Books
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Having just watched The Avengers movie, I spent yesterday evening buying comics via the Marvel app on the iPad. I'm massivley behind on the New Avengers, Avengers and Secret Avengers, but enjoying catching up!
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"Maus" is one I've always planned to read, but still haven't done yet.
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Still reading Richard Morgan at the moment, I'm not as much of a fan of his fantasy books as I am his SF.
Can't decide if I'll read Murakami's 'Trilogy of the Rat' next, or the new Jon Courtenay Grimwood.
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I haven't read the latest Richard Morgan, but I thought the first of the fantasy books was pretty good. He's heavily implied that it's connected to the Kovacs series, in a weird way… Grimwood is cool, but I couldn't get into the vampire/fantasy series.
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I haven't read the latest Richard Morgan, but I thought the first of the fantasy books was pretty good. He's heavily implied that it's connected to the Kovacs series, in a weird way… Grimwood is cool, but I couldn't get into the vampire/fantasy series.
I can buy that ' Black Man/Thirteen' and 'Market Forces' could be part of the same universe because of the tech involved… but 'The Steel Remains' and 'Cold Commands'. That would be weird.
I have to admit that I prefer JCG's SF over his Fantasy, but he has a history of vampire-like characters. NeoAddix had one... and there my memory fails me. 9 Tail Fox and End Of the World Blues had a couple as well.
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I loved the Arabesque series - awesome alt.reality. I've read most of the others, up to 9 Tail Fox then I fell behind.
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It's a pity that although there are a lot of recurring themes in his books, characters seem locked into trilogies. Ashraf Bey was a great character :).
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Just started, follows on from The Fallen Blade. Feels like it's going to be a quick read. The same easy flowing style as all of JCG's books. And the next two days off work :).
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Ah, good stuff! I like that cover as well, very cool. I'm on a strict diet of manuscripts at the moment for work, no time for my regular reads right now.
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The cover has brought to bear one of my pet hates. It's a completely different design than the Fallen Blade cover… Which has been re-released in line with the new cover:
I suppose it's to try and appeal to a larger market but it really irritates me
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Ugh, yeah, Kafka is heavy stuff. Seul's recommendation is good, the other that comes to (my) mind is "Vor dem Gesetz", engl. "Before the Law", if you just want to try a short story.
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Just started this:
Great stuff. They've just started showing a tv series based on these, so I thought I'd check 'em out.
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Have to say I prefer Elmore Leonard's early work for my western fix…
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Love Elmore Leonard also, but man cannot live on one type of cowboy mystery alone…
Actually, I've only read a bit of Leonard's 'proper' westerns, I've mostly read his more contemporary stuff. I've got the Raylan Givens books now as well. I guess they're more comparable to the Longmire stuff as they're both contemporary, despite the obvious differences.
