Whats everyone reading?

[shaolin_monkey]

"The Hydrogen Sonata", Iain.M.Banks. Culture. Love it.

Yeah. I finished that last week. I can't believe how quickly I got through it - a real page turner. The ship Minds were the stars of the book, as is becoming the norm in his stuff now!

[TordelBack]

...my absolute favourite is The Dispossessed - a gripping adventure yarn hiding a treatise on a workable anarchic society. It almost makes you believe such a society could be possible by the end of the book.

My favourite book of all, and you're right, it really does sell the idea of a workable anarchy.

[NapalmKev]

Dredd/Batman collection.

A good read overall, but a few minor giggles.

Judgement on Gotham: best of the lot. The story was told very well and the artwork stunning.

Vendetta: I wasn't overly impressed with this one. The art seems a bit dodgy when compared with the other tales in this collection (only Lobo looks worse). And the story itself seemed like filler material. (the whole purpose of this story is just a set-up for Die Laughing).

Ultimate Riddle: I like this one; great story/art, but its a little short. Should have been made as a 2-parter, and the Riddler doesn't feature enough.

Die Laughing: second best of the bunch. Good overall but some small sections of county dialogue. Good to see Mortis as more of a major player.

Lobo: I've only glanced at this at the moment. The artwork looks like 90's X-men, which doesn't look right for Dredds world, IMO.

Cheers

[NapalmKev]

Apologies for double post but 'county' should actually be 'dodgy'.

Effin smartphones!

[mogzilla]

currently on the dredd year one kindle book enjoyabnle..

  ihave also downloaded all the later blakck flame dredds and a selection of freebies to try oh and the sherlock holmes complete collection free!!!!

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Jules Verne 'Master of the World.' Looking forward to it as it's quite difficult to get hold of.

[Davek]

Just finished the Ragemoor tpb which was good.  My first experience of Corben's work - I was pleasantly surprised at the Lovecraftian slant on the story.  The only minor negative was the slightly cartoony artwork in places (a small niggle though).

Currently 40 odd pages into V for Vendetta for the first time.  Too early to say much so far but am finiding it hard to put down 

[Alski]

Christmas goodies included Grandville Bette Noir, which is as excellent as the preceeding two volumes.

Also got book 1 of Stuff Of Legend, which was totally new to me. It's a bout some toys whose "Boy" is taken by the Boogie Man, so they go into The Dark to get him back, where they are transformed into real people and creatures. Very bloody good, with striking art, I have ordered the next 2 volumes.

[judgefloyd]

It's with a mixture of pride and shame that I have to report I'm re-reading Paradise Lost. It was seeing Uriel as a fallen angel in Necrophim that drove me to it: "But but but.... that's just wrong!"

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I'm tutoring a girl who's studying Animal Farm, so I read that again yesterday, and I've recently read Of Mice and Men, and I'm currently reading it with my adult ed. GCSE class.

Necrophim is just wrong anyway, no matter what else you're reading.  Me,  I'm still reading the London Review of Books. Highlights include a John Lanchester piece about Marx's 173rd birthday (way more fun than that sounds), fun stuff about famous lesbians by Terry Castle and a letter from an indignant Tea Party London Review of Books subscriber complaining about whatsisname Ryan bashing. 

Oh and I've started on my Christmas present from my UK based sister - an anthology of Simon Hoggart's parliamentary sketches.  Occasionally fun.

[Bolt-01]

I've not long started ROBOPOCALYPSE by Daniel H Wilson. About 60 pages in and it is superb. Very much feels as if John Smith was writing Robo-Hunter. The droids in this are pretty terrifying. I'm hoping for a very enjoyable time reading the rest.

I've also recently caought up on some of the comics from Thought Bubble and the collection of strips by Paul Scott and Paul Macaffrey from OMNIVISTASCOPE deserves praise. A really good collection of 'hard SF' comics.

[Mardroid]

Recently I've been reading Brandon Sanderson stuff. Yesterday I read his novella entitled Legion. A rather interesting story concerning a PI type character, a kind of genius who taps into the vast knowledge he accumulates through other personalities that only he can see. (By that, I mean he will actually hallucinate an expert in a particular field who will impart their knowledge to him when he requires it. From his POV, he doesn't have that knowledge at all. He just perused a book, etc, but somehow the knowledge went in and became that hallucination.) He refers to them as aspects.

A very interesting premise as it could be taken as a kind of super-power and mental illness in one. He knows they're not real (and so by large do they) and he largely functions just like anyone else so doesn't consider himself insane. It's an odd experience for other real people in his vicinity who see him conversing with, well, empty space...

Anyway. A novella, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sanderson returned to the character and created new stories around him.

I also just started the latest Mistborn Novel Alloy of Law. This is set in a later time period to the previous Mistborn novels and is an interesting mixture of the metal related magic systems of the previous novels, and western. Early yet, but pretty good so far.

[Zarjazzer]

Rogue trooper Tales of Nu earth vol3 This is just super fun. Even though much of it so far isn't on nu Earth at all. Anywya half way through already and the Ortiz and Dillon b&w art is just fabulous but the stories seem to change a bit too much in tone after the Gerry Findlay Day ones.

[Mabs]

I finished Leviathan and Absalom: Ghosts of London a few days back (you can find my review for both in the 'Other Reviews' thread) aswell as Mandroid which i thought was bloody superb. The sequel not so much. Kev Walker's artwork for the first story was outstanding.

At the moment i'm reading Y The Last Man (Deluxe Hardcover) Book 4; just had it delivered today. Since the first book i've been hooked on this brilliant series. I'm dreading the thought of seeing it finish...its been one hell of a ride.

[Mabs]

Christmas goodies included Grandville Bette Noir, which is as excellent as the preceeding two volumes.

Also got book 1 of Stuff Of Legend, which was totally new to me. It's a bout some toys whose "Boy" is taken by the Boogie Man, so they go into The Dark to get him back, where they are transformed into real people and creatures. Very bloody good, with striking art, I have ordered the next 2 volumes.

I read the first issue over at comiXology and had no prior knowledge of the comic, well i have to say i loved it! The sepia toned artwork is just stunning! Could i ask you one thing mate- how is the binding and general quality of the volume you have at the moment? I was very tempted to order the first volume but then i read a review saying how the binding was poor and the pages fell out or what not. And i don't think its been released in hardcover. I'd be grateful if you can get back to me; its really high up on my shopping list!

[Alski]

Christmas goodies included Grandville Bette Noir, which is as excellent as the preceeding two volumes.

Also got book 1 of Stuff Of Legend, which was totally new to me. It's a bout some toys whose "Boy" is taken by the Boogie Man, so they go into The Dark to get him back, where they are transformed into real people and creatures. Very bloody good, with striking art, I have ordered the next 2 volumes.

I read the first issue over at comiXology and had no prior knowledge of the comic, well i have to say i loved it! The sepia toned artwork is just stunning! Could i ask you one thing mate- how is the binding and general quality of the volume you have at the moment? I was very tempted to order the first volume but then i read a review saying how the binding was poor and the pages fell out or what not. And i don't think its been released in hardcover. I'd be grateful if you can get back to me; its really high up on my shopping list!

No problems at all with my copy, feels as good as any other softcover and I was not worried about pages falling out of any of that old guff.