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... Fire. A second entry for Stieg Larsson so I guess that made him my author of the year.
Honourable mentions: Catch-22, The Night Watch, The Beach, The Raw Shark Texts, Gardens of the Moon, Quite Ugly One Morning and The Name of the Wind.
Best book overall: The Lies of Locke Lam ... ... A second entry for Stieg Larsson so I guess that made him my author of the year.
Honourable mentions: Catch-22, The Night Watch, The Beach, The Raw Shark Texts, Gardens of the Moon and Quite Ugly One Morning. I read the first story in The Night Watch, and it was ok, but I wanted to get back to Chalion so I put it aside to start Paladin of Souls. Really cool world building and characters in this series. Just finished The Curse of Chalion and loved it. Lots of fascinating ideas about religion. Next up, The Night Watch, where I'm hoping the vampires actually bite people. ... of Chalion and I highly recommend it. Lots of very intriguing musings on spiritual matters. I think I'm going to read The Night Watch next. I need a good vampire story to wash out the taste of, um, others. ;-) The next book on my tbr is The Night Watch which I've heard good things about. I'll get back to you once I've read it.
Interview with a Vampire is good, although I never read any of the other Anne Rice books. The Night Watch (and sequels) would be representative of what I'd fit within Urban Fantasy. A work that takes place within the world that we know and recognise but has elements of what we call fantasy (magic, supernatural beings, etc.). Wow, thanks for comparing me to Buffy, MrA! I feel honored.
I purchased The Night Watch yesterday, so you see I am not opposed to vampires on principle, just impotent ones. ... Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Winter Queen: A Novel by Boris Akunin
The Russia House by John Le CarrĂ ... ... Did you find it hard to get into Day Watch? I've been trying, but I find it hard to slip into this one the way I did with Night Watch. ... been eyeing it off in the bookshop for far too long, and it keeps on getting good recommendations!
I've also got the Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko to read... ... Square Moon, modern Arabic supernatural tales
The Secret History of Moscow and other books by Ekaterina Sedia, and The Night Watch and other books by Sergei Lukyanenko (Russian, modern fantasy)
But I am sure there must be lots more out there - whether that's traditional/folk ... The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko I think The Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko is classed as Urban Fantasy though it tends more towards horror than fantasy. Good movies but even better books. I would add Sergei Lukyanenko's Watch series to this growing list. Starts with The Night Watch and continues through The Day Watch, The Twilight Watch and The Last Watch. Watched The Night Watch tonight. It's not as good as the book, but pretty good nonetheless.
Now I'm watching From Dusk Til Dawn on TNT. Having seen this before, I'm mostly curious to see how they're gonna cut a Quentin Tarrantino movie to make it acceptable for TV... ... well
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
The Lions of Lucerne by Brad Thor
The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson
Night watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
And Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for the son.
BTW, I tagged all the books we ... ... do. If you have a liking for the darker fantasy worlds then I would recommend this series heartily (though you should read The Night Watch first.
Seeing as I don't yet have the third book of that series I picked out something a little lighter and read The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lew ... Catching up with your posts and interested with your review of Nightwatch - I'm also keen to read that and appreciate that you haven't written too much - I watched the movie which is pretty crazy.
I read an extract from Haroun and the Sea of Stories in a children's short story collection The ... ... />
The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
(Review coming soon) 24. The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
I really enjoyed this story and its original and thought-provoking take on the "battle between Good and Evil". I don’t want to say too much more, because it was the gradual revelations about the way in which this world worked that made the biggest ... I'm about halfway through Night Watch. Saw the film (and its sequel) a while ago and enjoyed them. If I see the film first and like it then I'm always a little apprehensive about reading the book afterwards. 26. Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko // 363 pages.
Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a world as elaborate and imaginative as Tolkien or the best Asimov. Living among us are the "Others," an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who swear allegiance to either the Dark or ... 26. Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko // 363 pages.
Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a world as elaborate and imaginative as Tolkien or the best Asimov. Living among us are the "Others," an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who swear allegiance to either the Dark or ... Welcome! I loved Night Watch and sequels. You've got a few on your list I need to check into! Currently reading Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. Currently reading Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. Hope I'll be able to start in Day Watch too sometime this week. Currently reading Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. Didn't have much time to read last week because I had to study. Will be same until Wednesday this week unfortunately. After that free to read again! :)
Has anyone read good books with a supernatural theme lately? My library hasn't got ... Currently reading Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. Didn't have much time to read last week because I had to study. Will be same until Wednesday this week unfortunately. After that free to read again! :)
Has anyone read good books with a supernatural theme lately? My library hasn't got ... #165 - Have you already read the other three Night Watch books? If so, how'd you like them? I haven't read any of them, but did see the first movie. It was beautifully done, but left me cold in the end. ... which I really enjoyed - well it just didn't do it for me, the characters were not interesting enough. I watched the movie Nightwatch as I was finishing up this book and I will be looking out for that trilogy.
27) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark - utterly charming book. I loved ... ... (early) Birthday!
I am really enjoying The Brothers Karamazov right now. Looking forward to reading your review of The Night Watch. ... Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
The Night Watch (Watch, Book 1) - Sergei Lukyanenko
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories (Norton Critical Edition)
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky I ... ... Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
The Night Watch (Watch, Book 1) - Sergei Lukyanenko
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories (Norton Critical Edition)
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky I ... ... Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
The Night Watch (Watch, Book 1) - Sergei Lukyanenko
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories (Norton Critical Edition)
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky I ... #16 in this challenge is The night watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. Well worth a read for anyone who likes fantasy. Sergei Lukyanenko's The Night Watch. I am really enjoying it. ... your opinion on some books. I think I will also ask Ronincats and the doc also. I just watched the Russian made films of Night Watch and Day Watch. I really enjoyed them but they gave me the impression that the books would be even better. Have you read them? If so, ....................? Reading The Somme by Peter Hart and The Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko. 22. Worlds' end - Neil Gaiman 168 p.
23. Nightwatch - Sergej Lukyanenko 455 p.
... by Bryan Talbot (Graphic novel)
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (graphic novel)
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
and
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko I thought I replied yesterday, but don't see my post. Like everyone else I was assuming that it was one of the books in the Night Watch series, but I did find another possibility: The Secret History of Moscow (though the cover is nothing like your explanation)
Could it maybe be one of the Th ... ...
But, maybe the way I am remember it is also the way someone else remembers it, only with a title.
I thought it might be The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko, but it is not.
Thanks for any ideas anyone may have. ... time of Cholera by Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez
Cortos by Alberto Fuguet
The runaway jury by John Grisham
The Night watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Angelas Ashes by Frank McCourt
The one thing more by Anne Perry
Tales of the otori by Lian Hearn
Human Croque ... ... I would start with modern popular works and then work my way backwards if I had the chops for it.
The Russian books:
The Night Watch, Day Watch and Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
I enjoyed them very much. I was amazed at how easy they were to read. It must be a very good ... ... Isaac Adamson *re-read
58. Tokyo Suckerpunch by Isaac Adamson *re-read
59. Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
60. Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
61. Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
62. Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
I also recommend Wolf's Hour by Robert McCammon. The Night Watch series has some werewolves, most prominently in Twilight Watch and also for comedy Gil's All-Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez has a werewolf named Earl. The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers, Night Watch and sequels by Sergei Lukyanenko, Gil's All-Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez. All recent favorites that haven't gotten much press. The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
The Touch by Colleen McCullough
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith
Helen of Troy by Margaret George
Pompeii by Robert Harris
EDIT: I just had to bump something else to include Pompeii, which I finished last night - ... Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
The Touch by Colleen McCullough
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith I only have one outstanding read from July, which was The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. ... .
- Carol Berg's Flesh and Spirit/Breath and Bone duology
- The series by Sergei Lukyanenko starting with The Night Watch
- Duma Key by Stephen King is a return to his early days. The suspense builds rather gently, with suspense and action at the end.
- Gentlemen ... Try Night Watch and sequels by Sergei Lukyanenko. Really good urban fantasy with elements of action and suspense. My suggestion is The Night Watch and Day Watch. The prose isn't flowery at all, the stories are strong, and it's a step away from true crime. Although, people still die. Gil's All-Fright Diner is dialog- and action- driven instead of more descriptive prose. Any Clive Cussler book will be ... #150 - I loved The Night Watch and Day Watch. They're not scary in the least, but I really liked the paranormal/spy/thriller vibe they had going. The translation was easily readable, very well done. I'm reading Nightwatch by Sergei Luyanenko and so far it's an easy read, but I have to see where it goes. I'm in Moscow with NightWatch by Sergei Lukyanenko ... dwarves and such. Theresa Edgerton's series starting with Goblin Moon was great, with an unusual setting for fantasy. The Night Watch and Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko are really good urban fantasies. Oh, and the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde starting with The Eyre Affai ... Finished the Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko this morning; hoping to start Dream of fair to middling women by beckett tonight.
i'm also still reading Eats, shoots and leaves--i'm taking my time though:rereading each chapter a few times. should be done with it soon--fingers crossed I put off reading No country for old men for the moment and started reading the Night watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. I'm really enjoying it so far; it's much more detailed than the movie was. I'm also about half way through Eats, shoots and leaves by Lynne Truss which I think is helping ... ...
sweat jesus i need a rest.
Queer by Burroughs,
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates,
and finally the Night watch and the Day Watch both by Sergei Lukyanenko.
I'm buying no more books until, well until the next time i'm near a book shop probably. sigh!
... I'll check out your wife. Gee, that sounded so wrong, but I can't think of another way to put it. :S
Today I finished Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko. I'm sure something is lost in translation, but it is still a really enjoyable read: fantastic (in the strict sense) exploration of the ... Night Watch and Day Watch are my current recommendations. Followed by Gentlemen of the Road and Duma Key. With the exception of Duma Key, the books aren't that well known and all are wonderful. ... of a theatrical entrance.
A Man Lay Dead - Ngaio Marsh
The bird on my shoulder gave a derisive screech.
Nightwatch - Sergei Lukyanenko. Still in Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. Started Me Talk Pretty One Day - that'll go fast. David Sedaris is so freaking funny. Need to do a serious push on Coté de Chez Swann, Proust. *grits teeth* Dawdling through Living History - H. Clinton. Definitely more interesting in some parts ... The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko, on the recommendation of Arctic-Stranger and The Amber Spyglass. Enjoying both. ... it. I loved The Subtle Knife, but this one just seems a kind of let down after that.
Next up: Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch. My friends have been gushing about the whole series, so I'm hoping it'll be good. I returned from a meeting to find a box on my desk. In the box was:
Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
A Man Lay Dead - Ngaio Marsh
Anonymous Lawyer - Jeremy Blachman
So, of course, I just want to go home now. May ... ... rsh*
The Echo - Minette Walters
No Other Tribute (it's research for my writing ;-)
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters*
the Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko*
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
I don't know why I do this.
*from the recommend-a-book thread. citygirl,
If you have not read The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, I highly recommend it. For that matter, you might like The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko as well. ... Knightley, in.
Now I'm watching Day Watch, a Russian movie with subtitles, sequel to Night Watch, both based on the book Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. It's already been done in Russian, but I'd love to see an English version of The Night Watch and sequels. 5. Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Day Watch is a fantastic sequel to The Night Watch, in the true sense of the word sequel. It continues the story of the Others, both Light and Dark, as they jockey for advantage and the end to the balance enforced by the Inquisition in a slightly twisty M ... Nightwatch and sequels are high on my list right now... ... of the Small quartet, which I think is better than Song of the Lioness (first book is Page)
Sergei Lukyanenko's The Night Watch (part of a series, I've only read the first one)
Tanya Huff's Blood books (first book Blood Price)
-- her related Smoke Trilogy (first book Smoke ... ... by it, so I guess SD is on the list for the 2008. But first I have to finish War and Peace Not the Matchbook Version. And Nightwatch Not the Sarah Waters Version. Oh, and I Am Legend. ... I really hope (but sadly doubt) will get picked up for another season).
Also, I agree with Arctic's recommendation of Night Watch books and movies (though I've only read the first book, too). I just started The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko So far I *love* this book. Now I'm going to go hunt down the rest of 'em. ... sthesky,
Thanks for the laugh! I'll admitt I've been guilty of the same thing. I'll have to look intoTwilight Watch and Sergei Lukyanenko I just finished Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. I think I'd recommend the films--Day Watch and Night Watch--before I'd recommend the book. Could be the translation, could be how I perceived its very Russian-ness.
Now I'm thoroughly enjoying Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming. Dense ... ... whatever:
*Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
The Fuzzy Papers by H. Beam Piper
*Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
*You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop by John Scalzi
Honorable Mention:
Old Man's War by ... ... which I've only read once, but I lent it to my sister some months ago and she hasn't returned it yet (hint hint).
110. *Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko (455)
I have seen the movies Night Watch (dubbed) and Day Watch (with subtitles) and I really liked both of them - even the dubbing ... ... tugging the hood off his head, sneaking under his scarf, pressing him downward.
"The wind didn't want Egor to go up."
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko Well, which genre of fantasy are you talking about? I'd argue that you have urban fantasy like Night watch, Neverwhere, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town and Charles deLint. You have "high fantasy" like The Lord of the Rings and Conan. You have magical realism. You have ... I just finished Night watch by Sergei Lukyanenko I just got Night watch finally from the library and have Dusk watch ordered on interlibrary loan. Devoured the first few chapters on the bus home. They are every bit as driven as the movie based on the novel. I reccomend the Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko It's a Russian urban fantasy series with three books translated into english so far. The books take place mostly in the urban setting of Moscow but include a variety of fantasy characters: vampires, werewolves, witches, warlocks, etc. T ... ... by Terry Pratchett (Audio)
19. 52 Wanderungen by Franz Hohler
20. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett (Audio)
21. Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
22. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (Audio)
23. Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
24. Dr. Blink Super Hero Shrink 1: Id. Ego ... ... it a bit. It seems a good overview (not too Wiccan) but a bit waffly enough for my tastes.
Sergei Lukyaneko's Day Watch (touchstone for the first book in the series. sigh.) I am enjoying it, not quite as much as Night Watch though. It is even more bleak which I am not really in ... ... Borders today and picked up the following lovelies:
Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko (since I like what I've read of Night Watch)
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (already read, but didn't have my own copy)
Grave Peril by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files #3, ... Night Watch (by Sergei Lukyanenko) came today from Amazon. Yay! I liked the movie, so hopefully I'll like the book too. I read the first third or so of Night Watch, then my wife shuffled my "Perennial Stack O' Ever-Changing Books" while cleaning, and some other shiny rectangle caught my eye, with predictably distracting results. For what it's worth, what I read was quite good with some pretty interesting magic ... Has anyone read Night Watch: A Novel by Sergei Lukyanenko? If you have, is it good? What did you think of it? ... cover...
1. Best American Non-Required Reading for 2006 Edited by Dave Eggers.
2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
3. Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
4. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. ... and glitz. Is every single vampire really going to be rich and sexy?
A friend of mine really liked the vampires in Night Watch, since they were butchers and lived in a crappy apartment. Regular joe-schmoes. Only saw the movie, though, so no idea if this entirely applies to the novels. living next-door to the god of love was interesting, followed up by Night Watch and Hex and the City by Simon R Green, of course I read these in the wrong order but that happens, they're still an engaging series of books with great characters.
Now onto Agents of Light and Darkness ... ... is limited.
I also read The Winter Queen and liked it but didn't continue on with the series. We also have Night Watch by Lukhanenko, but having seen the movie first, I wonder if I'll pick that up now...
... Neil Gaiman did for Euro-American mythology in American Gods or Sergei Lukyanenko did for Russian mythology in Night Watch.
The Russian/Eastern European poster on my forum called the other 2 books (besides Day Watch and Night Watch) in the series: Grey Watch and Last Watch. Don't know if Grey Watch means Dusk Watch or not.
... S/he also said the next book Day Watch was not very good but the next two were OK.
On the US book I have, it says Night Watch: A Novel is the first of a trilogy, so I don't know if they aren't publishing all four or are combinng four into three. They are already published in Russia. I ... Anybody else excited that the English translation of Night Watch is finally out? Anybody read it yet and willing to provide comparisons to the movies? I was blown away by the first movie, Night Watch, and entertained by the second (out on European DVD, if not US).
I understand both movies ...
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