Where Are You in Fantasyland: June, 2011

I finished A Game of Thrones and started A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin. I love a book that gives you characters to despise.

I'm reading Feet of Clay and The Lion's Eye.

(I'm also rereading bits and pieces of Puck of Pook's Hill, Peter Pan and vaguely related non-fiction books with long titles which I can't remember.)

Recently finished The Prestige by Christopher Priest.

Mixed feelings about that one. Well-written, wonderful recreation of an era, the slightest smidge of fantastical and steampunk (yum!), but the characters failed to engage me.

Now beginning a Members' Giveaway ebook, Laying the odds.

I'm reading Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey and Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher.

Unfortunately, RL has forced me into delaying the ending of Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan. I'm only now stepping into the Three-fold Land with Aviendha.

Still reading Darkspell by Katherine Kerr (touchstones still not working for me)...

I've just started the Game of Thrones, and its true, #1 -- there are truly despicable characters. Great fun.

Finished The Inheritance by Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm yesterday. There weren't any stories that I didn't like, and I loved "Homecoming" and "A touch of Lavender" especially. Now I'm visiting Zoo City, which people in the SF group have loved.

Just finished The Briar King, first in Greg Keyes' Kingdom of Thorn and Bone series. I really enjoyed it so have put the next on order at the library. Whilst I wait for that I am reading another book I picked up in the library called The Dragon Book. A collection of short stories (edited by Jack Dann) all about dragons, I was attracted by some of the authors listed on the cover such as Garth Nix, Jonathan Stroud, Diana Wynne Jones and Tamora Pierce. The style of the stories varies greatly from epic fantasy, to comical spoofs to dark urban fantasy, enjoying it very much so far :)

Back in Chalion with Paladin of Souls. It's a reasonably entertaining story, but I'm starting to find the recurring theme of older man/much younger wife a little weird.

Steadily moving through A Game of Thrones. There is so much going on, and I am patiently waiting for those despicable characters to get what they deserve.

I'm with a Private Investigator in Boston. What do you mean that this isn't the Crime, Thriller & Mystery group? Oh, okay then I'd best say that he's an angel that goes by the name of Remy Chandler and he's hoping for A Kiss Before the Apocalypse.

Finished A Clash of Kings and started A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin. Brutal.

#1 and #7. What I love about The Song of Ice and Fire series, is some of those despicable characters come to be loved characters by book 4. Truly amazing.

Now reading Midnight Blue Sonja Blue Collection by Nancy Collins - I've only ever read the first book Sunglasses After Dark so it'll be a treat to continue the story into books two and three...

im on discworld, having a laugh or three.

#14 Yes, he is very good in the way he shows how people who are not really bad can do bad things. What stops them being bad people is that they know what they have done is wrong and feel guilty about it, much more realistic than a saintly hero who never makes a mistake or a stupid or selfish decision in their life. I think he really has set the standard for fantasy writing in the 21st century very high.

#14, majkia: Exactly. This is a re-read for me in anticipation of the fifth book so I suspect I know who you mean. My son is not a reader but he is watching the HBO series and loving it. It is so hard for me not to give things away.

I'm in Louisianna reading Dead on the Delta by Stacey Jay

I'm in Australia in Tongues of Serpents.

Trying to live through a highstorm on the Shattered Plains

In Fantastica in The Neverending Story. I can't decide whether I like it or not.

Really enjoyed my trip to Zoo City and am now back in fantasyland proper on the planet of Erna in Black sun rising.

I'm in Blind Michael's land. Reading An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire

I've finished A Storm of Swords and I've started A Feast For Crows by George R. R. Martin.

In Bryn Shaer, uncovering boatloads of secrets in Starcrossed. Really pleasantly surprised by how nuanced and well-realized the setting and characters are, and how well the author avoids any sense of "Mary Sue"-ness to her young female protagonist.

At the speculative side of fantasy near the border with sci-fi with the written Thursday Next in One of Our Thursdays is Missing. I've completely forgotten what happened in the previous book but so far it hasn't made it any less enjoyable.

After having been on my bookshelf for two years, I am finally reading Hero where part of the population are heroes and some are villains. You are responsible for developing your own costume and coming up with your alias. A great coming-of-age story anchors it.

You were on your book shelf for two years?

>29 Carnophile: Nice catch on the dangling participle!

I'm busy with Jane and her iron dragon, Melanchthon, in The Iron Dragon's Daughter. Bit of an anti-fantasy, but it's really well-written and thought-provoking.

Just returned from 17th century France with The Cardinal's Blades. I'll be heading back there at some point when I pick up the 2nd book in the series.

just entering Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings.

I'm back in London, trying to figure out mysteries involving a murder (right after a mummy unwrapping0, a missing agent, and a bunch of missing women. And dodging steampowered whatsis whilst doing it. The Osiris Ritual

Arrakis. Re-reading Dune.

Heavens! My participle was dangling!! ***wink***

Done with Hero, now in Atlanta with Kate Daniels in Magic Slays.

Re-reading Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear.

In post-war, fantastical, ruined Varsaw in the prologue of Damnation Game.

Also trudging about the countryside of some relatively nondescript fantasy land in the beginning of Laying the odds.

On the verge of starting The Unremembered by Peter Orullian.

The 5th Kate Daniels book, Magic Slays was excellent. Now back in the world of Swordspoint with The Fall of the Kings and its luscious prose.

Have just crawled through a drain with Jonathan Starling and crossed into Darkside, the secret and nefarious London that exists just under the surface in Tom Becker's first book in the Darkside series. Pretty creepy so far....

I'm in NYC reading Confessions of a Demon by Susan Wright

I was in Westeros in my re-read of A Storm of Swords.

I've started reading Transformation by Carol Berg but am considering to quit it , its not boring so far but I don't have the Stomach‏ for books with too much suffering (how come am a fantasy fan right ?)

Not at all, queentamir. I'm with you in not enjoying books where torture and suffering are dwelt on, seemingly with relish at times. I don't want to be in the mind of the "evil one". And I have been a major fantasy fan for 50 years.

I'm talking to Rafi/Asmodeus with Felix Castor in Thicker Than Water and in Erikhold fighting the Vord in Academ's Fury.

I am stepping through paintings into other worlds in Mirrorscape.

Just finished Transformation by Carol berg (not bad) and started reading Graceling

I am with Phèdre nó Delauney in Melisande Sharizai's boudoir... (Kushiel's dart) brrr.. I wish I was somewhere else, really!

Spying in the Copper Isles with Aly in Trickster's Choice... again. Although this is my first visit in awhile.

I'm in Atlanta. Reading Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews.

Just finished Black Lung Captain by Chris Wooding which I loved, and I wish there were more books already out in the series! Still finishing off A Game of Thrones in my quest to re-read them all, so that's by my bed, with The Wind-Up Girl in my bag for my commute.

I had tried to read The Unremembered by Peter Orullian but I got tired of not having any idea what the terms he invented actually mean. And there is something vaguely annoying about the mechanics of how he writes.

I'm in Etarra with Lysaer & Arithon for a coronation that may have just begun to go horribly downhill, in Curse of the Mistwraith. Loving it.

Just left Erna in Black sun rising. It was a real slog to finish this book, and if I hadn't already got the sequels (50p each at the library booksale), I think I would have given up. I didn't really care about the characters, and there were whole paragraphs written where nothing was actually said. Strange, as This alien shore by the same author is one of my favourite books ever.

ok i need some serious help in the fantasy department. Anyone got any really good fantasy book? Particularly a good series please!

>55 curlyQ42: What kind of fantasy do you want? A really good fantasy series could be anything from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin to The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're both what you want right now.

Also, you might get better response if you start a different thread, so your recommendations don't all get burried amongst what we're reading right now.

Am now in a dystopic world in Unholy Ghosts trying to empathize with a pill popping Witch who has to help a drug lord named Bump with a haunted airport.

#57 Ohh! Sounds interesting! How do you like it so far?

July Thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/120121

Right now I am rocking anything with acting. I love to act and sing. Sure I got big dreams but all the books I've tried fail at life. So I guess right now I am rocking anything with gods.

July thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/120121