Y'see, this is where the Voyage tempts me. Exactly the same main issue as pantyfire in that I have to use a little light at night time which is fine but... y'know. Not great. The Voyage may not have lovely clicky buttons but a haptic button on the bezel is much preferable to touching the screen. /shudder

Because I haven't been enjoying the new Priest, I've been reading some HARD sci-fi with 'Ancillary Justice' by Ann Leckie, which swept the sci-fi awards in 2014, winning the Arthur C Clarke award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and the British Science Fiction Association Best Novel award. 

It really throws you straight in to some hard Mass Effect-esque lore, but without the codex to help you make sense of it. Add to this (I'ma reveal this as it's announced on the first 5 pages) that the main character is an AI who was previously a ship, and it's really quite different. I'm really enjoying it though, and about 100 pages in. Looking forward to more.

Ancillary Justice is very good, aye. Well deserved awards. Haven't read the sequels but I probably will at some point.

The Daddy wrote:

Keep us updated, always on the lookout for decent sci-if recommends. I miss M.Banks

Srsly.
I've tried to explain the amazing ending of Excession to people over the years, but it's hard to really explain why it's so cool that it's just

davyK wrote:

I'm going to have another got at Pynchon's "V". Found it unengaging and lost interest first time but I believe it's worth another go.

So I finally read that on a boat which felt like the right place. I enjoyed it despite the slogz

Anyone with kids aged 10ish+ must go and buy those two books for their children now, by order of Lord High Teacher TigerSiwflyrly.

Currently reading the naked trader by robbie burns. Tells you how shares work and how trading works. Not that I have any money to buy shares, but I like learning new things. One of the suggestions in the book is to give yourself an imaginary 50k and see how you do in the market for 6 months. Gonna get the missus involved so we can make it a competition. I have a hunch that my research will amount to nothing and her random picks over a 6 month period will do much better. Anyway, once I've finished the book I'll give it a go.

Didn;t want to derail the TV thread any further than it is already

Anyone knwo anywhere good to find out about tracking book down, given a precis of the story, settings information about the illustrations etc

tigerswiftly wrote:

I'm just finishing off The Malice by Peter Newman. Mega-pulpy fantasy with shades of Mieville in terms of monsterschlock if not prose. It's a weird one as it's written in 3rd person present and the viewpoint is pretty different to most books out there. 

I like it but it does takes some work to get into the flow.

I've just started that - seems ok so far but not as immediate as the first one.

Over Easter I read books 1-6 of the Charlie Higson YA zombie series 'The Enemy'. I started reading the first one to see if it was suitable for my son to read and got utterly hooked. The writing is relatively simple, as it's YA, but holy fucking shit he's created what might be the single greatest zombie series going - the world is so consistently well drawn and the characters are people you actually care about.

It's also probably one of the grimmest reads I've enjoyed in a long time - every character is a child and so there's a hell of a lot of child killing, dismemberment, torture, mutilation, cannibalism etc. Bleak as fuck, but brilliant. I got quite obsessed with it over the holidays, to the point that when I went to see Blanck Mass last Friday in Glasgow I almost convinced myself that a zombie apocalypse was about to break out there and then. I was astonishingly high though. Recommend- the books, not getting high (although, y'know).

Finished And Then There Were None. Was good. Got me ma to bring round some other Christies too, hurrah. But for now I'm on to The Girl With all the Gifts Which is very intriguing in its opening, and shot has just kicked off so fuck knows where it's heading. A smidge of the Passage to it which is no bad thing.

Bravely Default in book form?

Thing is, BD nails the ending. Sadly TGWATG doesn't

Pet Semetary I'd argue is King's only strong ending.

Dark Soldier wrote:

Pet Semetary I'd argue is King's only strong ending.

Carrie ends well. And then there's stuff like Mr Mercedes and Revival which are good.

But he does tend to disappoint a bit.

I'm on a King run at the moment. Currently reading the short stories which became Stand by Me and Shawshank.

WorKid wrote:

Dark Soldier wrote:

Pet Semetary I'd argue is King's only strong ending.

Carrie ends well. And then there's stuff like Mr Mercedes and Revival which are good.

But he does tend to disappoint a bit.

I'm on a King run at the moment. Currently reading the short stories which became Stand by Me and Shawshank.

Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is still my personal favourite, good ending too.

Last one I read of his was the faith healer one- goes utterly ballistic at the end