Just finished two novellas, "The Tain" by China Mieville and "Unicorn Tapestry" by Suzy McKee Charnas. Both vampire stories, but very different from each other. Before that I read Bradbury's Dandelion Wine.
Just started de Camp and Pratt's Compleat Enchanter.
"I woke up in a Soho doorway
A policeman knew my name
He said you can go sleep at home tonight
If you can get up and walk away"
Currently reading Dragonworld by Byron Preiss & Michael Reaves. This book is from 1979 and for an impulse buy at the used book store I am really impressed. Look it up on amazon you can get it cheap!
Also if you like quick pulpy sword & sorcery try:
Brak the barbarian by John Jakes,
Brak vs. Mark of the Demons
Brak vs. the Sorceress
Brak: When the Idols walked
The whole Brak series felt like it was written while playing D&D one on one it was really a fun read.
The Last Apprentice by Joseph Delany! For those of you in England this is known as The Spook's apprentice. There are 5 books in the series so far. They are a really cool, lots of great ideas for witch's, ghosts etc.
I zipped through all 5 books in like 3 weeks, give them a try!
has anyone read World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks? If so, what do think of it?
I read at rottentomatoes that the director of Quantum of Solace is going to direct the film version of this novel, and the the synopsis I read at wiki comes across pretty cool
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." - Joseph Campbell
Current fantasy reads are Keith Taylor's Bard III: The Wild Sea and The End of the Story: the Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Vol. 1. I'm savoring the latter heady vintage one or two stories at a time, interspersed with my other reading... I just checked out Martha Wells' City of Bones from the library, so that'll be next on the list.
Deogolf wrote:The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Not exactly "fantasy", but it's a pretty good read.
Damn right.
I wish some publisher would get their act together and reprint all of Doyle's Professor Challenger stories, preferably in a single-volume omnibus (I've heard that there is such a volume, but I've never seen it).
EDIT: Well, speak of the devil. Also, if you have their Kindle device you can buy "The Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" for $4.95.
Wow. I didn't know that Doyle's The Lost World had sequels, so to speak. I thoroughly enjoyed The Lost World, so I am going to have to read the others.
Another 19th-century Englishman who is great is H. Rider Haggard.
Geoffrey wrote:Another 19th-century Englishman who is great is H. Rider Haggard.
Yeah. I've read his "White Heart, Black Heart" short story. Quite good. I have a compilation of his with "She" and "King Salomon's Mines" in it.
I just finished DeCamp & Pratt's Compleat Enchanter. I've got a fantasy anthology that I have one more story to read. After that, I think I'm going to move on to re-reading Edith Hamilton's Mythology. Fantastic basic primer on Greek/Roman mythology, with a little Norse thrown in.
"I woke up in a Soho doorway
A policeman knew my name
He said you can go sleep at home tonight
If you can get up and walk away"
