What book is everyone reading at the moment? Part 2. - Page 17

Bikewer · 2nd March 2021, 07:03 AM

Originally Posted by theprestige

Slough House

Slovenly, malcontent Mycroft Holmes and his bureau of disgraced spies are back to put the screws to John Le Carré once again.

Just listened to an NPR review of these books... Sounded interesting. I used to love spy novels, and LeCarre was the master.

Disbelief · 2nd March 2021, 10:31 AM

Codex Alera, on book 5 of 6 now, which I have seen described as Roman legions meets Pokemon. I have found it entertaining and same author as Dresden Files.

After this, going to read NK Jemisin's The Broken Earth trilogy.

xterra · 2nd March 2021, 11:17 AM

Based on what I saw in another thread, I downloaded from my public library, Norman Baker's … and What do you do? about the British royal family.

The first two chapters confirmed my belief that the framers of the US Constitution were absolutely correct in not allowing a hereditary system in this country.

Purely by coincidence, the book I finished previous to starting Baker's is The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, by Robert Hillman, an Australian author. It concerns the events in the life of a sheep farmer who meets and marries a Holocaust survivor. (This is a very condensed, skeletal version of the plot.)

I recommend both of them.

Metullus · 5th March 2021, 09:56 AM

I have just finished Ludwig Reiners' The lamps went out in Europe about the machinations and folly that led to WWI. I had read it in high school (borrowed from my father's library) and did not really appreciate it. It is an often amusing, dark, sometimes gossipy telling of the period from the fall of Bismark (who the author credits, with reason I think, with the crafting of an intricate diplomatic structure for maintaining peace in Europe) to the outbreak of war.

catsmate · 9th March 2021, 06:06 AM

Originally Posted by Armitage72

A short story anthology called "Swords Against Cthulhu III". The first two books in the series were pretty standard sword & sorcery stories mashed together with the Cthulhu Mythos. When I started reading this book, I discovered that it was "Thundarr the Barbarian" mashed together with the Mythos. All of the stories are sword & sorcery set on post-apocalyptic Earth after the Old Ones have started to wake up. It's an interesting change.

I have that in my list.

Disbelief · 15th March 2021, 08:39 AM

Reading the Fifth Season by NK Jemisin. Took a bit to get into her writing style, but I'm enjoying it now.

2nd March 2021, 10:31 AM	#642
Disbelief Master Poster Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,833	Codex Alera, on book 5 of 6 now, which I have seen described as Roman legions meets Pokemon. I have found it entertaining and same author as Dresden Files. After this, going to read NK Jemisin's The Broken Earth trilogy.
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xterra So far, so good... Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: On the outskirts of Nowhere; the middle was too crowded Posts: 3,730	Based on what I saw in another thread, I downloaded from my public library, Norman Baker's … and What do you do? about the British royal family. The first two chapters confirmed my belief that the framers of the US Constitution were absolutely correct in not allowing a hereditary system in this country. Purely by coincidence, the book I finished previous to starting Baker's is The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, by Robert Hillman, an Australian author. It concerns the events in the life of a sheep farmer who meets and marries a Holocaust survivor. (This is a very condensed, skeletal version of the plot.) I recommend both of them.
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Metullus Forum ¾-Wit Pro Tem Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 5,154	I have just finished Ludwig Reiners' The lamps went out in Europe about the machinations and folly that led to WWI. I had read it in high school (borrowed from my father's library) and did not really appreciate it. It is an often amusing, dark, sometimes gossipy telling of the period from the fall of Bismark (who the author credits, with reason I think, with the crafting of an intricate diplomatic structure for maintaining peace in Europe) to the outbreak of war.
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9th March 2021, 06:06 AM	#645
catsmate No longer the 1 Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 24,303	Originally Posted by Armitage72 A short story anthology called "Swords Against Cthulhu III". The first two books in the series were pretty standard sword & sorcery stories mashed together with the Cthulhu Mythos. When I started reading this book, I discovered that it was "Thundarr the Barbarian" mashed together with the Mythos. All of the stories are sword & sorcery set on post-apocalyptic Earth after the Old Ones have started to wake up. It's an interesting change. I have that in my list.
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15th March 2021, 08:39 AM	#646
Disbelief Master Poster Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,833	Reading the Fifth Season by NK Jemisin. Took a bit to get into her writing style, but I'm enjoying it now.
Disbelief Master Poster Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,833	__________________ Zensmack (LastChild, Laughing Assassin, RazetheFlag, Wastrel, TruthbyDecree) - Working his way up the sock puppet chain, trying to overtake P'Doh. Or, are they the same? Quote me where I said conspiracists use evidence. - mchapman

2nd March 2021, 07:03 AM	#641
Bikewer Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: St. Louis, Mo. Posts: 12,923	Originally Posted by theprestige Slough House Slovenly, malcontent Mycroft Holmes and his bureau of disgraced spies are back to put the screws to John Le Carré once again. Just listened to an NPR review of these books... Sounded interesting. I used to love spy novels, and LeCarre was the master.