Erm.. I think there's a whole lot of people jumping on The Girl on the Train bandwagon.. but no not really.

Aye. I enjoyed it.

Everything by Mark Lawrence is highly regarded. Latest is trilogy is only 2/3 complete but they're all supposed to be great books. Only read a couple myself.

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Gremill and Aaron have read more, I think.

I’ve read Prince of Thorns but struggled with the second book in the trilogy. No idea why, I just can’t seem to stick with it. I think it suffered from me over reading fantasy books at that time as it was all I read. I then started to really flag with the genre and it was Mark Lawrence’s work and the Mistborn series that suffered. I really should go back to them. Prince of Thorns was excellent and his stuff, as Tiger said, is very highly regarded.

I make a point now of switching up genres when choosing what to read next.

Nerd.

Nah, never read it. I’m sure it’s good, just never got around to it.

It probably is, but it’s not about Space Dad and his Space Sons so it’s on the back burner til I chew through these audiobooks

I did when I was younger

It was great. But it kinda stands apart from a lot of stuff being a bit of an Ur document for most fantasy.

I'll mention "In the name of the wind" again by Rothfuss.

Just finished Children of Time.  I have acute arachnophobia, so I don’t know why I thought that would be a good idea.  Anyway, it was certainly something out of the ordinary.  It has its problems, mostly to do with the structure (always alternating chapters between the humans and the spiders), but also the vast tracts of time it spans.  It has the overall effect of keeping the characters at arms length.  But a very unusual story and I enjoyed it overall.  And that’s the second book I’ve read this year about giant dancing spiders.

Before that I finished both Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion.  Both great in very different ways.  The second book goes to some completely bonkers places.  I might read one of Simmons other, non-sci-fi books in the not-too-distant future.

Also coming up on the end of the first book in Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Fionavar Tapestry.  He can wield words very nicely, but he pays almost no attention to characterisation and so his story and world have to do all the heavy lifting and, quite frankly, they’re both pants.  I’ll finish The Summer Tree, but I won’t be bothering with the next two books or anything else the man has written.

Still on fantasy, I’ve completely abandoned my attempt to reread Donaldson’s first six Covenant books before heading into the Last Chronicles.  In short, I remember them being great, but they’re actually derivative pap.

So now I’ve had my fill of fantasy and sci-fi and I’m ready for some horror.  Was going to ask for recommendations, and would still welcome them (the weirder the better), but for now I think it’s about time I read me some Lovecraft.

Cheers, Temps. Teatro Grottesco added to The List.

Want to read some Lovecraft first, then John Langan’s The Fisherman followed by Jon Padgett’s The Secret of Ventriloquism. Will get to it after those.

He might have been a hypochondriac racist but he did basically come up with All the Tropes.

I enjoyed that, I think I read the sequel as well but I'm not sure.