going to cram a lot of reading into the next ten days whilst on holiday, already got Stephen Fry's The Liar on the go and have just bought Iain Banks's book Dead Air and also taking his book Complicity which I will be reading for about the fourth time it's that bloody good
I liked it, but yea, doesnt have the flare of say Mort but I love all of Pratchett's books. Going to borrow nation from my uncle when I get the chance.
Reading Ed Macy - Apache at the moment. Non-fiction about an ex-British Army Apache pilot, loving it...recommended read and I'm only quarter of the way through!
I'm embarrassed to say I was well past halfway in the book when I noticed that the chapter numbers were all screwed up, and why. I had to go back and skim through all the chapters to put it all together.
I liked Matter even better, probably because I didn't feel so stupid while I was reading it.
If you like seriously realised and deep Sci-Fi. give his work a shot. It can be a little difficult to get into the style depending on which book you start with, but it`s way more than worth the effort.
He also does some lovely quirky modern drama, and some seriously off-kilter fantasy too.
Oh yeah, ASoIaF (it's Ice and Fire, btw, not the other way around ) is absolutely brilliant. Definitely one of the greatest fantasy sagas of all time. There's going to be a TV series of A Games of Thrones. HBO are gonna do it so it should be good. It's all still in an early stage, though. It might not even make it past the pilot episode
Sounds great. And I just can't wrap my head around the true sequence of ice and fire
Just Finished Joe Abercrombies "First Law" trilogy, an awesome read. Before that, I read Pratchetts "Going Postal", and now, I'm reading "The Hobbit", again. Somehow, Old JRR Toliien just doesn't get old, no matter how often you've read the books.
Afterwards, I'll reread the "Neuromancer" Trilogy by William Gibson, to be followed by Frank Herbert's whole "Dune" cycle and "Otherland" by Tad Williams.