan, since you have....well, skin slightly darker than mine.

On the risk of being labeled a heretic , I'd say I haven't read Dune mainly because I couldn't get past the first few pages.
But now that I have read a couple of other threads [Dune seems to be a favorite of folks here], I guess I'll give it a second, longer try and go on to about 100-150 pages.

Infidel! Actually, there's a reason that people are reading Dune, and it might have something to do with me bullying them...

Yes, the Otherland series is a bit of a mish-mash. It gets progressively more fantasy-ish as well, which is why I liked it so much. Also, there's a development of cultures that you don't necessarily see in sci-fi/mainstream. It is particularly interesting to follow the development of Xabbu! and Renie's characters - though it was hard to imagine what Xabbu! looked like, I must admit.

[brownjenkins]

Originally posted by BeardofPants
Infidel! Actually, there's a reason that people are reading Dune, and it might have something to do with me bullying them...

especially the goat part

[BelegS]

Brownjenkins posted,

especially the goat part

Or if you are living on a seaport, then fish.

Hehe, I am liking Xabbu! Although I have to agree that it is hard to imagine his looks. Perhaps part of purpose behind the mention of the Bushman was to generate more intrest in people? Tad Williams did say something to the effect that he would be really happy to see people taking more intrest in them after reading the books. [hugely Rephrased]

[BeardofPants]

Fishes, goats, same diff.

Originally posted by brownjenkins
especially the goat part

Now then. Ahem. It's perfectly reasonable for me to threaten to lop of yer family jewels if you don't read dune... isn't it?

[Elfmaster XK]

I just bought 'The Golden Ass' by Apuleius. It's a classic, apparently. Our lecturer for Virgil and Catullus told us it was good, and you know, I am actually getting into it. Although I still think I spelled Apuleius wrong...

[hectorberlioz]

I just bought "Jane Eyre" by you know who (and no its not Berlioz!).

BoP, your new avvie of the turtle is cute, and ok I guess...but the dragon was much better

[BeardofPants]

Turtle?... What turtle?

[hectorberlioz]

ok, it was a tortoise then. Dot pretend you dont know...you had it on last night

[Grey_Wolf]

I've just aquired Michael Tamelander's Avgörandets Ögonblick: Invasionen av Normandie 1944 (a book about D-day) and Slaget om Västeuropa: Flygkrig, strategi och politik sommaren 1940 (a book about Germany's attack on Western Europe and the Battle of Britain).

[Lady Ravyn]

YES!!!!!!! ~* ~* ~*
i finally got the books my parents ordered for my b-day (in march ) the last three books in the Wayfarer Redemption series by Sara Douglass- Sinner, Pilgrim, and Crusader!

and i also bought the first four Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series (Guilty Pleasures, The Lauging Corpse, The Circus of the Damned, and The Lunatic Cafe)

actually, i got all those last week, but i kept forgetting to post it here

[Grey_Wolf]

I've just aquired James Lawrence's The Rise And Fall of the British Empire and Warrior Race: A History of the British At War.