Reading update

[amedia]

I finally finished Blue at the Mizzen, the 20th book in the Aubrey-Maturin series. Waaaah! When I started, I was awed by how much I had to read... now I wish I had as much again!

So what to read next? I pondered. I read The Golden Compass some years ago when it first came out. Bought the next book, but didn't read it, because I'd heard it stopped rather than ended, and I wanted to wait for the third. Now I've got all three, so I'm rereading the first one again. Fascinating and disturbing - I'm enjoying this thoroughly.

But I miss Jack and Stephen.

Comments

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, you will cry and cry and cry when you finish that trilogy! And if you're like me you'll also cry at various parts throughout. They are such good books.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

I've already gotten the shivers several times.

Hey, I really liked The Hero & the Crown, too! And the other one, The Blue Sword, too. Bought 'em for Emrys - he liked them, and so did I!

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

Yay for Robin McKinley! If you liked The Hero & The Crown (my all-time favorite) you should try her newest, Sunshine. It's a for-grownups book, so that means vampires and teh hot sexx!! :)

[pocketwitch.livejournal.com]

I *love* the His Dark Materials books. So you've not yet read The Amber Spyglass, then?

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Not yet! My brother (a big lit sci-fi fan) knew I wanted it and got it for me for Christmas a year or two ago. But I wanted to reread #1 and read #2 first.

Update

[shawan-7.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm the odd man out -- I tried to read the first book of Jack, got bored, and gave up. I read the second of the Pullman books and wasn't impressed with that either.

Then again, I haven't read much in the last few months that I have been impressed by. I plowed through Katherine Kurtz's In The King's Service because I've always loved her Deryni series; it was a chronological slog sprinkled with deaths of characters you had come to like because it suited her future history. Legends II, with novellas by such authors as Gaiman and George R. R. Martin, was a disappointment. McCaffrey's entry on Moreta just infuried me.

So it's back to watching the beautiful athletes on the Olympics, and maybe dipping into a new Roman mystery that I bought on a whim.

Shawan

Re: Update

[amedia.livejournal.com]

I tried to read the first book of Jack, got bored, and gave up.

Hey, I thought *I* was the one with the short attention span! [veg] The books may seem to start slow, but they become richly rewarding - they remind me, oddly enough, of Trollope, the way that minor characters pop up again here and there and it's like meeting old friends. Also the convoluted sentences, and the English class conflicts.

The third book in the Dark Materials trilogy has taken an interesting turn; it seems to be following a Gnostic worldview, and I'm curious to see how closely it will turn out to resemble that pattern.

My big brother just sent us a housewarming gift... a stuffed Cthulhu, to keep our house free of pesky minor deities, he wrote!