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5/5/2009 4:49:50 PM
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Luke Forney
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The other thread had seemed to die off a bit, and I remembered (back in the day when I was far more regular on here) that after a few weeks of that, it was time for a new thread! Anyways, it has been a loooong time since I've been on here (years and years) and I thought I would try to make my comeback with a positive 
I created a page to look at what I am reading lately, and I have found I really enjoy reviewing books. I may not be good at it yet, but it's fun! Anyways, for the curious, look here:
[url]http://lukereviews.blogspot.com/
Of what I have been reading lately, Inside Straight has really been the oen to grab me most. It was one of the most fun books I had read in quite some time. I am thoroughly excited for Busted Flush, whenever that comes out in paperback. Also of note, Martin is set to rerelease the first three books in the Wild Cards series in new, "director's cut" editions. Be excited!
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5/6/2009 1:45:50 AM
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bluetyson
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Reading the first Andrew Vachss collection - speaking of Wild Cards, been delving back into the Card Sharks stories.
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5/6/2009 4:30:23 PM
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Marian
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Dune by audio book. I read it loooong ago. Back when it was an Analog serial. So am enjoying renewing my acquintance.
Summerland by Chabon. Just finished listening to it. I'm not a baseball fan and this book is for baseball fans but it's very good at creating a whole secondary world. Alas, I kept detecting bits of LOTR in there but it's still a nice, fast moving story. I think Chabon was trying to be Neil Geiman here.
The Palace of Illusion -- I'm actually reading this as a book! This is a novel based on the Mahabarahta. For those who don't know, the M is the longest epic in the world. This novel which is under 300 pages is an easy way to get an introduction to the Hindu religion.
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5/6/2009 5:24:17 PM
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Luke Forney
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I really liked Summerland. I thought ti was a lot of fun, and I'm not a huge baseball guy. It was just a fun, light fantasy that was easy to read.
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5/12/2009 5:46:18 AM
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StevenLP
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I'm reading Kay Kenyon's "The Bright of the Sky" at present: very impressed so far. Its part of a series (the fourth and final volume will appear next year): I was wondering if the high standard is maintained all through the series (or at least to the 3 vols published so far)?
Yesterday I received Tanith Lee's "Tempting the Gods", mainly stories from the nineties but a few earlier ones too (including "Eustace", her first published story, from 1968). The introduction is by Donald A Wollhelm - no previous publication for it is given, but I assume its a reprint (publication of the collection has been delayed a long while , but not that long!). Sadly there's no story notes or introduction from Tanith herself. On the plus side, most of the stories haven't previously been reprinted in hardback (or even paperback), so it's not a case of finding out you already have them in other collections/anthologies e.g. in the late nineties Tanith wrote three very strong stories for Interzone, two were picked up by Gardner for his Year's Best's (which I have) - but this collection only includes the third, uncollected, story.
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5/12/2009 9:42:26 AM
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Lukas Jackson
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I'm re-reading Effinger's A Fire in the Sun, from his Marid Audran Budayeen series. Anyone read that one?
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5/12/2009 10:16:51 AM
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bluetyson
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Yep.
Actually felt like a few of The Shadow recently, so had been doing that.
The Kenyon slumps a bit.
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5/12/2009 3:59:44 PM
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Luke Forney
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I finished up an adventure novel Hunt at the Well of Eternity, by James Reasoner (review here, and am currently reading a book about a message left in DNA by an earlier, more intelligent race of humans, called The Genesis Code, by Christopher Forrest. I'll probably finish that up tonight or tomorrow and have a new review posted on it soon.
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5/12/2009 7:13:02 PM
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GhostDogg
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Recently finished Drood. Simmons wrote a very good novel, however it's not a masterpiece due to several reasons. I won't point out them all, because it's not a review, but the most important are digressions Collins made in his narration, and some language stylizitation, which - sorry for my language - pissed me off. Did we have to read so many times "Dear Reader from the future?" It's really annoying to see this expression so often. And the whole idea of "sealed manuscript" is... Also, nothing would've happened if Simmons had written shorter, more cohesive work. OK, enough nagging. I must admit that nevertheless it was an enjoyable adventure. Both the storyline, connections between The mystery of Edwin Drood and Drood or character development satisfied me. And those dialogues, like the one about Poe! Just awesome. Is this novel a Hugo-candidate? IMHO yes. Now, it's about time to read some hard science fiction. Hmm. I think I'll read Diaspora.
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5/13/2009 3:29:59 AM
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Luke Forney
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I just finished The Genesis Code by Christopher Forrest. My review can be found here. I'm sad to say that it wasn't nearly what I had hoped for. It could have been so much better.
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5/13/2009 10:15:11 PM
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Lee S
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I just finished re-reading Fritz Lieber's The Wanderer a couple of days ago. Been years since I read it. Still holds up pretty well.
Currently reading a non-SF fiction Harm's Way by James Basset. Basis of the Otto Preminger-directed movie starring John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Kirk Douglas, Burgess Meredith. As I get older and see this movie again once in a while I am struck by the nearly-perfect performance of Dana Andrews as the crawfishing do-nothing Admiral Blackjack Broderick. Interesting comparison so far of the novel and the movie.
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5/13/2009 10:18:16 PM
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pc
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I enjoyed The Wanderer.
Just finished Blindsight last night. Lots of trailblazing, if very didactic.
Now must select a couple of titles to bring along for reading on the airplane tomorrow.
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5/13/2009 10:18:51 PM
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gdozois
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THE WANDERER is perhaps not Leiber's best novel (I'd nominate THE BIG TIME for that), but is still very much worth reading or re-reading.
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5/13/2009 10:33:16 PM
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Bill Moonroe
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Currently reading "The Patriot Witch" by C.C. Finlay. Wonderful, wonderful fantasy set during the beginning of the Revolutionary War. My mom spent 40 years teaching advanced placement US history, and I plan on passing this one on to her when I'm finished.
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5/14/2009 11:41:31 AM
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Luke Forney
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Every Review I've read has had a host of great things to say about The Patriot Witch. It seemed like something I personally may not have found captivating, but it seems like it has really grabbed a lot of other people.
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5/14/2009 2:57:44 PM
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rewaters
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At any given time, I'm reading 2-3 books. Right now, I'm reading DUNE (again) by Herbert, THE COMPLETE CHRONICLES OF CONAN (published in 2006 by a UK publisher whose name escapes me at the moment; can't get enough of Howard), and Jack McDevitt's THE DEVIL'S EYE.
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5/14/2009 3:55:43 PM
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Luke Forney
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I recently read a collection of Howard stories. I am slowly becoming a huge fan myself.
edited by Luke Forney on 5/14/2009
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5/15/2009 12:22:12 AM
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Marian
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Hey, R.E. Waters, you can't be rereading Dune. I'm the one who's rereading Dune! I first and last read it when it ran as a serial in Analog so it's interesting to see it decades later. It's holding up fantastically well. I'm seeing why it's a classic.
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5/15/2009 10:05:51 AM
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mwb
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Nowdays, I'm on an "year's best/best of" anthology kick - where I buy all the issues of the big anthology series and then once I have them read them in order. Right now I'm up to Year's Best SF 6 by David Hartwell.
And not technically SF or F, but instead about them. I'm reading Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines, 1970-1980 (Vol. III) by Mike Ashley - which is making me all nostalgic for all the magazines I read so voraciously as tween/teen in the '70s.
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5/15/2009 10:46:16 PM
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Luke Forney
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I don't know how most of you here feel about graphic novels, but one of the best pieces of dystopian fiction to come out in the past ten years has been Y: The Last Man, created by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. I just put up a review of the first volume, and will put up reviews of the nine others sooner rather than later, although I'll spread them out just a bit. For those of you hesitant to try graphic novels, give the first volume a try. This is the book I give non-graphic novel readers who want to try the genre. It is a great work.
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