Locus Recomended Reading list

[YankeyMCC]

This looks like a good list, I've read several of the items on the list:

http://locusmag.com/2008/2007RecommendedReading.html

[Greyskye]

1. Thanks.

I'll take that list along with me next time I hit the bookstore. :thumbsup:

[Dr. Strange]

2. Oooooh...

I haven't read Joe Haldeman in a long time. The Accidental Time Machine looks interesting. And I really liked Spin, so I suppose I'll have to go get Axis.

My reading list continues to backlog. Sigh...

[NewHampshireDem]

3. I've read ...

Un-Lun-Dun--not Mieville's best work, by a longshot, and not great YA/Children's lit either. I thought it was too self-conscious about being a children's book.

Thirteen (or Black Man)--again, disappointed because I've really enjoyed all of Morgan's other books, besides 'Market Forces.' I think MF and Thirteen both suffer from the same defect: too little editing. Both were at least a hundred pages too long. Why is it that once novelists become established, their editors put away their red pens and never say 'no'?

Brasyl--argh ... its sitting on my nightstand, half-read. I just couldn't get into it the same way I got into 'River of Gods.'

Man, it looks like I've just trashed them all. I don't mean too--I wouldn't tell anyone not to read any of those books. It's just that they aren't as good as the other books by the same authors.

I am looking forward to reading the latest Charlie Stross, though. I read 'Accelerando' and 'Glasshouse' a couple of months ago and enjoyed both--especially 'Glasshouse.'

[YankeyMCC]

4. No go with Brasyl heh?

I read "River of Gods" and was really captivated, much more than I anticipated. I haven't picked up Brasyl but only because of my own backlog, everything I've heard has been positive but it isn't the sort of thing I'd normally pick up so my only motivation is that I so enjoyed River of Gods.

So you're comment is relieving my ... guilt I guess... at not getting to that one item on my list :)

[NewHampshireDem]

5. It just wasn't coming together

I might pick it up again once I'm done with my current read ('Bangkok Haunts' by John Burdett). There's supposed to be a terrific payout as the three storylines come together thanks to quantum physics and parallel universes, but so far it's been a slog. :(

[YankeyMCC]

6. The latest Asmiov's

the April/May double issue has a very interesting review of Brasyl in "On Books"

[NewHampshireDem]

7. Brasyl reconsidered

Okay, so I picked it up again ... and boy was it worth it!

The story lines come together nicely, maybe even better than in River of Gods. I didn't find the backstories of the first half (200 pages or so) as compelling, but once they started to come together, I couldn't put it down and read the second half pretty much without stopping.

[YankeyMCC]

8. Better than RoGs?

Now that's a high standard...I guess I'll have to pick it up sometime soon after all :)