What are you reading?

I finished King Bullet (latest Sandman Slim effort). I quite liked it.

That's 3 books in 4 days now...

And I made an order at my used bookstore for the first 6 Gear "People" novels not at my library. $4.95 a piece.

Also ordered several Reginald Hills (Pascoe and Dalziel).

I pick up all 10 on Saturday.
 
Hank Kingsley said:
Read it in 2 days and loved it. Makes up for the sack of nothing that Peace Talks was.

On to Sandman Slim's latest and then a Dennis Lehane followed by the 3rd one in the Native trilogy I started.
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have you read any Joe Abercrombie and his First Law Trilogy? Really nice world he built there and super grim and dark.
 
ill said:
have you read any Joe Abercrombie and his First Law Trilogy? Really nice world he built there and super grim and dark.
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No. Will keep it on my list for future reference.
 
ill said:
have you read any Joe Abercrombie and his First Law Trilogy? Really nice world he built there and super grim and dark.
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My library has those 3.

Some seem "young adult".
 
Hank Kingsley said:
the trilogy maybe.

But others are labelled that way.
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his style of writing doesn't really make me think "young adult"

I am reading Best Served Cold and they throw the word cunt around quite a lot...

I guess Shattered Sea might be YA?

 
I've got The Blade Itself coming.
 
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ill said:
have you read any Joe Abercrombie and his First Law Trilogy? Really nice world he built there and super grim and dark.
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Glokta had me hooked immediately.

If you aren’t completely drawn in by the end of chapter 2, then stop reading grim dark altogether.

”That tooth……”

EDIT: I saw and clicked in a short piece of the audio book somewhere, may have been on YouTube. Sand Dan Glokta was incredible in the first few chapters, they guy reading it completely crushed it.
 
rfjeff9 said:
Glokta had me hooked immediately.

If you aren’t completely drawn in by the end of chapter 2, then stop reading grim dark altogether.

”That tooth……”

EDIT: I saw and clicked in a short piece of the audio book somewhere, may have been on YouTube. Sand Dan Glokta was incredible in the first few chapters, they guy reading it completely crushed it.
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he is a really interesting character, that's for sure.

the audiobooks for them are like 30 hrs each and there is no way I am committing to that...but the books are really well done.

I just finished Best Served Cold, which is a stand alone after the First Law Trilogy. Not bad at all but it might be a while before I get into the next stand alone. The goal is to get into his next trilogy at some point
 
currently reading Harrow the Ninth from Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series.

I really enjoyed the first one (Gideon the Ninth) as a who dunnit kind of story with lesbian necromancers in space...this one hasn't grabbed me yet though

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Finally starting the Jack Whyte "Camulod Chronicles" series by reading The Skystone. It's set in fifth century pre-Camelot Roman Britain. I'm 90 pages in and already sure this is going to be a great series. I bought the whole series in paperback on eBay.

Also, while in Nashville I went to McKay books and got the gargantuan A World at Arms and The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. I'm going to need some light reading for a while in preparation for one of those behemoths. Oh yeah, how could I forget, also was very, very pleased to find good original mass market paperback copies of Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich and Sir Winston's massive World War II Volume IV The Hinge of Fate.
 
The Winter of Our Discontent.
 
Just finished "How to Think Like a Freak" by the Freakonomics guys. Starting "Naked Statistics".
 
Kburjr said:
Just finished "How to Think Like a Freak" by the Freakonomics guys. Starting "Naked Statistics".
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I used to listen to the Freakonomics podcast a lot...but it hasn't been on my playlist lately...but they are really great at what they do.

I enjoyed the first Freakonomics book
 
currently listening to Forever by Pete Hamill

I have the Dave Grohl book up next
 
HammerDown said:
Finally starting the Jack Whyte "Camulod Chronicles" series by reading The Skystone. It's set in fifth century pre-Camelot Roman Britain. I'm 90 pages in and already sure this is going to be a great series. I bought the whole series in paperback on eBay.

Also, while in Nashville I went to McKay books and got the gargantuan A World at Arms and The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. I'm going to need some light reading for a while in preparation for one of those behemoths. Oh yeah, how could I forget, also was very, very pleased to find good original mass market paperback copies of Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich and Sir Winston's massive World War II Volume IV The Hinge of Fate.
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I finished the Gear trilogy I was reading. And now that I've got my sequence sorted and books my library doesn't have purchased used, I've started the series from the beginning. Never a dull moment for sure.

And not a thin book in the bunch. Perfect for winter.
 
Hank Kingsley said:
I finished the Gear trilogy I was reading. And now that I've got my sequence sorted and books my library doesn't have purchased used, I've started the series from the beginning. Never a dull moment for sure.

And not a thin book in the bunch. Perfect for winter.
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Trilogies like that are pure gold. Is there a much better feeling on a dreary fall/winter day to be comfortably ensconced in a peaceful environment with just such a trilogy?
 
HammerDown said:
For the life of me, I don't understand the attraction to him. I literally can't turn social media on without being told how great he is. What am I missing?
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I think he's a good storyteller. I have always been a fan and I like memoirs for audiobooks, especially when they are read by the author.

Matthew McConaughey's was really good too
 
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