What book are you reading at the moment ?

[Neoprod]

Dark? Never thought of them as dark.

Spoiler

dude's a rapist leper...or maybe a leperous rapist. That's pretty dark.

It's cynical and tortured...the lead character is not a golden-haired hero by any means. It's pretty dark as fantasy goes.

What I am reading atmo -
Dark Intelligence - Neal Asher (have the other 2 books in the trilogy also so looking forward to a month of Asher).
The Religion - Tim Willocks
Babylon's Ashes - James Corey (2nd last Expanse published so far)

 

[faniebraai]

Dark? Never thought of them as dark.

Need to get around to reading his Gap series one of these days.

*edit* so many books mentioned seem similar to my little rss feed from bin/books

*edit x 2* I personally hate audio books. Can read half a page before they finish two sentences hence the annoyance.

LOL you should use a proper audiobook player where you can set the speed I normally listen to anything between 1.5x - 1.7x depending on the book/narrator.

 

[Kosmik]

Spoiler

dude's a rapist leper...or maybe a leperous rapist. That's pretty dark.

It's cynical and tortured...the lead character is not a golden-haired hero by any means. It's pretty dark as fantasy goes.

What I am reading atmo -
Dark Intelligence - Neal Asher (have the other 2 books in the trilogy also so looking forward to a month of Asher).
The Religion - Tim Willocks
Babylon's Ashes - James Corey (2nd last Expanse published so far)

Spoiler

lets not mention the wanting to sleep with your own daughter bit

But seriously, I thought some of Gemmels works darker: especially Lion of Macedon series.

 

[Crusader]

Anyone read Glen Cook's The Black Company? I've been hearing about it for a while, but haven't given it a shot yet.

I've read up to book 5. They are pretty decent 3 star reads. Good, but nothing amazing. I think they feel a bit dated in comparison with modern fantasy, but for their time I think they were akin to the Grimdark of our generation. Haven't gotten to the more recent ones yet.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Random update on this:

I'm only 7 chapters in, but it's really quite frightening how badly the US fscked up in Afghanistan... :erm:

 

[faniebraai]

Still busy with this. Quit like it... started off reading like someone out of primary school is writing this but it's growing on me the further I go.

Be that as it may, I want to start this one next: Gridlinked (Agent Cormac #1) by Neal Asher. Did Prador Moon last year, but didn't like it much... but for the very reason that it's not supposed to be read first. A lot of the terms being used (this is now from memory) was explained in earlier published novels, even though it was chronologically first. This series I'll just do published order I think.

So finished Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines #1) by Marko Kloos, very easy read, not complicated by any means, but maybe that's what it lacked.

Jumped straight into: Gridlinked (Agent Cormac #1) by Neal Asher this is a completely different animal. It makes your imagination work really hard with world creation and what not. Even though it's a shortish book, no way I would be able to rush through it like the above mentioned.

 

[Crusader]

Jumped straight into: Gridlinked (Agent Cormac #1) by Neal Asher this is a completely different animal. It makes your imagination work really hard with world creation and what not. Even though it's a shortish book, no way I would be able to rush through it like the above mentioned.

It's an excellent series. Then you get to the Spatterjay novels which are even better. I love the drones in Neal Asher's books. He's got a new one THE SOLDIER coming out in May.

 

[powermzii]

Expeditionary Force is awesome. I'm on book 1.

Reading / Listening? Found the narrator to be awesome and added a great performance factor to it.

Am on Book 2 now and enjoying it as well

 

[OrbitalDawn]

ZeroS by Peter Watts.

Quick short story for ya'll.

Then give Blindsight a shot.

 

[R13...]

Reading / Listening? Found the narrator to be awesome and added a great performance factor to it.

Am on Book 2 now and enjoying it as well

Listening.

 

[faniebraai]

Jumped straight into: Gridlinked (Agent Cormac #1) by Neal Asher this is a completely different animal. It makes your imagination work really hard with world creation and what not. Even though it's a shortish book, no way I would be able to rush through it like the above mentioned.

Finished this 2 days ago and really liked it, then immediately started with The Line Of Polity (Agent Cormac, #2) by Neal Asher. This is one is longer, and already I can feel this one has a lot more dimensions than the first one...

 

[saor]

Felt like some 'first contact' novels.

First up is Lem - Solaris. Am about 60% through and it's definitely getting better toward the end. First half I struggled a bit to get drawn in to the characters and the setting.


Second is Peter Watts - Firefall (Blindsight). About 30% right now and really enjoying it. I like the way he presents characters - kinda leaves you to figure them out, the ideas and tech are really interesting....this might end up being one of the best scifi things I read this year. Actually tried 3 times prior to this to read it and never got into it (kindle sample), yet this time I got sucked in.

 

[Cius]

If you want dark books try Robin Hobb. That woman has issues. Managed to wade my way through the Assassins series but by the end I was just depressed.

 

[Nerfherder]

Nemesis Games - 5th book in the Expanse series. Good to be back after a break.

https://g.co/kgs/gy4ppz

 

[R13...]

If you want dark books try Robin Hobb. That woman has issues. Managed to wade my way through the Assassins series but by the end I was just depressed.

Nah there's much darker than her. I only found assassin boring

 

[C4Cat]

If you want dark books try Robin Hobb. That woman has issues. Managed to wade my way through the Assassins series but by the end I was just depressed.

I love her books although her protagonists can be incredibly frustrating and, well, dumb, sometimes. Still, part of what I love about her books is that her characters are flawed just like the rest of us - no unrealistic perfect hero's to be found here. Not sure why the books depressed you though. And the final book in her series (Assassin's Fate) is probably the best finale I've ever come across

 

[Neoprod]

If you want dark books try Robin Hobb. That woman has issues. Managed to wade my way through the Assassins series but by the end I was just depressed.

It's not really dark so much as she seems to hate her protagonist and tortures the **** out of him.

 

[Neoprod]

Nemesis Games - 5th book in the Expanse series. Good to be back after a break.

https://g.co/kgs/gy4ppz

I'm on book six and finding it hard going for some reason. Also after a break.

 

[C4Cat]

So I'm giving this fantasy book a try:
The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
I'm still quite close to the beginning but am really enjoying it so far - see how it goes...

 

[Nerfherder]

I'm on book six and finding it hard going for some reason. Also after a break.

That's annoying... I struggled though Cibola Burn as it felt like a filler story.